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Development
- Main article: Hwei (Development)
- Hwei is voiced by Stephen Fu.[1]
- Hwei's Japanese voice actor is Takeo Ōtsuka.[2]
- Hwei's Korean voice actor is Kim Shin-woo.[3]
- Hwei's codenames in development was Ink Mage.[4]
- Hwei's placeholder model in development was a recolored Shadow Assassin
Kayn.[4] - Myles 'Emizery' Salholm posted teaser articles about The Golden Ratio and The Rule of Thirds on r/HweiMains a few weeks before his reveal.[5][6]
- One of the abilities tested on Hwei in development was a spell where he drew a rain cloud over himself, that made him more depressed, and granted him stealth.[7]
Universe
Universe- Main article: Hwei (Character)
- Hwei is in his early 30s.[8]
- Hwei has no connections with Demons.[9]
- Hwei's height is 178 centimeters (or 5 feet and 10 inches) while standing and between 173 to 175 centimeters (or 5 feet and 8 inches) while slouching.[10]
- Hwei's eyeshadow shade coincides with the hexcode #146971.[11] This shade has the most similarities with the color "Dark Aqua", which has the hexcode #05696B.
- Hwei's name has many different linguistical layers to it: [12][13]
- It's monosyllabic, which means it is easy to say and put next to names like Shen, Zed, and Jhin.
- It's a name without hard consonants, so that softer sound speaks more to his kinder nature.
- It has four letters, which furthers the foil/parallel with Jhin.
- His full name Lukai Hwei has a three-beat cadence that refers to the rule of thirds that surrounds his character.
- His full name has a contradicting aptronym. Lukai Hwei sounds like "look away," when the last thing he wants you to do is look away from his art.
- Both Hwei and Jhin obtained their full names in a similar fashion. "Lukai" was a top contender for Hwei's first name, but it became his family name instead. Similarly, "Khada" was considered for Jhin's first name, leading to its incorporation into his full name as Khada Jhin.
- Hwei's last name, Lukai, possibly derives from Hindi लूक lūka [lu:ka:]"a meteor, falling or shooting star" or लूका lūkā [lu:ka:]"flash, flare, blaze or burning wood"[14].
- The pinyin transcription of Hwei is hui, which can be written by many Chinese characters. The following are some characters possibly related to Hwei's concept[15]:
- 辉 hui [xweɪ55] "brightness; lustre; brilliance; radiance; splendour"
- 灰 hui [xweɪ55] "ash; dust; lime; grey; disheartened"
- 毁 hui [xweɪ214] "to destroy; to ruin; to slander"
- 悔 hui [xweɪ214] "to repent; to regret"
- 晦 hui [xweɪ51] "dark, unclear, obscure; night"
- 彗 hui [xweɪ51] "comet"
- 绘 hui [xweɪ51] "to paint; to portray; to depict"
- Based on Hwei's biography, it seems natural to associate his family name with 绘 "to paint", which represents his (and his family's) expertise. However, in Chinese localization, 彗 "comet" has been chosen to translate 'Hwei'. Considering his first name, the translation is unlikely to be arbitrary and serves a narrative purpose. In both Eastern and Western cultures[16], the comet is associated with disasters. Furthermore, when examining the character form of 彗 "comet", it composes of 3 vertical strokes and 9 (3x3) horizontal storkes ,alluding to Hwei's preference for the number 3.
- Hwei's name could be combined with Jhin's name to form the Mandarin word 灰烬 huijin [xweɪ55 tɕɪn51] "remaining ashes after burning", 金辉 jinhui [tɕɪn55, xweɪ55] "golden brilliance" or 尽绘 jinhui [tɕɪn51, xweɪ51] "to fully portray".
- It's monosyllabic, which means it is easy to say and put next to names like
- Hwei wants Sett to let him in to his circle in order to look for more information about Jhin, but more broadly about Ionia's underworld.[17]
- The emotions associated with his eye color can be contradictory, in true Hwei fashion. These are some of the emotions his eye colors could reflect: [17]
- Red: pain, anger, malicious intent, but also passion
- Blue: pensiveness, sadness, reflection, but also peacefulness and sympathy
- Purple: shock, dread, panic, fear, but also imaginativeness and wisdom
- Gold: despair, but also for emotional overwhelm in general, positive or negative.
League of Legends
League of LegendsGameplay
- Main article: Hwei (League of Legends)
- Hwei is currently the champion with the largest number of abilities in League of Legends: 11 when excluding his subject selection spells, and 15 when including them.
- Hwei's kit obeys the rule of thirds in multiple aspects:
- He has 3 × 3 basic abilities.
- His passive requires two damaging abilities in order to deal a third damaging ability.
- He studies two negative subjects and one positive subject.
- Serenity, Hwei's positive mood, is placed between his other two negative moods, anger and anguish. This fact stems from lore implications, namely his inner turmoil, as detailed in his universe short stories: "Hwei faces the conflicting hues of Ionia" in The Visionary and "Art saves me, yet it can shatter me" in Paintings Framed in Half-Light.
- When Hwei dies, his eyes, which reflect his current mood, fade into a colorless blankness, symbolizing the absence of any emotional presence in death.
- Hwei's name comes from Chinese, being the character 彗 (Huì), meaning "comet".
Quotes
- Main article: Hwei (League of Legends Audio)
- Hwei has a unique series of voicelines called "dark" and "light" throughlines. They are tied together and play at different points of a game (first move, ranking the ultimate for the first time, ranking the ultimate for the second time) with a 33% chance. Their intention is to represent Hwei’s conflicted mind and the emotional journeys he could go through:[18]
- ▶️ "My work seeks answers for the most burning questions." references one of Jhin's quotes: ▶️ "My work asks questions, it never has answers."
- ▶️ "The eyes do reveal you, Kennen: wild and wise." is a response to Kennen's pick quote ▶️ "The eyes never lie."
- ▶️ "Look at you, so carefree, you have no schedule." is a reference to the Hayao Miyazaki & Ushiko The Cat scene from the documentary The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness.
Skins
- Main article: Hwei (Collection)
- Winterblessed Hwei Chromas: Catseye, Emerald, Obsidian, Pearl, Rose Quartz, Ruby, Sapphire, Turquoise, Wreathguard
Chromas:- This skin shares the Winterblessed theme with:
References
- ↑ Hwei VA
- ↑ Hwei Japanese VA
- ↑ Patch 13.24 video on the Korean League of Legends channel
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 August on Placeholder Hwei
- ↑ Emizery on The Rule of Thirds
- ↑ Emizery on The Golden Ratio
- ↑ August on Scrapped Hwei Spell
- ↑ Riot orkidian on Hwei's age
- ↑ Riot orkidian on Hwei's relationship with Demons
- ↑ Riot orkidian on Hwei's height
- ↑ Hwei's eyeshadow
- ↑ Riot orkidian on Hwei's full name
- ↑ Riot Lexical and Riot orkidian on Hwei's name
- ↑ https://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/app/caturvedi_query.py?qs=%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%82%E0%A4%95&searchhws=yes
- ↑ https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%BD%97
- ↑ https://deepimpact.astro.umd.edu/science/comets-cultures.html#:~:text=Comets%20have%20inspired%20dread%2C%20fear,and%20messengers%20of%20the%20gods.
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 Riot orkidian on Hwei's search and his eye colors
- ↑ /dev: The Voice of the Visionary