Hearthstone Interview: Christie Golden and Valerie Chu Weigh Anchor on Narrative and Atmosphere of Voyage to the Sunken City
Hearthstone recently announced its 22nd card expansion, and the beginning of a new year of content. Called Voyage to the Sunken City, Hearthstone dives deep into the Great Sea to explore the ruins of Zin-Azshari, the former capital city of the night elves before the Sundering. The seafloor is full of history, mystery, and mighty monsters too large for a single card to encapsulate their size. The new cards release on April 12th, and Hearthstone will be revealing the rest of the 135 new cards in the time until its release.
Game Rant recently sat down with Blizzard author and songwriter for many of Hearthstone's trailers Christie Golden and senior Hearthstone narrative designer Valerie Chu. In the interview, they spoke about the deep history of Zin-Azshari and the Kaldorei empire, and how the unique vessel of Hearthstone allows them to explore the setting in unexpected ways. They also introduced the cast of characters Voyage to the Sunken City would focus on and gave players a taste of what the solo content of this expansion cycle could look like. The following interview has been edited for clarity and brevity.
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Q: The combination of chilling, austere Darnassian lyrics with synthwave created an atmosphere as haunting as it was catchy. What was the design process for combining these two seemingly opposite things to create the ambiance for Voyage to the Sunken City, and how did you develop the lyrics?
Golden: It has been a lot of fun! It was a real team project. Everyone wanted to do something magical and dream-like. The music seemed well-suited to that–what is real, what is illusion? For my part, when you start talking about sunken cities
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