Kaeyun Vale, splash art

Hero

Kaeyun Vale

Hawk of the Marches

  • Marksman
  • Ranged
  • AoE
  • DoT
  • Debuff

Origin Border archer of the Cheongmae ridges

Kaeyun walked the pine ridges of Cheongmae, where couriers vanished whenever the Ministry wanted a province blind. Her jade hawk, an old spirit of the ridges, carried the letters of the Unwritten through fog no rider could cross, over roads her cousin Ohran Longwatch lit with beacons; one warned Seoran Cloudsword of his warrant in time. From the hawk she learned patience: wait an hour on a cold ledge with her tall longbow, loose once, be gone before the arrow lands. On the first night of the climb she swore to cover Sister Maeri's lantern, and shoots only what comes for it. The Roads are her destined office, held by Qiro the Postmaster, who reads every mortal letter aloud.

Every letter in my quiver reaches its mark. Even the ones wrapped around an arrow.

Kaeyun Vale
Show attributes and skills at

Level 1 to 36

Attributes

Health (HP)
560 3500
3500 at level 36 +2,940 from level 1
Mana
320 1440
1440 at level 36 +1,120 from level 1
Attack (ATK)
60 256
256 at level 36 +196 from level 1
Armor
20 62
62 at level 36 +42 from level 1
Magic Resist
28 59.5
59.5 at level 36 +31.5 from level 1
Attack Speed
0.8 1.22
1.22 at level 36 +0.42 from level 1
Move Speed
3 m/s 3 m/s
Fixed Fixed
Attack Range
6 m 6 m
Fixed Fixed

6 skills

Skills

Threadneedle Shot, skill art

Skill I

Threadneedle Shot

Active
  • AoE
  • CC
Cooldown
10s
Cost
60 mana
Cooldown
8s
Cost
90 mana

Level 1

Fire an arrow that pierces every enemy in a 10m line: 50 (+80% ATK) physical damage, pinning each one for 1s.

Next: level 2 at hero level 7

Fire an arrow that pierces every enemy in a 10m line: 75 (+90% ATK) physical damage, pinning each one for 1.1s.

Level 6

Fire an arrow that pierces every enemy in a 10m line: 175 (+130% ATK) physical damage, pinning each one for 1.5s.

Walking the misty pine ridges of Cheongmae taught Kaeyun to clear narrow mountain paths with a single breath. Drawing a grey-fletched shaft from her quiver, she bends her tall longbow of dark green lacquered mulberry until the jade hawk bead trembles against the sky. She looses a piercing, jade-streaked arrow that screams through a straight line of foes, pinning their limbs and coats to the earth behind them in helpless immobility.

Hawk's Patience, skill art

Skill II

Hawk's Patience

Passive
  • Stats

Level 1

Passive: +12% critical strike chance and +0.4m attack range.

Next: level 2 at hero level 8

Passive: +16% critical strike chance and +0.6m attack range.

Level 6

Passive: +32% critical strike chance and +1.4m attack range.

Perched on cold ledges beside her jade hawk companion, Kaeyun learned to outwait the mountain wind before loosing her shaft. Whenever she stands motionless in her quilted pine-green jacket and fog-grey cape, her patient dark eyes narrow to track distant movement beyond normal archery range. The translucent green jade feathers of the spirit hawk on her shoulder shimmer faintly, guiding her dark green longbow toward lethal structural weak points with cold precision.

Hawkwing Retreat, skill art

Skill III

Hawkwing Retreat

Active
  • Single
  • Mobility
Cooldown
10s
Cost
40 mana
Cooldown
8s
Cost
65 mana

Level 1

Vault up to 5m away from danger; the next attack deals 60 (+80% ATK) bonus physical damage.

Next: level 2 at hero level 9

Vault up to 5m away from danger; the next attack deals 60 (+80% ATK) bonus physical damage.

Level 6

Vault up to 5m away from danger; the next attack deals 60 (+80% ATK) bonus physical damage.

Kaeyun honed her evasive leaps on slippery Cheongmae crags where Ministry hunters ambushed couriers of the Unwritten. As enemies close in, the translucent jade hawk on her shoulder spreads its white-veined wings, carrying her backward in a sweeping midair vault across the fog. She touches down lightly on wrapped boots, the jade-green silk wrapping of her dark green longbow flaring with verdant light that charges her next grey-fletched arrow with devastating force.

Marked Quarry, skill art

Skill IV

Marked Quarry

Active
  • Debuff
Cooldown
11s
Cost
40 mana
Cooldown
8.5s
Cost
65 mana

Level 1

Brand the most dangerous enemy within 9m: it takes 12% more damage and loses 6 armor for 5s.

Next: level 2 at hero level 10

Brand the most dangerous enemy within 9m: it takes 15% more damage and loses 9 armor for 5s.

Level 6

Brand the most dangerous enemy within 9m: it takes 27% more damage and loses 21 armor for 5s.

Guiding courier messages past armed checkpoints taught Kaeyun to identify and dismantle the deadliest soldier in any patrol. She whistles sharply, sending her goshawk-sized jade spirit soaring from her left shoulder into the sky. The hawk stoops like a green comet over the strongest enemy, circling their head with brilliant jade talons that mark them in luminous green vapor, fracturing their armor and laying bare every vulnerable seam to allied fire.

Fletcher's Rhythm, skill art

Skill V

Fletcher's Rhythm

Passive

Level 1

Passive: every attack grants +5% attack speed, stacking 6 times; stacks fade after 3s without attacking.

Next: level 2 at hero level 11

Passive: every attack grants +6% attack speed, stacking 6 times; stacks fade after 3s without attacking.

Level 6

Passive: every attack grants +10% attack speed, stacking 6 times; stacks fade after 3s without attacking.

Carrying unwritten letters across the beacon-lit ridges of Ohran Longwatch instilled in Kaeyun an unbroken, metronomic cadence. Each time her grey-fletched arrows strike home, her leather bracers and long arms fall into an effortless drawing rhythm. With every landed shot, her dark green mulberry longbow notches and fires faster, her wind-chapped face remaining completely serene as jade-green silk blurs through the rising storm of continuous loose.

Skyfall Barrage, skill art

Skill VI

Skyfall Barrage

Ultimate
  • AoE
  • DoT
  • Debuff
Cooldown
55s
Cost
160 mana
Cooldown
40s
Cost
310 mana

Level 1

Ultimate: rain arrows on a 3m area for 3s: 90 (+30% ATK) physical damage per second and 30% slow.

Next: level 2 at hero level 12

Ultimate: rain arrows on a 3.2m area for 3s: 162 (+30% ATK) physical damage per second and 30% slow.

Level 6

Ultimate: rain arrows on a 4m area for 3s: 540 (+30% ATK) physical damage per second and 30% slow.

To fulfill her sacred vow of covering Sister Maeri's lantern, Kaeyun commands the full archery tradition of the high Cheongmae ridges. She drops into a deep stance on wrapped boots and draws her dark green longbow toward the clouds, loosing a flurry of letter-wrapped shafts in a single breath. Guided by the screaming jade hawk overhead, a massive jade-tinted rain of whistling arrows descends over the target clearing, shredding trapped adversaries and slowing their retreat under a torrential canopy of falling wood.

Four views

Character sheet

Kaeyun Vale from the front, both sides and the back
Kaeyun Vale, character sheet. Select the image to open it full screen.

Appearance

Kaeyun is a lean, long-armed woman in her late twenties with a narrow wind-chapped face and patient dark eyes; her black hair is braided and pinned in a tight coil at the nape. She wears a Cheongmae ridge courier's kit: a knee-length jacket of quilted pine-green cotton, a hooded oilcloth cape the grey of fog, leather bracers and wrapped boots. Her weapon is a tall longbow, taller than she is, of mulberry and horn lacquered dark green, with jade-green silk wrapping at the grip and a small jade hawk bead tied at the upper tip; her quiver holds grey-fletched arrows, some with paper letters tied around the shafts. Her companion is the jade hawk, a ridge spirit the size of a goshawk, its feathers translucent green jade veined with white, often perched on her left shoulder. Palette: pine green, fog grey, jade. Silhouette hook: a bow taller than the archer and a hawk on her shoulder.