Character sprite

It’s crucial that the design of Fe (meaning ‘fairy’ in Swedish) inspires empathy. “It has to look cute, but it has to also look badass sometimes,” says Klaus Lyngeled. “I thought it was important you really feel for it. I did the original character design, and then Stina [Rahm], who is an amazing artist, took it further. Actually, the original character design was just a tree. But we wanted to evoke an emotion that you are somebody.” Fe’s charming cry is made up of anywhere between 8 to 12 sounds, merged, pitched and crossfaded together. “If we want to try something different, we have to reassemble all of it. It’s complicated, but worth it. Joel [Bille, sound designer] did actually sample some babies at some point – but we cut those. It was too scary, almost.”