薇恩 Vayne

暗夜猎手 the Night Hunter

台词

“杀死你，并不是因为我心怀正义，而是我觉得，杀死你让我倍感愉快。”

“I don’t kill creatures like you because it’s the right thing to do. I kill you because I enjoy it.”

传记

肖娜·薇恩是一位无情的德玛西亚怪物猎手。终其一生，她都在寻找杀害她全家的恶魔。她的手臂上装着十字弩，心中燃烧着熊熊的复仇怒火，从暗影中射出圣银弩箭的风暴，薇恩只有在杀死那些为黑暗魔法所控制的人和生物时，才能真正感到愉悦。

Shauna Vayne is a deadly, remorseless Demacian monster hunter, who has dedicated her life to finding and destroying the demon that murdered her family. Armed with a wrist-mounted crossbow and a heart full of vengeance, she is only truly happy when slaying practitioners or creations of the dark arts, striking from the shadows with a flurry of silver bolts.

肖娜・薇恩是一只无情的夺命猛兽。终其一生，她都在寻找杀害她全家的恶魔。手臂上装着十字弩，心中燃烧着熊熊的复仇怒火，薇恩只有在杀死那些为黑暗魔法所控制的人和生物时，才能真正感到开心。

Shauna Vayne is a deadly, remorseless monster hunter who has pledged her life to finding and killing the demon who murdered her family. Armed with her wrist-mounted crossbows and a heart full of vengeance, Vayne is only truly happy when she’s slaying practitioners or creations of the dark arts.

作为德玛西亚一户富有人家的独生女，薇恩生来养尊处优。童年时代，她在自己的小天地里尽情探索——读书、学习音乐，热衷于收集庄园里的各种昆虫。她的父母年轻时曾经游遍了符文之地，但在薇恩出世后选择在德玛西亚定居。因为相比其他地方，德玛西亚的人们生性更团结，也更懂得同甘共苦。

As the only child to a wealthy Demacian couple, Vayne enjoyed an upbringing of privilege. She spent most of her childhood indulged in solitary pursuits – reading, learning music, and avidly collecting the various insects found on their manor’s grounds. Her parents had traveled across Runeterra in their youth, but settled in Demacia after Shauna’s birth because more than any place they’d found, Demacians looked out for one another.

十六岁生日后没过多久，薇恩参加完一次仲夏宴会后回家，却看到了令她终生难忘的景象。

Shortly after Vayne’s sixteenth birthday, she returned home from a midsummer banquet and saw something she would never forget.

一个头上长角的绝色女子，站在她父母鲜血淋漓的尸体旁 。

An unspeakably beautiful, horned woman stood before the bloodied corpses of her parents.

薇恩惊慌失措，大声尖叫。那恶魔似的女人消失前，看了看年轻的薇恩，脸上闪过一抹恐怖而又充满欲望的微笑。

Vayne screamed in agony and terror. Before disappearing, the demon looked down at the young girl and flashed her a terrible, lustful smile.

薇恩试着从她妈妈的眼睛上撩开沾满鲜血的头发。而那个骇人的笑容萦绕着薇恩，在她心中扎根繁衍。当她颤抖着合上她爸爸的双眼时，她看到她爸爸的嘴大张着，脸上的惊恐而疑惑的表情已然凝固。那恶魔的微笑，已深深渗入薇恩的心中。

Vayne tried to brush the bloody hair out of her mother’s eyes, but that haunting smile lingered in her mind, growing and consuming her. Even as she shakily smoothed her father’s eyelids closed – his mouth still agape, frozen in his last horrific moments of confusion – the demon’s smile seeped through her thoughts.

在未来的日子里，这微笑将填满薇恩身体的每一寸，种下复仇的种子。

It was a smile that would fill Shauna’s veins with hatred for the rest of her days.

薇恩试着向身边人解释发生的一切，但没有人相信她。在守备森严，反感黑暗魔法的德玛西亚，居然有一个恶魔逍遥法外？让人难以置信。

Vayne tried to explain what happened, but no one truly believed her. The thought of a demon on the loose – in the well-defended, magic-averse kingdom of Demacia, of all places – was too far-fetched to consider.

薇恩比他们了解更多。看到那恶魔的笑容，她知道这个妖女一定会再次袭击他人。即使是德玛西亚的高墙也无法阻止黑暗魔法趁隙而入。那恶魔可能狡猾地隐藏自己，或是躲藏在阴暗的角落里，好掩人耳目，但薇恩知道她肯定存在。

Vayne knew better. She knew from the demon’s smile the enchantress would strike again. Even Demacia’s tall walls couldn’t keep dark magic from creeping through the cracks. It may disguise itself with subtleties or keep to shadowed corners, but Vayne knew it was there.

而她却不会再害怕了。

And she was done being afraid.

薇恩心中充满着复仇的念头，她也有足够的钱去招募一小队人马。但无论她到哪，没有人敢跟随她。她需要了解关于黑暗魔法的一切：如何追踪。如何阻止它。如何消灭掉那些使用它的人。

Vayne had a heart full of hatred and enough coin to outfit a small army, but where she would go, no army dared follow. She needed to learn everything about dark magic: How to track it. How to stop it. How to kill those who practiced it.

她需要一位老师。

She needed a teacher.

她的父母曾经给她讲过冰脉勇士们在北方反抗冰霜女巫的故事。他们世代守护着自己的家园，抵挡着她未知的力量和黑暗士兵的入侵。薇恩明白，这是帮助她找到老师的线索。她逃离了她的指定监护人，坐上了前往弗雷尔卓德的船。

Her parents had told her stories of iceborn warriors who fought against an Ice Witch in the north. For generations, they had defended themselves from her unknowable forces and dark minions. This, Vayne knew, would be where she would find her tutor. She evaded her appointed custodians and booked passage on the next ship to the Freljord.

到达后不久，薇恩就开始寻找恶魔猎人做她的老师。她果然找到了一位，只不过两人的初次见面与她预想之中的有些不同。在穿过一处冰封的峡谷时，薇恩中了精心设计的冰陷阱，掉进了一个满是锯齿、玲珑剔透的冰坑。她抬头向外望去，看到了一头冰霜巨魔，咂着嘴，贪婪地看着她。

Shortly after arriving, Vayne set out in search of a monster hunter. She found one, although not in the way she intended. Traversing a frozen ravine, Vayne was ensnared by a cleverly carved icetrap. After tumbling to the bottom of a jagged, crystalline pit, Vayne stared up to see a ravenous ice troll, lips smacking with anticipation as he gazed upon his catch.

一支长矛呼啸飞来，洞穿了巨魔的头盖骨，深深扎进了脑袋。巨魔肥大的蓝色舌头软瘫在嘴边，身子轰然倒下，摔进了陷阱里。薇恩及时地滚到一边，幸免于难。只是满地黏糊糊的口水和鲜血淹过了她的靴子。

His gigantic blue tongue fell limp as a spear whistled through the air, pierced the troll’s skull and planted itself deep in his brain. The giant toppled into the pit and Vayne rolled aside just in time to escape being crushed. A sticky pool of drool and blood collected at her boots.

薇恩的救命恩人是一个头发灰白的中年女人，名叫弗蕾。她帮薇恩包扎了伤口，领着她到篝火旁取暖。在冰冷的峡谷里，火苗艰难地燃烧着。弗蕾告诉薇恩，自己毕生都在和冰霜女巫的手下作战，因为他们杀害了自己的孩子们。薇恩恳求弗蕾收自己为徒，教她如何狩猎那些黑暗生物，但弗蕾并没有兴趣收下她。薇恩恨透了自己的身份和财富，在耗人心神的战斗中，这些东西既不能让你武力超群，也没法让你的剑刃永不磨损。

Vayne’s savior was a grizzled, middle-aged woman named Frey. She bandaged Vayne’s wounds as they clung to the warmth of a campfire that struggled to stay ablaze in the frigid canyon. Frey told Vayne of her life’s work spent fighting the Ice Witch’s minions who had murdered her children. Vayne implored the woman to take her on as a student and teach her to track the dark creatures of the world, but the Freljordian had no interest. Vayne stank of privilege and money, neither of which kept your teeth gritted or your blade sharp through the grueling perseverance of a fight.

薇恩不能接受弗蕾的回答。她向弗蕾发出挑战，要来一场决斗。要是她赢了，弗蕾就要做她的老师；要是她输了，她就甘当诱饵，引出冰霜女巫的手下，让弗蕾把他们一网打尽，报仇雪恨。薇恩心里明白，自己没有胜算——她之前受过的剑术训练加起来不超过一个下午的时间，还因为厌烦这种一只手要放在背后的战斗形式而放弃了——但她不愿放弃希望。看到了薇恩的决心，弗蕾扔了一团雪在薇恩的眼睛上，这便是教给她的关于狩猎恶魔的第一条规则：别想着公平对决。

Vayne couldn’t accept Frey’s answer and challenged her to a duel: if she won, Frey would train her. If she lost, she’d offer herself as bait to the Ice Witch’s minions, so Frey could ambush them. Vayne had no reason to think she’d win – her training amounted to a single afternoon of studying fencing before she wearied of trying to fight with one hand behind her back – but she refused to back down. To reward Vayne’s mettle, Frey threw snow in Vayne’s eyes and subsequently taught her the first rule of monster hunting: don’t play fair.

弗蕾在薇恩身上，看到了让她忍不住钦佩的决心。要成长为一个真正的战士，她还有很长的路要走。但每一次，薇恩强忍着身上淤青的痛楚，从泥泞的雪地上爬起来继续和她战斗时，弗蕾看到这个女孩正一点点成为一个冷酷无情的杀手。你可以在技巧上打败她，但永远不能在意志上摧毁她。最后一次，薇恩请求弗蕾帮助她：她们两个的家人都死于黑暗魔法之手。弗蕾当然可以继续狩猎冰霜巨魔，至死方休；但也可以做薇恩的老师。她们联手的话，可以杀死的恶魔会比现在多出一倍不止。她们联手的话，可以拯救的苦难家庭也不止是原来的两倍，而这苦痛，也正折磨着她们两个。弗蕾从薇恩的眼睛里，看到了和自己一样的仇恨，长久不熄。

Frey saw a determination in Vayne she couldn’t help but respect. The girl had a long way to go as a fighter, but each time Vayne pushed her bruised body up from the dirtied snow to continue the fight, Frey saw a little more of the relentless hunter this girl could become. Beaten in skill, but never in spirit, Vayne beseeched Frey one last time: both of their families were dead. Frey could spend the rest of her days tracking ice trolls until one of them caved her head in, or she could teach Vayne. Together, they could kill twice as many monsters. Together, they could save twice as many families from experiencing the pain that defined them both. Frey saw the same hatred and loss in Vayne’s eyes her own had burned with for years.

弗蕾最终同意跟随薇恩返回德玛西亚。

Frey agreed to accompany Vayne back to Demacia.

她们一路向南。薇恩帮弗蕾做了伪装，骗过了德玛西亚的守备士兵。她们回到薇恩家的庄园后，便开始年复一年地训练。有许多人来向薇恩求婚，但薇恩对此毫无兴趣，只是专注于接受弗蕾的训练。长此以往，两人的关系越发亲近了。

Together they made the journey south, heavily disguising Frey to illude Demacia’s border guards. Once back at Vayne’s estate, the two spent years training. Despite the pageant of suitors who solicited Vayne’s company, Shauna had no interest in anything other than training with Frey. As a result, the two became incredibly close.

弗蕾教了薇恩许多关于黑暗魔法、召唤恶兽和邪恶咒语的基础知识。薇恩把弗蕾的每句教诲都铭记在心。但同时，薇恩也有点心绪不宁，她不知道弗蕾是怎么知道这么多毒辣的手段的。

Frey taught Vayne the fundamentals of dark magic, conjured beasts, and vile spells. Vayne committed every word of Frey's teachings to heart, but found it slightly unnerving that Frey never explained how she came to know so many specifics of these malefic practices.

由于日趋森严的守备以及抗魔森林的存在，黑暗生物在德玛西亚领域内十分少见。所以弗蕾和薇恩会在晚上潜入边境的丛林狩猎。很快，薇恩就杀死了她人生中的第一只恶魔——一只袭击商队的嗜血生物——在她仅仅十八岁的时候。

Due to the kingdom’s watchful soldiers and antimagic trees, dark creatures were rare within Demacia's walls, so Frey and Vayne would venture into the border forests at night to hunt. Vayne earned her first kill – a bloodthirsty creature who preyed on traveling merchants – at the age of eighteen.

怪兽的内脏泼洒在薇恩身上，她感觉某种情感被唤醒了：愉悦。复仇与暴力的炽热在她的血管中冲撞，她感到了狂喜。

Soaked in the creature’s viscera, something awoke within Vayne: pleasure. The hot flush of vengeance and violence raced through her blood, and she relished in the sensation.

接下来的岁月里，薇恩和弗蕾开始四处猎杀黑暗生物，她们之间的羁绊也在杀戮中不断加深。一天，薇恩忽然意识到，她敬爱弗蕾，就如同敬爱自己的妈妈，但这家人一般的亲情却与恶兽一样的痛苦和创伤紧紧相连，折磨着薇恩。

Vayne and Frey spent several years hunting dark creatures, their respect for one another growing with every kill. One day, Vayne realized that she loved Frey like a mother, but her emotions of familial love were so tangled with pain and tainted by trauma, Vayne fought them as she would any beast out to hurt her.

薇恩和弗蕾在瓦罗兰大陆上四处游历，却被酒馆里的高原歌谣吸引了。歌谣如泣如诉，讲述的是一个像恶魔似的长角女人，拥有迷惑人心的美貌。故事中的她异常忙碌：

Vayne and Frey traveled Valoran, until tavern tales from the highlands caught their ear, whispering of a demonic horned creature of mesmerizing beauty. According to the stories, the demon had been busy: she’d formed a cult, designed to attract worshippers who would do her bidding. People would walk into the hills, never to be heard from again. It was said the cult’s high priests had a holy grounds near the cliffside, where they’d prepare the demon’s sacrificial offerings. Vayne and Frey immediately set off on the hunt.

她成立了教团，招揽虔诚能干的善信。

As they journeyed into the hills by cover of night, Vayne found herself distracted. For the first time since their partnership began, she felt worried for Frey – worried she might lose her mother figure for a second time. Before she could confess her fear, one of the demon’s priests lunged from the brush, swinging a mace into Vayne’s shoulder.

走进山中投靠她的人，一个个音讯全无。

Vayne was badly wounded. Frey had a brief moment of hesitation, but her eyes steeled with certainty as she apologized to her friend and transformed into a monstrous Freljordian wolf. As Vayne watched in shock, Frey – in her animalistic form – tore the priest’s tendons from his throat with a swift snap of her mighty jaws.

教团的祭司们在悬崖旁设了圣地，为恶魔献上祭品。

With the priest’s body laid strewn at Vayne’s feet, Frey retook her human form, yet her eyes betrayed the scared animal within. She explained that after the death of her family, she had become a shaman, inviting the curse upon herself in order to gain the power to change shape and fight against the Ice Witch. The ritual that gave her these powers involved dark magic, but she made this sacrifice to protect–

薇恩和弗蕾立刻动身前去狩猎。

–Vayne put an arrow through Frey’s heart without allowing her another syllable. Whatever affection she had felt for Frey evaporated upon discovering her true nature. A tear formed in Frey’s eye as she collapsed, but Vayne didn’t notice – whatever warmth the two had shared died with Frey.

进入山中时已是深夜，薇恩感觉自己有些恍惚。从她们第一次联手，她就对弗蕾有些担心——她害怕再次失去能够给予她母爱的人。她还没来得及说出自己的担忧，一个恶魔的祭司就从树丛中窜了出来，挥着狼牙棒打中了薇恩的肩膀。

There were still hours left before dawn, which meant hours left to continue the hunt. Vayne thought only of the demon. The kill that would be hers to savor. And all the kills to come. Runeterra’s underworld would come to fear her, just as she had once feared them.

薇恩措手不及，受了重伤。弗蕾迟疑了一下，但她的眼神却很快变得坚定了。她向薇恩道了个歉，然后变形成了一匹巨大的弗雷尔卓德狼。动物形态的弗蕾张开有力的下颚，只迅猛的一击，便生生将袭击薇恩的祭司从喉咙到脚跟撕成了两半。薇恩被眼前的一切惊呆了。

For the first time since her parents’ death, Vayne smiled.

祭司的尸首散落在薇恩脚边。弗蕾变回了人形，眼神和之前骇人的动物形态完全不同。她解释说，自从家人死后，她便成为了一名萨满，在自己身上施下了诅咒，从而获取了变换形态的力量来对抗冰霜女巫。获得力量的仪式需要黑暗魔法的协助，但她的做法是为了保护——

——薇恩将一根箭插在了弗蕾的心口上。当她发现弗蕾的真身时，她的敬爱和珍惜全都烟消云散了。弗蕾倒下时，眼中流出了泪水，但薇恩却丝毫没有察觉。两个人之间的温情，随着弗蕾的死去，终于荡然无存了。

黎明之前还有几个小时，这意味着这场狩猎还有一些时间收尾。薇恩心中只想着恶魔。她享受着这场属于她的杀戮，还有将来的每一场杀戮。符文之地的黑暗世界将会畏惧她的存在，正如这些恶魔从前让她心惊胆寒一样。

自从双亲死去之后，薇恩第一次，露出了笑容。