Butterfly Shadow's Special Issue: The Ten Best Butterfly Immersias of the Millennium

No. 9: Verdantia Director: Yuan Bo Script: Bashir Bassett — Master, we will soon depart Verdantia to return nevermore... — We have never left. Verdantia is not elsewhither, but here. Verdantia is wherever we stand. This piece is based on the foxian creation myth and tells an epic story of monumental proportion. Before Verdantia, works of Butterfly Immersia tend to narrate using only one main perspective. Verdantia pioneered a multi-perspective narrative that allows the experiencer to live through the wars, peace, stability, and exile at the beginning of the foxian history, as told from the perspective of the three sages Qingzheng, Manzhi, and Li Si. There was a period of in-depth cultural exchange between the Xianzhou Alliance and the Interastral Peace Corporation, and Verdantia is a work born in that era. At that time, Ms. Bashir Bassett was probably the most popular dramatist in Interastral Peace Entertainment, and Verdantia indeed showed her profound dramaturgy. On the other hand, Mr. Yuan Bo's handling of war scenes and perspective switching in this work has also become the basic teaching material for countless Butterfly Immersia students in later generations. However, we can still say that this Butterfly Immersia piece is a special product that could only be made in that era. With the financial resources of Xianzhou, it would've been difficult to film the magnificent scene in which millions of people fought to the death. The Free-Will Illusion technology provided by Interastral Peace Entertainment also allowed the magical effect of total immersion to be brought to life. Sometimes we can't help but feel that the whole cosmos is one isolated island after another, with self-absorbed and xenophobic islanders. Whenever this happens, I immerse myself once again in Verdantia not to re-experience its plot, but to reassure myself of the kind of miracles we can create when two civilizations work together.