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A meteor struck the sky the night Obi Edolasim was born, and the Outlands never let him forget it.

Respawn Entertainment and Electronic Arts dropped “Metamorphosis” on July 19, 2021, the latest entry in the “Stories from the Outlands” series and the official reveal of Seer, the next Legend joining Apex Legends. Directed by Robert Valley — the animator behind Tron: Uprising and segments of Love, Death & Robots — and produced with Passion Animation Studios, the short trades the franchise’s usual grit for a stark, painterly 2D style built around moths, shadow, and a boy branded cursed before he could walk.

• The short reveals Seer’s real name, Obi Edolasim, and the omen that defines him: a meteor striking a moon at the exact moment of his birth.
• A prophecy warns Obi’s glance could reduce “a mountain to dust, a king to a beggar, and an ocean to a desert,” leading society to shun him despite his parents raising him with unconditional love.
• Seer’s kit is shown taking shape on-screen through microdrones that manifest as spectral moths released from his chest plate.

The Boy Marked by a Falling Star

“Metamorphosis” opens with catastrophe timed to birth. The moment Obi enters the world, a meteor slams into a moon overhead, and the surrounding community treats the collision as confirmation of something monstrous. The narration doesn’t soften the verdict — Obi is cursed, full stop, and the short leans into the folklore register rather than typical Apex Legends action-trailer framing.

The prophecy against him is specific and violent in its imagery, warning that his gaze alone could level a mountain, reduce royalty to nothing, or dry out an ocean. That’s the line the short hangs its stakes on, and it’s delivered with the same weight a war trailer might give a superweapon.

His glance could reduce “a mountain to dust, a king to a beggar, and an ocean to a desert.”

Raised in Love, Cast Out by Fear

Where a lesser short might play the curse for straightforward tragedy, “Metamorphosis” splits the difference. Obi’s parents refuse to abandon him, raising him with affection even as the wider world keeps its distance. That contrast — private devotion against public rejection — is the emotional spine of the piece, and it’s what separates Seer’s origin from the usual battle-royale backstory dump.

Obi doesn’t fight the isolation so much as absorb it. His bond with moths and his growing artistic instincts become the outlet for everything he’s been denied, and the short frames his eventual embrace of the “curse” as a deliberate act of self-definition rather than a grudging acceptance.

From Curse to Kit

The back half of “Metamorphosis” is where lore turns into gameplay. Obi’s chest plate releases clouds of moth-shaped microdrones, the visual language Respawn is using to introduce Seer’s actual abilities heading into Season 10. It’s a clean way to sell a new Legend’s kit without resorting to a UI overlay or a stat sheet — the moths are simultaneously his power and his signature, echoing the same origin-through-imagery approach the studio used with prior “Stories from the Outlands” entries.

Anyone tracking Apex Legends’ broader trailer output this cycle can line “Metamorphosis” up against Respawn’s other recent reveals, including the Defiance gameplay trailer and the Defiance launch trailer, both of which established the studio’s pattern of pairing cinematic character work with in-game mechanics before a season actually drops.

Season 10 Arrives August 3

“Metamorphosis” premiered alongside EA Play Live, where Respawn confirmed Seer as the new Legend for Apex Legends Season 10: Emergence, launching August 3, 2021, on PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, and Nintendo Switch. That gave the community roughly two weeks between the reveal and the actual patch — enough time to pick apart every frame of moth animation for clues about how his kit would play on release.

The countdown to August 3 is now the only thing that matters for players trying to figure out where Seer slots into the current meta — whether he’s an info-gathering pick built around denying enemy pushes, or something built to punish third-partying squads mid-fight. Respawn kept the trailer light on numbers by design; the actual ability breakdown lands with the Season 10 patch notes.