Rolo Rone is a character featured in Neometropolis from Shadowverse: Evolve.
Personality
Rolo Rone comes across as eerily calm and almost impersonal, especially compared to how furious HERB’S members are. Even when the group preaches anger and “retribution,” Rolo himself doesn’t feel fueled by rage in the same way. He speaks in short, declarative statements, as if he’s reporting an unavoidable reality rather than trying to persuade anyone. When he does address someone directly, it’s with a quiet certainty: you’re angry, your anger is “justified,” the process is moving forward, and you have a role in it. That calm can feel compassionate on the surface—he frames people’s suffering as something the broken world did to them—but it also feels chilling, because the same steady tone is used to justify drastic transformation.
What makes Rolo most unsettling is the gap between scale and motive. He’s carrying out a plan that rewrites bodies, cities, and eventually the world itself, but when is asked for the “why,” the answer is portrayed as shockingly simple and personal—simple enough that Kyou laughs at how small it is compared to the consequences
Story
History
Rolo’s power is connected to an invasive, otherworldly lifeform that mimics greenery and spreads by using humans as hosts, and the Sea of Trees is an engineered adaptation process—making the invasion “fit” this world by reshaping it to resemble an idea of nature. For years he’s been forced to remain underground sustaining the imperfect system he started, unable to expand it until the adjustments are complete
The Six Legends of the Pure Tree
He’s the almost-mythical “leader” HERB’S followers promise can cure anything, and the reason sick, desperate people like Magayama agree to trek into the Sea of Trees. Even before he appears, his influence is everywhere, because the Jukai itself exists through his power and HERB’S frames all of their actions as serving his goal of “reclaiming true nature.”
When Magayama reaches HERB’S headquarters, Rolo’s “presence” is revealed through the ritual and the organization’s structure: members become “branches” by accepting seeds that heal them but also begin transforming them into plant-like beings. A strong, tree-root-covered figure gives the initiation speech in Rolo’s name and welcomes the newcomers, showing that Roro’s movement is organized around converting people—offering salvation from illness in exchange for joining the spread of the forest.
After Magayama is shot during the clash with the ward office infiltrator, he survives only because the transformation completes enough to save him. When he wakes, he realizes he’s now literally connected into Rolo’s network as a “branch,” able to sense shared knowledge and locations through the same root-system that links HERB’S members. Magayama then seeks the “real” Rolo, learning that the public-facing leader figure is effectively not the true core. He finds Rolo hidden deep in an undisclosed underground space, meditating and sustaining the Sea of Trees itself—so much so that the forest couldn’t expand for years because Rolo had to concentrate on holding it together. In their meeting, Rolo confirms the deeper truth: the “nature” HERB’S is spreading isn’t ordinary nature returning, but an adapted form of an otherworldly invading life that mimics plants and uses humans as hosts, with the current Sea of Trees acting like a controlled preparation stage.
Finally, Rolo’s direct participation culminates in the conversation where Magayama demands his reason for destroying and remaking the world. Rolo gives an unexpectedly simple personal motive, and Magayama—despite recognizing how distorted the project is—accepts it and pledges himself as an ally. Rolo then assigns him a purpose: to raise his arms, plant new seeds, and help expand the forest and its “spirit,” signaling the start of the next phase of HERB’S plan.