As a young girl named Figneria Alshavin is appointed the new war maiden of Legnica, Tigre convinces Asvarre to help repel the Sachstein invasion. The Moonlight Knights, traveling to Nice, are ambushed by Greast, who captures Elen. In Muozinel, Mila senses that Elen is in danger and travels to Brune to help Tigre rescue Elen from Greast's torture. Tigre and his allies reunite with the Moonlight Knights to defeat Greast, who is eventually killed. Tigre and Elen profess their love, and Tigre and his allies help stop the Muozinel invasion. "Lord Marksman and Vanadis" entered development after author Tsukasa Kawaguchi accepted an offer by the "MF Bunko J" editorial department to write a fantasy novel for them. Kawaguchi contributed the concept of a young male archer and a female fighter who uses a sword as the protagonists, which the editorial department approved of. At the editorial department's suggestion, Kawaguchi included seven additional fighting girls and called them "war maidens". Kawaguchi wanted to have another weapon from a novel he had previously worked on for Tigre. The "Monster Hunter" video game franchise gave Kawaguchi the inspiration to develop Tigre's archery skills. Other influences for Tigre included historical archers such as Nasu no Yoichi and Robin Hood. Kawaguchi came up with the catch phrases "Strongest Bishōjo Fantasy" as well as the "Bishōjo Battle Fantasy" during the early part of development. When Kawaguchi was planning the second arc, he wanted to set the second arc in three years time. However, his editor requested that it should be set six months after the first arc. According to Kawaguchi, he was influenced by "Record of Lodoss War", "Fortune Quest" as well as foreign and domestic light novels. He also based the five main kingdoms on European countries, such as France for Brune, Russia for Zhcted, Persia for Muozinel, Germany for Sachstein and the United Kingdom for Asvarre. "Lord Marksman and Vanadis" began as a light novel series written by Tsukasa Kawaguchi. Illustrations were provided by Yoshi☆o for the first eight volumes, and by Hinata Katagiri since the ninth volume. The first light novel volume was released by Media Factory on April 25, 2011. As of November 25, 2015, thirteen volumes have been released under their MF Bunko J imprint.