@TomAbernathy or @RiotOpeli, Is this really the level of lore we're to expect from now on?

TerraRising··13 votes·884 views

From the recently updated PBE:

"Cassiopeia is a terrifying creature - half woman, half snake - whose slightest glance brings death. The youngest daughter of one of Noxus' most influential families, she was once a beautiful and cunning temptress capable of manipulating the hardest heart. Transformed by the venom of an ancient Shuriman tomb guardian, she continues to serve Noxian interests as she always has, just in a more... visceral way."

Is this a placeholder, like many are suggesting, or is this the actual lore that will be coming out for these champions?

Then, specifically speaking about Cass, does this new lore mean that, instead of being Katarina's younger and less knife happy sister, Cass now belongs to some unknown family? Also, why get rid of the Freljord curse? Does this mean that when Sivir met Cass (in Sivir's lore), Cass was human and the opening of that crypt led to Cass's curse instead of a sacred oath to keep a secret?

Please don't do what the Narrative team has been doing and ignore the questions. Please, provide something of an answer at least this one time.

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Omnipherious3 votes
  • She is likely to still be related to Katarina.
  • It is probably a placeholder.
  • When Cass and Sivir met she was probably still human, we can infer this because the excerpt says a tomb guardian cursed her.
  • Presumably, the curse is no longer tied to Freljord because these events are happening simultaneously within the world.
TerraRising5 votes

Thanks, but I'm not interested in speculation or assumptions from people not within the Lore/Narrative department. I've had more than enough of that, to be honest.

I'm more interested in some insight directly from the Lore team:

• Why is it okay to for Lore/Narrative to release these unfinished blurbs when the rest company has made it known that they don't like to release things until they're ready? • Why is it okay to destroy their established lore • Are Lore fans stuck waiting almost a year and a half for a mega release between installments? (For the record, I don't count music videos, cartoons, comic pages, taunt and VO interactions and everything else like that "lore." ) • Does the company, as a whole and not the individual employees, care about the overall narrative at all or is "Amumu is a sad animated cadaver" really all they want to release? • Is the team really afraid to engage those fans most passionate about this subject?

I'm likely to not get an answer, but I'm putting it out there for one of them to respond.

Omnipherious3 votes

The problem here is there have been plenty of lore threads, plenty of requests, etc.

Fact remains we are not likely to get diddly squat until the Azir Q&A. Even then, we'll probably have to dig a whole lot and only be given tidbits.

I'm with you on not liking this, but we've practically tried and said everything, including wait. We should just go about making our own assumptions until we get an official response because at the moment, the people who are qualified don't want to say anything.

So unless somebody qualified decides to take a less pussy-footed stance, we'll have to make do with our speculation and imagination.

TerraRising1 votes

Unfortunately, if I was willing to make due with speculation and imagination, I'd be writing fan fictions.

It really sucks that the Narrative team is turtle-ing like this. I really expect more from a company that prides itself on communication with fans...

PhailRaptor2 votes

Just another verse in the litany coming out with Azir in the Shurima Event. Or rather, the Great Shuriman Retconning. You can find my analysis of the rest here:

http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/miscellaneous/GPEPBymN-riot-it-should-be-pretty-clear-now-that-the-community-is-enraged-by-your-decisions-involving-lore?comment=001d

That discussion got as high as 3rd position on the "Hot" sorting over the weekend, then dropped off a cliff and out of sight sometime Monday morning. Lots of good discussion there, and a pretty good demonstration to Riot that we care about this, a lot. No response.

I am officially irked. 3 years of "don't worry, we're working on it, and it's AWESOME" with nothing to show for it but a bunch of half assed retcons, most of which don't make any sense at all.

Garlyle Wilds1 votes

According to a red post (You'll have to go digging through the Red Tracker, sorry, there's been a lot of them today), these short-form bios are being used as quick introductions. Full bios will remain available on the champion pages on-site.

This is because apparently the client has hard limits on the length of champion bios that can be inserted into it, so this is kind of a short term solution for them while they rework it (see the launcher/landing page rebuilds recently) so they can do more in-client.

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