Orianna Lore

Orianna was one of my favorite champions; with one of the most interesting backstories in the League. Old Orianna was once a normal girl who wanted to be a champion (you know, back when Runeterra a final fantasy setting but a unique place.) but tragically died in an accident. Her father, being a capable man, besided to try to rebuild her and fulfil her daughter's dreams. Orianna was remade; a metal body that could never die, and a protector in the form of a ball. She had all her old memories and her father, overwhelmed with joy treated this as a rebirth; his daughter was alive! And her dreams would become a reality!

But Orianna was... not normal. It seems that this Ori was "More machine now than man" In every sense of the world. She could remember everything the old one could remember, but she had a different viewpoint of everything. Just read the old lore, her judgement, hell, just read her quotes on the wiki. However, this Ori seems to want to be human, but she doesn't understand.

Old Ori, I found, to be a tragic figure. She knows what she's doing is what she wanted, but what she really wants will be forever out of her grasp. She is deep in the Uncanny Valley, a robot that simple is incapable of understanding humanity (and at times, Organic life in general) but wishing to. In fact to Viktor, she is everything he wants, but she wishes to give it up. It's

Unlike Targon, I'm just kinda... Head tilting at the Piltover/Zaun Lore Update. Orianna's new lore to me is... Okay, I mean it's a ghood backstory, but it loses a lot of the theme's of the old. In the new version Ori was a normal girl from a rich family in who learned some of her father's craft. When she heard of an outbreak of a disease in The Underhive Zaun, and agaist her fathers wishes, goes in to hep people. However, she was infected and slowly died as her organs began to stop one by one. Her father began to replace the organs with clockwork until she was the first mechanical woman.

Like I said, the new Ori is fine, but I don't like that we had to give up the old one. Maybe it could be "recycled" for another champion. It just needs a few tweaks to fit into the new world. Honestly, I like it a lot more than Janna ( a Daemon of the Warp I mean a wind god, and Zac (no parents? No Problem!). Itt's just that unlike those two, she lost her defining themes. Again, I hope something similar comes up later in a new champion, but until then, thank you for reading. Please comment and share your thoughts.

Targon non destruatur.