Rek'Sai's release proves lore isn't dead

It's pretty ironic that the first champion who, by Riot's own admission, isn't so much a character as a beast, should bring greater depth to the lore. "Scourge of the Desert", aside from the melodramatic name, is a nice story piece that expands on the world of Runeterra, something that the narrative department at Riot has been promising for some time. In my blog post, I go into a more detailed explanation of how we can infer more information on Noxus and Shurima and generally, why reports of the lore department's demise have been greatly exaggerated.

This could have been a simple and stereotypical monster teaser - but it wasn't. It had a narrator who became an actual character, in the sense that he underwent development and, in my case at least, got the reader to actually care about him. "Care" might be a strong word, but over the course of the story I caught myself thinking it was too bad Aelon was going to get eaten (since until the last page, I was certain he was).

The start of Aelon's change in perspective takes place before he even hears of, let alone sees, so it does little to directly tie into her launch and from a marketing standpoint is fairly superfluous. That it's here anyways should serve as proof that, contrary to what we've been tempted to think, **Riot does care about its game's lore. **

The writers have always said they don't want to just do an "info-dump" but to give us lore in an interesting way - if this is what they mean, I'm all for it.