Can Ixtal get some development please?

Camille Ferrøs·8/9/2019, 2:08:58 PM·8 votes·7,434 views

As of this talking moment, Ixtal is just Wakanda in Runeterra. This compared to other regions is like the Rp art players submit and official splash art for champions. We are 2 months in still there is nothing to it. Just Qiyana and the Malph edit. it's really sad to see the other regions on the map filled with art and lore and this just sits there with 3 pictures and text about stuff we already know from the Ixtal intro on the universe. I know this was supposed to be a whole separate continent filled with metal people but they didn't have time to develop it so they threw it in the jungles next to shurima. Yeah, now its more generic but almost all regions started like that but got shaped into something more unique to the world of Runeterra. And I feel like the whole Piltover conflict is really unnecessary.

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AnotherPurple3798/12/2019, 8:57:06 AM2 votes

Oh boy, now this I feel pretty passionately about...

I really do wish Riot gave more attention of this region and shared more facts about it. Like a video, similar to the ones they did on Ionia and Targon. Heck, even a story specific to the region that introduces us to its daily life and culture, like how "Progress Day" did for Piltover or "City of Iron and Glass" did for Zaun.

A couple of vague facts and pictures, plus a short color story and two bios taking place there (one of them being like, 3 sentences long) is sadly abysmal. And I think it contributed to Ixtal being a lackluster and underwhelming reveal despite them being a whole new region for the longest time in League's history. It's a pretty big deal! Yet it barely got anything!

I'm so disappointed with this especially because Ixtal sounds like such a cool region and I would love to know more about it! I would absolutely love to see their culture, their way of living, their religions or spiritual beliefs, their systems of controlling the elements, their government and politics, their conflict with Piltover (which is maddeningly watered down and simplified and I am honestly pissed how underused and underexplored this subplot is right now), the fact that they're home to Malphite and the DRAGONS (!!!!!), the rules of elemental magic itself! There's so many things that could be explored in a new region such as Ixtal, and it makes me so sad thinking about it.

To be honest, I'm not too mad about the metal-people idea being scrapped - I'm fine with Ixtal how it is - but if they did go with it, I wouldn't have complained at all! It's a pretty creative idea, and it definitely would have helped Qiyana have more of a memorable character design.

Chembaron Yamada8/9/2019, 6:23:29 PM1 votes

Considering that the region literally just got introduced.... I wouldn't expect too much for the next time.

Arakadia8/10/2019, 8:43:58 PM1 votes

I know Qiyana was going to have a conductive metal skin thingy, but Ixtal was going to be a whole new continent full of metal people? Thats so sad they couldn't fulfil that.

GreenLore8/11/2019, 3:57:26 PM1 votes

There was some speculation that the next champ is from Ixtal as well, after all we see a shot that looks like it was made from light&dark magic, which would likely count as elemental magic and the pattern in the background resembles ixtal as well.

And the metal thing honestly feels a bit odd, I mean sure, them not being able to make a whole continent while developing a single champ(I still hope that they get back to this in the future though) makes sense, but then making ixtal all of a sudden feels odd, unless they were already working on someone else that was supposed to launch ixtal.