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Riot seems to create new champion lore from a different standpoint

LeafyGreen·1/8/2019, 11:06:26 PM·3 votes·3,354 views

I've noticed that more recent champions/updates tend to be more about what a character is currently doing or what their goal is in the universe as of right now. This is opposed to telling a character's backstory and then later writing their new adventures or goals based on including them.

Good example - Sylas We know nothing about everything before he was in jail, but we know how he broke out and what he is currently doing. This gives so much freedom for Riot to explore his character in all sorts of different ways. Since there is so much missing from his character, this imprisonment could easily be at the end or beginning of an entire arc (or both).

Neeko, Swain, Ashe, and Tryndamere's updated bios all have parts of their story unexplained which leaves a lot of exploration for their characters in the future. This is a big improvement from old lore, which restricted a lot of growth and is pretty cool.

3 Comments

GreenLore1/8/2019, 11:14:35 PM3 votes

Actually I do think that we know quite a lot about the past of Sylas. After all we got the story "demacian heart" that featured the last mission of him as a mage seeker and ended with the incident where he actually murders a few people.

Granted there is still a small gap between this and the moment where they catch and imprison him,but I wouldn't call that "not knowing what they did in the past".

And overall I think that Riot just wants to avoid being too detailed in the bios,because otherwise they quickly turn into a chore to read.

Modl Ryden l1/10/2019, 9:02:39 AM2 votes

Well, old champs lore were pretty VERY vague. The only supplement to relationships and happenings to those champions was the Journal of Justice (JoJ) that reported what champions were doing and so forth. It's kind of like what they are doing now with lore updates but happening in smaller 'news-like' tidbits. It left a lot to the imagination to the players than it did for Riot. However, I do agree this method of storytelling does put more of the lore in Riot's hand. Making it more concise I would say and having players anticipate what will happen next rather than creating posts and posts of theories.

Regarding Neeko however, I don't know much about her lore, but she seems (from what I gather in her trailer) is pretty docile, she doesn't seem to have a set goal in mind other than to imitate what's around her. Whereas the other champs you've mentioned, Tryndamere, Trundle, Ashe have all had some prior lore that had loose ends that needed some tying up. Namely things like tribe wars and who should dominate the Freljord.