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Cassiopeia's New Lore is Partially Incorrect.

iEpicFailLoL·2/11/2015, 8:42:57 PM·3 votes·784 views

Rito Gaems has destroyed another Lore/Story and this is of another favorite character of mine. (Rito, STOP RESKINNING!) If you read closely, the lore proves to be wrong to some extent: 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.

Controversial Text:

  1. "...half women, half snake" - This can be interpreted as Cassiopeia was born this way. (If the reader was only given the first sentence...) Half Snake doesn't fit with the Petrifying Gaze part of her skill set. The correct term would be Gorgon...
  2. "... she continues to serve Noxian interests as she always has..." - She is a "snake". How do you seduce someone while being a "snake"... Temptress - a woman who tempts someone to do something, typically a sexually attractive woman who sets out to allure or seduce someone.

We need a full-human Cassiopeia Skin right now Rito...

As Always, don't forget to Get Dunked!Vi

P.S: If the public approves of the idea of a "Human Cassiopeia" Skin in the poll below, I will make a concept art of Cassiopeia and post it in the Skins & Champion Concepts Board.

3 Comments

GreenLore2/11/2015, 11:19:31 PM5 votes

I think you are overthinking the stuff here.

  1. "...half women, half snake" - This can be interpreted as Cassiopeia was born this way. (If the reader was only given the first sentence...) Half Snake doesn't fit with the Petrifying Gaze part of her skill set. The correct term would be Gorgon...

Thats not really implied there at all. Yes it says she is half-human,half snake,but that does not imply in any way that she was born this way.calling her a Gorgon would probably make it even more confusing as it would imply that there actually exists some kind of race that cassiopeia belongs to(while one origin story said medusa was transformed into a gorgon,there also exist others,where the gorgons were born this way),it would imply that there are other gorgons too,but there aren't any like this.

  1. "... she continues to serve Noxian interests as she always has..." - She is a "snake". How do you seduce someone while being a "snake"... Temptress - a woman who tempts someone to do something, typically a sexually attractive woman who sets out to allure or seduce someone.

This means more something like "she is still on the side of noxus" not necessarily that she is still seducing people for the sake of noxus.

We need a full-human Cassiopeia Skin right now Rito...

I would like such a skin,but I doubt that it would be ever possible to do something like that. Why?Because the shape of a champion always has to be retained,otherwise it'd be confusing for the enemies in the midst of a battle to properly identify the champ. If cassiopeia suddenly doesn't have a snake tail anymore,then she'd look extremely different and it would cause a lot of confusion.

iEpicFailLoL2/12/2015, 3:51:36 PM1 votes

Notice how I said that if the reader was only given the first sentence of her lore, things would change.