Since Rito obliterated the old lore discussion forum, this is a thread about how new Xerath lore sucks and how Riot made him a generic villain.
I mean if they listened to the Viktor fiasco they should listen to Xerath fans too right?
I hate it too mostly because we got promised much more in terms of story and we got 0. Also yes, Xerath has been turned around into your Saturday Morning Villain. His character was already "Not on the good side" because yes, he caused the death of manies due the power he gained but all the story gave dept to the character who was not just your anonymus plotting right-hand mage that steals from the king his promised power.
I really looked forward to the Azir release because of this statement: "I have no need for vengeance. Time has brought ruin to the mages of Shurima and I alone remain." The fact that Azir has seen his city and empire destroyed by the Ascendant mage could have brought up a sort of Mithycal Rivalry on the field even with the retcon of the IoW. What we got now is a Jafaresque image of a champion not deeper than having Zyra being born from a seed on which Maokai sh*tted on.
It's bad.
It's really, really bad.
You can tell from Xerath's in game quotes in Ascension that he is just a basic evil shmuck. That's not from Azir's or Nasus' perspective. They are Xerath's own words. I'm really disappointed.
They didn't ruin it. They took Xerath from a different point of view, technically Xerath did murder Azir. But if we look at it from Xerath's point of view, it seems like he did the right thing, he accomplished what he had been working towards. But now imagine you are Azir. You literally just got murdered. Obviously if we look at the story from Azir's point of view, which we did. It makes Xerath look like the bad guy.
