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Riot's not responding to threads about "the League shouldn't have been retconned out!"

darkdill·10/24/2014, 4:38:33 AM·14 votes·3,747 views

This thread, the one with +95 on it (atm)? Are you seriously ignoring it, Riot?

http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/story-art/krpYhq3T-riot-shouldve-closed-the-league-through-writing-rather-than-a-retcon

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Want me to give you a way you could've written the League's destruction rather than just saying "it didn't exist!"?

Here's one to introduce a new faction: DRAGONS. And yes, it stars one of my Champion Concepts, but try looking beyond that.

Many millennia ago, Runeterra was ruled by the Dragons, who had enslaved the other races under them to bring order to the world and safeguard it. The Dragons were ruled by a cruel black dragon known as Plagueis, who crowned himself the Dragon King after leading his brethren to subjugate the mortal races.

Plagueis ruled for one thousand years before a human uprising occurred, led by a warrior who commanded the power of the Sun (yep, Leona's ancestor). After a series of victories against the Dragons, this warrior challenged Plagueis to single combat. Overconfident, Plagueis accepted the challenge, and was slain in battle.

Following Plagueis' death, the Dragons dissolved into infighting over scraps of territory, leading to ultimately fatal battles between the Dragons, who were also hunted by their former slaves. In time, memory of the Dragon Age was lost, except to a few elder Dragons who have survived since such ancient times.

Now we return to the modern age, where the Institute of War exists. A group of Summoners, ordered by the High Council of the Institute, make their way to Plagueis' old lair, a high mountain named Death's Spire. They find Plagueis' bones in the lair and perform a magic ritual to resurrect the dragon and turn it into a mindless thrall. However, they did not count on Plagueis' dark spirit lingering within his bones, and as he was given new life as a Dracolich, he "rewarded" the Summoners with a swift death. Learning of Plagueis' return, the High Council sent a contingent of Adjudicators to kill him, but Plagueis escaped.

Learning that the Institute of War wished to control the remaining Dragons in Valoran to give itself an army (in order to police the other factions), Plagueis was infuriated. He rallied together many other dragons, some who had been his loyal lieutenants during the Dragon Age, and formed a small but powerful army. Plagueis and his followers attacked the Institute of War, completely overwhelming the Summoners and Adjudicators, killing the High Councilors, and burning the Institute to the ground.

Within the ruins of the Institute of War, Plagueis created a new lair for himself and his subjects, and now he seeks to reconquer all of Valoran, and return Runeterra to the days of the Dragon Age.

See, Riot? This could be MUCH better.

62 Comments

3ngin33r10/24/2014, 6:49:05 AM15 votes

They never touch criticism threads unless they can absolutely come out on top

DG Ashabel10/24/2014, 5:44:42 AM11 votes

As I have mentioned in another thread, an article in New York Times reveals that Riot Games recently underwent some internal restructuring.

In mid-September, six people met in a room at Riot Games. They were members of a corporate division, called Foundations, tasked with fleshing out the history of all the game’s champions, including the climate, landscape, architecture and dress of their place of origin.

Little of that information has any effect on game play. The point of Foundations is to lend concreteness to the Legends universe, as it’s depicted for fans on the website and in promotional materials.

It is likely that this division are the ones calling the shots about narrative direction now, with the narrative team having little say in it and thus having nothing but personal opinions to share in such threads. Which would be a bad thing, since they're corporate employees communicating with their customers and their opinions shouldn't clash with the company's direction.

And given that this division seems to have no presence whatsoever on the forums, it is likely that large decisions such as Institute's erasure will continue to have little if any understanding of how the community feels about it.

Neon Robot10/24/2014, 6:45:37 AM6 votes

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Final GirI10/24/2014, 6:00:31 PM6 votes

Eventually you all will shut up about this whole lore thing and find something else to complain about, that's how it always is.

GenoXx10/24/2014, 5:41:45 AM3 votes

Well, Narrative wont respond to something like that. You have to understand, they are people too.

MrBuffington10/24/2014, 1:40:08 PM2 votes

This whole issue is several months old. They responded to threads when it first came up. All I see now are threads that ignore all the comments they've already made, and then just whine about how they're being ignored. They've made their position clear, they've already discussed this with the community, if you're late to the party, stop complaining that they started without you.