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Orianna Reveck and the Lady of Clockwork

Cynneth·12/8/2016, 12:25:37 PM·8 votes·1,429 views

The new lore for Orianna is a beautiful written and heartbreaking story. It shows us the life of a young girl and her coming to be more and more machine, the fading of her humanity. This story is not about Orianna though, but about a Piltovian inventor’s daughter: Orianna Reveck.

In the old lore the human Orianna Reveck died in a tragic accident. Her father Corin, driven into depression over the loss of his child, build a replacement. The clockwork machine Orianna should complete the late girls dream and live on forever as the perfect daughter in her father's eyes. In a world where people augment and replace their bodies with machine parts to the point where you have to question whether to call them still men, Orianna has been approaching this very horizon form the other side; artificial life at the brink of humanity. Learning that she is in fact not Orianna Reveck, going through a crisis of identity and searching for her own self. Discovering what it means to feel, how to feel, learning what it means to be, struggling with the concept of life and the world’s reaction to her existence; this could have been her journey. Could she become human? Or was she never more than a soulless clockwork shell, a petty automaton created by an illusional old man? We are never going to know.

I do like the new lore and the story for Orianna Reveck. Her journey is about remembering rather than discovering what it is to be human and coping with her new conditions. I am looking forward to see more of her life, hoping for an encounter with Blitzcrank, want to know more about how Viktor and the Glorious Evolved perceive her. It however marks the end of the Lady of Clockwork as I knew her.

The character that I have come to love is gone. Even so I have been given a replacement I can appreciate and will grow to like, deep inside I will always know this is not my little Orianna and I will always remember her the way she was.

9 Comments

DoktorKaiser12/8/2016, 1:55:37 PM6 votes

As an Ori main since season 1, I cant really explain my feeling on this new lore, but I kind of actually like it and when you think about it, it has more sence then the old lore, since I always kind of felt that real Orianna died stupidly and for nothing. Also old lore had to be changed since Ori died in the Tribunal and the robot was made to be a killer. This new one is a person losing everything that made her what she was and transforming into a machine and the old one was a copy of a person without anything human in the first place, they are so different yet I like them both. All in all, I will miss the old lore but I am very pleased with new one as well (although her voiceover is now questionable but I love it pls dont change it, just add more quotes), she feels more likeable, at least its not ruined like poor Viktor :(

midnight oil2412/8/2016, 2:01:55 PM5 votes

I honestly prefer this one to the old lore. Don't get me wrong, the old lore was great, but it was more or less: "Oh no, my daughter died for an inane reason to make a new champion. Better go batshit crazy and make a new one!"

This new one, however, replaces Orianna with Orianna Reveck, and it works far better. It creates a more tragic decline for both her and her father, as Corin, in his attempts to save his daughter, finds that he's slowly losing her instead. Orianna suffers too, as she's beginning to realize that she's something new, not the same smiling girl that talked to the customers and snuck out to watch the dancers. I almost cried at the point where Corin was taking her to the shows to try to get her to act like her old self, but she would ask to leave because she had already learned everything from watching them.

I find Orianna far more relatable now, as her steady change reminds me of the depression I go through, the steady moving from an energetic (not really in my case) and upbeat person to more of a lifeless husk just chugging along. That's why I love her new lore so much.

GreenLore12/8/2016, 3:38:22 PM2 votes

Well the question is: If every Biological part of Orianna was replaced with Machines,then is that really Orianna Revec that we play as? I mean technically you could put the old Orianna completely back together and then have the corpse of the human Orianna next to the mechanical one.

So in a way,Revec did replace his daughter with a machine,its just that he himself did not realize that.