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Should we expect a lore overhaul of Orianna?

Xenohaz·10/4/2014, 9:14:56 PM·2 votes·1,434 views

I know that Riot's making progress on lore and we have to be patient and whatever. At this point, I have literally no reason to expect anything, ("A Rioter said so" stopped being a reason a long time ago for me) but I don't want to ramble and/or rant, so I'll save that for another day.

I'm wondering about Orianna. Any plans for her? I know that for a lot of lore, you can just take out the "and then they joined the League" bit and it still works, but in this new universe, she's a bit out of place. Living Orianna (the girl, not the robot) wanted to become a champion, and died in an accident while training. That doesn't work at all now that you've de-canonized the IoW and the League itself.

So what now? Did her father make a robotic version of his daughter because he was bored? She has no reason to exist as she does now.

I'm not really expecting a response, (must...not...rant...) but maybe someone has a theory of how they plan to incorporate her. Let me know what you think.

6 Comments

Melancholy Exile10/4/2014, 9:30:08 PM3 votes

Orianna and her father, for example – they can still be who you know them to be. She can still be a girl with hopes and dreams that met a tragic end. Her father can still be a man driven to questionable means to bring her back and let her live those dreams. THOSE are story beats that are important to Orianna. The Institute of War is merely a detail, it doesn't define her.

No part of Orianna's story becomes less poignant if you make her a girl who died doing something other than training to be a Champion of the League, and as background and gameplay no longer need to reflect one another nothing stops Riot from rewriting her as a machine that was never meant for combat, the Ball acting as both playmate and guardian. Essentially she moves even closer to being the Piltovian Blitzcrank.

Sharjo10/4/2014, 9:16:43 PM1 votes

Easy peasy. They literally just change living Orianna's ambition to something else and have her die tragically for the sake of it. That's all. Then everything else just works out.