For Ao Shin's Release, can we go back to traditional longer bios? Or advancing storylines?

Darrosh Jewfist·3/19/2015, 4:53:38 AM·28 votes·1,782 views

I'm excited for Ao Shin release being Chinese and a fan of the dragons.

I hope you throw in a lot of influences from East Asian Culture (like how dragons begin as fish, interactions with marine or wind-themed champs, and a lot of quotations based on Confucian philosophy).

I am also kind of expecting you'll have a grand release shindig with a video, promotional art and stuff... but really - just this once - can you please give Ao Shin a more traditional, long bio?

Or if you include a short story - can you at least write it from his POV and have him like... do something? All Azir did in his was walk around moping. I know it's asking a lot but I'd really like if it Ao Shin actually... INFLUENCED other champion story lines.

Maybe Ao Shin progresses Yasuo's search for his master's killer? Maybe Ao Shin and Bard come into conflict over something? Maybe Ao Shin... I don't know.

But please, don't let Ao Shin start another pointless storyline that you'll abandon and probably never reference again ever.

Let Ao Shin be the dragon he his and shatter the heavenly skies and make the cities of earth tremble.

@Narrative, I know you guys probably feel like tiny, little fish but...

*SHOW THE WORLD THAT EVEN A FISH CAN SPLASH LIKE A DRAGON. *

11 Comments

Migrañaboy3/19/2015, 8:28:24 AM10 votes

Nah, you will get:

A video A short champ description or... Some long story telling from a third person point of view and not back story. Some story told by a rioter hidden in a cryptic part of the forums.

OneMoreDaySK3/20/2015, 12:14:16 PM4 votes

Want to hear his lore? I've got it right here: A mysterious eastern dragon with a mysterious past that just so happened to possibly be involved with either Yasuo (via theme of wind) or Udyr (possible threat in Udyr's comic, as well as the fact that he's the odd one out of Udyr's animal spirits of Phoenix, Turtle, and Tiger)... mysteriously. Have I mentioned how vague and mysterious it's going to be? /silly

But yeah, I haven't seen any interaction between characters since the JoJ. I really miss that.

LeeDark3/19/2015, 9:46:45 PM3 votes

What makes you think Ao Shin is still going to be a thing?

Only Play Darius3/19/2015, 11:42:13 AM2 votes

He got canceled so long ago.....

Athenes Lulu3/19/2015, 10:51:22 PM2 votes

No, because "plot is overrated".

Doctor Dyment3/19/2015, 6:37:10 PM1 votes

Can somebody send me a link or something with the latest information on what Ao Shin? I know almost nothing about him besides his name, and the fact that he will have obvious Chinese symbolism. I want to participate in this conversation, but seeing as how I have no prior background info on him... yeah. A link or some info would be greatly appreciated.

GreenLore3/19/2015, 10:49:36 AM1 votes

I think it is kinda weird that Bard didn't get a long lore,considering that AzirKalista & RekSai got one,but well maybe bards video is basically his lore in videoformat.

Overall the problem with your idea is that it sounds more like they would continue the lore of someone else instead of giving us ao shins own lore,you know a lore piece about ao shin helping yasuo to find the elders killer(why does everyone think yasuos master was killed?) sounds more like it'd be a lore piece related to yasuo and not ao shin,it would feel more like ao shin is a side character in yasuos story and not his own character.

So ao should have his own storyline,it'd be cool if its affects other storylines as well,but that is kinda hard to do if not planned in advance(I could imagine Ao shin being the solution for the ionia-noxus war,considering that without the league the war never came to a conclusion).

The Soulforged3/19/2015, 6:07:23 AM1 votes

I'm just hoping to see a good long lore for myself to test their worth on making new content rather than destroying old content.

Doctor Dyment3/19/2015, 6:39:17 PM1 votes

Can I get a link or something with information on Ao Shin? I know next to nothing, as I only know his name and the obvious Chinese symbolism that he carries. I want to participate in this conversation, but seeing as how I have no prior info on the subject at hand... yeah. A link or even some information from someone who knows who or what he is would be greatly appreciated.