Questions about Diana's Lore Changes

phyteriae··2 votes·1,169 views

I realize this is really outdated, but ever since they changed Diana's lore, I have had multiple questions as to the decisions made. I was wondering if anyone in the community (or someone who actually worked on the story? IDK) could answer them.

Why did they change her from being from the Solari community to an outsider? While nobody likes to admit it, many communities have individuals who are ostracized and deemed outcasts because they don't view something in the same way. The original lore focused on that feeling: the idea that some communities are so stubborn about their beliefs that they immediately shut down any inquisitive individuals. By making Diana an outsider to begin with, her questioning of their customs not only give them the right to call her a heretic, but also just makes her seem an ungrateful brat. In that sense, it's as if whoever wrote the lore was agreeing with the community's inability to accept difficult questions and attempt to answer them.

I guess overall though, I just don't understand why it needed a rework. The lore itself might have been poorly written (I personally thought it was mostly acceptable), but the idea behind it was spectacular. The fact is, it was relatable to those who have been ostracized for not believing in the same things as their community. Now it's as if she's the "bad guy", someone who turned on a people who kindly raised her.

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Wrathof3003 votes

Assuming I read your post correctly I think you are simply reading too much from the Solari elder's point of view and not Diana's. She is constantly finding these facts of a lost religion/civilization and being any caring human being she is asking for help researching it/ an explanation as for why they were wiped out.

Like you said the story does emphasize on society's ability to adapt, but this is the entire reason for her story as a character, from Diana's point of view at least you should have seen her as a missionary of a lost fate possibly that was wiped out unjustly.

From Leona's point of view she is a heretic with hidden knowledge of the Solari and Lunari's past. It's kinda like Jayce and Viktor's lore where, with Jayce's lore, Viktor is out right evil and in Viktor's, lore Jayce is ten times the dick he actually is.

phyteriae2 votes

Well, not quite. Perhaps I did not state my questions clear enough. I was a person who was labelled "weird" or "strange" because I had a different way of thinking than my community. I know what it is like to be pushed out of a community for having questions, and I don't understand why Diana was changed so that she was born outside of the Solari clan. In that sense, as she was born an outsider of the Solari, right? In that sense, when she questions their customs as to why the Lunari were wiped out, the Solari get angry with her (which are valid reactions from both sides). However, my issue with that is this: because she was already born non-Solari, it almost "goes to show" that she would have differing ideas and a different understanding of the world. While that is true, my argument is that it can also happen to individuals born into a community. Basically, I question the decision to make her not actually part of the Solari clan, because the story had much more resonance with people who feel like they don't belong in the community they were born into.

And of course I see her as a missionary of a lost fate. There is definitely no denying that it's an integral aspect of her story; regardless of whether or not she was born in the Solari clan, she still tries to revive a dead culture, and that in itself is noteworthy and honorable.

Basically, the way I saw Diana's old lore was that she was a misunderstood youth who decided that she didn't like what her community was telling her to believe in, and chose to take steps to find out what she believed in. Now, I feel like her lore makes her less of a "misunderstood, angsty kid" and more of a "holier than thou because I read ancient texts". Of course, that's just the interpretation I got, but when it comes down to it my question is why she had to be removed as a part of the Solari tribe.

Wrathof3001 votes

She technically was born into the faith as it she was taught Solari religion from birth just as any other Solari child. So in my opinion at least, the effect of her being outcasted still sends the same impact as the old lore. Although the new lore removed the problem of how her parents probably would have played into their daughter being a heretic etc. Basically they removed aspects that they didn't want to write about. But maybe you see it differently since experienced the situation personally.

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