Lore for Azir, Kalista, and Rek'Sai

Shogari·Feb 5, 2015·2 votes·1,030 views

I was browsing through the Champion overview pop-ups in the client, and I noticed that the 3 newest champions were a little bit light on detail in their lore tabs. Every champion before them had a full page write up, letting us know a bit more about their identities, motivations, mindset, etc. It's not anything on the level of deal-breaking with the game, I just don't want to see Riot cut corners on introducing fully fleshed out Champions. Just a few more paragraphs, pretty please?

6 Comments

lightdragoon88Feb 5, 20152 votes

I have them saved. Here you go:

Azir http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/story-art/zmvrQ7I6-short-stories-azirarisen

Xerath http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/story-art/RdkEIREJ-short-stories-xerathunbound

RekSai http://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/creative-spotlight/reksai-scourge-desert

SiachiFeb 5, 20151 votes

Azir does have a larger story somewhere on the boards (Don't remember the link), which if memory serves sort of goes through his thoughts and memories shortly after his ascension.

Kalista I think also has a story posted on the boards; something to do with a woman summoning Kalista and bonding with her that, really didn't go over much of Kalista's character, to be honest.

And Rek'Sai actually got a page on the website: It had a Noxian hunter's journal as he tried to find Xer'sai for the Noxian Arena, and to summarize, it was pretty neat.

The issue is that Riot wants to do a 'Short lores in the clients that links to longer lores in the main website', but they've apparently had a lot of tech issues in doing that, and they've had these issues for a while, apparently.

TL;DR: These champs DO have longer lores, they just aren't in the client, and there's been some tech issues that's delayed progress for quite a while in getting things the way they want.

ShogariFeb 5, 20151 votes

Fair point, and I'm not saying the lore is no where to be found, Riot does a great job of building deep, rich characters. I just worry about that information being too spread out. I just feel that the lore shouldn't drift away from the game client, it makes it feel too separated from the game itself. Just my thought...

GreenLoreFeb 5, 20151 votes

They plan on updating the official page with full lores,while giving the champs short lores on the client(and a link to the full lore). However they have some tech issues thus they can't put two different lores into the client and the official page respectively,which is why they only added the short lore into the client and left the full lore at another place(I think the client might not even be able to have such a big lore or something like that)

Sadly it looks like their tech issues are kinda hard to resolve,which results in mutliple champs being stuck with their short lore(the shurima champs,shadow isles champs and tristana have only their short lore in the client too).

Bat BotFeb 5, 20151 votes

This is moreso the new direction due to the space in the client. I believe they're redoing all of the lore so that it can be shifted to 'summary in client, full story on website'. The primary reason is to keep the client small in size as well as primarily based on the game's mechanics and strategy. The lore, although nice, is better served via links to places where high resolution, long detailed, and possibly musically enhanced stories can be hosted.