@ Riot about Bloodmoon Kalista
I have conflicted feelings about this skin. First, I love how it looks. That is not enough to fix the fact that Kalista does not fir with the lore behind the Bloodmoon skins. For those of you that don't know about the lore, here's a summary. After the Ionia- Noxus war, there was a festival where Akali and Shen performed a play. The Bloodmoon skins are based on their costumes during this play. Here's the information told about the play from the League Wiki:
The headlining performance featured league champions Shen and Akali, who performed The Tale of Reina, a legend in which an ancient Ionian warrior is hunted by an evil spirit. Akali took the part of Reina herself, dressed in formal Ionian red and white battle garb, and Shen played the spirit that plagued her, adorned with a fearsome mask. As the legend goes, Reina fled the spirit for years, yet it always found and tormented her. Finally, Reina donned her own mask to confront the spirit, but when she turned to face it, it never came again, frightened away by her strength.
Unless Riot plans to add more to the lore behind the Bloodmoon skins, I am against it. I don't know if Riot forgot about that lore, or if they are completely getting rid of it because of the lore changes they are making, but I see no reason (other than looks) as to why they would make this skin. From what they've released so far (lorewise), It doesn't seem too promising that they will add better lore. Here's a post by BaconHawk about the skin:
"The mists swirl and part, wispy tendrils sliding hungrily across her undead arms. She pulls down her mask, silently creeping along the twisted treeline. With a hushed growl, she sends her specter to scout ahead. Its reddish glow turns the spooky green forest into an undulating mottled pattern of gray trees and black shadows. Even the moon above seems to dim. By its sinister light, she spots her prey ahead. Silently, she raises her spear back. The sharp, curved tip flows with bloody energy. With a grunt, she hurls it, and and springs forward in anticipation. Blood Moon Kalista has arrived.
- An all new model with Blood Moon mask, new armor, new spectral scout
- All new Blood Moon particles, with red and deep blue colors
- A new recall animation, complete with new sounds
Join her ranks, if you are brave."
I love how the skin looks, and I would be fine with them keeping it if they just renamed it to Bloodknight Kalista like Bloodknight Hecarim and made a few slight texture updates. I see possibilities for this lore though. Kalista could have been the spirit in the story, or Reina could be one of her spirits. I personally think a Justicar skin would fit her much better than Bloodmoon. Just my thoughts on it. Plan on updating this as more things are released about the skin, if anything else is released. I am mainly posting this to get a Rioter's answer for why she has this skin. Thanks for reading :)
They invited her instead of me? ... b-but... i wanted to go to the festival... -cries in a corner-
Kalista? Here? Dammnit... i knew that betraying Shen and his father was a bad idea... -runs away-