Reading Morgana's updated short bio, I think it has the potential to go in a really cool direction.

Blood Magicks·11/15/2017, 6:48:11 PM·33 votes·2,344 views

Driven by vindictive obsession, Morgana is a potent mistress of suffering and the black arts. Once a being of grace and light, she was ripped from her kind during an ancient conflict that broke her soul, turning her into the cruel tormentor she is today. Comforted by a prophecy that claims she will strike the final blow and gain her revenge, Morgana lies in wait, her lust for power growing endlessly.

Now I know some people read this and thought 1) this might make her a bit too one-sided villain or 2) she sounds like a victim of the conflict rather than the initiator of it (I agree with the latter by the way, give my first main more agency), but I thought one thing:

Lucifer

https://i.imgur.com/0PkK36T.jpg

This can be absolutely amazing. Judeo-Christian mythology is at least as awesome as the Nordic one, and if Riot puts their art team on that and delivers a gender-swapped Lucifer(in a subtle and tasteful way) I am hyped and sold. Add to that how the worship and fear of this entity influenced the culture of Valoran throughout the ages and it can turn out solid. Give me "Paradise Lost" and Milton's poetry, Riot. Give me mature and well-crafted Runeterran myth. I know Season 6 faced some backlash because the characters were 2deep and sometimes preachy, but you more than compensated in Season 7, which was more mass-market. I hope the seasons to come strike a good balance.

35 Comments

Warlord Dienekes11/15/2017, 8:04:07 PM9 votes

But the point of Paradise Lost was that Lucifer seems cool and charming but was actually a childlike little bitch throwing a tantrum because he couldn’t have his way once you analyze his actions.

Stars Shaper11/15/2017, 6:51:44 PM4 votes

Did they updated Kayle's too?

Żügżwäng11/15/2017, 6:52:57 PM4 votes

Lore in this game is severely lacking and constantly being retconned. The pregame tips are laughable sometimes: vastayans like to eat gobbledy%%%%s from Xteria.

For a game with so many interesting characters it would be nice for some sort of backstory to be added... Perhaps through events like the starguardian one where you take a team of noxians through some set of levels.

DariusDemiurge11/15/2017, 6:50:26 PM3 votes

No thanks.

Muzét11/15/2017, 11:09:30 PM3 votes

On Another Topic I said that she could become a demon after being fallen.. Got downvoted3but still hooping so.

kattzkitti11/15/2017, 6:53:37 PM2 votes

What is it about religious people that they just can't help but shove their children's fairy tales down other's throats wherever and whenever they have the opportunity to?

YHWH Adonai11/17/2017, 9:18:50 AM2 votes

This can be absolutely amazing. Judeo-Christian mythology is at least as awesome as the Nordic one, and if Riot puts their art team on that and delivers a gender-swapped Lucifer(in a subtle and tasteful way) I am hyped and sold.

  1. The origin of Lucifer is much, much older than Judeo-Christian mythology. Lucifer is Venus as Morning Star. Bringer of the Light (as she brings the Sun). Queen of the Night (she is the brightest on the night sky after a Moon), the Fallen One (as a Morning Star she is just going to/from Afterworld-Hell. There is many stories about it). So it would be not much gender swapping if Morgana would be personification of Venus-Lucifer.

This is the picture of Mesopotamian Ishtar which is also Venus. https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2224/13197189004_f0d76cc8b2_b.jpg

  1. Yes. Judeo-Christian mythology is amazing and it has similar roots as any pagan religion you mentioned. It's beautiful cultular heritage. So why Riot don't want to use it? I guess because christian and jewish people in some countries are crazy and see everywhere sacrilege. So they probably don't want to be accused of anything and deal with crazy people who feel offended. So they use as inspiration European Pagan Religions, Asian ones (especially Chinese and Japanese one) (I especially love Wukong, which is the same as famous Son Goku btw. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Wukong ) and some others.

For some unknown for me reason I always associated Morgana with some Asian demon. She looks very similar to Morgana. She is a winged woman who sits on the roofs of houses especcialy at night. She looks like ghostly, wicked woman without a belly and she steals babies from cradles causing cot death.

Kitty Pix11/16/2017, 12:24:29 AM1 votes

Why is not a single person linking to the Google doc source for all these stories, it's getting really annoying. I want to read them all :(

PokladnicaZla11/16/2017, 6:53:07 AM1 votes

Fun fact;There are some theologist who clbelieve that Lucifer was in fact female.

I must admit i find the idea of RITO basing Morgana's and Kayle's lore on some of tge worlds religions quite interesting,but I do hope if they do make Morgana evil (which I hope they dont) that they give her a proper that explains it all.Not just making her evil for the sake of it.

Akali Prime11/16/2017, 3:54:10 PM1 votes

aww but we already have a champion thats basically the devil TahmKench

Craxsian11/15/2017, 7:07:09 PM1 votes

Is it from PBE?