Why on earth is Kalista getting a Blood Moon skin?

iTams·11/8/2014, 5:20:45 AM·7 votes·2,465 views

From the Journal of Justice Volume 1 Issue 22, only Ionians celebrated the Blood Moon Festival http://leagueoflegends.wikia.com/wiki/The_Journal_of_Justice:_Volume_1,_Issue_22

“This is the primary tradition of the festival,” explained Master Hana, an Ionian adjudicator. “Together, we identify that which plagues us. As we enter the darkness of night, which we call 'facing the Blood Moon', we confront them as one. With the rising of the sun, our fears and woes are cleansed, our spirits rekindled.”

So, basically, only Ionians participating in the festival should get this skin... if anyone should get it, it should be Irelia or Master Yi or someone else, not someone not even from the region.

A rioter also posted this:

"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.

This does not relate towards the festival at all, this is just an insult.

Just because her particles may look pretty in red doesn't mean that you can give her a Blood Moon mask and call her name Blood Moon. At least call her something else and change the mask/take it away.

16 Comments

Rustling Bush11/8/2014, 5:25:04 AM4 votes

i don't see what the big deal is, don't plenty of champions get skin unrelated to there lore like mecha sets and gentleman cho-gath for example

Jamaree11/8/2014, 5:22:49 AM3 votes

Is it confirmed she is not from Ionia?

SchaakaKon11/8/2014, 7:17:45 PM2 votes

Just another lore casuality.

GreenLore11/8/2014, 3:06:34 PM2 votes

Overall it is just a skin.

Just because some skins of a given skin line are tied to canon,doesn't mean that every skin of that line has to be canon.

For example braums and jarvans dragonslayer skins are a representation how they slayed a dragon in the actual lore,but that doesn't mean that the other dragonslayer skins have any actual meaning.

Terra Booma11/8/2014, 5:27:35 AM1 votes

This is the second post I've seen on this topic, and I'll give you the same answer I gave then.

It's a legend, Kalista would hardly have to be apart of the play that Shen and Akali originally put on. The blood Moon legend if you go into more detail is about a fearsome creature tormenting a woman, chaasing it to the ends of the earth. In the end, the woman puts a mask on and faces the demon, but it runs as she stands her ground.

A pretty decent way to instill fear in your target would be to dress up as an almost never ending attacking demon now wouldn't you?

Zephyrei11/9/2014, 3:08:50 AM1 votes

Skins are not really canon... They are for fun. Embrace it. :D

Dreamspitter11/9/2014, 6:22:10 AM1 votes

From the Journal of Justice Volume 1 Issue 22, only Ionians celebrated the Blood Moon Festival http://leagueoflegends.wikia.com/wiki/The_Journal_of_Justice:_Volume_1,_Issue_22

“This is the primary tradition of the festival,” explained Master Hana, an Ionian adjudicator. “Together, we identify that which plagues us. As we enter the darkness of night, which we call 'facing the Blood Moon', we confront them as one. With the rising of the sun, our fears and woes are cleansed, our spirits rekindled.”

So, basically, only Ionians participating in the festival should get this skin... if anyone should get it, it should be Irelia or Master Yi or someone else, not someone not even from the region.

A rioter also posted this:

"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.

This does not relate towards the festival at all, this is just an insult.

Just because her particles may look pretty in red doesn't mean that you can give her a Blood Moon mask and call her name Blood Moon. At least call her something else and change the mask/take it away.

Does anything in the journal of justice matter now?

Hellioning11/9/2014, 6:22:18 AM1 votes

Considering their explanation for removing summoners being directly contradicted in the JoJ, I don't think anyone at Riot has read it recently.

Ironclad Dragon11/11/2014, 3:47:36 AM1 votes

Because she's a vengeful spirit who's a perfect fit for Oriental mythology?