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- So is compulsory military no longer a part of Demacian culture? Why was this changed when the lore, splash arts, and just about everything has been implying that Demacia is beset on all fronts while also beginning a new war with Noxus. It makes no real sense that someone would want their daughter to play with dolls and dresses if they were destined for the army.
Maybe nobles(or women) are an exception here?
I mean Fiora was more or less raised to be a tool for political marriage,so it wouldn't surprise me if noble women like that could be an exception.
The compulsory military always made little sense to me,I mean does Sona look like she was/is going to the military?Quinns lore also sounds more like she joined willingly.
Though they might have compulsory military services in times of dire need.
- Is the old meteorcratic system of ranking changed to a patriarchy? If so (WHY). Why take the city-state that has more women representing it then men, women who are trained, professional soldiers and warriors, women with agency and backstories, and completely diminish their power in the setting? Why do this with DEMACIA? I get it, grey and grey and grey and no black and white and blah blah, but why make them so utterly archaeic in comparison to their old lore selves? Especially when they have been getting the shaft in nearly every event, none of their characters being able to do anything with impact without getting fucked over by Noxus or someone else? They haven't had a clear victory in ages, just ties and losses.
While demacia has many female champs,how many of those are actually in some kind of leader position?Right the only one is Fiora.
Vayne is the head of her house because everyone else is dead,Sona is a noble,but not in the military,quinn might be exceptionally skillfull,but still has a rather low rank,shyvana is in a similar position.
The only other woman who has some kind of political status is poppy who is an ambassador.
Its not that they see women as simply inferior,just that women are usually not seen as leader figures and that sometimes noble women are supposed to be married off to an influental suitor.
- Is Demacia now going to become unbearably draconic? Where an entire family is exiled due to one man's crime? Where a woman has no right to refuse a suitor? Where everything is settled with duels to the death? Is the constitutional monarchy that used to be in place gone? I had this very real concern a while ago when Ekko came out and I could see that they wanted to muddle up the morality of the setting. And I was guessing that they were going to give Demacia some new fatal flaw. But I didn't think they would completely re-write their culture to do so.
Demacia was always said to be rather draconic when it came to stuff like honor and justice,its just that this was always kind of an informed attribute of them that we never saw in the lore.
While I agree that a whole noble family getting exiled for one incident is kinda over the top,it was already a part in fioras old lore that duels to the death are not an uncommon way to handle these things.(Fiora herself threatened to kill her father in the old lore)
All in all I'm very, VERY unhappy with the changes made to Demacia. This isn't "grey", especially considering how misogyny is viewed today. This is an unrepentant splash of black taking over sensible established lore.
Now you are seeing the world in a black&white view.
Yes Demacias system isn't all good,but just because there is some bad stuff in it doesn't mean the whole country is suddenly evil.
Grey happens if you mix black&white.
I'd really like a Rioter to explain the decision here. I'm fine with Demacia being grey, but retconning their noble and optimistic system where your ability decided your destiny, rather than birth or gender into a samey and needlessly generic patriarchy.
Uhm what?
This was never the case in demacia(except for the gender roles)
I mean seriously thats the one thing that has always been criticized about demacia,that your birth determines what you can become and what not.
All the generals(and I guess also all the knights) in demacia are nobles,while everyone who isn't a noble has no chance of becoming a general.
Thats pretty much the one thing where noxus is the nicer city state,because in the noxian military your skill is the important thing,not your lineage.
