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Problems with Aurelion Sol's lore/backstory

Spooky Noises·3/10/2016, 4:14:42 AM·2 votes·1,957 views

Disclaimer: His full lore hasn't been released and it may solve everything.

Nasus A few years ago we have nasus, he comes from some super advanced alien world and has such extreme power that the entire world begged for his mercy, cut to him being shot to death by a blow-dart. Teemo His lore was updated and his power-level was reduced to that of an ascendant and any mentioned of a whole civilization created for just one (and later 2) champions was removed.

Now we have Aurelion sol. Who is by far and away the most powerful champion (he can MAKE STARS) enslaved by a civilization that can travel between world and has the power to enslave a cosmic being that can CREATE STARS.

Malphite Chogath RekSai So power imbalance will always exist in LoL there is no denying that, but at least everyone was within a similar range, a range that aurelion sol blows out of the water, this is kind of unfortunate but somewhat inevitable, but I still think that he could have just as easily been a manipulator of cosmic energy instead of a creator of stars, or maybe the celestial of the heavens part of the same pantheon as kindred and bard but whatever.

My real issue comes from the introduction of an advanced race of beings so far removed from what is considered cannon within the League of Legends universe that they probably have the ability to wipe runeterra and every champion out of existence. Not only does this completely throw out of wack our perception of the lol universe but make every lore question pale in comparison to what is that civilizations goals, what are they doing, how can we defend ourselves against them (see Stargate).

Vi Zed I don't really care about who VI's sister is or who zed really is when there is a space-faring civilization, or even the capability for one to exist if aurelion sol wipes out this particular one, that could be a danger to everyone. LoL lore is essentially a character driven story and this makes it into one more about circumstance and what is happening than who.

9 Comments

The Whamboozler3/10/2016, 4:39:20 AM2 votes

Yeah, the writing for him is PRETTY bad. If making a giant, wise, noodly dragon wasn't possible, why not make him a smaller, younger one. His current personality isn't "wise and ageless" it's "arrogant and condescending", so they were already diverging from the wise old dragon idea anyway. Why not make him a young, smug member of some sky dragon race that is MASSIVELY full of himself because he's a freaking dragon? It would put his power level lower, make him possible to write for and not add the idea of FREAKING ALIENS to a game that has been meticulously writing all it's "it came from another world" lores out of it's own canon anyway. The void is the only other world left with nasus and renek being from Shurima now and Fiddlesticks/Nocturne's lore essentially non-canon since the league doesn't exist anymore.

A-Sol has a cool kit (That Q seems pretty broken tho), but his lore is awful. I'd have rather had an arrogant young dragon determined he could take over the world because he's better than you than a smug, narcissistic sky beast talking down to everyone. Is that just the new direction for champ's VO's? I mean, he literally calls Illaoi a moron and claims she doesn't understand her own god. When someone like Jhin does that... it's funny because he's a normal, if crazy, guy and he's just annoyed by her preaching. When the omnipotent dragon god does it... well, either he's entirely wrong and thus not all that smart and knowledgeable... or Illaoi's entire character is thrown under the bus.

They need to tone back on the godlike monsters and over the top nonsense for a bit.

GreenLore3/10/2016, 10:42:11 AM2 votes

Seriously you overestimate old nasus. The "whole world begged for his mercy"?That never happened. The summoners who summoned him begged for mercy,but this was likely not because they were afraid of him,but because they wanted his help,its the sort of "please forgive us for doing that with you,but we need your help"-kind of thing.

Also it says that the race that enslaved Aurelion tricked him,so it is safe to say that a full powered aurelion sol would be too much for them under normal circumstances. Not to mention that said race are likely the celestials(like pantheon),so they might be limited in their ability to interact with runeterra.

Also we already had a void as a threat to runeterra as a whole,why is it suddenly such a big deal that they announce another big threat?

Blackmann3/10/2016, 5:04:33 AM1 votes

I was thinking cursed dragon megalomaniac