Creative Spotlight - Rek'Sai: Scourge of the Desert

It seems that Rek'Sai is getting a good, atmospheric background piece, on par with Sion's.

To anyone wondering if it's worth reading: It tells you who (or: what) that kid with the bell was.

Good job, Narrative. This piece alone painted a more realistic Shurima than the whole "Shurima event".

This surely is a great piece of Rek'Sai backstory, portraying her as a true menace to the local folks. However...

Rek'Sai exists completely detached from anyone from the current champion roster. This was already a problem with Gnar and you've used a band-aid in the form of comics by Rachel J Corey (whose works I love, by the way). With IoW gone, with League of Legends no longer being "real" to those characters, new champions without a default place in society (see: factions) are completely disconnected from the big picture.

In pre-retcon lore, to Garen, Ashe and Darius a creature like Cho'Gath was a monster, but if they got into Summoner's Rift together, he was a champion like the rest of them. There was a Summoner behind him, and Cho'Gath was a person, just like the other champions. Rek'Sai? She's a monstrous, ferocious pet. A big chess piece, perhaps, but not a person in any means. The same thing exists with Gnar. Without defined relations, without possibility of realistic conversation outside of the game, they aren't people, they're just... creatures. And there are creatures that are in relation to other characters. Think about Appa from Avatar: The Last Airbender, or any sort of animal with defined personality.