Shyvanas Story

AIQ·3/5/2019, 7:46:35 PM·13 votes·8,324 views

I'm always excited when I see new Shyvana anything, but this bio made me so sad.

First off. I loved the idea that Shyvanas Dragon Father needed to protect her from her mother. Implementing the rune shard in another way could explain the half dragon. For instance, when attempting to steal the egg he tries to use the run against the dragons, but they win and kill the thief, but the rune explodes and penetrates the egg and thus Shyvana. (So half dragon) Not a fleshed out story, but you get the point. Then because of what this rune did, Shyvana is an abomination to her mother and she wants to kill it an the father has to save her.

Then Yvva has an actual reason for hunting for Shyvana. In this iteration we know Yvva wants to find Shyvana and it's to reunite you'd think, but why does Yvva want to kill Shyvana like it's her fault her egg got stolen? Yvva has no real motivation to hurt Shyvana, the thief (adopted father) yeah, but not her daughter.

I understand that it was hard to get a good reason (better than the older story) why Shyvana was a half dragon and how shes going under the radar and Demacia. A "healthy" compromise of the stories would be..

Eggs are valuable people want to steal them Yvva and her Mate kills a bunch of thieves. One brings a shard of a rune to use. The dragons double team him and kill the thief but the rune explodes and impales the egg. Shyvana is born as an abominations (human/dragon things mixed) Father saves her and runs. Grows up with both her father and some cool villagers. (Spice it up she even meets a boy she likes) Yvva attacks after the other dragons take flight. Destroying that village. Father dies protecting her.
Shyvana runs, then runs into Jarvan whos men were killed by Yvva and another attack. Saves him and they defeat Yvva...

To me this works better, it gives motivation to all parties. Why Yvva hates Shyvana. Why Shyvana hates Yvva. Why Shyvana wouldn't go back to her home. Why Jarvan would be more motivated to defeat Yvva.

This wont stop me from playing Shyvana or anything. Never got Riot to change anything for Shyvanas sake. Bugged E/Scaling with Elder that Meddler said he would. So, I doubt this will to. So more of a rant I guess.

6 Comments

GreatSirZachary3/6/2019, 3:12:11 AM6 votes

I am entrenched. I will not settle for a compromised story. Rumor has it might be related to the introduction of a champion (Shyvana's full dragon siblings?) but all that needs is a throwaway line in the old lore about Shyvana's egg being a part of a larger clutch. Done.

EdgeLady3/5/2019, 8:59:48 PM3 votes

You should have given a "conflicted" option, because I'm actually really torn over this new bio. I prefer that the explanation is currently left out (because I really hated the spell explanation) for what she is, but everything else being watered down is...not good. I get it that they're trying to leave all the new Demacian lore open for their big upcoming event (starring Lux no less!), but I think this could easily be made more interesting while still leaving parts of the story open.

I'm planning on writing a post with thoughts about this though, so I won't go into my full thoughts here.

DrippyBrownHole3/5/2019, 9:23:54 PM1 votes

Don't read LoL lore, it's awful