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Rek'sai Q&A [Completed]: Narrative's absence noticed, we miss you and want you around.

Shíny··8 votes·1,844 views

**Edit: ** Seems like jaredan and sixtwo saw this, thanks for popping into the Q&A and answering some questions <3

Reading through the Rek'sai Q&A, I noticed the missing presence of the narrative team. I realize we have some tension between the community and narrative, but we love having you around to shoot the shit about the newest champions. I would love to still have you pop in even if for a mindless creature like Rek'sai , there's still quite a lot to talk about :)

Just to make it easier on you I've put together a list of some of the questions the community had asked. I realize a few of these questions are very invasive,I understand if you don't want to answer those but I'd love for you to answer and discuss with us about some of the less invasive questions.

It's been mentioned that Rek'sai is the queen of a special species of Voidspawn. Does this mean that our other Voidspawned friends are apart of their own special species?

With Rek'Sai being a monstrous creature of Shurima, does she perhaps know of any other monstrous beings such as Skarner who share the land with her? Do those same beings know her, and what affect has she had on their lives?

Rek'Sai is the largest and strongest of the Xer'Sai, a species of Voidborn. What other kinds of Voidborn species exist? Are there the Xer'Gath, Xer'Maw, Xer'Zix and Xer'Koz, the species of our current roster of Voidborn, or something similar?

How long has Rek'Sai inhabited Shurima? More specifically, do records of her predate the reign of Azir or is she a bit more modern than that?

Is the Xer'Sai race an insect swarm type? Such as ants? If so is it a possibility for a broodmother skin?

From the preparedness of the travelers from her release video, I'd guess her existence is known at least to the locals - does she have a widely-known reputation like that of Kalista?

Last question; does Rek'sai's lifestyle confirm the the void is at least somewhat a physical place, with a substance that would be burrowable present?

21 Comments

DorsalChicken7 votes

Yeah I was rather upset that there was nobody there to answer any lore questions. This Q&A was 90% game-play stuff I already knew, most of it repeated stuff.

Also when Utora said "If I were Cho'Gath I would most likely be terrified of running into her." I did a double take, there is just so much wrong with that statement.

Sneak Dog1 votes

Do a triple take, I think it was Vel'Koz? Edit: Been corrected, kind of skimmed through the Q&A because there wasn't any solid lore in there anyway.

Regardless, I had expected narrative to be there from the Q&A description.

DorsalChicken1 votes

No he spoke of Cho'gath in the lengthy paragraph before he spoke of Vel'koz, Who also wouldn't be afraid of Rek'sai since she would have a hard time even trying to locate him with his flying and such. and you know, because lasers.

LANWhale1 votes

Maybe...or does she? Maybe...Could she? Hm never thought about that...Could she actually hate other Void born? Or maybe she can't distinguish non-Void from Void born?

CupcakeTrap7 votes

I'm guessing that they're probably just finishing some things up, and weren't quite ready to talk about her story.

She's a new character, and doesn't seem poised to expressly or implicitly retcon anything, so it's not like we have any pressing need for a pre-release discussion. That said, it'd certainly be a nice surprise if Narrative came by to talk with us beforehand, perhaps even with an eye to making a few last-minute tweaks to her lore based on the discussion.

But really, that'd just be frosting on the cupcake. Looking forward to reading her lore. …and pausing a moment to hope that I didn't just jinx anything. Come on, how could Rek'Sai retcon anything?

That's impossible, right?

Right?

guys?

LordHippoman13 votes

"Unfortunately, Rek'Sai ate Shurima. The whole thing. We had to move Skarner over to Bilgewater. He's a pirate now."

CupcakeTrap9 votes

"Unfortunately, Rek'Sai ate Shurima. The whole thing. We had to move Skarner over to Bilgewater. He's a pirate now."

"YAR YAR! ... YAR-NER." T_T

Sharjo3 votes

I dunno, I'd dig a pirate Skarner skin. Or any Skarner skin really. I did buy BCA Skarner the day it came out.

Diahane2 votes

"Unfortunately, Rek'Sai ate Shurima. The whole thing. We had to move Skarner over to Bilgewater. He's a pirate now."

PIRATE SKARNER SKIN, NOW!!one!

Sharjo1 votes

I still say she has history with Skarner, but on whether Rek'Sai will retcon anything with her what she brings, I'd say she can't because what she brings doesn't exist. It's all new. Its one of those things where, internally, she and everything relating to the Void that she brings may have have retconned older Void lore they had, but since we never had the Void properly elaborated anyway it doesn't really count as a retcon.

Did what I say make sense? I'm reading it back to myself and I'm thinking; did I just babble a load of incoherent tosh?

Sharjo5 votes

Three of those are mine! Lore forum senpais are noticing me!

Well for my own questions I figured that they may not get answered specifically because they delve in to story elements that Riot might not wanna discuss because:

  1. Might get addressed in her full character piece
  2. Are important to Void lore that they don't want to reveal until later

Was actually surprised that there were no narrative folks answering questions, kinda left me bummed. item 3070

Hell I dunno. I ain't gonna get to worked up over it though, just gonna wait for that character piece. That in turn likely won't give much insight in to the questions we have, specifically relating to the Void and such, as it'll probably be about her interactions with Shurimans and how they view her, potentially showcasing some of her intelligence and personality.

EDIT: That last statement about her character piece isn't me complaining about what it will entail; if it's as I said, then i feel like it'll be a great read! I'm just stating this for the sake of those people who got annoyed/disappointed after seeing Kalista's character piece have no details to her origins. The new lores, being character pieces, are unlikely to give us insight in to those kinds of details! Those are for later developments. I'm wondering about the form we're gonna see Rek'Sai's piece in and what it'll be centered around, but I'm still looking forward to it.

EDIT AGAIN: Sixtwo responded to a couple of lore questions, kinda late but hey, works out. Sixtwo ain't on narrative, he's a producer and posts just about everything news related for the League site:

http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/gameplay-balance/4q7zYFAK-reksai-qa-completed?comment=002f0003

Blade of Justic4 votes

"We changed everyone's stories so that we can progress them and give them more depth."

Doesn't progress them or give them more depth.

Earl Eulrich3 votes

Well...maybe they figured it would be pretty much impossible to tell an interessting story about a non-sentinent beast (apart from the usual man fights beast thing).

Diahane2 votes

Well...maybe they figured it would be pretty much impossible to tell an interessting story about a non-sentinent beast (apart from the usual man fights beast thing).

And that's why I'm personally perplexed about designing a true beast "character" like Rek'Sai. I don't think she has any possibility of being nothing but a device to add tension with her presence or to let other characters show off by confronting her.

Earl Eulrich2 votes

Yea, if they would have wanted/needed a true beast for their story they could have told about how gromp had been captured and brought to the rift by some adventurous summoners aided by WW and Rengar to serve as a monster in the new Summoners Rift.

oh wait, i had been daydreaming - they couldn´t have possible done that in a world without the IoW and the Rift, my bad.

Rebonack3 votes

Come on, how could Rek'Sai retcon anything? That's impossible, right?

From Koggy's Lore

There amongst the haunting ruins of Icathia, Kog'Maw manifested in Valoran with unsettling curiosity.

Manifested, implying that Koggy lacked physical form before he begin existing in Valoran. If that's what is actually going on when a Void creature manifests in a physical universe, then the talk of species and borrowable terrain and fixed form from the Q&A would be retconning the vague hints we had about how the Void worked in Cho and Koggy's lore.

=<

Diahane1 votes

Come on, how could Rek'Sai retcon anything? That's impossible, right?

From Koggy's Lore

There amongst the haunting ruins of Icathia, Kog'Maw manifested in Valoran with unsettling curiosity.

Manifested, implying that Koggy lacked physical form before he begin existing in Valoran. If that's what is actually going on when a Void creature manifests in a physical universe, then the talk of species and borrowable terrain and fixed form from the Q&A would be retconning the vague hints we had about how the Void worked in Cho and Koggy's lore.

=<

As if it wasn't expected of them to retcon that.

Gentleman Gaston1 votes

Was hoping for a Q&A. Maybe a red will pop in this thread and answer a few of the OP's questions.

Sharjo1 votes

For some reason they merged the Q&A's back in to a single version instead of having the three seperate ones. I think it's because two of those were often super popular; Gameplay and lore, and then the third, which was sound and art, was highly overlooked. Might be wrong, but would love some clarity on that decision.

Gentleman Gaston1 votes

I wasn't paying super close attention to the poster names, but I didn't see anyone from Narrative posting in that thread. While there were some interesting insights into character development, I was hoping with whomever had narrative oversight for her to be available for some deeper questioning.

Sharjo1 votes

I believe there was one writer, but I could be mistaken.

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