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Elise Lore.

Leu07·9/8/2016, 10:52:25 PM·10 votes·2,206 views

So like Elise lore is basically.....a more elaborated old Cass lore.

"Though she may have appeared the innocent flower, she was the serpent under it." - Katarina

"While her sister Katarina has always been the most celebrated member of the household, the Du Couteau family has a long history of service to Noxus. It has often been said that no soldier has ever been as fortunate as General Du Couteau to have been graced with daughters. His youngest, Cassiopeia - despite lacking her sister's killer instincts - was equally renowned in at court for her stately character and elegance. Cunning as she was beautiful, the temptress could never be found far from the arm of any foreign dignitary, her wiles prying secrets from the lips of even the most wary attaché. With the Noxian barbarian pacification campaign having ground to a standstill, Cassiopeia had set her sights on a diplomat from a tribe of the Freljord region. Thinking him an easy mark, the scheming seductress set about beguiling him. He refused to confide in her, however, until she swore an oath of secrecy upon his sword -** a strange weapon with a serpentine curve to the blade.**

Once her tryst was over, Cassiopeia provisioned her father with information regarding the barbarian resistance. As she divulged this intelligence, a wave of revulsion washed over her. She screamed in agony as her silky skin hardened to scales, her lustrous hair thickened to leather, and her manicured fingernails sharpened to claws. Dazed, she fell upon a group of horrified servants, rending them limb from limb in a heartbeat. When it was over the blood soaked figure was no longer the ravishing jewel of the Noxian court, but a horror trapped somewhere between woman and serpent. Unable to serve in her traditional capacity, Cassiopeia departed for the League, continuing her service to Noxus on the Fields of Justice."

so riot... http://66.media.tumblr.com/3b8022b1fd43846eea492f3213b58d32/tumblr_inline_o8u278pkny1qehet7_500.gif

yeah yeah yeah I know that cass old lore means nothing I just wanted to use the gif :c but yeah Elise and Cass are like overlapping...is the same achetype.

16 Comments

XIII Vanitas9/9/2016, 4:37:04 AM7 votes

No, it's not.

Elise is a narcissistic serial killer. She is somewhat similar to the Wicked Queen from "Snow White": they're both obsessed with their beauty and keeping their social status, and they're willing to do anything in order to accomplish their goals, even deceiving and killing.

Cassiopeia might have acted the same, but she had very different motivations. Her only interest was to seek power for Noxus and she didn't mind trading her beauty with her new serpentine form because both are just tools to achieve her goals.

While Elise deceives and kills to keep the status quo, Cassiopeia ambitiously fights to find a place in her country. Their age difference partially explains their different mentalities.

Mughi of Ruckus9/9/2016, 1:31:11 AM5 votes

I'm pretty disappointed in her lore as a whole. Before she was a powerful and devoted high priestess of Vilemaw, a person twisted by devotion and power who lured adherents with promise of life and power. Now she's a weaker version of Cass's old lore.

She had beauty, seeing it as a tool to twist the weak allegedly, but it was taken from her. Then, despite having the power she used this thing she saw as a tool to get, she withdraws from the world, too hurt by the loss of her beauty to do anything? Not only that, but she spends the rest of her lore just getting pushed around by external forces while she clings to wanting to be beautiful, ignoring the power she already had and the power she later gets. She stumbles across The Black Rose, which offers her a way to risk sacrificing everything for her beauty? So she takes it, using their people, not her own. They right for her. Happenstance somehow makes a confluence of ridiculous factors ( a knife falling on her hard enough to pierce her heart?) give her what she's been searching for, And when she gets it...she disappears into the shadows? Okay, so not completely. She ~~lures people with with promises of her beauty~~ oh no, not really, the Black Rose does that for her. But she still uses her beauty! (Only not really) as a means of...keeping her beauty and doing nothing else with her life other than serving the forces around her that use her. I mean, she took the deal Vilemaw gave her, according to the lore, because she saw how she could benefit from it, but what benefit exactly? It makes no sense.

All in all, it's a pretty sad background for a champion, and actually kind of a boring trajectory. I mean, ultimately, she was strongest at the beginning of her story, and weakest at its end, and mostly just got tossed around by things beyond her control in between.

Tormentula9/8/2016, 10:57:24 PM4 votes

I personally like Elise's new lore. Part of me is still misunderstood in Elise's personality, like I felt bad for her when she was poisoned and felt happy for her when she got the knife, but when it reached to the point of Elise bringing men to the isles knowing they'll die to get the sword only she'll benefit from, I started questioning who was doing the right thing, her husband or Elise in killing each other.

From the start Elise seemed like the rich girl who was raised to put vanity over everything to represent noxus, but then she seemed to not care and only care about her own appearence for just herself and not even for noxus like originally goaled?

Also the second part of Elise's lore, with the guy's experience with her, does thousands of spiders burrowing behind his eyes have simularity to 's lore? Cassiopeia still is respectable after that... ugh I'm a one trick elise and that hurt me reading...

GreenLore9/8/2016, 10:54:23 PM2 votes

I actually believe that said blade is the one that is stuck in Sion s head

Solidair39/9/2016, 5:11:18 PM1 votes

I wonder if the Pale Woman is LeBlanc.