User blog comment:LivesByProxy/A Void 'Brood-Mother' / 'Hive-Queen' Champion/@comment-7709681-20151023163550/@comment-24420226-20151031034605

"Lovecraft wasn't about hungry aliens."...which Lovecraft are you talking about?

Yes the core of horror narrative is disempowerment and Lovecraft's core was disempowerment on the existential level (humanity is miniscule and ultimately meaningless, so on and so forth), but there was very much a lot of hungry aliens in Lovecraft's works. Also a lot of hungry sea monsters. And zombies. And full moons. And bad acid trips.

I think the issue with the Void natives' lore in LoL,  beyond the mishandling of lore in general by Riot,  is that a 5v5 game you play for roughly 40 minute increments is just a naturally poor mode of delivery for any kind of horror narrative, much less a cosmic one. There is no tension and release, not enough time to properly build the setting and mood, no way to manage how the audience is exposed to the horror. In terms of in-game play, Vel'Koz delivered most closely to the feel of an ultimately disinterested alien that views humans the same way we view ants or cabbages. But again the idea of a true deep horror narrative