Talk:Swain/SkinsTrivia/@comment-62.143.185.28-20120524085112/@comment-5114175-20120529192946

This was asked about in the Lore forum and RiotRunann replied. The thing is people who DON'T read the Journal of Justice wouldn't understand why the new skin would be called Grand General Swain, and they decided Tyrant Swain was more straightforward and sounded cool.

Not that Grand General doesn't sound cool either, but maybe they wanted to avoid a triple-word skin title, or something.

Anyway, that was how they explained it. Someone did say that calling it 'Tyrant' implies Swain was an 'evil ruler' when technically there is no evidence of his rule actually being tyrannical. The reds then said they just really couldn't find a better name in time, and went with Tyrant. Emperor was considered but since a defining point of Noxus is they aren't a monarchy, that didn't work either.

So it was a problem of not finding a good synonym, really.

Also at people who don't read lore; Swain's real title is Grand General because Noxus runs on a military hiearchy, and not a monarchy or feudal system. Swain is now both Noxus' ruler and war-leader as well.