Thread:GreenMoriyama/@comment-4091261-20170804034240/@comment-3391671-20170913143316

I certainly agree with your claim about "those expectations being uncalled for." But I do see why people may still say so, since I could fit Nine's background to another game if I ever wanted to. Some people just want to see connections where it might be possible, just like how you saw being a likely mentor figure or the likes to. For an insight into the relations and personality Nine would invoke in the world. However, as you've noticed, I had the secondary characters fill this role instead. Admittedly, early on, the secondary characters were a little more hollow, and I surely would have had to make some more connection to live champs for Nine to be that much more believable.

Recent champions have been rather tied to already existant, but unexplored lore. and came with the arrival of "why are there beast-humans?";  opened up the box about Darkin-folk;  gave a little background to the backstory of the Freljordian landscape. However, with the latter two, because they were tied with such concepts, I found their execution to be underwhelming. Surely they were grandious or intriguing for what they were, but just like how Zara is to the Shadow Isles, Kayn and Ornn had very high expectations, and to me, they didn't reach that high (mostly in their personality really, and some parts of their kit/mechanics).

Surely, I would expect much from the Ruined King whose existence is at the core of what the Shadow Isles is. An epic or a saga is surely what I would expect for.