User blog comment:Reilock/Riots new Lore Direction: Rant/@comment-5824171-20140924232249/@comment-5824171-20140925015937

Reilock, that's fair enough, no hate for that, I'm pretty sure your english is a million times better than my french, which is the only other language I have any knowledge of, so I won't complain on that front.

Primus: I apologise, I didn't mean it was directly taken from the old ones, I was saying I was getting a vague, and I do mean very, very vague and loose, vibe that can be considered similar, and it is only (by my perception) seen to any significant degree through Malzahar's interactions with the void, and only in the factor of being contacted and compelled towards the beings of another realm which eventually turned him basically insane. I don't know very much about Lovecraftian lore, although I would love to sit down with a H.P. Lovecraft book, I haven't actually gotten to it, so my knowledge of it has come from the very limited research I've done in my free time, and the game "Call of C'thulhu", which I haven't even finished. I apologise if I am uneducated on the true nature of the old ones, it's simply a subject I have limited experience with.

I would agree, from what I have seen, that if the void were more true-to-source, the champions resultant from that would probably be significantly more interesting, but unfortunately, in the process of character creation, a lot is often lost in translation from the original concept even in the best of designs, and in modern games, they don't have time to meticulously filter the bad choices out of the design. (This is no excuse, of course, but it is at least a possible explanation.)