Summary
Period: 19th to 22nd of July, 2016
Skins: Blade Queen Lissandra, Galactic Azir, Infernal Alistar and Uncle Ryze
Champions: Thresh, Irelia, Olaf and Udyr
Discount: 50%
Introduction: Bronze and Fire
The Queen advanced through the remains of her army. Bodies were battered, metal was bent, skin was tattered. “What an horrific vision.” She swallowed her emotions and moved forward. The earth trembled with the few, still loyal, warriors that refused to abandon the fight. The demon didn’t respect neither their courage nor their skill. It crushed and stomped like a wild beast. Soon, there were only infernal flames surrounding him. The Queen watched in silence. A part of her admired such power but she also realised the consequences of its unbridled use.
The demon saw her, it snorted and charged forward. Horns first and the bulk of his gigantic body behind, the Queen barely had time to roll to a side on the parched earth. Her skirt soiled and her bronze armour dusty she rose defiantly. The demon didn’t even register her grace and charged again. She conjured a handful of metal shards on her hand and threw them over the beast’s eyes. She rolled again but it was closer this time. She stood up to find her blue, blood-stained skirt torn and some plates bent like paper on the floor.
The demon looked back with one eye burning and the other bloodied. It started to slowly walk towards her. She resisted the instinctive reaction to retreat. She stood before it, tall and indignant, dwarfed and insignificant, before the power emerged from the maws of the earth. The demon raised his arms and thrashed on. As the hands fell like hammers, metal plates surrounded the Queen and a spiked tomb of brilliant bronze surrounded her. The demon kept hammering with blood-soaked fists to no avail.
Inside the tomb the Queen covered her ears against the deafening smashing. When the sound stopped for a few seconds she waged her life. She disassembled the tomb in multiple shards of bronze and propelled them against the demon like finely aimed shrapnel. The metal punctured and ripped according to its size rending the hellish flesh and finely blowing the demon in a blood-red mist of pieces into the air. She sighed and kneeled surrounded by her felled army with a hand on the earth to sustain her weary body. The soil was still warm and the infernal pits hadn’t closed; the earth opened more mouths in respnse.
All she had left was an abandoned castle and she retreated there. She waited in silence and darkness, finely dressed with pristine clothes of lavender blue and armour of brilliant bronze. “With luck, help is on its way. At least the army managed to evacuate everybody before the demon appeared. They may yet tell their tale.” She looked up to the sunrays entering through the windows. “This is my place, the one I have chosen and I won’t relinquish it.” She thought about how much was lost and how much more would be destroyed if the earth kept vomiting hell on her lands. “They won’t get past me.” She stared defiantly at the horizon through the front window of her throne room. “If they want to get through my lands, they’d have to get through me first.”
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Source: League of Legends News: Champion and Skin Sale: 07.19 – 07.22
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I don’t often take the time to read these sale stories, but when I do I do find them intriguing and creative. Loved this one especially, since I love Lissandra and her Blade Queen skin and dislike Alistar as a champion overall. Very happy she emerged victorious. To any outside readers, this story could make Lissandra look like a good willed Queen simply protecting her land of evil, but in no way are her overall plans anything others would consider good, are they?
Also, I was wondering, do you have different people taking care of different fields on the site, like some answering comments, some writing stories, some writing reviews, etc.?
We are glad you like the stories. If you want you can check past sale overviews as we now keep the stories posted in the overviews as opposed to removing them each week from the rotating main page. Blade Queen Lissandra is a skin with a great concept that the execution doesn’t do justice to. The story tries to take advantage of some of that potential. Although, we realise that it would’ve worked with Classic Lissandra without much trouble.
Good and evil can be a matter of perspective and many injustices have been made in the name of a good cause. How far is the Blade Queen willing to go to keep her kingdom safe? What would she sacrifice for it? Would she exchange her humanity for the power to stand against her enemies? The advantage of stories that don’t answer all questions is that they give room to interpretation and they become richer for it. If it’s a simple cause of good vs evil then everything is quite clear from the very beginning. That’s what often happens with the new champion backstories: they are either good or evil; no matter how you see things.
We prefer not to divulge any details about the inner workings of the site; given that the Internet is an electronic jungle. We can tell that we don’t have an ample staff of specialists catering to each of the site’s needs. There are very few hands working on the site which makes all help, yours included, much appreciated. Perhaps one day we could expand and cover more games and other topics. It’s not off the table but that would require a different investment on the site. For now it’s only a distant possibility. We’ll see what the future brings.
As always, I’m happy to help with what I can. I have several new skin shots ready, going to post them once I’ve added some more to the patch to make it really count.
On an unrelated note, not sure if you remember long ago when I notified you that Project: Lucian had several removed movement lines. Well… I noticed recently on the wiki that he has all his normal lines in that skin (processed, of course)… I’m desperately sorry for spreading the wiki’s deception to you, should have known it was too weird to have a skin take away so much especially when it is 1350 RP.
On the topic of the Project skins, do you think the original ones, not including Yasuo’s, require new images? The ones you have are good, the composition is interesting, but the models don’t seem to be of the highest quality.
Don’t worry about the screenshots, make them available as you can.
Don’t worry about the PROJECT: Lucian review, we fixed it. We appreciate your help and mistakes happen. Wikis can be unreliable as well.
The problem with the initial batch of PROJECT skins was that the videos were only in 1280×720 so that’s the resolution of the images. We agree that the composition is good but that the abilities aren’t as clear as they should be.
New images are something to consider. It would be great if ithe base of the image could get new screenshots on top but the resolution is low too. We’ll see if there’s any way to get a higher resolution base. In that case it would be a complete improvement.