https://twitter.com/neolexical/status/1674206928023748608
Riot Lexical posted to Twitter that Naafiri's bio on the Universe page will be seeing an update soon, to clarify what actually happened to the dagger when the hound pack came upon it. Hopefully this will quell peoples' anger/annoyance that they were expressing with the new Darkin story.
External link →So looking at these comments, when did the narrative suddenly turn into "but dude it was clearly metaphorical" or "dude it's an unreliable narrator" as if it's the readers' fault for not distinguishing figurative speech in a completely literal text with absolutely no signs of metaphorical meaning?
her mangled dagger embedded within the body of each dog.
and the hounds bite into the blade, causing it to shatter
Both these stories are in third person, and there is no metaphor here at all. The text is quite clear.
and the hounds bite into the blade, causing it to shatter
Hihi! Would love to know where the second quote came from. I don't think I've seen it before and would like to clean it up if its out there somewhere.
The Reddit post in question complained about a) Naafiri being the strongest and b) the shattering of the blade.
A) was a very obvious case of an unreliable narrator being taken way too literal B) wasn’t quite as obvious, and I believe the criticism was warranted to a degree.
If I was a Darkin I would think I'm the strongest too heh.
Jaws snapped at the man and his horse from all sides, tearing at them, devouring them piece by piece until nothing remained.
Not even the blade.
"Piece by piece" clearly talks about man+horse. This only says that the blade was swallowed, not in pieces.
Some dog could have swallowed the blade whole and this still works.
One minor adjustment :D hounds might have not eaten the blade either. Its just that its not longer there. What happened? hmmmm.......
Good.
This was an (pretty minor and forgivable, IMO) oversight by the writer, and I'm glad Riot is going to correct it. I wish they just owned the f**k up (I don't believe they intended it to be metaphorical, to me it's a lot more understandable if it was just an oversight), but it's still better than being stubborn
We wanted to use shattered because points to her state of mind. I think the imagery was taken a bit too far and I can see how folks can interpret it as breaking the weapon, especially since lots of regions do not consume league lore in english. Aka if its confusing in english, it's probably 10x in other translated languages. Our narrative folks are in our day to day development including the marketing assets, Hounds of Iron. We actually specifically used similar imagery and was very careful to show the whole blade as things "shatter". I think if we made a mistake its probably easier to just call out the mistake than to take this route!
Hello, I apologize for the confusion. I quoted it from the League Wiki in the Early Life section and mistakenly assumed it was sourced. I'll clean up my original comment with a precision.
Thanks for your communication by the way, highly appreciate it!
Np! the original text was something along the lines of hounds consuming bite by bite until nothing was left, not even the blade.
To clarify (because honestly I would get confused by it as well :P ), we didn't explicitly say the dogs ate the dagger piece by piece, rather, after the frenzy nothing was left.
I would imagine even Naafiri herself doesn't quite understand what had happened :D
Yes, I just noticed you guys deleted the "Not even the blade" line from her biography.
If I could give my two cents, respectfully, I think the piece by piece bit was confusing for sure, but still made sense if you assumed the deleted line applied to "remained" and not the tearing and biting.
I think the problem was mixing this line with the dagger described as "mangled" in the later parts of the story. At least that's where my confusion stemmed from.
This was the original (found it!). The piece by piece is referring to the man and his horse! They were ...unfortunately eaten morsel by morsel :'( RIP
Jaws snapped at the man and his horse from all sides, tearing at them, devouring them piece by piece until nothing remained.
Not even the blade.
Yeah, I gotta be honest, the complaints about Naafiri being the strongest were really funny. Guy took an obvious opinion by the character as fact - it's like what the powerscaling community loves to do. I'm glad you're clearing up the dagger issue, though. I think she's an awesome concept, besides that. You guys did a good job.
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Glad you are enjoying her as much as we do!
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