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We've got a range of different things planned for seasonal theme and storytelling throughout the year. Won't always be in cinematics, will also be using other approaches too (think we're talking about that a bit in tomorrow's dev update video, so being a bit vague)

No comment, though you'll certainly learn more about it this year

Champions in that skin line like Ezreal who aren't shown in the cinematic were invited to the masquerade. Skins reflect what they'd look like if they chose to attend. Whether they attended is being left unclear at least for now.

Our starting point was the themes/stories we wanted to show a bit of from Noxus. Kat made sense in that regard hence her inclusion.

We've used a variety of different cinematic styles over the years and will continue to vary things in the future. In this particular case given the follow on to some of the events in Arcane we felt partnering with Fortiche, in this style, would make a lot of sense.

Regarding the intent of the cinematic, our goal was to set up some themes for Noxus for the season and a plot line that'll be continued this year in game/around game materials (not a tv show to be clear).

Can confirm this is indeed a deliberately younger portrayal of Darius than seen in game.

So it’s not official standard merch but it does come from Riot

It kinda is.To the best of my knowledge those were only ever given to the League dev team and some associated other teams at Riot.

Mort

As in making reaction videos or something similar that include those images where you talk about stuff on the official accounts?

Go for it if so!

Double check - have you confirmed that you've unlocked Ambessa?

Theme for a season won’t always be focused on a faction necessarily, so non faction affiliated characters should still have opportunities

We'll be focusing on Noxus primarily in the cinematic (not exclusively, but primarily). No Syndra this time sorry.

Given Ambessa's role in Arcane we felt it was best to launch her before Arcane Season 2 was released. There's another Noxus associated character we were also already planning to do for the champ slot early next year.

https://support.riotgames.com/hc/en-us

If you file a ticket with our player support folks they can hopefully help you out.

Any chance you used a different email account for your original LoL account, then created a second account using the email you password reset with today? I've seen that happen before to people and similar resulting confusion. I don't think we ever reset accounts that have had a meaningful number of games played on them, let alone enough time spent to unlock all champs

Some seasons will connect to others, some won't. That variability is another reason we didn't want to use terms like chapter or act instead of seasons, given it implies they're all part of larger whole, rather than separate but often related experiences thematically.

In terms of storytelling, there'll be some linear story at times definitely. Linear storytelling isn't our only, or necessarily even primary goal though. We also want to do things like deepen connection to factions, to characters etc that won't always mean narrative. What a part of the world feels like etc

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Can't read everything, do try to though on the day these videos go out at least

We'll talk about modes a bit in the next video (start of January), including when in the year Arena will return

Still planned for next patch. Didn't have any additional updates to share about them, so spent our time elsewhere

The start of January dev update video will include a list of Season 1's prestige skins.