#tianna

-given how ideological Riot makes Demacia. Hard to explain it but this is the kind of stuff you can do when you have societies ordered around personal relationships. Think Arthurian mythology or ASOIAF or even Dune where the personal is inextricably tied to the social structures itself. It's not just an underling that is doing something wrong, it's your beloved brother that you now must fight. This allows for personal drama to be elevated to levels impossible if it were just normal people (murder, warfare, treason, politics, etc.).

But Demacia isn't like those places. It's very *un*-personal in a lot of ways. So rather than the emotions elevating the social constructs and vice-versa, what you get is just this annoying coldness from the ideologies butting in to make the personal emotions seem lesser. Also it just makes characters look like hypocrites in ways that are not tied to any emotionality and thus not particularly engaging.