Riot Games explained Tuesday its process when making biographies for League of Legends champions and discussed the challenges it faced with Nautlius' new lore in a dev blog post. 

Riot apparently has a policy that a ​League of Legends champion's full bio can be no longer than 600 words. 

"First, the full bio aims to highlight significant events in a champion’s life," the blog post read. "The keyword there is highlight. We’re a big fan of story being told through… well, story, and not biographical text. To me, it’s the difference between a history textbook and historical fiction: The textbook is informative and interesting in small doses, but I would much rather immerse myself in a story where a character can live and breathe. ...The second reason we stick to a word count restriction, and perhaps why I personally enjoy writing full bios, is that the small space forces a writer to be exact with their craft." 

In March, ​​​Riot began looking at Nautilus' lore and asking for feedback. Once Runeterra's story was updated, Natilus as an older champion was also in need of change. Ultimately, what catalyzed his new lore was the ​development of Pyke, the game's ​newest champion. 

"As the champion team began working on the idea that would become Pyke, we saw the need to take a closer look at the Titan of the Depths," the post read. "Pyke was shaping up to be a Bilgewater champion that had been pushed onto his character journey by betrayal, and then touched by some eerie power. The player-facing information on Nautilus that had been alright a few months earlier was looking less so. We knew that, narratively, we’d have to revisit and deepen Nautilus as a function of developing Pyke."

Players, though, apparently disliked the lack of agency Nautilus had by working for Illaoi's god in one of the story's iterations. 

The narrative team looked at fans' feed back and concluded, "Nautilus was much more than his armored bulk. ... Through all of this, even his betrayal, Nautilus was not evil. Inside the diving suit was still the soul of a man."

Check out Riot's teaser ​for Nautilus' new bio.

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