Riot details the influence behind VALORANT’s Piedra del Sol skin line
The weapon artists behind the concept of VALORANT Episode Five, Act Two’s Piedra del Sol skin line, which includes skins for the Ghost, Bucky, Judge, Phantom, and Melee, have gone into Aztec history and picked an Aztec god to be represented in each skin.
Each gun in the Piedra del Sol collection corresponds to an Aztec god. The Ghost was influenced by Xolotl, who guided the dead through the underworld, according to Raquel Garcia, the weapon artist who created the skin. The Melee, on the other hand, was based on the Aztec sun stone and Macuahuitl, a “historical Aztec wooden club with obsidian stones embedded as blades,” according to VALORANT‘s art outsource supervisor Sammi Pedregon.