The seasonal Invasions mode — the post-launch content that extends the roster's lore through encounters organized around the mode's structure. Legends rising through blood and fire is the franchise's mythology in its most compressed form: the kombatant as legend-in-progress, the blood and fire as the medium in which the legend is formed. The cinematics are the story layer of a mode that is primarily mechanical, giving narrative context to encounters that would otherwise be pure combat documentation.