#league of legends lore

[aurelion-solar]

Hwei Short Story: "Paintings Framed in Half-Light"

#hwei #league of legends #league of legends champion #new champion #league of legends lore #lore #universe #official

[macabresymphonies]

There are many things to get mad about the League of Legends lore, but the one I always get the most hung up on is that they didn't have balls to give in-game Seraphine hearing aids even though she canonically has them.

Cute, jewlerly-like, crystal hearing aids? Nah, she grew out of them because showing disability is gross unless it's Disablo The Disabled who's whole personality is that he's sad he's mangled and disabled.

Not speaking to you Legends of Runeterra team btw, you guys are doing great.

#leauge of legends #seraphine #league of legends lore #league of legends seraphine #piltover #legends of runeterra

[system-of-cells-interlinked]

I am kind of in a hurry, so I can't go aimlessly exploring lore right now, but I wanted to ask people who are better versed in LoL lore than me: is there a personification of death in Runeterra? (I need to know that for literally one line in a fic.)

I imagine there might be different myths, and probably my answer would be in Shadow Isles lore, but I'm not sure.

#league of legends #league of legends lore #legends of runeterra #arcane

[chaussurre]

League of legends lore be like:

"Kindred is an aspect of death. They are the most powerful entity on runeterra, because no one, not even gods, can escape death."

Then every characters and their mothers proceed to escape death.

#league of legends #league of legends lore #legends of runeterra #196 #r/196 #rule #literally 19684

[clefaiiiry]

Some of my favourite short stories from League's Universe page since Riot doesn't give a flying fuck about their narrative team

This is not a comprehensive list -in fact there's many more that I also really like!- so please share your favourites as well.

The Cage by Odin Austin Shafer Featured champion(s): Aatrox

The Man with the Steel Cane by Odin Austin Shafer Featured champion(s): Jhin, Zed, Shen

The Lure by Dan Abnett Featured champion(s): Kayn, Sona

The Man with the Grinning Shadow by Jared Rosen Featured champion(s): Lucian, Senna, Thresh, Karthus

Art is Life by Graham McNeill Featured champion(s): Vladimir

Paintings Framed in Half-Light by Isa Mari De Leon Featured champion(s): Hwei, Jhin

Child of Zaun by Ian St. Martin Featured champion(s): Vi, Caitlyn, Urgot

Perennial by Dana Luery Shaw Featured champion(s): Ahri

House on Emberflit Alley by Rayla Heide Featured champion(s): Viktor

A Quick Fix by Anthony Burch Featured champion(s): Jayce

The Eye in the Abyss by Anthony Reynolds Featured champion(s): n/a

A Good Death by Matt Dunn and Scott Hawkes Featured champion(s): Kindred

#league of legends #league of legends short stories #runeterra #league of legends lore #ria.txt

[the-glorious-evolution-fanart]

This really aged like milk in the light of the horrible mass layoffs at Rito.

#irl #league of legends lore

[electronicdelusionstarlight]

We got a new PVE mode in Legends of Runeterra with new "Story" modes. They are FAR less polished or curated as the Arcane Story Mode where we had actual voiced cutscenes with the characters (some of the story mode custom cards don't even have voice lines).

Vi's First story (She gets 3 like any of the champs you can play as) is about her being put into training as an Enforcer, her final examiner being Cait.

Those are their interactions from an exasperated Caitlin after Vi pretty much beat the shit out of the entire precinct (and also jeopardized an entire undercover operation by blundering into it and blowing the cover of an undercover officer in Zaun).

#caitvi #caitlyn kiramman #vi #arcane #legends of runeterra #league of legends lore #league of legends

[bringthekaos]

Regarding the cult thing: idk what they are gonna do, but in the current lore Viktor not only dislikes the cultist, he didn't even started it, nor is their main Patron (that's the Grey Lady). I guess what the lore is trying to imply is that the Glorius Evolved looked at Viktor and said "oh yeah, he has to be the Herald of the church" 😔😔😔

Interestingly, in Legends of Runaterra (which has been confirmed canon) he treats his goons less like a supervillain and more like peers. There is a flavour text from one of his "followers" card thats says Subject requested that we keep only his mind intact, stating "That's where I've stored all my grudges.", so at the very least he respects their will. Also a misterios tweet from the official Legends of Runaterra account implies that he has a "story" with mechanized mimic👀

Sorry for the infodump

Never apologize, I love having you to tell me all of this, you’re like my personal League wiki!!!

All good to know, I kinda figured Viktor would be rubbed the wrong way by a bunch of people treating him like an idol. He never wanted glory. But the fact that they’re so close to idolizing his tech… it could be an interesting dynamic to play with in Arcane. Like… he doesn’t like the way they go about it, but if they help spread the word of his mods… maybe he can allow it, just for the sake of free advertising, lol.

Also…. welcoming more infodumping here, cuz psssst what’s mechanized mimic?? And would it be cool/scary/worrisome that Viktor might have a story with them?

#arcane #league of legends #league of legends lore #arcane Viktor #machine herald viktor #asks #ace answers

[filipinosamflynn]

Sometimes I wish Sylas wasn't designed to look sexy because most discussion or content of sylas is about him being hot, and I just reread Demacian Heart and IT'S SO SAD

SOMEBODY GIVE THIS POOR MAN A HUG HE DIDN'T DESERVE THAT

#btw whoever decided to make this man a villain... what is wrong with you #sylas #sylas lol #lol sylas #league of legends #the mageseeker #league of legends lore

[thelibraryofsylphide]

Pantheon, the Unbreakable Spear, Soldier of Humanity

Pantheon Moodboard series: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4

#league of legends pantheon #pantheon league of legends #league of legends atreus #league of legends #league of legends lore #lore of legends #my moodboard #moodboard #JHSDFKJSHDF I LOVE HIM GUYS #HE'S SUCH AN ANARCHIST #I might make another one of main pantheon I have so many images sjdihfskjdhf #yeah I'll make another one for the internal conflict of like being all against aspects but using the weapons of one #maybe #moodboards #my moodboards

[aurelion-solar]

Spotlight: Graham McNeill

Role: Principal Narrative Writer

Twitter - Full List of Writing Credits

In light of Riot Games laying off 11% of their staff globally, I want to make a series of posts highlighting the portfolios of those affected, so that we can appreciate their contributions to the world of Runeterra and continue to support them. You can find a full list of those known to be affected here.

"Where Icathia Once Stood" (source)

"Monstrous" (source)

"Shadow and Fortune" (source)

"City of Iron and Glass" (source)

"The Whispering Doodad" (source)

"The Faceless God" (source)

"Dead of Winter" (source)

Champion Biographies for Azir, Elise, Fiora, Garen, Hecarim, Jinx, Karthus, Lux, Miss Fortune, Quinn, Twisted Fate, Varus, Vi, Viktor, Xerath & Zac, and many more colour stories (source)

#graham mcneill #artist spotlight #league of legends #jax #icathia #void #kai'sa #lucian #miss fortune #thresh #bilgewater #zaun #tristana #lulu #xolaani #shurima #sejuani #olaf #freljord #league of legends lore #lore #universe

[ohnoitstbskyen]

Ruined Miss Fortune vs Ruined King Miss Fortune

Ruined Miss Fortune is, to me, a deep disappointment of a skin, for multiple reasons.

The first is the method of her Ruination. Basically: Gangplank isn't dead and Fortune is super duper way the hell extra special scared of him, and so she voluntarily gets Ruined by Viego because he'll give her the power to definitely for sure kill Gangplank this time!

It sucks. The entire scene sucks. The way her characterization is played sucks. She is fully written as a Hysterical Woman™ who is too emotional to see reason and who gets corrupted because she can't handle her anger and fear, and the f***ing visual imagery of Miss Fortune willingly submitting to Viego by asking him to penetrate her with his eight foot Overcompensator Sword is just... good grief, the semiotics of that entire thing are just bafflingly bad.

The second is that if she had to get Ruined there was a much, much more compelling way to do it that would actually relate meaningfully to the core themes of the entire Ruination event.

Viego is driven fundamentally by a tragic loss, and total inability to cope with the grief of death. He lost Isolde and, being the spoiled little hyperromantic princeling that he is, absolutely could not accept that something he loved could be "taken away from him."

Miss Fortune is driven fundamentally by a tragic loss, and total inability to cope with the grief of death. In her case, it is the brutal murder of her mother by Gangplank, and the complicated mess of survivor's guilt and vengeful hatred that has left her unable to ever put her mother's memory to rest.

So... what if we had built some kind of thematic connection between the two characters, a shared form of loss, the connection of which is exploited by the abusive, manipulative monster to further his own goals? What if Viego had said to Fortune "I will bring back to life she who you love the most?" with the absolute insane certainty and sincerity with which he believes he will bring back Isolde?

And rather than MF being the dumbass who gets taken in by an obviously lying man's obviously false offer of power because she's just so scared of Big Bad Gangplank, she gets taken in by a moment of connection and a glimmer of hope, however vain, that the literal worst thing that ever happened to her can undone?

I dunno, given that the entire Ruined King event was thematically about learning to cope with grief, to let go of those who are dead and to stop making other people's lives and deaths about yourself, that seems to me like it would have been cool, actually.

Anyway the third reason is that the skin itself is basically a bland-as-hell "EVIL = SEXY!!!" fanservice skin, which first of all is extremely tame and boring as fanservice (srsly, cleavage and a bit of thigh action? That's the best you can do for a sexy evil pirate queen?), but which also simply does not fit the character story being told here.

Miss Fortune falls for power, she falls for the strength to destroy her enemies, she falls for the power to rule and control. The Ruined Skin looks no more dangerous, powerful or domineering than her Captain Fortune skin, it's just a sexy pirate halloween costume with all the colors turned off.

Now, in the spirit of fairness, there are some production reasons for this. It was not a Legendary skin and Riot puts a hard budget limit on how many actual changes you can make to a design at lower skin levels. So no changing her animation, for example, and only limited changes to her model itself and no changes to its rigging. There was probably a corporate and technical mandate not to stray too far from her base form.

On top of that there is in-game readability. Silhouettes are important for character recognition, and Riot are... usually quite careful about broadly preserving them skin to skin to avoid gameplay confusion. Usually.

So yeah, there's some limits on how much you can do, but if you want an example of what I would consider a good "Ruined" version of Miss Fortune, Riot Forge and the people over at Airship Syndicate helpfully went and made one:

Good feature number one: The Crown. The corruption of Miss Fortune as it is told in the Ruination is that she lets her paranoid lust for power blind her and this allows Viego to take over her mind.

So what do we have here? A crown literally blinding her, mimicking the shape language of Viego's crown, indicating his deception of her and his domination over her mind. That's some good visual storytelling.

It is also Sauron-esque as hell, so it reinforces Miss Fortune as an imperious, domineering, regal presence. Queen, sovereign, it is the visual language of power.

Good feature number two: the chains incorporated into her design, which are just about the most widely used visual shorthand for enslavement and control. Riot L4T3NCY, creative lead at Riot Forge, confirmed for me that this and the blindfolding of MF were both extremely conscious choices in her skin design here:

Good feature number three: Miss Fortune's own pirate aesthetic is entirely supplanted by Viego's Camavoran army aesthetics. There is no hint of the Bilgewater fashion left here, everything that was Bilgwater about her has been torn away, which again is good, solid, basic storytelling showing us that she is mind-controlled and subverted.

Good feature number four: I am definitely reaching here, but I quite like that the hands that grasp her guns are the most wraith-like and corrupted. It is Miss Fortune's grasp for power that is corrupting her, and it is the trauma of the loss of her mother, a gunsmith who is intimately connected to her weapons, which is ultimately the source of the paranoia and power lust that has destroyed her. Is this intentional at all? I have no idea, but I like the idea.

Good feature number five: It is still sexy. Not in as blatantly pin up-ish a way as the base game Ruined Miss Fortune is, but there's some solid Hot Mean Evil Lady appeal in that cleavage and armored bustier. MF has always been a flirty, sexy character (albeit definitely too much so in the past *shudders in League Judgment*), and that aspect is still present here, without being distracting from the character storytelling of the skin.

I think Miss Fortune being ruined by Kevin McKilledbyhiswife of Camavor is a bad idea on the whole, I think it gets catastrophically in the way of her much more interesting base story of slowly being corrupted by the structural violence and brutality of Bilgewater itself, reducing it all down to a "Sad Woman Very Angry About Dead Mom" personal grief narrative (which is honestly a little too eager to paint her desire to see justice done to Gangplank for his crimes as a bad thing.)

But if she has to be Ruined, at least do it with some gosh darn character storytelling as part of the skin. If she has to be Ruined, at least do it in a way that thematically reflects on and interacts with the general themes of the Ruination event as a whole.

Don't do it just for a D-tier generic hot lady fanservice skin.

#league of legends #miss fortune #ruination #viego #the ruined king #ruined king #gangplank #sarah fortune #sentinels of light #riot games #character design #league of legends lore

[divinelycrazy]

Here is a question for all the League of legends lovers out there. Especially the ones who read the lore.

What separates the celestials from all the other gods worshipped on Runeterra?

I know that the celestials are littarly what the name implies, celestial gods representing different aspects, like war, twilight, etc.

But what about the other gods? Are they celestials too, or are they gods/godlike beings who are purely native to Runeterra?

I know that this might sound like a stupid question, but I am genuinely curious.

#league of legends #legends of runeterra #runeterra #riot games #i actually don't know #league of legends lore

[exoticalmonde]

Actually Crying in Love for Sett's Love for his Ma

Transcribed: [Late that night, I stop by momma’s house, like usual. She’s in bed already, so I quietly leave a nice sack of coin on the dresser and give her a kiss on the forehead.

She wakes, and smiles at the sight of her boy standing there at her bedside. As I touch her cheek, she notices the bandage on my hand—where I grabbed the Flayer’s blade.

“Oh, Settrigh, what happened?” she says, all concerned.

“Nothin’ big. Just cut myself building,” I say.

“What did you build today, son?” she asks.

“An orphanage. For orphans, ma,” I say, as I give her one last kiss goodnight.

“Such a good boy,” she says.

Her eyes tear up as she drifts off to sleep, like she’s proud knowing her son’s making a respectable living.]

#league of legends #league of legends lore #league of legends sett #Sett Lore #Sett's mom #I AM CRYING I LOVE HIM SO MUCH

[junkyardescape]

Singed as Orianna's Father

Since this shot in Arcane there's been a pretty sizeable group of people suggesting Orianna will be written into Arcane as the daughter of Singed. I'm not entirely sold on this being the case, given that the shot we get is so small, but given that there's a chance, I've been thinking a lot about the possibility and I'm. Not A Fan.

This isn't to say I think it'll be poorly done or anything - The writers of Arcane are incredible, so I wholeheartedly believe that, if this is made the case, it'll be well written and compelling. My issue is not that it's going to be bad, or even that it'll be worse than the current lore. My main issue is that I don't think it lines up well with the established aspects of Orianna's character and simplifies her relationship with her father in a way I don't love, while also harming the worldbuilding of Runeterra and of Piltover specifically.

Something that has always intrigued me about Orianna's lore is her relationship with her father Corin. Part of why is because that relationship is so poorly explored in her original lore. Her father doesn't let her go anywhere without him, and only lets her leave home to go to the theater, which becomes her only understanding of the outside world. When she escapes for Zaun to help people after a mining explosion and ends up getting terminally sick, her father DOES make her a set of prosthetic lungs - shout out to him for that one - but he makes it so they only work when wound up with a key that he keeps behind a locked door. And still, in spite of the obviously poor treatment she received, Orianna gives her heart to her father once his own health starts failing.

There's like. SO much interesting stuff here. I kinda like that Corin is mostly just a guy? He's a not great father in a way that feels really resonant and grounded in a fantasy setting, whereas Singed being her father means she has a dad who's shitty in a grounded way and also makes nukes to destroy Ionia with and manufactured the drug crisis of a millennia in Zaun, one of which he's already done in Arcane lol. This choice inexorably ties Orianna to the larger narrative, when honestly I'm not sold on the need for that? It might just be my love of smaller slice-of-life storytelling, but it's hard to imagine how Orianna's journey toward regaining her humanity and understanding her new self ties into the current plot of Arcane. There are ties to Viktor there that could have their plots sort of opposed to one another, with Viktor getting further from humanity while Orianna aspires to it, and there are a million other ideas they could go with which could be compelling and exciting, but again, the quality of the storytelling isn't my concern.

I feel that the relationship she has with Corin is an essential part of Orianna's character. It is something which contributes to her feelings of isolation and her love of the outside world, as well as speaking to her nature as a fundamentally caring person. It's also something that to this day has never been resolved; for all we know, Orianna is still just out there, not understanding herself or her relationships and thinking her isolation is permanent. And that's not a satisfying ending for a character who is completely capable of self-love and in a world where her isolation is genuinely fabricated. And I like these aspects of her character! She's complex, she's grounded, and there's already such a great base for her character that I think would be hurt with this relationship with Singed.

There's also a couple issues I have with how it impacts the worldbuilding, and what the implications of Arcane's story as it stands has on Orianna as a character. Orianna's dad, in base canon, runs a shop where he designs sells prosthetics. He's not a huge scholar, he's not insanely wealthy, he has no access to special tech. Orianna doesn't gain hextech until she manages to get some from a chembaron. I really like this choice! It tells us a little something more about Piltover to know that there is some weirdo in his shop in the city turning his daughter into a robot, showing off a little bit more about the culture of the city and attitudes toward augmentation at the time Orianna was needing new parts. This isn't necessarily lost if Singed is her father, but Zaun has a different attitude toward mods, and it's harder to consider Singed's opinion on anything to represent the common people considering his... everything.

I'm also very interested to see how they would manage to conflict of hextech that she presents; in order for her to exist as her current self in Arcane, she would've had to be built before or during season 1, which was before the discovery of hextech. I have some thoughts about how they could do this with respect to her Old Lore, but that's gonna have to be a separate post, as this one is long enough as it is already XD

Basically, I like the Orianna we have now. I think there's so much of her left unexplored, and the changes to her character this represents would leave her original story incomplete and also change her to a significant capacity. The new Orianna that could be made from that totally has the ability to be as interesting or more than the one of base lore, but I'm not sure it's the Orianna I know.

#league of legends #orianna lol #singed lol #arcane #arcane league of legends #league of legends lore #I cannot believe how many thoughts I have about her to put here but. I will continue lol #feel bad for suddenly becoming the “literally just talks about Orianna” blog so #Might end up making a sideblog for this kind of thing? Haven't decided yet

[cosmicfelines]

I have a MIGHTY NEED to make some power points about the world of Runeterra for all you Arcane fans who know absolutely nothing about the world in which Arcane takes place.

Like I read some fanfictions and realize most of you know next to nothing. Don't get me wrong, I'm not criticizing you not knowing ALL the lore, I just wish for more people to learn about the world building of Runeterra because it's an amazing universe.

I know it is kind of intimidating and the first thing I hear people say is I don't play League of Legends. But me and every other lore reader can tell you that League of Legends the game doesn't have anything to do with the lore. Heck the other Riot Games like Legends of Runeterra, Ruined King and Hextech Mayhem have more to do with the lore and world than the main game.

The first lore fact I like to hit Arcane fans with is that there are bunch of islands full of ghosts and undead people not that far from Piltover and Zaun on the SouthEast, this are the Shadow Isles. Even closer to the Piltover and Zaun just to the East are a bunch of lawless islands full of actual pirates and giant sea monsters roaming the waters, the Serpent Isles and Bilgewater the port city. Since Bilgewater is closer to the Shadow Isles than P&Z they get invaded by the ghosts that come to harvest their souls at least once a year.

And that's just a small section of the world all of this and more is happening while Jinx, Vi, Caitlyn, Silco and Ekko are doing their own thing in the Twin Cities (modern name for Piltover and Zaun). Which I can assure you are the most normal places in this magical and crazy world.

This is not me saying it's a boring region I just want for people to learn more about the rest of the world because look at Piltover & Zaun

Look at them! They're so tiny you can't even see their territory. Oh you don't see it? Let me put it into perspective

This is all of Runeterra as we know it today, there are two places you can't easily see on this map like Baddle City, which is the place all Yordles come from, and the territories corrupted by The void which is that gray lifeless part under Shurima and Ixtal.

And that's what we know of right know, further to the East is another continent that has what was formerly known as Camavor and the modern nation of Kathkan

(Also don't worry the map is not wrong, there's a lore reason for why the Shadow isles don't appear in this map)

This is an 1000 year old map, the northern continent is called Valoran (that's where the name for Valorant came from), the southern continent is called Shurima (yes there's a nation also called Shurima) and as you can see Piltover was once a Shuriman town called Oshra Va'Zaun.

That's where the name Zaun comes from, there's a whole lot of lore history of why it changed. How Silco came to know about that name is most likely and taken as canon that he just heard the original name of the city by the oral tradition of Zaun.

This is what I was talking about @museofzero

When I said there's so much to discover and still being explored of Runeterra to this day I was not kidding just look at those maps! Do you have any idea the amount of stuff happening all over Runeterra all the time??!!!

Part of me really wants to do those power points and put them here on Tumblr

#arcane #league of legends #league of legends lore #worldbuilding #lore