#never mind apparently I am doing a historical materialist analysis of the setting and it is very fun lol

[letters-to-rosie]

other Arcane questions for thought

(just saying I don't need these to be answered in the show, but these are things I'm genuinely curious about and are fun for the purposes of using the show as a site from which we can do political critique, because I'm a nerd who does this for fun and thinks about this stuff for fanfic; speaking of that feel free to steal any of these questions for fic purposes lol)

(also I put some questions on the end of this post)

so, like, what does Heimerdinger think of the whole mining colonies thing? he's been around since the start of the city; was he for establishing them or against? how does all this square with his personal code of ethics?

and on that note, why does he seem so ignorant about Zaun? why is the council so ignorant about Zaun in general when it's literally right there? has the council always been this way?

how did the great houses become great? did they do something? did they have a lot of money like Mel's family? is it a combo? has anyone ever lost great house status? if so, how?

Piltover becomes a global shipping lane. who do they ship to most and why?

how did Vander start his bar? what kind of booze do they have? what do Zaunites have available to ferment? are they getting everything imported?

is Piltover in charge of all the ports? ship trade seems like a big deal, which makes sense given the location. who's in charge of ports on the Zaun side if there are any? (again I'm asking why the council is so ignorant lmao)

who owns the mines? are we doing mercantile capitalism or like private enterprise capitalism?

what do they even make with the stuff from the mines? what are they mining? I have so many questions about the mines

we know the council members have staff because of Jayce. how easy is it to become a member of the staff? are they all nepotism jobs lol?

I'm just so curious about how Silco's political development goes down. he has very obvious reasons for not liking Piltover lol but I wanna know what his "hey this sucks" moment was (love fics that go into this sort of thing for any of the characters)

do other countries in the world know about the situation in Zaun under Piltovan control? do any of them oppose it on moral grounds? (would be really fun for an OC fic)

big one: we see child labor is pretty common in the setting, not only through Silco's factory but also Ekko being a child worker. what's going on with all that? do they have schools? is there an apprenticeship system? is it just regular child labor lmao

also do they have therapists because Jayce sure needed one when he almost got banished and then immediately jumped to taking his life like has anyone invented psychiatry yet

why are Noxian spirits an illegal import what the hell did they put in there (or is it like an economic protectionist thing which could be possible but more boring than the "Noxians have weird booze" thesis)

#arcane #arcane meta #never mind apparently I am doing a historical materialist analysis of the setting and it is very fun lol #gonna need to go into more detail in the future