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Apparently Lore Isn't Important Enough to Warrant Its Own Board, So I'll Post This Here

Impetual·8/6/2014, 7:46:38 AM·50 votes·15,520 views

Riot, I (and I would imagine many members of the LoL community would as well) like some answers about the state of lore for League of Legends.

It's been quite awhile since we've had any developments in Runeterra. The champions within it are starting to seem stagnant.

In previous years, we would receive information through the Journal of Justice on the goings on in Runeterra and feel a connection to the world that the champions reside in.

Lately, this has not been the case.

It's seems like it has been years since any developments have happened in Runeterra. There was the Freljord patch, which retconned a few things, but didn't actually feel like it continued the story in any meaningful way.

Riot, I love your company and the game that it has created. Please don't mess it up by getting cheap with the lore of the world that it takes place in.

If Runeterra feels unimportant, then the champions within it will feel unimportant.

Riot Please! Put more focus on your lore of your world! And if you won't, at least tell us why!

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MrMilkManiac8/6/2014, 3:38:24 PM21 votes

I'll take a shot at this. For clarity though, I am not on the lore team. However, I am a huge lore geek. I, like many of you, love books/movies/games with massive, fully fleshed-out worlds (Kingkiller Chronicles anyone?). So obviously, when I joined Riot, one of the first things I did was to gobble up any lore-related information and understand what's going on with it.

Here's what I learned: Lore is by no means forgotten. I'd like to draw a comparison to the Summoner's Rift Update. Around winter a lot of players started asking why there was no winter-themed Summoner's Rift. Some players assumed Riot just didn't care about the map anymore. However, by now it should be apparent that we didn't ignore flavoring the map, but instead we had most of our environmental artists working on SRU, which in my mind is much more important than having a winter-themed map. In fact, I would argue that making a skin for an older map, and delaying a newer map to do so, would be a disservice to players.

Getting back to lore, I know that since Freljord, there's be almost nothing related to lore that has come out. I also realize that many players, such as yourself, have determined that we are starting to "get cheap" with our lore and our world, and given the visibility you have, that's an understandable conclusion. But let me pose a different theory. What if the Lore is like the current summoner's Rift: It's functional and has some really cool features, but it also has some glaring bugs and is by no means as pretty or as flushed out as it could be? What if the reason why there are no Journals of Justice or any lore updates of any kind are because everyone related to lore is working on stuff that takes priority?

How cool would that be ;)