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Leage of Legends is no longer the League of Legends.

Tapu Fini·9/5/2014, 6:31:25 AM·5 votes·646 views

"Good question! No, Summoners, the Fields of Justice and the Institute are not canon within the fictional world of Runeterra. In-game, players are still referred to as summoners - but summoners won't be part of the story."

Carnival J

Nothing Riot can say or do will ever fix the damage they're causing to this game's lore right now. I officially give up on the lore ever developing in a meaningful way. At least Lolwiki has all the old lore and judgments if we ever feel like seeing the real lore again. It feels like they took everything that made the lore amazing and deep, and went in exactly the opposite direction.

I will never say some champions didn't need work. Rammus was on very shaky footing in the first place, not that this helped. Amumu has always just kind of just been sad. We needed the champions with weak backstories strengthened, but it feels like everything, (Including the League itself) is being brought down to their vague, purposeless existence.

6 Comments

EnvyDragon9/5/2014, 6:56:08 AM2 votes

If the lore was tied to the game, then yes, that would be true. But the direction Riot's taking League in is that it's sort of a Super Smash Bros in the universe of Runeterra.

"But Smash Bros works so well because all the characters have their own games, their own lore, their own innate narrative depth!"

Exactly. And with the Institute of War gone, they can give each individual character their own narrative depth. Riot doesn't want League of Legends to be the only source of Runeterra lore - which means what comes next is something bigger than people have been picturing.

Hyrum Graff9/5/2014, 1:16:02 PM1 votes

I think it would be more practical to withhold judgement until you actually see what Riot releases.