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Lore, and why you shouldn't expect to get the whole story...

CoopDeVille·3/6/2015, 4:25:11 AM·1 votes·543 views

The point of my post is to squash all this bickering between people about lore, not to mention the complaining that League doesn't give you enough information when it comes to a Champs story. LORE lôr/Submit noun a body of traditions and knowledge on a subject or held by a particular group, typically passed from person to person by word of mouth. "the jinns of Arabian lore" synonyms: mythology, myths, legends, stories, traditions, folklore, fables, oral tradition, mythos More

By definition the word "LORE" is "Typically passed from person to person by word of mouth." Assuming that you all have played a game of telephone before(we all have to play that crap in school at one point...) you would know that over time the message is subject to change. Lore can be embellished, elaborated, exaggerated, ect.

That being said, by calling the stories League releases "vague" you would be right on the money. The lore is probably meant to be open-ended, they wouldn't give you all the information because that is just a back story with a beginning, middle, and end.

I would like to say that I am not against people posting interpretations and speculations about Champs. It's those "I am so confused, why doesn't League make things easier for me to understand!" posts that annoy me... It is complaining for the sake of it. These same people are probably the same people that queue to decline matches for the heck of it, feed the other team because they didn't get what they want, and d/c because they wanted to carry and got rocked 30 times! But I digress.

Food for thought: What if every game is the end of the champions story in a parallel universe? Infinite number of outcomes! If these champs had a glorious, complete back stories it would be like "Garen seized the opportunity to encounter the Sinister Blade again. A paragon of Demacian ethic, Garen never entertained such allegations, for he knew others couldn't understand. Even simply the pursuit of a worthy opponent on the battlefield is, to a true warrior, the reason to rise each morning. The promise of one, particularly so beautifully and diametrically opposed, is the validation of his existence." Then the end would read like. "Garen was summoned to battle by forces unknown, sword drawn he ran into battle! With an unparalleled determination in his eyes he met his enemies... A FLASH OF LIGHT, AN EXPLOSION, then silence. As the light in Garen's eye's dims, only two words echoing in his head mockingly, "FIRST BLOOD"... whatever force it was urging him to fight did not take into consideration that he could not match the five foes he found. Just as the silence starts to feel comforting Garen feels himself being ripped back into existence. He scans the horizon of this familiar battleground, he observes that not much time has passed since his final moments in this struggle. Garen is struck with a feeling of complete horror as he feels compelled to yet again charge into the fray. As he is decimated by this unrelenting team once more, all he can think is,"This must be hell..."" Garen

Sucks to be him....

Well thanks for reading! Understand that this rant was mostly brought on by boredom. My friends I normally queue with are not available and I was reading the posts about Bard. Fueled by my adderall and a couple "tall boy" monsters I decided to do this!

Coop"Feed the Warwick"DeVille Warwick

4 Comments

Seth Lightheart3/6/2015, 4:40:35 AM1 votes

No. I'll ask you this, Arabian nights. What every story was just the first sentence..... over and over.... there would be a point you stop caring. And that is league of legends lore.

That is exactly what is happening. We are told there is something amazing and given only the first half then left hanging. See Leona/Diana, Twisted Treeline, or much of the other lore out there.

Zmuecat3/6/2015, 4:52:01 AM1 votes

I'm never fond of people bringing up a definition to try and persuade others. Then you said:

Food for thought: What if every game is the end of the champions story in a parallel universe? Infinite number of outcomes

And I stopped reading.

Look, this game had a story at some point in time. There was this organization that was solving a lot of the worlds wars through this contest on Summoners Rift, and the champions taking place here got something in return for contending, giving every single champion an actual reason to be killing each other. There was periodic updates going on in the world. Swain rose through the ranks of Noxus, Leblanc was doing things, Veigar was being cute or evil (I don't remember), J4 and Swain fought.

I don't even remember what the current lore is, because when it was retconned I couldn't find anything anymore. Can someone direct me to where on their site lore is nowadays, or is just champion descriptions? I know there's videos every now and then, and some journals/sneak peaks, but I don't know what's going on in this world.

And that, personally, is what's going to be the final straw. I can deal with bad balance, but one day I'm actually going to find the current lore and be so disappointed with it that I'm just going to stop.

CoopDeVille3/6/2015, 7:42:57 AM1 votes

I did indeed read this lore on Leona/Diana I read a bunch of old and new since you both posted. This whole conflict is still absurd to me. Going to the Leona vs. Diana background, the reason the story just stops dead is because it is ever evolving if you tie the actual game into it. This whole thing reminds me of WWE (which by the way doesn't tickle my fancy), none of these stories will have a logical closure point and the reason why is because League of Legends is an e-sport. The rest is extra, its fluff, superfluous and strictly for entertainment. Its for people who just started playing to pick one Champ that sounds "awesome". That being said, if League wanted to appease the masses, If you are waiting for something amazing to change League of Legends they would have three logical options. Option 1: another game, probably an MMO based around another war.(ugh to MMO) Option 2: An animated movie, all the pieces are there, antagonists, protagonists, and comic relief on both sides. They would have to pick certain most popular champs (probably based on the ratios of how often a champion is picked for play) and evolve the story line around them and add the prison being compromised so that everyone escapes (cameos of those champs) and those sworn to defeat them are called to action (The rest of the champs cameos). Option 3: they would hire a team to write books for these back stories. Unlikely for any of this to happen, mainly because financial success is achieved through the game itself and any of these options would be a gamble.

I agree that the current lore should be accessible on the website. But if it all ties together perfectly then you cease having new champs, modes, ect.