How Long Ago Was The Invasion?

Ifneth·4/26/2018, 9:08:13 PM·1 votes·3,965 views

EDIT: RIOT HAS SPOKEN IN ANOTHER THREAD. THE INVASION WAS SEVEN YEARS AGO, BUT TALIYAH DID NOT ARRIVE DURING IT.

Riven and Yasuo’s new story is set some time after the Ionian invasion. I cannot find or remember how long ago that was during the story. Does anyone know and, if so, would you please provide a source?

The answer has implications because the whole present-day Shuriman timeline is locked to the Ionian one through Taliyah’s story and age. She left her tribe to learn about her powers when she was sixteen, and that was the age her creators said she was during her AMA, which was held after the story of her return to Shurima was published. Her story therefore must have ended within just one year of in-universe time.

That story includes her being brought to Ionia during the Noxian invasion and ends with her arriving to find Shurima wracked by a clash of its demigods. Therefore, any time having passed in Ionian since the invasion during Confessions of a Broken Blace must also have passed in Shurima. If more than a year has passed, then significant events must have happened there. We should want to know what they are.

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Rayjay Redfang4/26/2018, 9:15:16 PM2 votes

A little over a year

See part 1, paragraph 8 (I count the mantra line as a paragraph)

"It had been more than a year since Noxus had been driven out"

I don't know how long the noxian conflict lasted, but I don't think it lasted for a long time.

HalfTangible4/27/2018, 2:20:19 PM2 votes

iirc, there's been 2 major Ionian invasions, about 10 years apart.

Riot also confirmed that while the Ionians beat the Noxians, the Noxians weren't driven entirely out of Ionia, particularly in the coastal regions. Taliyah arrived in Ionia about "3 years ago"

Whyte Lyon4/26/2018, 10:28:27 PM1 votes

Noxian occupation in Ionia quickly phased out after Swain became Grand General, 7 years ago. The height of the war- Battle at the Placidium was 10 years ago as Irelia was 14 at the time, making her 24 in present day. No clue when exactly the war started but I wouldn't say any longer than 2-3 years earlier.

I would even conclude Riven is somewhere in the range of early thirties based off this timeframe.