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Can we get a little bit of love for Baron in the lore?

Best Kog NA·4/22/2019, 5:00:41 PM·4 votes·6,420 views

After the big lore update riot did I don't believe that Baron has really had anything said about him. In fact I think the only new reference to Baron would be in this ask riot thread: https://nexus.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/2019/03/ask-riot-dragon-vs-baron

Now I don't know if this has been redacted but at least we can safely assume that Baron is from the void and that Baron in summoner's rift is not a true to life model of what the actual baron looks like due to this post during the LAN Q&A http://forums.lan.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=83554&page=42#post554420)

Just even something like the reference to him that was in JoJ Volume 1 Issue 13 would be fine by me because at least it would clarify some more about Baron Nashor.

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Whyte Lyon4/22/2019, 10:46:31 PM3 votes

I'm fairly confident Baron (along with Herald) isnt part of the prime canon. Although I'm sure he exists in many different capacities in AU's. Otherwise it serves a gameplay purpose, and that's all it really needs to be.

EdgeLady4/22/2019, 7:26:19 PM1 votes

Baron was originally canonically from the void (and the Rift Herald is corrupted by the void rift he comes from; the void pit on the map), but of course, after the retcon, now we don't know if there's an actual Baron Nashor in Runeterra. I would assume there might be, though, since Voidborn can come in many shapes and sizes.

Besides Vel'Koz, we actually don't have any info about the other actual Voidborn yet post-retcon, save for a little bit on Rek'Sai. But I would assume that there will be an actual Voidborn update in the future; perhaps that non-humanoid champion in the works is one. And hopefully we'll get some info on the canon incarnation of Baron then.