I think someone needs to address Jax's incredibly lack luster lore.
Okay so recently I've been obsessed with
lore, his old lore was great and all but I really do think his new lore has potential right now though... It isn't on the right track.
The current Jax canon is:
- He loves boiled eggs from Shurima.
- He is from the fallen city of Icathia.
- He drinks with
. - His Lamp-post is called the "Last Light of Icathia" (I absolutely love this)
- He is recruiting warriors.
- He is the "last known" weapons master of Icathia.
So, there you have it, all of
lore. I don't really mind when Riot doesn't necessarily go all out with a champions lore but seriously... it's like they just tacked it onto his character without giving it a second thought.
First, lets start of with a time line that was posted on the Boards a couple weeks ago:
https://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/story-art/ZmsIsYfy-lore-timeline-of-league-of-legends
I will reference this, or more specifically, Rioter Bioluminescence's comment:
https://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/story-art/ZmsIsYfy-lore-timeline-of-league-of-legends?comment=0001
Okay, so
has been around since before the void entered the picture, as a weapon's master of Icathia. So logically, he is like - over 1000 years old. This is where I start to have my problem with
lore. He is over 1000 years old and yet all he has done is eat eggs, drink and recruit warriors... for something that is completely unknown to us. Presumably it's to fight the void but like, cool. Jax is gonna take on the void with Gragas's gut and Fiora's accent. Nice.
So far we also don't have information about Jax's appearance, it's wildly assumed that he was altered by the void, as Zilean was Icathian and definetly doesn't look like Jax. Also I'm assuming Jax was an organic being at the time so this comment makes sense.
According to the timeline,
has lived through all of these major events:
- Doom of Icathia
- Great Void War
- Fall of Shurima
- Darkin Wars
- Morde's Empire
- Morde's fall
- Noxus founding
- Rune wars
- Demacia founding
- Rise of Shurima
But yeah, he's been enjoying drinks with Graga's on his off days and recruiting soldiers the whole time! For a over a thousand years! (Sarcasm) Also, we actually don't know how old he was pre-void. Has Jax had anything to do with the Darkin? Morde's empire? Demacia and Noxus? Rune wars? Everything in between and after???? One last thing I'd like to address is that it is heavily hinted that Fiora is at a similar skill level to Jax in fighting. Like are you actually kidding me? An 1000 year old weapons master that has had experience across Valoran fighting all kinds of warriors and yet he is in the same tier as some Demacian official. deep sigh I WANT MORE JAX
TLD;DR - Jax is very old and his entire lore doesn't really make sense.
P.S. I'm not the best writer and I don't claim to be the biggest lore buff, but I tried my best to use credible sources of information.