Shadow and Fortune: Chapter One
Shadow and Fortune | League of Legends
It's here folks! Beware the Harrowing! Take a read and enjoy!
Also included is Kalista's long lore, complete with the Invocation short!
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Tune in every morning this week (Wed/Thu/Fri) for the rest of the story and see how the terror unfolds...
Poor Olaf. Soon pretty much everyone in his vicinity will be dead but him.
Congratulations to Bioluminescence, the dead canary in your survival kit made into lore.
That said, spooky stuff. Too spooky, perhaps; I'm ready to visit someplace a little less grimdark than Bilgewater now. Seventeen dead is just a slow evening, fishing grubs pulled from a corpse's sockets, men hung by a skewer in their jaw?
Nope. I'm good.
Let's go someplace nice, like... Ionia? No, that's occupied by Noxus. Demacia? No, no... I'd hate to be hung for jaywalking. Nox- Hah, no. Shurima? Not bad, but the neighbors in Icathia aren't so accommodating. Freljord? Stuck in a civil war, but at least they have Braum. Zaun? Eh... I'd rather not donate my body to science while I'm still living. Plague Jungles? Not with a name like that. Mount Targon? I don't like hiking.
Piltover? 
You know what, forget it.
Olaf owns. Illaoi sounds like she's going to be awesome. LadyPlank Priestess is supremely my shit. Looking forward to this.
This may be Rito's best work yet. It is time for Lucian to kick some ghostly ass! http://i.imgur.com/ZyHKsyG.gif?Noredirect
This is amazing! Now we know what the coming champion will look like and who she allied with. I love the first chapter's lonesome man too. Whot, Miss Fortune's name is Sarah!!??
Dat lore doe. Really really well done Jaredan and Ant in Oz.
The problem I have with the lore is that it is way too long and spells out everything. No one cares about Karthus as a child -- they care about what he is now. A single sentence or two about his past would have been fine. Shortening the stories down to 1/3rd or 1/4th of what they are would have done wonders.
We get it, you want to flesh out the world, but so many times in storytelling the old adage is still true: "less is more." Leave some to the imagination, give hints to the full story, don't just state it all out.