(Saharan Africa) Just a thought, Africa is an incredibly diverse continent, and usually underrepresented in fantasy. It would be very interesting if Riot took inspiration from another African culture. There’s lots of cool stuff I’d love to see adapted into League of Legends.
A champion inspired by an Orisha would be way cool.
Edit:fucked the title oh well
The revelation that the Runeterra map we know is just a small part of the whole of Runeterra is a cool one as it allows Riot to, if they want, introduce more into the lore (after they finish the updates obviously). It's similar to how Thedas of Dragon Age exists. In that world, which has a defined map, all the events are contains within what appears to be a few nations over the size of say Western Europe. Yet the lore and history goes back 8000 years, all contained in this one area. They (the characters) are seemingly locked in this map and haven't ventured out of it. According to it's history, Humans aren't even from Thedas, neither are Qunari, but the history is so old that most don't know where they came from.
What's sad is that the 'world' Darkin were from was not just another part of Runeterra, they could have easily and quite uniquely made it so that Darkin were from another part of Runeterra and the Five remaining were trapped on the known area we know. That would have been a great retcon, not they were just men and they are the reason they are murdering scum.
mind you that there are other undiscovered continent in runetera so its possible :D they said that the known map is just 1/6 of the whole runetera.
Yes please. We all know how good League's lore department is and being able to see them express an obscure and rich culture in League would be amazing.
Kumungu is on its way !
Kumungu could be used for that. Either Southern Africans, Native American or Incan/Aztec Inspired cultures could live there
Well we do have the entire continent of Shurima but I'm guessing that only represents Egypt or?
Well Riot already hinted at the existence of a large jungle area in Shurima(possibly Kumungu) and the way they talked about it,it sounded like they plan to make it a real faction once they release some more stuff for it,so that could be a possibility for a more african inspired culture. Though it could also be more similar to mayan or aztec stuff(or a mix of both?),so who knows?
Rengar is likely from that jungle,but he was raised by a human,so he might not represent the culture of that place that well.
That being said I'd really like to see more cultures represented in the game.(Heck seeing the new high noon skins I'd actually love a faction based around cowboys and native americans)
