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World Runes and... Lesser Runes

Gilgayu·1/28/2019, 11:44:33 PM·1 votes·4,542 views

World Runes are the runes that created Runeterra. They are the cause of the Rune Wars, and each of them contains unimaginable power. Throughout the ages Ryze has been collecting them, hidding them in a safe location to prevent any more Rune Wars.

The curious thing is, Ryze has marks of runes on his body. There are evidents that Ryze used the power of the World Runes more or less (he killed his master, and his bio says his prolonged life is caused by exposure to the World Runes), but it is unlikely that he actually uses that much for it to leave marks on his body. He uses arcane magic, and arcane is a tree for our in-game runes. In one of the not-so-recent ask riot, Riot said the trees for Runes Reforged aren't the World Runes. So that means besides the main World Runes (I'm guessing 5, according to Ryze: Call of Power), there are... Lesser Runes.

I'm not that big of a lore guy, but, thoughts?

3 Comments

Psyrix1/29/2019, 12:10:00 AM1 votes

Sorry huh? The aspects used them to create runeterra? When was this established???

YDy2ZkRq021/29/2019, 8:04:49 PM1 votes

"Lesser Runes" do exists, and we have quite several examples of them.

  • Riven's sword was enchanted by LB and trasnformed into a runic sword.

  • Shyvana and other elemental dragons posses shards of elemental runes within their hearts.

  • Thresh's lore mentions runic sigils protecting a vault full of dangerous artifacts.

There are many others but I think 3 mentions is enough to confirm "lesser runes" existence.

Ah and also, Ryze never used a World Rune, his body isnt that way because of the runes, it is because of his own usage of magic:

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Ryze was never transformed by the Runes. That's what makes him different from Tyrus, and able to continue the mission for centuries afterwards.

(With varied results!)