Future of Lore

GenoXx·Jan 6, 2015·13 votes·2,334 views

Ok guys....It's a new year.

We know last year that Narrative made bad choices. One great one that severely hurt us lore fans. But now it's 2015 After months of waiting for Narrative to release something, we've gotten a few stories to at least know whats going on in different parts of Runeterra.

Such as the revival of Shurima, more in depths of Noxus, The shadow Isles and Bilgewater, and what lurks in the Shuriman Desert. And we recently got that Amumu is a ancient prince. Let's put the Iow aside for now and see what lore were gonna get this year(hopefully something this month) A new season is about to start and maybe this is when Narrative is gonna decide to show what they have so far.

I kinda miss talking about actual lore and the story, rather than the unlimited post of "changing lore back" or "That Narrative isnt doing right" It is getting old...

22 Comments

GreenLoreJan 6, 20154 votes

fully agree with this. It gets really tiresome that the board is full of threats about wanting the old lore back.

I mean I am not really happy with this retcon either,but I am ready to give the new lore a chance and look forward to what we'll see.

GenoXxJan 6, 20153 votes

Exactly, so far i see nothing wrong with this lore. In fact, i like it. Especially the Sion promo. I got a better feel of how it is in Noxus. The proclamations made the feeling even more true.

I am giving the new lore a chance because part of me feel like i will like it.

LuxxumJan 7, 20155 votes

The problem is, they have yet to have given any lore which would not be completely viable in the pre-retconned lore. It's hard to call it the "new lore" when it might as well be the old lore.

MotajoJan 6, 20154 votes

I wish I could get excited for lore, and merrily discuss it again. The retcon sapped that away, and ruined further pieces regardless of quality; I would've enjoyed Sion's thing far more if it came before that blog post. But I'm not really posting threads on the subject, so I guess there's that.

There might be a "bigger fish to fry" aspect to it as well. New stuff might be all well and good, but the premise of the game has been gutted, and the lore department for the most popular game in the world has gone completely against the entire point of using games as a storytelling medium (there has to be a rule or something about this somewhere). I'm sorry I can't bring much cheerful discussion about new things, but something a bit more "pressing" has a lot of my attention.

LordHippomanJan 6, 20154 votes

I'm so tired of walking into the Lore Forum and expecting to see a fight breaking out in every topic. Come on guys, we used to only do this like once a month. Let's take a few deep breaths and let a couple things go.

Sneak DogJan 7, 20154 votes

I miss being able to care about champions and characters in the lore.

Ever since Trundle got bluntly removed, I haven't allowed myself to get too invested or I'd get hurt again. I'm amazed not more people are troubled by the fact that Riot seems entirely willing to remove a character and get a new one to take over his kit. I can't get excited anymore about the lore because it would just be me telling Riot to stab me in the back again. That'd be just plain stupid of me.

GenoXxJan 7, 20152 votes

I totally feel you, to be honest i dont think i can get too invested again. But I would love to talk about lore again instead of bearing fangs at Narrative. I am only trying to tell the community be how it used to be, in the lore forums.

Problem is.....Narrative have to do their part...

Sneak DogJan 7, 20154 votes

Pretty hard for me to be like that given this all. Hopefully you'll find others.

I'll just be in the other threads, hopelessly trying to get Riot to make this frost troll actually Trundle. They won't, it's been over a year and it'd take not only a rewrite of his background, but a new VO (current one oozes power-hungry). They seem quite content with the *new *troll. But as long as there's this glaring evidence of Riot retconning characters, one of my three favorites at that, I can't enjoy the new lore, not truely. And as such joining the threads you're looking for would be impossible.

Diana x MeJan 7, 20154 votes

You know this is exactly what they want you to do. It's old i get it. But, you can't have change if you are not willing to fight for it. If it means something to you then it's worth the effort.

I have said this before several times. Look at what they are doing as a whole, look at the bigger picture.

They are denerdifying the client. They removed it from the in game tab, individual lore for each champ is getting shorter and they are moving it to the website which a lot of people don't use. Hardly anything has changed and they have had more than enough time to work on it all. They don't care about it because most players play to play not sit and read bios. Their is no money in it. It is all about $$$$ and the e-sports scene. They want more people playing it and an easy way to do that is to make it more appealing to a greater audience. They want this on channels like ESPN, they want it taken seriously.

Yes, I did enjoy all the talks. Back when we had things to work with. We are given nothing now. Time will tell what happens I suppose.

GenoXxJan 7, 20151 votes

Yea, i understand. I do want Narrative to actually start showing something. And I even said that fancy media is the wrong way to go.

I also dont like the fact that the major attraction for LoL is the e-sports. I just get tired of the Endless post of the same thig every day. thats all.

BTW, are u Argent Heretic?

Diana x MeJan 7, 20151 votes

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Yea, i understand. I do want Narrative to actually start showing something. And I even said that fancy media is the wrong way to go.

I also dont like the fact that the major attraction for LoL is the e-sports. I just get tired of the Endless post of the same thig every day. thats all.

BTW, are u Argent Heretic?

The one and only. Few are so fanatical to change their name to this? (=

GenoXxJan 7, 20151 votes

I only know by ur speech pattern

Diana x MeJan 8, 20151 votes

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I only know by ur speech pattern

Is it that odd? Hmm. I suppose it something that needs to be worked on.

GenoXxJan 8, 20151 votes

No lol. I just picked up how some people here on the boards talked. Im a sleuth like that.

ShínyJan 6, 20153 votes

I wish this forum was a little more positive also, though i can understand why with the world in such a state of ret-con limbo its hard to discuss too much. Although narrative says to take the lore as is with just the summoners removed its hard when the Iow and summoners were such an important part of the world,which doesn't even take into account that Riot is completely changing the world down to the geography. Most of the locations of the city-states relative to each other are a mystery ,at most we have concrete details for freljord , shurima and some very sparse details of bilgewater/ SI.

Mostly its up to Riot to reconstruct the world before we can start losing ourselves in it again.

ImpetualJan 7, 20153 votes

Lore used to be a more relevant issue when it was released bi-weekly. For some reason, Riot has decided not to release text based lore on a consistent basis anymore, like it did with the JoJ.

For some reason they thought it would be better to release lore once every few months with voice over in the in-game client that would talk about one or two champions, and a few pictures. Also the odd video.

Personally, I think this is a move in the wrong direction, and I don't really see how/why the narrative team in charge of story is spending much time working on videos (which I assume they must be, considering the lack of content).

Considering the rate in which Riot produces new lore theses days, it really feels like they might have one guy working part-time on it.

Xano501Jan 7, 20152 votes

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LordHippomanJan 7, 20151 votes

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I have example. 's old lore : Finding way to become human and live with peoples, maybe or can help her. 's new lore : Trying turn back to animal form and fall love with

Thresh? Wait, do you think that Zed comic is canon? It's not. It's a fan work, and Thresh is massively, massively out of character in it. Ahri's lore hasn't changed at all since she came out. We just have the one bio.