@Jaredan, small lore question

WarWork·Mar 25, 2017·4 votes·3,043 views

About Yordles, is their need for social interaction or they go crazy still canon? I hope so because I really like that caveat

17 Comments

RiotRiotJaredanMar 25, 20178 votes

I'd say yordles need that interaction from an innate inquisitiveness and yearning to see more beyond themselves. Their entire existence is so fundamentally linked to the idea of perception that to have nothing new to absorb and understand would likely drive them a bit up the wall. Though, of course, their interaction of other yordles is included in that social need.

Two yordles with their new understanding of specific elements of Runeterra, sitting around chewing the fat in Bandle would likely be a seriously trippy experience for anyone watching.

WarWorkMar 25, 20173 votes

Thanks so much for answering ^_^!!!! And Idk if you guys already have something like this planned, but I'm a dude that loves world building and spending hours on wiki's just reading about stuff. I would love it if you could release something on the species of runeterra, little biology facts and social structure. If not a story something like an illustration of the male and female of a species with little text blurbs like origin, typical size and weight, what they eat etc etc

RiotRiotJaredanMar 25, 20177 votes

We're working on those concepts, but how they will be seen by players will vary (such as just within stories, which we already do pretty regularly). Sorry for vagueness, and thanks for asking!

beanyMar 25, 20172 votes

I don't know if you have mentioned this before, but how does gnar as a predecessor of yordles fit into the current conception of yordles as beings with variable appearances? I mean yordles are magical beings that live hundreds of years but gnar's concept suggests grounded evolutionary theory.

WarWorkMar 25, 20172 votes

I say go for it and see the reaction. I cant wait to learn more about Trolls, Ursine magic monkey etc. (lol i'm the dude that never plays humans in mmo's) If you want suggestions though, maybe something like a journal, like someone was recording info and we're seeing a page from their journal.

HigeMar 25, 20171 votes

So Bandle city is still canon O.o that's interesting!

WarWorkMar 25, 20173 votes

Also what's their interraction with petricide like?

Wrathof300Mar 25, 20171 votes

Since their innate magic obscures what other see them as, eg, in Trist's story they thought she was an old woman. For Galio's petricide, at least since he is literally 100% petricide, it would mean he could see Poppy for who she is, tiny blue person.

WarWorkMar 25, 20171 votes

Yeah that much I get. But in Lux's story Galio made mer magic weaker, so I was wondering how that innate magic thing yordles have would be affected. To me I think it would make people see yordles as they truly especially since Demacia is covered in the stuff. Or it could just be a plot hole, like in lux's story when the statue of liberty sized construct moves and it seems nobody in Demacia aside from Lux noticing it :T

Wrathof300Mar 26, 20171 votes

Well, in Poppy's story they didn't notice her at all, although we could just assume that there is more petricide in the capital opposed to the outskirt villages. With Lux's story it was late at night and they were far from the city, that's why no one noticed but the 2 men that tried to 'deport' her noticed Galio, hell, he picked them up.

WarWorkMar 26, 20172 votes

Well, you could say that but the real reason is that lol they didnt have the idea of petricite when Poppy was reworked and her stories were released.

Wrathof300Mar 26, 20171 votes

LOL, TRUE

RiotRiotJaredanMar 27, 20173 votes

Nope! We did have that in mind.

RiotRiotJaredanMar 25, 201710 votes

Personally, I worry about Poppy.