Rammus' Lore is Lore Team Asking Me What His Lore Is

PapaGreg21··42 votes·2,615 views

Here is the lore in its entirety:

_"The mysteries that surround Rammus are numerous. How did a simple creature of the desert suddenly become able to reason? How did he craft his vaunted suit of armor? What is he searching for as he crosses the Shuriman desert? One thing is for certain: trying to stop the inexorable Rammus is a fool's mission." _

I am going to assume that Rammus is never going to be involved in a story event because he is a vaguely sentient armadillo with no friends, enemies, allegiances, or dialogue so the only thing we will ever find out about him is from his lore page. Plus we don't exactly get stories every month or anything so even if he did get one it probably won't come out until League of Legends 2.

3 of the 5 sentences in his lore are merely Riot asking (me?) where he came from and what his backstory is. In my opinion, when the page that is supposed to give his backstory is literally saying "we don't know anything about him" that seems a little lazy on Riot's part. The reason we don't know anything about him is that they haven't taken any time to create anything. His background is only mysterious because they have not yet created it.

Here's the thing; a lot of us aren't going to be playing this game for as long as we live. There might be some 5 year plan to get some of these things adequately explained but a lot of us aren't going to care about these things once they finally come about because we will have little time to play as we get older or may have moved onto other interests by then. We are almost done with the 5th season of this game and the only thing I have learned about Rammus is that it "is a fool's mission" to try to stop him. I don't even know what people are trying to stop him from.

28 Comments

Kadavik5 votes

There is no lore team you guys. Jaredan and the gang are actually called foundations and their goal is to rebuild the world of Valoran so we can finally get some narrative progression. Besides lore is commonly described as the story that explains a game. Given that the game and the world of Runeterra are no longer tied there is no lore. Please refer to them as either foundations or maybe even narrative. This irks me more than it should.

Ralanr9 votes

Which makes me wonder why they removed the Institute of war. I get how they wondered why champs like Azir wouldn't have a good reason to subject themselves to it, but we don't really have a reason as to why Lucian and Thresh are suddenly working together to destroy a nexus.

Kadavik7 votes

I think they felt having an all powerful organization of wizards who could summon anyone at will limited the posiblity of conflict in Valoran. The rune wars are a pretty cool concept though. Hey, maybe now with no Institute we could see one for ourselves!

Ralanr1 votes

I support this.

As does Pantheon.

Kadavik13 votes

Don't forget Sion.

Sion COOOOOOWAAAAAAARDS!!! (ults away from teamfight)

Passionlip4 votes

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Don't forget Sion.

Sion COOOOOOWAAAAAAARDS!!! (ults away from teamfight)

Or I. AM. WAAAAAAAAAAAR. Hits Aatrox and kick his ass

Eternal Nocturne3 votes

Upvote for cowardly juggernaut.

Pikmints3 votes

I believe they said that everything in the game is non-canon. That's why Cait can help Jinx, Thresh and Lucian can work together, how Vi buying a sword lets her punch harder, and these individuals are able to have an endless amount of gold coins that slowly materialize in their pockets (or in a nebulous existence for the many pocketless champs).

Westonbirt2 votes

Personally, considering how they can only buy stuff at fountains and not do things like giving it to each other, I like to think that it's given as credits and there is an accountant for each team telling the shopkeeper what they can afford.

DragonShea1 votes

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I believe they said that everything in the game is non-canon. That's why Cait can help Jinx, Thresh and Lucian can work together, how Vi buying a sword lets her punch harder, and these individuals are able to have an endless amount of gold coins that slowly materialize in their pockets (or in a nebulous existence for the many pocketless champs).

Gameplay and Story Segregation.

Photos of Ghosts1 votes

That's another team. Narrative is a division, whose members get involved in different, independent teams which include one or two Narrative guys and loads of people from other divisions. A main one who took "care" of the retcon. One for each upcoming champion and rework. A big one for foundations.

Ralanr4 votes

I see no reason why they needed to change his lore beyond removing the institute of war (if it was in it).

Though you know what I think would be perfect for Ranmus? Make him the protagonist of league.

He's constantly traveling, has no affiliations to anyone but himself, is new to the world (relatively speaking) and can interact with anyone.

He's perfect!

UomoAfide7 votes

Rammus Ok...

DragonShea2 votes

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I see no reason why they needed to change his lore beyond removing the institute of war (if it was in it).

Though you know what I think would be perfect for Ranmus? Make him the protagonist of league.

He's constantly traveling, has no affiliations to anyone but himself, is new to the world (relatively speaking) and can interact with anyone.

He's perfect!

Actually as much as I love Rammus, Ryze really the closet there is to a main protagonist in LoL,

Ralanr1 votes

Why not both?

DragonShea1 votes

{quoted}

Why not both?

Then another and another, and a sister and brother. in laymans terms you would have to include the rest as the "main" character of LoL

Ralanr1 votes

A different main character for every episode.

If it was a TV series.

Pointy Rock3 votes

I hope they never give him a new VO and if they do they just replicate his current lines with better sound quality. I also hope they delete his lore page and replace it with, "Ok". Now that would be catering to the community.

Lt Streko2 votes

Rammus Ok.

Tails Doll2 votes

Ok.

TurquoiseYoshi1 votes

Riot generally needs to keep storylines going and keep lore coming at us. All we've gotten for a long time is the Bilgewater event, which expanded on 4 champions.

DragonShea1 votes

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Riot generally needs to keep storylines going and keep lore coming at us. All we've gotten for a long time is the Bilgewater event, which expanded on 4 champions.

True that. Rammus is my favorite and I want to learn more about his lore.

Daxterr1 votes

Such a down to earth post lol. Ezreals lore is almost as bad.

Hoodwink1 votes

Rammus is going for world domination. Don't bother trying to stop him. OK?

SpaghettiTime1 votes

Alright.

Photos of Ghosts1 votes

bump

PhoenixSlayer131 votes

Let's be honest: Rammus didn't have much in terms of lore before that either. He was an armadillo, was drawn into a rainforest, walked out sentient, and joined the League to find people like him.

greenbird761 votes

Riot shouldn't just ask the lore reader questions, they should go in one of two directions.

  1. Ask the questions Riot really wants answered and leave a place to answer them. Should we develop the lore in any way? Does anyone actually answer our surveys? Why are people willing to pay for Chroma packs?
  2. Write a paragraph and leave blanks it in so we can fill it in MadLibs style

Ex. Rammus is a ____(type of animal) who lives in ____(place). He acquired sentience and the power to ______(type of power) when he crafted ____(noun). This allowed to craft his signature armor, the ____(name). Now he is on a quest to _____(verb) his long lost _____(literally anything you want to put here). One thing is for certain: trying to stop the inexorable Rammus is a fool's mission.

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