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Why are there not more novels/comics/stories out there about the world of League?

Forhonor321·11/13/2018, 9:27:54 PM·9 votes·8,170 views

Just there's so much potential that you can get out of the world of League. Yeah, we've gotten some comics, we keep getting the short stories with the champs, and those are great. But how long has it been since the last comic? Ryze was the last one four months ago? Burning Tides was roughly 3 years ago along with that Harrowing story if I recall. To my memory, we haven't gotten a big, base lore story for quite some time. We've gotten stuff like Star Guardian, which is fine, but it's not the same.

The only thing keeping me anchored to League right now is the art department, certain skins that come out, and the lore of League. While the art department never really fails, skins can heavily be hit or miss to me, and lore/stories just come out too slowly. It's almost painful to wait for what the next big event is in the world and short stories for champ's updated bios and new champs can only do so much.

"BuT RiTo iS JuST a SmoL Indi-CoMPanY", BULLSHIT! Riot has been around for nearly 12 years and how big are they at this point? Still roughly a few hundred people? I don't think so. They are running one of the most popular games, maybe most popular MOBA (debatable for another day), around and they don't have the resources to maybe hire a few extra writers or artists to maybe come out with a better stream of comics and short stories?

Why not start looking into novels? They could easily start building more of the world that way with tales from various people and characters created for these stories, not necessarily the champs that we all know in the game. It'd be interesting to read more about the life of a Demacian and how they make act around from someone outside their country, a Noxian soldier whose slowly is seeing the flaws of their nation and the struggles they get with that knowledge, the viewpoint of an Ionian in the middle of their home being torn by invaders but also extremists, maybe even a swash-buckling Bilgewater character and just have him go on stories of adventure across Runeterra.

There's just a lot of potential that can happen here that Riot can jump on. League already is losing its touch as a game to me but as a series of stories or comics I'd be down for more. That's just my thoughts and opinions anyway, I don't know. Just needed to get this off my mind.

28 Comments

Whyte Lyon11/13/2018, 10:29:05 PM5 votes

I dont think "novels" is what Riot needs for now. They should be considered once the entire IP has monumentally more of a puplic recognition, something that this lore objectively doesn't have yet.

Like I'm fully invested in this lore for the long term, but even I wouldnt buy a book or god forbid a series (I'd likely just search for the spoilers off the wiki). I'm not the sinking money kind of invested and I could imagine a great deal of this very audience being the same. The more free this website based content/service stays the absolute better for it.

So far with the more frequent LUs we get as is + consistant novellas, things like World Building has been developing at a steady and reasonable rate ( both manageable for the devs and audience). So im not about to get frustrated over their work progress just because a comic hasn't been produced in a hot second neither because I have grand expectations that havent been met yet.

SSmotzer11/13/2018, 10:01:20 PM4 votes

Because they are still trying to figure out the lore. I mean, even that Heimi, Ziggs and Jinx comic they just made was already retconned.

The Iceborn11/14/2018, 9:24:58 AM3 votes

You need to understand that Riots Lore Team is charity for the players who are interested in stories.. Riot makes no money directly from Lore thus there is few Writers compared to game developers. The game makes Riot money and not the lore( at least not directly) so that is why there is not enough writers hired at Riot to do more Cinematics,Lore updates etc

Camille Ferrøs11/14/2018, 3:33:05 PM1 votes

We could expect more and bigger lore projects in the future since Riot decided to make a game all around the lore. And with that for sure we will get even more and more stuff with it.

Ahri Body Pillow11/15/2018, 11:03:15 AM1 votes

Small indie company

Porństàr Akali11/15/2018, 2:32:20 PM1 votes

I would totally read League of Legends novels, especially about specific champs. Then riot would change the lore and the novel would become invalid. RIP