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I Think Should Riot Produce An Ongoing Story Within Runeterra That Is Cannon With LoL's Lore!

Impetual··2 votes·764 views

But let's be honest, Riot doesn't care about it's lore. Sure, they produce 2-4 lore events per year, because it's expected of them, but the devils in the details. Let's take a closer look.

Riot deleted Summoners out of Runeterra's. That's a pretty big hit. It makes a heck of a lot of Runeterra's lore complete nonsense.

It's been over a year, and we still see quite a lot of champion lore dependent on the existence of summoners...which is heartbreaking and depressing.

I wanna see Runeterra develop. I wanna see a reason to log in every week to see what's going on in Runeterra. That's my mindset here.

Sorry if my LoL season 1/2 attitude is showing, but I really miss what LoL used to be. It wasn't just a competitive game focused on e-sports...although admittedly that aspect was there (and I have no qualms with that).

I tried to write something that comes across as moderate here...but I can't.

Riot's completely abandoned Runeterra over the last year or two. Each new champion release has an event based around it, but none of those events have ever made any significant impacts on Runeterra.

Riot decided to "delete" summoners from their lore (correct me if I'm wrong), and neglect give any clarifications on the many champion's that don't make sense without summoner's existing, and how they make sense.

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GreenLore5 votes

And thats why people complain about your threads.

Your title is cool and all and could make for an interesting discussion,but your opening post is pretty much "so lets change the subject,i dislike riots new lore"

Not to mention that you conveniently decide to ignore burning tides and shadow&fortune,who both drived the lore forward.Sure they had no big impact on runerterra as a whole(but no old story had that,even the kalamanda conflict only affected noxus and a bit demacia),but they did proceed the storys of the champs(MF got her revenge and went through character development,TF and Graves settled their rivalry,GP fell from the top,Bilgewater managed to survive the harrowing)

Impetual1 votes

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And thats why people complain about your threads.

Your title is cool and all and could make for an interesting discussion,but your opening post is pretty much "so lets change the subject,i dislike riots new lore"

Not to mention that you conveniently decide to ignore burning tides and shadow&fortune,who both drived the lore forward.Sure they had no big impact on runerterra as a whole(but no old story had that,even the kalamanda conflict only affected noxus and a bit demacia),but they did proceed the storys of the champs(MF got her revenge and went through character development,TF and Graves settled their rivalry,GP fell from the top,Bilgewater managed to survive the harrowing)

I'm sorry, but I think you misunderstand my opinion. I actually agree with most of what you are saying about the newer lore...It's pretty good. It just lacks a core part of the older lore.

I think that the Burning TIdes lore was really awesomely written. My problem with it is that it feels like it was written in a vacuum. It feels like a one off story, rather than a piece of larger story. Unlike how the older lore was written, it doesn't seem to have any impact on the world at large.

In addition, the newer lore lacks a core part of the old lore: comedy. Despite all of the heavy handed serious events that happened with the original Runeterra, we still had Blitzcrank's Fleshlink Compatibility service, we still had Morgana's Bakery, We still had Jax and Gragas getting drunk together and wrecking up a bar. The new lore doesn't seem to have a place for that kind of awesome albeit inconsequential lore.

If Riot would actually talk to us about what their current lore direction is, maybe we could have a better discussion.

But like usual, lore fans are left guessing because Riot doesn't seem to want to have a decent discussion about anything significant with its lore, and on the rare times they do,** Jaredan hides** and sends us someone who can't provide substantial answers like Riot Opeli - And look at all the shit she had to deal with while Jaredan pretty much stayed silent at the time.

GreenLore4 votes

And what older stories had an impact on the world as a whole? Literally none. The biggest lore events in the old lore were the kalamanda conflict and the ionia conflict. Both were pretty much limited to 2 nations(noxus and ionia/demacia respectively),with no effect on the others(there was also the barbarian campaign,but that was again limited to noxus and the freljord). They weren't more written in a vacuum than shadow&fortune or burning tides.

Ralanr1 votes

There wouldn't be a lore team if they didn't care about lore. We wouldn't have writers if they didn't care.

Stop mistaking lower frequency for lack of care.

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