EDIT: Asking questions gets pitchforks and torches. Okay...
You can't expect to have a draconian society like Demacia without some sort of religious faith being predominant in it. If Elder Scrolls and Warcraft have religions (or the like) that enable holy/magic powers, Demacia should have something similar.
After all, I'm guessing Riot plans to retcon Lux a bit to have her magic be something holy-based, rather than just magical brilliance alone.
Beyond Legends5 votesWhy are people down voting this? It's a legit question you two bit morons
Anyways to answer your questions is that Demacia does have a religion but it has not yet been explained. Demacia worship a diety known as the veiled lady(mention by lucian in Shadow and Fortune) and they have a love for glass stained windows.
LongHair Fox5 votesThe character lux is based on (yes the creator of lux took inspiration from another game) just uses magic brilliance so if riot wants to keep in touch with that then I don't think they need to change anything.
As for religion I have a hard time seeing demacia having a bottum up religion like budhism. More than likely they have something like a papal primacy like christianity had in the middle ages or a government inforcing one like taoism.
Also a requirement of the religion would be prayng to the god several times a day by screaming DEMACIA as loud as you can.
darkdill1 votesYou mean Marisa Kirisame, right?
Still, Lux is different from Marisa in many ways, so adding some religious beliefs to her wouldn't break her character.
LongHair Fox2 votesYes that is who I mean. And yes lux is still different in many ways but magic is pretty core to them, and the phrase "light mage? I'm just an ordinary mage" would no longer make sense. Also lux's laugh does not match a holy person. I know it sounds like nitpicking but seriously. Load into a game and spam that laugh for around a minute and you will see.
darkdill1 votesMaybe her magic doesn't originate from her worship, but she could just be a "good Catholic", to make an analogy. The kind who prays even if she's got talent because it gives her some peace of mind, or even keeps her sane. Or she just might do it because her family got it drilled into her head like how the Demacian military brainwashed her.
LongHair Fox1 votesI can tottally see this. It was only the "holy-based" i could not agree with.
UomoAfide3 votesFrom what we have seen until now (thought it's true, the retcon might change this) Demacia doesn't seem to have any kind of pantheon or gods in their ""religion"" if we can use the term. It seems that they worship the impersonalised idea of Justice as an absolute in the daily life of Demacian society and mostly in their war doctrine.
Digielf2 votesThere is only 1 religion - Pokeism
Rebonack1 votesThus far I haven't gotten the impression that 'holy magic' is a thing separate from any other type of magic in Runeterra.
That doesn't preclude Demacia from having a religion to provide social cohesion, though.
Mirkhail1 votesI think demacians worship personifications of virtues like justice, duty , honor maybe even Demacia itself is personified and worshiped. But i don't think they have an actual structured religion, is more probably that demacians don't have any gods or priests and they blindly follow Demacia values. Demacia probably use a system of knights and scholars, both for military and civil purpose and Lux is a mage that work for the army (like a weapons , artillery) but she seems to also have done some infiltration missions.
The Last Ballad1 votesOut of all these posts not a single person remembered that there are Tallymen of Kindred(seeing as they are known as Kindred everywhere, I'm sure that it isn't just in Noxus) and then there is Elise's cult, which has followers both in Damacia and Noxus. Probably not the mainstream religions, but they exist.
Friendly Ram1 votesi want to say DEMACIA's religion would be state based revolving around the king but idk riots stance.
