Headcanon, and its place in lore (Also: Share thread)
With the Narrative's constant silence, and with every other Riot team outperforming them in every way possible (Balance, Art, Community Creations, they all have - somewhat - the satisfaction, and dare I say respect, of the general community), I feel more distant from Runeterra at each passing day. The name Skarner, before associated with a character that I deeply liked, is now synonimous with Tank, Kidnapper. Ashe means Carry, Kiter. The name Du Couteau might as well not exist. Champions have become mere tools and pawns, and NPCs besides the shopkeepers might as well not exist.
Which is why I've started to fall back on my headcanon, and I've been cherishing it more and more.
See, in the older days of mere silence, instead of the calm that followed the old lore's massacre, I entertained myself by writing fanfiction. I had a big project, The Renegade's Path: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9096840/1/The-Renegade-s-Path about my favorite non-champion, Marcus Du Couteau, ongoing, and a few small stories that I felt like writing
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9632973/1/A-Tale-of-Dusk-and-Dawn https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10348488/1/Nature-of-the-Beast https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9679444/1/Prison-Chains
, all part of the same one universe, that for a while, for me, was synonymous with Runeterra. Note that I'm not writing this as a way to publizise myself, just the only way I know to show you how much I loved the old lore, how much I loved the story behind League of Legends.
From the many ideas I didn't publish, a few of them I particularly enjoy, like:
- The Ionian Elder in Yasuo's story secretly harbored Riven after she turned her back on Noxus, and taught her ancient Ionian wind techniques, which is why Yasuo recognizes them. She then discovers he was planning on betraying Ionia to Noxus, and using her as a tool, and strikes him down in anger.
- The Medusa Corp., a high-tech cyberpunk company with its own private army, and the biggest company in Zaun, its CEO allied with Noxus and the Black Rose, causing unrest in both Demacia and Noxus anonymously, as a way to create even bigger anymosity between the two city states (A plot point I wanted to include in The Renegade's Path).
- A different take on Viktor, with him considering Blitzcrank his son and turning himself into a cyborg to suppress his anguish at losing him (Stanwick put a restraining other stopping Viktor from approaching Blitz and Vik deleted the golem's memory of him so he wouldn't suffer), and making so Jayce's stealing the power source, and a few badly chosen orders from him, was what made him go all "Glorious Revolution".
Point being, if you have Headcanons, share. Don't mind writing too much, don't mind posting someone else's works that you really really like (Factions for example), this is a thread to talk and share.
lore are the two sides on Summoners Rift. They also represent ancient Demacia and Noxus.
LeBlancs and her order are the remnants of the Magelords, while the new
is the remnant of the Protectorate. Both LeBlanc and Taric are the avatars of their respected sides. Neither were good or evil, they just share different ideologies towards the use of magic.
lore. All for the sake of incredibly powerful Artifacts and because Ionia was no opposition to Noxuses military might. The whole thing will be resolved with an Ionian event (with the release of ether Irelias brother or Ao Shin) now that the League is not canon and the Ionia vs Noxus match never truly happened.
and
share some key features with each other, ether Janna is related to the Urtistan people, or both have gotten their powers in similar ways.
is an Ascendant Being, one of the first to ever get that honor and is wise so much so that he doesnt talk too much about anything (keeps it all in).
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are connected to The Glade. But in Shacos instance he was introduced to a much darker part of the Glade, making him go mad and create the entity we now all know as Shaco.
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and Ao Shin are Elemental beings of Runeterra. They each represent the 4 Elements and are the Worlds Natural Guardians as oppose to
is an artificially constructed being made in the Voodoo Lands, which means he has some him ties with
clan.
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ascended to defeat the armies of Freljord who were encroaching upon Shurima's borders in their conquest of Valoran.
's people were negatively affected by the Shurimans in some way, probably through the desertification of the land, forcing them to fight to survive. This led them in to conflict with the ascended, which they inevitably couldn't win.
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in to what he is now.
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was waiting for. She doesn't know this however because of the limited knowledge the Marai have of surface dwelling beings.
's mum was killed by
killed Durand during his stint as a mindless killing machine, earning the ire of
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that she isn't aware of.
: I believe that Talon is actually Quinn's brother.
: She broke up with Twisted Fate because he obsessively kept tabs on her with his true sight and teleportation.
: One of the members of Vel'Koz' species had attacked Gnar's family.
: She either has been supplied with tech from Viktor or she has been stealing hextech arms from him.
: Warwick is a doctor, but he is passionate for hunting people down for money. Although cruel and ruthless, Warwick was touched by Soraka's kindness.
: Zyra's body originally belonged to Lilith, Ryze's mentor.