There could be comic book series, or novel series, or anything of the luck due to how awesome the League universe is!
Someone should bring this up in the next meeting or something :P
pssst....write about Tryndamere and Aatrox first xD
They could have books written about Freljord, Shurima, The Harrowing, Demacia vs Noxus, Ionia etc. It's cool to think about!!
Vicvictorw25 votesWait, old lore or current lore?
The only kind of book that would be writable with the current lore would be a children's picture book.
**A **is for Amumu!
He's a sad, sad mummy! Pull the tab to make him cry!
Darrosh Jewfist6 votesThat said, if done correctly with an appropriate art style that'd be a hilarious "Rated T, but looks like it's for E" children's book.
Like... A is for Amumu who doesn't have any friends or Ahri who has lots of friends who happen to be boys.
IcyPepper3 votesor Ahri who has lots of friends who happen to be boys.
Coming soon to a sex-ed class near you!
RasCaelestis14 votesBooks would be amazing, but I think comics would be the best option.
I'm not sure if they're still being put out, but I remember a few years ago World of Warcraft had a few mini-series that gave a bit of backstory to the world. I read two of them, one about the founding of the Argent Crusade and one about the origin of the Gilnean Worgen curse. They had good art, decent writing, and told a lot about the behind-the-scenes of the world. To those that read them, they were a great source of information and entertainment, and they also did a lot of world-building. I don't play WoW anymore, but I'm pretty sure I still have those comics.
If Riot were to make comics -or even write books- about Valoran and the champions in it, I'm positive there would be a big market for them. Comics are really popular right now, and seeing League of Legends comics might actually pull more people into the game. Example: A person goes to their favourite comic shop to pick up the new Thor or Ultimate Avengers or Saga comic, and they see a comic for League of Legends on the 'new arrivals' shelf. The person has never played League, but has heard of it. The comic's art looks cool so they pick it up and start reading it. They like the story and even though they decide not to buy the comic right away, when they go home they'll download the game and check it out. They decide that if they like it, they'll go back and buy the comic.
But Riot, if you do decide to do any print-format stories for League of Legends, I have but one small request... Please have at least one arc/story about Viktor and the Glorious Evolution. Thank you. ^_^
EDIT: Oooohh... Accidentally made this into a wall of Text. Tl;dr: Comics = good. League comics = good + more $$ for Riot.
RiotRiotJaredan17 votesI'm not averse to a good wall of text. Thanks for the input all, it's certainly being noted.
GinoSoldier5 votesFor what it's worth, I wholeheartedly agree with RasCaelestis. Lore books would also help you establish lots of sideline lore about any skin line there is, which, let's admit it, would be fascinating.
RasCaelestis4 votesThat's awesome! Whether it's books or comics or even newspaper-style articles like the old Journal of Justice, any sort of supplemental lore would be great. I can't deny that the newer style of lore (Bard: Mountain and the Jinx and Amumu music videos, etc.) is cool, but there's a lot that it leaves open to interpretation. That can be good, but it seems like it's all we've been getting recently. Vague bits of "it's up to the viewer to determine what happens" can be really interesting, but that kind of storytelling can only be done if a solid foundation is already set up. The ret-con took a lot of that foundation away, and so far we've not had much to fill in the gaps.
I don't intend to come across as rude or whiny, but it's been months since the short-form champion biographies were added to the client and website. We were told that longer and more detailed versions were coming (albeit only to the website), but so far there has been no change. I understand that technical limitations exist, but how long does it take to fix these sorts of problems?
It seems like the vast majority of people on the boards would like more information, even if it was just text-based stories posted to the website every so often. I admit, I started playing after the JoJ was discontinued, but one day I found them through the client and spent more time than I'd care to admit reading through all of them. The stories were a bit silly at times, but they were balanced out well by the more serious bits. It was a great way for players to learn more about the champions they liked. The same can be said about champion Judgements too. I know that the JoJ and Judgements are no longer possible due to the Institute of War and the League itself being removed from the canon, but it's not beyond the realm of possibilities for another similar thing to be added. Small snippets of what champions are doing when they're not on Summoner's Rift would be a great way for fans to learn more about the world of Runeterra and its inhabitants.
Going back to the original comics idea... I'm pretty sure that not many newer fans know that some champion previews were announced with short one-page comics. I'll link my favorites, Viktor's and Nautilus's, as examples. The (sadly defunct) game Dawngate had a similar tri-weekly comic called The Dawngate Chronicles that gave a lot of backstory to the world and the Shapers. Unfortunately, EA pulled the plug on Dawngate before it had a chance to become popular, but it did an incredible amount of world-building and storytelling in the short time it was playable. I'm not saying League of Legends should copy it 100%, but it's a fantastic example of how to do storytelling for a MOBA.
I'll end this by saying that I really do like the work you guys do, but it seems like ever since the removal of the Institute of War and the Summoners and the League itself, the actual lore that we've gotten has decreased greatly in quantity. The production quality is amazing, but the substance of it seems to be lacking a lot of what the older material had. We'll continue to support the Lore team, but the allure and promise of "More Lore Coming Soon!" can only last for so long.
EDIT AGAIN: I did not realize this, but there apparently can only be one attachment per post. Here's a link to the Nautilus comic I mentioned. Also, a direct link to the source where I got the Viktor one and the source to the one for Nautilus.
kneel on Ice1 votesTell us more about 
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Drogeist2 votesHere here!
EDIT: It's actually Hear hear! The more you know!
LordHippoman12 votesThe JoJ was cancelled because a lot of players refused to read it because it was too much text.
The JoJ was like four pages. I wouldn't get your hopes up .:(
KING ATTILA9 votesJoJ was ok, but I'm talking bigger and better!
John Berserk11 votesI dont think it was a matter of simply "too much text", I think it was "too much boring text". The JoJ was written like a newspaper, not a novel. There were stories told, and they did fill in the lore gap on a basic level, but they were all stories that had already happened, and were just being reported on or recounted. That's not something I want to read as my only source of lore for any given world.
If Riot had hired professional authors to write novels or novellas or short stories (or a collection of short stories?) that took place within Runeterra, from the points of view of actual Champions themselves, THAT would be much more exciting to read. To engage me by having a much more personal story, one right alongside my favorite Champion as they're going on some kind of adventure.
There's nothing wrong with Journal or Newspaper entries mind you. One of the best lore entries Riot has ever made (imo), Quinn's journal during the Freljord event, was in the form of a journal, but it was Quinn's journal. Everything was being told from her point of view as she was experiencing it, and that was exciting to me. However, as much as I enjoyed that, I would not want every story to be told exactly like that. Journal entries are great for getting a very personal account from the in-world writer, as they're best used as a window into their mind, but that author may not be the best at describing the beautiful landscapes, nor would they necessarily want to describe a fight scene they had just moments before writing it down (unless they loved fighting I guess). To get those kinds of descriptions you'd either have to have a very different journal author, or you'd have to have a story told in another fashion.
Which, as it so happens, Riot has actually been doing quite well since the Freljord event. They haven't been doing a good job at getting a lot of them out at a frequent enough pace to satisfy everyone, but I think the quality of their stories they HAVE been able to get out have been pretty good overall, especially compared to the original JoJ.
SwainDaRokJensen12 votesIf league of legends novels were a thing, I'd actually pick up a book.
SpecterVonBaren9 votesI'd even be satisfied with childrens books.
Watch Sion. Watch Sion ult. Watch Sion run. Watch Sion smash full body into your face!
ImHerVoice1 votesMy child grew up to be a mass murderer. Thank you sion! You're a my idol!
Tesla Effect7 votesIf it was better illustrated and properly showcased, then I dont believe it would be the case @LoredHippoman. They were generally only telling stories from the eyes of some summoners, where as a general book about the world of Runeterra would convey its lore much differently and better in my eyes (because it doesnt have that subjective eyes as it did with the JoJ).
terkmc5 votesIf they can output the same quality literature as say Warhammer 40K, I'll be so happy.
RhIjOfT3 votesI think RIOT really needs to take a few innovative tips from what Dawngate had did. The Visual Novel, the Karma system... It all worked so well.
KING OF MASKS4 votesDawngate visual novel WHAT?
RasCaelestis4 votesI think they mean the Chronicles. The comic that went out a few times a week and gave the story of the Dawngate's creation and the Shapers' lives before (and sometimes concurrent with) the events in the game. Like the main Dawngate website, it was taken down, but I'd not be surprised if someone archived them.
KING OF MASKS1 votesThat's what I figured. Not quite the same thing as a visual novel though, hence my incredulity.
Incidentally, speaking of archives: http://www.reddit.com/r/dawngate/comments/2lj4td/long_post_chronicles_audio_lore_downloads/
test account3 votesHonestly, right now with the retcon and stuff? Things are so generic that I could just read a WoW novel and replace Arthas' name with Mordekaiser and stuff, and I'd basically get the same effect. Cliche and derivative plots for a cliche and derivative world.
Imperial Japan2 votes+1
MrBuffington2 votesI kind of hope the reason that we keep hearing that the lore team is hard at work while not getting too much written material (though the cinematics and other events are really cool) is because they're working on stuff like this. Maybe I shouldn't be getting my hopes up, lol
2 much sauuuce2 votesUh oh. I've been known to write a short story (or 2, or 3, or 3 dozen) and HOLY SNAP I just might put the pen to paper so to speak...
Mebe I get lucky and rito hire meh for teh chez!!!
Boyahda2 votesUnfortunately, the only League book we would possibly get is a flipbook of LCS plays.
Rinky Dinky1 votesCan you plebians stop with that Garbage?
IS1d51f7fd0f8e2764617b02 votesI want an actual LORE first ...
Tesla Effect2 votesYou already had and you failed at proving your point.
Hard Penetrator1 votesIt isn't that interesting or original. I would say its actually more interesting the less we know about it.
Not that they can't make it interesting but I feel that if they couldn't do it for 4 years there is no hope. You will get few pages here and there tops.
ImHerVoice1 votesJax plz
SociopathFriend1 votesHonestly a lot of people liked Bard's cinematic, it'd be really awesome if the League's new lore was a series of animated shorts that revolve around key events.
fiqolek1 votes+1. Mysterious Shadow Isle, Demacia vs. Noxus, Rise of Shadow Order. There are great stories I'd love to read.
AnysonAcE1 votesYES! THIS! :D
bad arcade kitty1 votesthere are way too many shitty young adult and fantasy crap fiction already to write some more, especially based on a video game with a rather meh lore
KING ATTILA1 votesYour attitude betrays your screen name! Write your own books if your opinion is that shitty...impress the world.
bad arcade kitty1 votes[{quoted}](name=Angered Saiyan,realm=NA,application-id=6kFXY1kR,discussion-id=JcgnQbE7,comment-id=00140000,timestamp=2015-03-10T02:17:40.459+0000)
Your attitude betrays your screen name! Write your own books if your opinion is that shitty...impress the world.
well, my summoner name actually wasn't supposed to mean that i'm a merry person, it was my mistake yeah to use it for lol, you are not the first who found me to be grumpy instead :3 actually i'm not really grumpy too... it was a name of my elven archer in mabinogi and also some roguelike archer too and merry- here is an allusion to the ballads about robin hood; i picked it for euw because some people on euw knew me. my na summoner name was netkitten and maybe it was taken on euw.. i don't remember. anyway i'm too greedy to pay for a rename
as for the books, there are multiple problem with the literature of that kind. firstly it's a low quality junk for people with zero taste, secondly it's not an original junk because the theme of death battle is kind of overused, the most notable works it's 'long walk', 'the running man', 'battle royale', sheckley's 'victim' series, the recent 'hungry games' (which i didn't bother to read because it's the modern ya fiction but afaik they are about it too) and even stuff like 'lord of the flies', thirdly the lore is sloppy and pretty motley, i don't think you can pool a good plot from it without rewriting a good part of it, the aforementioned books at least have some conflict in them because people risk their lives there, and what do champions risk? and why do they need summoners... and agree to be used by them... it all is pretty lame
and finally 'write your own books' is a stupid reason. make your own games if you dislike some, make your own movies, make yourself a surgery if you don't like a doctor etc. anyway i would never write fantasy of this kind
KING ATTILA2 votesYou sound like a stiff, that's all lol.
bad arcade kitty1 votes[{quoted}](name=Angered Saiyan,realm=NA,application-id=6kFXY1kR,discussion-id=JcgnQbE7,comment-id=0014000000000000,timestamp=2015-03-10T03:23:06.874+0000)
You sound like a stiff, that's all lol.
did i insult your nerdy literary taste lol
KING ATTILA2 votesI never defined my taste of literature. Saying League is not worthy as source material is simply foolish. They could adjust the lore as they please and authors can write how they wish to bring to life the lore. Nobody cares to read your poor, negative, and pessimistic point of view. The upvotes and support already prove this. Have a nice day ;)
bad arcade kitty1 votes[{quoted}](name=Angered Saiyan,realm=NA,application-id=6kFXY1kR,discussion-id=JcgnQbE7,comment-id=001400000000000000000000,timestamp=2015-03-10T03:37:01.587+0000)
Saying League is not worthy as source material is simply foolish.
why i should even waste my time speaking of literature with this thing? i think i shouldn't
