Volibear's lore still remains the same?

Grizzlpaw·8/23/2017, 3:48:53 AM·4 votes·1,928 views

I'm scratching my head on this one. Ornn's lore depicts him as a powerful diety which existed since the beginning of Runeterra. Volibear, his brother and fellow demigod, should logically have similar origins, yet his story has not changed at all.

What's more, In Ornn's story, the Ursine are supposedly warped warriors who twist themselves into abominable shapes to please Volibear. In Voli's lore they are a tribe of bear people who train and fight in preparation of a nameless evil that will one day sweep over Freijord (The watchers? The Void?)

The two stories don't add up. One theory I have is that Ornn's story is extremely inaccurate due to centuries of retelling. From the perspective of one of the hearthblood, Volibear would seem like a villain. Stories naturally get blown out of proportion over time, maybe the way the Hearthblood woman described the Ursine is a result of hundred's of years of revisions in which Voli is made to look like more and more of a bad guy.

The problem with this is that it's impossible to know just how much of Ornn's story can be taken for fact. And it leaves the question of whether Ornn is acutally powerful demigod at all.

My second theory. Volibear is similar to the aspects (think Pantheon), but instead of being taken over by the aspect once he became ascended, he fused with it. The "aspect" that went into him is the demigod in question, Ornn's brother. Volibear is it's new name because of who it chose to fuse with.

Either way, the two stories certainly don't add up at face value right now. I honestly can't tell if Riot put his old lore on the Freijord page as a placeholder (new lore Soon^tm). Or if they plan on sticking with his current bio and adding in new details later.

Maybe i'm missing something here. If anyone else is able to make sense of this please share.

15 Comments

Variks the Loyal8/23/2017, 5:20:34 AM5 votes

Volibear's lore is like Soraka's and Sona's - in desperate need of an update, but we have an idea of what they'll do with Volibear when that update comes.

GreenLore8/23/2017, 10:57:51 AM3 votes

Well technically there is the small chance that we get a demigod update later on(the vastaya update came out a week after the release of Xayah&Rakan),but I doubt this will happen.

It is much more likely that Volis lore will remain noncanon for now until they do a big freljord update. Pretty much the same is done with Soraka

Beyond Legends8/23/2017, 4:33:16 AM2 votes

Voli lore currently in Limbo right now, I think we're getting a major frejord lore update sometime this or next week.

Placentas8/23/2017, 5:17:26 AM2 votes

Voli isn't an aspect. Aspects are only Targon related. He's on the same level as Ornn who is a demigod.

Zombie Slayer8/23/2017, 2:00:42 PM1 votes

Volibears lore is old and non cannon as of Ornn's debut his lore will change either when the Freljord gets a lore update or when Volibear gets his VGU he is a tier one so he will likely get his rework soon hopefully he will be announced for the next VGU after Eve is done hers and her team works on someone new.

KoKoboto8/23/2017, 3:00:08 PM1 votes

inb4 Volibear VGU out of no where announced today when Ornn comes out!!