What is the League of Legends?

II AfLiXn II·2/16/2015, 8:14:32 PM·3 votes·1,212 views

Okay.. I'm confused now. Can someone explain to me what the "League of Legends" actually is and how it operates. I mean logically it doesn't make any sense anymore. With all of the new videos RIOT has been posting of characters fighting in the arena (Leona, Ahri, Darius, Jax, etc) and characters fighting outside of the arena (Rek'Sai, Cass, Sivir, etc), how does one become part of the League of Legends? I doubt Rek'Sai actually talks and is much more interested in hunting down people in the desert, how does she become a League member? I feel that RIOT needs to set up the base story line for what League of Legends actually is or if it even fits into the new stories they are creating. Thoughts? Does anyone think they need to expand on this more?

11 Comments

Ebonmaw Dragon2/16/2015, 9:09:40 PM5 votes

"League of Legends" is the name of the game, nothing more.

Riot deleted "the league of legends" from the lore of Valoran, and now is not canon.

The summoners, fields of justice and everything in the game, is not part of the story of Runeterra. The "champions" are only powerful or important beings (humans, yordles, monsters, etc) from that world, and they have stories, but they never fight like in the game.

The game is not connected with the "lore".

The videos that show champions fighting in the fields of justice are not canon... Leona has never meet Ahri, Graves, etc.

You can compare the game with Super Smash Brothers, a bunch of characters fighting for no reason at all. (Even though, Super Smash Brothers actually has a reason)

Motajo2/16/2015, 9:52:48 PM3 votes

The League of Legends isn't a thing in lore anymore. Anything having to do with the game's premise--the Institute of War, the League of Legends, the Journal of Justice, summoners in this context, possibly some of the Fields of Justice--has now never existed. Nothing in game is canon in any way, except for character names, themes, and whatever lore-based connections they bother to implement into VOs.

The game pretty much carries on like nothing happened, aside from slowly taking away references to summoners from VOs. Which is a bit funny, considering the term still permeates anything addressing us in the pvpnet client and the website. It's like some of Riot is in some sort of weird denial that the lore's central premise was gutted.

All character and event connections to the IoW are removed, but are supposed to be the same otherwise. It's still extremely unclear, and that's without counting the champs inherently tied to the IoW; they are in lore limbo until the rewrites are completed, which could happen at any point from Soon(TM) to never.

Basically, the lore takes the characters of League and pretends the game doesn't exist.

It Hertz When IP2/16/2015, 8:25:32 PM2 votes

Well, ideally (in a world where Riot didn't shit on the lore) Rek'sai's story is likely similar to other Void-born; a Void creature crosses over somehow and the Institute of War uses their summoning rituals to contain the creature.

And we HAD a base story line, Riot abandoned it because they don't like being constrained by a unified story; having to remember all that lore gives them headaches.