Mount Targon: Explore the Mountain and it's five resident champions!
Mount Targon | League of Legends
It's here folks! Explore the wonders of Mount Targon first hand!
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Mount Targon: Explore the Mountain and it's five resident champions! Explore the Mountain and it's five resident champions it's five resident champions it's
nrrgghhh....
So Leona was guided by sunlight up the mountain, Diana was met with moonlight, but when Pantheon began his climb there was an eclipse.
Is anyone else suspicious of this?
**Diana: The Disney Heroine Leona: The Unexpected Inquisition Pantheon: The Snitch ** (I kid, i kid...)
Serious thoughts:
I like **Diana's **lore quite a bit. Really gets into her character more than we've ever gotten, and her plight is understandable.
**Leona's **is a bit more of a mixed bag. I'm a afraid that the writers might be falling into the temptation of making the Lawful Good into the (functional) villain, bc it's so "original". It seems like there's some ambiguity at the end, so i'll wait and see what they do with it.
**Pantheon's **was pretty hardcore, and i liked it quite a bit. Until the end reveals that Atreus, the character we got to know and love over thousands of words, is actually dead, instead of "partnering" with a celestial essence like Diana and Leona were. So, thanks for that i guess? Seems like a weird choice to me.
Liked the new lore overall; at least we're getting SOMETHING, amirite? [slayer-pantheon-thumbs]
5 champions? Does this mean the taric rework AND a new champion are coming D:?(or is someone else simply going to mt.targon?)
FUCK YES!!!!!!
Edit: I only had enough time to read the background lore and the longer version (but not the color text) of 
's new lore.
MY god I am stoked. The burden of Pantheon is a great one, but I imagine Atreus would have taken it if he did fully know. I'm loving this new lore Riot and I can't wait to read the color text!
THIS MAKES ME WANT TO WRITE MORE!!!!!
[slayer-pantheon-thumbs]
Oh my. Ant let something slip didn't he? That deleted comment tho.
I'm rather disappointed with the new Leona lore. In the old lore, she was selfless and compassionate - the flaws in her character were more aligned with being too compassionate and perhaps lacking the will to kill. Now, that's all gone. There's nothing that makes her stand out.
I know that (one of) the stated goal(s) of the lore rewrites is to keep what's core to the character, and that that's not always easy because people disagree on what that is. But I'm honestly confused as to what parts of her character were (intended to be) kept. Her old lore was almost entirely centred around protecting the weak, and that doesn't appear at all. The incident with the golden boy reads more as enchantment than mercy. Even if it's mercy, it doesn't give any sense that mercy is part of her character. If you read it as mercy, it's more of 'that one time Leona failed in her duty'.
The second part of her lore doesn't add that either. She's not really protecting people at cost to herself, but merely because they are more or less under her authority.
On the other hand, I like the Diana and Pantheon lore - it definitely makes Diana in particular a much deeper character, and it gives a much better view of Mount Targon overall.
EDIT: Oh, and the splash pictures are weirdly stretched.
Don't tell me we're going to get Aurelion Sol AND Taric's rework simultaneously?!
Also, Hooray for Mantheon, may he do battle with Mordekaiser.
Are the missing two champions Aurelion Sol and Taric or something else ?
Hmm...3 paragraphs to say 'Climbing Mt. Targon is hard.' I know it says more that that, but lordy there was a lot of redundant writing in that description.
"Climbing Mt. Targon is hard. REALLY HARD. You won't believe just how vastly, mind boggling hard it is. You might think it's a hard climb to the chemists, but that's just peanuts to Mt. Targon! Listen! And so on..."
The beast had tasted her blood and hissed with predatory hunger. Its armored form was now entirely gloss black and venomous purple. Bladed arms unfolded and remade themselves in a fan of hooks and talons. Unnatural flesh flowed like wax to seal the awful wound her blade had ripped.
So, is The Void bleeding onto Mount Targon or do we have another reality pushing into Runeterra?
Yes, yes, and YESSSSSSSS. I love the Mt Targon lore so much, and seeing it even further fleshed out makes me so happy. Can't wait to see the other 2 champs. Also, I wonder about this "Golden-skinned boy", how relevant is he beyond being a guide for Leona? Is he one of the 2 missing champs? If so, who the heck is he?