@Jaredan: A compromise on this whole map thing

Hyrum Graff··12 votes·954 views

Give us a map.

When a location has already been fleshed out by post-retcon stories, put that on the map, in glorious detail.

Where an area is still vague and undecided, put that on the map, in a decidedly vague and undecided (mockup / sketch) way. Leave out the exact borders of countries, just put in their names so we have some idea of different locations' proximities to one another. Unless that has not yet been ironed out?

This leaves the map vague enough that you can manipulate it if you come up with some really cool story, and simultaneously gives the community a way to create stories that at least somewhat make sense.

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Star Guardían2 votes

Why is everyone so impatient?

Dextix LT1 votes

Lets see. By now its 1 year since the retcon of the old lore. All we received, was burning tides, and thats it. About 90% of the world is missing. We have no information about it. So yea.......

I want my lore and map to be done BEFORE 2020.

Star Guardían1 votes

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Lets see. By now its 1 year since the retcon of the old lore. All we received, was burning tides, and thats it. About 90% of the world is missing. We have no information about it. So yea.......

I want my lore and map to be done BEFORE 2020.

Sensei once told me "Patience is a virtue."

Dextix LT1 votes

And Marianne Moore once said this

"Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage"

Guess whats the bondage.

TurquoiseYoshi2 votes

I would say

Who needs a map? Ezreal

but that'll just summon Bio for story time.

Impetual2 votes

Gonna comment Jaredan? Or are you just going to take the standard RIot approach of not responding to lore threads unless it furthers Riot's current agenda?

Helmight1 votes

I like this idea, but it implies that Riot already knows the general locations/positions of countries and cities when they may not yet. For all we know, Riot is focusing on fleshing out factions and geographical locations without actually looking at things from a worldview standpoint - meaning that THEY don't even have a map. Patience, friend. We'll get one soon enough.

And at any rate, who needs a map? Ezreal

Pyrodinium1 votes

Jaredan mentioned that they have one, but is primarily for internal use and still subject to changes.

Helmight1 votes

Oh, for real? That's good news. I thought they didn't even have that much :P.

If it's still subject to change though, I'd prefer it to stay under wraps. No sense in trying to familiarize ourselves with the new Runeterra when it can change at a moment's notice

Pyrodinium1 votes

Releasing material in an unfinished state is probably a bad idea for a well established company.

There are standards of quality that you have to meet.

Hyrum Graff3 votes

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Releasing material in an unfinished state is probably a bad idea for a well established company.

There are standards of quality that you have to meet.

Put it on the pbe then

that way it isn't technically released but we can still have an idea of things

Dextix LT2 votes

Oh really? You talk about quality standarts after that failure of a retcon they pulled off?

ARequestOfDeath1 votes

look at azir release

GreenLore1 votes

What the opener suggests actually sounds more like "explore runeterra step by step" rather than "sorry guys we don't know where to put this stuff for now,but here is what we've got".

Riot does have a map,this is evident if you look at the harrowing map,which does indicate already some geographical changes(like piltover seemingly being closer to the shadow isles),its just that they don't want to release it already

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