How Should Lore Be Brought Back ???

RiverReign·Jun 14, 2015·12 votes·2,536 views

We have had multiple hints that lore will be making a comeback very soon but how will they bring it back ?

I think that the best way to bring people into lore and realize that its worth having is to have a Demacia Noxsus skirmish event where if you pick there champions you gain double ip and ending with pro players having a huge fight to decide the way the event will go and which way the world will be shaped.

What do you guys think ? post some ideas in the comments.

32 Comments

SchaakaKonJun 15, 20154 votes

Honestly, Noxus and Demacia are the two most boring city states. If LoL's lore became a low-fantasy world centered around human fisticuffs, I feel 96% of the gamerbase would yawn in unison.

Shadow Isles and the Void having interactions with each other would cause me to blow my load.

RiverReignJun 15, 20152 votes

Ya I think that if they do that its going to be bad ass

OuttaControl56Jun 17, 20151 votes

Yeah right, thats because you ignore the obvious implications of the Demacia and Noxus conflict.

They've been at it for years, and they've banged heads over every single city state. They're the biggest engines of geopolitical change in Runeterra.

Also they're both in a constant state of Flux. Jarvan IV is trying to right the moral center of Demacia who has shown to be pretty askew, creating traumatic cases like Lux and Vayne , rejecting people based off of class like Quinn , or even just blood like Shyvana. To think he's just going to do that without resistance is foolish.

Meanwhile, in Noxus, there is a power struggle as Swain performed a Coup De'tat, and the Du Couteau line (Katarina, Cass and Talon) are just a heartbeat away from the gallows (or Draven's blades) because of their allegiance with the Darkwill line. Swain isn't just going to try and kill them, no, he's a diabolical mastermind that will want to manipulate them. For what? Thats up to you to think about...

Then you have the mysterious Black Rose, and its clear that Swain's manipulations of Jarvan and the IoW that the Black Rose has a larger reach than just Noxus, a more international and sinister web. As Demacia and Noxus have been so tangled in conflict, its not hard to imagine the Black Rose operates within Demacia as well.

I mean.

Come on.

How is that not intense?

Void and Shadow isles interactions are cool, but predictable. Shadow Isles just wants you to die for different reasons (Bliss, Enslavement, Torture, etc.) The Void just wants seconds. Not really compelling, if not predictable. They work better as plot movers and/or antagonists rather than protagonists or characters.

P.S. A lot of comments on this thread just make me sad. Missing the whole point of the thread with this bland, uninspiring shipping debates. Shipping is fine and all but shouldn't get in the way of lore.

SchaakaKonJun 19, 20151 votes

Dont get me wrong, Riot should in no way remove or ignore Demacia and Noxus just that making them the central focus point of the lore, eeeeh - I hope you'd surly understand that human low fantasy is over played not quite as interesting.

Id disagree with you on the Void/Shadow Isles. Sure if the SI was only Thresh then the whole isle is about torture and enslavement. But I honestly feel there is a deep and rich history that can make people want to read more about the Shadow Isles and its blending of the moral lines and how it came to be.

The Void, honestly, lives up to its name. Its devoid of lore. Out side of the direct champions from or touched the Void, there is zero mention of it. The Void use to have a sorta Lovecraftian theme to it three years ago but since Vel/Kha/Rek the Void kinda went astray from that. I have no idea what Riot envisions the Void to be at this moment.

But but, those two individually can be cool but are not ultimately fantastic. I would love to see Riot mention both the Void and SI in its lore. Ionian trade vessels are sinking from ghost like creatures. Void portals are opening all over the place unleashing odd and deadly monsters. Blidgewater is calling in for assistance from undead attacks. Zaun captures a Void portal location and try experiments with it. Demacia righteously oversteps themselves marching into Bandle City territory hunting Void portals causing issues. Ionian vocally advocates against the murdering of these mysterious creatures. A Void portal opens in the Shadow Isles and becomes warped and a battle ground of undead vs the void monsters.

To me, this is all delicious delicious lore just waiting to be grabbed. Its not a low hanging fruit, its a fruit the tree is slapping Riot in the mouth with and all Riot needs to do is open their mouth and let it all in.

OuttaControl56Jun 20, 20151 votes

Hey! I said the Void and the Shadow Isles were predictable, not dull! Just because something is pretty thematically straightforward doesn't meant they can't tell awesome stories. Like Lovecraftian horrors, they don't need much method behind their madness, their madness just divine enough to make them great aspects of Lore. They... just don't really have much nuance to them. Their past, as in how the Shadow Isles was created or how the Void created Icathia, has tons of awesome stories with twists and turns, but in the current times of Runeterra, they aren't really complicated.

And yes, straightforward doesn't mean that they can't go around 'causing awesome battles and run amok in Valoran. They are great as plot contributors, but can't really stand alone with their own storyline. Maybe the shadow Isles through the perspective of Kalista or Eve or Maokai. Kassadin is an amazing character with awesome shoes to step in, but he's not of the Void, he's still Runeterran.

SolideusJun 15, 20152 votes

We'll probably see each faction being fleshed out first, then we'll start seeing cross-faction things.

RiverReignJun 15, 20151 votes

True i was just thinking about a good start to it , I think there going to just remake most factions but you know I think that would be a decent way of bringing this back to action :)

NorthernDruidJun 22, 20152 votes

Lore should be brought back with a slew of new Champion Judgements.

I don't care for whatever they're building in their little spinoff AU, but I want more judgements.

Oh, and ofcourse incorporating a Factions like gamemode. I'm baffled that the community beat them so heavily to that.

Byakuya KuchikiJun 14, 20151 votes

it shouldnt be. lore is pointless to a game like league it has no storyline it needs no lore

RiverReignJun 14, 20152 votes

Lore is just to make a story that we can interact with its spacial to some while others don't . its all about your opinion.

kneel on IceJun 14, 20151 votes

I think more of Freljord Story would be the best thing for the Lore , Lissandra 's past maybe , more about The watchers , Avarosa , _Serylda _...

RiverReignJun 14, 20151 votes

I think that the Freljord lore is awesome but a lot of the people that wast into the lore before would have trouble understanding . The reason why I said a Demacia and Noxsus thing was cause its a simple thing that everyone could get into. It would lead to things like that and allow them to get into the other story's and reshape the world like they wanted to 9 months ago .

kneel on IceJun 15, 20151 votes

Yeah well , anyone can listen to Lissandra's voice after a win in Aram , or even in wiki , and riot promised us another story about Lissandra and her sisters , we've been waiting for 3 years ...

RiverReignJun 15, 20151 votes

Its true we have waited a really long time for alot of the lore around everyone but when they said they were going to rework the lore we might as well give up on alot of the old stuff :(

Tesla EffectJun 15, 20151 votes

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Its true we have waited a really long time for alot of the lore around everyone but when they said they were going to rework the lore we might as well give up on alot of the old stuff :(

As long as we get a lot of good quality lore content and flesh out the setting, Im up for changes, otherwise meh.

RiverReignJun 15, 20152 votes

We can only hope

Xano501Jun 15, 20151 votes

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RiverReignJun 15, 20151 votes

So many ships to chose from and you jump on theirs , why not get on something like Gangplank x Sona or even Rengar x Nidalee

kneel on IceJun 15, 20151 votes

Because Ahri x MonkeyKing are an actual couple , like Ezreal x Lux or Ashe x Tryndamere or Zed x Syndra ... there is no Rengar x Nidalee thing lol

Stars ShaperJun 15, 20155 votes

Ahri x MonkeyKing makes sense but didn't see any official thing about it

Ezreal x Lux has been hinted

Ashe x Tryndamere is a fact

Zed x Syndra is just fanmade

Xano501Jun 15, 20152 votes

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RiverReignJun 15, 20152 votes

I think that there fan made but riot might be starting to agree but so far there isnt anything on it .

kneel on IceJun 15, 20151 votes

Actually it is in League Of Legends movie :)

Tesla EffectJun 15, 20152 votes

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Actually it is in League Of Legends movie :)

The movie that was created by the fans and not officially by Riot...yeah, yeah no. Good fan movie, but no.

What Is SmiteJun 22, 20151 votes

I do remember a Rioter Shipping Yasuo x Janna

kneel on IceJun 15, 20152 votes

Ahri x MonkeyKing is in the league of Legends Movie Ezreal x Lux is a fact also confirmed many times Ashe x Tryndamere married , King and Queen of Freljord Syndra Zed also confirmed

Stars ShaperJun 16, 20153 votes

Source for the "confirmed" of Zed x Syndra?

MotajoJun 16, 20151 votes

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x is in the league of Legends Movie There is no canon movie. Whatever is out there is fan-made. x is a fact also confirmed many times Allies on an incomplete champ page != fact. The rest is merely ship teasing. x married , King and Queen of Freljord This one is correct. Though how much the marriage means with the Freljord event is anyone's guess. also confirmed Unless you have an obscure red post, the only official thing here is an alliance.

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FuryofThornsRedoJun 17, 20151 votes

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What Is SmiteJun 22, 20151 votes

Campaign Game Mode's dedicated to each Champion's Lore and backstory with Co-op