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One tiny problem...

WithMyHoodieOn·10/2/2015, 1:10:38 AM·8 votes·943 views

I think Riot is a great company, I really do. They put out great content like music and video series for no purpose aside from our pleasure, they consistently add new features to the game, have set up a competitive scene that anyone can view (for free, i might add) and loads more. There's just one thing that bugs me...

Lore. Upon joining the game about a year ago I was really confused on why the lore said some champs had joined the league while others hadn't, yet were still in the game. I never got why some champs were considered friends or rivals with others and how some had "factions" yet others didn't. Don't even get me started on trying to understand Runeterra's geography.

I'm just saying, if we had a solid backstory I just feel that so much more could be done and another unique aspect would be added to the game and to its community. Fans would be able to better develop an understanding of the characters their playing, and who knows what some of the very creative players could do with this ( as in art, writing, etc).

I keep hearing rumors about a big lore update but i have yet to see any real concrete evidence of this. We know that Riot has a talented writing staff (just look at some of the recent Kindred stuff, or the Ekko comic), and this would undoubtedly make the community very happy. It seems like all the tools needed are here and that work is just waiting to be done.

What do you guys think? I just thought I'd verbalize my thoughts

6 Comments

KING OF MASKS10/2/2015, 6:39:48 AM6 votes

Yep, work is certainly waiting to be done. It's only taking a dozen bloody months...

GreenLore10/2/2015, 8:58:36 AM2 votes

Yeah,the problem is that they are retconning a lot of lore. They stopped mentioning the League during season 2(I think darius was the first character who didn't mention it) and later in season 4,they declared that the league itself gets retconned,since it proved to be too limiting for the story.

The thing is however that many lores haven't been updated to reflect that,they still mention the league(and in some cases the league is an important part of that lore,meaning that the lores of these champs are completely nonsense in the new canon).

We once had a map,but by now it is not canon anymore.

So in the end the lore is still in the midst of the retcon. Older lore pieces that still mention the league of legends are pretty much non-canon anymore. However that doesn't mean that everything in these lore pieces will change,for example Gangplanks lore pretty much stayed the way it is(minus the league obviously) and merely expanded upon his old lore

James Stone10/3/2015, 10:20:39 PM2 votes

What frustrates me is how little connection the stories seem to have now.

On one hand we have the Bilgewater even, in which cannons, wooden ships and ol' pirates are fighting, in which the most advanced thing are automatic flintlock pistols and a Revolver Shotgun.

We go a little north and we got a teen who somehow invented/stole a time machine and in an act of absolute brilliance didn't monetize one of the most advanced inventions ever, a cyborg filled to the brim with cybernetic implants that fires lasers from his prosthetic third hand, a brilliant yet mad chemist who can produce biological WMGs and a hulk-like doctor who managed to create a near perfect Super Soldier serum.

Before, the justification was flimsy, but it was there. Rune Magic kept all those old traditional things afloat, and was mostly incompatible with modern techmaturgy. So a sword could easily be enchanted/rune-crusted but a pistol could not, so you were trading power for range and control. The world was mostly balanced and the Institute kept shit from getting too apocalyptic.

Now, without the Rune Wars and Rune Magic there's really nothing explaining why Bilgewater manages to keep itself relevant in a land where Airships and fully-functional AI exists. I'm still holding some hope that future lore reveals Bilgewater is from the past and the different champions are from different timelines, thus finally giving the League of Legends its name back, or even better, the Institute is not yet created and whatever conflict the Lore Team is preparing to be the big finale of their "Chapter 1" project ends up creating the Institute of War.

Pyrodinium10/2/2015, 6:03:05 AM1 votes

You are coming very late to this discusion, bub.

There is a lot of material you can consult in this boards and elsewhere, but if you don't have the time or whatever, just keep an eye for upcoming events.

SchaakaKon10/3/2015, 1:37:34 PM1 votes

We've been having this question since 2013..

TL:DR is that Riot said "Instatute too hard, so were removing it" and has never replaced it since.

frigginmurlocs10/7/2015, 4:25:58 PM1 votes

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