Institute of War??? (Canonicity of JoJ, Summoners, etc.)

Kitts·7/22/2016, 5:40:09 PM·1 votes·1,043 views

I'll start off by stating that I am a HUGE lore fanatic. League's lore has some of my favorite story telling and lots of characters and locales that I can really sink my teeth into. The biggest problem though, and I've seen others address it too, is that while League has this vast universe and complex lore for every character, it lacks an overarching story. Long ago, before my time in LoL, there existed the JoJ. But then the Riot nation attacked, and rebooted the lore, or so many people claim. As I spent multiple hours diving into old lore and trying to find parallels and connections to the new lore I found nothing on the new lore direction. Now, this doesn't mean it doesn't exist, but if nothing else it is difficult to find and overall confusing as no one truly knows what is canon and what isn't. So I will now propose my questions after such a long introduction. What remains of the old lore? Do Summoners and the Institute of War still exist? Why do the champions fight on the rift? Is the rift still a Field of Justice? What do they get out of it? I love Riot, and this isn't an attack or defacing. I'm simply needing clarification or {{summoner:2}} (ba dum tss) on the future of the Lore. Most lovingly, Shivv

19 Comments

Sharjo7/22/2016, 5:47:00 PM6 votes

Summoners exist in a form that has yet to be elaborated on by Riot. The Institute does not. Champions don't fight on the Rift or on any fields of justice, and these fields of justice are not called such; they exist in the lore as physical locations with backstory and the like, but they aren't tied to gameplay. Champions, in the canon, don't fight on the rift. They're there entirely because it's a game.

Raven Elizabeth7/22/2016, 5:58:00 PM3 votes

JOJ isnt canon anymore. some stuff may be but as a whole it is not.

Ebonmaw Dragon7/22/2016, 6:08:17 PM2 votes

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So I will now propose my questions after such a long introduction. What remains of the old lore? Do Summoners and the Institute of War still exist? Why do the champions fight on the rift? Is the rift still a Field of Justice? What do they get out of it?

  1. Anything that doesnt involve the summoners or the Institute of War still canon, unless the new lore contradicts it.
  2. Summoners as "people who summon things/creatures", yes, they do, Malzahar for example is a summoner, the "Serpent Callers" are summoners... But "Summoners" as the player do not exist in the new lore. The IoW do not exist.
  3. Champions do not fight on the rift, nothing in game is canon... Imagine something like a Super Smash Brothers for Runeterra.
  4. Is not a Field of Justice, its just a random place of Runeterra.
  5. Nothing, because as i said, game is not canon and the champions never go there.

In fact the word "Champion" is not used in the new lore as well.

QuantumPanther7/23/2016, 4:19:35 PM2 votes

So I've been studying the lore in my free time for a while. So as near as i've been able to tell, summoner's rift is a place (possibly a scar or holdover from a great war such as the Rune War) where magic flows both free and wild. This magic has infused a lot of the creatures, giving them special properties (jungle camps) and the place is actually home to a dragon (at this point, it's a nest for 5 dragons) In addition, it is home to a small rift to the void (through which we get Baron and the Herald). Insofar as I know, it's just a land with a lot of magical ties, which makes it kind of an ideal fighting space.

Kitts7/22/2016, 6:07:21 PM1 votes

Also, can we get a new map of Runeterra / Valoran, I mean, it seems as though the current one is immensely dated.

http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/leagueoflegends/images/c/cd/MapofValoran.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20100821100304