In the old lore, Demacia use to be in an alliance with Piltover. Right now, I haven't heard much about their relationship or if there was any history behind it. Just curious. I'd like to explore this part of the lore more. It'd be interesting to learn their opinions about technology.
We don't have any concrete information on this right now, but I think it's an interesting topic to sorta theorycraft about.
Demacia's new thing is that they really, really hate magic. Hextech does, arguably, contain magic, if you want to count the Brackern soul gems as being magical in nature, so that would probably make them ill-willed towards Piltover. However, if we stretch the definition of "magic" too far, it starts to reach the point where Demacia cannot like any city-state but themselves. While that is...actually fairly likely, given how insular they are, it's more fun to go off of other topics and give the magic thing the benefit of the doubt.
Piltover is located as a major trade hub. The territories surrounding it are slowly being assimilated into the Noxian empire. Demacia's other thing is that they really, really hate Noxus. The Noxians have already tried making aggressive moves towards Piltover, what with Tamara being sent in as a spy, and probably not the only one. Piltover is also armed to the teeth with high-power weapons and chem-tech, meaning that they might be the only nation that stands a decent chance at fending off a straight-up Noxian invasion. Even Swain seems to recognize this, considering the stealth he's employing with the warmasons. So Demacia would probably greatly appreciate that. I could easily see them being allied, but a little weirded out by the cultural differences.
There are a lot of directions this could go, and I think it mostly depends on "How open to interaction are the Demacians?"
Damacia is very Anti-Magic, so i doubt they're on very good terms. In any case Damacia is pretty engaged in fighting Noxus, as they appear to be the 2 poles of a magnet.
It'd be interesting to see if there were any Demacians that migrated to Piltover due to their disagreement to Demacia's beliefs or laws kind of like the immigration period when people from European countries all migrated to the US.
Or maybe it's one of those "Witchcraft" cries they have when some inventor builds something and they see that as magic which they do not want.
With the rate that the narrative team is going in their rapid retcon of everything, tomorrow they could reveal that Demacia actually is part of Piltover, and that Noxus is actually Zaun.
THE VOID roll credits... jk
Clan Medarda doesnt do any trade with Demacia due to the nation being heavily closed up to others due to the potential infiltration of Noxian spies, that already infiltrated Piltover.
