Food, Drink, and Drugs of Valoran

Dreamspitter·10/17/2017, 1:48:02 PM·6 votes·3,803 views

Curious if we can detail all the things consumed in lore.

How about a drink first?

Tea Caitlyn enjoys tea which Vi makes fun of her for. IRL the vast majority of tea is grown in Asia. The climate of piltover is said to be balmy. They could grow tea themselves, but it could also be a major expor from Ionia as well . The Zaun story "Iron and Glass" mentions 'Herbal Tisane' so perhaps it is consumed in Zaun as well.

Ale & Wine Gragas is an expert on these. Ornn mentions that beer and dark beer are some of the few things humans have done right. These seem to be widely consumed everywhere. You can make wine from tons of things other than grapes. Beet wine is mentioned at least once in Evelynn story. Graves isn't impressed by Demacian wine. "Pisswater, but beggars cant be choosers." Warwick in his lore mentions "shimmerwine".

??? DrMundo lore mentions a man selling "shimmer drops "

He spotted his first patient hawking shimmerdrops just outside Ranker’s Limb Maintenance. The man limped around in a circle, shouting at everyone within arm’s length about how shimmerdrops would make their eyes roll into the backs of their heads and how if they didn’t buy some right now, right this second, then they were damn idiots and did you just give him a condescending look? Because he’ll kill you and your family and your family’s family.

It stands to reason the two are related. Perhaps common WIne + Shimmerdrops =Shimmerwine? The official artwork conception for Zaun depicts a breather station with fresh air, and entrance to a "shimmer bar" below.

https://universe-meeps.leagueoflegends.com/v1/assets/images/factions/image-gallery/zaun-breatherstation.jpg

"Iron and Glass" also mentions

Wyn clambered to his brother, his legs rubbery as a shimmerfiend’s after an all-night bender.

It may possibly be illegal, based on Urgot story.

The city itself seemed to carry us forward as we slid down into its depths, farther and farther from the sump-scrapper we’d just robbed and left bleeding in the gutter. His cogs still jangled in our pockets. More than enough for a bit of fun. We were on our way to the Black Lanes, the market at the heart of Zaun.

“Think they’ll sell us any shimmerwine?” Zori asked. “Bleedin’ that sumper made me a mite parched.”

Blenk scoffed. “They’d sell shimmer to a child in the Lanes. And then they’d sell the child.”

We don't actually know just what kind of intoxicant it is. But it's probably artificial. I swear there's something in Shadowrun with a similar name.

Kouaxi is said to be a Shuriman drink of fermented goat milk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kefir

Champagne is alluded to but not named in Jinx color story, fizzy and golded served in flute glasses.

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RiotBioluminescence10/17/2017, 9:53:15 PM6 votes

One of the old-lore rums was mentioned in the more recent Shadow and Fortune story:

“Every one’s been dipped in Myron’s Dark,” she said, loud enough for every one of her thirty-strong company to hear. “If the dead want a fight, we’ll meet them with spirits of our own.”

Then there's Shuriman sunbread mentioned in Progress Day:

The smell of roasting fish and fresh-baked Shuriman sunbread from an open dining hall makes her mouth water. Instead, she stops a woman pushing a wheeled barrel encircled by hissing pipes and purchases a hot tisane, together with one of the sugared pastries she has come to love a little too much.

(I love fictional food and drink.).

Ask Talon10/18/2017, 1:31:07 AM3 votes

I made a list some time ago, all from the Medarda Heirloom

Weapons

Smuggled weapons and armor in Palclyff Krexorian blades

** Food and delicacies**

Kumungu Berries (Kumungu jungle) Ironwater beet wine Trannit dried Bolbo fish and boiled Bolbo-head soup. Mudtown Nirpooti fruit delicacy Aurma roe Stonewall dunpor milk and curds Holdrum fish sauce Rokrund Naaps Drakengate: mudpacks, as well as popular (illegal) adulterants such as: peach slugs, nacre powder, Nirpooti skins, Freljordian grain milk, Honeyfruit seeds, and Ionian silver pomace.

**Trade goods **

Fallgren flexible tubes Sea muckley liver oil. (Bilgewater) Basilich cobweb paintings Aurma leather Mudtown red-shale bricks. Kalamanda gold Kalamanda Sing-stones Nashramae silk Holdrum pearls Urzeris salt Tereshni Azirite (blood glass) and glass craftsmanship. Bhel'zun Hwatis wool Kilgrovian cloudcedar Rough grades from the Bloodcliffs

Other

Kumangra Song Market district. Urzeris desert cattle Vindorian desert horses

Shimmer is a drug in Zaun. I know its somewhere, but I haven't been able to find the source. Most likely something related to Jinx.

Warlord Scrap10/17/2017, 2:03:37 PM1 votes

Mentioning drugs quite a few champs mention chem barons. Some countries dont allow drugs in video games so they use the term chems. Chem barons are most likely drug lords.

Also mf and gp make grog for the bligewater competion i believe or that might be retconned lore.