Diana's lore is ironic

Embertine·3/1/2015, 1:16:45 PM·60 votes·4,732 views

In her lore it says,

She now presents her foes with a terrible ultimatum: revere the moon's light, or die by her crescent blade.

Which is ironic because the moon's light is actually sunlight reflected off of the moon's surface.

I'm not saying that the moon isn't important to her lore or anything, only that she ironically rejects the sun even though without it she could not see her hand an inch from her face, let alone the moon floating in orbit.

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GreenLore3/1/2015, 3:36:32 PM51 votes

Well this more or less fits her lore even more.

Because now she is doing the same thing to the solari that they(or at least their elders) tried to do to her(and maybe the lunari too).

The solari elders wanted to force diana to worship the sun and wanted to execute her when she wore the lunari armor. So just like the moon is reflecting the light of the sun,she is reflecting the cruelty that has been done to her.

The Bearded Bard3/1/2015, 5:29:42 PM18 votes

Assuming the moon there is the same as the moon here.

What's more ironic is that she's considered a heretic because she refuses to conform to her old peoples' religions because she didn't want to be forced into it, but is now kinda forcing people to believe in hers.

CupcakeTrap3/1/2015, 6:04:13 PM16 votes

I feel like this is the sort of clever argument that people have made to Diana before, shortly before being eviscerated.

SEKAI3/1/2015, 3:49:37 PM7 votes

What if on Runeterra moon and sun are 2 entities that light up the sky separately in their own way?

I know the moon - sun thing is kinda elementary school knowledge but really, this is high fantasy setting we're taking about here. In this setting, all physics and settings go as the writer pleases.

When you have magic, sci-fi level technologies and random special abilities that don't have specific categorisations existing in the same realm at the same time, saying moon doesn't borrow the light from the sun is really no big deal.

1st HanarSpectre3/1/2015, 9:07:22 PM7 votes

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In her lore it says,

Which is ironic because the moon's light is actually sunlight reflected off of the moon's surface.

I'm not saying that the moon isn't important to her lore or anything, only that she ironically rejects the sun even though without it she could not see her hand an inch from her face, let alone the moon floating in orbit.

It's not just that. She got persecuted for being different, and now she is persecuting those that are different from her. Bitch be crazy.

ActuallyArrow3/1/2015, 8:05:23 PM6 votes

Diana :"Who needs the sun when you have the moon?" sun stops shining "WHERE IS MY MOON?!?!"

The Bearded Bard3/1/2015, 5:27:24 PM3 votes

Assuming the moon their is the same as the moon here.

What's more ironic is that she's considered a heretic because she refuses to conform to her old peoples' religions because she didn't want to be forced into it, but is now kinda forcing people to believe in hers.

TheRainInSpain3/2/2015, 5:14:17 AM3 votes

Theoretically speaking, a very small star could orbit a very large planet. Red Dwarfs are stars, and there are very small Red Dwarfs out there (one that we know of being about 15 Jupiter masses), and there are very large planets (non-fusing, non-stellar objects). The largest planet sits in at around 30 Jupiter masses, about double that of the Red Dwarf star named Gliese 229.

And before anyone goes to call me out on the fact that a satellite half the size of its orbital parent would be a big gravitational pull in of itself, technically our own sun doesn't stand still as it orbits the Milky Way Super Black Hole. Earth and the other planets pull on the sun, making them all orbit a point that is not the exact center of the sun.

But, for that planet to be rocky like Runeterra? Very unlikely. But then again, "Magic" is a part of Runeterra. One could argue that the magic of Runeterra has a great gravitational impact on neighboring bodies, potentially grabbing a very small and dim star that the inhabitants of Runeterra mistakenly call a moon. Alternatively, the magic of Runeterra could make a gigantic rocky planet (on the level of 50-100 Jupiter masses) feel like one of something close to Earth's mass, which would be large enough to attract a small star (a brown or red dwarf) to orbit it as it orbits its own star.

exiledFromBadmen3/1/2015, 2:48:31 PM2 votes

^This.

ImHerVoice3/1/2015, 8:52:53 PM2 votes

Applying logic to fantasy.

:^)

fluxanna3/1/2015, 9:58:48 PM2 votes

Okay seriously it's fucking fiction.

Solaxo3/1/2015, 10:08:11 PM2 votes

Maybe in fantasy world the Moon emits it's own light..

Mahautsukai3/1/2015, 11:15:32 PM2 votes

She is also a liar. I've tried the "revere the moon's light", she killed me anyway. ; ;

I Love DyIan3/3/2015, 1:34:05 AM2 votes

That would also make the fact that the Solari disregard the moon ironic too

Exalted Phoenix3/1/2015, 6:54:40 PM1 votes

Well, long ago we used to think that the Moon and the Sun were two different entities hence why Vampires don't burn under the moon. Diana is the Goddess of the moon so in mythology, she has her own entitled moon that projects her own light. When science came along, it proved that the Sun actually reflected its light off the Moon's surface during night. Vampires Vladimir were too awesome to disregard so no one really concerns it.

Raxicor4/16/2015, 4:59:51 PM1 votes

Well to be fair the lore is incomplete and currently under retcon. We can't say anything for certain until the lore team updates things.

Civil Dawn3/3/2015, 7:46:40 PM1 votes

Exactly, Praise the sun!

FuryofThornsRedo4/15/2015, 7:18:25 PM1 votes

Soraka Please scientifically tell me inside of the Lore for League of Legends where the science of the sun casting light onto the moon has to be, or is a scientific must; where the moons light for human beings is anywhere near the same light communication process for Diana's Moon in her Realm and in her life story in her native homelands in her science of sound inside of her Lore?

As I Soraka am Diana's advocate in the teamwork coordination's with Riot, League of Legends, and the human being FuryofThornsRedo allowing us to join in the human being forum discussions.

Jeddy0173/1/2015, 10:36:48 PM1 votes

I would make a joke about religion & what it does to the reasoning of certain,CERTAIN people (hey,I said certain.As in some,not all),but that's a no-no.

Insanity Kiwi4/16/2015, 11:48:59 AM1 votes

Well good sir, tell me where in league of legends' lore it says that their sun and moons do not work the same as our own? Where in league of legends' lore does it say that the sun and moon are magical objects? It only says in Diana's lore that before she was struck down that a power erupted from her. It very well may be that the sun and moon are simply the places of which actual gods reside and it is in fact those gods that bestowed the power unto leona and diana, and not the celestial objects themselves.

((why the feck doesn't your post have a quote button >.<)) Thing is, we don't have a definitive answer as to whether Earth rules applies in Runeterra as regards the Sun and Moon. Remember that Runeterra is a fantasy world full of magic, and the mere mention of magic is reason enough to consider physics that is different, that maybe just maybe the moon is it's own light source. Even if it did reflect light from the sun, it's just as possible that all or some of Runeterra's inhabitants do not know that. Maybe Diana was taught that but she now rejects it as a 'false teaching' of the Solari, seeing as she hates sun worshippers, particularly the Solari for their ancient atrocities and for trying to execute Diana as a heretic. Said hatred appears to be a bit blind but is partially understandable, given what happened.