Has there been follow up to Summoners, the Fields of Justice and the Institute no longer being canon

arc95·May 22, 2015·6 votes·807 views

in the dev blog(published 9 months ago) --->http://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/creative-spotlight/dev-blog-exploring-runeterra

Carnival Knights say(in the comments)

"No, Summoners, the Fields of Justice and the Institute are not canon within the fictional world of Runeterra. In-game, players are still referred to as summoners - but summoners won't be part of the story."

has there been follow up to this?

ive looked at the other dev blogs and havent seen anything... its been almost a year so i got to imagine they've addressed it since then and i just missed it

i mean if they haven't that means there is still no connection between the game itself and the lore world... and alot of champions lore are totally nonexistent now anyone.

8 Comments

Togekiss24May 22, 20154 votes

Player's are still referred to as "Summoners" in game, but lore-wise, neither they or the institute exists. The goal here was pretty much to keep the game and the story as completely separate entities, as opposed to working in tandem with one another.

Doctor IvelliusMay 24, 20154 votes

No, there really hasn't.

NorthernDruidMay 24, 20153 votes

Nope, no follow up.

Not even finishing cleaning up the stuff that they were going to retcon out.

They keep saying the IoW and the League are no more, yet there's really no substance to that claim when multiple champion bios refer to them.

Tesla EffectMay 22, 20152 votes

There are still summoners in lore, just the ones affiliated with IoW arent canon.

TsumikiriMay 22, 20152 votes

What sort of follow-up are you looking for? I'm guessing you want them to address Taric, Malphic, Jax, Fiddlesticks, Nocturne, and some others. I believe one of the narrative guys very recently said they are in fact working on new bios for a lot of champions. At the moment there isn't anything, but they are indeed working on it.

Oh and it is confirmed that Kayle and Morgana will still be from some other world, just not summoned by the IoW.

TheHobbitsMay 22, 20155 votes

I can re write the lore for Jax. Here we go:

Jax is a great fighter and uses a lamp post cos reasons. Why has he come to the Rift? No one knows. He meets Rammus and says ok.

I think that's about as good as it gets going off the current style. I'll bring out a four minute animated video done by the guys who did Avatar soon™

arc95May 23, 20152 votes

thanks, that was part of what I was wonder... good to here they're working on the champions that are directly linked to the IoW