What's going on with all the IoW's imprisoned champions?

BLU Medic··6 votes·1,369 views

I'm not very good at actual writing, so I'm just going to put my thoughts on the current lore in story form. Also this sums up how I felt when I heard about the League of Legends not being canon any more...

“Dude!”

Mordekaiser smashed down the door to the small, stone room, leaping around like some sort of lunatic. “DUUUUUDE! How are you?”

Cho'Gath briefly looked up from his news-scroll, before continuing to ignore the master of metal.

“Dude, that's rude.”

“What do you want, Mordekaiser?” As always, Cho'Gath's voice was grating. He dropped the news-scroll and sat up from his comfy leather chair. Cho'Gath had been here for a long time, only leaving if he was ever summoned. But no one had summoned the terror of the Void for weeks. Months even. A pity, since he was starting to become popular again, if a monster such as Cho'Gath could ever be considered popular. 'Tolerated' may have been a better choice. Summoners had brought in new items, some of which felt they were designed for Cho'Gath and his journeys into the jungle of the Rift. And for the so-called top and middle 'lanes' too, despite the lack of monsters.

The master of metal had strayed off course, prodding at the antiques on Cho'Gath's shelves. Rare gems, a collection of defunct items and some incredibly precious and ancient books. Morderkaiser poked a small statue a little too hard, snapping off the figurine's hands. “Oops...”

“Did you just?.. Never mind...” Cho'Gath sneered. “Are you going to tell me why you are here, or am I going to be forced to destroy you?”

A grin quickly sneaked onto Mordekaiser's face, before disappearing. “I could totally take you... But I ain't here to fight, man.”

“Well? Out with it then! I do not have all day. There are two more news-scrolls to read, then dinner to prepare. I have a fine wine that I am dying to try.”

Another grin. “Weeeeeeeellllllllllllll...” Mordekaiser's playfulness was met with a growl. “Ahem. You know that the Institute of War is no more, right? Oh hey, that kinda rhymed.”

The look on Cho'Gath's face mutated from anger and annoyance to genuine surprise. “What? No, I did not know of this...”

“Dude, seriously, did no one tell you?”

“No.”

“Not even that stupid purple magic guy?”

“There are lots of purple magic guys within the League of Legends. I assume you mean Malzahar?”

“Yeah, that guy. Floaty purple hood guy. Doesn't he look after you Void champions?”

“No. No one tells me anything.”

“Huh...” Mordekaiser went back to poking at the antiques, before skimming through a book with the word metal on the cover. Turned out, it was about alchemy, not music, as he'd hoped. “But yeah. It all went bye-bye. Dunno how, buncha evil dudes just said “lol we ain't actually summoners any more lol so ta-ta stupid place!” or something like that. I dunno man, it all happened so fast.”

Cho'Gath scratched his chin. “And the summoners didn't complain?”

“Fuck yeah, they did. But there ain't much those suckers can do now. The guys in charge haven't shown signs of doing anything significant in weeks. Months even. There was this thing with Shurima being rebuilt by some bird-brain, but none of the city-states have really cared.”

“Shurima?” Another chin scratch. “I suppose that's where they dug Rek'Sai up from. Boring old place, even when Icathia was around. So the Institute is really gone? This is not a joke?”

“Nope.” Mordekaiser put down the alchemy book and looked back at Cho'Gath.

“So there is nothing stopping me, for example, from destroying this prison?”

“Nope.”

“And nothing stopping me from tearing a hole in space-time and unleashing my fellow Voidborn into this pathetic world?”

“Nope.”

Cho'Gath smiled for the first time in months. But before he could grab his coat, Mordekaiser put a hand on his shoulder.

“But before you go forth and eat this pitiful continent, want to go out for ice cream and s'mores?”

“Yeah, sure, why not?”

So yeah, what about all the monsters that the Institute of War kept locked up for Runeterra's safety? Are they free to do whatever the hell they want?

TL;DR: Monsters everywhere!

15 Comments

SchaakaKon3 votes

I get the feeling that a coherent or linear story line is not on the plate for Riot (when the actually get off their asses). A non-connected 'smash bros' world of "Hey look at this Yasou guy! He's cool right? Check out his sweet moves! Ok. Ok. Now forget about him forever. Look at this monster! Do we need to mention its a laaaady? K, k now erase her from your mind for.."

I am 100% positive Riot calls this lore.

BLU Medic1 votes

Thing is, they kinda half-bothered to do all that Shurima stuff, then just kinda left it there.

Maybe they're just wondering how they can say "okay we're bringing back the IoW" without losing face.

SchaakaKon1 votes

True, didnt they have that chick from EA and that dude that said "Video games dont need story" but now they dont? Perhaps LoL is in the wake of their destruction they left behind?

Sharjo2 votes

Yeah they're free to do whatever the hell they want.

Mordekaiser's rocking things alongside Hecarim with the Harrowings that are coming and going, Cho'Gath and Kog'Maw probably spends a lot of time in Shurima and Icathia now given the fact that Southern Shurima is void infested and nasty, Brand's probably being a bit careful so he doesn't get imprisoned in an icy prison for a second time, Renekton just got released so he's presumably wrecking everything in his way, Nocturne...

Er...

No clue. He's one of those champs who needs to be re-written for this new era of lore (if that's an appropriate name for it), since his existence was intrisically tied with it to begin with. Nocturne has literally infinite potential though, so I'm looking forward to see what becomes of him.

BLU Medic1 votes

Nocturne is one of the characters I'm most worried about. Cho'Gath is probably smart enough to stick to the shadows since he knows he's not unstoppable yet, but Nocturne was only stopped by the IoW with a bit of luck. Now there's nothing stopping him from destroying the minds of anyone who happens to go to sleep.

Narasimha4 votes

Do note he was only interested in targeting Summoners for whatever reason. Maybe he felt they were meddling around in his domain, I don't know. Still, he doesn't seem like the kind of character to go on a killing spree either.

BLU Medic2 votes

That's a good point... So with no summoners around, there's no real reason for Nocturne to even exist...

Sharjo2 votes

Nocturne seems like the kind of dude who has some kind of agenda. He's not a mindless killing machine, he knows what's up.

ZeichiVos1 votes

Is there any reason they can't scale nocturne's power to Freddy Krueger levels and let him roam free in the poorer districts of a city like Zaun, where a few homeless disappearing every month is the norm? Or would that hurt the integrity of his lore?

Tesla Effect1 votes

{quoted}

Is there any reason they can't scale nocturne's power to Freddy Krueger levels and let him roam free in the poorer districts of a city like Zaun, where a few homeless disappearing every month is the norm? Or would that hurt the integrity of his lore?

No, it wont, but I think he may have a larger use in the lore instead of a generic killer. Same with Fiddle and Shaco honestly.

BLU Medic2 votes

I suppose so. Might make Nocturne slightly cliche, but sounds doable.

Narasimha1 votes

A grin quickly sneaked onto Mordekaiser's face, before disappearing. “I could totally take you... But I ain't here to fight, man.”

How... the actual hell does a helmet smile?

BLU Medic2 votes

The same way a giant man of metal can exist and have a friendly conversation with a giant monster from the void.

Apologies, I used up all my alternative expression and emotion devices on Vel'Koz in my last story.

Chespin20131 votes

my god this was so funny props to u for making this lol

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