Champion Login Themes may actually be songs from Runterra, existing in the lore's canon.

Hextech OwI·8/19/2019, 10:46:09 AM·17 votes·13,760 views

In the past, Ornn has been teased with the song "Path to Heath-Home", which is very similar to Ornn's Login Theme. Later, when Nunu and Willump got their VGU and with the appearance of Layka (Nunu's mother) in the lore, it was confirmed that Layka was the one that sung Path to Hearth-Home, establishing the existence of the song as canon in the lore.

We have numerous other Champion Login Themes existing and I wondered, are there any other Champion Login Themes that are alternate/modernized/etc versions of song from Runeterra? I could totally see Camille's theme being originally a Trio for Violins from a Piltovan composer, Xayah and Rakan's theme being originally a traditional Vastayan dance song, etc...

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Chembaron Yamada8/19/2019, 11:31:02 AM12 votes

Urgot's theme could be another example. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rpfHB1LU80

In the lore, there is a cult following Urgot and his philosophy of strength, they are called the "Sons of Ur". A Rioter confirmed that the chanting in his login screen is sung by the Sons of Ur and in "Ur-Noxian", I could definitely imagine this cult singing that song in the depths of Zaun to praise their prophet.

LordRedStone Nr18/19/2019, 2:23:59 PM6 votes

Aaaaaaa AhaaA Aaaaã Aaaaaaaaaaa! ~Taliyah and Pantheon

tamaya8/19/2019, 11:54:50 PM3 votes

The league have login themes based on real world (Related to Runeterra?) folk music. For example, I heard that the login music of Xayah Rakan is based on Vietnamese and Cambodian music. Kled 's theme is a typical polonaise. These music are truly great and I really love real world ethnic culture, so I want to listen to more login themes like these. [sg-lux]

KestrelGirl8/19/2019, 8:03:25 PM1 votes

Technically, Camille's login is a proper piano trio except the piano is a harpsichord and there's an orchestra back track that canonically wouldn't be there unless we consider it like a triple concerto or something 😂 Also I think someone brought up that Taliyah is the canonical singer of her login theme, and Layka singing Ornn's teaser song has already been mentioned, so you raise a good point.

Playful Lutra8/20/2019, 6:57:07 AM1 votes

I believe Thresh's Theme is a canonical "children's" song, of course inspired by Freddy Krueger's Song. It might even be sung playfully, kinda like "Ring Around the Rosy" and "London Bridge is Falling Down" are song-games, but have very dark origins.

EdgeLady8/21/2019, 5:38:10 PM1 votes

Even though her voicelines are pretty old (from before the IOW was officially dissolved from canon), Jinx does sing a mockery of Vi's theme, so it's possible that her song is canon in some way (perhaps it's an song advertising for the competence of the Piltover police and her in particular, which would explain why it's in 3rd person). Jinx's song, on the other hand, could likely be something she wrote herself for fun, which would explain why it's in 1st person.

Vlada Cut8/19/2019, 4:08:27 PM1 votes

And then Jhin, which is basically a song made out of his gunshots in a nutshell:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHX_8-NKTK4

Terozu8/19/2019, 4:34:32 PM1 votes

Isn't it Layka?