Regional lore expansion

Fishing Boat·8/21/2017, 5:08:30 PM·1 votes·521 views

Dear Riot worldbuilding team,

I want to begin by saying how pleased I am with the lore ever since the retcon, and I have always eagerly awaited your releases. I was obviously ecstatic with the large regional biography updates you made to shadow isles, piltover, targon, the vastaya, and demacia, and it was also a great teaser format.

However, it's been around three releases since the vastaya one, with a noxian, ionian, and now freljordian champ release/update, and I am worried that you are not planning on updating as quickly on a regionwide scale. I realize that you are still outputting a lot of work, I just wanted to see if I could get your thoughts on when we might get a worldsized update

Love from boat

20 Comments

GreenLore8/21/2017, 6:09:32 PM2 votes

We'll likely get a noxus event with Swains release next year.

Aside from that I really hope that we'll get at least one more lore update this year.

I mean Ornn will probably not come with a freljord update(though he might come with a demigodupdate,after all the Vastaya update only happened a week after the release of xayah and rakan),but I doubt that this is very likely.

Aside from him we'll get 1-2 champs this year and the Eve VGU. The Eve VGU might come with a demon update,but thats assuming that Eve is really going to be a demon in the new lore.

Darrosh Jewfist8/22/2017, 6:54:47 AM1 votes

Before they start regional lore, they might want to set up a central conflict. Right now League of Legends doesn't have anything that really ties everything together - virtually every other major, successful universe franchises has something.

MCU - Avenger Plotlines centered around Loki and powers greater than Earth (Thanos, etc) Warhammer - Order (Imperium of Man) vs Chaos, although this broadly speaking Warcraft - Horde v Alliance v Demons/etc Overwatch - Overwatch members vs Talon TF2 - Red vs Blue GoT - Everyone wants the throne/the Others plotline

I think what narrative is trying to set up is having the Void become the central 'enemy' and have each region with their own interpretation of the 'Void'. We saw this with Nami's lore of a Void portal, the Watchers of Freljord are possible Void entities, and so on.

There's also the Demacian/Noxus conflict but it's hard to understand the conflict because, ever since the Retcon, we haven't actually seen any direct Noxus/Demacian confrontations, battles, or wars. I think most of the time it's just throwaway %%%%s doing villainous %%%% things (Quinn's short story comes to mind) which could honestly be subbed in by bandits or anything really.