I know there is one existing, but it's outdated considering the lack of current areas, the fact that Bilgewater and the Shadow Isles are too far apart, and the appearance of the Institute of War on the map.
So can we please get an up-to-date map of Runeterra?
I have a feeling we've already gotten one and I'm just asking a stupid request.
Epicurus2 votesHere you go.
I can't remember which Rioter said it, but we are not likely to ever get a global map of all of Runeterra. Doing so would mean that the writers can never introduce new locations.
EvilUnicornLord1 votesDoesn't seems to he working on mobile. Thanks anyway, I'll just have to check it out on a computer when I get the chance.
RiotBioluminescence6 votesHere you go.
I can't remember which Rioter said it, but we are not likely to ever get a global map of all of Runeterra. Doing so would mean that the writers can never introduce new locations.
That would probably have been me, resident cartrographic-nutcase.
It's not that we'll never get a world map, it's just that it might be a good long while until we build up to that - and even when we do, it may well be a biased or inaccurate map, because they don't have satellite photography in Runeterra quite yet, and cartographers almost always have an agenda.
There will be more maps though. More pieces of the puzzle.
Spideraxe1 votesHey Bio how come I didn't see your name during the Demacia AMA, were you working on something else?
RiotBioluminescence2 votesHey Bio how come I didn't see your name during the Demacia AMA, were you working on something else?
Yep! I don't often get to work with the World Building peeps, but it's always a pleasure to do so. Alas, I wasn't involved in the Demacia stuff this time round.
Solideus1 votesYeah Demacia is certianly much bigger on their maps than on other people's maps. ;)
Also a question; what faction would you bet is the best/most prolific cartographers? Pilties might have done some fancy maps, but Piltover is still a young, isolated and tiny place, so... Perhaps the older, larger & expansionist Noxus would have done a fair bit of cartography?
RiotBioluminescence5 votesYeah Demacia is certianly much bigger on their maps than on other people's maps. ;)
Also a question; what faction would you bet is the best/most prolific cartographers? Pilties might have done some fancy maps, but Piltover is still a young, isolated and tiny place, so... Perhaps the older, larger & expansionist Noxus would have done a fair bit of cartography?
It's hard to say. I believe that wherever there are sentient beings, there are maps of some kind. Depends on what kind of maps you mean.
Tl;dr - If you mean maps as we classically understand them, yeah probably Noxus. But I believe every group of intelligent beings map their environment in some form.
Spideraxe1 votesWhat would the Shadow Isles use as maps? Like torn up remnants of surviving outdated maps before the corruption
RiotBioluminescence2 votesWhat would the Shadow Isles use as maps? Like torn up remnants of surviving outdated maps before the corruption
I knew I'd forget somewhere without going and checking >_<
For Shadow Isles, I imagine for your typical entity they are more driven by instinct and the wills of the more powerful minds of the Black Mist. For the ones with more independent thought, I can't imagine them taking quill to paper and drawing up much in the way of new maps. Maybe they take maps from the places they raid, but I imagine that the ones who had maps with them when they were first turned still have the equipment they possessed at the time, and they have the memories of their old routes and travels.
Spideraxe1 votesThey aren't really a region or city state but would you say the hunters from the Kumungu like Rengar or Nidalee have tracking routes of their jungles