Can We Get Started On a More Frequently Updated Main Story?

Meep Man··21 votes·1,953 views

While I can agree that the lore retcon needed to happen, I feel the sheer number of backstories that need to be updated has set the Story team behind on beginning an actual main story for the universe of League of Legends. As more and more champions are updated in League of Legends, giving each more and more lore that sits in a closet for a year or two until they receive another short update or two. While most champions have a baseline identity (such as Walking Mountain, Undead Juggernaut, and Spirit of Revenge), they don't have much past that. I feel my love for characters slowly diminish as they sit unmoving in the lore for years, gathering dust until they received a brief spotlight when they or one of their friends/enemies receives an update. All League of Legends champions just seem SO static that it makes it hard to love their characters for more than a year or even sometimes a few months. There was once a MOBA that actually performed something like this called Dawngate (a beautiful MOBA that became a victim of EA). Fairly often, it would publish a comic that focused on a number of characters in the lore, allowing them to tell their game's story and give their characters a flexible, developing personality and story. Example: http://orig02.deviantart.net/325f/f/2014/101/7/9/the_dawngate_chronicles___page_1_by_nicholaskole-d7dztz5.jpg It was just a short comic each weak or so that developed the stories of a few characters. It made me really begin to develop a connection/feeling for each character. Every time they began to develop a character's story, I felt the desire to play them with their cool and fun personalities. Could League do something like this?

17 Comments

A Superb Villain12 votes

DO NOT BRING THIS SPECTER TO OUR DOOR! BEGONE! I CANNOT ENDURE THE PAIN OF ITS LOSS!

cries in evil

Leonerdo3 votes

Can we never be rid of this pain? No... the loss of a loved one cannot be forgotten.

Meep Man1 votes

We must not forget the dead

GreenLore3 votes

While I like the idea of getting frequent story updates,i doubt that there'll be ever anything like a main story,simply because we have so many champions,factions and so many plots going on at the same time that a main story seems impossible without downgrading 80% of the champs to side-characters(or characters who don't appear at all)

Another thing is that I'd like them to finish the retcon first before focusing on the progress. Sure it might be painful,but it is necessary,because otherwise the champs who currently don't have a real main lore would remain like this for an even longer time.

FilDaFunk1 votes

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While I like the idea of getting frequent story updates,i doubt that there'll be ever anything like a main story,simply because we have so many champions,factions and so many plots going on at the same time that a main story seems impossible without downgrading 80% of the champs to side-characters(or characters who don't appear at all)

Another thing is that I'd like them to finish the retcon first before focusing on the progress. Sure it might be painful,but it is necessary,because otherwise the champs who currently don't have a real main lore would remain like this for an even longer time.

The main story doesn't have to include the entire world and different characters don't necessarily have to meet.

Many of my favourite champs don't tend to appear in the new lores at all..

GreenLore1 votes

Yeah,but that would feel definetly unfair to the fans of these champs and honestly reek of favoritism.

Meep Man1 votes

I actually think most of the characters could be used equally to be honest. Plus, if I have learned one thing, it is that even when a character is not currently being focused on, you can still make them feel loved and sometimes even remembered more in the scene than others.

GreenLore1 votes

Think of a comic like the one for Ekko. Now imagine if that comic focused on 3 or 4 champs. Then imagine that the next comic focuses on 3 or 4 other champs.

We would need ~30-40 comics until we return to the original 3 or 4 champs from the first comic,but then everyone will have forgotten about them already.

ModAcademy Kayn3 votes

Rip Dawngate. May Tiny Mina and Angry Freia go be angry elsewhere.

HowPlayGAEM3 votes

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Meep Man1 votes

It was the first MOBA where people actually wanted to Support, sometimes due to the characters' personalities themselves. Anyone who has played Renzo knows what I mean.

Papa Andrei1 votes

Would love this! Even have community events every now and then to write a short story and Rioters can vote on their fav, and lore team can adapt it.

IcyPepper1 votes

While it sounds nice, I don't think that sounds appealing for the writers, not to mention the legal nightmare that fanfiction is.

It sounds nice, but you got to remember the lore team are, well, writers. Having other people do the work they've made their life about is kind of, well, demeaning. This is their world, and they should be the ones to shape it. If they need help, they should hire more writers. Endorsing young writers to experiment in their world is one thing, but community driven lore is a desperate move.

Papa Andrei1 votes

Maybe just have friendly story competitions then xD

IcyPepper1 votes

They do it for fanart, so why not?

xelaker1 votes

it's waaaay easier to just give hints of story through character arcs that you can just change later anyways

Mogarl1 votes

I don't know that League will ever have a "main" story, and any story right now that could meet that scope would run into a brick wall of under-developed content. As of the Retcon, Riot had 5 years of champions lore to update, and until they finish that it's where most of their resources are going to be put. That said, we still have gotten things like shadows and fortune, bloodline, and the two extra stories with Piltover/Zaun.

It's Important to have all the champions done though so that they can interact when they're supposed to. Trying to write a story of Graves and Twisted Fate going to Piltover would have ended horribly if they had tried to write it immediately, but They did write stories in areas they've more thoroughly explored.

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