@Narrative and World-building team: are there any plans for more groups and regions ?

Xodiathe4bdn1··2 votes·711 views

Firstly i love the fact that we will get new lore updates on the Void, Ionia and Bilgewater as well as more on the Daarkin. There is still so much lore to cover but its good that it is moving forward and expanding. Speaking of expanding, it has been mentioned by several rioters that a map of the known world of runeterra would be released sometime this year. I'm guessing that it will expand on the piltover map and show more of Valoran, the Southern Continent, Ionia, and the Oceans and islands surrounding them https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/leagueoflegends/images/3/37/Runeterra_Map_01.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20170308222904 There are some places in the old lore which have been mentioned but not fully introduced in the new lore and a full map would help clear up the uncertainty as a few champions are from such areas NidaleeZyra kumungu jungle Alistar Great Barrier JaxZilean Icathia so could these areas and others like them develop into new regions or is the focus right now on making and developing more groups like the vastaya and daarkin at least until the current regions have been updated

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MagicFlyingLlama2 votes

Icathia was path of shurima last i checked, is that no longer canon?

Camille Ferrøs2 votes

Icathia will be a part of the void for sure

The Iceborn2 votes

No new groups neccessary as they have more than enough work with the current ones...

DejanStojanovic11 votes

I'm pretty sure they said they are planning on completing the map but not soon since they want to do some "stuff". As for other regions i highly agree that there should be an update for them,I'm really into Alistars lore since he has a good potential to build up a good story. It would be cool If a future champion would be from Great Barrier to introduce the whole place with it.

Killaburn1 votes

yes, kumungu and icathia needs to be a region on its own

Chromatic Eagle2 votes

Pretty sure they'll just tie Icathia to the Void.

Killaburn1 votes

oh god no! icathia and void are diff. Void focuses on its open world and its rifts plus its magnificent champions while icathia focuses on its champs like zilian and jax which are not void related and it focuses on runes too like ryze. And yes icathia has a connection to the void but please separate those 2 factions. Icathia can live itself as a separate faction from the void.

Chromatic Eagle1 votes

I don't think we'll ever see what's actually in the void, and we don't know what remains of Icathia, if anything. For all we know, it's a wasteland that the Void crawls through.

Whyte Lyon1 votes

What's the point in having an Icathia profile page if it only contains two related champions? Neither of which operate so much in that region.

Even if it had its own profile page, with a future roster of new Icathian champs, it would slowly lose that "dead society / culture" thematic.

Johnny El Rojo1 votes

With how many Warhammer writers have working for them now, and the amount of influence it seems to have in staging the new universe, I wouldn't be surprised if Icathia suddenly became something similar to the Chaos Wastes.

Seba72901 votes

They got rid of the Voodo Lands with the Annie lore update. They could easily make the minotaurs a race living somewhere in Noxus.

Tesla Effect1 votes

They have an entire southern hemisphere and other side of the globe to expand upon. We only know about an equivalent of Eurasia with a bit of North Africa.

JPLangley2 votes

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Tesla Effect1 votes

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Runeterra, as of now, is rather medieval. They can use that other hemisphere to do whatever the fuck they want with. Or make it some kind of supernation that threatens Valoran's countries.

Well yeah, a lot of the nations are medieval/renaissance levels of tech, seemingly already using gunpowder in guns and cannons. Piltover and Zaun however are in their early stages of Industrial revolution (with electricity, and steam machinery). So its kinda a rather significant tech difference between each nation, mostly due to geographical and cultural differences shapped over the ages, and with magic put into the mix, this will tend to not advance much in the scientific side unless you mix both magic and tech (like it is with techmaturgy and hextech).

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