Why is Fiora French?

1: History of fencing. It was originally an Italian sport before it was improved by the French and thereby forever associated with them.

2: Why is Tahm Kench Cajun? Why is Kled a hillbilly? Why are Graves and Twisted Fate both pirates AND Southern? Why is Viktor Russian? Why do all the champions in between have American accents, even if most of them aren't even from this world? Where the hell is Xin Zhao from?

3: Opening up a conversation about linguistics and accents in this game will open the can of worms about the evolution of language and accent. Consider this: in Britain alone, you have a massive variety of distinct British accents; Cornish, Cockney, Northern, Yorkshire, and Birmingham just to name a few. And that's just ONE country! Scotland has its own fair share of accents as well, and both these countries are smaller than California (with Scotland being roughly twice the size of the Greater Los Angeles Area).

4: This gets into a deeper conversation about population densities and the sociopolitical circumstances under which these regional changes in language and accent occur, and even as a self-fancied linguistics expert, it's a bit too complicated for me. Consider that most of the American English language is derived from British English with Spanish, Italian, German, Latin, and Arabic as well as a few others strewn about between all of them. Don't forget that the language is still evolving; in recent decades we started adopting other foreign words into our language, like Tsunami from Japanese. Just imagine how many Japanese words we've incorporated in the past ten years alone due to the popularity of anime; tsundere was NOT common parlance (or perhaps even INVENTED) until at least the mid to late 2000s, and now it's officially recognized as a word by Merriam-Webster.

Bringing this back to League, Runeterra and specifically Valoran, we don't have much concrete detail about national censuses, population or even landmass sizes. Accents don't occur in a vacuum. They evolve over time due to many, MANY factors, including the environment, access to information about your own language (consider that READING was a rare skill until multiple European nations decided to make literacy a mandatory skill in the 16th and 17th centuries, and until then you had mini-Dark Ages where large parts of or an ENTIRE language was forgotten whenever an empire fell or a population was eradicated), relations with neighboring populations (German and Dutch are extremely similar languages, and the Japanese language and Kanji script is derived from Chinese, both languages having changed very little in the past several hundred years [much longer for China] due to their many centuries of isolation), and social/government enforcement (A radical group in post-Isolation Japan tried to keep the language pure of outside influence, and there is a committee in France today that keeps its language pure of outside influence). Basically... history itself causes language to change, even here in America. ESPECIALLY here in America.

Honestly, Fiora is just the tip of the iceberg. There are many other champions that warrant the question. The best solution is to just not think about it too hard.

Because the style of duelist that she is thematically is based on French techniques in fencing.

She is Demacian.

Why? Because someday we'll get a Fiora skin with a baguette instead of a sword..

The same reason Viktor is Russian.

Cause who cares.

Why does have the largest rack, wears high heels, yet remains the fastest-moving ADC?

Because Rito.

why can velkoz talk?

I'm just here for the post

I imagine that Demacia and Noxus are both mixtures of French and German cultures.

Why is Lb not french? she has no accent

Why isn't Ahri real?

Why is Fiora French when every other Demacian champion doesn't have even a hint of the accent? I could understand there being a different spoken dialect between nobles and other citizens but that isn't the case... Rito pls

France doesn't exist in Runeterra

Why is Quinn American?

I love how her family name is of French etymology and her accent is French, but her first name is Italian........

SOOBMIT, YUH HEV ALRHHHEADY LOST!

Because she descends from a family who had french accents

that is a good question. it breaks, imho the cohesiveness of the valoran environment.

is she demacian? therefore, where is garen's accent? where is jarvan's? where is lux's ?

Cause why not

she is french? no wonder i hate dealing with her !!!