@Riot, When Will We Start Hearing More About Runeterra? I Mean Stuff That Isn't Tied To Champions.

Impetual·Jan 13, 2015·4 votes·1,090 views

Through the Journal of Justice, we used to hear about the state of Runeterra through journalists that were actually living within that world.

That was a pretty cool perspective to hear about Runeterra from.

These days,** all** lore content seems to be centered on the Champions of the League of Legends, which probably isn't even a thing that exists in Runeterra anymore due to the retcon. Weird.

Can we hear some more about the average citizen of Runeterra?

What happened to Summoners?

Will the different nations ever actually interact again like they did pre-retcon?

12 Comments

GreenLoreJan 13, 20152 votes

Well they tie lore to new champs because then the lore gets the most attention,which is understandable.

I'd say that the story about Rek'sai did actually exactly what you wanted,while it is rek'sais story,it focuses much more on the noxian trying to capture her,how he goes to shurima,how he sees the shuriman people,etc.

posionmaster1243Mar 14, 20151 votes

i read that to it was fasinating but how did she pass the champion exams(cantremeber what its called) when she basicly is the voids version of a wild animal

GreenLoreMar 15, 20151 votes

Institute of war has been retconned,there are no champion exams anymore

posionmaster1243Mar 17, 20151 votes

so your telling me that they some how caught her and and mad her a champion why

GreenLoreMar 18, 20151 votes

No there are no summoners anymore who summon champions.

posionmaster1243Mar 18, 20151 votes

huh?

Sneak DogMar 18, 20151 votes

http://euw.leagueoflegends.com/en/creative-spotlight/dev-blog-exploring-runeterra

NarasimhaJan 13, 20152 votes

all lore content seems to be centered on the Champions of the League of Legends, which probably isn't even a thing that exists in Runeterra anymore due to the retcon. Weird.

Rek'sai Journal Harrowing Timeline

Hex the FenFenJan 13, 20151 votes

My understanding is that Riot has stated there are no more summoners or whatever and more than likely they will not go into Runeterra anymore because they do not have the manpower and time to keep up the Journal of Justice. I wish that the Journal of Justice would make a come back and they would go more into the lore and what not of summoners and champions and every day life of champions and citizens but i doubt that it will ever come back

ImpetualJan 13, 20151 votes

That may well be the case (stuff about lack of manpower at Riot), but Riot themselves has not said anything to suggest that (Although the did decide to remove summoners which totally sucked), which sort of makes their current lore production method seem lacking.

**If **they don't have the manpower to support their lore like they used to, they should at least let us know that lore won't be supported anymore.

I love Riot, but seriously, they are producing lore at a MUCH slower rate than they did in season 2, Despite the slower rate of lore, the quality also seems lower (to me at least), and to top it all off, the narrative department isn't talking to anyone on forums.

We don't even know if Riot even still has a narrative department, let alone who is on it!

Hex the FenFenJan 13, 20151 votes

Again, from what I have been told, Riot has been trying to focus more on Champion Design and balance along with Esports rather than the lore of the environment and champions. A lot of people want Journal of Justice back and Riot has addressed the lack of Runeterra lore and champion lore before. I do not think we can expect much from them in that department any time soon, despite the amount of players who want it back.

ImpetualJan 13, 20152 votes

You are mistaken. Riot has not directly addressed the current situation for the lore of League of Legends.

They made a dev blog which vaguely gave us an idea of the direction that they are trying to go in, without telling us anything definite except that summoners don't exist anymore, which was dumb. Also, as they removed the Institute of War, one of the defining faction of Runeterra, Riot didn't add anything to the lore to replace it, leaving Runeterra disconnected and undefined. Riot didn't retcon the lore, they just deleted it.

Here's my take from the infamous lore devblog:

**We heard a lot about the direction they aren't going in, but pretty much nothing about the direction they are going in! **

To even call it a lore retcon is a bit of an understatement, since it suggests that the lore that was changed was at least replaced with something else...in many cases it wasn't. Poor Jax.

And still, after months of waiting, they have still failed to follow up the new lore in the website due to "tech issues".

LoL's lore, in my opinion, has deteriorated due to RIot's current lore direction!

(it was my understanding that they wanted to improve lore, but I could be mistaken. They may have just wanted to use less resources on it like you suggested before).

This may be a personal thing, but League of Legends seems to have lost its charm to me, especially since the League of Legends stopped existing within the game League of Legends.

That's just dumb.

I used to play this game all the time with my friends from high school, it was how we kept in touch. It really meant a lot to me.

But now, post retcon, the roleplaying aspect of this game has pretty much been destroyed.

I'd like to see it return to what it used to be.

It felt better for me as a player.