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Hulu Plus·2/10/2015, 11:24:14 PM·14 votes·2,415 views

Everyone is talking about champions they want to hear about but personally I think that learning more about the regions on the map, followed by the champions that came from them would be better. Often, people are defined by the places they came from, be it culturally or geographically.

That is a map of Runeterra(below), and honestly I don't know about half the regions on there and I've been playing this game for 3 almost 4 years. A few were mentioned maybe once in all of the champions history. What is The Great Barrier? Mount Gargantuan? Fyrone Flats? Voodoo Lands? All these places, and I can't tell you a thing about them. All I'm saying is, maybe we need more about the actual WORLD they live in, and not just about the two superpowers that run the whole show.

EDIT: technically Runeterra houses Valoran, but I understand now that this is Valoran, my mistake

10 Comments

A Superb Villain2/10/2015, 11:54:45 PM5 votes

I would honestly like to know more about the daily lives of average citizens. Champions are cool and all, but they don't live in a diorama, they live in a world with varied governments, complex social systems, ancient history and myriad environments.

The Red Warden2/11/2015, 12:26:44 AM4 votes

Bilgewater has pirates and is in a yearly war with the Shadow Isles, and that is all we know about it.

Shíny2/11/2015, 12:36:08 AM4 votes

I'd love to hear more about valoran, the kumungu jungles and zaun both interest me quite a bit.

Though with the release of the Harrowing event we've learned that map you've posted is out-dated/non-canon. Only narrative knows what areas of valoran are gonna survive the great retcon of 2014™, quite possible many areas will be deleted by the narrative gods.

CupcakeTrap2/11/2015, 1:13:33 AM4 votes

Mount Gargantuan was retconned to Mount Targon. That's all I've got.

As Shinijumanjiman says, of course, it's not clear to what extent the shockwaves from the Great Retcon might redraw the map.

TwoD2/11/2015, 4:57:08 AM2 votes

For the longest time I have played this game, I've not once heard about or knew about Urtistan. Like what the heck happens on in there? Are the people/creatures that live on there on pause or something?

Mr Slowdeath2/10/2015, 11:51:29 PM1 votes

That is Valoran. Not Runeterra.

Anyway +1 from me.