I've been gone for a while, what did I miss
So I have been gone since the Jhin release, and am trying to catch up on everything that happened in the lore since, can I get a quick guide of what I missed.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlcN-Fa70ds
This is by far the most important thing that has happened recently.
Targon stuff. Read Aurelion Sol and Taric bios and you have most of it.
Also, they killed Pantheon. Lucky I don't pay attention to that kind of stuff or I would be pissed.
Yeah, pretty much all you've missed is Targon.
Here's the SparkNotes version:
Mt Targon is a super-Mt Everest sized mountain that is a place of pilgrimage from across Valoran. There are myths that those that reach the summit are granted great knowledge, or power, or something. On the mountain are several tribes, among them the Rakkor and he Solari.
Pantheon: Once a boy named Atreus of the Rakkor people, he was a warrior, but always second best in his training group. Bullied, no one likes him. One day his group goes out scouting, get attacked by raiders kills everyone but him and the head bully/best in his training group Pylas. Atreus tries to sacrifice himself so Pylas can go warn people in the tribe. The raiders beat them and leave them for dead. Atreus gets up saves Pylas and drags themselves back to the tribe. They heal, hate that nothing is being done about the raiders, finish their warrior training then climb the mountain. The two reach the summit, Pylas dies. Atreus gets possessed by an ancient spirit thing that destroys his personality called Pantheon. Fast forward a bit and Pantheon shows up and kills some raiders, everyone thinks Atreus is dead and after seeing Pantheon his family still think so. Then there's a short story of Pantheon killing some more raiders seeing a commit and buggering off.
Leona: Another kid from Rakkor. She seems very nice, but the Rakkor are taught to kill monsters. She finds a little winged golden boy that is crying and doesn't kill him, instead helps him out. Atreus sees this, says she betrayed the tribe, and the tribe makes them fight. A solari priest stops by, stops the fight and says he has a vision or prophecy that Leona will be important. So she goes and lives with the Solari, which are a bunch of Sun worshipers who believe it is their duty to fight on the day that the sun goes out, they also don't like the moon. While there she becomes kind of a zealot, but still doing ok. She rises to the leader of the Ra-Horak (which are the solari soldiers or guards or something) and brings Diana to the Elders in a meeting. While Diana talks about how cool the moon is, Leona doesn't like this and gets ready to kill Diana when the elders say to. Elders say to. Before Leona can respond Diana kills all the elders and knocks Leona over then runs. Leona chases they climb up the mountain really easily apparently, Leona sees the golden boy again and she gets possessed by an ancient spirit thing that doesn't destroy her personality but makes her pull a 180 on wanting to kill Diana. Then there's a short story of Leona fighting off some raiders with some other people from the mountains help.
Diana: Diana is a girl who's parents brought her to Targon to climb the thing then promptly die leaving her in the care of the Solari. Despite what the Solari say she thinks the moon is pretty cool. This ostracized her. So she reads up in the library a lot and learns a little bit about the Lunari. She then sees an old lady trying to climb the mountain so she goes to help her. So she climbed the mountain it's tough, the old lady disappears and Diana gets possessed by an ancient spirit thing that is also involved with the Moon in some way. She is still seemingly mostly in tact. She finds a lot of cool Moon gear then goes back to the Solari to tell them about what's up. Solari call for her execution, she kills them all. Except it wasn't her, it was the spirit thing possessing her, maybe. Anyway, she runs and tries to find a way that the Solari and Lunari can be friends. There is also a short story where Diana fights a void monster.
Aurelion Sol: Aurelion Sol is a cosmic dragon that creates stars and in turn life. He is a being of pure celestial magic and is pretty much immortal. Anyway he creates stars and mostly ignoring life, then he finds these folk called the Targonians that have, through magic, gone to the moon. He thinks these guys are cool so he goes and teaches them some stuff. Then they give him a crown because he was cool to them. He put it on and left. Only the crown was a trap and he was captured and forced to do their bidding. But he wants to be free and after thousands of years feels the Targonians grip on him thinning as they have expanded their celestial space empire using him as a tool of war. Then we get a short story that sort of reveals that the spirit things that possessed Atreus, Leona, and Diana are actually these space Targonians and that's just what they do. Anyway a past version of Pantheon (since Panth has had many host bodies) orders Sol to destroy a void opening. Sol does so, but also kills Pantheon's meat suit in the process, then he heads to Runeterra where he thinks he can finally break free from the Targonians.
Taric: Taric is a Demacian boy who was forced to be in the army who should have never by any means ever been put in the army. He's horrible, he ignores drill, he doesn't pay attention, he's always late and instead spends his time looking at flowers and other things he thinks are beautiful. So, Garen, gives him a job somewhere he can't possibly mess up. But he does, because he was grossly negligent and got everyone under his command killed. So he gets banished from Demacia and ordered to go climb Targon. Though honestly, no one thought he'd do it, just so long as he left Demacia. He decides to climb anyway, he gets to the summit and sees a bunch of visions of friends killed and beautiful things destroyed. Including one of his friend Garen dead in Noxus, Taric takes his body fights off everyone and returns it to Demacia despite threat of his execution. Visions disappear and a spirit appears to Taric. This spirit thing doesn't seem to possess Taric, instead gives him some power and tells him to go protect people. Then there's a short story of Taric going to a battle between Demacia and Noxus and tries to stop it. There's also a comic of him making the climb of Targon and giving his cloak to a possibly dying guy, then the guy disappears.
There, that should be everything.
Riot defaced the cottontail teemo splash art.
