What small lore/character development things do you want to see?

4 Step Cadence·9/17/2019, 8:03:40 PM·7 votes·8,550 views

Some of what we get for the lore, like the comics or the new book, are bigger projects that can take a while to develop, write, and edit. I personally wouldn't mind seeing smaller additions to lore, things that wouldn't take too long to do, that still add something to the lore and the champions.

For example, and you all should know where I'm going with this, Jhin's haikus.

  • "In carnage, I bloom, like a flower in the dawn."(missing its last line)

  • "In darkness, I dream, of a cold and silent world."(missing its last line)

  • "Spring swells rivers. Insects return after the rain. The corpse floats ashore."

  • "My first performance. Lovers whisper in darkness. Remove the husband."

  • "Black flower tattoo. Courtesan paints her lips red. I remove her jaw."

  • "Dark clouds veil the moon. Mother hushes her child's cries. My Whisper brings silence."("friend" used this in their writing, unsure if its from his script or not)

  • "Lotus flowers bloom. Pearl petals dance in the wind. Painted with their blood."("friend" used this in their writing, unsure if its from his script or not)

  • "His armor is clean. The ever-loyal soldier. I tear out his heart."("friend" used this in their writing, unsure if its from his script or not)

And those plays/epic poems mentioned in Jhin's bio.

Depicted in a variety of plays and epic poems, the capture of the “Golden Demon” would be the seventh and final great feat in the illustrious career of Lord Kusho.

I think getting a series of Jhin's haikus, or those epic poems about the Golden Demon, would be a nice little thing the lore team could do to expand upon his character without doing anything major. That goes for other champions too.

Basically what I'm asking for is the filler episode equivalent of lore. Just something small and simple for every champion, something that develops their character and their character alone, that doesn't focus on their interactions with other champions or carry their story forward. Something that we can enjoy and talk about while we wait for their story to progress, because having nothing but what we already have for so long gets boring after a while.

Or maybe I'm the only only that wouldn't mind little things like Jhin's haikus, but that's why I made the thread, to find out what people want.

So, would you guys like Riot to release some "filler episode" lore like the examples I gave above, or would you rather the narrative team stay focused on bigger things? If you would like "filler episode" lore, what would you like to see?

17 Comments

Hotarµ9/17/2019, 9:08:51 PM3 votes

1 - I want Pyke to have more of an "internal struggle" aspect. I know PROJECT: already deals with this (grappling with his own memory and his mind playing tricks on itself) but I feel like having that fleshed out more in his base lore would be really nice. It's always nice to sympathize with a tragic character.

2 - Similar to number 1, I want more Lucian/Senna interactions. Either through short stories or dialogue, their relationship and Thresh's involvement is so heartbreaking and I think High Noon Lucian is the benchmark for what it should be. Little sentences like "Sometimes when it's quiet... I can still hear her." go such a long way when it comes to character development.

Chembaron Yamada9/17/2019, 9:50:47 PM3 votes

A list of the inventions made by these champions: Heimerdinger Jayce Viktor Ekko Singed

In general, reading more about cruel experiments made by Singed could be cool. Engineering the Nightmare has been amazing for me.


A list of chembaron crests. We got a few examples on Urgot's splashart from chembarons he has killed. But I would like to see all the crests of the chembarons we currently know.

TheMan2929/18/2019, 3:52:13 PM1 votes
  1. suppose I would like to know what aspects of Noxus were the ones that made Kled decide he liked the nation. he hates just about everything after all

  2. due to their spiritual natures, if Skaarl and Kled are symbiotic in their relationship

  3. is Kled aware it's his fault that he is insane.

I also geuss I have one for veigar. does he have vestiges of a moral compass, or is he truly just bad at being evil. it would be interesting to know just where he stands.

GhaelWinds9/18/2019, 4:24:18 PM1 votes

I would love to see more of the romances that each champion has had. Even if the romances arent champions it would be neat to know like how many romances and what type of people they mix well with.

FSRER9/19/2019, 11:57:17 AM1 votes

I want, more interactions between Pyke and Bilgewater ("no more captains" and "big tin can man" are just lazy quotes in my opinion) I want Sion's hiden quotes to be used in game (there are some awesome quotes that got never used) I want a update on Twisted Fate, Graves, Gangplank and Miss Fortune whereabouts I want the mist to aknowledge the exsistance of Mordekaiser (there is a lot of potential between his world and the mist creatures) And I want a update on Jax's journey to find warriors worthy enough to help him take back Icathia and while we are at Icathia, Update on what Zilean is doing in his created purgatory