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About the Lore and Bard: Mountain

Shoken·3/8/2015, 4:40:04 PM·2 votes·4,430 views

Hi. I was about to answer a comment in /r/leagueoflegends, i mean this one:

Also there's cliches out the ass. Demacia is where all the knightly white people live. Noxus is the spooky bad guy place. Zaun and Piltover are in my mind the most creative and have a lot of creative growth possible, but they really need to make the world less basic.

The discussion was about the lore and the cities involved. This was my response:

Well actually the addition of chaotic good characters like Lucian, Vayne and Quinn, all from Demacia, added a bit of depth there. Noxus is pretty standard at the moment. Champions from Noxus are pretty bad characterwise. Problem is, you can't define cities if you don't even have the basics. We don't know why champions are fighting, why the summoner's rift is called like that if we don't even know what summoners are, we don't know what the hell is happening in Runeterra. They messed up so much I stopped caring about lore even if i was a fanatic. They promised a lot of stuff but the only thing that came until now is chaos.

I thought I could deefine my thoughts better on this topic by creating a post here. Even if my answer above sums up my thought, there is something i have to add.

Lore now sucks. I mean it straight out sucks. Remember the Shurima event? Remember how, when it ended, every champion had a 2-lines ending and that was it? I was so mad when it came out and how low effort they put into it.

Things haven't changed a bit. We still don't know what the heck summoners are, we don't have what's happening in runeterra, we don't know anything. And it's been almost a year since they decided to re-do the lore.

Sometimes ago i read Rioters saying that the Gameplay team, the Design team and many more were working together to create champion so they could be more consistent and overall better. Why aren't the Lore guys working with them too? Don't tell me they are, because they aren't, and you can see it from Bard: Mountain.

I got mad after watching Bard: Mountain just like i did for the Shurima event ending. Let's be real, Bard: Mountain is a joke. It's a mockery to the lore fanatics. The style is good, yeah, the animations are awesome, indeed. But it makes no goddamn sense.

That video makes NO SENSE. And i mean it. I dare anyone to come here and find a good explanation for Bard: Mountain.

Oh? What? Rioters explained it saying Bard wanders through space and time and saves people who will become important? WELL WHY ISN'T THAT EXPLAINED IN THE VIDEO? Why I have to search for a Rioter to explain what the hell i just watched? I hope you guys agree that this is a mockery.

I get so mad about it because I care about lore. Or better, I used to care.

Urgot has a dark, secret past.

Yeah that's how it's gonna end up, afterall.

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Sharjo3/8/2015, 5:35:34 PM2 votes

That video makes NO SENSE. And i mean it. I dare anyone to come here and find a good explanation for Bard: Mountain.

Oh? What? Rioters explained it saying Bard wanders through space and time and saves people who will become important? WELL WHY ISN'T THAT EXPLAINED IN THE VIDEO? Why I have to search for a Rioter to explain what the hell i just watched? I hope you guys agree that this is a mockery.

What it's not allowed that people can make their own interpretations of stuff? That they can think outside of the box and ponder about greater elements of the story? No I don't agree that it's a mockery, because it does make sense.

Noxians go and try and obtain a magic stone. Old guy uses it to try and stop them, Bard senses this, swoops in and takes it away.

So what does that tell us?

  • Noxus wants artifacts of great power, or it did at one point. Why? The stone cut a mountain in half. Imagine what that would do for the war against Demacia.
  • What makes the stone so important? It leveled a sodding mountain. It also was of some importance to the people, as the old guy was saying they'd die without it.
  • Why did Bard intervene there and not save the villagers? The stone must have been of greater importance to Bard considering it wrecked the sodding mountain.

So while you see it as nonsensical and a mockery, I see it as very interesting, very enjoyable, and something I'm still thinking about now.

Now on to the finer points, not about Bard: Mountain but about Riot in general.

  • Everyone has their own teams but the teams aren't isolated units, they all work in tandem. the Shurima event had the champion design team, narrative, the guys who make featured game modes, web design guys, artists, etc. Narrative literally has to work with the other parts of Riot or else the stuff we've been getting wouldn't happen. Even the JoJ needed guys from the art department.

  • They've fucked things up. We know it, they know it, it's been admitted to before. We do know some stuff that's happening in Runeterra though, cuz you know, there's Harrowings and a resurrected Shurima and a Freljord civil war, among other things.

  • Finally, as a note, the single paragraph Bios aren't gonna be there forever. They're meant for the client and to have a link there to bring you to the website, where longer stories will be made available. Tech issues have delayed this since Shurima. I don't know how, because I don't know how website engineering works, but that's the long and the short of it.

So to summarize; lore's fucked in many ways but it's not dead. If it was we wouldn't get stuff like Bard: Mountain, regardless of how little sense it made to you. Everyone knows it's fucked, Riot knows its fucked, and we're all waiting on them to deliver. I'm patient so I'm happy waiting it out. You don't seem to, so if you want, go, save yourself the time and heartache. Things won't be magically fixed by tomorrow oh no, this ride's gonna be long and bumpy. Hell it already has been.