How do people find lore?

Teehalt·Aug 13, 2015·3 votes·1,409 views

I recently got into league because I wondered what all the fuss was about. I played a couple of matches, bought a few champs, and continued to play. I then realized that this game has alot of lore to it. I was interested in Jinx's lore so read about, and figured out that Vi and her are enemys. I thought "cool" and went on with my day. When I was browsing the shop I found this guy named Ekko who can time travel. I read his lore and the comic I heard that he had. I decided to go on the league wiki to find some things I missed about him. I learned that Ekko, Jinx, and Vi were once in the same gang. Not only that, but Ekko had a crush on Jinx aswell. I'm posting this to know how do people find this stuff? Are these just fan theory's that we all accept as fact? Are devs really letting us create the lore? I'm also wondering how do we know so much about bilgewater and how people found out all about the history of bligewater? ( I read the burning tides thing too).

21 Comments

Vistha KaiAug 13, 20153 votes

I learned that Ekko, Jinx, and Vi were once in the same gang.

Frankly, they weren't. At least not Ekko. He's way too young for that. He might've heard about Jinx and Vi and hold them as an example, but that's about it.

As to Ekko's crush his own quote is "I had a crush once, but then you started talking to a gun." spoken as an in-game taunt towards Jinx.

Ebonmaw DragonAug 13, 20151 votes

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Frankly, they weren't. At least not Ekko. He's way too young for that. He might've heard about Jinx and Vi and hold them as an example, but that's about it.

As to Ekko's crush his own quote is "I had a crush once, but then you started talking to a gun." spoken as an in-game taunt towards Jinx.

Im surprised that the Wiki says that they were, even if members of Riot said that they weren't.

Vistha KaiAug 13, 20151 votes

It does not, actually.

The only thing on the subject I found on their wiki pages was:

Jinx, Vi and Ekko used to be part of similar gangs.

Similar=/=Same

TeehaltAug 13, 20151 votes

I'm an idiot. I guess most of this post is invalid then.

TeehaltAug 13, 20151 votes

What about Ekko's relation with Vi? On the official website it says that Ekko also has ties with Vi. I don't know how that works because I thought Vi was in piltover and Ekko is in Zaun.

GreenLoreAug 14, 20151 votes

Some ties have yet to be explored. They often add these ties on the official website,before we actually get to know about them in the lore.

NeameanAug 14, 20151 votes

Vi is from Zaun originally

Vistha KaiAug 14, 20151 votes

Already told you, he must've heard about, or maybe even run into Vi at some point, but by then Vi was already one step away from moving to Piltover.

Ekko's this kind of a kid who thinks he's a buddy with people he talked to once. For him Vi might be important, but Vi could completely forget a boy like "Ekko" ever existed.

That's all we can conclude for now.

Oh and the fact Ekko's like 15 and Vi and Jinx are 20-25 with Jinx being the older of the two.

TeehaltAug 14, 20151 votes

Thanks!

Rito StaffAug 13, 20151 votes

The official lore is written by the Narrative team. There is fan-fiction I heard about though.

However, what you read there on Vi, Ekko and Jinx is official lore.

Don't get too attached though on the older champion lores because a year ago or something Riot said they were reforming the old lore to something new -- invalidating whatever info you read, it might still be enjoyable, but it's not 'canon' anymore, until we know the new setting Riot is coming up with to explain the game League of Legends and its champions.

Cool stuff to catch up on is the Zed, Nocturne and Shen relation/lore. Pretty neat ^_^/

TeehaltAug 13, 20151 votes

I heard riot retconned some lore but I thought they already did that. Although that does explain why I saw the word "summoner" still in the game. I thought it was just some dev who forgot to clean the crumbs. I'll check on the Zed and others lore though! Thanks!

TheLastShadow45Aug 13, 20151 votes

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Vistha KaiAug 13, 20151 votes

They are not.

TheLastShadow45Aug 13, 20151 votes

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Vistha KaiAug 13, 20153 votes

A drowning man clutches at straws.

I'll tell you what we know.

Jinx has a sister.
Vi has a sister.
Vi supposedly looks like her sister.

That's everything we know on the subject.

GreenLoreAug 14, 20151 votes

Uhm that would pretty much speak against the theory,since Jinx was pretty much designed to NOT look like Vi.

Her eye and hair colors are like vis,but inverted. She is extremely skinny unlike vi She has very long and girlish hair,while vi has short hair

The SoulforgedAug 13, 20151 votes

A lot of this is from their VO's. If you want some noncannon lore that is amazing, I suggest going to the wiki and searching, "The Journal of Justice" or JoJ for short.

TeehaltAug 13, 20151 votes

Thanks! I'll check it out!

Count BuffonAug 14, 20151 votes

At first I thought this said "how do people find love". lolol. No idea regardless.

GreenLoreAug 14, 20151 votes

Overall I think the Wiki is one of the best sides to look for the lore.

The lore is currently in a kind of messy state,they are retconning and restructuring a lot and had supposedly some dire tech problems that interferred with that,but those seem to be solved now.

They still haven't updated some lores and the lore is usually hard to find,the wiki though makes a good job at gathering all the lore pieces.