#demacia

[yosh11111]

They should all kiss btw

[phalanxus]

Kayle and Morgana having a nice little chat about justice. I love their legends of Runeterra interactions so much!

[ohnoitstbskyen]

The weirdest thing to me about League is that for some reason in a pool of amazing characters my brain latched into Lux of all people. Why? Who knows but I want her to leave Demacia and hunt down Nocturne and meet people who grew up with magic and accept her as she is and she learns through these experiences that she has to return home and really take a stand.

Why Lux. Why did it have to be Lux and not... idk Veigar or smth

Lux has a compelling story - not an especially original one, but a compelling one, built on compelling tropes.

She's this sheltered girl raised in privilege, who should have every reason in the world to simply embrace her fortune, go with the flow and live as her family wants her to. The Crownguards are more than capable of protecting her from the persecution that Demacia heaps on every other mage and magical creature, and more than happy to, so long as Lux lives up to the family name.

And yet... she can't do it. First of all, as she grows up, she becomes ever more sickly aware in her soul how inhuman the treatment of mages is under Demacian law, the brutality and oppression that is leveraged against them, all to prop up the legitimacy of the government. Second... she doesn't want to repress her magic. She has a light inside of her which is intrinsic to her being, a true and natural extension of who she is, how she exists in the world, and pushing it down and denying it is painful. She is full of curiosity about it, and eager to see what she can do with it, but she cannot be both a free mage and a Crownguard.

Lux is, in other words, a queer trans nonbinary lesbian genderqueer aroace gay gay gay homosexual gay. Or, to be less flippant, in her story magic is an extremely apt metaphor for queerness and how to navigate being queer in a bigoted environment.

It also works for other things, of course, there are other reasons to feel stifled and trapped by the rules and restrictions of society or by the demands of your family. Lux could also be a secret socialist, and the oppression of mages could reflect the way the bodies of the proletariat are abused to build capitalist state power - or you could read it as a theme of neurodivergency in a world that is still run on a lot of eugenicist logic. Although to be perfectly frank with you, if Lux is cishet, then I am a honey badger, her magic power is literally rainbow lasers.

So there are themes there, there are things to relate to, to hold on to, to be carried away by. There's a lot of great characters in League of Legends, all of which deserve better than to be owned by Riot Games, and Lux is one of them.

Also, her best friend is a building-sized himbo dragon statue which comes to life when she uses her magic around him and gives her friendly life advice while musing about how much he wants to punch kaiju in the face, which, like, I don't know how to NOT be charmed by that.

[aurelion-solar]

Legends of Runeterra: Dreamlit Paths - Lux Followers Jarro Lightfeather - Dreamlight Alina - The Light of Demacia - Aberrant Mageseeker - The Petricite Hall - Luminosprite - Rising Light - Incandescence - Smoldering Smirk

[kenyizsuartblog]

LoL - Skarner Is Right

"Oh man, I wonder if I'll draw other champions from this game later down the line"

<proceeds to have an idea that requires half the goddamn roster>

Famous last words, huh?

Real talk, delete that last sentence from the final paragraph of Skarner's bio:

"The only one Skarner can trust is himself, and he'll do anything it takes to protect Ixtal and its people. Even if that means becoming the root of their destruction, himself."

And his "destructive paranoia" immediately gets downgraded to "fully reasonable and healthy paranoia". I bet I haven't even pictured a fifth of all the insane bull-- going on outside of Ixtal, and half of the things on the pic would be enough for me to vote for eternal isolation, thanks.

This was a lot of fun to put together, even if it took a bit longer than I would have hoped. I ended up reading and/or listening to quite a few lore bits, all of which I really enjoyed... and my god, the story of Nasus and Renekton just nuked my heart. I want the god-warrior bros to make up and live happily ever after! I don't even care what happens to Azir and Shurima in the background, I want the brothers to get a happy ending, pls, Riot!!

So what's the lesson to learn from all this? #SkarnerIsRight

Other LoL-related works

Skarner sketchdump 24-04-03-06

2024.04.13

[mrkurama16]

Tengo bloqueo creativo y solo puedo hacer dibujos curis💀

[justtheg]

I did a thing league people

[andthisisdia]

Tf2 Characters If They Were In League Of Legends [part 1/?]

a list of mercenary headcanons and the regions of Runeterra they might belong to:

Offense classes:

•Scout is from Zaun

•Soldier is from Noxus

•Pyro is from Ixtal

I also have a headcanon about Scout as a mercenary working for Silco so consequently he also works for Jinx. Soldier is a Noxian mercenary like Samira, Pyro is a fire elemental (wow how much imagination...)

Defense classes:

•Demoman is from Bilgewater

•Heavy is from Freljord

•Engineer is from Piltover

My headcanons: Demoman lost his eye after making a deal with Tahm Kench, Heavy is part of the Winter's Claw so he's allied with Sejuani (but I can see him being good with Ashe too, let me know what you think) and Engineer studied at the same Academy where Jayce and Viktor studied and knows Heimerdinger

Support classes:

•Medic was born in Piltover but moved to Zaun

•Sniper was born in Bilgewater but lived in Ixtal

•Spy was born in Demacia but moved to Piltover

Medic went to Zaun for obvious reasons (uncontrolled experiments). Sniper I actually imagine is a Vastaya but I'll make another post about my headcanons (maybe). Spy is a mage and escaped from Demacia

[lbulldesigns]

Maps of Runeterra

I've been searching for detailed maps of Runeterra, so that I could more accurately name places in my AITAH Arcane AU newsfeeds; and discovered just how small a territory Demacia really is.

Also how is there this massive plot of territory just unclaimed by either Noxus or Demacia? What's out there that has either nation avoiding claiming it?

I'm now accepting headcannons as to what is out there.

[gordiicore]

when you’re from Demacia and it’s lunch time

[corvid-and-flowers]

Lux: what do u have

kata: a knife!!

lux: nooo!!!

[jocelotknee]

I'm in love with this Shyvana VGU concept. I really REALLY hope this is the direction Riot chooses to iterate on. Look at those a r m s

[phalanxus]

This comic series titles "Magically Oblivious Garen" explores different aspects of Runeterra's lore as if viewed by someone who cannot (or refuses to) perceive magic/supernatural beings.

It's mostly a joke, of course, but I really fell in love writing and drawing these 🥰

[ohnoitstbskyen]

Wait, there's antisemitic tropes about magic users persecutions? Specifically them being magic users or the depiction of the persecutions?

Oh yes. The charge of dark sorcery was historically used to persecute Jews all over the diaspora - the blood libel, one of the oldest antisemitic slurs, accuses Jews of harvesting blood from Christian children to be used to bake the matzah, or for heretical rituals and dark magic.

A lot of persecution of "magic" in Europe, besides being used to oppress and destroy the social power of women, was also targeted at ethnic minorities like Roma, the Irish Travellers, and any other itinerant or non-Christian minority. It has been a component of justifying why certain people simply cannot be suffered to live among Christians, or why they represent a moral hazard or inherent danger. Persecution and slurring of non-Christian religious rituals as "dark magic" or some form of sorcery is also extremely common practise within colonialism (see media representations of various forms of voodoo, and indigenous religions in colonized areas), and as a component of the enforcement of white supremacy.

So there's some... significant real-world echoes and history behind the idea of secret mages living among "normal" society, influencing the course of it surreptitiously, or representing a kind of inherent danger to "ordinary" people. See Dragon Age for an example of handling that particular storyline very poorly. That game was probably trying to do it more as a reflection of post-9/11 security politics, to be fair, which it also handled very poorly.

[aurelion-solar]

Demacia - Champion Illustration Summoner Icons

[raphlsnts]