#league lore

[arowyn-m]

Crossposting this 2022 concept (?) for MH Viktor from my Instagram because im still proud of the rendering hehehehwhehehehehe

[mistresscitrusslice]

Why is Riot rewriting Viktor and Jayce’s bios to be more in line with Arcane lore? The beauty of them is that there’s two very different versions of them that both make sense, like two sides of a coin. If Riot removes the old versions, I will actually lose interest in Jayvik. This is coming from someone who entered the fandom through Arcane and has never played League, and yet I still treasure this version of them.

[dastardlydumb]

Viktor be like: girl help I'm stuck between capitalism and a guy who doesn't know what anarchy is

it's just fun to think about where everyone is roaming around in zaun

[liandrug]

Piltover before and after Arcane

Piltover's history is vast, and its advancement is thanks to its position between empires.

#arcanesseason2

[bitty-bytes]

The story of how Zed met Kayn is cool and all, but also kind of funny. Zed really saw this abandoned, angry, horribly traumatized child soldier from Noxus and literally was like, "Anyone gonna use this?" and instantly started training this kid to murder Ionia's enemies. That is wild.

[legallysoup]

29.10.23 - sunday, dimanche, søndag 16/31 of the studyblr community challenge

why did today feel more productive than yesterday even though i did more yesterday huh

things i did today:

🌼finished all my research in like an hour 🌼did nearly all my poster, all that's left is a couple of references 🌼my economics notes (i did it this morning) 🌼packed some more

things i will try to do tomorrow:

🍃finish referencing and submit 🍃print out photos 🍃do the rest of my costume

things i did for me today:

🌧️vibed to some music 🌧️made myself a cup of tea :D 🌧️watched some cinematics bc they give me serotonin

day sixteen: tag someone with beautiful handwriting

@just-sarah-xx girl your handwriting is so stunning i could never

ngl for all of two minutes as i brewed my tea in an oversized sweater listening to conan gray and vibing i felt like i was in a movie.

then the moment ended and i had to face the harsh reality of apa referencing. ugh.

league lore is so good hello????? i dont even play the game 😭

drink some water pookies, good night :] - tay <3

[zephyr-rat]

The State of League Lore Sucks

So riot made a post where they "regretfully" laid off 11% of its staff and listed their direction for their future.

It does not look great.

Like, we all knew that the decommissioning of the short stories and the lore universe page in favor of a "single canon" around Arcane was always going to be a bad sign.

Now, the decommissioning of Riot Forge, sidelining of Legends of Runeterra (which the writing was always on the wall for that but now they said it), and laying off 11% of their staff, including major writers like Graham McNeill just confirmed my belief.

When they said that Riot wanted to make a singular canon, it came off to me as "we will only make it canon, if it makes us money."

Now we're seeing that in action with how much deprioritizing, retconning, and decommissioning of efforts to expand on the League of Legends story IP because traditional lore engagement doesn't make money. It doesn't drive player engagement in their eyes.

The one time lore does make money for them (Arcane), they immediately try to have the lore revolve around it in a gauche effort to capitalize on it and make more money. In that effort, they throw away the lore writers' work and essentially called them worthless while enforcing a lore ban with no additional short stories to ensure a "singular canon."

I will guarantee you that once Arcane is over and the cow cannot be milked anymore, lore is back to being disposable. The executives will focus on the next craze instead of developing their IP and expect lore fans to cheer when they throw pathetic scraps merely hinting at a story instead of actually giving us one.

It was probably always like this, given Riot's history. Either way, I'll try to commit myself to Twitch and ZAC. I rped as them back in high school, I made a game prototype surrounding Twitch, and I'm currently writing a story about the first time the 2 met right now. I am deeply personally invested in these characters, and they've always given me comfort. I know that riot will never touch those 2 characters. They don't make money and they don't appeal to the wider audience, but they appeal to me. I'll make sure that they'll live concretely somewhere as actual characters instead of cardboard cutouts because it's what they deserve.

[bitingpillows]

Bestie and I were discussing Sett designs and came to a furry design which isn't too bad other than ot being a fox instead if a wolverine.

but that gave me an idea.

Risen/Fullfilled forms of champions.

For example

Full Vastaya Wolverine Sett.

or

Ascended Atreus becoming the new Aspect.

[danidoesathing]

physically sick over the fact that. In the game’s canon Viktor is doing whatever he can to get rid of his emotions and humanity. and it’s what him and Jayce clash over most. its the center of their entire conflict

but in arcane it’s torn away from him against his will because of Jayce. Because Jayce didn’t care what Viktor became as long as he got his partner back. Hello. Can anyone hear me

[batsyheere]

I sometimes just imagine the first time Phantom is introduced to the league as like, a fellow big league hero. As someone who works with Justice League Dark and took down the Ecto Acts with his own team and allies to be included under the meta acts like aliens. He knows Constantine and Zatanna and is a pretty common name in the magical community now even if usually as his human form "just Danny".

And suddenly he is surrounded by these "big time heroes" and aliens and champions and most would assume he'd be overwhelmed or in awe. Maybe nervous, or weirdly fixated on being in space.

But here's the kicker- Danny is dead. Technically part of the category ecto-entity, ghost, and thus belonging to the Infinite Realms. He has met a vast variety of characters who are far more chaotic and legendary than these people who have so much interpersonal drama it looks like one of the soap operas Tucker refuses to admit he watches. Wonder Woman? Danny has lunch with Pandora and visits the Greek sections of the realms when he needs to research old prophecies. Superman? Kryptonite is like rock candy and the dead of Krypton are either very sweet or very condescending and Danny has seen both in the Boy Scout. The less said about the Green Lanterns the better. The Flash family are entertaining but also headache inducing because Danny has heard the complaints about the timeline. Half a dozen other heroes and vigilantes have their own dramas that Danny could pick apart at the source for the many issues that started said drama, and that's not even beginning on the issues with Batman and the weird galley of children he has who are sometimes even worse than the dark knight himself.

Meanwhile the League find themselves growing more concerned and horrified the more Phantom manages to reference his adventures and rather stressful start as a vigilante. Constantine hasn't been more entertained in years.

[arowyn-m]

In light of the VGU leaks I’m posting the concept art for S2 Viktor from Bridging the Rift, mainly because it seems like there’s a lot of worried rumors online about Riot taking a completely different approach to Viktor’s design—making him either Hexcore-corrupted or Void-related instead of mechanical—but also because we probably have people new to the fandom that never saw it when it was circulating last year :)

⚠️‼️Blurred concept art under the cut⚠️‼️

Viktor’s Machine Herald form in a character lineup—he looks like over 7 feet tall (213 cm)

Looks like Viktor gets a mechanical arm in S2 further reflecting his lore. I wonder when this will happen considering Viktor’s arm either looks fine or Hexcore-corrupted in the teaser.

These images are cool but there’s a solid chance they’ve since been tweaked or completely reworked for season 2.

The thing that really gives me pause is the fact that Ekko’s silhouette looks much closer to his in-game design. That may be because they still plan to give Ekko his mohawk by the end of S2, but idk.

[mistresscitrusslice]

“Heimerdinger perpetuated the system that allowed the Piltovans to profit off of the Undercity while keeping them poor and disadvantaged.” WRONG. Heimerdinger did not perpetuate this system, he CREATED it. He’s a FOUNDER of the city. Do you know what that means? Zaun existed for centuries before Piltover did. Piltover is a city founded by Zaunites who grew wealthy enough off of trade to rise above the fissures and instead of using that wealth to uplift the rest of their people, they ran off with it to found a new city while leaving the poor behind.

HEIMERDINGER IS ONE OF THEM. He predates Piltover by at least a hundred years. Where was he during this? Did he once live in Zaun? Because he looked at that city (one that he might have lived in) and saw enough of a lost cause, people and all, that he decided that it wouldn’t matter if his shiny new city on the hill dumped their sewage there. It wouldn’t matter if their factory exhaust blew in that direction. People that he once knew were going to suffer and that would be okay. He ponders the deaths of friends and he’s probably the cause of some.

Heimerdinger didn’t just sit by. He IS the root problem. So few people seem to see it because he’s so cute and fuzzy, and that’s deliberate. I don’t find Heimerdinger endearing at all. I look at him and I just feel a deep sense of loathing. I hate him more than I hate Marcus (partly because I don’t hate Marcus; his character writing is just that cool). I don’t find Heimerdinger redeemable, or at least, a redemption arc probably wouldn’t feel satisfying to me. I just want to watch him suffer, but I fear he’s too fluffy for the writers to do that to him.

[dastardlydumb]

zaunite height chart

wanted to get a height chart of everyone in Zaun, i'm missing a few but uh thought I'd share cuz holy shit. couldn't find Zeri's height so I just made it the same as her voice actor. and as for Ekko i just took his Arcane height cuz it fits better than his tall ass league height

[liandrug]

Do you wish Camille to appear in Arcane's next season?

Camille, once a human with high responsibility towards her family, had to choose between her love or her duty, breaking her heart.

[bitty-bytes]

I hate it when people act like Kayn is a bad person. Yes, he's an assassin, but most of his snarkiness and general worldview is because he's basically been in an emotionless vacuum where he hasn't been shown genuine kindness for most of his life. Abandoned by his parents, forced into the Noxian army only for them to leave him for dead after one battle in Ionia, raised to be an assassin by Zed and now is interlocked in a struggle with a Darkin who literally wants his body as a vessel.

I genuinely believe he isn't actually a bad person deep down. He's confident to a fault and smug, sure, but beyond those traits, I can see lots of silver lining. He's funny in a dry humor sort of way. He's strong minded and disciplined. He has to be if he's able to resist Rhaast's corruption, something that the other Darkin had no trouble with. He's talented, witty, and dedicated to whatever he sets his mind on.

He claims he has no heart, but I really think this is only because he's never been given a chance to develop one.