That’s me done with this platform, by the way. I currently see no way they can tempt me to return.
But it’s been great to connect with so many awesome folks over the years - y’all were the reason I kept coming back ❤️ Catch you later!
Our first
#LeagueOfLegends
story of 2022 lands today, considerably earlier than usual... 😁
Ever wonder what might happen if Kai'Sa and Taliyah met?
@thefakedana
has the answer in 'Hollowspun'!
But wait... *where* did they say they're going...?
PSA: The 20s will not be like 'The Aviator'. They will be like 'Peaky Blinders'.
You will either get shot in the face in Margate, or die of flu. Either way, you will suffer from PTSD and smoke too much.
New
#LeagueOfLegends
fiction before the weekend!
Deep in the desert wastes of Shurima,
@GrahamMcNeill
leads us to the ancient settlement of Xolan, where skilled masons attempt to restore the glory of a long lost Ascended in 'The Faceless God' 😵
A new
#LeagueOfLegends
story very close to my (dark, writhing) heart... 😈
@carnivalnites
ventures into the wastes of Shurima to find out just what Malzahar has been up to lately, in 'Feast of the Prophet' - perfect for building up a holiday appetite!
Just a reminder to Darkin fans (and lore-heads in general) that THIS page exists, although it's down a little bit of a Universe rabbit hole...
I would recommend 'The Legend of the Darkin' as a lore resource - many common questions are answered in there!
Brand new
#LeagueOfLegends
fiction just dropped 🤯
When I saw
@phillip_vargas
' early drafts of 'The Call' CG, I was so stoked about Pantheon - so Phillip invited me to write a prelude story! 'In Battle, Broken' starts the journey, but does not end it...
Huh... I wonder what
#Senna
has been up to lately? 👀
Our first
#LeagueOfLegends
story of 2021 is 'Redeemed' by
@phillip_vargas
- where everyone's favorite Sentinel of Light (sorry
#Lucian
!) has to confront some unsettling possibilities from her past...
More new
#LeagueOfLegends
storytelling for you all, on a Friday!
@GrahamMcNeill
takes us on his travels into the frozen north, where Sejuani and the Winter's Claw endure the near-daily struggle for survival in 'Dead of Winter'... 🥶
I’m genuinely surprised that so many people fixated on “Champions have to age if you want a consistent fantasy world”, and not on the HUGE connections between this earlier story and ‘The Call’ cinematic…
New
#LeagueOfLegends
fiction before the weekend!
Deep in the desert wastes of Shurima,
@GrahamMcNeill
leads us to the ancient settlement of Xolan, where skilled masons attempt to restore the glory of a long lost Ascended in 'The Faceless God' 😵
Oh, what's this...
@thefakedana
's wonderful, touching tale 'Rise with Me' covers Diana and Leona's early years in the Solari temple, before they climbed Mount Targon ❤️
🏳️🌈 Happy Pride month, to *everyone* 🏳️🌈
"Healing. I am healing them. I am a healer. I think everyone can agree that healing is good."
--testimony given to the Noxian Medical Ethics Committee, probably
@Bloomzor
@Stryks
@Spideraxe30
@thefakedana
She was 16 when the Noxian invasion of Ionia officially ended. That was almost 8 years ago.
She's actually a little older than Kai'Sa. Let that sink in! 😄
So, since Twitter may soon vanish...
I can now confirm that I accepted a new role last month - as a Narrative Director on
#LeagueOfLegends
🥳
I'm not going to do one of those fancy-pants GIFs where I update my bio (because I don't know how). Instead, here's one of Boba Fett.
Oh, you want to know how TF and Graves ended up in their latest misadventure...?
@_AntReynolds_
brings us a brand new tale of Runeterra, in 'Destiny and Fate'! Looks like there's a lot more to this "sea witch" than meets the eye...
We're getting back into the groove, here! 😁
Brand new
#LeagueOfLegends
fiction today from
@MarcusTerrell
- the long-awaited 'Testimony of the Balladeer' follows up on Bard's bio update, which I seem to recall happened way back in the Before-Times™️ ...
Lots of updates on
@LeagueOfLegends
Universe site today 😎👍
First, check out the brand new art galleries for the Frostguard and Winter's Claw, on the Freljord region page - great work from our very talented Worldbuilding artists!
Oh, wait - what's this? A special bonus
#LeagueOfLegends
story right before the holidays?! 😁 Okay, who had "Gragas color story" on their 2020 lore bingo card? No one? Really?
@lmichet
brings us a boozy tale in 'A Well-Earned Tip', to close out the year!
Yes, this.
Also, someone I don't know posted a message on my dad's online memorial page the day before his funeral, demanding that I give their favorite LoL champion "better lore".
Just so we're clear, that's possibly the most disgraceful and disrespectful thing I've ever seen.
New
#LeagueOfLegends
lore, fresh from the oven! 😍
Sad times, as
@thefakedana
confirms that Lord Barrett Buvelle is (still) dead, in the historical 'Fragile Legacies' - we learn a little more about the terrible loss that was for the people of Demacia...
New
#LeagueOfLegends
&
#LegendsOfRuneterra
fiction today! Sounds like something suspicious is going on at the Ravenbloom Conservatory... 🧐
Can you believe this is
@Riot_fizzNchips
' first ever published short story? He's annoyingly talented, that one! 😄
...AND SO BEGINS THE STORYTELLING!
Bursting out of the desert sands like only a god-warrior could, it's not hard to see why Renekton is known as "the Butcher of the Sands" 😵
@GrahamMcNeill
brings us a blood-soaked
#LeagueOfLegends
tale, in 'With Teeth'!
I remember the moment during Ezreal's rework when
@thatmattdunn
and I first started to think about how to properly hint at this...
It's certainly formed the basis of everything I've worked on with either character since then - or indeed the history of Shurima and the Void 😎👍
Feels like we haven't been able to share any
#LeagueOfLegends
stories in a while... but HOO BOY we're back like vertebrae! 🤓
As the Black Mist rolls outward across Runeterra,
@ianrunshispen
catches sight of a familiar face on the high seas. Uh ohhhhhhh.
IT'S HERE. IT'S FINALLY HERE.
'The Dream Thief' by
@thatmattdunn
, now presented IN FULL with a canonical ending, inspired by the choices made by our wonderful RU players, and edited by the talented
@Hulk__Harvey
.
ALSO THAT ARTWORK.
Finally, my grumpy lad is here! ❤️
I was very kindly invited to write Ornn’s VO for LoR - and
@rnoelliams
showed me the ropes with exceptional kindness and infinite patience 😄 I’ve edited many cards, given feedback on countless more… but writing them is a whole new skill set.
“You wanted the God of the Forge, you got him!”
What weapon of legend will Ornn craft next? Find out in Awakening, Legend of Runeterra’s newest expansion, releasing on August 31.
Right. Hello. I'm not spending my Saturday watching folks take tweets out of context again, so I'm going to simply reiterate the ACTUAL situation:
Some champ bios were not updated to be consistent with the current lore, before my team's bandwidth got wrecked in 2020. That's it.
AWW YEAH! Noxus is returning to Ionia in force! Let's see how much the "balance" helps them this time around 😈
But wait. What's this?
@ianrunshispen
's tale of a secret mission, sponsored by shadowy figures behind the scenes? What can this be about...?
A wonderful new
#LeagueOfLegends
story this week, tying into a player-favorite character from
#LegendsOfRuneterra
😍
@rnoelliams
shows us the start of Tyari's deeply personal journey, and determination to climb Mount Targon, in 'The Face in Her Stars'
First person to answer my
#LeagueOfLegends
#League10
trivia question in full wins 1000RP 😎👍
What is the unspoken lore link between Ezreal and Kassadin?
Lots of questions about Kindred in the past week or so - it's like you could all SENSE something was coming 😄
A brand new
#LeagueOfLegends
@PlayRuneterra
story from
@thatmattdunn
is up now! But where do all these weird, creepy masks keep coming from...?
As a Brit, I can honestly say that seeing Hollywood types thinking that “scripted narrative podcasts” are a revolutionary game changer (that they are somehow pioneering) is just hilarious…
Well done! You’re talking about radio plays! They’ve existed for about 100 years 👍
I am so behind with my
#LeagueOfLegends
lore tweets, I totally missed this...
In addition to all the nu-metal this week, we finally have a color story for Noxus' original rock star, Vladimir -
@ianrunshispen
tells a darkly uplifting tale in 'Alone' 🤩
This is what happens when your dad leaves a potato on a tool bench in his locked garage, then dies, and you have to go in there 7 months later to clear everything out…
I nearly had a heart attack when I saw this 😵 The roots were gripping the handles of the bench!
The starry-eyed songstress is live in
#LeagueOfLegends
MOBA! For all the Runeterra lore fans out there, Daniel Couts gives us a glimpse into Seraphine's life in Piltover and Zaun, in the brand new color story 'Standing Room Only' 🎤
OH YES INDEED,
#LeagueOfLegends
LORE FANS! It's that time again! 😄 We have new content live now on Universe...
First up, the brand new champion Samira is hitting the Rift in style - this Noxian mercenary's bio comes courtesy of champ writer
@SkiptoMyLuo
Alongside all the new champ goodness hitting
#LeagueOfLegends
today, we also have a Lissandra color story from
@thatmattdunn
- following on from 'The Dream Thief', we learn more of her unending struggle against the Watchers in 'Hero of the Frost Moon' 🥶
Do not, under any circumstances, worship:
- celebrities
- billionaires
- AI
I feel like speculative fiction has been EXCEPTIONALLY clear about this for 50+ years. There’s really no excuse at this point.
I forgot to circle back on this... 😄
When writing 'In Battle, Broken' I typed out a short summary for the Wombo AI, producing the abstract image I posted at the time.
Comparing this to the actual cover art, it's really interesting to see which elements the AI focused on!
And because we are JUST TOO GOOD TO YOU, Sona also FINALLY has a color story! 'One Last Show' is a wonderful look at music and culture in Demacia, brought to life by
@kchironis
.
Who wishes Katie was available to write more stories for us? [raises hand]
OMG what day even is it anymore... 🙃
A new
#LeagueOfLegends
story on a Saturday, because that's how we roll!
@whiskerswieske
makes his Universe debut with 'The Despoiler of Havenfall' - and Hecarim finally gets to travel the world.
That's nice for him.
If you enjoy a thing we make, tell us!
If you don't enjoy a thing we make, tell us!
But please, PLEASE don't imply there are some folks whose words/ideas are less valid than others. That's a horrible, upsetting gut-punch, frankly 🙁 And THAT makes us not want to respond at all.
WAIT WHAT'S THIS
A little nugget of
#LeagueOfLegends
lore on a Tuesday morning? Step back in time and see what the people of Noxus were told when Swain became Grand General - and how the Trifarix ruling council was put together...
Pentakill - conquerors of a land of myth and metal, where dark gods of music have toyed with the fates of mortal bands for millennia. Now the dominant sound of this world, Pentakill’s story is about to enter a new chapter...
#LegendOfPENTAKILL
FINALLY, a
#LeagueOfLegends
tale you can really get your claws into 😼🥴
@thefakedana
explores the University of Piltover, revealing how one of its greatest minds ended up... somewhere unexpected. Fresh from
#LegendsOfRuneterra
- it's Professor Von Yipp!
Oh yes, I should probably mention this...
#SONA
HAS UPDATED LORE. This was delayed by the Riot-wide break, but her bio now gives far more detail about her place in the Buvelle family, and Demacia.
That's it. It's done. Y'all gonna need a new meme. 🤣
Okay
#LeagueOfLegends
lore fans... let's do this! 😁
For those who just couldn't POSSIBLY wait any longer,
@ianrunshispen
brings us the dramatic conclusion to the Sisterhood of War arc, in 'Irreparable' - and it seems like Riven is within their grasp...
"You know who needs a bio update?" we thought. "Bard. Bard needs a bio update."
Finally, the Caretaker's place in the world is... well, not 'known' as such... but definitely... you know... more detailed. Check it out! 😄
Just to be clear - I don’t get to decide WHAT stories we tell, about WHICH champions. That is 100% decided by what the game teams (or other products) are putting into their releases, and we coordinate our work.
We just make sure they are the best stories they can possibly be 👍
I can 100% confirm this story was meant to come out BEFORE the holidays... but my team was crunched and we ran out of release days, so postponed this piece in favor of the others.
I would have loved for y'all to have enjoyed it in advance of the CG release. It was a tough call.
@z4rker
@thefakedana
The girl who is clad in horrifying living Void skin that she can't take off or she'll die, and that most people she encounters are so afraid of that they think she's a Voidborn?
I can't imagine where that theme came from! 😄
A buried empire. A brother’s betrayal. A relic that could change everything.
Venture to Shurima on March 3rd in the next set, Empires of the Ascended. Stay tuned for more spoiler season content in the days to come!
Hey, guess who's back... 😎👍
Just wanted to say, we made a small tweak to Smolder's bio, as the previous wording seems to have led to some confusion. To be clear - no dragons went WITH Viego to Helia.
That's not to say that no Camavoran dragon EVER went there, though! [1/2]
SADDLE UP, YOU CITY SLICKERS - WE'RE HITTING THE DUSTY TRAILS!
👿🤠😈
Brand new High Noon Gothic
#LeagueOfLegends
fiction live now on Universe -
@RiotTenPaces
introduces us to 'The Stranger On the Road'...
More
#LeagueOfLegends
lore drops today, on Universe!
For everyone who KEEPS asking,
@ianrunshispen
brings us the send installment of 'Sisterhood of War' with a large number of "unquiet dead". Doesn't sound ominous at all, no sir...
Brand new
#LeagueOfLegends
short story 'Adaptation' is out today! Finally, we actually get to see Kha'Zix vs Rengar...
(I should point out that
@ianrunshispen
is firing out new fiction like a boss, considering he only joined Riot officially on Friday!)
Let's talk about this tweet.
A MONTH AGO, someone asked me about skins. I used to work on League, so I used to edit skin bios. I haven't for 2+ years. There are very talented and capable Narrative folks who handle that now - it's not my team, so I'm not going to speak for them.
@RyzeSmurf
@arddhu
The skins team has their own Narrative folks, and a full process - I and my team are just not involved with it anymore.
If you have specific questions about their products, you should reach out to them and I’m sure they’ll be happy to give more info 😎👍
More
#LeagueOfLegends
lore for your Tuesday reading pleasure 😎👍
Before Yi was a Master, he was... just Yi! New story 'Poetry with a Blade' by Mo Xiong gives more insight into his time with the legendary Master Doran, AND the ancient history of Ionia...
The reason I'm so confident when I say "LeBlanc is not part of the Trifarix" is because some of us here DO know who the representative of Guile ACTUALLY is...
I also know when that reveal will happen 😉
And we have a brand new Xayah and Rakan short story from
@oldsalt90
- possibly my new favourite story title of 2020, 'A Piece of Shadow Cake' 😍
Ever wanted to know what their launch CG was all about? Now you can get the full picture...
Just been doing a quick review of all the
#LeagueOfLegends
lore we've shipped this year, to date...
Our writers and editors produced 135,000+ words of great story content, NOT including the 'Garen: First Shield' novella, or champion bios - with those, it's well over 200,000!
And finally, Yasuo and Ahri have some slight updates to their lore to reflect these new events 😎👍
What lies ahead for them in Bilgewater? Only time will tell...
And since we're approaching the spoopiest holiday, we also have a rather grim and chilling tale from
@Biolumi07121654
- find out what Zaun's favorite alchymist is up to in that lab of his, in 'The Host' 😱
(Confirmed: Singed owns non-tattered clothes!)
I'm sure none of you have missed the arrival of Lillia, the Bashful Bloom - lovingly crafted by David 'Interlocutioner' Slagle and
@Ququlani
!
You can read her
#LeagueOfLegends
bio now on Universe:
Azir may possess the power of an Ascended, but without the lost Seal of the Emperors, some would claim he has no right to rule Shurima. Intent on proving them wrong, he sends his most trusted warriors to recover the relic…
Slightly delayed by the Riot-wide break, we are back with
#LeagueOfLegends
lore updates! Expect more frequent drops in the near future, but slightly less content in each 😎👍
First up is 'Shield of Remembrance' a brand new Quinn story by
@_AntReynolds_
We have a new
#LeagueOfLegends
short story for y'all this morning, set in the Eclipse universe... 😱
From the delightfully twisted mind of
@carnivalnites
comes a dark fairytale for all fans of Elderwood and Coven lore - 'The Spirit of Copperwood Glade'
Combat is not cool.
No one should be able to come out of a fight like nothing happened, deliver a snappy one-liner and go about the rest of their day.
Battles should be traumatic. Dirty. The winners should barely win, and they should be haunted forever by what they did and saw.
@LaurieGoulding
Each of them posses a gauntlet from Ne'Zuk; A shuriman sunborn.
Ezreal has Ne'Zuk's left gauntlet while Kassadin has the right gauntlet.
PS: I'd love to see this lore playout somehow.
Who wants some
#LeagueOfLegends
RP?
I'll give 1,000 RP to the first 20 folks who reply here, to tell me which Universe story or bio they enjoyed most in 2020 😎 If you correctly Twitter-tag the writer too, I'll make it 1,500 RP...
Please include your region and Summoner name!
Just woke up from an anxiety dream - a Runeterra CG was released, and (multiple times) the characters said "Mount Everest" instead of Mount Targon.
I was like "How can this possibly happen?! Did no one think to check the script?" and then I was accused of being overly negative.
It’s a very special thing, when fandom is rewarded.
Sometimes it can take years… but when you see characters you love translated into a gripping, authentic cinematic experience, there’s nothing quite like it.
Time to grab some grub, and get ready to dive in again! ❤️
Okay! There was a slight delay, but the final piece of this week's
#LeagueOfLegends
lore update is finally live! 😎👍 Targon's art galleries and text have been reorganized, with some new nuggets scattered throughout for all you diehard story fans...
Also,
@JoeyYuWriter
revisits the ORIGINAL yordle Kinkou, when Kennen travels to an outlying temple to deliver the triumvirate's judgement upon them, in 'Between Light and Shadows'...
PSA: The 20s will not be like 'The Aviator'. They will be like 'Peaky Blinders'.
You will either get shot in the face in Margate, or die of flu. Either way, you will suffer from PTSD and smoke too much.
Monday
#LeagueOfLegends
lore update 😎👍
Coinciding with her full launch, Samira's awesome color story 'Daredevil Impulse' comes from champion writer
@SkiptoMyLuo
, edited by
@Ququlani
.
(Yes, folks from all over Runeterra live happily in Noxus!)
Also - my team is not "the Lore Team".
There is no Lore Team. There never has been.
Every story, every script, every crossover is the result of many, many dedicated folks (yes, including Narrative!) going above and beyond to work together and find cool, exciting opportunities.
I have been REGULARLY amazed and disappointed that this was ever unclear to anyone...
But apparently it still is (possibly because of poor reading comprehension skills?)
Good on GW for stating the actual truth so plainly.
@RyzeSmurf
@arddhu
The skins team has their own Narrative folks, and a full process - I and my team are just not involved with it anymore.
If you have specific questions about their products, you should reach out to them and I’m sure they’ll be happy to give more info 😎👍
Crossover storytelling? That's what you want? Okaaaaaay...
@thefakedana
brings us 'Seams and Scars', a wonderful Riven color story with veiled nod to another ongoing arc 😉
A brand new and thoroughly awesome
#LeagueOfLegends
story from
@SkiptoMyLuo
- when Udyr returned to the Freljord from Ionia, he found the old spirits waiting for him...
'A Walk with the Voices' is up on Universe now!
Y’all know there’s still a monarchy, right? The concept itself didn’t die…
Carrying on like Ewoks dancing around with all the main cast - you’ve got loads more work to do yet.
CREDIT. EVERYONE.
I'm still amazed by how many times, and at how many different companies, I've heard "We don't usually credit people - we prefer to let the product/IP speak for itself..." 🤬
If you do that, credit is assumed/claimed by those with the biggest public following.
Next up, a fun fact - Yasuo has the most different stories* about him, of any champion... but until now he had no color story. Like a masked word-vigilante,
@TKittenWritten
rights that injustice with 'Brotherhood'!
(*- Prove me wrong. I'll wait.)