User blog comment:Reilock/Riots new Lore Direction: Rant/@comment-5824171-20140924232249

I get your argument, (I would have been able to stick so much better with it if you'd spelt correctly but whatever)

So, what I'd like is for someone to explain the story of the whole thing to me, either before or after this "retcon", because while on a character level I've paid a lot of attention to detail, worldwise, I don't know nearly as much as you seem to have seen. Either it's just completely floated by me or there wasn't actually as much of a story as is being hyped, either before or after.

Here's what I know:

Shadow isles has some messed up stuff that's mainly undead but not all of it, some of it's mutant-ish-type... Something? I don't even know. Spiders. That's all you need to know.

Void: Everything is obsessed with eating, there's magic involved, I'm getting a very vague "old ones" influence in terms of Malzahar's interactions with the void, other than that, it's completely undescribed, but that kind of works since I guess it's supposed to be beyond mortal comprehension or something.

There's a jungle. I dunno its name. It's where I automatically place Rengar, Zyra and Gnar in my head-version of the world.

The shurima (NEEEEEEW :D ) is a big desert, where there used to be an empire, and it's associated with both modern-day "tomb raider" type expeditions as well as super-mystical unexplained whateverthefrick stuff that makes people into... Giant... Super... Animal... People? ... What? Also one guy who turned into a floating sarcophagus or something, I don't even know, were there ever humans there in the first place or is this just the town of the anthromorhic objects/animals?

Demacia: THIS PLACE IS GOOD! ... GUYS! ... GUYS LOOK! IT'S THE GOOD GUYS!!! ... LOOK AT THESE GOOD GUYS! YOU SHOULD ROOT FOR THEM!! THEY'RE THE GOOD GUYS!!!!! Also known as "The guys projecting their benevolence so hard they picked a fight with the only place projecting anything as hard as they are"

Noxus: THE BAD GUYS! BOO! HISS! HATE THEM BECAUSE THEY'RE BAD! ... NO STOP THE SWAIN X JARVAN FANFICS THE NOXIANS ARE BAD GUYS! GUYS!! ... GUYS?! GUYS! LOOK! THEY HAVE EXECUTIONERS! THAT MAKES THEM BAD GUYS! The guys projecting their bad-guy-ness so hard the demacians just had to get a piece of that action if they ever wanted to persuade the world they were the good guys, despite being pretentious, stuck-up, pompous douchebags themselves (WHOOPS DID I SAY THAT OUT LOUD)

Ionia: The poor sods that seem to basically be some part of asia and got screwed over by Noxus (Ok I know something about the world) and had to have a war, and got some boots named after them when they kicked the presumably significantly larger power right in the evil-projecting buttocks. They have a badass monk and a chibi mummy. Also, samurai.

Piltover: ... There's three hot chicks and one of them is an anarchist. Technology or something Idunfeggino.

Zaun: Warwick used to be an alchemist there until RITO MURDERED HIS BACKSTORY >:O Now it's just Singed. ¬_¬ Also they're like the technology guys for Noxus, but more towards chemical weapons and the like. Poisons. Stuff like that.

Freljord, I know for a fact that I've missed a lot with the Freljord which is probably more readily available, I know about the rivalry between the three girlies obviously but when it comes to the freljord in and of itself, I have no clue. I know there's some alliances, but apart from Trundle and Lissana being allied, and Ashe and Tryndamere having a political marriage (I believe?) I don't really know who's allied with who, and looking for what's what seems like too much effort for too little payoff. (Hence the entire point of this entire comment.)

I think that's all I know, but I might be wrong, and indeed I might be wrong about "Knowing" any of this, the world lore seems far more convoluted and difficult to pull together than character lore so I'm not 100% on most of this, it's all off the top of my head. If someone has like a millenia to waste filling in the blanks that there probably are, I'd appreciate. Hell, maybe a compilation of all the lore, that may otherwise take a hell of a long time of study and research to get, into one place would be an interesting topic for a full post. It'd be a cool way of bookmarking the end of the old lore so it can be appreciated by everyone without them having to go all over the place.

Just a suggestion preceeded by an extremely unreasonable request. I'd prefer if the suggestion was focussed upon ._.