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-- return { ["Something Went Wrong"] = { ["artwork"] = "Bard promo 2.jpg", ["description"] = "Lost? Take a magical hourney back to the known universe.", ["loretype"] = "Faction", ["region"] = {"Runeterra"} }, ["Bandle City"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/region/bandle-city/", ["artwork"] = "Bandle Forest.png", ["description"] = "Opinions differ as to where exactly the land of the Yordles is to be found. Some maintain these fey creatures live far to the southeast, beyond a range of impassable mountains. Others claim the Yordles live under grassy green hills or deep in the hearts of impenetrable forests. Perhaps some of these tales are true or maybe none, for no expedition mounted to find the Yordle homeland has ever located it. Which is not to say that no one has visited the land of Yordles, for many claim to have travelled through unseen portals into a land of fey enchantment populated by diminutive creatures of mischief. In Bandle City every sensation is heightened for non-Yordles; colors are incredibly vivid,the food and drink intoxicates the senses for years and, once tasted, will never be forgotten. The sunlight is eternally golden, the waters crystal clear, and every harvest brings fruitful bounty. It is also a place of unfettered magic, where the incautious can be led astray by its myriad wonders and end up lost in a dream until they drop dead of hunger and thirst. Those who claim to have travelled to Bandle City speak of a timeless quality, which may explain why many such taletellers appear to have aged tremendously or, in fact, never return at all.",   ["starring"] = {"Corki", "Lulu", "Rumble", "Teemo", "Tristana", "Veigar"},    ["loretype"] = "Faction",    ["region"] = {"Bandle City"}  },  ["Bilgewater"] = {    ["reference"]= "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/region/bilgewater/",    ["artwork"] = "Bilgewater Butcher's Bridge.png",    ["description"] = "Nestled away in the Blue Flame Isles archipelago, Bilgewater is a port city like no other—home to serpent-hunters, dock gangs, and smugglers from across the known world. Here, fortunes are made and ambitions shattered in the blink of an eye. For those fleeing justice, debt, or persecution, Bilgewater can be a place of new beginnings, for no one on these twisted streets cares about your past. Even so, with each new dawn, careless travellers can always be found floating in the harbor, their purses empty and their throats slit... While incredibly dangerous, Bilgewater is ripe with opportunity, free from the shackles of formal government and trade regulation. If you have the coin, almost anything can be purchased here, from outlawed hextech to the favor of local crime lords.",   ["starring"] = {"Fizz", "Gangplank", "Graves", "Illaoi", "Miss Fortune", "Nautilus", "Pyke", "Tahm Kench", "Twisted Fate"},    ["loretype"] = "Faction",    ["region"] = {"Bilgewater"}  },  ["Demacia"] = {    ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/region/demacia/",    ["artwork"] = "Demacia Hall of Valor.png",    ["description"] = "Demacia is a strong, lawful society with a prestigious military history. It values the ideals of justice, honor and duty highly, and its people are fiercely proud. Demacia is a self-sufficient, agrarian society, with abundant, fertile farmland, dense forests that are logged for lumber, and mountains rich with mineral resources. It is inherently defensive and insular, partly in response to frequent attacks from barbarians, raiders and expansionist civilizations. Some suggest that the golden age of Demacia has passed and unless it is able to adapt to a changing world – something many believe it is simply incapable of doing – that its decline is inevitable. Nevertheless, Demacia remains one of the dominant powers in Valoran, and boasts the most elite, well-trained army in all of Runeterra.",   ["starring"] = {"Fiora", "Galio", "Garen", "Lucian", "Lux", "Jarvan IV", "Poppy", "Quinn", "Shyvana", "Sona", "Vayne", "Xin Zhao"},    ["loretype"] = "Faction",    ["region"] = {"Demacia"}  },  ["Freljord"] = {    ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/region/freljord/",    ["artwork"] = "Freljord Rakelstake.png",    ["description"] = "The Freljord is a harsh and unforgiving land. Proud and fiercely independent, its people are born warriors, with a strong raiding culture. While there are many individual tribes within the Freljord, the battle lines are being drawn in a three-way civil war that will determine the future for them all. One tribe unflinchingly honors the traditions that have ensured its survival; another follows the dream of a united future, as foretold by a young idealist; while the third worships the power of an enigmatic sorceress.",   ["starring"] = {"Anivia", "Ashe", "Braum", "Lissandra", "Nunu", "Olaf", "Ornn", "Sejuani", "Trundle", "Tryndamere", "Udyr", "Volibear"},    ["loretype"] = "Faction",    ["region"] = {"Freljord"}  },  ["Ionia"] = {    ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/region/ionia/",    ["artwork"] = "Ionia Placidium Navori.png",    ["description"] = "Ionia is a land of unspoiled beauty and natural magic. Its inhabitants, living in scattered settlements across this massive island continent, are a spiritual people who seek to live in harmony and balance with the world. There are many orders and sects across Ionia, each following their own (often conflicting) paths and ideals. Self-sufficient and isolationist, Ionia has remained largely neutral in the wars that have ravaged Valoran over the centuries – until it was invaded by Noxus. This brutal conflict and occupation has forced Ionia to reassess its place in the world. How it reacts and the future path Ionia will follow is as yet undetermined, but will be of great importance to Runeterra.",   ["starring"] = {"Ahri", "Akali", "Irelia", "Jhin", "Karma", "Kayn", "Kennen", "Lee Sin", "Master Yi", "Rakan", "Shen", "Soraka", "Syndra", "Varus", "Wukong", "Xayah", "Zed"},    ["loretype"] = "Faction",    ["region"] = {"Ionia"}  },  ["Mount Targon"] = {    ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/region/mount-targon/",    ["artwork"] = "Mount Targon Divine Carvings.jpg",    ["description"] = "Mount Targon is the mightiest peak in Runeterra, a towering peak of sun-baked rock amid a range of summits unmatched in scale anywhere else in the world. Located far from civilization, Mount Targon is utterly remote and all but impossible to reach save by the most determined seeker. Many legends cling to Mount Targon, and, like any place of myth, it is a beacon to dreamers, madmen and questors of adventure. Some of these brave souls attempt to scale the impossible mountain, perhaps seeking wisdom or enlightenment, perhaps chasing glory or some soul-deep yearning to witness its summit. The ascent is all but impossible, and those hardy few who somehow survive to reach the top almost never speak of what they have seen. Some return with a haunted, empty look in their eyes, others changed beyond all recognition, imbued by an Aspect of unearthly, inhuman power with a destiny few mortals can comprehend.",   ["starring"] = {"Aurelion Sol", "Diana", "Leona", "Pantheon", "Taric", "Zoe"},    ["loretype"] = "Faction",    ["region"] = {"Mount Targon"}  },  ["Noxus"] = {    ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/region/noxus/",    ["artwork"] = "Noxus Bastion.png",    ["description"] = "Noxus is a powerful empire with a fearsome reputation. To those beyond its borders, Noxus is brutal, expansionist and threatening, yet those who look beyond its warlike exterior see an unusually inclusive society, where the strengths and talents of its people are respected and cultivated. Its people were once a fierce reaver culture until they stormed the ancient city that now lies at the heart of their empire. Under threat from all sides, they aggressively took the fight to their enemies, pushing their borders outward with every passing year. This struggle for survival has made the Noxians a deeply proud people who value strength above all, though that strength can manifest by many different means. Anyone can rise to a position of power and respect within Noxus if they display the necessary aptitude, regardless of social standing, background, homeland, or wealth.",   ["starring"] = {"Cassiopeia", "Darius", "Draven", "Katarina", "Kled", "LeBlanc", "Riven", "Sion", "Swain", "Talon", "Vladimir"},    ["loretype"] = "Faction",    ["region"] = {"Noxus"}  },  ["Piltover"] = {    ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/region/piltover/",    ["artwork"] = "Piltover Entrance Treasury.png",    ["description"] = "Piltover is a thriving, progressive city whose power and influence is on the rise. It is Valoran's cultural center, where art, craftsmanship, trade and innovation walk hand in hand. Its power comes not through military might, but the engines of commerce and forward thinking. Situated on the cliffs above the district of Zaun and overlooking the ocean, fleets of ships pass through its titanic sea-gates, bringing goods from all over the world. The wealth this generates has given rise to an unprecedented boom in the city's growth. Piltover has - and still is - reinventing itself as a city where fortunes can be made and dreams can be lived. Burgeoning merchant clans fund development in the most incredible endeavors: grand artistic follies, esoteric hextech research, and architectural monuments to their power. With ever more inventors delving into the emergent lore of hextech, Piltover has become a lodestone for the most skilled craftsmen the world over.",   ["starring"] = {"Caitlyn", "Camille", "Ezreal", "Heimerdinger", "Jayce", "Orianna", "Vi"},    ["loretype"] = "Faction",    ["region"] = {"Piltover"}  },  ["Shadow Isles"] = {    ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/region/shadow-isles/",    ["artwork"] = "Shadow Isles Ruins.png",    ["description"] = "The land now known as the Shadow Isles was once a beautiful realm, but it was shattered by a magical cataclysm. Black Mist permanently shrouds the isles and the land itself is tainted, corrupted by malevolent sorcery. Living beings that stand upon the Shadow Isles slowly have their life-force leeched from them, which, in turn, draws the insatiable, predatory spirits of the dead. Those who perish within the Black Mist are condemned to haunt this melancholy land for eternity. Worse, the power of the Shadow Isles is waxing stronger with every passing year, allowing the shades of undeath to extend their range and reap souls all across Runeterra.",   ["starring"] = {"Elise", "Hecarim", "Kalista", "Karthus", "Maokai", "Mordekaiser", "Thresh", "Yorick"},    ["loretype"] = "Faction",    ["region"] = {"Shadow Isles"}  },  ["Shurima"] = {    ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/region/shurima/",    ["artwork"] = "Shurima Homecoming.png",    ["description"] = "The empire of Shurima was once a thriving civilization that spanned a vast desert. After an era of growth and prosperity, the fall of its gleaming capital left the empire in ruins. Over millennia, tales of Shurima's glorious city became myth and religion among the descendants of the scattered survivors. Most of the nomadic inhabitants of Shurima search for basic sustenance in an unforgiving land. Some defend small outposts built around a few oases. Others hunt buried riches among the ruins of the fallen empire, or obtain mercenary work, taking coin for their deeds before disappearing back into the sands. Now, the tribes are stirred by whispers from the heart of the desert: the city of Shurima has risen again.",   ["starring"] = {"Amumu", "Azir", "Nasus", "Rammus", "Renekton", "Sivir", "Skarner", "Taliyah", "Xerath"},    ["loretype"] = "Faction",    ["region"] = {"Shurima"}  },  ["Void"] = {    ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/region/void/",    ["artwork"] = "Void An Unknowable Power.jpg",    ["description"] = "Screaming into existence with the birth of the universe, the Void is a manifestation of the unknowable nothingness that lies beyond. It is a force of insatiable hunger, waiting through the eons until its masters, the mysterious Watchers, mark the final time of undoing. To be a mortal touched by this power is to suffer an agonizing glimpse of eternal unreality, enough to shatter even the strongest mind. Denizens of the Void realm itself are construct-creatures, often of only limited sentience, but tasked with a singular purpose—to usher in total oblivion across Runeterra.",   ["starring"] = {"Cho'Gath", "Kassadin", "Kha'Zix", "Kai'Sa", "Kog'Maw", "Malzahar", "Rek'Sai", "Vel'Koz"},    ["loretype"] = "Faction",    ["region"] = {"Void"}  },  ["Zaun"] = {    ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/region/zaun/",    ["artwork"] = "Zaun Depths.png",    ["description"] = "Zaun is a large, undercity district, lying in the deep canyons and valleys threading Piltover. What light reaches below is filtered through fumes leaking from the tangles of corroded pipework and reflected from the stained glass of its industrial architecture. Zaun and Piltover were once united, but are now separate, yet symbiotic societies. Though it exists in perpetual smogged twilight, Zaun thrives, its people vibrant and its culture rich. Piltover's wealth has allowed Zaun to develop in tandem; a dark mirror of the city above. Many of the goods coming to Piltover find their way into Zaun's black markets, and hextech inventors who find the restrictions placed upon them in the city above too restrictive often find their dangerous researches welcomed in Zaun. Unfettered development of volatile technologies and reckless industry has rendered whole swathes of Zaun polluted and dangerous. Streams of toxic runoff stagnate in the city's lower reaches, but even here people find a way to exist and prosper.",   ["starring"] = {"Blitzcrank", "Dr. Mundo", "Ekko", "Janna", "Jinx", "Singed", "Twitch", "Urgot", "Viktor", "Warwick", "Zac", "Ziggs"},   ["loretype"] = "Region",    ["region"] = {"Zaun"}  },  ["The Cage"] = {    ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/aatrox-color-story/",    ["artwork"] = "The Cage.jpg",    ["starring"] = {"Aatrox"},    ["region"] = {"Shurima"},    ["loretype"] = "Short Story",    ["duration"] = 3,  },  ["The Darkin Blade"] = {    ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/aatrox/",    ["artwork"] = "Aatrox OriginalCentered.jpg",    ["starring"] = {"Aatrox"},    ["mentioned"] = {"Pantheon", "Zoe"},    ["region"] = {"Shurima"},    ["loretype"] = "Biography",  },  ["World Ender"] = {    ["reference"] = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8p_brCVNOA",    ["artwork"] = "Aatrox OriginalCentered.jpg",    ["starring"] = {"Aatrox"},    ["region"] = {"Shurima"}, ["loretype"] = "Video", ["description"] = "Death and dust choke the air as a shadow takes shape. It is more ancient and evil than war. And it is growing." }, ["A Fair Trade"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/ahri-color/", ["artwork"] = "Ahri Lore 1.png", ["starring"] = {"Ahri"}, ["region"] = {"Ionia"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 6, ["description"] = "Ahri walks in disguise, but this fortune-teller has her own secret. What are they both hiding?" }, ["Garden of Forgetting"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/ahri-garden-forgetting/", ["artwork"] = "Ahri Lore 4.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Ahri"}, ["region"] = {"Ionia"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 8, ["description"] = "More than memories are lost in this garden - what will become of Ahri if she surrenders hers?" }, ["The Nine-Tailed Fox"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/ahri/", ["artwork"] = "Ahri OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Ahri"}, ["region"] = {"Ionia"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Leaving Weh'le"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_GB/story/akali-color-story/", ["author"] = "Michael McCarthy", ["artwork"] = "Akali Leaving Weh'le.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Akali"}, ["region"] = {"Ionia"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", }, ["The Rogue Assassin"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/akali/", ["artwork"] = "Akali OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Akali"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Kennen", "Shen", "Zed"}, ["region"] = {"Ionia"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Minotaur"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/alistar/", ["artwork"] = "Alistar OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Alistar"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Greed and Tears"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/amumu-color-story/", ["artwork"] = "Shurima Reborn.png", ["starring"] = {"Amumu"}, ["region"] = {"Shurima"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 5, ["description"] = "The gods were angry, and shook the land. Cracks rent the earth,' said old Khaldun, his crag-featured face lit by firelight. 'It was into one of these fissures that a young man ventured. He found an opening; the entrance to a tomb, hidden for the Jackal knows how long. The man had little ones to feed and a wife to please, and so he ventured in, lured by opportunity.'" }, ["The Sad Mummy"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/amumu/", ["artwork"] = "Amumu OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Amumu"}, ["region"] = {"Shurima"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Curse of the Sad Mummy"] = { ["reference"] = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AvWV6Mk374", ["author"] = "Numerous creators", ["starring"] = {"Amumu"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Kindred"}, ["loretype"] = "Video", ["description"] = "Every child in Valoran has heard the tale before. About the cursed mummy boy who felt his heart no more." }, ["The Cryophoenix"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/anivia/", ["artwork"] = "Anivia OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Anivia"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Ashe", "Lissandra"}, ["region"] = {"Freljord"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Annie: Origins"] = { ["reference"] = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUTU-GnxVuM", ["author"] = "Numerous creators", ["starring"] = {"Annie"}, ["loretype"] = "Video", ["description"] = "Discover the spark that set off the Dark Child's fire." }, ["The Dark Child"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/annie/", ["artwork"] = "Annie OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Annie"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Frost Archer"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/ashe/", ["artwork"] = "Ashe OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Ashe"}, ["region"] = {"Freljord"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["He Has Returned"] = { ["reference"] = "https://youtu.be/MHtVmSJHWPY", ["author"] = "Numerous creators", ["starring"] = {"Aurelion Sol"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Pantheon"}, ["region"] = {"Mount Targon"}, ["loretype"] = "Video", ["description"] = "The sky around Mount Targon shimmers with celestial bodies; the sun and moons, but also constellations, planets, fiery comets that streak the darkness, and auspicious arrangements of stars. The people living at the mountain's base believe these to be aspects of long-vanished stellar beings, creatures powerful and ancient on a scale beyond human comprehension. Some believe the power of these Aspects sometimes come down the mountain within the lambent bodies of those climbers found worthy. Such an occurrence is unimaginably rare and amazing tales of their exploits form around such individuals, who only ever appear once every few generations. It is incredibly unusual for more than a single Aspect to walk the earth of Runeterra at any given time, so the tales of several Aspects manifesting has spread a pall of fear and uncertainty around the mountain. For what threat might be arising that requires the power of so many powerful beings to fight?" }, ["The Star Forger"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/aurelionsol/", ["artwork"] = "Aurelion Sol OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Aurelion Sol"}, ["region"] = {"Mount Targon"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Star Forger Returns"] = { ["reference"] = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAAnY_L4Pp4", ["artwork"] = "Aurelion Sol OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Aurelion Sol"}, ["region"] = {"Mount Targon"}, ["loretype"] = "Video", ["description"] = "Cower. Worship. Marvel. All appropriate responses, really." }, ["Twin Dawns"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/aurelionsol-color-story/", ["artwork"] = "Mount Targon Divine Carvings.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Aurelion Sol"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Pantheon"}, ["region"] = {"Mount Targon"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 10, ["description"] = "This world's familiar sun still hides below the horizon. Crude and unpolished earth unfurls below. Mountains contort into barriers that stretch like fingers across empty scrub lands. Palaces, or rather, what pass for palaces, fail to loom over anything but the squattest of hills. The curvature of the planet meets the stars with a serenity and grace few of the dwellers below will ever witness. They are so scattered across the globe and grasp so blindly for any sort of understanding that it's no surprise they've been conquered and don't even comprehend their predicament." }, ["Arisen"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/azir-color-story/", ["artwork"] = "Shurima Reborn.png", ["starring"] = {"Azir"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Xerath"}, ["region"] = {"Shurima"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 4, ["description"] = "Azir walked the gold-paved Emperor's Way. The immense statues of Shurima's earliest rulers – his ancestors – watched his progress." }, ["The Emporor of the Sands"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/azir/", ["artwork"] = "Azir OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Azir"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Nasus", "Renekton", "Xerath"}, ["region"] = {"Shurima"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Descent into the Tomb"] = { ["reference"] = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKnM6Hh5gOg", ["author"] = "Numerous creators", ["starring"] = {"Azir", "Cassiopeia", "Renekton", "Sivir", "Xerath"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Nasus"}, ["region"] = {"Shurima"}, ["loretype"] = "Video", ["description"] = "Scroll after scroll in Noxian libraries chronicle the power buried within Shurima. Now Cassiopeia thinks she's found the key. Learn how the saga began.", ["following"] = "Rise of the Ascended" }, ["Rise of the Ascended"] = { ["reference"] = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYyuH1Bp2ZI", ["author"] = "Numerous creators", ["starring"] = {"Azir", "Sivir"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Nasus"}, ["region"] = {"Shurima"}, ["loretype"] = "Video", ["description"] = "Discover the tale of Ancient Shurima, where the fates of Azir and Siver intertwine.", ["previous"] = "Descent into the Tomb" }, ["Fall of the Empire"] = { ["author"] = "Numerous creators", ["starring"] = {"Azir", "Xerath", "Nasus", "Renekton"}, ["region"] = {"Shurima"}, ["loretype"] = "Comic", }, ["Bard Mountain"] = { ["reference"] = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX8iSobsKTY", ["author"] = "Numerous creators", ["starring"] = {"Bard"}, ["loretype"] = "Video", ["description"] = "When Runeterra's sacred treasures are misused, the Wandering Caretaker intervenes." }, ["The Wandering Caretaker"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/bard/", ["artwork"] = "Bard OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Bard"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Wonder Above"] = { ["author"] = "Numerous creators", ["reference"] = "https://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/champion-preview/wonder-above", ["starring"] = {"Bard"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["description"] = "The stars tell their own stories. Some speak of past events. Some speak of... other things." }, ["Ensemble"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/blitzcrank-color-story/", ["artwork"] = "Zaun College of Techmaturgy.png", ["starring"] = {"Blitzcrank"}, ["region"] = {"Zaun"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 6, ["description"] = "The plump belly of the Rising Howl looms before me, churning with its endless gears and elaborate ironwork. Some say the Howl is named for the wrought iron wolf that cries atop the apex of the hexdraulic descender; others swear the ghost of a black-veiled gentle-servant haunts the cabin, and when the Howl lifts him away from his lost love in Zaun, the sounds of his moans reverberate and shake its metal core. Many Piltovans, convinced as they are in their own sound judgment, are sure the name refers to nothing more than the cold wind whistling between the crevasses below their city." }, ["The Great Steam Golem"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/blitzcrank/", ["artwork"] = "Blitzcrank OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Blitzcrank"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Viktor"}, ["region"] = {"Zaun"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["From the Ashes"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/from-the-ashes/", ["artwork"] = "Brand Ryze From the Ashes.jpg", ["author"] = "Aaron Dembski-Bowden", ["starring"] = {"Brand", "Ryze"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 32, ["description"] = "I can't do it." }, ["The Burning Vengeance"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/brand/", ["artwork"] = "Brand OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Brand"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Feats of Braum"] = { ["artwork"] = "Braum Origin Art.png", ["author"] = "Numerous creators", ["starring"] = {"Braum"}, ["region"] = {"Freljord"}, ["loretype"] = "Video", ["description"] = "In the mead halls of the Freljord, Braum's great feats are immortalized by murals painted on the walls. On many a frozen night, the locals gather to recount his tales amidst merriment and drink!" }, ["Tomb of the Troll Boy"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/braum-color-story/", ["artwork"] = "Freljord Gateway Howling Abyss.png", ["starring"] = {"Braum"}, ["region"] = {"Freljord"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 3, ["description"] = "'Would you like to hear a bedtime story?'" }, ["Trial of the Poro"] = { ["reference"] = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dvYxkyQFZU", ["artwork"] = "Braum Poro Promo.png", ["author"] = "Numerous creators", ["starring"] = {"Braum"}, ["region"] = {"Freljord"}, ["loretype"] = "Video", ["description"] = "With the Freljord's winter closing in and an almighty battle raging around him, one brave PoroSquare Poro bounds on in his eternal search for snacks." }, ["No Biography"] = { ["starring"] = {"Braum", "Malphite", "Nidalee", "Nocturne", "Nunu", "Rumble", "Soraka", "Veigar", "Vladimir", "Volibear", "Ziggs", "Zilean"} }, ["Progress Day"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/piltover-progress-day/", ["author"] = "Graham McNeill", ["artwork"] = "Piltover Zindelo Incognium.png", ["starring"] = {"Caitlyn"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Vi", "Camille"}, ["region"] = {"Piltover"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 27, ["description"] = "Tamara forces herself to rise early - an easy habit to get into when the earth is your bed and fallen leaves the only blanket. Less so when the mattress is stuffed with goose down and the sheets woven from soft cotton. The curtains are pulled back, and warm light pools on the floor of her third floor boarding room. She'd closed the curtains on her first night in Piltover and had slept two hours past dawn, which worried her so much, she has never closed them since." }, ["The Sheriff of Piltover"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/caitlyn/", ["artwork"] = "Caitlyn OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Caitlyn"}, ["region"] = {"Piltover"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Thrill of the Chase"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/caitlyn-color-story/", ["artwork"] = "Piltover Zindelo Incognium.png", ["starring"] = {"Caitlyn"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Vi"}, ["region"] = {"Piltover"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 5, ["description"] = "Even three bells after the Sun Gate had closed, Piltover was still full of life - life that was currently getting in her way. Caitlyn sprinted down Mainspring Crescent, weaving a path between midnight revelers strolling down the fashionable promenade of cafes and bistros. The supper clubs were emptying, as were the nearby theaters inside the Drawsmith Arcade, so this street was going to get a whole lot busier. If they didn't catch up to Devaki soon, they were going to lose him." }, ["Severed Ties"] = { ["reference"] = "https://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/featured/camille-comic", ["author"] = "Numerous creators", ["artwork"] = "Camille Severed Ties Cover.png", ["starring"] = {"Camille"}, ["region"] = {"Piltover"}, ["loretype"] = "Comic", ["description"] = "Camille must stop a secret alliance that threatens the fragile balance of power in Piltover." }, ["Tea With The Gray Lady"] = { ["reference"] = "http://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/camille-color-story", ["artwork"] = "Piltover Entrance Treasury.png", ["starring"] = {"Camille"}, ["region"] = {"Piltover"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 3, ["description"] = "The first sound I heard was the scrape of sharp metal against rock. My sight was blurred, my vision still swimming in murky darkness, but something in the back of my mind registered it, that knife-edge slide on wet stone. The rasp was the same as my mason when he marks out which rock to cut away from the cliff. It set my teeth on edge. The fog in my brain receded, but it left me with only one panicked thought as I strained at the ropes binding my hands:" }, ["The Steel Shadow"] = { ["reference"] = "http://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/camille", ["artwork"] = "Camille OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Camille"}, ["region"] = {"Piltover"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Weakest Heart"] = { ["reference"] = "http://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/camille-weakest-heart", ["author"] = "Ariel Lawrence", ["artwork"] = "Zaun Boundary Markets.png", ["starring"] = {"Camille"}, ["region"] = {"Piltover"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 26, ["description"] = "You should have killed her.'" }, ["The Serpent's Embrace"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/cassiopeia/", ["artwork"] = "Cassiopeia OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Cassiopeia"}, ["region"] = {"Noxus"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Shedding of Skin"] = { ["reference"] = "http://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/cassiopeia-color-story", ["artwork"] = "Shurima Reborn.png", ["starring"] = {"Cassiopeia"}, ["region"] = {"Shurima"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 5, ["description"] = "Cassiopeia reclined against a crenulated rooftop and gazed over the winding alleys and crowded streets of Noxus. Untroubled by the cool night air, she wore a shift of translucent silk, which revealed the transition at her hips where soft skin merged into overlapping scales of sinuous snakeskin." }, ["The Terror of the Void"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/chogath/", ["artwork"] = "Cho'Gath OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Cho'Gath"}, ["region"] = {"Void"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Daring Bombardier"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/corki/", ["artwork"] = "Corki OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Corki"}, ["region"] = {"Bandle City"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Fear"] = { ["reference"] = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGx9_wABzlA", ["artwork"] = "Darius Fear concept 01.jpg", ["author"] = "Numerous creators", ["starring"] = {"Darius"}, ["region"] = {"Freljord"}, ["loretype"] = "Video", ["description"] = "The wolves of the Freljord are savage predators. But they've never encountered a man like this." }, ["Blood of Noxus"] = { ["author"] = "Numerous creators", ["reference"] = "http://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/comic/darius/bloodofnoxus/", ["artwork"] = "Darius BoN prt00Cover.png", ["starring"] = {"Darius"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Draven"}, ["region"] = {"Noxus"}, ["loretype"] = "Comic", ["description"] = "In all Runeterra, there is no army more feared than that of the Noxian empire. In all Noxus, there is no soldier more respected than Darius. Of all the commandments that have kept Noxus strong, one rule stands above all others: Loyalty is everything." }, ["The Hand of Noxus"] = { ["reference"] = "http://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/darius", ["artwork"] = "Darius OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Darius"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Draven", "Swain"}, ["region"] = {"Noxus"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Principles of Strength"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/trifarian-legion/", ["artwork"] = "Noxus A State of Perpetual Conflict.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Darius", "Swain"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Kindred"}, ["region"] = {"Noxus"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 17, ["description"] = "My name is Alyssa Roshka Gloriana val-Lokan. For almost two millennia, my ancestors ruled the Delverhold as kings." }, ["Night's Work"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/diana-color-story/", ["artwork"] = "Mount Targon Divine Carvings.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Diana"}, ["region"] = {"Mount Targon"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 4, ["description"] = "Night had always been Diana's favorite time, even as a child. It had been that way since she was old enough to scramble over the walls of the Solari temple and watch the moon traverse the vault of stars. She looked up through the dense forest canopy, her violet eyes scanning for the silver moon, but seeing only its diffuse glow through the thick clouds and dark branches." }, ["The Scorn of the Moon"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/diana/", ["artwork"] = "Diana OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Diana"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Leona"}, ["region"] = {"Mount Targon"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Do No Harm"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/drmundo-color-story/", ["artwork"] = "Zaun Breather Station.png", ["starring"] = {"Dr. Mundo"}, ["region"] = {"Zaun"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 4, ["description"] = "It has been while, Mundo thought, stroking the massive purple tongue that hung from his mouth like an executed criminal swinging from gallows, since Mundo made a housecall." }, ["The Madman of Zaun"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/drmundo/", ["artwork"] = "Dr. Mundo OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Dr. Mundo"}, ["region"] = {"Zaun"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Glorious Executioner"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/draven/", ["artwork"] = "Draven OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Draven"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Darius"}, ["region"] = {"Noxus"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Chronobreak"] = { ["reference"] = "http://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/site/ekko-comic/", ["author"] = "Numerous creators", ["reference"] = "http://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/site/ekko-comic/", ["artwork"] = "Ekko Chrono cover.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Ekko"}, ["region"] = {"Zaun"}, ["loretype"] = "Comic", ["description"] = "A friend in need or a murderous deed. We're defined by the paths we take." }, ["Lullaby"] = { ["reference"] = "http://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/ekko-color-story", ["artwork"] = "Zaun Breather Station.png", ["starring"] = {"Ekko"}, ["region"] = {"Zaun"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 6, ["description"] = "It had been a weeklong sort of day." }, ["Seconds"] = { ["reference"] = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtEpp9lkfxA", ["artwork"] = "Ekko concept 41.jpg", ["author"] = "Numerous creators", ["starring"] = {"Ekko"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Jinx"}, ["region"] = {"Zaun"}, ["loretype"] = "Video", ["description"] = "Some things are worth fighting for. Time and time again." }, ["The Boy Who Shattered Time"] = { ["reference"] = "http://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/ekko", ["artwork"] = "Ekko OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Ekko"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Jayce", "Viktor"}, ["region"] = {"Zaun"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Spider God"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/elise/", ["artwork"] = "Elise OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Elise"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Vilemaw"}, ["region"] = {"Shadow Isles"}, ["loretype"] = "Narration", }, ["Strand By Silken Strand"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/elise-color-story/", ["artwork"] = "Shadow Isles Vaults.png", ["starring"] = {"Elise"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Vilemaw"}, ["region"] = {"Shadow Isles"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 5, ["description"] = "The weeks spent on the ocean had made Markus feel dizzy and weak, so he was glad to be back on dry land. The path leading from the basalt shore had a slick, oily quality, making it treacherous underfoot. The crooked trees to either side were wretched, blackened husks that wept yellowed sap from where it looked like some panicked animal had clawed them ragged. Soft light shimmered between the trees, dancing like the corpse candles that flickered over marshland and drew unwary souls to their doom. The branches were hung with what looked like canopies of ragged muslin, and it took Markus a moment to realize they were swathes of cobwebs." }, ["The Spider Queen"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/elise/", ["artwork"] = "Elise OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Elise"}, ["mentioned"] = {"LeBlanc", "Vilemaw"}, ["region"] = {"Shadow Isles"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Agony's Embrace"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/evelynn/", ["artwork"] = "Evelynn OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Evelynn"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Tallest Daisy"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/evelynn-color-story/", ["artwork"] = "Evelynn VGU Teaser.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Evelynn"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 5, ["description"] = "Evelynn slinked through the teeming streets, the shadows of her body blending seamlessly with the night. Her eyes glinted within the gloom, though only the keenest observer would have noticed. Drunks, sailors, and harlots chatted in a nearby thoroughfare, blissfully unaware they were being watched by a demon in the dark. The demon, on the other hand, saw them all with perfect clarity, and judged them with the most discerning eye." }, ["The Elixir of Uloa"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/ezreal-color-story/", ["artwork"] = "Piltover Entrance Treasury.png", ["starring"] = {"Ezreal"}, ["region"] = {"Piltover"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 4, ["description"] = "After hours of trekking through the stiflingly humid jungle, the cool air of this underground crypt is sweet bliss. Sure, potential death awaits at every turn, but so does certain glory." }, ["The Prodigal Explorer"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/ezreal/", ["artwork"] = "Ezreal OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Ezreal"}, ["region"] = {"Piltover"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Harbinger of Doom"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/fiddlesticks/", ["artwork"] = "Fiddlesticks OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Fiddlesticks"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["To Our End"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/fiddlesticks-color-story/", ["artwork"] = "Fiddlesticks Concept.png", ["starring"] = {"Fiddlesticks"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 4, ["description"] = "Niram and his fellow brigands readied their horses beneath the noonday sun. He fastened the buckle of the last satchel on his horse. Each was filled with an assortment of ornately carved daggers, snowfox furs, and cured meat. The stolen wares weighed his horse's saddle down so significantly he decided to walk her back to their camp." }, ["A Matter of Honor"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/fiora-color-story/", ["artwork"] = "Demacia Citadel.png", ["starring"] = {"Fiora"}, ["region"] = {"Demacia"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 4, ["description"] = "The man Fiora was going to kill was named Umberto. He had the look of a man very sure of himself. She watched him talking to four men, so alike they must surely be his brothers. The five of them were cocksure and preening, as though it was beneath their dignity to even present themselves in the Hall of Blades in answer to her challenge." }, ["The Grand Duelist"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/fiora/", ["artwork"] = "Fiora OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Fiora"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Garen", "Lux"}, ["region"] = {"Demacia"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Lucky Kraken"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/fizz-color-story/", ["starring"] = {"Fizz"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Nautilus"}, ["region"] = {"Bilgewater"}, ["loretype"] = "Narration", ["artwork"] = "Bilgewater Legends.png", ["previous"] = "The Orphidian", ["following"] = "The Gambler's Woe" }, ["The Tidal Trickster"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/fizz/", ["artwork"] = "Fizz OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Fizz"}, ["region"] = {"Bilgewater"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["A Hero Wakes"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/galio-color-story/", ["artwork"] = "Galio Lore.png", ["starring"] = {"Galio"}, ["region"] = {"Demacia"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 6, ["description"] = "A taste of magic is all it takes to wake the Colossus and send him smashing. And he just got one." }, ["The Colossus"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/galio/", ["artwork"] = "Galio OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Galio"}, ["region"] = {"Demacia"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Flesh and Stone"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/flesh-and-stone/", ["author"] = "John O'Bryan", ["artwork"] = "Demacia Lore 2.png", ["starring"] = {"Galio", "Lux"}, ["region"] = {"Demacia"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 17, ["description"] = "A young girl ashamed of her power. A monolith that can't help his curiosity. An unlikely pair - or the perfect match?" }, ["Blood in the Water"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/gangplank-color-story/", ["artwork"] = "Bilgewater Approach.png", ["starring"] = {"Gangplank"}, ["region"] = {"Bilgewater"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 1, ["description"] = "The massive Noxian war captain shuddered and dropped his axe as Gangplank rammed his cutlass deep into the man's gut. Blood bubbled from the warrior's tattooed lips as he mouthed an unheard curse." }, ["The Saltwater Scourge"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/gangplank/", ["artwork"] = "Gangplank OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Gangplank"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Miss Fortune", "Swain", "Zed"}, ["region"] = {"Bilgewater"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Burning Tides: Act 1"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/bilgewater-story/", ["artwork"] = "Graves & Twisted Fate Login Screen still.png", ["author"] = "Scott Hawkes", "George Krstic", "Anthony Reynolds", "John O'Bryan", ["starring"] = {"Gangplank", "Graves", "Miss Fortune", "Twisted Fate"}, ["region"] = {"Bilgewater"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 34, ["description"] = "The Rat Town slaughter docks; they smell as bad as their name suggests.", ["following"] = "Burning Tides: Act 2" }, ["Burning Tides: Act 2"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/bilgewater-story/2/", ["artwork"] = "Gangplank VU Login Screen still.png", ["author"] = "Scott Hawkes", "George Krstic", "Anthony Reynolds", "John O'Bryan", ["starring"] = {"Gangplank", "Graves", "Miss Fortune", "Twisted Fate"}, ["region"] = {"Bilgewater"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["previous"] = "Burning Tides: Act 1", ["following"] = "Burning Tides: Act 3" }, ["Burning Tides: Act 3"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/bilgewater-story/3/", ["artwork"] = "Miss Fortune Captain Login Screen still.png", ["author"] = "Scott Hawkes", "George Krstic", "Anthony Reynolds", "John O'Bryan", ["starring"] = {"Gangplank", "Graves", "Miss Fortune", "Twisted Fate"}, ["region"] = {"Bilgewater"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["previous"] = "Burning Tides: Act 2", ["following"] = "Burning Tides: Epilogue" }, ["Burning Tides: Epilogue"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/bilgewater-story/4/", ["artwork"] = "Bilgewater Burning Tides.jpg", ["author"] = "Scott Hawkes", "George Krstic", "Anthony Reynolds", "John O'Bryan", ["starring"] = {"Gangplank", "Graves", "Miss Fortune", "Twisted Fate"}, ["region"] = {"Bilgewater"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["previous"] = "Burning Tides: Act 3", ["following"] = "Shadow and Fortune" }, ["The Might of Demacia"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/garen/", ["artwork"] = "Garen OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Garen"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Jarvan IV", "Lux"}, ["region"] = {"Demacia"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Soldier and the Hag"] = { ["reference"] = "http://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/garen-color-story/", ["artwork"] = "Garen Lore.png", ["starring"] = {"Garen"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Lux"}, ["region"] = {"Demacia"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 7, ["description"] = "The Lady of the Stones took a fellow soldier. Now, she'll take on Garen and his broadsword." }, ["For Demacia"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/for-demacia/", ["artwork"] = "Demacia Lore 1.png", ["author"] = "Graham McNeill", ["starring"] = {"Garen", "Lux"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Nocturne"}, ["region"] = {"Demacia"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 28, ["description"] = "In a town plagued by nightmares, can even the best and bravest of Demacia bring back the light?" }, ["Discovering the Link"] = { ["reference"] = "http://promo.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/gnar/", ["artwork"] = "Gnar lore.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Gnar"}, ["loretype"] = "Reveal", ["description"] = "Something stirs in one of Valoran’s ancient caves..." }, ["The Hunter Hunted"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/gnar-color-story/", ["artwork"] = "The Hunter Hunted.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Gnar"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Rengar"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 2, ["description"] = "The jungle does not forgive blindness. Every broken branch tells a story." }, ["The Missing Link"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/gnar/", ["artwork"] = "Gnar OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Gnar"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Rabble Rouser"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/gragas/", ["artwork"] = "Gragas OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Gragas"}, ["region"] = {"Freljord"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["One Last Shot"] = { ["reference"] = "http://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/graves-color-story", ["artwork"] = "Bilgewater Approach.png", ["starring"] = {"Graves"}, ["region"] = {"Bilgewater"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 2, ["description"] = "Holed up in an empty bar, bleeding from a dozen wounds and surrounded by armed men who wanted him dead, Malcom Graves had seen better days. He'd seen worse ones, too, so he wasn't worried yet. Graves leaned over the smashed bar and helped himself to a bottle, sighing as he read the label." }, ["The Outlaw"] = { ["reference"] = "http://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/graves", ["artwork"] = "Graves OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Graves"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Gangplank", "Twisted Fate"}, ["region"] = {"Bilgewater"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["No One Lives"] = { ["reference"] = "http://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/hecarim-color-story", ["artwork"] = "Shadow Isles Vaults.png", ["starring"] = {"Hecarim"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Thresh"}, ["region"] = {"Shadow Isles"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 3, ["description"] = "Icy waves crashed on the bleak shore, red with the blood of the men Hecarim had already butchered. The mortals he had yet to kill were retreating over the beach in terror. Black rain doused them and stormclouds boiled in from the mourning heart of the island. He heard them shouting to one another. The words were a guttural battle-cant he did not recognize, but the meaning was clear; they actually thought they might live to reach their ship. True, they had some skill. They moved as one, wooden shields interlocked. But they were mortal and Hecarim savored the meat-stink of their fear." }, ["Tales of the Black Mist"] = { ["reference"] = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2FFGBPXNeU", ["author"] = "Numerous creators", ["starring"] = {"Hecarim"}, ["region"] = {"Shadow Isles"}, ["loretype"] = "Video", ["description"] = "A ghastly puppet show recounts a tale familiar in Bilgewater, but tonight the fog's come down especially thick…" }, ["The Shadow of War"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/hecarim/", ["artwork"] = "Hecarim OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Hecarim"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Kalista"}, ["region"] = {"Shadow Isles"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["From The Journal Of Professor Cecil B. Heimerdinger"] = { ["reference"] = "http://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/heimerdinger-color-story", ["artwork"] = "Piltover Entrance Treasury.png", ["starring"] = {"Heimerdinger"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Rumble"}, ["region"] = {"Piltover"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 3, ["description"] = "10.14" }, ["The Revered Inventor"] = { ["reference"] = "http://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/heimerdinger", ["artwork"] = "Heimerdinger OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Heimerdinger"}, ["region"] = {"Piltover"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Burden"] = { ["reference"] = "http://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/illaoi-color-story", ["artwork"] = "Bilgewater Approach.png", ["starring"] = {"Illaoi"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Gangplank"}, ["region"] = {"Bilgewater"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 8, ["description"] = "Truth Bearer, this is why we must retreat to Buhru. We cannot save the paylangi' the Hierophant said. The heavy-set woman grinned, obviously pleased by the prospect of leaving Bilgewater." }, ["The Kraken Priestess"] = { ["reference"] = "http://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/illaoi", ["artwork"] = "Illaoi OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Illaoi"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Gangplank"}, ["region"] = {"Bilgewater"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Trial of the Kraken Priestess"] = { ["reference"] = "http://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/featured/champions/trial-of-the-kraken-priestess", ["author"] = "Numerous creators", ["starring"] = {"Illaoi"}, ["region"] = {"Bilgewater"}, ["loretype"] = "Reveal", ["description"] = "There can be no rest. We are the motion." }, ["Stains on a Name"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/irelia-color-story/", ["artwork"] = "Irelia lore 01.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Irelia"}, ["region"] = {"Ionia"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 5, ["description"] = "I believed in you, Blade Dancer!' the man choked, his lips frothing red. 'You showed us the path…'" }, ["The Blade Dancer"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/irelia/", ["artwork"] = "Irelia OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Irelia"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Swain"}, ["region"] = {"Ionia"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Defiant Blade"] = { ["reference"] = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPCnts6v_Pc", ["artwork"] = "Irelia Update promo 01.jpg", ["author"] = "Numerous creators", ["starring"] = {"Irelia"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Riven"}, ["region"] = {"Ionia"}, ["loretype"] = "Video", ["description"] = "A decade after the Battle of the Placidium, Ionia honors the young woman who inspired a revolution." }, ["Friend of the Forest"] = { ["reference"] = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgqqwvMhIME", ["artwork"] = "Ivern promo 01.jpg", ["author"] = "Numerous creators", ["starring"] = {"Ivern"}, ["region"] = {"Ionia"}, ["loretype"] = "Video", ["description"] = "From the cuddliest of creatures to the fiercest of beasts, all life is precious.'" }, ["Gift of Venom"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/ivern-color-story/", ["artwork"] = "Ivern promo 06.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Ivern"}, ["region"] = {"Ionia"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 9, ["description"] = "For most people, a hundred years is a very long time. In a century, one could explore the entire world, meet thousands of people, or complete countless works of art. Now, anyone could easily assume that standing in one spot for over a century would be a colossal waste. But during that time, Ivern Bramblefoot accomplished more than any could dream." }, ["The Green Father"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/ivern/", ["artwork"] = "Ivern OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Ivern"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Lissandra"}, ["region"] = {"Ionia"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Deep Breath"] = { ["reference"] = "http://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/janna-color-story", ["artwork"] = "Zaun College of Techmaturgy.png", ["starring"] = {"Janna"}, ["region"] = {"Zaun"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 6, ["description"] = "They think Zaun is where the losers live." }, ["The Storm's Fury"] = { ["reference"] = "http://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/janna", ["artwork"] = "Janna OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Janna"}, ["region"] = {"Zaun"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Ivory, Ebony, Jasper"] = { ["reference"] = "http://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/jarvaniv-color-story/", ["artwork"] = "Jarvan IV Lore.png", ["starring"] = {"Jarvan IV"}, ["region"] = {"Demacia"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 3, ["description"] = "The approaching swarm is a death sentence for a small village - unless Jarvan carries out his own." }, ["The Exemplar of Demacia"] = { ["reference"] = "http://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/jarvaniv/", ["artwork"] = "Jarvan IV OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Jarvan IV"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Garen", "Shyvana"}, ["region"] = {"Demacia"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Where Icathia Once Stood"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/where-icathia-once-stood/", ["author"] = "Graham McNeill", ["artwork"] = "Void The Fall of Icathia.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Jax"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Aatrox", "Rhaast", "Nasus", "Renekton", "Varus"}, ["region"] = {"Void"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 22, ["description"] = "My name is Axamuk Var-Choi Kohari Icath'or." }, ["The Grandmaster at Arms"] = { ["reference"] = "http://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/jax", ["artwork"] = "Jax OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Jax"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["None Shall Pass"] = { ["reference"] = "http://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/jax-color-story", ["artwork"] = "None Shall Pass.png", ["starring"] = {"Jax", "Fiora"}, ["region"] = {"Demacia"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 5, ["description"] = "Jax sat cross-legged at the center of the bridge with his long-hafted polearm resting on his knees. Demacia had not changed much since he had last traveled this way, but that didn't surprise him. Its people zealously protected their borders, which had turned them into pretty decent fighters. Well, some of them anyway, he thought, wiping a spot of blood from the softly glowing head of the lamppost. He flicked the droplet over the parapet to the river below and reached into his robe to pull out his third hard-boiled egg of the day. Tapping it on the cobbles, he slowly peeled the shell as he heard the warriors at the end of the bridge try to decide which one of them would face him next." }, ["A Quick Fix"] = { ["reference"] = "http://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/jayce-color-story", ["artwork"] = "Piltover Ecliptic Vaults.png", ["starring"] = {"Jayce"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Viktor"}, ["region"] = {"Piltover"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 5, ["description"] = "Any fool could have predicted that Viktor would strike back at some point. If one weren't a fool, one might predict the exact date and time of an attempted counterattack." }, ["The Defender of Tomorrow"] = { ["reference"] = "http://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/jayce", ["artwork"] = "Jayce OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Jayce"}, ["region"] = {"Piltover"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Golden Excellence"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/jhin-color-story/", ["artwork"] = "Jhin OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Jhin"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Akali", "Shen", "Zed"}, ["region"] = {"Ionia"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", }, ["Mind of the Virtuoso"] = { ["reference"] = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4-BgDEy2AE", ["artwork"] = "Jhin Promo.png", ["starring"] = {"Jhin"}, ["region"] = {"Ionia"}, ["loretype"] = "Video", ["description"] = "I will make you beautiful. I will make you perfect." }, ["The Virtuoso"] = { ["reference"] = "http://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/jhin", ["artwork"] = "Jhin OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Jhin"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Shen", "Zed"}, ["region"] = {"Ionia"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Get Jinxed"] = { ["reference"] = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nlJuwO0GDs", ["artwork"] = "Jinx Polycount Poster.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Jinx"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Ziggs"}, ["region"] = {"Zaun"}, ["loretype"] = "Video", ["description"] = "Jinx's dreams come alive in a hexplosive sequence packed with bombs and bullets and her unique take on fun." }, ["The Loose Cannon"] = { ["reference"] = "http://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/jinx", ["artwork"] = "Jinx OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Jinx"}, ["region"] = {"Zaun"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Wedding Crasher"] = { ["reference"] = "http://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/jinx-color-story", ["artwork"] = "Zaun Depths.png", ["starring"] = {"Jinx"}, ["region"] = {"Zaun"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 6, ["description"] = "Jinx hated petticoats." }, ["Mayhem Everywhere You Look"] = { ["reference"] = "http://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/news/champions-skins/champion-preview/mayhem-everywhere-you-look", ["artwork"] = "Jinx Promo 2.png", ["starring"] = {"Jinx", "Vi"}, ["region"] = {"Piltover"}, ["loretype"] = "Reveal", ["description"] = "An inane crime wave sweeps Piltover to the tune of manic laughter. As authorities attempt to curtail the chaos, one enforcer vows to pull the plug on the panic-inducing party." }, ["Paint the Town"] = { ["author"] = "Numerous creators", ["reference"] = "http://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/comic/jinx-ziggs/paint-the-town/", ["artwork"] = "Ziggs and Jinx - Paint the Town 00Cover.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Jinx", "Ziggs"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Heimerdinger"}, ["region"] = {"Piltover"}, ["loretype"] = "Comic", ["description"] = "Oh, they say I'm crazy -- they say that Yordles would be easy to spot in a city such as ours, what with their fuzzy countenances and diminutive stature. But I've heard rumors that they have invented some sort of magical charms that make these abominations appear no different from you or I. But don't be fooled! No matter how adorable they may seem, these mischievous creatures will bring our city of Piltover to ruin! If I were so moved, I'd say they're an even bigger threat than those lunatic terrorists from Zaun! But I'm getting ahead of myself. Our story starts in a small pyrotechnics shop in Piltover, run by two unnervingly fuzzy gentlemen..." }, ["X WUZ HERE"] = { ["reference"] = "http://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/news/champions-skins/champion-preview/mayhem-everywhere-you-look", ["artwork"] = "Jinx Promo 1.png", ["starring"] = {"Jinx", "Vi"}, ["region"] = {"Piltover"}, ["loretype"] = "Reveal", ["description"] = "X." }, ["Breach"] = { ["author"] = "Numerous creators", ["reference"] = "https://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/featured/kaisa-comic", ["artwork"] = "Kai'Sa Breach cover.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Kai'Sa"}, ["region"] = {"Shurima"}, ["loretype"] = "Comic", ["description"] = "Hunter or prey? The lines get blurred when Kai'Sa must hunt down a pack of deadly predators." }, ["The Daughter of the Void"] = { ["artwork"] = "Kai'Sa OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Kai'Sa"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Kassadin"}, ["region"] = {"Shurima"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Girl Who Came Back"] = { ["artwork"] = "Void concept 01.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Kai'Sa"}, ["region"] = {"Shurima"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 4, ["description"] = "Listen to me,' I tell the little girl who found me here, beside the pit. 'I need you to hear me. There isn't much time.'" }, ["Invocation"] = { ["artwork"] = "Shadow Isles Vaults.png", ["starring"] = {"Kalista"}, ["region"] = {"Shadow Isles"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 4, ["description"] = "The sword-wife stood amid the burnt out ruin of her home. Everything and everyone that mattered to her was gone, and she was filled with fathomless grief... and hate. Hate was now all that compelled her." }, ["The Pledge"] = { ["author"] = "Numerous creators", ["starring"] = {"Kalista"}, ["region"] = {"Shadow Isles"}, ["loretype"] = "Video", ["description"] = "A pledge and a soul Escape his final breath, His offer accepted And her spirit summoned, A soul for a soul-- His betrayer's life, Rent." }, ["The Spear of Vengeance"] = { ["artwork"] = "Kalista OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Kalista"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Hecarim"}, ["region"] = {"Shadow Isles"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Enlightened One"] = { ["artwork"] = "Karma OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Karma"}, ["region"] = {"Ionia"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Burial at Sea"] = { ["artwork"] = "Shadow Isles Vaults.png", ["starring"] = {"Karthus"}, ["region"] = {"Shadow Isles"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 4, ["description"] = "The sea was mirror-smooth and dark. A pirate's moon hung low on the horizon as it had for the last six nights. Not so much as a whisper of wind stirred the air, only that damned dirge carried from who knew where. Vionax had sailed the oceans around Noxus long enough to know that seas like this only ever presaged ill-fortune. She stood on the Darkwill's foredeck, training her spyglass on the far ocean, searching for anything she could use to plot their position." }, ["The Deathsinger"] = { ["artwork"] = "Karthus OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Karthus"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Kindred"}, ["region"] = {"Shadow Isles"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Void Walker"] = { ["artwork"] = "Kassadin OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Kassadin"},

["mentioned"] = {"Kai'Sa", "Malzahar"}, ["region"] = {"Void"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Sinister Blade"] = { ["artwork"] = "Katarina OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Katarina"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Cassiopeia"}, ["region"] = {"Noxus"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Judicator"] = { ["artwork"] = "Kayle OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Kayle"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Blade of Millenia"] = { ["artwork"] = "Kayn Concept 01.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Kayn"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Rhaast"}, ["region"] = {"Ionia"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 5, ["description"] = "Kayn stood confidently in the shadow of the noxtoraa, surrounded by dead soldiers, and smiled at the irony. These triumphal arches of dark stone were raised to honor the strength of Noxus—to instill fear and to demand fealty from all who passed beneath them. Now this one was a tombstone, a monument to false strength and arrogance, and a symbol of the fallen warriors' own fear turned against them." }, ["The Path of Shadows"] = { ["author"] = "Numerous creators", ["starring"] = {"Kayn"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Rhaast"}, ["region"] = {"Ionia"}, ["loretype"] = "Video", ["description"] = "Will he deliver death with a whisper or make the world scream?" }, ["The Shadow Reaper"] = { ["artwork"] = "Kayn OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Kayn"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Rhaast"}, ["region"] = {"Ionia"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Heart of the Tempest"] = { ["artwork"] = "Kennen OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Kennen"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Akali", "Shen"}, ["region"] = {"Ionia"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Voidreaver"] = { ["artwork"] = "Kha'Zix OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Kha'Zix"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Rengar"}, ["region"] = {"Void"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["A Good Death"] = { ["artwork"] = "Kindred OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Kindred"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", }, ["Forest for the Trees"] = { ["artwork"] = "Forest For The Trees.png", ["starring"] = {"Kindred"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 2, ["description"] = "The battle spilled over like a feast before them. Such delicious life—so many to end, so many to hunt! Wolf paced in the snow while Lamb danced lithely from sword edge to spear tip, the red-blooded butchery never staining her pale coat." }, ["Listen to their Tale"] = { ["author"] = "Numerous creators", ["starring"] = {"Kindred"}, ["loretype"] = "Video", ["description"] = "Lamb, tell me a story." }, ["The Eternal Hunters"] = { ["artwork"] = "Kindred OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Kindred"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Cantankerous Cavalier"] = { ["artwork"] = "Kled OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Kled"}, ["region"] = {"Noxus"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Reunion"] = { ["author"] = "Numerous creators", ["starring"] = {"Kled"}, ["region"] = {"Noxus"}, ["loretype"] = "Video", ["description"] = "Another day on the northern plains. Prickly shrubs. Harsh winds. Killin' trespassers." }, ["Where The Drakalops Roam"] = { ["artwork"] = "Where the Drakalops Roam.png", ["starring"] = {"Kled"}, ["region"] = {"Noxus"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 7, ["description"] = "The Northern Steppes ain't the place for fancy undies and golden piss pots. It's tough land. Ain't nothing go here but barbarian raiders, poison grass, and harsh winds. To survive, you gotta eat rocks and crap lava. And I'm the toughest, meanest, killingest bastard in these parts. So I figure that makes these plains mine." }, ["The Mouht of the Abyss"] = { ["artwork"] = "Kog'Maw OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Kog'Maw"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Malzahar"}, ["region"] = {"Shurima"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Deceiver"] = { ["artwork"] = "LeBlanc OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"LeBlanc"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Mordekaiser"}, ["region"] = {"Noxus"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["All The Glitters..."] = { ["artwork"] = "Ionia Placidium Navori.png", ["starring"] = {"Lee Sin"}, ["region"] = {"Ionia"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 5, ["description"] = "Ancient roots, sinuous trees and thickly-leafed vines clinging to the rocks all but obscured the path through the lush jungle. Three men sweated as they hacked their way onward, driven by hearts filled with greed and dreams of untold wealth. For six days the jungle had defied them, but now the temple reared from the undergrowth. Its facade was carved into a colossal stone outcropping, with blossoms of red and blue spreading around its base. Serene statuary filled golden alcoves and garlands of golden orchids were entwined around its eaves." }, ["The Blind Monk"] = { ["artwork"] = "Lee Sin OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Lee Sin"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Udyr"}, ["region"] = {"Ionia"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Light Bringer"] = { ["artwork"] = "Mount Targon Divine Carvings.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Leona"}, ["region"] = {"Mount Targon"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 4, ["description"] = "The raiders attacked before dawn; fifty wolf-lean men in iron hauberks mantled with strange furs and bearing ash-dulled axes. Their steps were swift as they entered the settlement at the foot of the mountain. These were men who had fought as brothers for years, who lived in the heartbeat between life and death. A warrior in battered scale armor and bearing a heavy-bladed greatsword over his shoulder led them. Beneath his dragon-helm, his face was bearded and raw, burned by a lifetime of war-making under a harsher sun than this." }, ["The Radiant Dawn"] = { ["artwork"] = "Leona OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Leona"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Pantheon", "Diana"}, ["region"] = {"Mount Targon"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Ice Witch"] = { ["artwork"] = "Lissandra OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Lissandra"}, ["region"] = {"Freljord"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Seeker's Tale"] = { ["starring"] = {"Lissandra"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Ashe", "Sejuani", "Aurelion Sol", "Xerath"}, ["region"] = {"Freljord"}, ["loretype"] = "Narration", }, ["Shadows and Reflections"] = { ["author"] = "Numerous creators", ["artwork"] = "Lucian Promo 3.png", ["starring"] = {"Lucian"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Thresh"}, ["region"] = {"Demacia"}, ["loretype"] = "Reveal", ["description"] = "The Purifier Remembers" }, ["The Purifier"] = { ["artwork"] = "Lucian OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Lucian"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Thresh"}, ["region"] = {"Demacia"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Shadow and Fortune: Chapter One"] = { ["reference"] = "http://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/site/shadow-and-fortune/index.html", ["artwork"] = "Bilgewater Harrowing.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Lucian", "Olaf", "Miss Fortune"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Gangplank", "Illaoi"}, ["region"] = {"Bilgewater", "Shadow Isles"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 51, ["description"] = "Blood on the Streets, Glory in Death, Down to the Bearded Lady/nThe Butcher Blades had hung the Jackdaw from a rusted marlinspike through his jawbone and left him for the quayside scavengers. This was the seventeenth murdered ganger the hooded man had seen tonight.", ["previous"] = "Burning Tides: Epilogue", ["following"] = "Shadow and Fortune: Chapter Two" }, ["Shadow and Fortune: Chapter Two"] = { ["reference"] = "http://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/site/shadow-and-fortune/index.html", ["artwork"] = "Bilgewater Harrowing.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Lucian", "Olaf", "Miss Fortune"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Illaoi", "Hecarim", "Thresh"}, ["region"] = {"Bilgewater", "Shadow Isles"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 51, ["description"] = "Something Stupid, The Red Shroud, The Shadow of War", ["previous"] = "Shadow and Fortune: Chapter One", ["following"] = "Shadow and Fortune: Chapter Three" }, ["Shadow and Fortune: Chapter Three"] = { ["reference"] = "http://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/site/shadow-and-fortune/index.html", ["artwork"] = "Bilgewater Harrowing.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Lucian", "Olaf", "Miss Fortune", "Thresh", "Hecarim"}, ["region"] = {"Bilgewater", "Shadow Isles"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 51, ["description"] = "The Purifier, City of the Dead, Sanctuary", ["previous"] = "Shadow and Fortune: Chapter Two", ["following"] = "Shadow and Fortune: Chapter Four" }, ["Shadow and Fortune: Chapter Four"] = { ["reference"] = "http://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/site/shadow-and-fortune/index.html", ["artwork"] = "Bilgewater Harrowing.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Lucian", "Olaf", "Miss Fortune", "Illaoi", "Thresh", "Hecarim"}, ["region"] = {"Bilgewater", "Shadow Isles"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 51, ["description"] = "She is not Dead, Strange Bedfellows, In Motion Again", ["previous"] = "Shadow and Fortune: Chapter Three" }, ["The Fae Sorceress"] = { ["artwork"] = "Lulu OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Lulu"}, ["region"] = {"Bandle City"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Last Light"] = { ["artwork"] = "Lux Lore.png", ["starring"] = {"Lux"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Garen"}, ["region"] = {"Demacia"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 4, ["description"] = "In the wake of disaster, Lux risks all for the sake of a wounded soldier." }, ["The Lady of Luminosity"] = { ["artwork"] = "Lux OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Lux"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Garen"}, ["region"] = {"Demacia"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Binding Light"] = { ["author"] = "Numerous creators", ["starring"] = {"Lux"}, ["region"] = {"Demacia"}, ["loretype"] = "Video", ["description"] = "A young Demacian mage has a secret she must hide - not just from her family, but the entire kingdom." }, ["The Prophet of the Void"] = { ["artwork"] = "Malzahar OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Malzahar"}, ["region"] = {"Shurima"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Nightbloom"] = { ["artwork"] = "Shadow Isles Vaults.png", ["starring"] = {"Maokai"}, ["region"] = {"Shadow Isles"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 5, ["description"] = "The chill wind whips through cracks in my bark with a hollow whistling sound. I shiver. My limbs have long forgotten the warmth of summer." }, ["The Twisted Treant"] = { ["artwork"] = "Maokai OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Maokai"}, ["region"] = {"Shadow Isles"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Wuju Bladesman"] = { ["author"] = "Michael Luo", ["artwork"] = "Master Yi OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Master Yi"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Singed", "Wukong"}, ["region"] = {"Ionia"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Down Among the Dead Men"] = { ["artwork"] = "Miss Fortune Lore 03.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Miss Fortune"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Gangplank"}, ["region"] = {"Bilgewater"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 4, ["description"] = "Bilgewater's White Wharf had earned its name thanks to the layer of bird waste covering it from end to end, which was only to be expected at a resting place for the dead. Folk here didn't bury corpses; they returned them to the sea. A grave of the sunken dead hung suspended in the cold depths, marked by hundreds of bobbing grave-buoys. Some were merely name posts, while others were elaborate tomb markers carved to resemble rearing krakens or buxom sea wenches." }, ["Fortune Smiles"] = { ["author"] = "Numerous creators", ["artwork"] = "Miss Fortune OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Miss Fortune"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Gangplank"}, ["region"] = {"Bilgewater"}, ["loretype"] = "Comic",		["description"] = "Bilgewater. A haven for Runeterra's most notorious monster hunters, mercenaries, and scoundrels. For decades, a ruthless pirate named Gangplank kept the city in check. Under his merciless rule, Bilgewater was an orderly place to make a dishonest living. But now Gangplank is dead. Murdered, by a crimson-haired bounty hunter seeking vengeance for her parents' deaths. Bilgewater has descended into chaos. Only the woman who killed Gangplank can save it. Her name is Sarah. They call her Miss Fortune." }, ["Surrender"] = { ["author"] = "Numerous creators", ["starring"] = {"Miss Fortune"}, ["region"] = {"Bilgewater"}, ["loretype"] = "Video", ["description"] = "Her back's to the wall. Bad luck for them. There's only one way out alive, and they aren't taking it." }, ["The Bounty Hunter"] = { ["artwork"] = "Miss Fortune OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Miss Fortune"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Gangplank"}, ["region"] = {"Bilgewater"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Iron Revenant"] = { ["artwork"] = "Mordekaiser OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Mordekaiser"}, ["region"] = {"Noxus"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Shadows of Damnation"] = { ["artwork"] = "Shadow Isles Vaults.png", ["starring"] = {"Mordekaiser"}, ["region"] = {"Shadow Isles"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 3, ["description"] = "The Black Mist coiled and twisted like a living creature as it rolled forward to encircle the isolated, grey-stoned castle." }, ["First Steps"] = { ["artwork"] = "Nami Lore 1.png", ["starring"] = {"Nami"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Diana"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 5, ["description"] = "She brings her curiosity and a dire message. They bring torches and a violent fear." }, ["Into the Abyss"] = { ["author"] = "Numerous creators", ["reference"] = "http://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/comic/nami/intotheabyss/0/", ["artwork"] = "Nami OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Nami"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Diana"}, ["loretype"] = "Comic", ["description"] = "Deep in the oceans of Runeterra, the Marai are protected from terrors by the light of a moonstone. Through an ancient ritual, the Marai choose one of their people to dive into the abyss and retrieve an abyssal pearl, which is exchanged with a landwalker for the moonstone. Their chosen Tidecaller has not returned. Nami, a headstrong girl of the Marai, decides to descend into the black before the moonstone's light dims forever…" }, ["The Tidecaller"] = { ["artwork"] = "Nami OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Nami"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Diana"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Ouroboros"] = { ["artwork"] = "Shurima Reborn.png", ["starring"] = {"Nasus"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Azir", "Renekton", "Xerath"}, ["region"] = {"Shurima"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 4, ["description"] = "Nasus walked at night, unwilling to face the sun. The boy followed in his wake." }, ["The Curator of the Sands"] = { ["artwork"] = "Nasus OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Nasus"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Azir", "Brand", "Renekton", "Xerath"}, ["region"] = {"Shurima"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Orphidian"] = { ["starring"] = {"Nautilus"}, ["region"] = {"Bilgewater"}, ["loretype"] = "Narration", ["artwork"] = "Bilgewater Legends.png", ["previous"] = "Tall Tales of the Deep Sea", ["following"] = "The Lucky Kraken" }, ["The Titan of the Depths"] = { ["artwork"] = "Nautilus OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Nautilus"}, ["region"] = {"Bilgewater"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Berserker"] = { ["artwork"] = "Olaf OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Olaf"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Sejuani"}, ["region"] = {"Freljord"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Olaf vs Everything"] = { ["artwork"] = "Olaf OvE cover.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Olaf"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Trundle", "Warwick", "Draven", "Tryndamere", "Sejuani", "Ryze", "Aatrox", "Malphite", "Garen", "Quinn", "Illaoi"}, ["loretype"] = "Alternate Universe comic", }, ["Fieram"] = { ["artwork"] = "Piltover Entrance Treasury.png", ["starring"] = {"Orianna"}, ["region"] = {"Piltover"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 6, ["description"] = "Orianna walked through the fairground, empty and still in the evening gloom. Sir Feisterly's Fantastical Fair opened its gates to delighted crowds of Zaunites but twice a year, and Orianna did not want to miss her chance to see its wonders. She had waited until everyone had left for the day, and the rowdy laughter and accordion tunes had fallen silent. Only the low hum of nearby pipelines pumping steam through the chem district disturbed the quiet. Detritus lay strewn along the ground; colorful streamers and bright balloons mingling with crumpled wax paper that once held sweet jam pastries." }, ["The Lady of Clockwork"] = { ["artwork"] = "Orianna OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Orianna"}, ["region"] = {"Piltover"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Fire Below the Mountain"] = { ["artwork"] = "Ornn OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Ornn"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Braum"}, ["region"] = {"Freljord"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Lost Tales of Ornn"] = { ["artwork"] = "Ornn lore 01.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Ornn"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Anivia", "Lissandra", "Volibear"}, ["region"] = {"Freljord"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 15, ["description"] = "I have never seen the forgotten god. My grandmother told me these tales, but she never saw the forgotten god either—nor did her grandmother before her, or hers before her, a thousand times over. His legends endure only around crackling fires and meals of roasted fish. The further back we trace our ancestors, the truer the tales become.'" }, ["The Path to Hearth-Home"] = { ["starring"] = {"Ornn"}, ["region"] = {"Freljord"}, ["loretype"] = "Narration", }, ["The Voice from the Hearth"] = { ["artwork"] = "Ornn lore 04.png", ["starring"] = {"Ornn"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Kindred", "Volibear"}, ["region"] = {"Freljord"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 6, ["description"] = "No one knew who lit the fire, but we saw the plume of smoke from far away." }, ["The Artisan of War"] = { ["artwork"] = "Pantheon OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Pantheon"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Leona"}, ["region"] = {"Mount Targon"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Spear of Targon"] = { ["artwork"] = "Mount Targon Divine Carvings.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Pantheon"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Soraka"}, ["region"] = {"Mount Targon"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 4, ["description"] = "A lone figure awaited the armed convoy, standing silhouetted against the sun. His heavy cloak and the long plume atop his helm billowed in the hot, dry desert wind. A tall spear was held at his side." }, ["A Hero's Calling"] = { ["author"] = "Numerous creators", ["reference"] = "http://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/site/poppy-comic/", ["artwork"] = "Poppy OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Poppy"}, ["region"] = {"Demacia"}, ["loretype"] = "Comic", ["description"] = "A weapon holding the hope of a kingdom has found its champion. She just doesn't know it." }, ["The Keeper of the Hammer"] = { ["artwork"] = "Poppy OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Poppy"}, ["region"] = {"Demacia"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Slayer"] = { ["artwork"] = "Demacia Citadel.png", ["starring"] = {"Poppy"}, ["region"] = {"Demacia"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 4, ["description"] = "Poppy had nothing against the briar wolf, aside from the fact that it was about to maul her. Its muzzle was stained crimson from a previous kill, and the yordle wouldn't chance being its next. She was hot on the trail of a renowned monster slayer, and she didn't intend to die before she found the man and judged his worth." }, ["Pyke, the Drowned Man"] = { ["artwork"] = "Bilgewater Legends.png", ["starring"] = {"Pyke"}, ["region"] = {"Bilgewater"}, ["loretype"] = "Narration", ["description"] = "Listen as Lars spins a tale of four Bilgewater legends - Nautilus, Fizz, Tahm Kench, and Pyke - and discovers the terrifying fact woven into his fiction.", ["previous"] = "The Gambler's Woe", ["following"] = "Never Turn Your Back on the Sea" }, ["The Bloodharbor Ripper"] = { ["artwork"] = "Pyke OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Pyke"}, ["region"] = {"Bilgewater"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Then, Teeth"] = { ["artwork"] = "Then, Teeth.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Pyke"}, ["region"] = {"Bilgewater"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 4, ["description"] = "Mazier is sprawled on the rotten planks, waves lapping at stone underneath. Her slowing heartbeat pumps blood into the seawater. She stares, unblinking, at the shanty-dwellings above, and the stars beyond." }, ["Tall Tales of the Deep Sea"] = { ["artwork"] = "Bilgewater Legends.png", ["region"] = {"Bilgewater"}, ["loretype"] = "Narration", ["following"] = "The Orphidian" }, ["Never Turn Your Back on the Sea"] = { ["artwork"] = "Bilgewater Legends.png", ["region"] = {"Bilgewater"}, ["loretype"] = "Narration", ["previous"] = "Pyke, the Drowned Man" }, ["Demacia Needs Heroes"] = { ["author"] = "Numerous creators", ["starring"] = {"Quinn"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Garen", "Jarvan IV", "Talon"}, ["region"] = {"Demacia"}, ["loretype"] = "Comic", ["description"] = "She is a new kind of hero, one of new mind and new method. One who can go where armies cannot reach, where swords cannot clash." }, ["Demacia's Wings"] = { ["artwork"] = "Quinn OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Quinn"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Sona"}, ["region"] = {"Demacia"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Rules of Survival"] = { ["artwork"] = "Quinn Lore.png", ["starring"] = {"Quinn"}, ["region"] = {"Demacia"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 4, ["description"] = "The Demacian wilds are no place for thieving Noxians, but that's who Quinn just found." }, ["Journey Into The Freljord"] = { ["starring"] = {"Quinn"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Ashe", "Jarvan IV", "Sejuani", "Trundle", "Lissandra"}, ["region"] = {"Freljord"}, ["loretype"] = "", }, ["Nothing Rhymes with Tubebow"] = { ["artwork"] = "Rakan_Lore_03.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Rakan"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Xayah"}, ["region"] = {"Ionia"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 8, ["description"] = "Two paths lead to the monastery fortress from the villages below it,' Xayah begins." }, ["The Charmer"] = { ["artwork"] = "Rakan OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Rakan"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Xayah"}, ["region"] = {"Ionia"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Wild Magic"] = { ["author"] = "Numerous creators", ["starring"] = {"Rakan", "Xayah", "Zed"}, ["region"] = {"Ionia"}, ["loretype"] = "Video", ["description"] = "Restoring the wild magic of Ionia won't be easy when a deadly enemy lurks in the shadows." }, ["Caravan North"] = { ["artwork"] = "Shurima Reborn.png", ["starring"] = {"Rammus"}, ["region"] = {"Shurima"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 4, ["description"] = "Ojan's knife whittled the edge of the ironwood into a soft curve. As an eight-year-old, he wasn't the most practiced craftsman; his wood block was just starting to resemble something round and spiky." }, ["The Armordillo"] = { ["artwork"] = "Rammus OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Rammus"}, ["region"] = {"Shurima"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Sai Kahleek"] = { ["artwork"] = "Shurima Reborn.png", ["starring"] = {"Rek'Sai"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Azir"}, ["region"] = {"Shurima"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 9, ["description"] = "Six boys and a camel, and the boys were cheaper to replace. Some were orphans and escaped slaves, but most were off casts — teenagers abandoned by families too poor to keep them. When Shahib offered him the work, Jaheje hadn't eaten in days." }, ["Scourage of the Desert"] = { ["author"] = "Numerous creators", ["starring"] = {"Rek'Sai"}, ["region"] = {"Shurima"}, ["loretype"] = "Comic", }, ["The Terror Beneath"] = { ["author"] = "Numerous creators", ["starring"] = {"Rek'Sai"}, ["region"] = {"Shurima"}, ["loretype"] = "Video", ["description"] = "Traders whisper stories of a beast below Shurima's sands. They say she stalks the caravans that dare cross her domain. They say she hunts those that run, and kills those that fight. But what if the stories aren't simple stories? What if they're true?" }, ["The Void Burrower"] = { ["artwork"] = "Rek'Sai OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Rek'Sai"}, ["region"] = {"Shurima"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Darkness Renews"] = { ["artwork"] = "Shurima Reborn.png", ["starring"] = {"Renekton"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Azir", "Nasus", "Xerath"}, ["region"] = {"Shurima"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 4, ["description"] = "Am I a god?" }, ["The Butcher of the Sands"] = { ["artwork"] = "Renekton OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Renekton"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Azir", "Brand", "Nasus", "Xerath"}, ["region"] = {"Shurima"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Prey"] = { ["artwork"] = "Rengar Lore 1.png", ["starring"] = {"Rengar"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 4, ["description"] = "A predator feasting on fear. A hunter without any. Only one will make it out of this alive." }, ["The Pridestalker"] = { ["artwork"] = "Rengar OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Rengar"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Kha'Zix"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Exile"] = { ["artwork"] = "Riven OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Riven"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Singed"}, ["region"] = {"Noxus"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Confessions of a Broken Blade: Part 1"] = { ["author"] = "Ariel Lawrence", ["artwork"] = "Riven Yasuo CoaBB pr01.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Riven", "Yasuo"}, ["region"] = {"Ionia"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 11, ["description"] = "In the wake of war between Noxus and Ionia, Riven is accused of a heinous crime.", ["following"] = "Confessions of a Broken Blade: Part 2" }, ["Confessions of a Broken Blade: Part 2"] = { ["author"] = "Ariel Lawrence", ["artwork"] = "Riven Yasuo CoaBB pr02.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Riven", "Yasuo"}, ["region"] = {"Ionia"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 14, ["description"] = "Riven stands trial for the murder of Yasuo's master. New evidence is revealed, a broken blade.", ["previous"] = "Confessions of a Broken Blade: Part 1", ["following"] = "Confessions of a Broken Blade: Part 3" }, ["Confessions of a Broken Blade: Part 3"] = { ["author"] = "Ariel Lawrence", ["artwork"] = "Riven Yasuo CoaBB pr03.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Riven", "Yasuo"}, ["region"] = {"Ionia"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 9, ["description"] = "As the trial concludes, Riven must finally face the horrors of her past.", ["previous"] = "Confessions of a Broken Blade: Part 2" }, ["An Old Friend"] = { ["artwork"] = "Freljord Gateway Howling Abyss.png", ["starring"] = {"Ryze"}, ["region"] = {"Freljord"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 5, ["description"] = "Ryze would have been cold if his body wasn't simmering with nervous energy. With all that weighed on him that day, the harsh Freljordian elements scarcely seemed to have an effect. Neither was he daunted by the distant howl of a hungry ice troll. He had come to do a job. Not one he relished, but one that had to be done, and one he could no longer avoid." }, ["The Burning Lands"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/comic/ryze/ryze-comic", ["author"] = "Numerous creators", ["artwork"] = "Ryze OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Ryze", "Brand"}, ["region"] = {"Shurima"}, ["loretype"] = "Comic", ["description"] = "Legends speak of an ageless mage with violent skin." }, ["The Rune Mage"] = { ["artwork"] = "Ryze OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Ryze"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Winter's Wrath"] = { ["artwork"] = "Sejuani OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Sejuani"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Ashe"}, ["region"] = {"Freljord"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Enter the Freljord"] = { ["author"] = "Numerous creators", ["starring"] = {"Sejuani", "Lissandra", "Ashe"}, ["region"] = {"Freljord"}, ["loretype"] = "Video", ["description"] = "Enter the Freljord" }, ["The Demon Jester"] = { ["artwork"] = "Shaco OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Shaco"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Eye of Twilight"] = { ["author"] = "Michael Luo", ["artwork"] = "Shen OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Shen"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Akali", "Kennen", "Zed"}, ["region"] = {"Ionia"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["True Neutral"] = { ["artwork"] = "Ionia Placidium Navori.png", ["starring"] = {"Shen"}, ["region"] = {"Ionia"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 4, ["description"] = "It was no tempest. It was a spirit' said the fisherman, still rattled by the shipwreck he'd barely survived two nights ago. The man told of his fishing vessel being sunk by a creature, large as a house and quick as the wind." }, ["The Half-Dragon"] = { ["artwork"] = "Shyvana OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Shyvana"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Jarvan IV"}, ["region"] = {"Demacia"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Winged Beast"] = { ["artwork"] = "Shyvana Lore.png", ["starring"] = {"Shyvana"}, ["region"] = {"Demacia"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 4, ["description"] = "The duty of a Demacian. The savagery of a dragon. Her enemies don't stand a chance." }, ["Engineering the Nightmare"] = { ["artwork"] = "Singed Lore 4.png", ["starring"] = {"Singed"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Warwick"}, ["region"] = {"Zaun"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 4, ["description"] = "Procured a cutthroat hiding among the populace and feigning civility. Only a disciplined eye could recognize the beast within, yearning for release. How could I refuse? For what is my work if not an attempt to reveal life's hidden truths through science? It required two doses to subdue him. Impressively resilient. A necessary quality to survive the grand catalyst of pain and provoke the transmutation. The metamorphosis will reshape the man into a chimeric predator, and all of Zaun will be its hunting grounds." }, ["The Mad Chemist"] = { ["artwork"] = "Singed OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Singed"}, ["region"] = {"Zaun"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["In The Mind of Madness"] = { ["artwork"] = "Noxus Bastion.png", ["starring"] = {"Sion"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Swain"}, ["region"] = {"Noxus"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 3, ["description"] = "BLOOD." }, ["Reborn"] = { ["author"] = "Numerous creators", ["artwork"] = "Sion Update Promo 1.png", ["starring"] = {"Sion"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Elise", "Jarvan IV", "LeBlanc", "Swain", "Vladimir"}, ["region"] = {"Noxus"}, ["loretype"] = "Reveal", }, ["The Undead Juggernaut"] = { ["artwork"] = "Sion OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Sion"}, ["region"] = {"Noxus"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Battle Mistress"] = { ["artwork"] = "Sivir OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Sivir"}, ["region"] = {"Shurima"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Water"] = { ["artwork"] = "Shurima Reborn.png", ["starring"] = {"Sivir"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Azir"}, ["region"] = {"Shurima"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 5, ["description"] = "Sivir's throat felt like it was coated in a layer of broken glass. The cracked flesh of her lips burned. Her eyes refused to focus. I've given them more than enough time to move on." }, ["Dreamsong"] = { ["artwork"] = "Shurima Reborn.png", ["starring"] = {"Skarner"}, ["region"] = {"Shurima"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 5, ["description"] = "The softskins broke our slumber of a thousand spins." }, ["The Crystal Vanguard"] = { ["artwork"] = "Skarner OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Skarner"}, ["region"] = {"Shurima"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Maven of the Strings"] = { ["artwork"] = "Sona OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Sona"}, ["region"] = {"Demacia"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Black Powder Plot"] = { ["artwork"] = "Swain VGU teaser 02.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Swain"}, ["region"] = {"Noxus"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 5, ["description"] = "He arrived at the camp only moments before the strategy council was to begin, flanked by a small honor guard, each handpicked from the Trifarian Legion. They remained at the entrance as I watched him approach." }, ["The Noxian Grand General"] = { ["artwork"] = "Swain OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Swain"}, ["mentioned"] = {"LeBlanc"}, ["region"] = {"Noxus"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Dark Sovereign"] = { ["artwork"] = "Syndra OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Syndra"}, ["region"] = {"Ionia"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Dreaming Pool"] = { ["artwork"] = "The Dreaming Pool.jpg", ["author"] = "Anthony Reynolds", ["starring"] = {"Syndra"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Soraka"}, ["region"] = {"Ionia"}, ["duration"] = 27, ["loretype"] = "Short Story" }, ["The Gambler's Woe"] = { ["author"] = "Numerous creators", ["starring"] = {"Tahm Kench"}, ["region"] = {"Bilgewater"}, ["loretype"] = "Narration", ["artwork"] = "Bilgewater Legends.png", ["previous"] = "The Lucky Kraken", ["following"] = "Pyke, the Drowned Man" }, ["The River King"] = { ["artwork"] = "Tahm Kench OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Tahm Kench"}, ["region"] = {"Bilgewater"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The River King (Video)"] = { ["author"] = "Numerous creators", ["starring"] = {"Tahm Kench"}, ["region"] = {"Bilgewater"}, ["loretype"] = "Video", ["description"] = "Desperate times call for desperate measures. I can make you a fine bargain... but you gotta be willing to pay the price." }, ["Echoes in the Stone"] = { ["artwork"] = "Shurima Reborn.png", ["starring"] = {"Taliyah"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Azir"}, ["region"] = {"Shurima"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 4, ["description"] = "Taliyah was outrunning the sandstorm when she first noticed the water. In the beginning, it was faint, just a cool dampness she felt as she lifted the stones from deep beneath the sand. As she drew closer to old Shurima, wet streaks dripped from each new stone as if they were weeping. Taliyah knew the rock had stories to tell as she sped across the desert, but she didn't have time to listen, to hear if they were tears of joy or sadness." }, ["Homecoming"] = { ["author"] = "Numerous creators", ["starring"] = {"Taliyah"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Azir", "Nasus"}, ["region"] = {"Shurima"}, ["loretype"] = "Video", }, ["The Stoneweaver"] = { ["artwork"] = "Taliyah OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Taliyah"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Azir", "Yasuo"}, ["region"] = {"Shurima"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Bloodline"] = { ["artwork"] = "Shurima Vekaura Streets.png", ["starring"] = {"Taliyah", "Sivir", "Nasus", "Xerath"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Azir", "Renekton"}, ["region"] = {"Shurima"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 36, ["description"] = "Taliyah had almost forgotten how much she'd missed the furnace heat of Shurima – the sweat and crush of hundreds of people pushing, cursing, haggling and speaking with such passion and speed that outsiders often thought they were fighting." }, ["The Bird and the Branch"] = { ["artwork"] = "Taliyah Bird and the Branch header.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Taliyah", "Yasuo"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Azir"}, ["region"] = {"Shurima"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["description"] = "A young stone mage from Shurima encounters an unlikely mentor in the mountains of Ionia." }, ["The Blade's Shadow"] = { ["artwork"] = "Talon OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Talon"}, ["region"] = {"Noxus"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Downfall"] = { ["author"] = "Numerous creators", ["starring"] = {"Taric"}, ["region"] = {"Mount Targon"}, ["loretype"] = "Video", ["description"] = "To ascend the Mountain, I had to let go..." }, ["The Ascent"] = { ["author"] = "Numerous creators", ["artwork"] = "Mount Targon Divine Carvings.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Taric"}, ["region"] = {"Mount Targon"}, ["loretype"] = "Comic", ["description"] = "An exiled soldier ascends Mount Targon to find redemption, only to discover a higher calling." }, ["The Shield of Valoran"] = { ["artwork"] = "Taric OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Taric"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Garen"}, ["region"] = {"Mount Targon"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Uninvited Guest"] = { ["artwork"] = "Mount Targon Divine Carvings.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Taric"}, ["region"] = {"Mount Targon"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 2, ["description"] = "I look out across the once-verdant field, now scarred and ruined by the toil of battle." }, ["The Swift Scout"] = { ["artwork"] = "Teemo OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Teemo"}, ["region"] = {"Bandle City"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Chain Warden"] = { ["artwork"] = "Thresh OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Thresh"}, ["region"] = {"Shadow Isles"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Collection"] = { ["artwork"] = "Shadow Isles Vaults.png", ["starring"] = {"Thresh"}, ["region"] = {"Shadow Isles"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 3, ["description"] = "A horrible scraping of metal chains drifted over the fields. Outside, an unnatural fog rendered the moon and stars all but invisible, and the regular hum of insects fell silent." }, ["A Quiet Night"] = { ["artwork"] = "A Quiet Night.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Tristana"}, ["region"] = {"Bandle City"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 5, ["description"] = "The fire was crackling away nicely, spreading a warm glow throughout the forest clearing. Tristana lay on her back with her head pillowed on her pack, watching a comet streak across the starlit sky. The winking lights glittered prettily through a swaying canopy of birch and oak leaves. The humans liked to name the patterns in the stars – she'd seen some in an old book in Heimerdinger's laboratory – but she decided it would be more fun to give them names of her own invention." }, ["The Yordle Gunner"] = { ["artwork"] = "Tristana OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Tristana"}, ["region"] = {"Bandle City"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Troll King"] = { ["artwork"] = "Trundle OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Trundle"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Barbarian King"] = { ["artwork"] = "Tryndamere OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Tryndamere"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Aatrox"}, ["region"] = {"Freljord"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Double Down"] = { ["artwork"] = "Bilgewater Approach.png", ["starring"] = {"Twisted Fate"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Miss Fortune"}, ["region"] = {"Bilgewater"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 3, ["description"] = "All eyes in Fortune's Glory were on Twisted Fate. He felt the gambling hall's many patrons regarding him with a mixture of envy, vicarious excitement, and spiteful longing for him to lose everything on the turn of the last card." }, ["The Card Master"] = { ["artwork"] = "Twisted Fate OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Twisted Fate"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Gangplank", "Graves"}, ["region"] = {"Bilgewater"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Do Not Engage"] = { ["artwork"] = "Zaun Breather Station.png", ["starring"] = {"Twitch"}, ["region"] = {"Zaun"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 2, ["description"] = "H.I.V.E. Incident Report" }, ["The Plague Rat"] = { ["artwork"] = "Twitch OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Twitch"}, ["region"] = {"Zaun"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Spirit Walker"] = { ["artwork"] = "Udyr OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Udyr"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Lee Sin", "Lissandra"}, ["region"] = {"Freljord", "Ionia"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Son of Ur"] = { ["artwork"] = "Urgot Update Splash concept 02.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Urgot"}, ["region"] = {"Zaun"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 5, ["description"] = "We were running through the streets of Zaun. The pipes and stained glass were blurred, smeared colors against the Gray, and the fog that hung in every chem-soaked alley. Zori was to my left, all matted hair and rusty knives—her smile was the only sign that she was beautiful beneath the grime. Blenk was behind her, with a spray-philter full of glowing paint and a head dripping with ideas. Scuzz brought up the rear, every bit the kind of lug you'd expect to be called Scuzz. But he was our Scuzz, every scuzzy bit of him." }, ["The Dreadnought"] = { ["artwork"] = "Urgot OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Urgot"}, ["region"] = {"Zaun"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["As We Fall"] = { ["starring"] = {"Varus"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Valmar", "Kai"}, ["region"] = {"Ionia"}, ["loretype"] = "Video", ["previous"] = "Heartlight", ["following"] = "Retribution" }, ["Dark Kin"] = { ["artwork"] = "Varus lore 01.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Varus"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Valmar", "Kai"}, ["region"] = {"Ionia"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["description"] = "Varus followed a river running through the desert. Its water was gritty, but drinkable. The new body he had wrought to bear his bow was beautiful, fast and strong, but it came with the weaknesses of flesh. It hungered. It thirsted." }, ["Heartlight"] = { ["author"] = "Numerous creators", ["artwork"] = "Varus OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Varus"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Valmar", "Kai"}, ["region"] = {"Ionia"}, ["loretype"] = "Comic", ["description"] = "Ionia. A land of magic. A land of balance. A land of light. But not always a land of peace. Just as there are creatures within Ionia who seek to upset its order, so too are there those who fight to preserve it; Arrows of Protection, hunters of monsters. Valmar and Kai are two such hunters. But not all monsters can be defeated with bow and steel. And not all darkness can be so easily banished by the light.", ["following"] = "As We Fall" }, ["Retribution"] = { ["author"] = "Numerous creators", ["artwork"] = "Varus OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Varus"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Valmar", "Kai"}, ["region"] = {"Ionia"}, ["loretype"] = "Comic", ["description"] = "Slayer Valmar, desperate to save the life of his beloved Kai, surrendered to an ancient spirit, one of the Darkin. The creature, true to its word, saved Kai's life... by taking it as its own. Valmar, Kai, and the Darkin fused into a single entity. A creature of rage, vengeance, and death. Varus lives.", ["previous"] = "As We Fall" }, ["The Arrow of Retribution"] = { ["artwork"] = "Varus OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Varus"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Valmar", "Kai"}, ["region"] = {"Ionia"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Monsters (Short Story)"] = { ["artwork"] = "Vayne Lore.png", ["starring"] = {"Vayne"}, ["region"] = {"Demacia"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 5, ["description"] = "For Vayne, revenge is a dish best served brutal, bloody, and with skull-piercing bolts." }, ["The Night Hunter"] = { ["artwork"] = "Vayne OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Vayne"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Evelynn"}, ["region"] = {"Demacia"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["First Contact"] = { ["author"] = "Numerous creators", ["starring"] = {"Vel'Koz"}, ["region"] = {"Shurima"}, ["loretype"] = "Video", ["description"] = "Only by Organic Deconstruction deconstruction is truth revealed." }, ["Instrument of Destruction"] = { ["artwork"] = "Instrument of Destruction.png", ["starring"] = {"Vel'Koz"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Zilean"}, ["region"] = {"Shurima"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 2, ["description"] = "I pass into the sudden glare. Blink. Blink, blink, blink. My eyes adjust and evaluate the landscape before me." }, ["The Eye of the Void"] = { ["artwork"] = "Vel'Koz OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Vel'Koz"}, ["region"] = {"Shurima"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Interrogation 101"] = { ["artwork"] = "Piltover City of Progress.png", ["starring"] = {"Vi"}, ["region"] = {"Piltover"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 5, ["description"] = "Vi stifled a yawn as she moved through the gilded chamber at the heart of Piltover's Hall of Law. Dawn was less than an hour old, and the place was quiet. A few drunks were sleeping it off in the shaming cells, and she'd heard there were a couple of chem-augmented thugs in the deeper, more secure lock-ups. She'd ask around later, see if she could provide any insight as to what they were doing up in Piltover." }, ["Piltover Enforcer"] = { ["artwork"] = "Vi OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Vi"}, ["region"] = {"Piltover"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["House on Emberflit Alley"] = { ["artwork"] = "Zaun Backstreet Deals.png", ["starring"] = {"Viktor"}, ["region"] = {"Zaun"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 6, ["description"] = "Viktor's third arm emitted a thin ray of light that welded metal into his left arm with steady precision. The smell of burning flesh no longer bothered him, nor did the sight of his left wrist splayed open, veins and sinewy muscle fused with mechanical augments. He did not wince. Instead, he felt a sense of achievement gazing at the seamless blend of synthetic and organic materials." }, ["The Machine Herald"] = { ["artwork"] = "Viktor OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Viktor"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Blitzcrank", "Jayce"}, ["region"] = {"Zaun"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["If They Run"] = { ["artwork"] = "Zaun Breather Station.png", ["starring"] = {"Warwick"}, ["region"] = {"Zaun"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 4, ["description"] = "I find her near the Black Lanes, where merchants and thieves do business. Anything is for sale. Everything is stolen. I could kill them all." }, ["The Uncaged Wrath of Zaun"] = { ["artwork"] = "Warwick OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Warwick"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Singed"}, ["region"] = {"Zaun"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Wrath of Zaun"] = { ["author"] = "Numerous creators", ["starring"] = {"Warwick"}, ["region"] = {"Zaun"}, ["loretype"] = "Video", ["description"] = "In Zaun's Gray-filled streets, the criminal underworld is hunted by an engineered beast." }, ["Fast and Dumb"] = { ["artwork"] = "Wukong Lore 1.png", ["starring"] = {"Wukong"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Master Yi"}, ["region"] = {"Ionia"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 5, ["description"] = "When a life hangs in the balance, there are two options: slow and smart, or fast and dumb." }, ["The Monkey King"] = { ["artwork"] = "Wukong OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Wukong"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Master Yi", "Singed"}, ["region"] = {"Ionia"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Puboe Prison Break"] = { ["artwork"] = "Xayah Lore 03.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Xayah"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Rakan"}, ["region"] = {"Ionia"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 7, ["description"] = "Rakan if the worst." }, ["The Rebel"] = { ["artwork"] = "Xayah OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Xayah"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Rakan"}, ["region"] = {"Ionia"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Magus Ascendent"] = { ["artwork"] = "Xerath OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Xerath"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Azir", "Brand", "Nasus", "Renekton"}, ["region"] = {"Shurima"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Unbound"] = { ["artwork"] = "Shurima Reborn.png", ["starring"] = {"Xerath"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Azir"}, ["region"] = {"Shurima"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 3, ["description"] = "This was the moment." }, ["The Seneschal of Demacia"] = { ["artwork"] = "Xin Zhao OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Xin Zhao"}, ["region"] = {"Demacia"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["A Sword without a Sheath"] = { ["artwork"] = "Yasuo Promo 2.png", ["starring"] = {"Yasuo"}, ["region"] = {"Ionia"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 1, ["description"] = "What is a sword without the man behind it? Teaching a swordsman to kill is simple. The true challenge lies in teaching him not to kill." }, ["The Road to Ruin"] = { ["artwork"] = "Yasuo Promo 1.png", ["starring"] = {"Yasuo"}, ["region"] = {"Ionia"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 1, ["description"] = "When I was a child, my brother asked me: \"Does the wind flee, or does it follow?\"" }, ["Unforgiven"] = { ["artwork"] = "Yasuo OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Yasuo"}, ["region"] = {"Ionia"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Last Rites"] = { ["artwork"] = "Shadow Isles Vaults.png", ["starring"] = {"Yorick"}, ["region"] = {"Shadow Isles"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 4, ["description"] = "\"Help… me,\" begged the shipwrecked man." }, ["The Shepherd of Souls"] = { ["artwork"] = "Yorick OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Yorick"}, ["region"] = {"Shadow Isles"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Protection"] = { ["artwork"] = "Zac Promo 7.png", ["starring"] = {"Zac"}, ["region"] = {"Zaun"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 6, ["description"] = "The golden hour between fifth and sixth bell. That's my favorite time of day. It's when most people in the Factorywood finish their work shifts. They're bone tired, but they're done for the day. Work is behind them. A hot meal and home are ahead. The people here are nice, and I always feel good squeezing my gelatinous body through the cliff-cracks seaming the rocks around the Factorywood. I feel love emanating from a man going home to his newborn son. I relish the anticipation of a married couple looking forward to a romantic dinner in the Boundary Markets." }, ["The Secret Weapon"] = { ["artwork"] = "Zac OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Zac"}, ["region"] = {"Zaun"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Death Mark"] = { ["author"] = "Numerous creators", ["starring"] = {"Zed"}, ["region"] = {"Ionia"}, ["loretype"] = "Video", ["description"] = "This assassin doesn't just strike from the shadows - he is the shadow. And they don't stand a chance." }, ["The Master of Shadows"] = { ["author"] = "Michael Luo, Ariel Lawrence", ["artwork"] = "Zed OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Zed"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Shen"}, ["region"] = {"Ionia"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Aspect of Twilight"] = { ["artwork"] = "Zoe OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Zoe"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Aurelion Sol"}, ["region"] = {"Mount Targon"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Meet Zoe"] = { ["artwork"] = "Meet Zoe.png", ["starring"] = {"Zoe"}, ["region"] = {"Mount Targon"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 5, ["description"] = "The moment she thought of the cake store, Zoe dove into the air, surrendering herself to gravity. While falling, she reached out with her consciousness to form a gateway. Instantly, a portal opened beneath her and connected to the other place. She fell into the gate. Her mass collided and imploded as she traveled." }, ["Twilight of the Gods"] = { ["artwork"] = "Darkin Twilight of the Gods.jpg", ["author"] = "Graham McNeill", ["starring"] = {"Zoe"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Azir", "Nasus", "Rhaast"}, ["region"] = {"Shurima"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 25, ["description"] = "They came to a dead city in the mountain's shadow under cover of night." }, ["Rise of the Thorns"] = { ["artwork"] = "Zyra OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Zyra"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Eduard Santangelo's Vastaya Field Journal"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/vastaya-field-journal/", ["artwork"] = "Vastaya Lore 2.png", ["mentioned"] = {"Ahri"}, ["region"] = {"Ionia"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 8, ["description"] = "Chimeras with human blood? Spiritual magic from an ancient race? In my humble inquiries I have stumbled upon far greater questions... this shall make for quite the chronicle. A best-seller, in fact. \"Eduard Santangelo, gentleman of Piltover, explorer of Ionia, who discovered the wondrous vastaya in the wilds of Ionia.\" I can already hear them clamoring for the first edition." }, ["The Mountain"] = { ["artwork"] = "Mount Targon Divine Carvings.jpg", ["region"] = {"Mount Targon"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 3, ["description"] = "Mount Targon is the mightiest peak in Runeterra, a towering mountain of sun-baked rock amid a range of summits unmatched in scale anywhere else in the world. Located far from civilization, Mount Targon is utterly remote and all but impossible to reach save by the most determined seeker." }, ["The Princeling's Lament"] = { ["artwork"] = "Shadow Isles Vaults.png", ["region"] = {"Shadow Isles"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 3, ["description"] = "Scrape the bench of sunless moss." }, ["City of Iron and Glass"] = { ["artwork"] = "Zaun Breather Station.png", ["mentioned"] = {"Janna"}, ["region"] = {"Zaun"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 23, ["description"] = "\"Hurry up, Wyn!\" shouted Janke. \"The Rising Howl's on its way!\"" }, } -- --