Module:UniverseData/data

-- return { ["Something Went Wrong"] = { ["artwork"] = "Bard promo 2.jpg", ["description"] = "Lost? Take a magical journey 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", ["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", ["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.jpg", ["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 Pilgrim Site Of Rakelstake.jpg", ["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", ["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", ["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 The Immortal Bastion 01.jpg", ["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 Sidereal Avenue.jpg", ["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", ["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 The Rebirth.jpg", ["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", ["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 Life Survives In The Depth.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Blitzcrank", "Dr. Mundo", "Ekko", "Janna", "Jinx", "Singed", "Twitch", "Urgot", "Viktor", "Warwick", "Zac", "Ziggs"}, ["loretype"] = "Faction", ["region"] = {"Zaun"} }, ["The Cage"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/aatrox-color-story/", ["author"] = "Odin Shafer", ["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", ["author"] = "Odin Shafer", ["starring"] = {"Aatrox"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Pantheon", "Zoe"}, ["region"] = {"Shurima", "Mount Targon", "Void"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["World Ender"] = { ["reference"] = "https://www.https://youtu.be/be.com/watch?v=s8p_brCVNOA", ["artwork"] = "Aatrox World Ender.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", ["author"] = "Rayla Heide", ["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", ["author"] = "Rayla Heide", ["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", ["author"] = "Rayla Heide", ["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", ["author"] = "Michael McCarthy", ["starring"] = {"Akali"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Kennen", "Shen", "Zed"}, ["region"] = {"Ionia", "Noxus"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", },   ["The Rogue Assassin (Video)"] = { ["reference"] = "https://twitter.com/JasonHendrich/status/1034978433711796224", ["artwork"] = "Akali 2018 Thunderdome.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Akali"}, ["region"] = {"Ionia"}, ["loretype"] = "Video", }, ["The Minotaur"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/alistar/", ["artwork"] = "Alistar OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Alistar"}, ["region"] = {"Runeterra"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Greed and Tears"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/amumu-color-story/", ["artwork"] = "Shurima The City Of The Sun.jpg", ["author"] = "Anthony Reynolds Lenné", ["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", ["author"] = "Rayla Heide", ["starring"] = {"Amumu"}, ["region"] = {"Shurima"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Curse of the Sad Mummy"] = { ["reference"] = "https://youtu.be/0AvWV6Mk374", ["artwork"] = "Amumu The Curse of the Sad Mummy.jpg", ["author"] = "Numerous creators", ["starring"] = {"Amumu"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Kindred"}, ["region"] = {"Runeterra", "Bilgewater", "Ionia"}, ["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://youtu.be/aUTU-GnxVuM", ["artwork"] = "Annie Origins concept 27.jpg", ["author"] = "Numerous creators", ["starring"] = {"Annie", "Tibbers"}, ["region"] = {"Runeterra", "Noxus"}, ["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", ["author"] = "Ariel Lawrence", ["starring"] = {"Annie", "Tibbers"}, ["region"] = {"Runeterra", "Noxus"}, ["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", ["artwork"] = "Aurelion Sol Promo 1.png", ["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", ["author"] = "Matthew Dunn", ["starring"] = {"Aurelion Sol"}, ["region"] = {"Mount Targon"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Star Forger Returns"] = { ["reference"] = "https://youtu.be/CAAnY_L4Pp4", ["artwork"] = "Aurelion Sol Promo 2.png", ["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", ["author"] = "Matthew Dunn", ["starring"] = {"Aurelion Sol"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Pantheon"}, ["region"] = {"Mount Targon", "Shurima", "Void"}, ["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 The City Of The Sun.jpg", ["author"] = "Anthony Reynolds Lenné", ["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://youtu.be/JKnM6Hh5gOg", ["artwork"] = "Descent into the Tomb.jpg", ["author"] = "Numerous creators", ["starring"] = {"Azir", "Cassiopeia", "Renekton", "Sivir", "Xerath"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Nasus"}, ["region"] = {"Shurima", "Noxus"}, ["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://youtu.be/CYyuH1Bp2ZI", ["artwork"] = "Sivir Update Promo.png", ["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"] = { ["artwork"] = "Fall of the Empire 1.jpg", ["author"] = "Numerous creators", ["starring"] = {"Azir", "Xerath", "Nasus", "Renekton"}, ["region"] = {"Shurima"}, ["loretype"] = "Comic", }, ["Bard Mountain"] = { ["reference"] = "https://youtu.be/CX8iSobsKTY", ["artwork"] = "Bard Mountain.jpg", ["author"] = "Numerous creators", ["starring"] = {"Bard"}, ["region"] = {"Runeterra", "Ionia", "Noxus"}, ["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"}, ["region"] = {"Runeterra"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Wonder Above"] = { ["author"] = "Numerous creators", ["reference"] = "https://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/champion-preview/wonder-above", ["starring"] = {"Bard"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Lissandra", "Xerath", "Azir", "Mordekaiser"}, ["region"] = {"Runeterra", "Ionia", "Freljord", "Shadow Isles", "Shurima", "Void"}, ["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 Tower Of The College Of Techmaturgy.jpg", ["author"] = "Rayla Heide", ["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", ["author"] = "Rayla Heide", ["starring"] = {"Blitzcrank"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Viktor"}, ["region"] = {"Zaun"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["From the Ashes"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/from-the-ashes/", ["artwork"] = "Freljord Master And Apprentice.jpg", ["author"] = "Aaron Dembski-Bowden", ["starring"] = {"Brand", "Ryze"}, ["region"] = {"Runeterra", "Freljord"}, ["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"}, ["region"] = {"Runeterra", "Freljord"}, ["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 Warded Gateway To The Howling Abyss.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Braum"}, ["region"] = {"Freljord"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 3, ["description"] = "'Would you like to hear a bedtime story?'" }, ["Trial of the Poro"] = { ["reference"] = "https://youtu.be/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." }, ["Dated Biography"] = { ["starring"] = {"Braum", "Malphite", "Morgana", "Nidalee", "Rumble", "Soraka", "Shaco", "Ziggs", "Volibear", "Zilean"} }, ["Progress Day"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/piltover-progress-day/", ["author"] = "Graham McNeill", ["artwork"] = "Piltover Zindelo's Incognium Runeterra.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Caitlyn"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Vi", "Camille"}, ["region"] = {"Piltover", "Noxus"}, ["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", ["author"] = "Graham McNeill", ["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's Incognium Runeterra.jpg", ["author"] = "Graham McNeill", ["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.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Camille"}, ["region"] = {"Piltover", "Zaun"}, ["loretype"] = "Comic", ["following"] = "The Weakest Heart", ["description"] = "Camille must stop a secret alliance that threatens the fragile balance of power in Piltover." }, ["Tea With The Gray Lady"] = { ["reference"] = "https:///universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/camille-color-story", ["artwork"] = "Piltover Sidereal Avenue.jpg", ["author"] = "Ariel Lawrence", ["starring"] = {"Camille"}, ["region"] = {"Piltover", "Zaun"}, ["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"] = "https:///universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/camille", ["artwork"] = "Camille OriginalCentered.jpg", ["author"] = "Ariel Lawrence", ["starring"] = {"Camille"}, ["region"] = {"Piltover"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Weakest Heart"] = { ["reference"] = "https:///universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/camille-weakest-heart", ["author"] = "Ariel Lawrence", ["artwork"] = "Zaun Boundary Markets.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Camille"}, ["region"] = {"Piltover", "Shurima"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["previous"] = "Severed Ties", ["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"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/cassiopeia-color-story", ["artwork"] = "Shurima The City Of The Sun.jpg", ["author"] = "Rayla Heide", ["starring"] = {"Cassiopeia"}, ["region"] = {"Noxus", "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://youtu.be/rGx9_wABzlA", ["artwork"] = "Darius Fear.jpg", ["author"] = "Numerous creators", ["starring"] = {"Darius"}, ["region"] = {"Freljord", "Noxus"}, ["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"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/comic/darius/bloodofnoxus/", ["artwork"] = "Darius Blood Of Noxus cover 02.jpg", ["author"] = "Graham McNeill", ["starring"] = {"Darius", "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"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/darius", ["artwork"] = "Darius OriginalCentered.jpg", ["author"] = "Anthony Reynolds Lenné", ["starring"] = {"Darius"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Draven", "Swain"}, ["region"] = {"Noxus", "Freljord"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Principles of Strength"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/trifarian-legion/", ["artwork"] = "Noxus A State Of Perpetual Conflict.jpg", ["author"] = "Anthony Reynolds Lenné", ["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", ["author"] = "Graham McNeill", ["starring"] = {"Diana"}, ["region"] = {"Mount Targon", "Void"}, ["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", ["author"] = "Graham McNeill", ["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 Lights And Shadows.jpg", ["author"] = "Anthony Burch", ["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", ["author"] = "Anthony Burch", ["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"] = "https://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/site/ekko-comic/", ["author"] = "Numerous creators", ["reference"] = "https://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/site/ekko-comic/", ["artwork"] = "Ekko Chronobreak cover.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Ekko"}, ["region"] = {"Zaun"}, ["loretype"] = "Comic", ["following"] = "Seconds", ["description"] = "A friend in need or a murderous deed. We're defined by the paths we take." }, ["Lullaby"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/ekko-color-story", ["artwork"] = "Zaun Lights And Shadows.jpg", ["author"] = "Matthew Dunn", ["starring"] = {"Ekko"}, ["region"] = {"Zaun"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 6, ["description"] = "It had been a weeklong sort of day." }, ["Seconds"] = { ["reference"] = "https://youtu.be/FtEpp9lkfxA", ["artwork"] = "Ekko Seconds.jpg", ["author"] = "Numerous creators", ["starring"] = {"Ekko"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Jinx"}, ["region"] = {"Zaun"}, ["loretype"] = "Video", ["previous"] = "Chronobreak", ["description"] = "Some things are worth fighting for. Time and time again." }, ["The Boy Who Shattered Time"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/ekko", ["artwork"] = "Ekko OriginalCentered.jpg", ["author"] = "Matthew Dunn", ["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", ["author"] = "Graham McNeill", ["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", ["author"] = "Graham McNeill", ["starring"] = {"Elise"}, ["mentioned"] = {"LeBlanc", "Vilemaw"}, ["region"] = {"Shadow Isles", "Noxus"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Agony's Embrace"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/evelynn/", ["artwork"] = "Evelynn OriginalCentered.jpg", ["author"] = "John O'Bryan", ["starring"] = {"Evelynn"}, ["region"] = {"Runeterra"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Shadows Beckon"] = { ["reference"] = "https://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/featured/shadow-isles#/champion/evelynn?_k=icqjxu", ["artwork"] = "Evelynn OriginalSkin old3.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Evelynn"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Camille"}, ["region"] = {"Zaun"}, ["description"] = "Swift and lethal, Evelynn is one of the most deadly - and expensive - assassins in all of Runeterra. Able to merge with shadows at will, she patiently stalks her prey, waiting for the right moment to strike. While Evelynn is clearly not entirely human, and her heritage remains unclear, it is believed that she hails from the Shadow Isles - though her link with that tortured realm remains shrouded in mystery.", ["status"] = "Outdated" }, ["The Tallest Daisy"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/evelynn-color-story/", ["artwork"] = "Evelynn VGU Teaser.jpg", ["author"] = "John O'Bryan", ["starring"] = {"Evelynn"}, ["region"] = {"Runeterra"}, ["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"] = "The Elixir of Uloa 1.jpg", ["author"] = "Rayla Heide", ["starring"] = {"Ezreal"}, ["region"] = {"Shurima"}, ["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." }, ["An Explorer's Journey"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/an-explorers-journey/", ["author"] = "Matthew Dunn", ["artwork"] = "An Explorers Journey 1.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Ezreal"}, ["region"] = {"Zaun"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["description"] = "A Handwritten Account of the Discovery of the Vault of Resplendent Holies By Piltover's greatest, fully-accreddited† explorer. †Official Piltover Explorers Guild membership still pending. " }, ["Ezreal's Field Notes"] = { ["reference"] = "https://map.leagueoflegends.com/en_US", ["author"] = "Matthew Dunn", ["artwork"] = "Runeterra terrain.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Ezreal"}, ["region"] = {"Runeterra"}, ["loretype"] = "Entries", ["duration"] = 4, ["description"] = "Who needs a map?" }, ["The Curator's Gambit"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/the-curators-gambit/", ["artwork"] = "The Curators Gambit 1.jpg", ["author"] = "Matthew Dunn", ["starring"] = {"Ezreal"}, ["region"] = {"Piltover"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 4, ["description"] = "Look, I should be clear—I didn’t want anything to do with “the dread lord,” or whoever Januk was talking about. I was just trying to sell this stupid little vial to the guy who asked me to get it for him. Should have been easy." }, ["The Prodigal Explorer"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/ezreal/", ["artwork"] = "Ezreal OriginalCentered.jpg", ["author"] = "Matthew Dunn", ["starring"] = {"Ezreal"}, ["region"] = {"Piltover", "Shurima"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Harbinger of Doom"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/fiddlesticks/", ["artwork"] = "Fiddlesticks OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Fiddlesticks"}, ["region"] = {"Runeterra"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["To Our End"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/fiddlesticks-color-story/", ["artwork"] = "Fiddlesticks Concept.png", ["author"] = "Rayla Heide", ["starring"] = {"Fiddlesticks"}, ["region"] = {"Runeterra"}, ["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 Of Dawn.jpg", ["author"] = "Graham McNeill", ["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", ["author"] = "Graham McNeill", ["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"}, ["author"] = "Anthony Reynolds Lenné", ["mentioned"] = {"Nautilus"}, ["region"] = {"Bilgewater"}, ["loretype"] = "Narration", ["artwork"] = "Bilgewater Legends.png", ["previous"] = "The Ophidian", ["following"] = "The Gambler's Woe" }, ["The Tidal Trickster"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/fizz/", ["artwork"] = "Fizz OriginalCentered.jpg", ["author"] = "Anthony Reynolds Lenné", ["starring"] = {"Fizz"}, ["region"] = {"Bilgewater"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["A Hero Wakes"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/galio-color-story/", ["artwork"] = "Galio Lore.png", ["author"] = "John O'Bryan", ["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", ["author"] = "John O'Bryan", ["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", ["author"] = "Anthony Reynolds Lenné", ["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", ["author"] = "Anthony Reynolds Lenné", ["starring"] = {"Gangplank"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Miss Fortune", "Swain", "Zed"}, ["region"] = {"Bilgewater", "Noxus", "Ionia"}, ["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 Lenné", "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 Lenné", "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 Lenné", "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 Lenné", "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", ["author"] = "Graham McNeill", ["starring"] = {"Garen"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Jarvan IV", "Lux"}, ["region"] = {"Demacia"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Soldier and the Hag"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/garen-color-story/", ["artwork"] = "Garen Lore.png", ["author"] = "Graham McNeill", ["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", "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"] = "https://promo.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/gnar/", ["artwork"] = "Gnar lore.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Gnar"}, ["region"] = {"Freljord"}, ["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"}, ["region"] = {"Runeterra"}, ["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", ["author"] = "Michael Luo", "David Slagle", ["starring"] = {"Gnar"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Nunu", "Willump"}, ["region"] = {"Freljord"}, ["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"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/graves-color-story", ["artwork"] = "Bilgewater Approach.png", ["author"] = "Anthony Reynolds Lenné", ["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"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/graves", ["artwork"] = "Graves OriginalCentered.jpg", ["author"] = "Anthony Reynolds Lenné", ["starring"] = {"Graves"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Gangplank", "Twisted Fate"}, ["region"] = {"Bilgewater"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["No One Lives"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/hecarim-color-story", ["artwork"] = "Shadow Isles Vaults.png", ["author"] = "Graham McNeill", ["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://youtu.be/s2FFGBPXNeU", ["artwork"] = "Tales of the Black Mist.jpg", ["author"] = "Numerous creators", ["starring"] = {"Hecarim"}, ["region"] = {"Shadow Isles", "Bilgewater"}, ["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", ["author"] = "Graham McNeill", ["starring"] = {"Hecarim"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Kalista"}, ["region"] = {"Shadow Isles"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["From The Journal Of Professor Cecil B. Heimerdinger"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/heimerdinger-color-story", ["artwork"] = "Piltover Sidereal Avenue.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Heimerdinger"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Rumble"}, ["region"] = {"Piltover", "Bandle City"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 3, ["description"] = "10.14" }, ["The Revered Inventor"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/heimerdinger", ["artwork"] = "Heimerdinger OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Heimerdinger"}, ["region"] = {"Piltover", "Bandle City"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Burden"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/illaoi-color-story", ["artwork"] = "Bilgewater Approach.png", ["author"] = "Odin Shafer", ["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"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/illaoi", ["artwork"] = "Illaoi OriginalCentered.jpg", ["author"] = "Odin Shafer", ["starring"] = {"Illaoi"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Gangplank"}, ["region"] = {"Bilgewater"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Trial of the Kraken Priestess"] = { ["reference"] = "https://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", ["author"] = "John O'Bryan", ["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", ["author"] = "John O'Bryan", ["starring"] = {"Irelia"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Swain"}, ["region"] = {"Ionia", "Noxus"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Defiant Blade"] = { ["reference"] = "https://youtu.be/IPCnts6v_Pc", ["artwork"] = "Irelia Update promo 01.jpg", ["author"] = "Numerous creators", ["starring"] = {"Irelia"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Riven"}, ["region"] = {"Ionia", "Noxus"}, ["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://youtu.be/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", ["author"] = "Matthew Dunn", ["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", ["author"] = "Matthew Dunn", ["mentioned"] = {"Lissandra"}, ["region"] = {"Ionia", "Freljord"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Deep Breath"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/janna-color-story", ["artwork"] = "Zaun Tower Of The College Of Techmaturgy.jpg", ["author"] = "Anthony Burch", ["starring"] = {"Janna"}, ["region"] = {"Zaun"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 6, ["description"] = "They think Zaun is where the losers live." }, ["The Storm's Fury"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/janna", ["artwork"] = "Janna OriginalCentered.jpg", ["author"] = "Anthony Burch", ["starring"] = {"Janna"}, ["region"] = {"Zaun", "Shurima"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Ivory, Ebony, Jasper"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/jarvaniv-color-story/", ["artwork"] = "Jarvan IV Lore.png", ["author"] = "Rayla Heide", ["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"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/jarvaniv/", ["artwork"] = "Jarvan IV OriginalCentered.jpg", ["author"] = "Rayla Heide", ["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", "Kayn", "Nasus", "Renekton", "Varus"}, ["region"] = {"Void", "Shurima"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 22, ["description"] = "My name is Axamuk Var-Choi Kohari Icath'or." }, ["The Grandmaster at Arms"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/jax", ["artwork"] = "Jax OriginalCentered.jpg", ["author"] = "Anthony Reynolds Lenné", ["starring"] = {"Jax"}, ["region"] = {"Runeterra"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["None Shall Pass"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/jax-color-story", ["artwork"] = "None Shall Pass.png", ["author"] = "Graham McNeill", ["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"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/jayce-color-story", ["artwork"] = "Piltover The Ecliptic Vaults.jpg", ["author"] = "Anthony Burch", ["starring"] = {"Jayce"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Viktor"}, ["region"] = {"Piltover", "Zaun"}, ["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"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/jayce", ["artwork"] = "Jayce OriginalCentered.jpg", ["author"] = "Anthony Burch", ["starring"] = {"Jayce"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Viktor"}, ["region"] = {"Piltover", "Zaun"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Golden Excellence"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/jhin-color-story/", ["artwork"] = "Jhin OriginalCentered.jpg", ["author"] = "Odin Shafer", ["starring"] = {"Jhin"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Akali", "Shen", "Zed"}, ["region"] = {"Ionia"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", }, ["Mind of the Virtuoso"] = { ["reference"] = "https://youtu.be/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"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/jhin", ["artwork"] = "Jhin OriginalCentered.jpg", ["author"] = "Odin Shafer", ["starring"] = {"Jhin"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Shen", "Zed"}, ["region"] = {"Ionia"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Get Jinxed"] = { ["reference"] = "https://youtu.be/0nlJuwO0GDs", ["artwork"] = "Jinx Polycount Poster.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Jinx"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Ziggs"}, ["region"] = {"Zaun", "Piltover"}, ["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"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/jinx", ["artwork"] = "Jinx OriginalCentered.jpg", ["author"] = "Graham McNeill", ["starring"] = {"Jinx"}, ["region"] = {"Zaun", "Piltover"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Wedding Crasher"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/jinx-color-story", ["artwork"] = "Zaun Life Survives In The Depth.jpg", ["author"] = "Graham McNeill", ["starring"] = {"Jinx"}, ["region"] = {"Zaun", "Piltover"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 6, ["description"] = "Jinx hated petticoats." }, ["Mayhem Everywhere You Look"] = { ["reference"] = "https:///na.leagueoflegends.com/en/news/champions-skins/champion-preview/mayhem-everywhere-you-look", ["artwork"] = "Jinx Promo 2.png", ["starring"] = {"Jinx", "Vi"}, ["region"] = {"Zaun", "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"] = "Anthony Burch", ["reference"] = "https:///universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/comic/jinx-ziggs/paint-the-town/", ["artwork"] = "Ziggs and Jinx Paint the Town cover 02.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Heimerdinger", "Jinx", "Ziggs"}, ["region"] = {"Piltover", "Zaun"}, ["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"] = "https:///na.leagueoflegends.com/en/news/champions-skins/champion-preview/mayhem-everywhere-you-look", ["artwork"] = "Jinx Promo 1.png", ["starring"] = {"Jinx", "Vi"}, ["region"] = {"Zaun", "Piltover"}, ["loretype"] = "Reveal", ["description"] = "X." }, ["Breach"] = { ["author"] = "Phillip Vargas", ["reference"] = "https://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/featured/kaisa-comic", ["artwork"] = "Kai'Sa Breach cover.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Kai'Sa"}, ["region"] = {"Shurima", "Void"}, ["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"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/kaisa/", ["artwork"] = "Kai'Sa OriginalCentered.jpg", ["author"] = "Michael McCarthy", ["starring"] = {"Kai'Sa"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Kassadin"}, ["region"] = {"Shurima", "Void"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Girl Who Came Back"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/kaisa-color-story", ["author"] = "Michael McCarthy", ["artwork"] = "Void concept 01.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Kai'Sa"}, ["region"] = {"Shurima", "Void"}, ["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"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/kalista-color-story", ["artwork"] = "Shadow Isles Vaults.png", ["author"] = "Graham McNeill", ["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"] = { ["reference"] = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnT8jVCyh_E", ["artwork"] = "Kalista The Pledge.jpg", ["author"] = "Anthony Reynolds Lenné", ["starring"] = {"Kalista"}, ["region"] = {"Shadow Isles", "Bilgewater"}, ["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"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/kalista", ["artwork"] = "Kalista OriginalCentered.jpg", ["author"] = "Anthony Reynolds Lenné", ["starring"] = {"Kalista"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Hecarim"}, ["region"] = {"Shadow Isles"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Enlightened One"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/karma", ["artwork"] = "Karma OriginalCentered.jpg", ["author"] = "Michael Luo", ["starring"] = {"Karma"}, ["region"] = {"Ionia"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Burial at Sea"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/karthus-color-story", ["artwork"] = "Shadow Isles Vaults.png", ["author"] = "Graham McNeill", ["starring"] = {"Karthus"}, ["region"] = {"Shadow Isles", "Noxus"}, ["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"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/karthus", ["artwork"] = "Karthus OriginalCentered.jpg", ["author"] = "Graham McNeill", ["starring"] = {"Karthus"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Kindred"}, ["region"] = {"Shadow Isles", "Noxus"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Void Walker"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/kassadin", ["artwork"] = "Kassadin OriginalCentered.jpg", ["author"] = "Ariel Lawrence", ["starring"] = {"Kassadin"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Kai'Sa", "Malzahar"}, ["region"] = {"Void", "Shurima"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", },   ["Whom Does the Desert Know?"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/kassadin-color-story/", ["artwork"] = "Void The Touch Of The Void.jpg", ["author"] = "Laurie Goulding", ["starring"] = {"Kassadin"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Kai'Sa", "Malzahar"}, ["region"] = {"Void", "Shurima"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["description"] = "Shurima is dying. I do not think she will rise again." }, ["The Sinister Blade"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/katarina", ["artwork"] = "Katarina OriginalCentered.jpg", ["author"] = "Anthony Reynolds", ["starring"] = {"Katarina"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Cassiopeia"}, ["region"] = {"Noxus"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Judicator"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/kayle", ["artwork"] = "Kayle OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Kayle"}, ["region"] = {"Demacia"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Blade of Millenia"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/kayn-color-story/", ["artwork"] = "Kayn Concept 01.jpg", ["author"] = "Michael McCarthy", ["starring"] = {"Kayn"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Rhaast"}, ["region"] = {"Ionia", "Noxus"}, ["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"] = { ["reference"] = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmdkmPsmEnA", ["artwork"] = "Kayn Insights 01.jpg", ["author"] = "Numerous creators", ["starring"] = {"Kayn"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Rhaast"}, ["region"] = {"Ionia", "Noxus"}, ["loretype"] = "Video", ["description"] = "Will he deliver death with a whisper or make the world scream?" }, ["The Shadow Reaper"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_us/story/champion/kayn/", ["artwork"] = "Kayn OriginalCentered.jpg", ["author"] = "Michael McCarthy", ["starring"] = {"Kayn"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Rhaast"}, ["region"] = {"Ionia", "Noxus"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Heart of the Tempest"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/kennen", ["artwork"] = "Kennen OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Kennen"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Akali", "Shen"}, ["region"] = {"Ionia"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Voidreaver"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/khazix", ["artwork"] = "Kha'Zix OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Kha'Zix"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Rengar"}, ["region"] = {"Void"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["A Good Death"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/kindred-good-death-story/", ["artwork"] = "Kindred OriginalCentered.jpg", ["author"] = "Matthew Dunn", ["starring"] = {"Kindred"}, ["region"] = {"Runeterra", "Demacia"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", }, ["Forest for the Trees"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/kindred-color-story", ["artwork"] = "Forest For The Trees.png", ["author"] = "Matthew Dunn", ["starring"] = {"Kindred"}, ["region"] = {"Runeterra"}, ["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"] = { ["reference"] = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4ufa7hik08", ["artwork"] = "Kindred Promo 1.png", ["author"] = "Numerous creators", ["starring"] = {"Kindred"}, ["region"] = {"Runeterra"}, ["loretype"] = "Video", ["description"] = "Lamb, tell me a story." }, ["The Eternal Hunters"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/kindred", ["artwork"] = "Kindred OriginalCentered.jpg", ["author"] = "Matthew Dunn", ["starring"] = {"Kindred"}, ["region"] = {"Runeterra"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Cantankerous Cavalier"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/kled/", ["artwork"] = "Kled OriginalCentered.jpg", ["author"] = "Odin Shafer", ["starring"] = {"Kled", "Skaarl"}, ["region"] = {"Noxus"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Reunion"] = { ["reference"] = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw46WPuXMk0", ["artwork"] = "Kled Insights 1.png", ["author"] = "Numerous creators", ["starring"] = {"Kled", "Skaarl"}, ["region"] = {"Noxus"}, ["loretype"] = "Video", ["description"] = "Another day on the northern plains. Prickly shrubs. Harsh winds. Killin' trespassers." }, ["Where The Drakalops Roam"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/kled-color-story/", ["artwork"] = "Where the Drakalops Roam.png", ["author"] = "Odin Shafer", ["starring"] = {"Kled", "Skaarl"}, ["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"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/kogmaw", ["artwork"] = "Kog'Maw OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Kog'Maw"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Malzahar"}, ["region"] = {"Shurima", "Void"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Deceiver"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/leblanc", ["artwork"] = "LeBlanc OriginalCentered.jpg", ["author"] = "David Slagle", ["starring"] = {"LeBlanc"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Mordekaiser"}, ["region"] = {"Noxus"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["All The Glitters..."] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/leesin-color-story", ["artwork"] = "Ionia Placidium Navori.png", ["author"] = "Ariel Lawrence", ["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"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/leesin", ["artwork"] = "Lee Sin OriginalCentered.jpg", ["author"] = "Ariel Lawrence", ["starring"] = {"Lee Sin"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Udyr"}, ["region"] = {"Ionia", "Freljord"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Light Bringer"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/leona-color-story", ["artwork"] = "Mount Targon Divine Carvings.jpg", ["author"] = "Graham McNeill", ["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"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/leona", ["artwork"] = "Leona OriginalCentered.jpg", ["author"] = "Graham McNeill", ["starring"] = {"Leona"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Pantheon", "Diana"}, ["region"] = {"Mount Targon"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", },   ["The Eye in the Abyss"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/the-eye-in-the-abyss/", ["artwork"] = "Freljord The Eye In The Abyss.jpg", ["author"] = "Anthony Reynolds Lenné", ["mentioned"] = {"Lissandra", "Ornn", "Nunu", "Willump", "Trundle"}, ["region"] = {"Freljord", "Void"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 35, ["description"] = "Sigvar Half-Quiver knelt on one knee, head bowed, while the wind beyond the gates howled like the ice-wraiths of legend." }, ["The Ice Witch"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/champion/lissandra/", ["artwork"] = "Lissandra OriginalCentered.jpg", ["author"] = "Ariel Lawrence", ["starring"] = {"Lissandra"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Ashe", "Sejuani", "Volibear", "Xerath", "Zoe"}, ["region"] = {"Freljord", "Mount Targon", "Shurima", "Void"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Seeker's Tale"] = { ["reference"] = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4nCPiM85TQ", ["artwork"] = "Howling Abyss Landscape.png", ["starring"] = {"Lissandra"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Ashe", "Sejuani", "Aurelion Sol", "Xerath"}, ["region"] = {"Freljord", "Mount Targon", "Shurima", "Void"}, ["loretype"] = "Narration", }, ["Shadows and Reflections"] = { ["reference"] = "https://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/news/champions-skins/champion-preview/shadows-and-reflections", ["author"] = "Numerous creators", ["artwork"] = "Lucian Promo 3.png", ["starring"] = {"Lucian"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Thresh"}, ["region"] = {"Demacia", "Shadow Isles"}, ["loretype"] = "Reveal", ["description"] = "The Purifier Remembers" }, ["The Purifier"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/lucian", ["artwork"] = "Lucian OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Lucian"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Thresh"}, ["region"] = {"Demacia", "Shadow Isles"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", },  ["Hunter of Shadows"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/lucian-color-story/", ["author"] = "Anthony Reynolds Lenné", ["artwork"] = "Lucian Promo 3.png", ["starring"] = {"Lucian"}, ["region"] = {"Demacia"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["description"] = "They came at Lucian in a blur of shadow, lunging at him with insubstantial talons and ancient, rusted blades." }, ["Shadow and Fortune: Chapter One"] = { ["reference"] = "https:///na.leagueoflegends.com/en/site/shadow-and-fortune/index.html", ["artwork"] = "Bilgewater Harrowing.jpg", ["author"] = "Graham McNeill", ["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"] = "https:///na.leagueoflegends.com/en/site/shadow-and-fortune/index.html", ["artwork"] = "Bilgewater Harrowing.jpg", ["author"] = "Graham McNeill", ["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"] = "https:///na.leagueoflegends.com/en/site/shadow-and-fortune/index.html", ["artwork"] = "Bilgewater Harrowing.jpg", ["author"] = "Graham McNeill", ["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"] = "https:///na.leagueoflegends.com/en/site/shadow-and-fortune/index.html", ["artwork"] = "Bilgewater Harrowing.jpg", ["author"] = "Graham McNeill", ["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"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/lulu", ["artwork"] = "Lulu OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Lulu"}, ["region"] = {"Bandle City"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Last Light"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/lux-color-story", ["artwork"] = "Lux Lore.png", ["author"] = "Graham McNeill", ["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"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/lux", ["artwork"] = "Lux OriginalCentered.jpg", ["author"] = "Graham McNeill", ["starring"] = {"Lux"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Garen"}, ["region"] = {"Demacia"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Binding Light"] = { ["reference"] = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvflWd9t95I", ["artwork"] = "Lux Binding Light.jpg", ["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"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/malzahar", ["artwork"] = "Malzahar OriginalCentered.jpg", ["author"] = "Michael Luo", ["starring"] = {"Malzahar"}, ["region"] = {"Shurima", "Void"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Nightbloom"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/maokai-color-story", ["artwork"] = "Shadow Isles Vaults.png", ["author"] = "Rayla Heide", ["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"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/maokai", ["artwork"] = "Maokai OriginalCentered.jpg", ["author"] = "Rayla Heide", ["starring"] = {"Maokai"}, ["region"] = {"Shadow Isles"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Wuju Bladesman"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/masteryi", ["author"] = "Michael Luo", ["artwork"] = "Master Yi OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Master Yi"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Singed", "Wukong"}, ["region"] = {"Ionia"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Down Among the Dead Men"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/missfortune-color-story", ["artwork"] = "Miss Fortune Lore 03.jpg", ["author"] = "Graham McNeill", ["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"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/comic/missfortune/fortune-smiles/", ["author"] = "Anthony Burch", ["artwork"] = "Miss Fortune Fortune Smiles cover 02.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"] = { ["reference"] = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn6b36Z4kl8", ["artwork"] = "Miss Fortune Surrender.jpg", ["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"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/missfortune", ["artwork"] = "Miss Fortune OriginalCentered.jpg", ["author"] = "Graham McNeill", ["starring"] = {"Miss Fortune"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Gangplank"}, ["region"] = {"Bilgewater"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Iron Revenant"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/mordekaiser", ["artwork"] = "Mordekaiser OriginalCentered.jpg", ["author"] = "Anthony Reynolds Lenné", ["starring"] = {"Mordekaiser"}, ["region"] = {"Shadow Isles", "Noxus"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Shadows of Damnation"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/mordekaiser-color-story", ["artwork"] = "Shadow Isles Vaults.png", ["author"] = "Anthony Reynolds Lenné", ["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"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/nami-first-steps/", ["artwork"] = "Nami Lore 1.png", ["author"] = "Rayla Heide", ["starring"] = {"Nami"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Diana"}, ["region"] = {"Runeterra", "Mount Targon"}, ["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"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/comic/nami/intotheabyss/", ["artwork"] = "Nami Into the Abyss cover 02.jpg", ["author"] = "Rayla Heide", ["starring"] = {"Nami"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Diana"}, ["region"] = {"Runeterra", "Mount Targon", "Void"}, ["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"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/nami", ["artwork"] = "Nami OriginalCentered.jpg", ["author"] = "Rayla Heide", ["starring"] = {"Nami"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Diana"}, ["region"] = {"Runeterra", "Mount Targon", "Void"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Ouroboros"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/nasus-color-story", ["artwork"] = "Shurima The City Of The Sun.jpg", ["author"] = "Ryan Verniere", ["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"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/nasus", ["artwork"] = "Nasus OriginalCentered.jpg", ["author"] = "Anthony Reynolds Lenné", ["starring"] = {"Nasus"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Azir", "Brand", "Renekton", "Xerath"}, ["region"] = {"Shurima"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Ophidian"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/nautilus-color-story", ["starring"] = {"Nautilus"}, ["author"] = "Anthony Reynolds Lenné", ["region"] = {"Bilgewater"}, ["loretype"] = "Narration", ["artwork"] = "Bilgewater Legends.png", ["previous"] = "Tall Tales of the Deep Sea", ["following"] = "The Lucky Kraken" }, ["The Titan of the Depths"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/nautilus/", ["artwork"] = "Nautilus OriginalCentered.jpg", ["author"] = "Ariel Lawrence", ["starring"] = {"Nautilus"}, ["region"] = {"Bilgewater"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Curious Chameleon"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_GB/story/champion/neeko/", ["artwork"] = "Neeko OriginalCentered.jpg", ["author"] = "Matthew Dunn", ["starring"] = {"Neeko"}, ["region"] = {"Runeterra"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Monster of Kalduga Outpost"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_GB/story/neeko-color-story/", ["author"] = "Matthew Dunn", ["starring"] = {"Neeko"}, ["region"] = {"Runeterra"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["description"] = "Neeko was familiar with the shapes of humans, and while they had their quirks—socks for instance… why?—they never struck her as particularly strange. Not until the outpost at Kalduga." }, ["The Eternal Nightmare"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/nocturne/", ["artwork"] = "Nocturne OriginalCentered.jpg", ["author"] = "Ian St. Martin", ["starring"] = {"Nocturne"}, ["region"] = {"Runeterra"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Shadow Door"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/nocturne-color-story/", ["artwork"] = "Nocturne concept.png", ["author"] = "Ian St. Martin", ["starring"] = {"Nocturne"}, ["region"] = {"Runeterra"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 4, ["description"] = "”Tell me another story.”" },   ["Frozen Hearts"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/frozen-hearts/", ["artwork"] = "Nunu Frozen Hearts 01.jpg", ["author"] = "David Slagle", ["starring"] = {"Nunu"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Anivia"}, ["region"] = {"Freljord"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["description"] = "“Mom… can I ask you a question?”" },   ["It's Me and You"] = { ["reference"] = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKISuOpQniQ", ["artwork"] = "Nunu It's Me and You 01.jpg", ["author"] = {"Hozure", "TJ Brown"}, ["starring"] = {"Nunu", "Willump"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Ancient Krug", "Crimson Raptor", "Krug", "Poro", "Poro King", "Raptor", "Rift Scuttler"}, ["region"] = {"Freljord", "Void"}, ["loretype"] = "Video", },   ["Stone Cold"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/nunu-color-story/", ["artwork"] = "Nunu Stone Cold.jpg", ["author"] = "David Slagle", ["starring"] = {"Nunu", "Willump"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Anivia", "Braum", "Lissandra", "Trundle", "Ancient Krug", "Krug"}, ["region"] = {"Freljord"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["description"] = "I wake up suddenly, like a story that starts in the middle of the action." },   ["The Boy and his Yeti"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/nunu/", ["artwork"] = "Nunu OriginalCentered.jpg", ["author"] = "David Slagle", ["starring"] = {"Nunu", "Willump"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Anivia", "Lissandra"}, ["region"] = {"Freljord"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Berserker"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/olaf/", ["artwork"] = "Olaf OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Olaf"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Sejuani"}, ["region"] = {"Freljord"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Fieram"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/orianna-color-story", ["artwork"] = "Piltover Sidereal Avenue.jpg", ["author"] = "Rayla Heide", ["starring"] = {"Orianna"}, ["region"] = {"Piltover", "Zaun"}, ["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"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/orianna", ["artwork"] = "Orianna OriginalCentered.jpg", ["author"] = "Rayla Heide", ["starring"] = {"Orianna"}, ["region"] = {"Piltover", "Zaun"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Fire Below the Mountain"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/ornn/", ["artwork"] = "Ornn OriginalCentered.jpg", ["author"] = "Matthew Dunn", ["starring"] = {"Ornn"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Braum"}, ["region"] = {"Freljord"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Lost Tales of Ornn"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/tales-of-ornn", ["artwork"] = "Ornn lore 01.jpg", ["author"] = "Matthew Dunn", ["starring"] = {"Ornn"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Anivia", "Lissandra", "Volibear"}, ["region"] = {"Freljord", "Void"}, ["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"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/region/freljord/?mv=freljord-song", ["artwork"] = "Ornn Horn Concept.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Ornn"}, ["region"] = {"Freljord"}, ["loretype"] = "Narration", ["description"] = "In the echoes of the mountains and the crackling of the embers, a legend once forgotten is remembered with a song older than any tribe." }, ["The Voice from the Hearth"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/ornn-color-story/", ["artwork"] = "Ornn lore 04.png", ["author"] = "Matthew Dunn", ["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"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/pantheon", ["artwork"] = "Pantheon OriginalCentered.jpg", ["author"] = "Anthony Reynolds Lenné", ["starring"] = {"Pantheon"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Leona"}, ["region"] = {"Mount Targon"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Spear of Targon"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/pantheon-color-story", ["artwork"] = "Mount Targon Divine Carvings.jpg", ["author"]= "Anthony Reynolds Lenné", ["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"] = "https:///na.leagueoflegends.com/en/site/poppy-comic/", ["artwork"] = "Poppy OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Poppy"}, ["region"] = {"Demacia", "Bandle City"}, ["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"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/poppy", ["artwork"] = "Poppy OriginalCentered.jpg", ["author"] = "John O'Bryan", ["starring"] = {"Poppy"}, ["region"] = {"Demacia", "Bandle City"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Slayer"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/poppy-color-story", ["artwork"] = "Demacia Citadel Of Dawn.jpg", ["author"] = "John O'Bryan", ["starring"] = {"Poppy"}, ["region"] = {"Demacia", "Bandle City"}, ["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"] = { ["reference"] = "https://youtu.be/eFRwP9lsLEo", ["author"] = "Anthony Reynolds Lenné", ["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"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/pyke", ["artwork"] = "Pyke OriginalCentered.jpg", ["author"] = "Matthew Dunn", ["starring"] = {"Pyke"}, ["region"] = {"Bilgewater"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", },   ["The Bloodharbor Ripper (Video)"] = { ["reference"] = "https://youtu.be/eFRwP9lsLEo", ["artwork"] = "Pyke Promo 01.png", ["starring"] = {"Pyke"}, ["region"] = {"Bilgewater"}, ["loretype"] = "Video", ["description"] = "Pyke’s shipmates watched him drown. In his eyes, all of Bilgewater is guilty." }, ["Then, Teeth"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/pyke-color-story", ["artwork"] = "Then, Teeth.jpg", ["author"] = "Matthew Dunn", ["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"] = { ["reference"] = "https://youtu.be/1wj21zLtgAA", ["artwork"] = "Bilgewater Legends.png", ["author"] = "Anthony Reynolds Lenné", ["region"] = {"Bilgewater"}, ["loretype"] = "Narration", ["following"] = "The Ophidian", ["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." }, ["Never Turn Your Back on the Sea"] = { ["reference"] = "https://youtu.be/O4is-IBs-MI", ["artwork"] = "Bilgewater Legends.png", ["author"] = "Anthony Reynolds Lenné", ["region"] = {"Bilgewater"}, ["loretype"] = "Narration", ["previous"] = "Pyke, the Drowned Man", ["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." }, ["Demacia Needs Heroes"] = { ["reference"] = "http://forums.na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=3097136", ["artwork"] = "Quinn Promo 7.png", ["author"] = "Numerous creators", ["starring"] = {"Quinn", "Valor"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Garen", "Jarvan IV", "Talon"}, ["region"] = {"Demacia", "Noxus"}, ["loretype"] = "Reveal", ["description"] = "She is a new kind of hero, one of new mind and new method. 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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"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/rammus", ["artwork"] = "Rammus OriginalCentered.jpg", ["author"] = "Rayla Heide", ["starring"] = {"Rammus"}, ["region"] = {"Shurima"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Sai Kahleek"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/reksai-color-story", ["artwork"] = "Shurima The City Of The Sun.jpg", ["author"] = "Odin Shafer", ["starring"] = {"Rek'Sai"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Azir"}, ["region"] = {"Shurima", "Void"}, ["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." }, ["Scourge of the Desert"] = { ["reference"] = "https://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/creative-spotlight/reksai-scourge-desert", ["artwork"] = "Rek'Sai teaser 1.jpg", ["author"] = "Numerous creators", ["starring"] = {"Rek'Sai"}, ["region"] = {"Shurima", "Void"}, ["loretype"] = "Reveal", }, ["The Terror Beneath"] = { ["reference"] = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcB-FreSnG8", ["artwork"] = "Shurima Sun temple.jpg", ["author"] = "Numerous creators", ["starring"] = {"Rek'Sai"}, ["region"] = {"Shurima", "Void"}, ["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"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/reksai", ["artwork"] = "Rek'Sai OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Rek'Sai"}, ["region"] = {"Shurima", "Void"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Darkness Renews"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/renekton-color-story/", ["artwork"] = "Shurima The City Of The Sun.jpg", ["author"] = "Graham McNeill", ["starring"] = {"Renekton"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Azir", "Nasus", "Xerath"}, ["region"] = {"Shurima"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 4, ["description"] = "Am I a god?" }, ["The Butcher of the Sands"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/renekton/", ["artwork"] = "Renekton OriginalCentered.jpg", ["author"] = "Anthony Reynolds Lenné", ["starring"] = {"Renekton"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Azir", "Brand", "Nasus", "Xerath"}, ["region"] = {"Shurima"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Prey"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/rengar-prey/", ["artwork"] = "Rengar Lore 1.png", ["author"] = "Anthony Burch", ["starring"] = {"Rengar"}, ["region"] = {"Shurima"}, ["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"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/rengar/", ["artwork"] = "Rengar OriginalCentered.jpg", ["author"] = "Anthony Burch", ["starring"] = {"Rengar"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Kha'Zix"}, ["region"] = {"Shurima", "Void"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Exile"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/riven/", ["artwork"] = "Riven OriginalCentered.jpg", ["author"] = "Ariel Lawrence", ["starring"] = {"Riven"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Singed"}, ["region"] = {"Noxus", "Ionia"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Confessions of a Broken Blade: Part 1"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/confessions-of-a-broken-blade-act-1-story/", ["author"] = "Ariel Lawrence", ["artwork"] = "Riven Yasuo CoaBB pr01.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Riven", "Yasuo"}, ["region"] = {"Ionia", "Noxus"}, ["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"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/confessions-of-a-broken-blade-act-2-story/", ["author"] = "Ariel Lawrence", ["artwork"] = "Riven Yasuo CoaBB pr02.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Riven", "Yasuo"}, ["region"] = {"Ionia", "Noxus"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 14, ["description"] = "Riven stands trial for the murder of Yasuo's master. 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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." },   ["Call of Power"] = { ["reference"] = "https://youtu.be/oGnZk-_R0KQ", ["artwork"] = "Ryze Call of Power concept 04.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Ryze"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Miss Fortune", "Nasus", "Sona", "Trundle"}, ["region"] = {"Runeterra", "Demacia", "Noxus", "Bilgewater", "Shurima", "Ionia", "Freljord", "Void"}, ["loretype"] = "Video", ["description"] = "Ryze scours Runeterra for fragments of a forgotten past, each step bringing him closer to incredible power—and terrible ruin." }, ["The Burning Lands"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/comic/ryze/ryze-comic", ["author"] = "Aaron Dembski-Bowden", "Anthony Reynolds Lenné", ["artwork"] = "Ryze The Burning Lands cover 02.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Ryze", "Brand"}, ["region"] = {"Shurima"}, ["loretype"] = "Comic", ["description"] = "Legends speak of an ageless mage with violet skin." }, ["The Rune Mage"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/ryze/", ["artwork"] = "Ryze OriginalCentered.jpg", ["author"] = "John O'Bryan", ["starring"] = {"Ryze"}, ["region"] = {"Runeterra"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Winter's Wrath"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/sejuani/", ["artwork"] = "Sejuani OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Sejuani"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Ashe"}, ["region"] = {"Freljord"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Enter the Freljord"] = { ["reference"] = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPBUcguEGAI", ["artwork"] = "Enter the Freljord.jpg", ["author"] = "Numerous creators", ["starring"] = {"Sejuani", "Lissandra", "Ashe"}, ["region"] = {"Freljord"}, ["loretype"] = "Video", ["description"] = "Enter the Freljord" }, ["The Eye of Twilight"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/shen", ["author"] = "Michael Luo", ["artwork"] = "Shen OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Shen"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Akali", "Kennen", "Zed"}, ["region"] = {"Ionia"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["True Neutral"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/shen-color-story", ["artwork"] = "Ionia Placidium Navori.png", ["author"] = "John O'Bryan", ["starring"] = {"Shen"}, ["region"] = {"Ionia"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 4, ["description"] = "It was no tempest. 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Her enemies don't stand a chance." }, ["Engineering the Nightmare"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/singed-thenightmare-story/", ["artwork"] = "Singed Lore 4.png", ["author"] = "David Slagle", ["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"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/singed/", ["artwork"] = "Singed OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Singed"}, ["region"] = {"Zaun"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["In The Mind of Madness"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/sion-color-story", ["artwork"] = "Noxus The Immortal Bastion 01.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Sion"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Swain"}, ["region"] = {"Noxus"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 3, ["description"] = "BLOOD." }, ["Reborn"] = { ["reference"] = "https://promo.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/reborn/", ["author"] = "Numerous creators", ["artwork"] = "Sion Update Promo 1.png", ["starring"] = {"Sion"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Elise", "Jarvan IV", "LeBlanc", "Swain", "Vladimir"}, ["region"] = {"Noxus", "Demacia"}, ["loretype"] = "Reveal", }, ["The Undead Juggernaut"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/sion", ["artwork"] = "Sion OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Sion"}, ["region"] = {"Noxus"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Battle Mistress"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/sivir", ["artwork"] = "Sivir OriginalCentered.jpg", ["author"] = "Rayla Heide", ["starring"] = {"Sivir"}, ["region"] = {"Shurima"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Water"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/sivir-color-story", ["artwork"] = "Shurima The City Of The Sun.jpg", ["author"] = "Odin Shafer", ["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"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/skarner-color-story", ["artwork"] = "Shurima The City Of The Sun.jpg", ["author"] = "Rayla Heide", ["starring"] = {"Skarner"}, ["region"] = {"Shurima"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 5, ["description"] = "The softskins broke our slumber of a thousand spins." }, ["The Crystal Vanguard"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/skarner", ["artwork"] = "Skarner OriginalCentered.jpg", ["author"] = "Rayla Heide", ["starring"] = {"Skarner"}, ["region"] = {"Shurima"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Maven of the Strings"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/sona", ["artwork"] = "Sona OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Sona"}, ["region"] = {"Demacia"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Black Powder Plot"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_GB/story/swain-color-story/", ["artwork"] = "Swain VGU teaser 02.jpg", ["author"] = "David Slagle", ["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. 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But the Grand-General Jericho Swain knows there are many kinds of strength—and the greatest leaders of the next age will be those who can wield them all..." }, ["The Dark Sovereign"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/syndra/", ["artwork"] = "Syndra OriginalCentered.jpg", ["author"] = "Rayla Heide", ["starring"] = {"Syndra"}, ["region"] = {"Ionia"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Dreaming Pool"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/the-dreaming-pool/", ["artwork"] = "The Dreaming Pool.jpg", ["author"] = "Anthony Reynolds Lenné", ["starring"] = {"Syndra"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Soraka"}, ["region"] = {"Ionia", "Noxus"}, ["duration"] = 27, ["loretype"] = "Short Story" }, ["The Gambler's Woe"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/tahmkench-color-story", ["author"] = "Anthony Reynolds Lenné", ["starring"] = {"Tahm Kench"}, ["region"] = {"Bilgewater"}, ["loretype"] = "Narration", ["artwork"] = "Bilgewater Legends.png", ["previous"] = "The Lucky Kraken", ["following"] = "Pyke, the Drowned Man" }, ["The River King"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/tahmkench", ["artwork"] = "Tahm Kench OriginalCentered.jpg", ["author"] = "Odin Shafer", "Ariel Lawrence", ["starring"] = {"Tahm Kench"}, ["region"] = {"Bilgewater"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The River King (Video)"] = { ["reference"] = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9RM4HwwoKs", ["artwork"] = "Tahm Kench The River King.jpg", ["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"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/taliyah-color-story", ["artwork"] = "Shurima The City Of The Sun.jpg", ["author"] = "Ariel Lawrence", ["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. 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But he was our Scuzz, every scuzzy bit of him." }, ["The Dreadnought"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/champion/urgot/", ["artwork"] = "Urgot OriginalCentered.jpg", ["author"] = "David Slagle", ["starring"] = {"Urgot"}, ["region"] = {"Zaun", "Noxus"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["As We Fall"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/comic/varus/video/varus-music-video/", ["artwork"] = "Varus As We Fall.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Varus", "Valmar", "Kai"}, ["region"] = {"Ionia", "Noxus"}, ["loretype"] = "Video", ["previous"] = "Heartlight", ["following"] = "Retribution", ["description"] = "Witness the incarnation of vengeance." }, ["Dark Kin"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/varus-color-story/", ["artwork"] = "Varus lore 01.jpg", ["author"] = "Graham McNeill", ["starring"] = {"Varus"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Valmar", "Kai"}, ["region"] = {"Ionia", "Shurima"}, ["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"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/comic/varus/issue-1/", ["author"] = "Graham McNeill", ["artwork"] = "Varus Heartlight cover 02.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Varus", "Valmar", "Kai"}, ["region"] = {"Ionia", "Noxus"}, ["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"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/comic/varus/issue-2/0/", ["author"] = "Graham McNeill", ["artwork"] = "Varus Retribution cover.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Varus", "Valmar", "Kai"}, ["region"] = {"Ionia", "Noxus"}, ["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"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/varus/", ["artwork"] = "Varus OriginalCentered.jpg", ["author"] = "Graham McNeill", ["starring"] = {"Varus"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Valmar", "Kai"}, ["region"] = {"Ionia", "Shurima", "Noxus"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Monsters (Short Story)"] = { ["reference"] = "http://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/vayne-color-story/", ["artwork"] = "Vayne Lore.png", ["author"] = "Graham McNeill", ["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"] = { ["reference"] = "http://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/vayne/", ["artwork"] = "Vayne OriginalCentered.jpg", ["author"] = "Graham McNeill", ["starring"] = {"Vayne"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Evelynn"}, ["region"] = {"Demacia", "Freljord"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", },   ["The Tiny Master of Evil"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/veigar/", ["artwork"] = "Veigar OriginalCentered.jpg", ["author"] = "Michael Luo", ["starring"] = {"Veigar"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Mordekaiser, LeBlanc"}, ["region"] = {"Noxus", "Bandle City"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The True and Ghastly Tale of the Beast of Boleham Tower"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/veigar-color-story/", ["artwork"] = "Veigar Bolehem Tower.jpg", ["authour"] = "Amanda Jeffrey", ["starring"] = {"Veigar"}, ["region"] = {"Demacia"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 5, ["description"] = "Thunderclouds rolled off the Argent Mountains, promising pyrotechnics, but delivering none." },   ["A Different Hunger"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/velkoz-color-story/", ["artwork"] = "Vel’Koz A Different Hunger.jpg", ["author"] = "Ian St. Martin", ["starring"] = {"Vel'Koz"}, ["region"] = {"Runeterra", "Void"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 5, ["description"] = "With a kiss to my wife and resting my spear against my shoulder, I joined my fellows as we left the village. 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Tokogol shared borders with Noxus, and its increasing belligerence of late had stirred the house lords to ensure that all of their spears were honed." }, ["First Contact"] = { ["reference"] = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyb2KC-q7ls", ["artwork"] = "Velkoz promo.jpg", ["author"] = "Numerous creators", ["starring"] = {"Vel'Koz"}, ["region"] = {"Void", "Runeterra"}, ["loretype"] = "Video", ["description"] = "Only by Organic Deconstruction deconstruction is truth revealed." }, ["Instrument of Destruction"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/velkoz-color-story/", ["artwork"] = "Instrument of Destruction.png", ["author"] = "Ian St. Martin", ["starring"] = {"Vel'Koz"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Zilean"}, ["region"] = {"Shurima"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 2, ["description"] = "A tentacled horror of the Void, Vel'Koz explores Runeterra with singular purpose: to absorb all knowledge. With his unceasing gaze, Vel'Koz fires disintegrating beams that obliterate and analyze all in his path, feeding him vast quantities of information. None know why he requires such material, though some speculate he seeks to understand Runeterra in order to hasten its ruin.", ["status"] = "Outdated" }, ["The Eye of the Void"] = { ["reference"] = "http://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/velkoz", ["artwork"] = "Vel'Koz OriginalCentered.jpg", ["author"] = "Ian St. Martin", ["starring"] = {"Vel'Koz"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Lissandra"}, ["region"] = {"Void", "Freljord"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Interrogation 101"] = { ["reference"] = "http://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/vi-color-story", ["artwork"] = "Piltover The Great Funicular Of Cantexta.jpg", ["author"] = "Graham McNeill", ["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"] = { ["reference"] = "http://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/vi", ["artwork"] = "Vi OriginalCentered.jpg", ["author"] = "Graham McNeill", ["starring"] = {"Vi"}, ["region"] = {"Piltover"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["House on Emberflit Alley"] = { ["reference"] = "http://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/viktor-color-story", ["artwork"] = "Zaun The Zaun Gray.jpg", ["author"] = "Rayla Heide", ["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"] = { ["reference"] = "http://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/viktor", ["artwork"] = "Viktor OriginalCentered.jpg", ["author"] = "Rayla Heide", ["starring"] = {"Viktor"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Blitzcrank", "Jayce"}, ["region"] = {"Zaun", "Piltover"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", },   ["Art is Life"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/art-is-life/", ["artwork"] = "Vladimir Art is Life.jpg", ["author"] = "Graham McNeill", ["starring"] = {"Vladimir"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Mordekaiser", "Kindred", "Maokai", "Galio", "LeBlanc"}, ["region"] = {"Noxus", "Shurima", "Demacia", "Shadow Isles"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["description"] = "Nights in Noxus were never silent." },   ["The Crimson Reaper"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/vladimir/", ["artwork"] = "Vladimir OriginalCentered.jpg", ["author"] = "Maria Milusheva", ["starring"] = {"Vladimir"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Elise", "LeBlanc", "Swain"}, ["region"] = {"Noxus"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["If They Run"] = { ["reference"] = "http://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/warwick-color-story", ["artwork"] = "Zaun Lights And Shadows.jpg", ["author"] = "David Slagle", ["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"] = { ["reference"] = "http://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/warwick", ["artwork"] = "Warwick OriginalCentered.jpg", ["author"] = "David Slagle", ["starring"] = {"Warwick"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Singed"}, ["region"] = {"Zaun"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Wrath of Zaun"] = { ["reference"] = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsnDbealN9E", ["artwork"] = "Warwick Update Promo.png", ["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"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/monkeyking-color/", ["artwork"] = "Wukong Lore 1.png", ["author"] = "Anthony Burch", ["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"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/monkeyking/", ["artwork"] = "Wukong OriginalCentered.jpg", ["author"] = "Anthony Burch", ["starring"] = {"Wukong"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Master Yi", "Singed"}, ["region"] = {"Ionia"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Puboe Prison Break"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/xayah-color-story/", ["artwork"] = "Xayah Lore 03.jpg", ["author"] = "Matthew Dunn", ["starring"] = {"Xayah"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Rakan"}, ["region"] = {"Ionia"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 7, ["description"] = "Rakan if the worst." }, ["The Rebel"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/xayah/", ["artwork"] = "Xayah OriginalCentered.jpg", ["author"] = "Matthew Dunn", ["starring"] = {"Xayah"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Rakan"}, ["region"] = {"Ionia"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["The Magus Ascendent"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/xerath/", ["artwork"] = "Xerath OriginalCentered.jpg", ["author"] = "Graham McNeill", ["starring"] = {"Xerath"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Azir", "Brand", "Nasus", "Renekton"}, ["region"] = {"Shurima"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Unbound"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/xerath-color-story/", ["artwork"] = "Shurima The City Of The Sun.jpg", ["author"] = "Anthony Reynolds Lenné", ["starring"] = {"Xerath"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Azir"}, ["region"] = {"Shurima"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 3, ["description"] = "This was the moment." }, ["The Seneschal of Demacia"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_GB/champion/xinzhao/", ["artwork"] = "Xin Zhao OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Xin Zhao"}, ["region"] = {"Demacia"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["A Sword without a Sheath"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/a-sword-without-a-sheath-story/", ["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"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/the-road-to-ruin-story/", ["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"] = { ["reference"] = "http://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/yasuo/", ["artwork"] = "Yasuo OriginalCentered.jpg", ["author"] = "Ariel Lawrence", ["starring"] = {"Yasuo"}, ["region"] = {"Ionia"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Last Rites"] = { ["reference"] = "http://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/yorick-color-story", ["artwork"] = "Shadow Isles Vaults.png", ["author"] = "John O'Bryan", ["starring"] = {"Yorick"}, ["region"] = {"Shadow Isles"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 4, ["description"] = "\"Help… me,\" begged the shipwrecked man." }, ["The Shepherd of Souls"] = { ["reference"] = "http://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/yorick", ["artwork"] = "Yorick OriginalCentered.jpg", ["author"] = "John O'Bryan", ["starring"] = {"Yorick"}, ["region"] = {"Shadow Isles"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Protection"] = { ["reference"] = "http://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/zac-color-story", ["artwork"] = "Zac Promo 7.png", ["author"] = "Graham McNeill", ["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"] = { ["reference"] = "http://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/zac", ["artwork"] = "Zac OriginalCentered.jpg", ["author"] = "Graham McNeill", ["starring"] = {"Zac"}, ["region"] = {"Zaun"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", },   ["Zaun Amorphous Combatant"] = { ["artwork"] = "Zac Promo 1.png", ["starring"] = {"Zac"}, ["region"] = {"Zaun"}, ["loretype"] = "Reveal", ["description"] = "Z.A.C." }, ["Death Mark (Video)"] = { ["reference"] = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nzeQ-vHF34", ["artwork"] = "Zed Death Mark.jpg", ["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"] = { ["reference"] = "http://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/zed", ["author"] = {"Michael Luo", "Ariel Lawrence"}, ["artwork"] = "Zed OriginalCentered.jpg", ["starring"] = {"Zed"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Shen"}, ["region"] = {"Ionia"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Aspect of Twilight"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/zoe", ["artwork"] = "Zoe OriginalCentered.jpg", ["author"] = "Odin Shafer", ["starring"] = {"Zoe"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Aurelion Sol"}, ["region"] = {"Mount Targon"}, ["loretype"] = "Biography", }, ["Meet Zoe"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/zoe-color-story", ["artwork"] = "Meet Zoe.png", ["author"] = "Odin Shafer", ["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"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/twilight-of-the-gods/", ["artwork"] = "Darkin To Slay Legends.jpg", ["author"] = "Graham McNeill", ["starring"] = {"Zoe"}, ["mentioned"] = {"Azir", "Nasus", "Rhaast", "Kayn"}, ["region"] = {"Shurima", "Mount Targon"}, ["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"] = { ["reference"] = "http://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/zyra", ["artwork"] = "Zyra OriginalCentered.jpg", ["author"] = {"Marc Collins", "Laurie Goulding"}, ["starring"] = {"Zyra"}, ["region"] = {"Runeterra"}, ["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", "Piltover", "Runeterra"}, ["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. 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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"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/shadow-isles-story/", ["artwork"] = "Shadow Isles Vaults.png", ["author"] = "Graham McNeill", ["mentioned"] = {"Hecarim", "Kalista", "Karthus", "Kindred", "Maokai", "Thresh", "Yorick"}, ["region"] = {"Shadow Isles", "Runeterra"}, ["loretype"] = "Narration", ["duration"] = 3, ["description"] = "Scrape the bench of sunless moss." }, ["City of Iron and Glass"] = { ["reference"] = "https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/zaun-cityironglass/", ["artwork"] = "Zaun Lights And Shadows.jpg", ["author"] = "Graham McNeill", ["mentioned"] = {"Janna"}, ["region"] = {"Zaun", "Runeterra"}, ["loretype"] = "Short Story", ["duration"] = 23, ["description"] = "\"Hurry up, Wyn!\" shouted Janke. \"The Rising Howl's on its way!\"" }, ["Academy Adventures: Series 1"] = { 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