To the Non-League people who are coming here after watching Arcane: YES, you're at the right place to learn about the complete story of the League Universe. Don't hesitate to give this video a good watch.
I dunno. There are a lot of parts of the video where Necrit assumes the audience has some knowledge of League (an assumption probably born from the fact that this channel was mostly geared toward League fanslooking for lore ) and he just rushes past some data without going really deeper into stuff like character motivations and importance. Like there are parts where he introduces a character and he's like "Of course, it's this character" and I'm like "what do you mean OF COURSE IT'S THIS CHARACTER?! I've never heard of this character in my life". I came to this video for a complete beginner's guide to LoL But this feels more like an abridged recap of all the current lore uptil now for fans who might've forgoten it. It's an effective, if compressive lore dump of the massive world of Runeterra but not a really good introduction to people who are just getting to this through Arcane. If I was a total noob, I would wonder what all of this had to do with Piltover and Zaun, with Vi & Jinx & Jayce & Caitlyn and al lthe rest of the show...because, would they not be the main characters?
At that point their understanding of how to make physical bodies that could interact with reality was pretty limited, and so they were basically faulty prototypes that didn't quite work the way they were intended. That's what I'm guessing.
I mean at the beginning of the video Necrit mentioned that they were bigger than any rift open in Runeterra at that time so yeah, maybe what Lissandra had frozen were just their avatars or something similar.
@@lamvuhoang1998 probably, since they were still existing freely in their realm and like opening new rifts around the world (icathia etc), only under the howling abyss were they frozen, so it's easy to assume that the actual watchers themselves havent been frozen just there
I'd pay to watch an entire animated series that portrays the entirety of League's story. Even someone who doesn't play League can appreciate the lore and story through reading alone.
If you haven't heard about it, there's actually one being animated as we speak called "Arcane". It's coming out on 2021, and it'll be based on the league universe. I don't know what exactly it'll be like, but there's a trailer out already. It looks really good so far, and the trailer was released on 2019. Speaking about animated trailers and stuff, the league cinematics are absolutely amazing. Like, incredibly good, and even show lore sometimes(Refer to the Yasuo cinematic, the Warriors 2020 cinematic, etc.). Check them out!
@@ΝικόλαοςΘεοδωρίδης-γ6λ teemo has always been one of the strongest toplaners. I always have most dmg in team when I play teemo because of R lategame. Q early counters almost all toplaners too. Idk how hes weak af
Malphite's lore is about he as one of astronauts out of the four, accidentally affected by enormous amount of radiation when he was trapped with rocks underneath the surface of a planet while on a space mission. When they were rescued it so happened that the radiation mutated their genes gaining them superpowers. One of the other astronauts were brand now known in other version as human torch. 😂
Gods: *Create mortals as Weapons against the grumpy old farts (Watchers)* Mortals: *fight amongst one another* Gods: Excuse me Wtf Watchers: TURN THE DAMMN LIGHTS OFF!
Arcane is a masterpeice, and it's what got me into this fascinating world anyway. How a LoL show wasn't created before 2021 is beyond me. Never playing the game, I'm only here for the lore.
Its good that u can learn the lore without playing the game. The only things that connects the game with the lore is the character's skills and quotes and some events
And to know Arcane is just the tip of the iceberg lore wise, because piltover and zaun are some of the youngest nations on runeterra, it provides you with hope for entertainment in the future. I think they really did a solid one on Arcane, unlike certain other game franchise movie adaptations XD Excited for Season 2 already.
I hope the success of Arcane encourages Riot to commit to consistently making story based content in their world in both games and the animated series going forward.
If there's a surge in player base and more people buying skins in League of the Legend, the video game that funded all these project, then yes there will be more advertising / marketing campaign like Arcane.
I'd bet that the light is the only thing they can really focus on, they probably don't even know how to turn around, they're basically just eyes all forced to look at something they hate
@@Stunnzu umm aurelion is not useless if u use him right. The reason u choose aurelion as a useless champ is you're just bad at using him and went 0/10/0 bruh
So basically... It's a big expansive world with a lot of stuff happening. Kind of a shame there isn't a bigger game dedicated to the world of Runeterra, and instead all we have is a MOBA game where the story is on the sideline, and we get to see the world mostly in either artpieces, or cinematics. World of Runeterra, anyone?
Honestly yea, i be so down to play that. But imagine if they made a movie of Runtera , but it would be like 3-4 hours long and also be EXTREMELY hard to make becuase you can easily mess up the story.
Well it is highly suspected that Riot IS making a brand new game. There was a series of trademark (one of them called Legends of Runeterra ) may happen.
Well I love reading the stories but I sometimes miss a few so I check on Necrit to make sure I am up to date. Whether you read or listen, it does not really matter. Knowing the lore in League separates the cancers, or those who only play, from the real players.
i really hope someday, that Riot or someone else, would start a series (anime or live action). that tells the story of runeterra (basically what you say in the video).
Imo i think live action would be terrible. I’d love to see this with the type of cinematic animation they do now but i know that would take waaaaaaay too long haha
Primpan Not to mention the budget that would require. Honestly though, if i had infinite money (disregarding inflation) one of the first things i would want to do is fund the creation of something like that, preferably a tv series with the same animation style and quality of the ryze cinematic.
The entire story with Nasus Renekton and Xerath means nothing in the bigger picture since Xerath is free anyways , Nasus has been in hiding cause of the void creatures and Renekton is pretty much batshit crazy at this point
Abdallah Reguig Also, worth noting, the reason he is blue is because he has been exposed to so much arcane energy from the runes, this also makes him age far slower, as he is really old, dont know the exact age, but id say 500+ years?
The most fascinating thing is he didn't even mentioned about piltover and zuan which I guess suggest that these two were nothing in comparison of grand scheme of things. Arcane did the fabulous job to cover piltover and zuan first so they can build up more significant world development afterwards.
yeah he didnt even get into the details of all the conflicts within regions, many things like demacia civil war, noxus ionia invasion, swain and leblanc, solari and lunari, and even small things like yordles the world is hugeee
Vel koz in lore: a litteral god tens of thousands of times more massive than the biggest mountains, capable of destroying the world if he so chooses. Velkoz in game: looks like a DIY project by a kid using a fake eye and some plastic tentacles.
Ionut Daniel uh yeah, i already knew that lol it’s just the joke wouldn’t work out if i said “all she would need to do was use her sleepy bubble time and then drag mouse back then press q then press r then press q again” i’ll pass :)
This is my main take away/what I learned. The Elder Gods/Eldritch Gods/Eldrazzi/Old Gods/Watchers saw a light turn on in their bedroom and now they are fumbling with the light in order to turn the damn thing off and go back to bed. This is literally a story and war about turning off the mother fucking light. Never thought that the struggle to turn off the light switch in your bedroom could be so dramatized and exaggerated.
I have never played LoL. But I kind of LOVE their lore. always loved how they put the effort in even tho it was never really necessary. And it makes me SUPER excited for the MMO.
Yes and the video only touches the peak. I recommend u check the universe site to learn more about the lore. There is even a whole interactive map and comics.
celestial 1: “ok ok the humans have settled down and things may go smooth” celestial 2: “they found the world ruins” celestial 1: “they don’t even know how to use them and if they do I’m sure they will use them to fix the world” Runettera : *explosion sounds*
I've been playing League for almost a year now and I immediately loved the lore. I've read so much and watched so many lore videos and I was still surprised a couple times while watching the video. Great work Necrit :D
about Aurelion Sol - this is just wrong. They never even asked him for help, never tried to gain his understanding. They simply deceived him. This is a really lame way to do things. I'm pretty sure he would at least consider helping them, if they tried to make him understand.
I think it would be pretty difficult for them to get Ausol on their side, simply because he doesn't care. If Runeterra dies to the Watchers, it doesn't affect him. He can either create another Runeterra or just run away. He'd probably just be annoyed. Even though he's technically enslaved, Ausol is still reaaaaally pissed off about it. If he wanted to shut down the rift in Icathia, he certainly could. He just doesn't to tacitly throw up the middle finger at Targon. So, yeah. They could've played it better, especially considering that one of Swain's soul fragment lore bombs hints that Ausol has siblings.
I've avoided LoL like I've avoided meth, knowing it would be amazing and possibly wreck my life, but Arcane was such a beautiful taste of lore, glad this video was made to show how vast this story is.
I'm pretty much of the same mindset. Follow the plot, avoid the game like the plague. Skin prices aside, the community can be a bit... acidic to put it mildly. But damn if the story isn't awesome.
Never played LoL because I saw a bunch of friends almost flunk out back in school because of it. Now Arcane comes out and I can feel my life being sucked into a void...
These 20 minutes of League story were more interesting than what I've ever read about Overwatch lore. Compared to this, Overwatch has no story development, nothing really going on, except for making some character gay 2 years after release.
The fact they announced a full fledged Runeterra mmo in the works, makes hearing about this world so much more exciting. Soon as that shit is out its goodbye Azeroth for me.
This video is beyond elaborated, is extremely well made. Thank you sir, I got stuck with the idea that LoL still had bad and inconsistent Lore wandering around, but I think I might read more Lore now... I really like the importance of Bard, he is one of my favorites. I wonder what Riot thinks about this video...
The wachers are not bad just imagine sleeping and somebody turns the licht on in the middle of the night normally you would stand up and turn of the licht
Not only is the story extremely similar to that of Warcraft, Watchers (void lords), Celestials (titans), void creations (old gods) and so on, but you obviously recognised this since you used numerous WoW models and music. Love it ;)
Assuming you can get Demacians to work with Noxians, and Piltoverians with Zaunians. I mean, a conflicted world is a very interesting one, but it also makes reconciliation difficult.
this is so dope. Been playing league since I was a pre-teen and always believed it would make an insane cinematic experience. This video makes it feel like if Game of Thrones was in the Marvel universe, and im not mad. haha man I hope I get to see a League movie or league episodes in my lifetime.
10:55 Gnar is present during this event, "the missing link". In one of his stories, he attempts to fight the eye but then everything is frozen (by Lissandra).
So crazy that 3 years ago I watched this video and decided that I should give league a go, both a great thank you to Necrit for introducing to the wide expansive world of Runeterra but also a light hearted "screw you" for the league addiction that followed
I was hoping at some point in the story you were going to explain how the fields of justice were created and these ridiculously powerful characters started engaging in 5v5 skirmishes.
I've been playing league for around 6 years and just now I can finally properly understand the lore (that I didn't even know it was so interesting) thank you necrit, awesome video.
Imagine Riot organizing an event that actually affected the lore, like players siding with either the Void or the Celestials in teams, and the team that won would establish how the lore continues
I'm here because i watched Arcane, Always wanted to know the lore of League but never got to it for some reason. Although i have been playing since 2010.
I love this video! I don't even play League but the story is so interesting. My only question, and the reason I found your videos, is: How do we get from this in the video, to Rifts? What is a Rift? Why do people fight in them? How come people (seemingly) from all sorts of times can appear there? Please let me know if anyone has a good explanation, though I'd prefer Necrit's explanation! :D
I just wanted to know the world history of Arcane, and this gave me so much more. Sidenote: LoL history is all about gods trying to make plans and every fucking thing went sideways
Play Legends of Runeterra instead! It has a very wide variety of narratives, even more so than League of Legends. It has many characters that aren't in League of Legends, and it shows interactions of them.
Riot took an obvious inspiration from one of Marvel's story. From the origins of Knull the Symbiote God and his creation. He existed long before the existence of the whole universe and being awoken from the creation of the universe he got upset by it because of the Celestials creating all the light. The story of the void was also then inspired by this because of Knull creating his own army of darkness to exterminate the light of the universe, and that army would be what we now know as the Symbiotes. would like some likes so many more would know of this origin
im not an expert on lore, legends, or religion, but based on how marvel, too, gets its ideas from other stories, im guessing this "story" has been around for a long time
Can you please make an updated League of Legends lore video? Your last one was four years ago, would be amazing to see what has changed, updated etc. especially in light of Arcane being announced as canon. This is your third most viewed video, and I know an updated video, with renewed interest in LoL with Arcane, would definitely be your most successful video to date. I watched your last one, and would love to know what the updates are!
@@mikenike4215 arcane is incredible ! And "game of throne level" doesn't do it justice, it stands on it's own ! I hope once done with arcane they exploité Nous next or even the whole shurima/Air/xerath arc
The celestials mess up and make a huge Rift and all the ascended soldiers turn into darkins, one distant voice from the heaves rings out "ff15, jungle diff".
Recently became a huge fan of league of legends thanks to arcane, i play it as well. The lore is very interesting, and I’m gonna keep looking into this. Video was very useful
![All You Need to Know About Demacia [Lore]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/PkUMrVrOwrM/mqdefault.jpg)
how can a game without a storymode has such a nice story
Have*
@@jocao2831 yes you has righr ty
@@jonasmach5728 lol
@@taybah5854 do i had write false again?
@@jonasmach5728 nonon
I love that the void is basically just trying to get rid of Runeterra so that they can go back to not knowing that they exist.
Right?
Mood
@@300x23 same dud
XD
i dont blame them either this concept was super cool
To the Non-League people who are coming here after watching Arcane: YES, you're at the right place to learn about the complete story of the League Universe. Don't hesitate to give this video a good watch.
You sire, are a gentleman.
Thanks! I was wondering
Thank you!
I dunno. There are a lot of parts of the video where Necrit assumes the audience has some knowledge of League (an assumption probably born from the fact that this channel was mostly geared toward League fanslooking for lore ) and he just rushes past some data without going really deeper into stuff like character motivations and importance.
Like there are parts where he introduces a character and he's like "Of course, it's this character" and I'm like "what do you mean
OF COURSE IT'S THIS CHARACTER?! I've never heard of this character in my life".
I came to this video for a complete beginner's guide to LoL But this feels more like an abridged recap of all the current lore uptil now for fans who might've forgoten it. It's an effective, if compressive lore dump of the massive world of Runeterra but not a really good introduction to people who are just getting to this through Arcane. If I was a total noob, I would wonder what all of this had to do with Piltover and Zaun, with Vi & Jinx & Jayce & Caitlyn and al lthe rest of the show...because, would they not be the main characters?
thank you
I’m starting to see why that small guy on the council was so against Jayce using magic.
Raise your dongers
Watch how you talk about the donger
@@buzz092 homerdimper
😂😂😂
The disrespect
Imagine trying to destroy an entire reality because it annoys you...
What if every time you turn the lights on a universe all its own forms on the sub nanoscopic scale and turning them off ends that reality
Like how to turn off this lights in my night time
We are destroying earth
Sounds good...
Seems reasonable, why tf they blinding me while im tryna sleep 😤
Watchers: stronger than anything and anyone in the world of reality
Also watchers: Get frozen by a blind elsa
At that point their understanding of how to make physical bodies that could interact with reality was pretty limited, and so they were basically faulty prototypes that didn't quite work the way they were intended.
That's what I'm guessing.
Also the three sisters had strong celestial magic so they were able to freeze the weakened watchers
maybe..
I mean at the beginning of the video Necrit mentioned that they were bigger than any rift open in Runeterra at that time so yeah, maybe what Lissandra had frozen were just their avatars or something similar.
@@lamvuhoang1998 probably, since they were still existing freely in their realm and like opening new rifts around the world (icathia etc), only under the howling abyss were they frozen, so it's easy to assume that the actual watchers themselves havent been frozen just there
Lol
If I'm just trying to sleep and someone's flashing my face with some light, I'd be pissed too.
watchers should just face the other way. solved
Zoe?
@@charleexiong1601 hahha
@@charleexiong1601 or they should just kill themselves. Actually if all what u can do is sleeping why do you live :D? It's boring
@@Ayasa. boring for a mortal human like you
LoL lore: the story of immortals fighting over the light switch
LMAO
Most underrated comment I've ever seen XD
There we go
Rxactly
lmao
I'd pay to watch an entire animated series that portrays the entirety of League's story.
Even someone who doesn't play League can appreciate the lore and story through reading alone.
You are everywhere
i don't play lol but i got so interested in the lol universe for some reason and now i plan to read every story they have on their website
If you haven't heard about it, there's actually one being animated as we speak called "Arcane". It's coming out on 2021, and it'll be based on the league universe. I don't know what exactly it'll be like, but there's a trailer out already. It looks really good so far, and the trailer was released on 2019. Speaking about animated trailers and stuff, the league cinematics are absolutely amazing. Like, incredibly good, and even show lore sometimes(Refer to the Yasuo cinematic, the Warriors 2020 cinematic, etc.). Check them out!
Y are you everywhere man?
this dude is walking through boys yt
Lurking behind the watchers within an even greater darkness is a being of unimaginable power. It whispers to them, "Captain Teemo on duty!"
Teemo is annoying, but he weak af
@@ΝικόλαοςΘεοδωρίδης-γ6λ That's the joke.....
@@ΝικόλαοςΘεοδωρίδης-γ6λ Well he ain't weak on lore
@@ΝικόλαοςΘεοδωρίδης-γ6λ Teemo lore wise is literally the most bad ass yordle
@@ΝικόλαοςΘεοδωρίδης-γ6λ teemo has always been one of the strongest toplaners. I always have most dmg in team when I play teemo because of R lategame. Q early counters almost all toplaners too. Idk how hes weak af
Necrit: "140 champions with their own unique stories"
Malphite: "Rock Solid"
Lmao
me smash
“Beware, minions of chaos! The Shard of the Monolith has come.”
Malphite's lore is about he as one of astronauts out of the four, accidentally affected by enormous amount of radiation when he was trapped with rocks underneath the surface of a planet while on a space mission. When they were rescued it so happened that the radiation mutated their genes gaining them superpowers. One of the other astronauts were brand now known in other version as human torch. 😂
@@thorc.8571 -- Don't forget Evelynn, the Invisible Woman
EDIT: or Zac, A.K.A. Mr. Fantastic.
The Watchers: We have an army
RuneTerra: We got *Yasuo Mains*
Also Runetera: We are doomed
The Watchers: Is that supposed to be a good or bad thing?
Runetera: *Both.*
Yesssss
Don't they have malzahar though?.......and cho'gath? RIP yasuo mains.
Runeterra would not ask yasuo for help because everyone belived he killed his master. thats why he is nicknamed:
THE UNFORGIVEN
Gods: *Create mortals as Weapons against the grumpy old farts (Watchers)*
Mortals: *fight amongst one another*
Gods: Excuse me Wtf
Watchers: TURN THE DAMMN LIGHTS OFF!
Mortals: fight among themselves
Gods: am I a joke to you
Good one
watchers are like that annoying kid that threatens to tell the teachers if you don't turn off the light immediately.
LoL lore in a nutshell
@@TheWeaslbee but all they have to do is literally just stop and the celestials will patch up all the rifts so they can sleep
Arcane is a masterpeice, and it's what got me into this fascinating world anyway. How a LoL show wasn't created before 2021 is beyond me. Never playing the game, I'm only here for the lore.
Its good that u can learn the lore without playing the game. The only things that connects the game with the lore is the character's skills and quotes and some events
Same
And to know Arcane is just the tip of the iceberg lore wise, because piltover and zaun are some of the youngest nations on runeterra, it provides you with hope for entertainment in the future.
I think they really did a solid one on Arcane, unlike certain other game franchise movie adaptations XD
Excited for Season 2 already.
@@Painworld23 when I read certain other game adaptation everyone I've ever seen came to mind and I have no idea which one you were referencing lmao
Arcane was in development for 6 years so I think that says lot in and of itself
I hope the success of Arcane encourages Riot to commit to consistently making story based content in their world in both games and the animated series going forward.
If there's a surge in player base and more people buying skins in League of the Legend, the video game that funded all these project, then yes there will be more advertising / marketing campaign like Arcane.
20:09
Necrit: The days of bad lore are gone
Me: Malphite would like a word with you
Necrit: *who?*
ahahahahha good one
hahah so true XD
he is still this Rock-Beehive - Thing
Ιt's a peaceful life.
Well, his story is quite... *SOLID*
@@michaelsoria807 *ROCK SOLID* If I may add.
12:23 "Nasus's knowledge on war tactics became irreplaceable." Split pushing OP
Sebastian Zheng imagine if they gave hima rw and his in game character becomes his lore character
"Just stay mid and dont die"
Nasus to shurima solders
everyone in the lore's just inting...
3000 years later after millions of gallons of blood shed , watchers realize they can just turn around.
I'd bet that the light is the only thing they can really focus on, they probably don't even know how to turn around, they're basically just eyes all forced to look at something they hate
Holy shjt, why is so trueee? 😂😂
They have 360° pov
😂😂
@@r.r815 it's like ur forced to look at the sun 24/7
*When pros say you need more game knowledge to get better*
I'll watch this and then I can finally reach Iron 3
And I’ll get my first elo
Necrit: The days of bad lore are gone.
Rammus: Ok.
rammus lore are "alright"...
Rammus lore isn’t bad though :(
TheLilChicken He's legit just a sand guardian bruh lmao aite then
Yeah
Necrit: The days of bad lore are gone.
Seraphine: Ok.
You can make a religion out of that.
Oops. Runeterra just broke itself.
The Noxus is a deadly lazer
@@Chris951021 dont worry, it happens all the time
Lmao
🤣🤣🤣🤣
The most useless champions in the game are actually the most badass characters of the lore.
Who are you calling useless?
Felix Aurelion sol
@@Felix-mf7tf according to necrit it's draven
@@Stunnzu umm aurelion is not useless if u use him right. The reason u choose aurelion as a useless champ is you're just bad at using him and went 0/10/0 bruh
@@GokuBIacc budy, ur probably silver, im diamond, aurelian sol is useless
15:57 Zoe.... Thats.... not how blinking works
I know some people who blink like that and its hella entertaining to watch
Massive eyebrows
@@shamstam you mean to tell me there are people who are able to collapse their skulls in and move their foreheads?
Nemo Nobody w ha t
@@shamstam the zoe blink
Nobody:
Reality: *exists*
Watchers: “So you have chosen death”
Man Riot should really make a TV series based on the lore. Could be pretty good, lot of potential here.
So basically... It's a big expansive world with a lot of stuff happening.
Kind of a shame there isn't a bigger game dedicated to the world of Runeterra, and instead all we have is a MOBA game where the story is on the sideline, and we get to see the world mostly in either artpieces, or cinematics.
World of Runeterra, anyone?
If they made an MMO World of Runeterra I'd play that it'd be the new World of Warcraft
if done right it would be the best mmo ever created
Carlmdb I'll create it if Riot would let me
Honestly yea, i be so down to play that. But imagine if they made a movie of Runtera , but it would be like 3-4 hours long and also be EXTREMELY hard to make becuase you can easily mess up the story.
Well it is highly suspected that Riot IS making a brand new game. There was a series of trademark (one of them called Legends of Runeterra ) may happen.
Necrit is for people who dont want to put the stories together or even read them and im one of them
Unfortunately, I don't have time to read all the In-universe stories.
I hate reading on screen, my eyes hurt after some while and I can't focus because there are so many distractions. Thank god for necrit.
Well I love reading the stories but I sometimes miss a few so I check on Necrit to make sure I am up to date. Whether you read or listen, it does not really matter. Knowing the lore in League separates the cancers, or those who only play, from the real players.
Yeah miss me with that lmao
Sometimes I would rather watch a summary of a movie just to know what happened than watch the actual movie
Start anywhere in the lore. Picks malphite first
I haven't read it, saw Another comment about it. What is the deal with Malphite lore?
StarClay666 go outside and pick up a rock, that’s his lore
@@bigterry5005 ok great
He is literally a walking mountain , what do you expect about his lore?
What? That's not Malphite's lore at all. Did any of you actually read it?
"the days of bad lore are gone"
Well seraphine wants to know your location
Seraphine is completely irrelevant in lore tho
"Every Champion, every story makes sense of its own"
-Seraphine
i really hope someday, that Riot or someone else, would start a series (anime or live action). that tells the story of runeterra (basically what you say in the video).
Imo i think live action would be terrible. I’d love to see this with the type of cinematic animation they do now but i know that would take waaaaaaay too long haha
Primpan
Not to mention the budget that would require.
Honestly though, if i had infinite money (disregarding inflation) one of the first things i would want to do is fund the creation of something like that, preferably a tv series with the same animation style and quality of the ryze cinematic.
I think a novel or a comic series would do though. I'll fucking buy them if I had a chance. Plus they'll spend less.
@@primpan2532 They should just make it into an anime that would cost less
Or they could make it into the novel to save the searching time
You forgot renekton sacrificing himself to seal xerath.
For real, like give my boi some credit
Not that necessary in this vid
The entire story with Nasus Renekton and Xerath means nothing in the bigger picture since Xerath is free anyways , Nasus has been in hiding cause of the void creatures and Renekton is pretty much batshit crazy at this point
@@ajitabhjain7010 lately in the bigger picture they’re pretty big considering amir is revived and so was shurima and it’s army
@@ajitabhjain7010 lately in the bigger picture they’re pretty big considering amir is revived and so was shurima and it’s army
I’d say any story with Ryze is a good place to start, he is after the runes.
Why he is after the runes?
@@abdallah-reguig to collect them and prevent the destruction they caused during the rune wars from ever happening again
Thank you so much
Abdallah Reguig
Also, worth noting, the reason he is blue is because he has been exposed to so much arcane energy from the runes, this also makes him age far slower, as he is really old, dont know the exact age, but id say 500+ years?
@@throg4657 thank you so much
The most fascinating thing is he didn't even mentioned about piltover and zuan which I guess suggest that these two were nothing in comparison of grand scheme of things. Arcane did the fabulous job to cover piltover and zuan first so they can build up more significant world development afterwards.
True
yeah he didnt even get into the details of all the conflicts within regions, many things like demacia civil war, noxus ionia invasion, swain and leblanc, solari and lunari, and even small things like yordles
the world is hugeee
Vel koz in lore: a litteral god tens of thousands of times more massive than the biggest mountains, capable of destroying the world if he so chooses.
Velkoz in game: looks like a DIY project by a kid using a fake eye and some plastic tentacles.
i think he looks very good tbh
Massive than mountains? Look at vel'koz cinematic
Velkoz is a scout made in the image of the watchers, not a watcher himself.
So basically the watchers are just a massive Squidward.
The grammar in this
“They simply sent the aspect of twilight” (zoe)
The first thing i thought was “yeah, she’ll just press q 2 times and get 10000 kills ez”
Just like what she did to neeko's village... 1 meteorite = a village of vastayan iguanas that can shape shift
Just like what she did to neeko's village... 1 meteorite = a village of vastayan iguanas that can shape shift
It wasn't actually zoe though. It was a different aspect of twilight. But they share the same description so it's easy to just show the zoe model
@@unknownherrscher Uvicats not vastayan
Ionut Daniel uh yeah, i already knew that lol
it’s just the joke wouldn’t work out if i said
“all she would need to do was use her sleepy bubble time and then drag mouse back then press q then press r then press q again”
i’ll pass :)
This is my main take away/what I learned.
The Elder Gods/Eldritch Gods/Eldrazzi/Old Gods/Watchers saw a light turn on in their bedroom and now they are fumbling with the light in order to turn the damn thing off and go back to bed.
This is literally a story and war about turning off the mother fucking light. Never thought that the struggle to turn off the light switch in your bedroom could be so dramatized and exaggerated.
Who agrees that riot should make like a campaign in lol?
That would be super fucking interesting
They probably would, if the creators of DotA didn't think of that before them (Warcraft). People would bash them for copying.
@@0100-r6d dang it....
01001101 You can’t really get mad at a dev team for making a story mode for a game.
I think they should make a runeterra open world game, that would be epic as helll
I have never played LoL. But I kind of LOVE their lore. always loved how they put the effort in even tho it was never really necessary. And it makes me SUPER excited for the MMO.
PETA is the actual main villain of league lore
*They are the ones who poisoned twitch*
but who is the main hero ?
Steve Irwin
Also Udyr
@@wise3z *SINGED IS THE REAL HERO*
Whole STORY in 1 sentence.
"The daylight! It burns!"
Cho'gath reference! Me Like.
OM NOM NOM
xD
Thats two sentences
I think you thought "WHOLE story", not "whole STORY"
The hole story
me: watches it
my brain: forgets half of the stuff
me: watches it again
You are a certified *WATCHER*
This is how i feel when parents forget to close the door behind them
Lol
Darf der Kevin heute bei mir spielen kommen?
i know nothing about LoL but im here bc i loved arcane. gotta say the lore is so fascinating im obsessed
Yes and the video only touches the peak. I recommend u check the universe site to learn more about the lore. There is even a whole interactive map and comics.
When you know all of League lore but ur still bronze xD
iron*
same xd
Hah Im sorry but im provisional
lore won't help your 0/5 adc
relatable
C'Thun owns the void confirmed!
Azathoth yeets him
The first mysterious card in the new hearth stone theaser is actually a frozen watcher
Yogg saron
yes its me
Ｍｙ ｄｒｅａｍｉｎｇ ｅｎｄｓ．．． ｙｏｕｒ ｎｉｇｈｔｍａｒｅ ｂｅｇｉｎｓ
celestial 1: “ok ok the humans have settled down and things may go smooth”
celestial 2: “they found the world ruins”
celestial 1: “they don’t even know how to use them and if they do I’m sure they will use them to fix the world”
Runettera : *explosion sounds*
I've been playing League for almost a year now and I immediately loved the lore. I've read so much and watched so many lore videos and I was still surprised a couple times while watching the video. Great work Necrit :D
you will NEVER catch me playing LoL but the lore got me hooked fs after Arcane
about Aurelion Sol - this is just wrong. They never even asked him for help, never tried to gain his understanding. They simply deceived him. This is a really lame way to do things. I'm pretty sure he would at least consider helping them, if they tried to make him understand.
I think it would be pretty difficult for them to get Ausol on their side, simply because he doesn't care. If Runeterra dies to the Watchers, it doesn't affect him. He can either create another Runeterra or just run away. He'd probably just be annoyed. Even though he's technically enslaved, Ausol is still reaaaaally pissed off about it. If he wanted to shut down the rift in Icathia, he certainly could. He just doesn't to tacitly throw up the middle finger at Targon. So, yeah. They could've played it better, especially considering that one of Swain's soul fragment lore bombs hints that Ausol has siblings.
They could pay him though...
@@deadinside6386 what would you have that a star god would want?
How to do you even enslave a cosmic being that can create stars though
@@yellow_flash813 with help from others celestial being? 🤔
I've avoided LoL like I've avoided meth, knowing it would be amazing and possibly wreck my life, but Arcane was such a beautiful taste of lore, glad this video was made to show how vast this story is.
I'm pretty much of the same mindset. Follow the plot, avoid the game like the plague. Skin prices aside, the community can be a bit... acidic to put it mildly. But damn if the story isn't awesome.
So basically The Watchers just want to sleep?
Edit: Btw thanks for all the likes
Yeah
They are just so angry because they want to turn the damn light off.
who can blame them
So they ain't watching jack shit
I mean they could just leave runeterra alone and let the celestials close up the rifts that they're making
Never played LoL because I saw a bunch of friends almost flunk out back in school because of it.
Now Arcane comes out and I can feel my life being sucked into a void...
Mortals. We bring destruction everywhere. Even fiction can't escape it
12:23
The wisest one
Irreplaceble knowledge of war tactics...
-PUSH- -FARM- STACK
Great comment XD
Underrated comment XD
basically all susan mains out there
I mean in the long run it's the best strategy, since he becomes a literal raidboss and henceforth is unstoppable :) all bout that long run!
If u think about it its the best strategy u get strong without risk then u fight with 500 stacks at that point u just one/two shot everyone
These 20 minutes of League story were more interesting than what I've ever read about Overwatch lore. Compared to this, Overwatch has no story development, nothing really going on, except for making some character gay 2 years after release.
Overwatch is horrible in every aspect .. what a shitty game
Except fot the rule 34
Nasus superior “war tactics “ use Q when not on cooldown
The fact they announced a full fledged Runeterra mmo in the works, makes hearing about this world so much more exciting. Soon as that shit is out its goodbye Azeroth for me.
This video is beyond elaborated, is extremely well made. Thank you sir, I got stuck with the idea that LoL still had bad and inconsistent Lore wandering around, but I think I might read more Lore now... I really like the importance of Bard, he is one of my favorites.
I wonder what Riot thinks about this video...
The wachers are not bad just imagine sleeping and somebody turns the licht on in the middle of the night
normally you would stand up and turn of the licht
*L I C H T*
@@planetside9714 That's light in German, from what I remember
@@nitomono jo, is mir klar wie Kloßbrühe
@@nitomono And Dutch
Bruh just say light
Not only is the story extremely similar to that of Warcraft, Watchers (void lords), Celestials (titans), void creations (old gods) and so on, but you obviously recognised this since you used numerous WoW models and music. Love it ;)
I love all the world of warcraft models and music that's used in this. Really helps the vibe
LeBlanc: Im the one pulling all the strings
Bard: chime chime
It would be jaw dropping amazing to have every league champion appear together to defend their reality like in Endgame
Assuming you can get Demacians to work with Noxians, and Piltoverians with Zaunians. I mean, a conflicted world is a very interesting one, but it also makes reconciliation difficult.
also, not all champions exist at the same time period
Can we give Necrit a big applause for this video?? I mean... Cmon getting together all the runeterra and league lore must be a mark!!
Not if you read a lot
this is so dope. Been playing league since I was a pre-teen and always believed it would make an insane cinematic experience. This video makes it feel like if Game of Thrones was in the Marvel universe, and im not mad. haha man I hope I get to see a League movie or league episodes in my lifetime.
Have you watched arcane?
Oh god please no marvel CU is actually hella corny and bad.
10:55 Gnar is present during this event, "the missing link". In one of his stories, he attempts to fight the eye but then everything is frozen (by Lissandra).
So crazy that 3 years ago I watched this video and decided that I should give league a go, both a great thank you to Necrit for introducing to the wide expansive world of Runeterra but also a light hearted "screw you" for the league addiction that followed
10:41 How could Lissandra know their horrible forms if she’s blind lmao...
i thought the exact same , and then I imagined lissandra touching the 40 meters tall watchers when they first met to get their shapes.
she heard their ugliness
You can feel something is very huge even if ure blind
wid a pawa op ECHOLOCATION :D
@@itsgonnabeokay9341 That's what she said 😎
I was hoping at some point in the story you were going to explain how the fields of justice were created and these ridiculously powerful characters started engaging in 5v5 skirmishes.
Today in League's history :
The Icathian War
The Great Darkin War
The Runic War
In next week's League's history : *The Clone War*
"The days of bad lore are gone"
*reads Sona's lore*
"Really, now?"
To be fair, Sona is one of the oldest lore pieces. They need to either update it like the others or give her a more in depth description.
Michael Soria i know but we need to mention her, lest they forget
Read it now.
SERAPHINE JOINED THE GAME
Seraphine: HeEEeY
The Celestials are watched by the Watchers. The Watchers are watched by the Gamers.
And the gamers are watched by twitch subs lol
Twitch subs are watched by FBI
@@Voltasaur69 FBI is watched by me
I've always been curious of the LoL story, I've seen Arcane, and this video is really good, this lore is really cool. ❤️
I've been playing league for around 6 years and just now I can finally properly understand the lore (that I didn't even know it was so interesting) thank you necrit, awesome video.
targonians: -offers aurelion sol a crown-
Celestial aspects: -silently evil laughing at the back-
"The days of bad lore are gone"
*looks at the Ruination event*
He didn't know yet...
Imagine Riot organizing an event that actually affected the lore, like players siding with either the Void or the Celestials in teams, and the team that won would establish how the lore continues
Ok this is the greatest thing
Like the Ionia - Noxus war? That would be great.
*"so why do u want to get rid of runeterra"*
*Watchers:* the light is annoying
Now we got arcane that’s basically the tale of zaun
I'm here because i watched Arcane, Always wanted to know the lore of League but never got to it for some reason.
Although i have been playing since 2010.
an animated serie about every region wouldn't be a bad idea
I love this video! I don't even play League but the story is so interesting. My only question, and the reason I found your videos, is: How do we get from this in the video, to Rifts? What is a Rift? Why do people fight in them? How come people (seemingly) from all sorts of times can appear there? Please let me know if anyone has a good explanation, though I'd prefer Necrit's explanation! :D
I just wanted to know the world history of Arcane, and this gave me so much more.
Sidenote: LoL history is all about gods trying to make plans and every fucking thing went sideways
I'm still hoping an MMO from RuneTerra. I need Fresh MMORPGs! Like Lost Ark!!! That just my prediction......
A league mmr would be amazing. Sooo much content.
@@alkan68 Final Fantasy 14 has a better lore than league by a mile and a half.
KawaiiBoy lucky for you it has been teased
@@alejosbanned it's not an actual mmo
Never played LoL, but after watching arcane I’m seriously considering. The stories and worldbuilding are incredible!
Play Legends of Runeterra instead! It has a very wide variety of narratives, even more so than League of Legends. It has many characters that aren't in League of Legends, and it shows interactions of them.
Lore has nothing to do with the game itself
Riot took an obvious inspiration from one of Marvel's story. From the origins of Knull the Symbiote God and his creation. He existed long before the existence of the whole universe and being awoken from the creation of the universe he got upset by it because of the Celestials creating all the light.
The story of the void was also then inspired by this because of Knull creating his own army of darkness to exterminate the light of the universe, and that army would be what we now know as the Symbiotes.
would like some likes so many more would know of this origin
im not an expert on lore, legends, or religion, but based on how marvel, too, gets its ideas from other stories, im guessing this "story" has been around for a long time
Hahah "knull"
Thats Mass Effect Music at the start of the story will always give me goosebumps and flashbacks, thx for that man 10/10.
Can you please make an updated League of Legends lore video? Your last one was four years ago, would be amazing to see what has changed, updated etc. especially in light of Arcane being announced as canon.
This is your third most viewed video, and I know an updated video, with renewed interest in LoL with Arcane, would definitely be your most successful video to date. I watched your last one, and would love to know what the updates are!
I ain't gonna lie a Game of Thrones level TV show about League's lore could be massive.
Man.. I want to watch Teemo die with Scion poking his eyes and eventually crushing his skull like what the mountain did.. what a sight to see
You were saying? 😏
@@mikenike4215 arcane is incredible ! And "game of throne level" doesn't do it justice, it stands on it's own ! I hope once done with arcane they exploité Nous next or even the whole shurima/Air/xerath arc
Video starts at 2:21
19:00
"Only Ionia is somewhat decently holding up together.... buuuuttt Noxus had to screw them up too."
I love how he portrays the Lore
The celestials mess up and make a huge Rift and all the ascended soldiers turn into darkins, one distant voice from the heaves rings out "ff15, jungle diff".
For me, this is the best fucking content you've made that I've ever fucking watched.
I stuck in iron 3, i will just read the lore instead of playing
anyone noticed that he’s using the ice crown citadel music track in the background? 😂😂
He also used Cthuns eye and a void Walker. Pretty sure avarosa and the other sister were vrykul skeletons
Can someone track all soundtracks he is using? :D Would be appreciated :3
Just what I needed!
Kind regards
An Arcane fan!
2:54 the irony of having Morphling, a staple hero and poster boy of Dota representing a LOL entity.
Recently became a huge fan of league of legends thanks to arcane, i play it as well. The lore is very interesting, and I’m gonna keep looking into this. Video was very useful