The transitions are insane. When the eye cuts to the top-down view of the ballroom, and when Elise(?) blinks and her vision goes from normal to spider vision… 🤯
@@artxroyaltyRed hear assasin woman is Katarina. Darius is still young in this cinematic Katarina and Elise have new skins and Mel in her visions fought with reanimated soldiers like Sion #Grey Legion Katarina has her new daggers from the Katarina comic where she had love at first sight with Garen which is a prequel to the Mageseeker RPG and a continuation of the Lux comic. Mel was in the same place where a pregnant young Ambessa fought in the Blood sweat and tears cinematic. Leblack and Vladimir are apparently talking about darkin who will survive Twilight of the Gods like Aatrox,... apparently Valeeva sister of Varus could be the New 5th darkin champion for League of Legends???
@@artxroyaltyIt's good watch or react to this videos by Necrit. What Is The Black Rose? (Arcane Lore Explained) How League's New Skins Expand The Lore And League's Universe Explained For Arcane Fans
@@artxroyaltyApparently this Bite marks 2025 cinematic chapter 1 is one of more than there are chapters in League of Legends so there will be cinematics for it. Necrit is already working on explaination video. Plus he will see a new comic soon and it seems to me that the Arcane Ambese Chosen of the Wolf book is still available in English.
@@artxroyaltyIt's good watch or react to this videos by Necrit. What Is The Black Rose? (Arcane Lore Explained) How League's New Skins Expand The Lore And League's Universe Explained For Arcane Fans
I like that just before Mel first appears, the sigil we see is of a wolf, and then that wolf appears again when Vladimir talks about Mel washing up on shore
@@artxroyaltyThis shot actually tells a lot about Leblanc's reach on the world, she knew about everything that was happening, she drew every entrance of the champions (wolf for Mel, a knife for Katarina ducouteaux, then making it covered by spider arms for Elise, and the freljord conquest too), she "drew everything" meaning she predicted them, not litteraly or by magic, but because she's just so clever
@@sinisterminds2559 I think she was referring to the fact that they cut the music out during the fight here like they did in the Jinx v Ekko fight in Season 1.
I get so much joy from seeing you excited about this stuff. I'm pretty reserved on the surface but underneath I am nerding out hardcore, so your giddiness makes me feel so understood.
Katarina is GORGEOUS omg her design is FIRE I'm OBSESSED!!! I'm also biased about red hair so that totally helps 🤣. I just want more of her and Mel plz
I'm surprised so many people love Mel, considering her manipulation of Jayce almost led to the fall of Piltover/Zaun & humanity itself. But who doesn't love a good redemption arc.
@ Mel never wanted weapons, she wanted protection from people like her mother/Ambessa herself. Jayce made the hextech weapons on Caits behalf without discussing with Mel :( While I agree, she was definitely the catalyst for pushing hextech in the first place, Viktor was technically the one demanding too much from the gem after the time skip. He added the runes to make the hex core so it could communicate. Viktors intentions were good and he was not intentionally overusing it but still was the one who did it 😬
@@sirlanciacurry4094 I think that’s a lot to put on Mel. Sure she manipulated and suggested things to Jayce (no one in this show is without flaw…unless you’re Ekko lol) BUT Jayce is a grown man who wasn’t physically forced to do anything and who knew the risks as Heim told him repeatedly, “I’ve seen worlds destroyed by this”. Still he pursued it. It was actually one of my biggest frustrations with his character. He allowed literally everyone to influence him, hell, even Vi influenced him at one point 😅 I’m sure if Mel had been aware of the dangers that Heim foresaw, she wouldn’t have been pushing for Hextech. She only knew it as an investment, not something that could end the world. Jayce knew the risk…that’s on him.
@RedEveTillDawn I understand. HOWEVER... Mel knew of the consequences via Heimerdinger's warnings, and yet she still pushed forward. She even went as far as to manipulate Jayce into having his mentor removed from the council in order to get what she wanted. Jayce is a grown man and has his own mind, so the onus is on him...but as seen in other stories & real life, beautiful women have a way of controlling even the strongest/smartest man.
Here's some facts about Katarina: Her father taught her everything she knows. Her estranged mother & sister (Cassiopeia) - another LOL champion, are members of the Black Rose. Katarina has a secret crush on Garen, Lux's brother. This was hinted at in her comic. Her blades are bonded to her via a ritual... As shown in the video, she can teleport herself to them at will or teleport the blades to herself. Lastly, her iconic face scar was a result from her battle with her step-brother, Talon, who was sent by their father to end her after she failed an important mission. The duel ended in a stalemate. She won their 2nd bout tho, which ended in Talon losing an ɵyɵ.
iirc theyre actually a confirmed item. LoR has their interactions act like theyre pretending to have never seen eachother as well as a lot of other characters talking to either of them like the relationship is runeterra's worst kept secret,
Riot is making changes to how they release "seasons", instead of it being a yearly thing such as "Season 2024", each year is going to have multiple seasons. If I'm remembering correctly, there will be 3 seasons per year each having their own thematic. 2025's first season as you saw will be centered around Noxus; the game will change/add Noxian themes and mechanics, Blackrose skins are coming out, and merch and media such as this cinematic will be released as well through out the season. I really hope we get to see a Bandle City or Ionian season this year!
as an extra note, if you wanna read up more about seasons Riot made a blog post detailing what they're about, just search up "/dev: Seasons in 2025 League of Legends"
@@artxroyalty I think by 'seasons' he's referring to game seasons. You're talking about the show and he's talking about the video game. I'm with you though, Aisha, I'm more about the show.
What I love about the way Fortiche approaches character design is that they streamline each character's aesthetic in the most stylish way possible. A lot of League characters are just really busy, design-wise, and Fortiche just kind of cuts down on the visual noise while maintaining some key elements of the original aesthetic the character had and it always just works so well. Ambessa and Mel are great examples of this. While I like their League designs, I find them to be kind of inferior to their original designs from Arcane because those were already *so good* and Riot just kind of took their aesthetics from the show and just added more superfluous details that ended up making the designs almost too busy. That's why I can't wait to see how other characters end up looking when brought into future shows or movies animated by Fortiche, because I just know they'll kill it. It would be so cool to see them tackle Katarina and Elise's base skins, rather than just the new Noxus skin line.
I think the next series will be much better if they give it time as they learn from their mistakes. If they can give boring characters like jinx and vi a whole new touch then I wonder what they can do with characters that already perfectly written. If they can make such a great show off one of the most underwhelming place (piltover/zaun) then the noxus series will be amazing
If you thought Jinx's story was sad then keep several tissue boxes near you if Annie is introduce. That little girl has one of the most depressing storyline in LOL. I don't know if she will be in the Noxus show, but she does have ties to the Black Rose via their "school" for gifted children.
Mel is gorgeous as always, but the LeBlanc, Katarina and Elise designs are just... chef's kiss. Fortiche people really know how to design and animate hot characters in a way that you don't usually see. Speaking of, Darius and Trundle having a shirtless wrestling match also made me feel some kind of way. Like, believe it or not, Trundle already had some official art that made him look like a thirst trap, and he has his fair share of... fans, but Fortiche just effortlessly pushes it further without making it the main appeal.
@@ninjatoriumnova2483 yesss and it always seems so effortless with them too! I’d love to see their process when it comes to redesigning these champions
Fortiche has been working on a new series for over a year. It's logical to think that they used the characters they already have designed and the game took advantage of the dance theme to create new skins. Character creation is something that takes time, the video is both a preview of the new series and the new season of the game. The lore of the game has always been developed outside of the game, whether in comics, novels or on web pages, now the series enters the equation as a central pillar.
While this isn't 100% a trailer for the next series, we can presume it's very connected, given the outro and the presence of Leblanc. This serves a secondary purpose of advertising the LoL game's next "season" which will be Noxus-themed, and they'll be revamping the game map etc to feature a lot more Noxus stuff. So when it says "Season 1" it's referring to the first "season" of the new direction for the game itself. Some more lore tidbits from this if you'd like them: - The big guy Darius is fighting is Trundle, the troll king. He's tied to a faction from the Freljord. His club is made of True Ice, which is a rare sort of ice/mineral that does not melt and cannot be touched by anyone who isn't "Iceborn" without them getting instant, crazy frostbite from it like Darius does here. Noxus often has border skirmishes with the Freljord factions in their efforts to expand. - The spider lady is Elise, who was introduced to the game as your standard black widow/femme fatale character trope, but easily has potential to be a lot more interesting. She has connections to the Black Rose and, if we're to assume this trailer has something to do with story rather than just being a cool vignette for the characters, she may have been placed here as an obstacle/trap/something of that nature for Katarina rather than explicitly serving as any kind of actual bodyguard for the guy Kat came here to take out (clearly Elise is not that concerned with him dying and is more interested in playing with Kat herself)
@@justafossil I’ve heard we’re seeing Mel in this because she’ll be released as a playable champion this year? Might finally hop on League if that’s the case!
After over a decade of cinematics, I feel like Riot with Fortiche has finally defined their art-style. 2013 we had a the slightly campy flat-material look like in Get Jinxed (which is still great, but it's a dated look), we went through the hyper-realistic for its time cinematics which look good but it feels like any other game cinematic. And now we have had a build up over the last few years of worlds videos and Arcane to land in this truly iconic art-style that is fully their own. It's gotten to a point that we now in the animation industry refer to this style by naming Fortiche or Arcane. I now think of this art style explicitely as Fortiche-esque if someone else was to be similar visually. There is a certain tragedy regarding studios that put out absolutely phenomenal art, they collapse because the cost of their efforts outweighs the financial stability compared to cheap content-pumping. Despite Riot's inexperience with full-fledged animation (at least Arcane as a full length series was new to them) they seem to understand this reality, and they worked really hard to keep the lights on at Fortiche during Arcane's production pause, and I think we will keep getting cinematics like these between production cycles of their next series. Riot understands the value of Fortiche and the foreclosure of such a studio would be a tragedy. Oh also, anybody getting a touch of Silco vibes out of Vladimir at the end here? It's how he sharply moves his head as he speaks, and the narrow flat bridge of his nose. Honestly I love it. "This fandom is a prison".. that hits home hard. I have not been able to move on. Nobody else is doing this level. I get people say certain anime's are far superior to this and I've looked into them and it doesn't remotely connect to me. I was so concerned that post-season2 that I was gonna be in a dire dry-spell but this cinematic immediately had me sated for the time being.
when I saw this i knew you were about to be hype about katarina...... thats OUR GIRLLLLLLLL.... they put in her abilities so well in her fight with elise
I can already tell that Elise and Katarina are going to be my two favorite characters for the Noxus series. Their character designs are just peak levels of awesome and the way they fought with that music playing in the back? *Chefs Kiss*
imagien a region where everybody is like ambessa, badass warriors trying to conquer the whole world. noxus is probably my personal favorite region i can't wait for people to learn about mordekaiser
5:01 I think its called "true ice" from the watchers or sth like that and the ogre looking guy (who's also a champion in LoL) might be an iceborn. Necrit said sth about true ice in his lore videos which I can recommend. 6:05, 7:05 that is Noxus capital city called the Immortal Bastion
Looking forward to the next series apparently they are working on 3 different shows. 1 for noxus, demacia, and ionia The champion Darius fights is named Trundle and he's from the frejord and the spider lady is Elise. I completely agree the characters are gorgeous I loved seeing Katarina in updated animation
@artxroyalty ya I believe they are called frost trolls and they're all around that size or bigger I believe Trundle is the only one who controls ice magic as you saw by his club
If you want to really dig into the lore of Runeterra the channel Necrit has some of the best lore breakdowns and full story information about the world. Before Noxus, you should watch his video about the Black Rose. Even before Arcane season 2 was done we were hearing whispers that Noxus in some form would be next. It could have been just this but it seems this is seeding us with information about that nation.
I totally agree on so many levels with you. I also wasn't sure if I could get excited over another show than Arcane. This cinematic showed me: "Yes I can!". I still want some of the plot holes of season 2 to be filled, but if they chose to do it with a rpg or a spin off movie starting there I am completely fine with it. I will embrace a Noxus show with open arms. 😍 And yes all the champions look fire, BUT the Fortiche treatment made them way less oversexualized at the same time. They did the same with Arcane. Just compare their looks to the old splash arts. And they are still hot af in this cinematic. I like that a lot. Elise the spider queen may be may fav (says the guy with the arachnophobia) 😍😍 Great reaction. Absolutely relateable!👍
@@Calamity_Joe Yeah, most people want realistic characters in their media, characters they can relate to, not sex dolls that go to battle in bikinis. Where does your hate come from?
@@Xy1F ehh sounds like western brainrot or similar leftist ideas which means the rest of the world could care less. Characters don't have to be sex dolls but they also don't have to be bland snicker bodies that's afraid to show a lot of skin.
Great reaction to the video! I'm excited for any future show or movie that Riot and Fortiche makes together after Arcane. Personally, I'm hoping for a "Noxus vs Ionia" or "Noxus vs Demacia" series. ^_^
To clear everything. This is a teaser for new season in the *GAME* But the ending does tease spin off show. This cinematic also takes place right after Arcane and because Arcane takes place before major events in LoL, every champion is this is younger, hence Darius is skinnier, Katarina is still assassin for Swain and Elise has no her two BIG arguments (had to include that cuz people kept saying they nerfed Elise with the looks) 1. Darius was fighting *Trundle* ice trolls king, the reason why Darius dropped his axe at first and when he picked up it again the ice started to cover his arm its because of the true ice corruption from Trundle's club. True Ice extremely painful to non Ice-Borns. The fact that Darius didnt die from just touching that and managed to knock trundle off with it is badass as hell. 2. Katarina was fighting Elise. She taps into the powers of shadow isles hence the spider form. 3. In upcoming days Mel will become newest League's champion. 4. With LeBlanc the guy is Vladimir - hes a hemomancer (blood mage), he uses the very same magic that shaped the Darkins.
Champions: Darius The Hand of Noxus, Trundle The Troll King, Katarina The Sinister Blade, Elise The Spider Queen, LeBlanc The Deceiver, Vladimir The Crimson Reaper
Hi Aisha - I thought you would like this! Glad you did =) In my oppinion Mel's arrival and the exchange between Vic and LeBlanc hint strongly at what the follow up series is going to be. The rest is more what we would expect from a (game) season cinematic and this 1st season (split) of League which the title is refering to, is going to be Noxus themed in game. Still - it's likely that the shown in game champions will be part of the show as well , but maybe not the shown scenes...
@@69quato like this?? Omg I absolutely LOVED this! Every time I think I can’t get more excited or I reached peak excitement boom- they release more goated content! I love it here, truly 😅
Apparently this Bite marks 2025 cinematic chapter 1 is one of more than there are chapters in League of Legends so there will be cinematics for it. Necrit is already working on explaination video. Plus he will see a new comic soon and it seems to me that the Arcane Ambese Chosen of the Wolf book is still available in English.
Theory time:My thoughts are that this is a younger Darius, years before the establishment of the Trifarix. Maybe right after he has become the Hand of Noxus. Darius is going to have a new axe! He's gonna get the fat one from 2XKO, the Runeterra based fighting game that is supposed to come out late this year! I also think that the Silken Dance( the masquerade that Katarina fought Elise in) isn't a one time game event, but rather a Black Rose tradition used to conduct sensitive business and scout new possible members. I think Arcane happens much earlier on the timeline than most fans think and that the next show should pick up with Mel and her return to Noxus as matriarch of the Mardardas. Boram Darkwill should still be ruling Noxus, and this should be before the the 1st invasion of Ionia. Singed being a wanted man in Piltover-Zaun has also fled to Noxus, where he will be recruited by their military to make weapons. The main storyline should be the what going on in Noxus during the Ionian invasion, Darkwill's fall, and the rise of the Trifarix. I want this to be about 4 seasons. I think Rell should be introduced as Mel's unknown twin! I think that would be interesting. Ambessa should have been the person running the Black Rose's mage School/weapons project. It was deal she made with LeBlanc in order to add mages into her bloodline. According to the deal, she was to give all arcane gifted children to the Black Rose for training, but she hid Mel's power instead and sent her to Piltover partially for that reason. We might get a few scenes of the war because the latter half of this show, Seasons 3 & 4, take place during the Ionian invasion, but it shouldn't really focus on that, the main plot should still focus inside NoxusI I would have the next show after Noxus, be in Demacia. It would be 5 seasons. S1 would start about a year or so before the Noxus show ends. It would set up characters like Lux, Garen, Jarvan IV, Sylas, and Fiora, as well as have major flashbacks to Targon with the story of Pantheon, Kayle, and Morgana. S2-S4 would address the system of the mageseekers, continue progression of the Kayle/Morgana story, give side stories for Shyvana and Fiddlesticks and show the creation of Galio. S5 would have the full outing of Lux as a mage and the full Mage Rebellion. In the very last episode Jinx would show up to help Demacia rebuild and restructure their society and start to build a life long friendship with Lux. This canonically should start around the same time as the last year of Arcane's story, Outside of flashbacks, this should be about a 5 year story. Sometime after the Noxus show ends, but before the Demacia show does, a theatrical movie release should happen. It should be a story about Jinx in a Bilgewater adventure. That is where she headed after leaving Piltover-Zaun. After a high speed, adrenaline pumping, gun blazing pirate adventure with Miss Fortune, and being tested by Illoai, she should head to Demacia. The events of this movie should happen a few weeks after the events of the Ruin King game. They could introduce Nilah here and coincide a new champion drop ingame with Jack, The Winner! He's a badass Sharkman who made some unknown deal with Tahm Kench. Also, in Legends of Runeterra, a digital TCG, Miss Fortune has a monkey idol that is stated to have been taken by her from some old enemy. Also, there is a slot machine robot that had a 3 bomb jackpot and it actually blew up the 1st time someone hit the Jackpot. They've since fixed the robot but removed the bomb function.. I think it would be cool if Jinx was the original designer of the robot and made the idol in a buhru temple.
Firstly, we open with an image of a wolf which represents one half of Kindred. This is in reference to Ambessa blood, sweat and Tears because Mel has “The Mark of the chosen/The Mark of the Wolf.” Also the opening starts on the same exact beach that Ambessa survived on, you can look at it shot for shot, I think it is on Rockrund, a beach near noxus. Next part shows Katarina attending a ball dance. For some context, League released some Noxus skins for Ezreal, Renata Glasc (the most powerful chembaron from Zaun), Thresh, and some others. The reasoning is that the “Black Rose” apparently has invited some other strong suitors to a party, hoping to gain their pledge. We don’t see them here (it is to be assumed they all might make teases or appearances in the next series), but Katarina snuck her way into the dance. Katarina is an assassin for Noxus, very skilled. Next we have Darius, a young darius going up against young Trundle, a troll from the Frejlord. Now we technically don’t know if Noxus at this point is attempting to push in Frejlord or if actually the Trolls came too far down on purpose. The Trolls of Frejlord are close with Lissandra who can make ice-borne weapons and true ice weapons. To keep it short, Trundle’s club is not “True” ice, if it was, no mere mortal can actually touch the weapon, they literally die if they touch the weapon. But “Ice-borne” weapons are still very strong weapons, which is why you see the weapon start to freeze Darius' hand and arm. The gate that Mel is walking up to is the opening Arch to Noxus and in the far distance is the home capital, Immortal Bastion. It actually is the largest standing building in all of Runeterra.. Next as Katarina is attempting to kill her target, we see Elise pop out who is a spider. She also got invited to the Noxus ball, presumably protecting someone. If I am correct, Elise is more of a shadow Isle’s champ, but she is part of the Black Rose because Leblanc saved her and she became mutated after being bitten by a Spider-demi god called “Vilemaw.”. At the very end, we officially get to see Leblanc, it is confirmed this is her official VGU (Visual Game Update) and as of right now, lore accatue appearance. Along with Leblanc we get to see Vladamir, he actually used to be human MANY centuries ago, but he magically altered himself, absorbed the power of darkin and has been using blood magic to keep himself young. Vlad and Leblanc established The Black Rose centuries ago and they work from the shadows. There is technically a third person, but we do not know who that is yet. We again hear reference to “opportunity washed up on our shore = Mel” (again showing a wolf because she has the mark of the wolf from Kindred) The calamity they are talking about is the return of Mordekaiser, which the black rose is trying to prevent. To keep it short, basically all of Runeterra does not want the mofo returning and he is actually banished underneath the immortal bastion (Also much of Runeterra doesn’t actually know who he is because when he existed was centuries ago, except for Leblanc and Vlad and any other people part of The Black Rose organization.) As per usual, the black are considered “evil”, but in their evil doings, they are trying to prevent a worse event from happening as referenced right above. The very last thing people are Guessing it’s either a reference to Aatrox sword, or Naafiri dagger, both of which are Darkin weapons. Hopefully that breaks everything down for ya lol. On a personal note I am mixed about this trailer. On one hand, it stands amazingly on its own, and it’s basically teasing their next series. Anybody correct if I am wrong, but Riot Games announced that this year, they would be resetting their seasons back to season 1 (thus why it’s called season 1 cinematic) and changing their format, since league came out in 2010, every year is considered 1 season = 1 year, thus they always do a top tier cinematic for launch. (this year would’ve been season 15 cinematic) . But this year, they are going to reset seasons, and “chapters” throughout the season, meaning they were upping their cinematics now to 3 in a year. My point being, I am slightly sad they didn’t do their other animation. I don’t know if Riot Games is just going to go full hard with Fortiche on everything moving forward, but compared to previous season trailers, just a slight let down. But if it wasn’t for comparison, it’s an amazing trailer and if we get two more this year, that would be awesome. They definitely let out a lot of champs people wanted such as Draven, Riven, Rell, Swain, Mordekaiser, Samira, Kled, and some others. I feel like for some very die hard fans of just league, it could start splitting up the player base/fan base, just slightly. I personally end up leaning towards loving this trailer though, I love the freaking music. I don’t think anybody expected to see Trundle or Frejlord and I think once we get into the Noxus show, they are definitely setting up all their puzzle pieces to then expand everywhere else, Shurima, Ionia, Frejlord, Demacia, etc. I also just wanted to point out if people haven’t thought about it, Katarina is a VERY skilled assassin, not only can elise transform into a spider whenever (Idk why she stops, but it’s a trailer) but to take on two arms, plus her spider arms, that takes some mad skill and training. Again I know it’s a trailer, but katarina is really bad ass, just like Darius, embodies much of Noxus willpower, strength, and skill.
They definitely have not been all from Fortiche, but they've done several. And when Fortiche is involved, it's always amazing... even the studios that try to imitate Fortiche's style can't match it.
Im hoping that when Noxus does come out, thebase design for Katarina and Elise (literally any fem charac) gets upgraded because I LOVE their designs in the cinematic but it is still based on the new skin line
@@NamuIsIdle the part when they were fighting on the ground and Darius put this hand up to push Trundles face away. It’s a bit reminiscent of Ekko and Jinx’s fight on the bridge (it was also a joke)
Christian Linke didn't give a confirmation on what location is next after Arcane, but stated in an interview with Necrit that the Regions they are looking at most are Noxus, Ionia and Demacia. Noxus is the logical followup to Arcane in my mind, since we've already been introduced to the area in Arcane. The reason many people say "this has nothing to do with the next show, its the next League season" is that the next League season is indeed focused on Noxus, they are making changes to the map, will be releasing champions and skins related to the Region. But my only response to that is: Can't it be both?
Regarding learning French and going to Fortiche, after 4 months unemployed after a mass layoff. Im super tempted to get the fuck out and go to Paris to be a lighting/comp artist for Fortiche. But I don't know French and I'm sure I will suffer immensely. I get a bit of a laugh out of the idea there are probably tons of Arcane fans trying to find the Fortiche studio and it reminds me of a time where we had a production on my floor that was doing a My Little Pony special, and we actually had a "brony problem" where they sort of took advantage of people being polite and holding doors, inadvertantly letting in the bronies that would sneak into the studio. We had emails about it, it was madness. I wonder if Fortiche has the same issue with Arcane fans ahaha.
This video was just uploaded but a content creator named "Rival" just released a video he worked super hard on by making a comic covering a Noxian (ish) champion named Riven! I think you should check this video out as well as it delves not only into the Blackrose but also Ionia! It's called "The Lore of Riven is Brutal" by Rival
"Come on man fight back " Meanwhile Trundle : " Wdym fight back ? Im the king of trolls , Darius is lucky landing a hit on me , im gonna snap his head " Clasic 1 on 1 on top lane , darius apply stacks and do true dmg on trundle .. Trundle has been slain . 😂😂😂😂
Also to answer the question at the end, starting this year, riot decided to have thematical seasons (season that last a year). So this is cinematic for this years season, but each season has 3 "sub-seasons". You can call them Act's like in Arcane. This year they have a theme around Noxus, so this year is gonna be full of Lore progression or just revisiting previous lore i believe. For next seasons, they said it could be anything, so not just Lore related...(aka alternative universes). As this was Season one act one cinematic, we are wondering if we get 3 cinematics per year now, one for each act, but nothing is confirmed so let's just hope :)
Mel (pre-mage design) bares somewhat of a resemblance to Senna, except the latter is curvier. The fact that she has in-game dialogue with Senna, proves that even further. Btw, Senna is married to Lucian, another blk LOL champion. They are the only (human) champions who are married. There are 4 cinematic videos involving these two if you feel like reacting to them.
@@artxroyalty Senna's lore is pretty lengthy and tires into a bigger story event. I would post the link to her lore page, but this app doesn't allow it. There are several cinematic (4) videos regarding this event, including her character reveal trailer. In the meantime, you could react to ANNIE: Origins. It's a 6 min short story video about Annie released in 2018. It feels very season 1 Arcane. Basically, she is a supernatural version of Powder. That ending with her stepmother & teddy bear was something...
Riot is really good at providing content creators and streamers with unique opportunities to try new stuff and go to different events. They invited you to the Arcane Season 2 premiere right? Go ahead a spend the next year learning french, then just ask Riot for a tour of Fortiche. Make it a suggestion for some kind of event. They might send you and hand full of YTers to Fortiche. Nothing beats a failure but a try!
It's great watch or react to this videos by Necrit. What Is The Black Rose? (Arcane Lore Explained) How League's New Skins Expand The Lore And League's Universe Explained For Arcane Fans
I hope that people are more forgiving of Ambessa once they learn more about Noxus because literally young mel wouldn’t have survived growing up in noxus, she didn’t have brutality for it. Also compared to other characters Ambessa is very conniving but not the MOST evil person lol
Ambessa is Arcane's version of DC's Amanda Waller. Both are neutral characters whose "eviI" actions are in opposition to powerful groups they deem threats... For Ambessa it's mages, and for Amanda it's superhumans.
@@sirlanciacurry4094 well Ambessa fell in love with a mage and had a child with one, she did show that she felt threatened by mages because of the unfair playing field but i don’t think she is like Amanda, she isn’t going around trying to kill mages, she literally just against the black rose who happen to be mages, if it weren’t for them she probably would’ve just recruited mages into her army, just like she did with viktor.
Ok, Ms.Aisha I have a take that you might disagree with but when you said all the characters are hot I relate to your pain girl! But… I really don’t like Mel’s new design and it made me roll my eyes every time I saw her. She was also my least favorite handled in season 2. I’m sorry girl, I feel bad but it’s true. Love your reactions!! ❤
Y'know what...I agree in the sense that her season 1 look was definitely superior. I still very much enjoyed her mage redesign, but something about councilor Mel was just different! It's Mel so regardless she looked absolutely stunning. Thanks so much for tuning in and checking out my videos!!
If you ae just startying with the league lore you should have understand how utterly bullshit season 2 plot is about what arcane is and how they massacred the whole story of viktor
The next series is definitely going to be about Noxus. But there will be connections to Demacia and Ionia from what i heard. Check out the lore of Demacia. Theres a web comic you can read called *Lux*. It's about Luxanna Crownsguard, one of the main champions from Demacia. There's an unofficial Jinx/Lux ship, so lets hope Jinx comes back to meet Lux in the future 🧡
The transitions are insane. When the eye cuts to the top-down view of the ballroom, and when Elise(?) blinks and her vision goes from normal to spider vision… 🤯
@@craigetienne5937 just the typical Fortiche peak experience 🤌🏾
@@artxroyaltyRed hear assasin woman is Katarina.
Darius is still young in this cinematic Katarina and Elise have new skins and Mel in her visions fought with reanimated soldiers like Sion #Grey Legion
Katarina has her new daggers from the Katarina comic where she had love at first sight with Garen which is a prequel to the Mageseeker RPG and a continuation of the Lux comic.
Mel was in the same place where a pregnant young Ambessa fought in the Blood sweat and tears cinematic.
Leblack and Vladimir are apparently talking about darkin who will survive Twilight of the Gods like Aatrox,... apparently Valeeva sister of Varus could be the New 5th darkin champion for League of Legends???
@@artxroyaltyIt's good watch or react to this videos by Necrit.
What Is The Black Rose? (Arcane Lore Explained)
How League's New Skins Expand The Lore
And
League's Universe Explained For Arcane Fans
@@artxroyaltyApparently this Bite marks 2025 cinematic chapter 1 is one of more than there are chapters in League of Legends so there will be cinematics for it.
Necrit is already working on explaination video.
Plus he will see a new comic soon and it seems to me that the Arcane Ambese Chosen of the Wolf book is still available in English.
@@artxroyaltyIt's good watch or react to this videos by Necrit.
What Is The Black Rose? (Arcane Lore Explained)
How League's New Skins Expand The Lore
And
League's Universe Explained For Arcane Fans
*Darius literally fighting with every ounce of strength he has*
“Come on man fight back”
Lmao. Great reaction.
@@Drewe223 that was my version of a pep talk 😂
I like that just before Mel first appears, the sigil we see is of a wolf, and then that wolf appears again when Vladimir talks about Mel washing up on shore
@@aranthur oooh yeah you’re right! Ugh I love the little details
The wolf also has the Medarda family crest on it's forehead
@@artxroyaltyThis shot actually tells a lot about Leblanc's reach on the world, she knew about everything that was happening, she drew every entrance of the champions (wolf for Mel, a knife for Katarina ducouteaux, then making it covered by spider arms for Elise, and the freljord conquest too), she "drew everything" meaning she predicted them, not litteraly or by magic, but because she's just so clever
The moment I saw Katarina in there I immediately thought: oh boy Aisha is gonna love this!
You know me so well 😂
“its giving timebomb. everything reminds me of them”
you making me imagine a darius x trundle romance
@@tianli5907 oop- you’re welcome…? 😂
@@artxroyaltythey got more physically intimate than timebomb s1. scene just needs an emotional flashback and some knowing looks
Plz stop this Weird why you got to make it gay two badass warriors fighting to death
@@sinisterminds2559 concept: “a joke”
@@sinisterminds2559 I think she was referring to the fact that they cut the music out during the fight here like they did in the Jinx v Ekko fight in Season 1.
As soon as I saw Riot put out a Noxus cinematic, the first thing I thought was that I wanted to see your reaction to it.
@@Alex_Johnson_ whaaaat I’m so honored 🥹
same!
I get so much joy from seeing you excited about this stuff. I'm pretty reserved on the surface but underneath I am nerding out hardcore, so your giddiness makes me feel so understood.
same
@@BlackShardStudio league/Arcane always pulls it out of me! Haha thank you so much 😂
Darius picking up his axe after it's been touched by Trundle's TrueIce club is like dunking his arm in liquid nitrogen. So badass
@@BurnDem101 dude is a TANK. Need to see more of that raw strength in the next series!
Katarina is GORGEOUS omg her design is FIRE I'm OBSESSED!!! I'm also biased about red hair so that totally helps 🤣. I just want more of her and Mel plz
@@RedEveTillDawn I second this!! How they managed to make Katarina even more of a baddie…crazy work 😮💨😂
I'm surprised so many people love Mel, considering her manipulation of Jayce almost led to the fall of Piltover/Zaun & humanity itself. But who doesn't love a good redemption arc.
@ Mel never wanted weapons, she wanted protection from people like her mother/Ambessa herself. Jayce made the hextech weapons on Caits behalf without discussing with Mel :(
While I agree, she was definitely the catalyst for pushing hextech in the first place, Viktor was technically the one demanding too much from the gem after the time skip. He added the runes to make the hex core so it could communicate. Viktors intentions were good and he was not intentionally overusing it but still was the one who did it 😬
@@sirlanciacurry4094 I think that’s a lot to put on Mel. Sure she manipulated and suggested things to Jayce (no one in this show is without flaw…unless you’re Ekko lol) BUT Jayce is a grown man who wasn’t physically forced to do anything and who knew the risks as Heim told him repeatedly, “I’ve seen worlds destroyed by this”. Still he pursued it.
It was actually one of my biggest frustrations with his character. He allowed literally everyone to influence him, hell, even Vi influenced him at one point 😅
I’m sure if Mel had been aware of the dangers that Heim foresaw, she wouldn’t have been pushing for Hextech. She only knew it as an investment, not something that could end the world. Jayce knew the risk…that’s on him.
@RedEveTillDawn I understand. HOWEVER... Mel knew of the consequences via Heimerdinger's warnings, and yet she still pushed forward. She even went as far as to manipulate Jayce into having his mentor removed from the council in order to get what she wanted.
Jayce is a grown man and has his own mind, so the onus is on him...but as seen in other stories & real life, beautiful women have a way of controlling even the strongest/smartest man.
Here's some facts about Katarina: Her father taught her everything she knows. Her estranged mother & sister (Cassiopeia) - another LOL champion, are members of the Black Rose.
Katarina has a secret crush on Garen, Lux's brother. This was hinted at in her comic. Her blades are bonded to her via a ritual... As shown in the video, she can teleport herself to them at will or teleport the blades to herself.
Lastly, her iconic face scar was a result from her battle with her step-brother, Talon, who was sent by their father to end her after she failed an important mission. The duel ended in a stalemate. She won their 2nd bout tho, which ended in Talon losing an ɵyɵ.
iirc theyre actually a confirmed item. LoR has their interactions act like theyre pretending to have never seen eachother as well as a lot of other characters talking to either of them like the relationship is runeterra's worst kept secret,
Riot is making changes to how they release "seasons", instead of it being a yearly thing such as "Season 2024", each year is going to have multiple seasons. If I'm remembering correctly, there will be 3 seasons per year each having their own thematic. 2025's first season as you saw will be centered around Noxus; the game will change/add Noxian themes and mechanics, Blackrose skins are coming out, and merch and media such as this cinematic will be released as well through out the season. I really hope we get to see a Bandle City or Ionian season this year!
@@kamakaarchangel9301 omg that means they’re going to be putting in overtime!! Ahhhh I’m so excited 😆
as an extra note, if you wanna read up more about seasons Riot made a blog post detailing what they're about, just search up "/dev: Seasons in 2025 League of Legends"
@@artxroyalty I think by 'seasons' he's referring to game seasons. You're talking about the show and he's talking about the video game. I'm with you though, Aisha, I'm more about the show.
Man the amount of adrenaline when I watched this for the first time was crazy
@@SkittleBombs that fight between Trundle and Darius…I need to see more of that in this next series!
Probably the most Ive ever been excited during a trailer. It means so much to see this series continue, even if its not in Piltover/Zaun.
What I love about the way Fortiche approaches character design is that they streamline each character's aesthetic in the most stylish way possible. A lot of League characters are just really busy, design-wise, and Fortiche just kind of cuts down on the visual noise while maintaining some key elements of the original aesthetic the character had and it always just works so well. Ambessa and Mel are great examples of this. While I like their League designs, I find them to be kind of inferior to their original designs from Arcane because those were already *so good* and Riot just kind of took their aesthetics from the show and just added more superfluous details that ended up making the designs almost too busy.
That's why I can't wait to see how other characters end up looking when brought into future shows or movies animated by Fortiche, because I just know they'll kill it. It would be so cool to see them tackle Katarina and Elise's base skins, rather than just the new Noxus skin line.
@@Shmurph yes! Perfectly put 🙌🏾
Am I the only one who is IN LOVE with the scene where Katarina is literally smiling at Elise in her spider form...
I’m RIGHT there with you
@artxroyalty Like, not only is she shown as very pretty but also very confident lol. I could talk about the entire cinematic for hours
Darius was fighting Trundle, the king of the trolls. Katarina was fighting Elise. The last two characters you saw were LeBlanc and Vladimir.
We're getting 2 more cinematics this year and the next two will be Demacia and Ionia...that's how they're building the next show for us...
Art is better when it has a finish, I'm glad Arcane didn't ride until the wheels fell off...they respect their audience.
Knowing when NOT to overstay your welcome is a must 😅
the end credit scene could be a hint for the next show
nothing will touch me as much as Jinx' story, but I'm still pretty excited for the next series! looks fun
@@SapphicSnapple Jinx will always be in another league of her own (lol…see what I did there 😂) BUT yeah, the next series is looking very promising!!
LoL has many gut wrenching stories (Annie's for example) so I wouldn't say there can't be any as touching as Jinx's just yet
I think the next series will be much better if they give it time as they learn from their mistakes. If they can give boring characters like jinx and vi a whole new touch then I wonder what they can do with characters that already perfectly written. If they can make such a great show off one of the most underwhelming place (piltover/zaun) then the noxus series will be amazing
If you thought Jinx's story was sad then keep several tissue boxes near you if Annie is introduce. That little girl has one of the most depressing storyline in LOL. I don't know if she will be in the Noxus show, but she does have ties to the Black Rose via their "school" for gifted children.
@sirlanciacurry4094 alot of arcane fans think piltover is a great touch In runeterra... wait till the other regions gets there story
Mel is gorgeous as always, but the LeBlanc, Katarina and Elise designs are just... chef's kiss. Fortiche people really know how to design and animate hot characters in a way that you don't usually see. Speaking of, Darius and Trundle having a shirtless wrestling match also made me feel some kind of way. Like, believe it or not, Trundle already had some official art that made him look like a thirst trap, and he has his fair share of... fans, but Fortiche just effortlessly pushes it further without making it the main appeal.
@@ninjatoriumnova2483 yesss and it always seems so effortless with them too! I’d love to see their process when it comes to redesigning these champions
YES AISHA, LEBLANC HAS ARRIVED, I REPEAT: **MOTHER HAS ARRIVED!!**
@@Civilllllll I don’t fully know this diva yet…BUT BEST BELIEVE I’M READY TO GET ACQUAINTED
Fortiche has been working on a new series for over a year. It's logical to think that they used the characters they already have designed and the game took advantage of the dance theme to create new skins. Character creation is something that takes time, the video is both a preview of the new series and the new season of the game. The lore of the game has always been developed outside of the game, whether in comics, novels or on web pages, now the series enters the equation as a central pillar.
While this isn't 100% a trailer for the next series, we can presume it's very connected, given the outro and the presence of Leblanc. This serves a secondary purpose of advertising the LoL game's next "season" which will be Noxus-themed, and they'll be revamping the game map etc to feature a lot more Noxus stuff. So when it says "Season 1" it's referring to the first "season" of the new direction for the game itself.
Some more lore tidbits from this if you'd like them:
- The big guy Darius is fighting is Trundle, the troll king. He's tied to a faction from the Freljord. His club is made of True Ice, which is a rare sort of ice/mineral that does not melt and cannot be touched by anyone who isn't "Iceborn" without them getting instant, crazy frostbite from it like Darius does here. Noxus often has border skirmishes with the Freljord factions in their efforts to expand.
- The spider lady is Elise, who was introduced to the game as your standard black widow/femme fatale character trope, but easily has potential to be a lot more interesting. She has connections to the Black Rose and, if we're to assume this trailer has something to do with story rather than just being a cool vignette for the characters, she may have been placed here as an obstacle/trap/something of that nature for Katarina rather than explicitly serving as any kind of actual bodyguard for the guy Kat came here to take out (clearly Elise is not that concerned with him dying and is more interested in playing with Kat herself)
@@justafossil I’ve heard we’re seeing Mel in this because she’ll be released as a playable champion this year? Might finally hop on League if that’s the case!
It is. She is also playable in Team Fight Tactics another Runeterra based Riot game.
@@artxroyalty Yep! She'll be playable with the next game patch.
After over a decade of cinematics, I feel like Riot with Fortiche has finally defined their art-style. 2013 we had a the slightly campy flat-material look like in Get Jinxed (which is still great, but it's a dated look), we went through the hyper-realistic for its time cinematics which look good but it feels like any other game cinematic.
And now we have had a build up over the last few years of worlds videos and Arcane to land in this truly iconic art-style that is fully their own. It's gotten to a point that we now in the animation industry refer to this style by naming Fortiche or Arcane. I now think of this art style explicitely as Fortiche-esque if someone else was to be similar visually.
There is a certain tragedy regarding studios that put out absolutely phenomenal art, they collapse because the cost of their efforts outweighs the financial stability compared to cheap content-pumping. Despite Riot's inexperience with full-fledged animation (at least Arcane as a full length series was new to them) they seem to understand this reality, and they worked really hard to keep the lights on at Fortiche during Arcane's production pause, and I think we will keep getting cinematics like these between production cycles of their next series. Riot understands the value of Fortiche and the foreclosure of such a studio would be a tragedy.
Oh also, anybody getting a touch of Silco vibes out of Vladimir at the end here? It's how he sharply moves his head as he speaks, and the narrow flat bridge of his nose. Honestly I love it.
"This fandom is a prison".. that hits home hard. I have not been able to move on. Nobody else is doing this level. I get people say certain anime's are far superior to this and I've looked into them and it doesn't remotely connect to me. I was so concerned that post-season2 that I was gonna be in a dire dry-spell but this cinematic immediately had me sated for the time being.
when I saw this i knew you were about to be hype about katarina...... thats OUR GIRLLLLLLLL.... they put in her abilities so well in her fight with elise
OMG SHE LOOKED SOOO GOOD!
Fortiche just can't stop cooking ❤️🔥
And I’m gonna eat it up every time 🍽️
I can already tell that Elise and Katarina are going to be my two favorite characters for the Noxus series. Their character designs are just peak levels of awesome and the way they fought with that music playing in the back? *Chefs Kiss*
@@M6DTSK so far everything coming from Noxus is looking peak!
“What’s in the water over in Noxus?” Girl I’m wondering the same damn thing🤣 they look so gooddddd! Mel, Katarina, LaBlanc, everyone
@@saraislfe14 literallyyyy like the face cards in Noxus alone…GOOD LAWD
Technically, Mel (via her mother's side) hails from Shurima, a region based on Egypt 🤓
Mel ❤ good thing she's officially a champion 👏❤ she can deflect magic ✨❤
@@arielbarcelo1701 I watched the video with her voice lines, I love her!!!
imagien a region where everybody is like ambessa, badass warriors trying to conquer the whole world. noxus is probably my personal favorite region i can't wait for people to learn about mordekaiser
Nahhh Noxus seems so OP 😂
The beach Mel stands is the same beach Ambessa stands at the end of Blood Sweat & Tears
5:01 I think its called "true ice" from the watchers or sth like that and the ogre looking guy (who's also a champion in LoL) might be an iceborn. Necrit said sth about true ice in his lore videos which I can recommend.
6:05, 7:05 that is Noxus capital city called the Immortal Bastion
Dope trailer. P&Z was only the beginning
Lmao welcome to top lane🤣 darius vs trundle.
They made Elise look a lil👀 in her human form too.
This seaon is fixin to be PEAAAKKK
@@redline3573 PEAKKKK are we ready tho?? 😅
@@artxroyalty been ready for like 10 years 💀
Looking forward to the next series apparently they are working on 3 different shows. 1 for noxus, demacia, and ionia
The champion Darius fights is named Trundle and he's from the frejord and the spider lady is Elise.
I completely agree the characters are gorgeous I loved seeing Katarina in updated animation
Does the rest of Trundle’s species look like that?? Dude was a tank 😅
@artxroyalty ya I believe they are called frost trolls and they're all around that size or bigger I believe Trundle is the only one who controls ice magic as you saw by his club
If you want to really dig into the lore of Runeterra the channel Necrit has some of the best lore breakdowns and full story information about the world. Before Noxus, you should watch his video about the Black Rose.
Even before Arcane season 2 was done we were hearing whispers that Noxus in some form would be next. It could have been just this but it seems this is seeding us with information about that nation.
There is a flock of geese in my veins and under my skin.
10:20 you're starting to experience every League players feelings about the game xD
@@69quato uh oh I’m in too deep 😂
you can see the pure joy in Aisha' eyes💛
Anything Arcane/League related is literally my lifeline these days. It all just oozes peak creativity!
I totally agree on so many levels with you. I also wasn't sure if I could get excited over another show than Arcane. This cinematic showed me: "Yes I can!".
I still want some of the plot holes of season 2 to be filled, but if they chose to do it with a rpg or a spin off movie starting there I am completely fine with it. I will embrace a Noxus show with open arms. 😍
And yes all the champions look fire, BUT the Fortiche treatment made them way less oversexualized at the same time. They did the same with Arcane.
Just compare their looks to the old splash arts. And they are still hot af in this cinematic.
I like that a lot.
Elise the spider queen may be may fav (says the guy with the arachnophobia)
😍😍
Great reaction. Absolutely relateable!👍
What's with this pathetic hate sexualization all of suddent? Are they really the majority in this conversation?
@@Calamity_Joe Yeah, most people want realistic characters in their media, characters they can relate to, not sex dolls that go to battle in bikinis. Where does your hate come from?
@@Xy1F ehh sounds like western brainrot or similar leftist ideas which means the rest of the world could care less. Characters don't have to be sex dolls but they also don't have to be bland snicker bodies that's afraid to show a lot of skin.
YESSSSS I WANTED TO SEE THIS REACTION SO MUCH 🎉🎉🎉
Bald as Shoola is CRAZY 😂
@@sothanatoasted lmaooo y’all know I love acting a fool on the internet 😭
"It's giving timebomb" 😭🤣
@@Syncratci I’m obsessed if you couldn’t tell 😂
I was skeptical of a different series. But now I'm excited. I just hope there's lots of Arcane references.
@@jd4317 this is honestly exactly where I’m at
Where can I find me a nerdy queen like this?!!?!?! mannnnnn
Awww shucks 💜
@artxroyalty no fr you are drop dead gorgeous. It dont make no sense 😭
@ I really appreciate that, fr! 🫶🏾
Great reaction to the video! I'm excited for any future show or movie that Riot and Fortiche makes together after Arcane. Personally, I'm hoping for a "Noxus vs Ionia" or "Noxus vs Demacia" series. ^_^
@@madpostman ooooh any kind of vs would be amazing!
To clear everything.
This is a teaser for new season in the *GAME*
But the ending does tease spin off show.
This cinematic also takes place right after Arcane and because Arcane takes place before major events in LoL, every champion is this is younger, hence Darius is skinnier, Katarina is still assassin for Swain and Elise has no her two BIG arguments (had to include that cuz people kept saying they nerfed Elise with the looks)
1. Darius was fighting *Trundle* ice trolls king, the reason why Darius dropped his axe at first and when he picked up it again the ice started to cover his arm its because of the true ice corruption from Trundle's club. True Ice extremely painful to non Ice-Borns. The fact that Darius didnt die from just touching that and managed to knock trundle off with it is badass as hell.
2. Katarina was fighting Elise. She taps into the powers of shadow isles hence the spider form.
3. In upcoming days Mel will become newest League's champion.
4. With LeBlanc the guy is Vladimir - hes a hemomancer (blood mage), he uses the very same magic that shaped the Darkins.
Champions: Darius The Hand of Noxus, Trundle The Troll King, Katarina The Sinister Blade, Elise The Spider Queen, LeBlanc The Deceiver, Vladimir The Crimson Reaper
OOO HOW DID I MISS THIS!!
I'll BRB going to watch the vid!
I'm back WOW WHAT A MASTERPIECE, I'M HOOOKKEEDDD
@@mr.raccoon1999 Fortiche NEVER disappoints!
Hi Aisha - I thought you would like this! Glad you did =)
In my oppinion Mel's arrival and the exchange between Vic and LeBlanc hint strongly at what the follow up series is going to be. The rest is more what we would expect from a (game) season cinematic and this 1st season (split) of League which the title is refering to, is going to be Noxus themed in game.
Still - it's likely that the shown in game champions will be part of the show as well , but maybe not the shown scenes...
@@69quato like this?? Omg I absolutely LOVED this! Every time I think I can’t get more excited or I reached peak excitement boom- they release more goated content! I love it here, truly 😅
Apparently this Bite marks 2025 cinematic chapter 1 is one of more than there are chapters in League of Legends so there will be cinematics for it.
Necrit is already working on explaination video.
Plus he will see a new comic soon and it seems to me that the Arcane Ambese Chosen of the Wolf book is still available in English.
Theory time:My thoughts are that this is a younger Darius, years before the establishment of the Trifarix. Maybe right after he has become the Hand of Noxus. Darius is going to have a new axe! He's gonna get the fat one from 2XKO, the Runeterra based fighting game that is supposed to come out late this year! I also think that the Silken Dance( the masquerade that Katarina fought Elise in) isn't a one time game event, but rather a Black Rose tradition used to conduct sensitive business and scout new possible members. I think Arcane happens much earlier on the timeline than most fans think and that the next show should pick up with Mel and her return to Noxus as matriarch of the Mardardas. Boram Darkwill should still be ruling Noxus, and this should be before the the 1st invasion of Ionia. Singed being a wanted man in Piltover-Zaun has also fled to Noxus, where he will be recruited by their military to make weapons. The main storyline should be the what going on in Noxus during the Ionian invasion, Darkwill's fall, and the rise of the Trifarix. I want this to be about 4 seasons. I think Rell should be introduced as Mel's unknown twin! I think that would be interesting. Ambessa should have been the person running the Black Rose's mage School/weapons project. It was deal she made with LeBlanc in order to add mages into her bloodline. According to the deal, she was to give all arcane gifted children to the Black Rose for training, but she hid Mel's power instead and sent her to Piltover partially for that reason. We might get a few scenes of the war because the latter half of this show, Seasons 3 & 4, take place during the Ionian invasion, but it shouldn't really focus on that, the main plot should still focus inside NoxusI I would have the next show after Noxus, be in Demacia. It would be 5 seasons. S1 would start about a year or so before the Noxus show ends. It would set up characters like Lux, Garen, Jarvan IV, Sylas, and Fiora, as well as have major flashbacks to Targon with the story of Pantheon, Kayle, and Morgana. S2-S4 would address the system of the mageseekers, continue progression of the Kayle/Morgana story, give side stories for Shyvana and Fiddlesticks and show the creation of Galio. S5 would have the full outing of Lux as a mage and the full Mage Rebellion. In the very last episode Jinx would show up to help Demacia rebuild and restructure their society and start to build a life long friendship with Lux. This canonically should start around the same time as the last year of Arcane's story, Outside of flashbacks, this should be about a 5 year story. Sometime after the Noxus show ends, but before the Demacia show does, a theatrical movie release should happen. It should be a story about Jinx in a Bilgewater adventure. That is where she headed after leaving Piltover-Zaun. After a high speed, adrenaline pumping, gun blazing pirate adventure with Miss Fortune, and being tested by Illoai, she should head to Demacia. The events of this movie should happen a few weeks after the events of the Ruin King game. They could introduce Nilah here and coincide a new champion drop ingame with Jack, The Winner! He's a badass Sharkman who made some unknown deal with Tahm Kench.
Also, in Legends of Runeterra, a digital TCG, Miss Fortune has a monkey idol that is stated to have been taken by her from some old enemy. Also, there is a slot machine robot that had a 3 bomb jackpot and it actually blew up the 1st time someone hit the Jackpot. They've since fixed the robot but removed the bomb function.. I think it would be cool if Jinx was the original designer of the robot and made the idol in a buhru temple.
@@krysisstorm2703 ahh too much lore!! 🙈
@artxroyalty Get used to it! I didn't touch even a third of what Runeterra has. You've already fallen down this rabbit hole, enjoy the ride😁
Elise is actually my favorite female character design 4:47 so i feel you 😂❤
@@m.elhaj.98 you might be onto something with Elise…😂
Firstly, we open with an image of a wolf which represents one half of Kindred. This is in reference to Ambessa blood, sweat and Tears because Mel has “The Mark of the chosen/The Mark of the Wolf.” Also the opening starts on the same exact beach that Ambessa survived on, you can look at it shot for shot, I think it is on Rockrund, a beach near noxus. Next part shows Katarina attending a ball dance. For some context, League released some Noxus skins for Ezreal, Renata Glasc (the most powerful chembaron from Zaun), Thresh, and some others. The reasoning is that the “Black Rose” apparently has invited some other strong suitors to a party, hoping to gain their pledge. We don’t see them here (it is to be assumed they all might make teases or appearances in the next series), but Katarina snuck her way into the dance. Katarina is an assassin for Noxus, very skilled. Next we have Darius, a young darius going up against young Trundle, a troll from the Frejlord. Now we technically don’t know if Noxus at this point is attempting to push in Frejlord or if actually the Trolls came too far down on purpose. The Trolls of Frejlord are close with Lissandra who can make ice-borne weapons and true ice weapons. To keep it short, Trundle’s club is not “True” ice, if it was, no mere mortal can actually touch the weapon, they literally die if they touch the weapon. But “Ice-borne” weapons are still very strong weapons, which is why you see the weapon start to freeze Darius' hand and arm. The gate that Mel is walking up to is the opening Arch to Noxus and in the far distance is the home capital, Immortal Bastion. It actually is the largest standing building in all of Runeterra.. Next as Katarina is attempting to kill her target, we see Elise pop out who is a spider. She also got invited to the Noxus ball, presumably protecting someone. If I am correct, Elise is more of a shadow Isle’s champ, but she is part of the Black Rose because Leblanc saved her and she became mutated after being bitten by a Spider-demi god called “Vilemaw.”. At the very end, we officially get to see Leblanc, it is confirmed this is her official VGU (Visual Game Update) and as of right now, lore accatue appearance. Along with Leblanc we get to see Vladamir, he actually used to be human MANY centuries ago, but he magically altered himself, absorbed the power of darkin and has been using blood magic to keep himself young. Vlad and Leblanc established The Black Rose centuries ago and they work from the shadows. There is technically a third person, but we do not know who that is yet. We again hear reference to “opportunity washed up on our shore = Mel” (again showing a wolf because she has the mark of the wolf from Kindred) The calamity they are talking about is the return of Mordekaiser, which the black rose is trying to prevent. To keep it short, basically all of Runeterra does not want the mofo returning and he is actually banished underneath the immortal bastion (Also much of Runeterra doesn’t actually know who he is because when he existed was centuries ago, except for Leblanc and Vlad and any other people part of The Black Rose organization.) As per usual, the black are considered “evil”, but in their evil doings, they are trying to prevent a worse event from happening as referenced right above. The very last thing people are Guessing it’s either a reference to Aatrox sword, or Naafiri dagger, both of which are Darkin weapons. Hopefully that breaks everything down for ya lol. On a personal note I am mixed about this trailer. On one hand, it stands amazingly on its own, and it’s basically teasing their next series. Anybody correct if I am wrong, but Riot Games announced that this year, they would be resetting their seasons back to season 1 (thus why it’s called season 1 cinematic) and changing their format, since league came out in 2010, every year is considered 1 season = 1 year, thus they always do a top tier cinematic for launch. (this year would’ve been season 15 cinematic) . But this year, they are going to reset seasons, and “chapters” throughout the season, meaning they were upping their cinematics now to 3 in a year. My point being, I am slightly sad they didn’t do their other animation. I don’t know if Riot Games is just going to go full hard with Fortiche on everything moving forward, but compared to previous season trailers, just a slight let down. But if it wasn’t for comparison, it’s an amazing trailer and if we get two more this year, that would be awesome. They definitely let out a lot of champs people wanted such as Draven, Riven, Rell, Swain, Mordekaiser, Samira, Kled, and some others. I feel like for some very die hard fans of just league, it could start splitting up the player base/fan base, just slightly. I personally end up leaning towards loving this trailer though, I love the freaking music. I don’t think anybody expected to see Trundle or Frejlord and I think once we get into the Noxus show, they are definitely setting up all their puzzle pieces to then expand everywhere else, Shurima, Ionia, Frejlord, Demacia, etc. I also just wanted to point out if people haven’t thought about it, Katarina is a VERY skilled assassin, not only can elise transform into a spider whenever (Idk why she stops, but it’s a trailer) but to take on two arms, plus her spider arms, that takes some mad skill and training. Again I know it’s a trailer, but katarina is really bad ass, just like Darius, embodies much of Noxus willpower, strength, and skill.
Fortiche has done all the cinematics for the last like 8 years or so!
They definitely have not been all from Fortiche, but they've done several. And when Fortiche is involved, it's always amazing... even the studios that try to imitate Fortiche's style can't match it.
Im hoping that when Noxus does come out, thebase design for Katarina and Elise (literally any fem charac) gets upgraded because I LOVE their designs in the cinematic but it is still based on the new skin line
this is an anexpected good reaction
Haha thank you?
We are addicted
woohoo
watching Season 1 just a month before Season 2 is cheating but this time Aisha is going to learn to wait years until the next series comes out 😇
HAHAHA omg this comment got a genuine laugh out of me! Can't believe I'm stuck here waiting with the rest of you...
5:11 ... how the hell does this remind anyone of timebomb????? WHATTTT
@@NamuIsIdle the part when they were fighting on the ground and Darius put this hand up to push Trundles face away. It’s a bit reminiscent of Ekko and Jinx’s fight on the bridge (it was also a joke)
Mel is just such a beautiful character. I love her 😍
Sis is stunning! Fortiche produced their best work with her
Christian Linke didn't give a confirmation on what location is next after Arcane, but stated in an interview with Necrit that the Regions they are looking at most are Noxus, Ionia and Demacia.
Noxus is the logical followup to Arcane in my mind, since we've already been introduced to the area in Arcane.
The reason many people say "this has nothing to do with the next show, its the next League season" is that the next League season is indeed focused on Noxus, they are making changes to the map, will be releasing champions and skins related to the Region.
But my only response to that is: Can't it be both?
@@renehoyvik I wouldn’t be mad if we got both 👀
let’s go! we bought to be back!!!
We back!!
Regarding learning French and going to Fortiche, after 4 months unemployed after a mass layoff. Im super tempted to get the fuck out and go to Paris to be a lighting/comp artist for Fortiche. But I don't know French and I'm sure I will suffer immensely.
I get a bit of a laugh out of the idea there are probably tons of Arcane fans trying to find the Fortiche studio and it reminds me of a time where we had a production on my floor that was doing a My Little Pony special, and we actually had a "brony problem" where they sort of took advantage of people being polite and holding doors, inadvertantly letting in the bronies that would sneak into the studio. We had emails about it, it was madness. I wonder if Fortiche has the same issue with Arcane fans ahaha.
because hot characters means hot skins, and that player will buy
This video was just uploaded but a content creator named "Rival" just released a video he worked super hard on by making a comic covering a Noxian (ish) champion named Riven! I think you should check this video out as well as it delves not only into the Blackrose but also Ionia! It's called "The Lore of Riven is Brutal" by Rival
"LIAR!" - Jinx 😂😂
(Might as well get used to me posting this on ALL your videos. lol😁)
Lmaooo why do you always catch me!! 😂😂
@@artxroyalty Jinx is always watching... 👀😂
from what ive heard they will be doing 3 season on different regions first noxus than ionia than demacia
@@ayyzfixit5527 Ionia is another region I’m pumped to see more from! Hopefully Fortiche will be the studio behind all the future seasons
Spider woman was Elise. She can transform from a woman into a spider.
"Come on man fight back "
Meanwhile
Trundle : " Wdym fight back ? Im the king of trolls , Darius is lucky landing a hit on me , im gonna snap his head "
Clasic 1 on 1 on top lane , darius apply stacks and do true dmg on trundle .. Trundle has been slain . 😂😂😂😂
Welcome home mel there are no nerd scientists here I think you'll miss them
@@gowzher9962 😂😂😂
if there is ever a plan to do a live action of the arcane series, please cast as Mel.
stop, you guys are going to make me delusional haha!
fellow addict here. Riot makes it hard for us these days :)
Also to answer the question at the end, starting this year, riot decided to have thematical seasons (season that last a year). So this is cinematic for this years season, but each season has 3 "sub-seasons". You can call them Act's like in Arcane. This year they have a theme around Noxus, so this year is gonna be full of Lore progression or just revisiting previous lore i believe. For next seasons, they said it could be anything, so not just Lore related...(aka alternative universes). As this was Season one act one cinematic, we are wondering if we get 3 cinematics per year now, one for each act, but nothing is confirmed so let's just hope :)
lmaooo "fellow addict" is so real
The algorithm failed me it took two days for this pop up was wondering where your reaction was.
UA-cam is nerfing me 😂
@artxroyalty" you must be bolder not safer, darling" hahaha
Is the tattoo on ur hand/arm is a naruto reference? 😅 sorry im dumb
@@ChrisPaz-c4v it is! Repping the Hidden Leaf Village 🍃
9:09 You tell 'em 🙏
Goated animation fr 😂
Mel (pre-mage design) bares somewhat of a resemblance to Senna, except the latter is curvier. The fact that she has in-game dialogue with Senna, proves that even further. Btw, Senna is married to Lucian, another blk LOL champion. They are the only (human) champions who are married. There are 4 cinematic videos involving these two if you feel like reacting to them.
Oooh I’m curious to know more about Senna now 👀
@@artxroyalty Senna's lore is pretty lengthy and tires into a bigger story event. I would post the link to her lore page, but this app doesn't allow it. There are several cinematic (4) videos regarding this event, including her character reveal trailer.
In the meantime, you could react to ANNIE: Origins. It's a 6 min short story video about Annie released in 2018. It feels very season 1 Arcane. Basically, she is a supernatural version of Powder. That ending with her stepmother & teddy bear was something...
Noxus is the greatest military power on Runeterra. If it falls, what then?
Pretty sure they confirmed this has nothing to do wit their next series. aka the next series wont be about noxus
I don’t see why they’re next series wouldn’t be in Noxus, especially after the clip with Leblanc and Vlad at the end
Thirst review 💯
@@Lathrok real 😂
you look like Mel without the golden paint
Y’all are going to make me delusional 😂
Riot is really good at providing content creators and streamers with unique opportunities to try new stuff and go to different events. They invited you to the Arcane Season 2 premiere right? Go ahead a spend the next year learning french, then just ask Riot for a tour of Fortiche. Make it a suggestion for some kind of event. They might send you and hand full of YTers to Fortiche. Nothing beats a failure but a try!
It's great watch or react to this videos by Necrit.
What Is The Black Rose? (Arcane Lore Explained)
How League's New Skins Expand The Lore
And
League's Universe Explained For Arcane Fans
Trust me, Elise is very de-thirstified. Compare this look to her splash arts from in-game, she's much more exposed there lol
I hope that people are more forgiving of Ambessa once they learn more about Noxus because literally young mel wouldn’t have survived growing up in noxus, she didn’t have brutality for it. Also compared to other characters Ambessa is very conniving but not the MOST evil person lol
@@vel306 I must admit…I’m starting to change my initial thoughts on her as a character
Ambessa is Arcane's version of DC's Amanda Waller. Both are neutral characters whose "eviI" actions are in opposition to powerful groups they deem threats... For Ambessa it's mages, and for Amanda it's superhumans.
@@sirlanciacurry4094 well Ambessa fell in love with a mage and had a child with one, she did show that she felt threatened by mages because of the unfair playing field but i don’t think she is like Amanda, she isn’t going around trying to kill mages, she literally just against the black rose who happen to be mages, if it weren’t for them she probably would’ve just recruited mages into her army, just like she did with viktor.
thats what im saying people thinking that Ambessa is evil dont know about Swain lmao
Ok, Ms.Aisha I have a take that you might disagree with but when you said all the characters are hot I relate to your pain girl!
But… I really don’t like Mel’s new design and it made me roll my eyes every time I saw her. She was also my least favorite handled in season 2. I’m sorry girl, I feel bad but it’s true.
Love your reactions!! ❤
Y'know what...I agree in the sense that her season 1 look was definitely superior. I still very much enjoyed her mage redesign, but something about councilor Mel was just different! It's Mel so regardless she looked absolutely stunning.
Thanks so much for tuning in and checking out my videos!!
trundle is the frost troll king from the fredjlord that's who young Darius was fighting
@@ayyzfixit5527 let me write that down and memorize that 📝
I am so annoyed they showed mel but its not arcane
But she's from Noxus...
ruhe bitte
If you ae just startying with the league lore you should have understand how utterly bullshit season 2 plot is about what arcane is and how they massacred the whole story of viktor
The next series is definitely going to be about Noxus. But there will be connections to Demacia and Ionia from what i heard. Check out the lore of Demacia. Theres a web comic you can read called *Lux*. It's about Luxanna Crownsguard, one of the main champions from Demacia. There's an unofficial Jinx/Lux ship, so lets hope Jinx comes back to meet Lux in the future 🧡
miss fortune in noxus kek