I have a MIGHTY NEED to make some power points about the world of Runeterra for all you Arcane fans who know absolutely nothing about the world in which Arcane takes place.
Like I read some fanfictions and realize most of you know next to nothing. Don't get me wrong, I'm not criticizing you not knowing ALL the lore, I just wish for more people to learn about the world building of Runeterra because it's an amazing universe.
I know it is kind of intimidating and the first thing I hear people say is I don't play League of Legends. But me and every other lore reader can tell you that League of Legends the game doesn't have anything to do with the lore. Heck the other Riot Games like Legends of Runeterra, Ruined King and Hextech Mayhem have more to do with the lore and world than the main game.
The first lore fact I like to hit Arcane fans with is that there are bunch of islands full of ghosts and undead people not that far from Piltover and Zaun on the SouthEast, this are the Shadow Isles. Even closer to the Piltover and Zaun just to the East are a bunch of lawless islands full of actual pirates and giant sea monsters roaming the waters, the Serpent Isles and Bilgewater the port city. Since Bilgewater is closer to the Shadow Isles than P&Z they get invaded by the ghosts that come to harvest their souls at least once a year.
And that's just a small section of the world all of this and more is happening while Jinx, Vi, Caitlyn, Silco and Ekko are doing their own thing in the Twin Cities (modern name for Piltover and Zaun). Which I can assure you are the most normal places in this magical and crazy world.
This is not me saying it's a boring region I just want for people to learn more about the rest of the world because look at Piltover & Zaun
Look at them! They're so tiny you can't even see their territory. Oh you don't see it? Let me put it into perspective
This is all of Runeterra as we know it today, there are two places you can't easily see on this map like Baddle City, which is the place all Yordles come from, and the territories corrupted by The void which is that gray lifeless part under Shurima and Ixtal.
And that's what we know of right know, further to the East is another continent that has what was formerly known as Camavor and the modern nation of Kathkan
(Also don't worry the map is not wrong, there's a lore reason for why the Shadow isles don't appear in this map)
This is an 1000 year old map, the northern continent is called Valoran (that's where the name for Valorant came from), the southern continent is called Shurima (yes there's a nation also called Shurima) and as you can see Piltover was once a Shuriman town called Oshra Va'Zaun.
That's where the name Zaun comes from, there's a whole lot of lore history of why it changed. How Silco came to know about that name is most likely and taken as canon that he just heard the original name of the city by the oral tradition of Zaun.
This is what I was talking about @museofzero
When I said there's so much to discover and still being explored of Runeterra to this day I was not kidding just look at those maps! Do you have any idea the amount of stuff happening all over Runeterra all the time??!!!
Part of me really wants to do those power points and put them here on Tumblr
Ok I see some of you want to know more about the wonderful world of Runeterra and my power points. I will do a poll about what aspect of Runeterra you would like me to explain.
Now to some extra stuff I didn't put on the last post.
This is the traditional Runeterra superposed with the map of the Camavorian/Eastern continent. You may ask "Hey why does that chunk of land is missing in Valoran/Noxus. Is it a mistake?" To that I answer no, it has a very simple canonical explanation.
It was nuked out of existence.
I'm not kidding people, there are magical artifacts of mass destruction scattered through Runeterra. They are called the World Runes (or as we joke on the fandom the infinity stones runes) and are practically the things that shaped Runeterra to what it is today.
There was a war were everyone used their magical WMD against each other. Old civilizations were wiped out including a whole country.
Don't worry though, there's a quasi immortal purple sorcerer running around the world collecting this artifacts so that Runeterra doesn't get destroyed. Just like Thanos but actually right.
Anyways I'm gonna make a poll so you can choose what do you want me to talk about first. I don't know if I should tag you or you get notified.
