Targon

Experience the original lore of Champions of Targon in ikleyvey's fan-made League of Legends comic!

This is a long-form comic that follows the life of Leona, the hardships of living on an isolated mountain and the conflict between solari (a religious order of the Rakkor) and Lunari, a thought-extinct religious group of foreigners who settled on Targon long ago. It is based on the original lore and uses heavily modified stories of some newer Targonian champions. Main characters are Leona, Pantheon, Diana, Alune and Aphelios.

In the original lore, which this comic is based on, Diana was the one with her head in the clouds because that was the only way she could find escape from her judgmental and stifling surrounding and give her the inspiration to dare believe in something other than the sun. Meanwhile, Leona was always "the people's champion" and was chosen by the sun precisely due to her willingness to sacrifice herself to save her peer. Characterizations are all over the place in the new lore and worst of all, they don't really serve any greater story with a message.

Instead, the new lore seems to reinforce a pretty yikes idea that the violence one group of people committed over another, actually had some justification due to the situation or relations between literal god aspects.

This is bad.

The instructor correctly notices Leona’s contrarian impulses and cleverly forms a plan to teach her a lesson...

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New chapter for Targon

Newest page for Targon comic is up!

About Rakkor; I

There are a number of Rakkor villages, which differentiate themselves by colours: red, blue, green, orange... They wear this colour in their capes, clothes and sometimes even the crests of their helmets. Oftentimes adults decide to transfer to a different village and leave their birthplace behind. They always stay above the "red line", a band of reddish, dried out old trees at a specific elevation of Targon. Their warriors cross the border and go below only during conflict with enemy tribes.

Most Rakkor have one, or a pair of Relic Weapons - weapons of their ancestors imbued with magic, which let them match opponents who are using sorcery. It is unheard of that a Rakkor is magically gifted. Each teen picks from the available Relic Weapons which one they want to use after (and if) they pass their Rite of Kor, a couple of weeks before that rite of passage. Once a Rakkor dies, the Relic Weapon they used is returned to the pool of available ones. Enemy tribes look to steal these weapons whenever they can, which is still a rare occurrence; both to use them, and to study them to try and find a way around them with magic.

Multiple languages in a single comic

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Targon was originally based on ancient Greek "vibes" by Riot back in the day, and it seems a lot of it stayed if we look at some of the new lore illustrations.

I continue this by having Rakkor be inspired by some aspects from ancient Greece, but not all. Their language, Rakkoran, is represented by Greek. All of them actually speak only Rakkoran, but for the sake of reaching a wider audience, the comic is by default in English. In-Universe, English stands for Common, but Rakkorans don't speak it. This post hopefully provides good enough explanation for readers to untangle the mess in the head.

Readers who understand Greek get the full experience! Readers who don't, it's still alright because it will be used in moments where the main characters barely hear the faraway dialogue or don't understand it, so the experience is similar to how in a movie you hear simple clamour and noise in some scenes. And of course, if anyone notices me making any language mistake, feel free to tell me so I can correct them!