Chapter 1: Prologue: The Land of Runeterra
About Runeterra-
This runetera here, if you put it in the current way, this place can also be called the Varoran Continent.
According to the oldest ballad left by the yodelers, the history of civilization in Runeterrae dates back to about 10,000 years ago, although this figure is not accurate, as in fact, there is hardly any physical evidence available to prove this number.
In the distant past, there were six continents on the planet Runeterra, and Varoran was just one of them, where the ancient ancestors established their own civilizations and nations, and as they expanded, something inevitably happened.
War.
Crusading, killing, people use the weapons in their hands and magic to hurt each other, but in the land of rune, magic is not an empty thing, every inch of land is full of all kinds of magical energy, and it is for this reason that each magic used by the ** masters can affect and even control the terrain and structure of the entire land, as well as change the local climate, at the end of the Fourth Rune War, under the joint chanting of the ** divisions of Demacia and Noxus, An indescribable magical storm completely destroyed the continent of Narsa, where they lived at the time, and the city that had taken thousands of years to build and grow was as fragile as a sand sculpture in the storm, and eventually, the entire continent of Narsa completely sank to the bottom of the sea, and the survivors lost their homes.
All the survivors *one* book* read* little* that YBDU had to come to the last of the Valoran continent, Ionia refused to accept this group of people who lost their homes due to the war, and the survivors had to choose to come here, Aatrox stood in different planes to witness the history of their migration and their ancestors, and perhaps only he knew best that the remaining continent of Runeterrand was less than one-eighth of the original size.
With the disappearance of the continent, the civilization and history of the Runeterrae Land have also disappeared in large numbers, in fact, the Varojan Continent was originally the most uninhabitable continent in the Runeterra, except for the inhabitants of Acacia and some yodelers, no dynasty chose to establish a city here, when Amumu appeared in the League of Legends, Ezreal entered the Pyramid of Shurima again, and finally entered the secret room belonging to Amumu that he had never entered, in the huge room, He didn't find any artifacts, all that was left was a wall full of frescoes, based on the age and content of the frescoes, Ezreal deduced that this was a civilization founded by a group of yodelers about three thousand years ago, and as to why they disappeared, Ezreal is quoted here: Unless Amumu can recall his past, none of this will be verified, almost everything that was once sunk to the bottom of the sea, and the only ones with complete records are probably the Acacians - they are all crazy.
About the city-state -
The term city-state is not actually accurate - at least in terms of population, a city with hundreds of millions of inhabitants does not fit the definition of a city-state at all, but when they first came to this land, there were at least tens of millions of refugees in each kingdom, and this group of displaced people could not build more than one city, but chose to build a huge refugee camp first, and over time, these refugee camps had buildings and walls, and eventually formed huge cities, which is the origin of the term "city-state".
After two hundred years of reconstruction, these gigantic cities were actually divided into many smaller cities, each of which was no more than a kilometer apart, and even then, each kingdom had an official capital and the name of the city, and perhaps in the near future they would choose to establish new cities further away.
On Faith and Society -
Runeterra has its own religion, but in the endless wars, temples and temples have long since been destroyed, doctrines and scriptures have disappeared, and the war-torn people have abandoned hypocrisy and only need a quiet place to pray with a sincere heart.
Demacia worships the god of light, Noxus worships the god of power, Ionia worships the goddess of life, Piltover and Zaun worship the goddess of wisdom, the yodelers pursue the god of nature, and the pirates of Bilgewater ...... They claim that the god of the sea is their guardian, and it is impossible to describe the vast scattered tribes of the Freljod and the Gagangtan Mountains, most of whom have no religious affiliation.
Demacia has a constitutional monarchy, although the king is nominally restrained by the parliament, but the influence of the shield family is still far greater than the parliament, please don't worry, every king with the surname of the shield has never disappointed his subjects, they always maintain self-reflection and humility, carefully use their power and fame to rule the country, there are no slaves in Demacia, there are only innocent freemen and guilty prisoners, except for the royal family, every Demacian is an equal existence.
Piltover was similar to Demacia, except that there were no nobles in Piet, and they used the bureaucratic system as a way to govern the country.
Noxus uses a parliamentary system, but because the whole Noxus is a huge military camp, the actual control of the country is always the great general, there is a fairly clear hierarchical relationship in the city, all the soldiers and nobles together form the first echelon, the rank between them is determined by the rank and title, below them are ordinary civilians, in addition, Noxus has a group of people who are not between the three, the ancestors of this group of people did not participate for some reason when they first established the city of Noxus, Thus losing the power to live in the city, they could not join the army in the normal way to improve their status, but they did not have to obey the orders of the army and the nobility, and most of the people called "marginalized" chose to grow crops around the city, and a few chose to get a job in the city, but at the end of the day's work, they had to return to their homes outside the city.
Zaun's situation was similar to that of Noxus, except that there were no marginalists, they were the first echelon of mad scientists and alchemists and nobles, followed by soldiers, civilians, and slaves.
Ionia has a patriarchal system, because this is the only place other than Acacia that is still connected to the gods he believes in, there must be a person who can communicate with the goddess of life, and he will become the ruler of Ionia, but in fact, each chosen agent spends a lot of time in meditation and enlightenment, and in fact the leader who governs the country is a leader appointed by the agent, and there is no real class in Ionia, They respected and obeyed the elders and wise men, and the precepts were the real 'rulers' in a quiet country full of rituals.
As a different race of yodelers, their social structure is not the same as that of humans, in a sense, their urban function is called a "settlement" rather than a "city", the Banders do not have any hierarchy, duties or responsibilities, no one will tell them what to do or what needs to be done, all they do is just a natural and spontaneous desire to maintain a space where they can live together, and in the long run, there has been no crime among the yodelers.
About the two hundred years after the end of the Rune Wars-
When it was found that there was no more land left on this planet, Demacia and Noxus seemed to have reached some kind of consensus, starting from landing on this continent, the two sides deliberately avoided each other and built their own cities at both ends of the continent, this temporary peace lasted for about one hundred and thirty years, seventy years ago, Demacia and Noxus finally started a new round of confrontation, but this time both sides seemed quite restrained, and did not invest too many magicians, even so, This still has a great impact on the local environment, and the ** divisions of various countries have realized at this time that if the two sides continue like this, it is only a matter of time before the last continent is destroyed, and the idea of establishing the League of Legends is also born at this time.
This plan proceeded quite slowly, once you chose to join this organization, it meant that you had to betray your country, and it was not until thirty years ago that the ** divisions really made up their minds to build the League of Legends together, and its official operation was ten years later, although there were still conflicts between the two sides from time to time, but compared to uncontrolled magic attacks, it was much better.
In the past ten years, why are Demacia and Noxus willing to stop the fight and join the League of Legends, and what is the secret of the war between Ionia and Noxus?
All this can only be told by the heroes of the previous generation.