 Here let's watch this video. Right? It's MMO video. I said I was gonna watch this after after the one-a-grass testing Let's do it. In the past MMOs were regarded as the godfathers of games They were the peak of what developers could accomplish even though looking back That's a fairly subjective thing to say everyone knew MMOs had the power to create cold following But also everyone knew making MMOs was hard on average An MMO has to spend at least six years in the baking before it can get anywhere near being good But that didn't stop companies from jumping onto the bandwagon anyway And soon we could see dozens of new MMOs all releasing in 2008 All being called the wow killers Spoiler alert none of them did that and unfortunately we can feel the ripple effects even now It gets to a point where every time a new MMO is announced. We all think the same thing Oh Anyway, when you're working on an MMO you have to respect three pillars Dude, that's the one thing I think that that a lot of MMOs did wrong over the years One thing that a lot of MMOs did wrong over the years is that they all try to be wow killers because wow Wow was king. Wow. Wow was the guy for for years and years and what happened is When when you come out and you're trying to do the same thing that that another company is doing It's just not gonna work. You you have to make your own game, you know, it's it's if you're just copying everything out, right? It's very very like you have to completely blow it out of the water to be able to truly compete with it So many games came. I mean chat you guys name them yourselves like rift Conan exiles, right? Was it Conan exiles or or Age of Conan. What was the game called? It was Age of Conan. Wasn't it wild star? A lot of people had a lot of good things to say about wild star But that's like a different discussion, right? tons of them tons of them and What was the there was one with like a Dark Age of Camelot is still my favorite ever. I was a big Dark Age of Camelot guy I love Dark Age of Camelot and the systems in that game are phenomenal. I wasn't super good at it I just loved it Gameplay is king social interactions matter and the world setting is important when riot announced their MMO It became clear that two of the pillars are being respected and the third one is already done When it comes to the gameplay it is currently in the hands of ghost crawler someone who's been working on wow ghost crawler Frick this guy. If you're a paladin an original burning crusade Then like this is the guy that he would always like shit on paladins and people hated it Bring its best times and someone who got a reputation for hating boomkins and loving mages When it comes to the social interactions it is a dance between the developers and the players a deaf can guide players towards social interactions or They can annihilate them and after that the players usually find their own fun inside the MMO from that point on The devs should do everything in their power to support the players having fun in their own way And finally when it comes to the world of an MMO in riots case It's done and it's been finished for quite a few years now In fact, the world of riots MMO is in such a good state They already have the continents the zones the cultures and the races and to a lesser degree every zone Already has its own storyline or of League of Legends You wouldn't know about this and that's why I decided to make this video I want to show you all the zones. We are going to see in the MMO and what sorts of quests We are going to do there. So for the purpose of this video I will assume you have no idea what League of Legends is about You have no idea what the universe is about, but you like MMOs Your hairline is receding and you have a crippling fear of Nintendo 64 controllers To which I might add Why do you think I'm wearing hats? But now without further ado, let's have a look at all the zones in riots MMO This is Runeterra, the world of League of Legends Right now the world is separated into 10 main regions But these 10 regions don't cover all the land on the map So there are some mini zones in between them and the lore already revealed that there is gonna be another Continent further to the east that definitely sounds like a future expansion to me In fact, it would be foolish to release all of these regions at launch You can easily turn half of these into separate expansions Yeah, I mean that's similar to what WoW did right now. What's what's interesting about this is So what he's doing I guess is showing the world of League of Legends, which is Runeterra and Explaining like how it's gonna fit in like the MMO atmosphere or whatever the MMO like ecosystem I mean, I haven't seen this video yet. Everybody's talking about this video saying it's really good I can I can already see why this is gonna be good and super interesting because if you played Warcraft 2 or Warcraft 3 I mean we played the Warcraft RTS games prior to World of Warcraft coming out. That's basically what they did I mean, they they had the original world with with the Eastern Kingdoms and with Kalimdor like all this stuff existed in World of Warcraft sorry in Warcraft there was a world in Warcraft and they wanted to take that and they literally named the game after it and They changed some things like if you look at like the original like wow or Warcraft world and zones and you look at old maps They're not a hundred percent one-to-one accurate because they changed some things for the sake of gameplay I'm sure and world design level design that kind of stuff But the general idea of what it is is pretty freakin sick, right? That's pretty cool And because a lot of people already know and love these regions the hype behind these expansions would be big With that said, I know a lot of you would like to play as Shreemans or Ionians and now you may be cursing me for suggesting that these would be expansions But the lore can justify giving you these nations as playable races without having their regions I'll show you how Riot can pull this off in a bit first. Let's talk about the regions Riot's MMO has to start with The Northern continent this entire continent is called Valoran Not Valorant Valorant and this is where the absolute core of this world is the two main regions here are Demacia and Noxus They are the two big rivals equivalent to the Horde and the Alliance Yeah, while I would like to say that Demacia is your classic normy human region It's not really true rune Terra doesn't really have a normal place There is something cool happening in every region and Demacia Racism okay, maybe not racism because Demacia doesn't mind yordles or minotaurs, but they really hate mages That's because in the past their rivals almost annihilated the world using magic And so Demacia was built inside a magic absorbing forest Therefore Demacia is a really cool place where you can hide from magic When it comes to the visuals of the zone, you can see a lot of lush fields It is surrounded by mountains, but the iconic part of Demacia are the buildings They are made of petricite Which is a combination of stone and the magic absorbing wood Because these ancient magic absorbing trees were gray all the buildings have a marble like appearance And yes, given what material they are using all the buildings in Demacia also absorb magic So should a mage visit this region? Let's just say it's gonna be a painful experience Wait, so is it locked a mage? Let's not forget that Demacians can weaponize petricite They can turn it into petricite steel which gives you your classic anti-magic weapons And you can sculpt petricite constructs which wake up after absorbing magic Simply said these guys just really don't like magic The irony is they've been absorbing it for years now and this is where the story would kick In. You see Demacians are so afraid of magic They founded the mage-seeker order. This is an order of people who hunt mages They throw them in the prison and they torture them until their body gives up on magic So yes, being a mage is a crime in Demacia The thing is people still get naturally born with magical abilities. You can't stop it from happening So not only are there mages hiding in the royal court Right now there is a mage civil war happening in Demacia Where mages and people who don't hate mages rise up to fight for moral rights So should we do some quests in this zone? This is gonna be the core story Mages trying to overthrow racist leadership following old laws So the main enemy NPCs might be mages and witches But I know what you're thinking now and don't worry There will be plenty of boars to kill here too, or at least there are loads of wolves here as well as stags And we can't forget the iconic Demacian raptors But further to the south we might find some crag beasts, tiny woolly elephants and yes Of course in the Argent mountains. There are also dragons Loads and loads of dragons, but that's about it for Demacia You know what's so interesting to me is and this is probably what Riot said themselves They have this whole like back story and lore and world now. I don't know if the lore of League of Legends is quite as robust as the lore of Warcraft like the old lore of Warcraft But in a lot of ways like the world and stuff is already like it is already hashed out The game is kind of primed for a pretty strong They has a pretty strong base for an MMO That's probably what Riot said when they were like, you know what maybe we can make an MMO out of it Like I don't I don't think the lore is quite as deep as the original Warcraft lore was Because I feel like League of Legends is one of those games that is it's not a storytelling game It's it's a gameplay game. So it's not like embedded deeply into the player of like what's happening in the storyline in the history of the game because like Warcraft 2 Warcraft 3 like the Warcraft games like you play their story mode and it it's telling you a story of what all's going on So I don't think it's as deep right but it is kind of primed to have like there's a pretty good canvas there fun fact The capital city of Demacia is called the great city of Demacia Sounds dumb, but Runeterra was not the first one to come up with this But thankfully the other regions are a bit more creative with their names So now let's move away from the Normie region and let's have a look at the badass region Noxus if you're planning a war I guess what I'm saying here is is It's it's not as like like if you just play the game. That's not really like as apparent to you You know what I mean like that's like all side content Whereas if you just played Warcraft 1 2 3 then a lot of the like the story of of Illidan and Kaelthos and Vosh and Arthas like all these things was like it was presented to you like on a silver platter Whereas whereas with this stuff It's like oh after the fact like they made Arcane they made like they're like they're adding to it And they're building it around the game as opposed to building it as part of the game So what I'm saying is is the the canvas is is is there like I don't think it's like it's deeply embedded With oversized weapons and overcompensating lush hair This is the region for you This place actually has a long and badass history, but we really don't have the time to explain it now So just know that originally it was built by the most badass warrior in the history of Runeterra This mother literally died on a mountain of corpses and after he died He was too angry to stay dead So he just became the god of the underworld when this guy lived he built the immortal bastion Which is to this day the largest structure on the entirety of Runeterra and I hate more guys It's managed underneath the immortal bastion, but only a few people know about it. So, you know That's a future raid boss Anyway, the immortal bastion is the capital city of the Noxian Empire with Noxus being one of the most brutal nations in Runeterra It is brutal because the nation is surrounded by rocky earth. It is hard to grow plants here So Noxians are forced into conquering surrounding land for resources to survive That's why when you go to the map you can notice that the Noxian territory is Let's actually play a little bit of league today It's because these are all the places Noxus has already conquered Although when I say it like that you may imagine Noxus brutally raiding everything But that's not true. They like to absorb the surrounding nations into their empire I want to try new order more human resources Most of the time they only remove the royalty and they let the leaderless people join their empire and rulers Tend to not be good fighters. This is what you can see in the after-victory cinematic They kill the king because he was weak and let everyone else join them fun fact Conquering nations is so iconic for Noxus. They have their own saying kill them until they are family So I'm on to the quests in Noxus It is most likely going to be helping the empire expand its territory Although this region has its own unique enemies too inside the immortal bastion There is a cult known as the black rose this cult is connected to the darkest of magics So be ready to fight hemomancers witches Demons hemomancers and the gray legion Which is an army of soldiers revived with blood magic to fight for the empire again And when it comes to collecting 10 bear asses here, we have the native drakehounds and basilisks Now while Noxus and Demacia are the main rivals here Both of them are also constantly repelling raids from the north So now let's have a look at the frail ward just like pretty much any region on runtera frail ward has a long history But for the purpose of this video just know that the maddening old gods known as the watchers of the void Who want to devour the entire reality only because it keeps waking them up once tried to breach into reality here They almost succeeded because they tricked the ice witch Lissandra into helping them Fortunately, she realized how wrong she was and she managed to freeze half of the kingdom with the watchers Still beneath them. So these days the ice witch is the only person holding back the end of reality by keeping the watchers frozen So at some point in the future, you bet one of these woken up frozen watchers is gonna be a raid boss Now maybe NPCs. This is dude. It's kind of cool to think about all this stuff, man Like right now what's kind of going through my head. I'm looking at the factions here, right? You have noxious you have the masia you have piled over and zonk like you have all this I guess these are these these are cities, right? These aren't actually factions But I guess they kind of are I wonder is this game going to be a two-faction MMO or maybe like even like a three-faction MMO The city states. Yeah, that's better No factions you think you think it'll be no factions at all. I love the three-faction system of Dark Age of Camelot I love it So I think this is something that is very intriguing to me as if there's going to be more than two factions I think two factions is fine Like if they go with the base of like Demacia and Noxus and what would that be like for example? Demacia and Ionia might be together and Noxus bilge water. We like you know what I mean But I think I think if you have multiple factions it could be kind of sick Like a three-faction system could be kind of sick. This is where things get diverse First of all remember that the Freljord is brutally cruel Everything is frozen and survival is everything So the first enemy here would be the wildlife from rhyme fangs to Yetis to Druvasks to Elnecks to memmoths to the worst of them all Poros Next we are going to fight the Freljordians themselves. There are three main tribes here the Avarosans who are quite peaceful the Wintersclaw who are quite brutal and the Frostguard Lissandra's followers who hold back the watchers and let me tell you these guys have some bad-ass armor Among the notable tribes there are also the Ur-sign which are Shamans who worship the Volibear The primal god of the wild who slowly Adding factions with an expansion. Oh, I think that'd be bad monstrosities speaking of which yes, there are also the primal gods of Freljord and Finally, we need to talk about the iceborn when the watchers tried to arrive here They tainted the ice around them this special ice is called the true ice and it is so dangerous You literally die if you touch it However, the watchers also tainted some people giving them the ability to touch the ice It is still extremely painful for them to hold a true ice weapon But at least they can't survive it. These people are known as the iceborn But people were not the only things that were tainted. There are also ice trolls Some of whom are also iceborn to be honest these guys were made to have their own dungeon but there are also some animals that were twisted by the watchers and Lissandra is even twisting some beings herself to make them serve her So overall Freljord is gonna have a lot of cool warriors shamans and horrors So these would be the three regions on the main continent But this place is actually so big it can easily make the base world of the game Especially since there are a bunch of smaller regions in between them There is no comerge full of witches Argent mountains with their dragons talk ago with void monsters Dallamore planes with him and so much more But from here you can cleverly set up the expansions because of how well everything is interconnected So now let's have a look at the continent to the east called Ionia Ionia has a very close connection to Noxus. You can only guess why? It's because Noxians once tried to conquer it all during Ionia is with Noxus then okay Ionia this was a horrible war full of using children as soldiers because Noxians thought Ionians wouldn't fight back against children and Chemical weapons lots and lots of okay Okay, that's what I thinking of which remember singed from arcane. It's a he's where is it close? He's in close relationship. I was like wait the guy who chemically devastated Ionia Eventually Noxus failed, but they kept their small controlled territories So the first quest here could be simply boarding a ship Sailing over and exploring the place for the Noxian Empire. Now when it comes to Ionia itself the place If you are hearing this wake up you have been in a coma for seven years your family misses you This reality is false. You must wake up. This is our last attempt Thing here is alive and connected to the spirit of nature and I mean Everything from the animals to the people to the buildings Everything is alive. So if you anger mother nature your house can twist and strangle you in your sleep So you can only imagine how mother nature fought against Noxians Usually a river came alive to drown them. That's why all the buildings here look like they were woven from wood It's because they were with nature magic people let nature build their houses It also means that sometimes your house can just walk away when it comes to the NPCs here Obviously, there is gonna be a lot of nature spirits and a lot more of simply mystical animals from giant flying Tigers to the never-ending story, but be ready to also face local Ionians blademasters shadow cultists murderers and Ninjas both good bad and the in-between But finally there is also one more enemy that we could face the furries That's right. This race is known as the Vastaya They are half humans and half magical animals and yes, canonically the species was born in Exactly the way you are thinking but to be fair the Vastaya are quite cool And they are definitely gonna be a playable race Just like yordles who also like Ionia, dude, I hope there's like a paladin like race for Nature demons started occupying all the places filled with misery and doubt So that's gonna be a nice bonus enemy So yes the exploration of Ionia and the raid on the shadow order could be a really cool first expansion But it's definitely not right only option because we can also go south to Piltover and Zorn These are the ones people will know about simply because this is where arcane took place Piltover and Zorn are two massive cities located one above I didn't watch our can they are so massive They could easily be turned into their own playable zones They are both focusing on futuristic technology powered up by magic of the Hextech gemstones Using this magic they can power up anything from guns to augmented limbs to vehicles visually, it is simply futuristic Victorian era and Unfortunately, there wouldn't be much of enemy variety We would likely fight the rich houses of Piltover and their deadly assassins with the occasional thief on the streets Corrupt wardens and the occasional roaks team golem But things get a bit more interesting in the undercity known as Zorn Zorn is the dirty underbelly covered in thick toxic smoke Because the majority of people are poor here They developed a cheaper alternative to Hextech called Camtech This artificial green stuff can power up cheaper limb replacements as well as highly unstable weaponry Zorn is also controlled by the cam barons, which are obviously gonna be the main enemy here But on the side, we may also meet some chemical mutants unstable constructs as well as some mass murderers and people who hunt down mass murderers and Funnily enough at the very very bottom of Zorn itself Is this like steampunk? Is that what it's called? Like that's sort of like a like The very very bottom of Zorn itself There are the hidden ruins of an ancient city full of traps. That is obviously gonna be a cool dungeon So yes, there is not much more that I can add here built over in Zorn where simply explored in Arcane So if you like the series, you are gonna like this place from here We can travel further south to Shurima Shurima used to be a massive empire that ruled the world But after the emperor got betrayed by his best friend the entire empire collapsed This region is a massive desert with the occasional city near a river In the center of the region. There is the sun disk a colossal piece of star metal that has the power to reflect celestial magic The shurimans used this celestial magic to turn their best soldiers into the ascendant also known Dude, I hate masses so much as the golden god warriors. I hate masses God warriors wouldn't make a great enemy here That's because after the emperor had died the ascendant started fighting for leadership Why do you have to learn how to use blood magic? They let out just AFKs They morphed their own bodies and became the darkin Twisted blood frenzied monsters that would certainly make really cool raid bosses Besides this ancient evil shurima is also full of its own animals Raiders Dunescavangers and on top of all of that Void creatures That's because to the south there used to be a kingdom known as ikathia that wanted to destroy the shuriman empire So twitch isn't doing there's an apple ball deal anymore watchers for help You can imagine how that went The watchers sent through some void beasts that consumed ikathia and polluted shurima to this day To fight back the void shurima does have a lot of hidden tombs around with hidden god warrior weapons Not to mention that shurima also has a circle of time mages who are trying to freeze the void in time now as I mentioned near the beginning of the video if Does her face kind of look like bonnies Now as I mentioned near the beginning of the video even if you need to set it before I didn't They can still easily make shurimans a playable race because that looks kind of like you connected to noxus As you can see of course noxians already don't see it So some shurimans are fighting for noxus Also as a cool fact for those of you who liked arcane Hex crystals are harvested in shurima. That's why a shuriman expansion would be a great follow-up to piltover and zone And again, that's why riot can easily turn only the northern continent into the base world Anyway, going west from shurima. We arrive at mount. I don't have face. Why this place is incredibly unique First of all, this mountain is not natural It was literally pulled up from the ground by celestial gods And that's because this place serves as a portal to the sun's still realm also known as stargon prime Now because this mountain was pulled up. It also has some unique features For example, you may find frozen lakes frozen horizontally on the mountain And the very beat of the mountain is special too Should a mortal reach the peak despite the brutal climate and the deadly wildlife Either they die from exhaustion Or the celestial gods deem them worthy and they become an ascended aspect There is aspect of war aspect of the sun aspect of the moon aspect of the twilight aspect of the guardian And so on simply said after people reach the peak They become some of the strongest beings on the entire planet And I speculate this is where we could get a lot of cool armor sets. I do think the armor from here does look kind of sick I like the sun the sun armor like the goal like that. I think it looks kind of sick Then there are the rivals the lunari who are devoted to the aspect of the moon But also the tribe I assume will become a playable class the warriors of racor Of course, besides just humans stargon also has all sorts of furry I will see about getting caught on the mountain you may notice that the mountain is alive But also there are stellar corns a variety of mind-bending creatures and loads and loads of dragons Speaking of which remember that this place is linked to the celestial realm So this is where we may also meet the star forging celestial dragon aurelian soul As well as all sorts of other celestial beings a lot of these would make for interesting bosses In fact the ascension of mount targon would be a really cool raid Next on the other side of shurima. There is ishtal This is a special place where people are mastering the elemental magic They are using it for everything fishing smithing Walking and this place is definitely going to be saved for an expansion Basically remember when ikathian asked the watchers for help And then that happened ishtal was their neighbor and after they saw the void devour an entire kingdom They believed the void would soon devour the entire world So using their elemental magic ishtal built massive walls of plans around their entire region Isolating themselves from the rest of the world for three and a half thousand years ishtal stayed isolated Believing that the world outside of their walls was devoured by the void But now very recently some mages found out That the world outside is completely fine So now that's why mages are slowly revealing themselves To be honest ishtal is the most underdeveloped region in runeterra We know the region has a lot of hunting vastaya Deadly plans and some elemental items, but most of the region is still a mystery to us So at least here right will have the freedom to try something new But now that is that is kind of a good thing to visit the last two regions That is that is actually something that's also good. I talked about how like there's very embedded things I mean you could always retcon something right But it's easier to retcon something whenever it's not like fully fleshed out, you know First of all, there is build water. If you like pirate adventures, this is gonna be your place This is where we are going to explore inns and gambling dens Even some local temples worshipping the god of motion naga ke boros Here we are going to fight pirates and sea monsters, sea witches, sea vastaya Maybe some demons and possibly we'll side with sarah fortune to fight the king of the pirates Miss fortune, but there's a lot more here Last year right released their rpg which was set in build water So not only can we already explore this place in detail, but it even has a monster journal And and we glance you can already see some really cool bosses, too However, this place is also linked to the last place. I want to show you today The shadow isles see every year the horrors of the shadow isles lurk out And build water just happens to be the closest place So every year build water is fighting the and king rpg Once upon a time the shadow isles used to be the blessed isles a rich place full of advanced magic Long story short, there was a young asshole king who wanted to revive his dead queen And in the process he accidentally released dark necromantic magic This magic destroyed the island and made it home for undeath in the lore This event is called the ruination and because the rpg is called the ruined king It may not be a surprise to you that you also get to explore the shadow isles there And there they have anything you get a shadow isles undead horrors creeping everywhere And should we ever venture into these islands? I have no idea whom we're going to fight the ruined king who caused all of this is banished elsewhere Thresh who siphoned his magic after he was banished also left the isles And even Hecarim the most brutal soldier of them all is currently around demacia So the shadow isles don't currently have a main baddie So this is where riot could push forward some of the side characters Now even though these have all been the regions that are currently set up on runeterra Riot has already confirmed that there is a new continent further to the east Currently it is planned to be revealed in the upcoming ruination novel Yeah, like it's not we know that this new continent is where the unique lurker clone. You're right. Technically it's not based on like facts I mean it kind of is but this is speculation based on facts It's not like the it's not that truth about where the mmo is. I mean, it's a good video I think it's a very good video. Diego is from and this is also where he was banished at the end of his story All we know about that place is that it is quite mystical There are yet more dragons here and in fact Kamavor, which is the ruined king's nation has a lot of draconic armor So should riot run out of places to explore don't worry. They can always make up more But that's all I wanted to show you today as someone who's been following the lore of league of legends from the very beginning I can tell you I'm very confident the setting of riots mmo is going to be great Their incredible writers have been preparing the world for years now and now It's time to harvest the fruit. If you like this video, let me know He's standing at the right now. I still have three more topics that I could talk about in regards to the mmo I especially want to talk about the potential raid bosses we can face And the potential classes we could play and as someone who has collected an unholy amount of transmog I would love to show you all the cool armor sets this universe has But that's it for this video See you in six to eight years when the mmo gets released true I think it's cool to kind of see like how the world is laid out and the parallels between this and the original release of like Classic wow and and kind of having it being an mmo based off of another game. I think it's really cool I do and it allows you to kind of see what the Um Or kind of speculate what it could be and I think stuff like that's great. I think I think this is phenomenal great video fantastic video