Riot put together another Sneak Peek comic this weekend for the next champion to join the league: Graves. It’s hard to say what kind of champion he’ll be, exactly, but he seems to be wielding a double-barreled shotgun of sorts. He seems a little bit steampunky and definitely doesn’t like Twisted Fate very much.

Being out of town for a wedding, I haven’t been able to keep up with LoL news like I typically do. I actually found out about Graves from another post in which a player was asking about showdowns between certain League champions and their nemeses. Obviously Graves was easy to figure out, but I was totally unaware of the majority of the rivalries Eletj mentioned on the forums.

Do you guys keep up with the lore in LoL? Have any interest in the reasons certain characters fight in the League? Are you even aware there is a storyline behind the League, the champions, and the summoners?

Just last week I asked how familiar you all are with the lore behind LoL. Personally, I’m not much of a lore guy. If it doesn’t grab my attention right off the bat, I’m probably not going to be persuaded to spend the time necessary to learn the story behind a given game.

It seems weird to me then that Riot is just now trying to beef up the lore behind League of Legends. It has always seemed like an afterthought, and the way Riot plans to handle things here is certainly unorthodox.

The new lore in LoL will be delivered by way of the new “Journal of Justice,” a tab in (I’m assuming) the client that will be completely dedicated to lore. The journal will be updated every two weeks. This all seems strangely formulaic to me, but the real oddity is that Riot will implement a “Like” system, just like Facebook, so you can weigh in on the story arcs that interest you most. Those plotlines will presumably get more attention than others going forward.

I’m always surprised when a game that isn’t necessarily story driven gets the full-on creative treatment, but maybe players are really dying for this. Anyone dying to read the first entry in the JoJ?

With a game like LoL it’s hard for me to remember that there’s an attempt at some sort of backstory for the characters and locations. It makes me wonder, are any of you guys into that stuff?

When I played WoW I got marginally interested in the lore. Every now and again it was nice to forget about the grind and focus on the motivation for doing a particular quest or dungeon. The Nesingwary quests were a lot of fun in Outland and Northrend (the STV ones were pretty awful). LoL doesn’t cater to that kind of “motivation” right now. When draft mode launches I guess you could pit warring factions against one another.

There’s a thread toward the top of the General Discussion forums that draws on the LoL lore to request new Noxian heroes. Anyone play with this kind of conflict in mind?