League, Lore & More!
By Funky Odor
League, Lore & More!Dec 27, 2022
Ionia Series Ep 8: The Virtuoso
The lore takes a very dark turn and doesn't really give anything pleasant as a takeaway in the story of Khada Jhin and his "art".
Credits:
Jhin Biography and Story:
https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/jhin/
Jhin Voice Lines:
https://www.101soundboards.com/boards/28328-jhin-league-of-legends
Jhin Theme:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSQZqVsaKWY
Ionia Series Ep 8: The Rogue Assassin
Now you see me, now you don't, now you're dead...
Credits:
Akali Biography and Story:
https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/akali/
Akali Voice Lines:
https://www.101soundboards.com/boards/28164-akali-league-of-legends
Akali Theme Music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoTIspKDls0
Ionia Series Ep 7: The Master of Shadows
Now you see him now you don't as Zed comes to town to fight noxus, kill his friend's dad and uproot the entire Ionian culture in one afternoon. This villain is beyond the point of no return and fully embraces the dark path he has chosen for himself and those who follow him.
Credits:
Zed Biography:
https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/champion/zed/
Zed Voice Lines:
https://www.101soundboards.com/boards/28339-zed-league-of-legends
Zed Theme Music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kr6J2I-0qk&t=2s
Ionia Series Ep 6: The Eye of Twilight
A semi-pacifist ninja deals with the struggles of losing a blood-hungry best friend who also killed his dad and the fallout from inaction during an invasion in which he could have prevented greater suffering. Therapy recommended for the Eye of Twilight...
Credits:
Shen Biography and Story:
https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/shen/
Shen Voice Lines:
https://www.101soundboards.com/boards/28199-shen-league-of-legends
Ionia Series Ep 5: The Boss
Rocky Balboa Tony Soprano mash up on this week's episode as Sett commands the room and the operations at the Navori fighting pits.
Credits:
Sett Biography and Story:
https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/sett/
Sett Voice Lines:
https://leagueoflegends.fandom.com/wiki/Sett/LoL/Audio
Sett Theme Music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fl_dVBZlfm8
Ionia Series Ep 4: The Blind Monk
Blindness really does enhance your other senses...and your ability to crush someone's spine.
Credits:
Lee Sin Biography and Story:
https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/leesin/
Lee Sin Theme Music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFXrDc1gBl8&t=1s
Lee Sin Voice Lines:
https://www.101soundboards.com/sounds/471990-lee-sin-league-of-legends-sound
Ionia Series Ep 3: The Enlightened One
Runeterra's Dalai Lama is the focus of this week's episode as the traditionally pacifist spiritual leader of Ionia changes the course of the nation forever to defend her people.
Credits:
Karma Biography and Story:
https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/karma/
Karma Voice Lines:
https://www.101soundboards.com/boards/28346-karma-league-of-legends
Irelia Theme:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-_JxiLl0Xs&t=3s
Ionia Series Ep 2: The Blade Dancer
What happens when the events of your life contradict with your entire culture and centuries of tradition? Internal strife, mental anguish, and civil war abound.
Credits:
Irelia Story and Biography:
https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/irelia/
Irelia Theme Music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-_JxiLl0Xs
Irelia Voice Lines:
https://www.101soundboards.com/boards/28312-irelia-league-of-legends
Absence Update plus LCS and LEC Recap
Sorry I've been gone....life happens but soon to be back on a more normal schedule.
Ionia Series: Intro
The land of enchantment and wonder awaits as our long anticipated journey to the mystical world of Ionia begins!
LCSPA Walkout Breakdown
The US is familiar with mass labor action but this is new territory for the Esports world as the LCSPA votes to walkout and not play the LCS summer split until RIOT meets and discusses certain demands. The future of the LCS and NACL are hanging in the balance....
MSI 2023 and the Gap between the East and West
The gap between Korea/China and NA/Europe is about the distance between the summit of Everest and the depths of the Marianas trench. But what can be done about it and what is the culprit?
Ixtal Series Episode 9: The Pridestalker
This cat is not house broken....and also would like nothing more than to hunt you down and take a token from your corpse to wear in his hair or on a necklace....
Credits:
Rengar Biography and Story:
https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/champion/rengar/
https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/rengar-prey/
Rengar Theme:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0axsibJhIco
Rengar Voice Lines:
https://www.101soundboards.com/boards/28177-rengar-league-of-legends
Ixtal Series Episode 8: The Gentle Flame
Disney's Coco/Moana meets Runeterra in this tale of a young person leaving home and harnessing magical abilities to aid their family and their homeland. Milio is the newest champion in league of legends and the newest member of his family to possess mastery over the axiomata.
Credits:
Milio Biography and Short Story:
https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/champion/milio/
https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/milios-reports/
Milio Theme Music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyLp9OBU54A
Milio Voice Lines:
https://leagueoflegends.fandom.com/wiki/Milio/LoL/Audio
Ixtal Series Episode 7: Rise of the Thorns
Today's champion is quite clearly inspired by a popular villain from the Batman universe as Zyra is shaped by plants and spreads her seeds and plants all across runeterra.
*Sorry for the delay, some issues uploading.
Credits:
Zyra Biography and Story:
https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/champion/zyra/
https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/zyra-color-story/
Zyra Theme:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ajAZG6FGWM
Zyra Voice Lines:
https://www.101soundboards.com/boards/28349-zyra-league-of-legends
Ixtal Series Episode 6: The Bestial Huntress
*Every reference to the term cougar* in this episode is referring to the animal not the term given to older women who seek romantic relationships with much younger men.
Nidalee Biography and Story:
https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/nidalee-color-story/
https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/champion/nidalee/
Nidalee Voice Lines:
https://www.101soundboards.com/boards/28141-nidalee-league-of-legends
Ixtal Series Episode 5: The Curious Chameleon
The first confirmed LQBTQIA+ member of the League of Legends champion roster makes her first appearance on League Lore and More as the Curious Chameleon Neeko shifts her way into the lore of Runeterra and leaves some destruction in her wake....
Credits:
Neeko Biography and Short Story:
https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/champion/neeko/
https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/neeko-color-story/
Neeko Voice Lines:
https://leagueoflegends.fandom.com/wiki/Neeko/LoL/Audio
Neeko Theme Music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rKhj0N_eaU&t=110s
Ixtal Series Episode 4: The Shard of the Monolith
Essentially today we are discussing the League of Legends version of Korg from the Thor movie franchise except Korg was probably made in a more conventional way than our friend today....
Credits:
Story and Biography:
https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/malphite/
https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/malphite-color-story/
Voice Lines:
https://www.101soundboards.com/boards/28379-malphite-league-of-legends
Theme Music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6aBa_ynhZc
Ixtal Series Episode 3: The Empress of the Elements
As someone with 4 sisters this episode hits close to home. Its like I was reading the origin story to each one of them.....
Ixtal Series Episode 2: Intro Continued
We finish the story we started last week and dive head first into how the jungle of Ixtal is unforgiving, and unrelenting to those it views as outsiders...
Ixtal Series Episode 1: Intro
Ixtal Forever! and Wakanda fornever! The parallels between these two civilizations is uncanny and like Wakanda, most things about Ixtal are yet to be discovered by the outside world.
Top 10 Movies of the 21st Century* w/ Abby
Sister Abby is back and we both brought our top 10 favorite movie lists for films of the 21st century, except she didn't get that memo and went back into the 90s. This is not what we think are the 10 best films but rather our ten favorite that we think people should see if they haven't. Enjoy!
LCS/LEC Draft Competition Update
An update on the season long competition between Parker, Josh, Jordan, and Forrest plus some superficial LCS analysis.
The Shadow Isles Ep 13: The Hallowed Seamstress
Gwen teaches us how to safely run with scissors......and how to use them as weapons...
Credits:
Gwen Biography and Story:
https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/champion/gwen/
https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/gwen-color-story/
Gwen Theme Music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJK0gG-WSUc
Gwen Voice Lines:
https://leagueoflegends.fandom.com/wiki/Gwen/LoL/Audio
The Shadow Isles Ep 12: The Deathsinger
The Shadow Isles Ep 11: The Sheperd of Souls
Another good guy this week as we explore another character on the Shadow Isles who seeks to rid the isles of its curse yet doesn't know how. Yorick travels across the isles in search of answers and uses the undead as his servants in this quest for knowledge. Also I can't # these episodes correctly it seems....
Credits:
Yorick Biography and Story:
https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/champion/yorick/
https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/yorick-color-story/
Yorick Theme Music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lv85e8JgR3g
Yorick Voice Lines:
https://www.101soundboards.com/boards/28334-yorick-league-of-legends
The Shadow Isles Ep 10: The Twisted Treant
Don't get in between a mother bear and her cubs....or a mega tree and his saplings.
Credits:
Maokai Biography and Story:
https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/maokai-color-story/
https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/champion/maokai/
Maokai Voice Lines:
https://www.101soundboards.com/boards/28383-maokai-league-of-legends
Elise Theme Music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skD_I-SHk30&t=13s
The Shadow Isles Ep 9: The Spider Queen
It's time for the common trap all us men fall in...don't you hate it when you think you found a great girl, she's hot, funny, responsible, and incredibly driven but then it turns out she's working for a massive arachnid type monster that will eat you and or turn you into a spider human hybrid where you will live the rest of your life in torment? Oh she herself is also half spider half human and injects you with venom....
Credits:
Biography and Story:
https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/elise/
https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/elise-color-story/
Voice Lines:
https://www.101soundboards.com/boards/28249-elise-league-of-legends
Elise Theme Music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skD_I-SHk30
2023 LEC/LCS Season: Team Draft with Guests Atreus, Jordan and Forrest
Atreus returns for yet another professional League of Legends Team Draft and he's bringing a couple other guests as the crew goes through the 10 LEC/LCS teams, their roster changes and then drafting all 20 teams for a season long competition.
The Shadow Isles Ep 8: The Shadow of War
If you start dating a girl and she says she's a horse girl and has a horse, make sure it isn't this horse because that relationship may end up real bad for your health. Hecarim is a fierce and bloodthirsty commander of the Iron Order and even in undeath his thirst is unquenchable as he terrorizes the lands of the living.
Credits:
Hecarim Theme Song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83s03_rSjRs
Hecarim Biography and Short Story:
https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/champion/hecarim/
https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/hecarim-color-story/
Hecarim Voice Lines:
https://www.101soundboards.com/boards/28293-hecarim-league-of-legends
The Shadow Isles Ep 7: The Spear of Vengeance
It's anti hero week, or lawful evil or true neutral or something in between as its hard to tell with this week's champion. Two wrongs don't make a right but that isn't stopping Kalista from ending the lives of those she deems as treacherous betrayers and those who don't deserve redemption.
Credits:
Biography and Short Story:
https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/kalista-color-story/
https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/champion/kalista/
Voice Lines:
https://www.101soundboards.com/boards/28343-kalista-league-of-legends
Kalista Theme Music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFZJuBXufIM
The Shadow Isles Ep 6: The Redeemer
Part 2 Electric Boogaloo for the Shadow Isles one and only love story. Despite not actually being in the Shadow Isles physically during these stories, Senna and Lucian are intertwined with the fate of the mist and Senna herself has the mist within her. Come join us and learn how she harnesses that power and how it has changed her very essence....
Credits:
Biography and Short Story:
https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/senna-color-story/
https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/champion/senna/
Senna's Theme Music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7izlxCSb20Y
Senna's Voice Lines:
https://leagueoflegends.fandom.com/wiki/Senna/LoL/Audio
The Shadow Isles Ep 5: The Purifier
The sequel to "If your man doesn't treat you like this then get rid of him" as Lucian shows us what it means when a guys says he would go to the ends of the earth for you. I'm not sure most other guys know that means fighting undead spirits with weapons infused with light....
Credits:
Lucian Biography and Story:
https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/lucian-color-story/
https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/champion/lucian/
Lucian Theme Music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbMCmdSEoaA
Lucian Voice Lines:
https://www.101soundboards.com/boards/28373-lucian-league-of-legends
The Shadow Isles Ep 4: The Chain Warden
The worlds ugliest debt collector is on the loose after the Ruination and his antics and actions have caused the separation of happy couples and the deaths of many more. When he's asking for your soul, it makes it difficult to pay with anything else....
Credits:
Thresh Biography and Story:
https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/champion/thresh/
https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/thresh-color-story/
Thresh Theme Music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WyH5E8Xs0c
Thresh Voice Lines:
https://www.101soundboards.com/boards/28246-thresh-league-of-legends
The Shadow Isles Ep 3: The Ruined King
It's time to explore r/relationship advice as we look to untangle the relationship between Viego and his dead wife Isolde. Will she come around and see things the way he does or will she remain gone forever and let him murder all of humanity?
Credits:
Biography and Short Story:
https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/champion/viego/
https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/viego-color-story/
Viego Theme Music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCQ9MEZL1Y4
Viego Voice Lines:
https://leagueoflegends.fandom.com/wiki/Viego/LoL
The Shadow Isles Ep 2: The Daring Darling
As alluded to last week we spend this episode at the Daring Darling with a very daring darling and some other characters we know well and love make appearances and play major roles in this harrowing tale....
The Shadow Isles Series Ep 1: Pollution is Bad
Today we begin covering how an entire civilization was destroyed by a deadly smog....okay maybe the smog had deadly ghosts, spirits, wraiths and any other type of spectral being imaginable inside of it but the point stands that we need to clean up our air.....
LCS Offseason Roster Changes
I know I know I'm changing the schedule again but we had some issues with scheduling and couldn't get Atreus on for the Team Draft recap but sit back and hear my horrible takes on LCS offseason/free agency rumors and roster changes before diving into the Shadow Isles next week.
Journey through Runeterra Progress Update and Additional Thoughts
We look at what we have covered and what more we have left in our journey across Runeterra. Funky then gives some brief thoughts on some happenings within the game itself and Pro-Play
Bilgewater Series Ep 12: Finale w/ Shadow and Fortune
There's a black cloud in the sky and an even blacker mist crawling across the surface of the sea toward Bilgewater. It comes from the Shadow Isles and has only one purpose: death.
Credits:
Shadow and Fortune Story:
https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_us/story/shadow-and-fortune-story
Bilgewater Series Ep 11: The Saltwater Scourge
Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrr it's the Reaver King Gangplank back from the dead and he's coming for Miss Fortune and the rest of Bilgewater while he's at it. He's taken on Noxian navies and Ionian ninjas so surely some Bilgewater rats won't be a problem for the pirate lord.
Credits:
Biography and Story:
https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/gangplank-color-story/
https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/champion/gangplank/
Gangplank Theme Music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shIMVeI5IPE
Gangplank Voice Lines:
https://www.101soundboards.com/boards/28277-gangplank-league-of-legends
Bilgewater Series Ep 10: The Kraken Priestess
Today's episode is centered around a roided out Pacific Islander and her ex boyfriend who just so happens to be a mass murderer but hey at least he was the King of Bilgewater and that's wicked hot. The Truth Bearer and servant of the Beaded Lady is our focus as the Bilgewater series nears its end.
Credits:
Biography and Story:
https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/illaoi-color-story/
https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/champion/illaoi/
Theme Music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLhDBm2YtsU
Voice Lines:
https://www.101soundboards.com/boards/28299-illaoi-league-of-legends
Bilgewater Series Ep 9: The River King
This week's champion is much more sinister than his nickname seems. The River King is just one of many names that Tahm Kench goes by on his travels across Bilgewater and the rest of Runeterra. Be careful what you wish for if he crosses your path as it may cost more than you know...
Credits:
Biography and Story:
https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/tahmkench-color-story/
https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/champion/tahmkench/
Theme Music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr4EqywQGTQ
Voice Lines:
https://www.101soundboards.com/boards/28224-tahm-kench-league-of-legends
2022 World Championship Team Draft with Special Guest Atreus
Funky Odor and Atreus go Round 2 in picking their teams for the World championship in this special episode. Will Funky Odor redeem himself from last year's loss?
Bilgewater Series Ep 8: The Bloodharbor Ripper
Today's episode is a much more effective and much harder to catch(if that's possible) Jack the Ripper. If you ever see a guy in Bilgewater looking at you then back at a list then back at you, it would be wise to leave the area immediately....
Credits:
Pyke Theme Music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHRvLl8hpqc&t=56s
Pyke Bio and Story:
https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/pyke-color-story/
Pyke Voice Lines:
https://leagueoflegends.fandom.com/wiki/Pyke/LoL
Bilgewater Series Ep 7: The Titan of the Depths
What do a shell/mollusk organism, and an underwater vessel from one of the most famous books in the world have in common.... the name Nautilus! Which is the subject of today's episode. Learn this one easy trick to avoid having your ship destroyed and your life taken from you and all it takes is a fraction of a percentage of the wealth that you stand to gain scavenging the waters around Bilgewater.
Credits
Biography and Story
https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/nautilus-color-story/
https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/champion/nautilus/
Theme Music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHRvLl8hpqc
Voice Lines:
https://www.101soundboards.com/boards/28401-nautilus-league-of-legends
Bilgewater Series Ep 6: Destiny and Fate Pt 2
We finish the story Destiny and Fate about Graves and Twisted Fate and their adventure to get the abyssal crown from deep below bilgewater's depths. What oceanic creatures will it anger and will they survive both the journey and the aftermath back in Bilgewater?
Credits:
Story:
https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/destiny-and-fate/
Theme Music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13900aRG3hA
Bilgewater Series Ep 5: Destiny and Fate Pt 1
We read the first half of our Short(long) Story about Twisted Fate and Graves as they have become a duo once more and are on another job for some Gold Krakens. Something lurks around them, watching, and waiting to strike.....
Credits:
Story:
https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/destiny-and-fate/
Theme Music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13900aRG3hA
Bilgewater Series Ep 04: The Outlaw and The Card Master
Spaghetti Western meets Krakens and pirates of the Caribbean in this week's episode as the unlikely pairing of Graves and Twisted Fate take center stage, which is not a place where you should cheat, especially in Bilgewater. Listen in as they form a partnership that may or may not survive a jail sentence and a betrayal, but will involve plenty of heists, swindles, and outright debauchery.
Credits:
Biographies:
https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/champion/twistedfate/
https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/champion/graves/
Theme Music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13900aRG3hA
Voice Lines:
https://www.101soundboards.com/boards/28260-twisted-fate-league-of-legends
https://www.101soundboards.com/boards/28292-graves-league-of-legends
Bilgewater Series Ep 3: The Bounty Hunter
How many times are bad guys going to have to learn the lesson that killing someone's family usually turns into them taking revenge on you? It's a never ending relationship it seems between greed and revenge as Sarah Fortune takes to the streets of Bilgewater in order to exact her revenge on Gangplank and his motley crew. Ruthless and efficient, Miss Fortune is determined to succeed and that's the most dangerous trait in all of Bilgewater.
Credits:
Biography and Short Story
https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/missfortune-color-story/
https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/champion/missfortune/
Theme Music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdNHYCUjDCk
Voice Lines:
https://www.101soundboards.com/boards/28388-miss-fortune-league-of-legends