100% Blind Reaction to Arcane's NOXUS Full Story & Timeline | League of Legends Lore

[@the_University_of_War]

Mordekaiser abilities were once named after real life metal music classics. That's how god damn metal he is.

[@donniehamilton7797]

Still are, I think

[@the_University_of_War]

@@donniehamilton7797 actually yeah, just realised they still do, just other songs this time.

[@Fiddlefiddle5000-qv1ly]

​@@the_University_of_War the most metal thing you can do as mordekaiser in game is spam control-3 and play that mtf guitar

[@the_University_of_War]

@ which is named Nightfall, after the song from a legendary metal band called Blind Guardian.

[@Eskimofo13]

@@the_University_of_War which is a bout Lord of the Rings and Mordekaiser is designed after a certain someone from that universe 🤔

[@severedproxy]

Nux: Noooooo!!! She's everywhere! She's everywhere! Leblanc: I am everywhere! I AM EVERYONE!!! -LeBlanc LoR level up quote

[@darklightmagus1222]

15:07 I geeked out over the fact that Nux accurately got LeBlanc which shows how well Riot cares about their characters and the lore behind those characters.

[@grenada9347]

​@@darklightmagus1222unless you are Viktor, then Riot will do anything they can to replace you, instead of fixing you.

[@Ower8x]

@@darklightmagus1222 Some characters, not all ... also their Lore is in a mess currently, even before they made Arcane cannon which kinda caused issues as well.

[@sspectre8217]

@@darklightmagus1222unfortunately they stopped investing in their writers outside of Arcane and a couple novels. They lost most of the talent that made their amazing lore. All champions after that period are much less interconnected with the rest of the lore and their lore is shallower with a couple exceptions. It does seem that lore dark age is over finally but the lore is in a messy transition atm

[@deetjayy9431]

I feel like if Nux wants to get a gist of each nation, he should watch Necrit’s “The world of Riots MMO is already Done” it goes into decent detail about each region’s history imo.

[@Lord_Ivoundy_Creood]

I second this

[@gggMagggss]

i would only recomment necrits videos if its about lore

[@ricardomilos3872]

Mordekaiser is literally the Madara of League , like the guy unironically let leblanc betray him just so he could go back and harness all the soul he had slain during his 2nd rampage . Bro's so strong , his disassembled Armour single handedly protected Noxus from the Rune wars which almost ended the world 💀

[@thewoold]

Never realised he was so badass, after 15 years of playing. League lore is like that. Thats why arcane is nice- this is canonn. except its not ... god damnit.

[@andrewhannigan931]

They did Talon so dirty in this video. didn't mention his name and got his lore wrong. Talon is Katarina's adopted brother. not step-brother and he goes on to join the black rose later too.

[@thewoold]

Step brother means adopted brother. Whats the problem?

[@fluttershyisnotadoormat4678]

Some of Leblanc's goals are quite known: -delay and prepare for eventual return of Mordecaiser, -creating nation strong enough to opose him, -obtain/create tools/weapons able to destroy him (one of those was supposed to be Rel)

[@luk4s56]

yep im 100% sure she wanted his head just so noone else would get their hands on it to accidently summon him

[@fluttershyisnotadoormat4678]

@@luk4s56 true

[@flygoon420]

So about the Mordekaiser planning his "betrayal" from LeBlanc and the Black Rose, it actually has some merit cause Mordekaiser once he returned to the death realm, he was greeted by all the souls of the soldiers he has slain and conquered during his reign of Noxus, now they are bound to his will and some are speculating he can eventually bring this undead army into the real world once he is revived.

[@wagnus1923]

Just a few mistakes I caught, (possibly more im listening to this at work) 1. The Noxus invasion didn't kill Yasuo's mentor, Riven (after deserting) asked the mentor to destroy her runes blade and he accidentally killed himself in the process, since her rune blade used wind magic and so did yasuo he got blamed for the crime and is now in exile. 2 Talon was Kats ADOPTED brother not STEP brother and was also the main person who taught her which is why it was impressive she survived

[@RinrinFran]

He has no idea how Vastayans are made. Nux ain't ready for that yet.

[@graveslayer9666]

Don’t remind me. Ionians are so weird

[@Itisoverthere-rw]

I am new to LoL lore. Only started learning about it to get more context for Arcane. Please, enlighten me.

[@xuananhcao8744]

​@@Itisoverthere-rwhumans did the deed with mythical beasts, in their annimal form

[@RinrinFran]

@@Itisoverthere-rw "I will now pleasure myself with this fish." the meme except it's unironic.

[@Itisoverthere-rw]

@@RinrinFran Oh, the typical relationship between Zeus and a girl in Greek mythology.

[@lobunas]

Nux is gonna love fidelstick and all the lovecraft lore-like that it has

[@xdimitrije]

You should look into Damascia. Sylas's rebellion lives on!!

[@Ebbikkk]

Moreee

[@marmyeater]

But not from this guy he's watching.

[@xdimitrije]

@@marmyeater Necrit >>

[@marmyeater]

@@xdimitrije By lightyears.

[@marmyeater]

18:04- There are Currently 3 people in charge of Noxus, and they all share power pretty much equally: Swain (who represents the principle of vision), Darius (who represents Might, and is the brother of Draven, who is the master of the arenas, and Swain's best and most trusted friend: "You stood by me when I was outcast, so I stood by you when you were drunk. In spite of the stench."), and the third one that represents Guile is unknown, but confirmed to not be LeBlanc (since too many people thought it was, despite how it wouldn't make sense for Swain to put one of his main opponents in a position of equal power). 31:04- He does know, now, but he didn't back then. 32:18- Wait, that just straight up misinformation! He died uncursing Riven, not because he was murdered in cold blood! Ok, that dude' channel is being rmoved from my recommendeds.

[@Shad0wWarr10r]

Isnt third one katarinas father?

[@marmyeater]

@@Shad0wWarr10r No, he was one that Swain stripped power from, and that she killed for him.

[@luckluca8982]

I have a theory that Mel could be the third power when she comes to League as the Noxian season (The current one in game) goes on. She was already leaked to some extent as the next new champion

[@marmyeater]

@@luckluca8982 I doubt it. Guile would have been chosen at the same time as Darius, and Mel is newer. There's also the fact that Mel isn't nearly as guileful as Swain is visionary or Darius is mighty, and vision is the principle she uses most.

[@luckluca8982]

@ Perhaps she doesn't quite fit guile, but it does make sense in the timeline. Because Singed make weapons for the Ionian War, meaning that the war took place after Arcane or during the war in Pitover. Since it took Swain losing his arm, getting back to Noxus, making a deal with Raum, killing the emperor and taking power to create the 3 party system and convince Darius to his side, that would be enough time for Mel to go back and establish herself in Noxus

[@cy-taku3952]

Ok nux i dont recommend this video for accuracy, most if not his vids are inaccurate and its not even the hard to find details but the actual big and most well know ones that he finds wrong. Its good for a overview of the main point of the lore but its just the details

[@Lord_Ivoundy_Creood]

Wait what details were wrong?

[@fumeking701]

You should watch the lore video on Morde from Necrit

[@zelioth1405]

Since at the end of arcane Mel decided to go up against the black rose instead of joining them, her only way of really having a spot back in noxus is to join up with swain (who hates the black rose and also wants to get rid of them), its fairly implied that they're gonna team up against the black rose as at the end of arcane we can see swains crow flying alongside mel's ships.

[@F1rstWorldNomaD]

The shapeshifting shadow who kept Mel captive in Arcane season two is LeBlanc. They dont actually name her but LeBlanc is a shapeshifter, uses actual magic chains to bind her targets and is the only one in the game with that particula vertical eye makeup. Its already confirmed that its the Black Rose of which she is the leader. Also, LeBlancs title in the game is "The Deciever". Mel flat out says "I see your face, Deciever" as she double crosses her in the last episode.

[@augustosantana6907]

Show me my war crimes and I will show you the price of victory - Swain

[@slyaton]

Singed loves his chemicals "Mix mix swirl mix "

[@segafan2437]

They forgot to mention that Mordekaiser's mace is made of the literal condensed souls of the first that resummoned him. It is called "Nightfall" and his ingame voicelines mention it constantly. And every human soul that Mordekaiser killed in his second life was marked by his power. These marked souls do not fade in the deathrealm. Mordekaiser allowed Leblanc to send him back and there he claims powerful sould and forms them into his new army. And weak souls do not go to waste... Weak sould are squshed and pressed into the literal bricks that he uses to build his new castle in the realm of the dead. (And the weapons/armor for the stronger souls)

[@graveslayer9666]

Or turn these souls into terrifying abominations

[@attenonmj3708]

51:01 - That's literally her level up voice line in Legends of Runeterra - "I am everywhere! I am EVERYONE!"

[@armorshotcz9368]

For those who are interested in morderkaiser there is good video explaining his interactions with other champions in game Its made by chanel called Necrit the video is Why Morderkaiser's Interactions Are Amazing

[@jeremywall4418]

While I have come to greatly appreciate nux ‘deep’ dives I can’t help but feel like we always get Nux ‘surface’ dives. Keep it up buddy. I’m here for it.

[@andrewstephens1531]

When you start looking into Demacia, look at the Mageseeker videogame. It expands on Sylas’ story and events after he escapes.

[@TouchofSalt8852]

Cant wait for nux to listen to Morde's canonical band, pentakill. TBH a lot of the League songs are dope, but pentakill holds a special place in my heart.

[@LinardsZ]

Master Yi home got nuked because he killed a whole army by himself, because he is the flash.

[@williamg5495]

58:41 for what she says to caitlyn she wanted to put in place a 4th pilar in noxus ... we hava vision, cunning and might, she wants to put sacrifice as the 4th pilar

[@GhostyBoi7737]

1:02:59 Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure Singed's body horror experiment stuff has been retconned by Arcane... A lot of things have been😢

[@RichardHorpe]

it's kinda funny how grrm essentially created and expanded on the lore of Bloodraven/3 eyed crow/Brynden Rivers around the same time that Swain came out and they both use ravens with an emphasis on extra eyes and have similar demeanor. both also have one weird eye.

[@fireguardianx]

Its almost like theres a common inspirstion for thdm huh... (Its Odin, like... c'mon...)

[@williamg5495]

11:44 oooh in this point they already talked about Xolaani without mention her name, this is so cool

[@attenonmj3708]

13:01 - That is surprisingly accurate.

[@williamg5495]

48:00 I recomend the regions shadow isles, ionia and freljord

[@deniz030]

Cant wait for Bro to dive into ionia and find out about the menace master yi

[@berke9837]

pls watch league lores from necrit, so many little infos were missing that makes league lore really interesting

[@redmammoth8759]

Soo happy Nux is doing two lore videos a week on the original channel!!!!!

[@angelosleontarakis6253]

Swain did a bit of trolling in Ionia

[@halluw7625]

ambessa's Sacrifice quote was there are 3 rulers on noxus vision strength and leblac's thingy. ambessa wanted to be 4. "sacrifice". i respect that tho . also some people say rell's last name(iron bender girl) is medarda same as ambessa and mell. black rose wants that power cause they binded mordekaiser to an iron magical armor and she can control iron lol @Nux Taku

[@nukemthedukem]

NUX You should check out bildgewater next, some of the coolest champs come from there

[@stegotops7415]

Fantastic how Nux is preparing for Bionicle Lore with this, can't wait!

[@robintheforeteller]

Should watch some of the Legends of Runeterra lore trailers. Not all of them are super canon but they do paint a picture of what the nations are like. I do find the Noxian one pretty nice to understand their philosophy.

[@Extra_-zn3di]

NUXTAKU DROP ANOTHER LEAGUE LORE DIVE AND MY LIFE IS YOURS!!!

[@EbenTheCrow]

For the next warhammer 40k reaction video, I recommend looking at The Pontius and his videos. Especially the new one

[@nero_x6456]

Hope I see a aatrox video soon can't wait to see your reaction to all the badassness of the darken and how aatrox killed god (pleaaaaase and my life is yours)

[@jomar564]

the part he forgot to mention in Sions, lore, he wasn’t the only one charging, his loyal followers charged in as well, taking on the Democin solders, he was the last one standing, having multiple wounds, and weapons impelled, he didn’t stop till he had Jatvin I neck on his hand and chocked him to death, even though the solders kept stabbing him cutting and all trying to loosen his grip, but failed, he ended up kill Jarvin I and dying himself after making sure he killed him

[@johanstenfelt1206]

Hm, pretty well done Video, don’t know how it compares to Necrit’s Videos though, also a shame that neither Anne or Brier were mentioned, due to their connection to the Black Rose. Anyway, i wonder which you’ll Cover next, hope it’ll be another Necrit Video.

[@DrMessed]

Pretty sure sions backstory got changed so he's a result of the Grey Legion

[@sancturillore]

The raven at the end of Arcane season 2 is connected to the demon of secrets Raum, but not to Swayn yet. It's implied that the invasion of Ionia hasn't happened yet in Arcane since Singed helped with that first invasion with bioweapons. Thus means that Raum is still controlled by Black Rose at this time and that LeBlanc is likely the one controlling the raven, that the hextech gem from Jayce's hammer that the raven took is now going to the Black Rose.

[@williamg5495]

LETS GOOO I was waiting for more lore dive

[@attenonmj3708]

He really needs to see some voicelines from Legends of Runeterra and LoL. Xolaani is peak lore

[@graveslayer9666]

Well, Darkins overall are peak lore

[@attenonmj3708]

@graveslayer9666 Well the Runeterra ones. LoL ones are kind of boring. Like Aatrox, Varus, Naafiri... to me are meh, but Xolaani, Baalkux, Joraal are perfect.

[@graveslayer9666]

@@attenonmj3708 unironically I love ALL the Darkins, but yea, the ones in LOR are the best

[@gundamOPS]

Never ever go to anyone but Necrit for lore

[@PiratePawsLive]

@Nux you need to do the Demon Lore dive. Those also go hard :D and you will learn more about several characters and best waifu Evelynn :D

[@mitjust5792]

Fun fact: black rose currently have 5 factions - LB,Elise and their flowers -half of the Du Couteau clan (Katarina house) -Sion and his grey legion -Vlad and his hemomancer -Captain Indari and her mercenaries

[@PaddyBaddie]

If you want to see the ambessa pregnant with mel and the arrow scene its in her music video "blood, sweat and tears". Necrit did a lore side of it with her being chosen by the wolf and all which was super fucking cool.

[@SkittleBombs]

Nux ...Every Lol Champion has a Legend...

[@canthurtcrt7370]

Except shaco.

[@anubis9151]

@@canthurtcrt7370 Some would say he's not a champion, so he's not wrong.

[@xlogicalzx33]

Nux if u do a singed deep dive - make sure u read into the singed experiments, they dont have much cannon contribution but they are amazing. And show how psychotic and evil singed can be.

[@valclarieskaiyr6490]

Extra spice for mordekaiser: The cultists that summoned him back, he turned their souls into the mace, Nightfall. All the extra souls he killed and sent to the death realm, turned them into bricks and built a literal castle made of soul bricks.

[@TheSacredSavior]

When Darius was released, everyone was talking about how he'd stack up against Garen. Both spin, both have ultimates to finish the fight. As someone who has played LoL, I tend to tie (I play Garen). The Demacia Mage Rebellion adds a twist with Sylas and Lux. That's not even getting into Katarina, Garen, and Jarvan.

[@Lelouch98]

Poll to bring back Biggest flexes in anime. 👇🏼

[@blazingbarreljay137]

Lord Nuxalore, You need to know, Noxus has a habbit of also kidnapping useful criminals and trying to use them. That is how Jhin went from murdering in Ionia to Piltover and Noxus probably just had to ask him and he was like sure. As you know he is a serial killer so he was a country full of Ninjas so they want to chase him. As for Arcane's ending I think Jinx will find her way to Bildgewater as a weapon dealer then eventually to Piltover due to Yasuo, Ahri and others taking boats from Bildge to Zaun.

[@wrongix6544]

Its not just a statement that mordekaiser planned it. All the souls he killed after returning came to the spirit realm where he planned to be sent to. Now he has an endless army just waiting to return. Leblanc has "created" anorher champion in a desperate move to stop him if he returns. And that new champ rell is pretty new.

[@Ower8x]

There are a few issue, the whole Arcane thing is speculation at best right now as we dont really know where its on the new timeline The thing is Singed was involved in the first invasion of Ionia producing Chemical Weapons for Noxus while Darkwil was still Emperor so he could get the funds needed to make Oriana, which is something that does not ad up with Arcane S2 so we will need to see how this will shake up with Arcane becoming canon. As Singed is responsible for most of Rivens story ...which Triggers almost all of Yasuos and Yones story So thats in the air right now, but if arcane was before the Invasion of Ionia then the Raven at the end was not Swains

[@mikyd3823]

If you want to do deep-dive in champion lores,i recommend either jhin or aatrox,they are in my opinion some of the best ones,and very different narative

[@Gatch5able]

Nux please do odd world lore next by reliable rhubarb or pupbenny

[@VincentRay1]

nux video idea. biggest flexes in lore dives

[@dijoryu8079]

Nux needs to react to the champions lore and their in game voice lines, and fidle video allong with the legends of runnetera ones

[@zujujjj]

Btw mordekaiser held a yordle named veigar as his torture pet to learn celestial magic. That yordle now roams runetera thinking he is an evil Overlord just that in his deepest core hes still a whisical good creature and while trying to be evil somehow he does good.

[@thenewsatinbobcat5575]

The lore of L.O.L. makes me wish for a future continuation in piltover/zaun, with some of the other characters that didn't get to shine. Maybe even having Ekko return as the main character to deal with some of the other champions.

[@LinardsZ]

Prince Jarvan the 4th and Shyvana are very close friends you could say.

[@dariosciaroni7634]

Bro he forgot to mention one of the most important aspects of Rell story. Le blanc was interested in Rell because she is scared of Mordekaiser's return. So she is looking for weapons to use against him. And what better weapon to use against a Taranto who's physical body is made of metal than a metalbender?

[@corbis7765]

To put it in perspective, victor with arcane abilities for barely a year, can solo most of piltover and a noxus war band Now make him 1000 years old and give him the only goal of gaining power for all those years and you have Leblanc, she is insanely over powered

[@graveslayer9666]

And YET, Swain and Mordekaiser are WAY stronger

[@corbis7765]

@ mord is a monster, think based on lor he is stronger then even volibear because Nila fought the bear and I think won or tied, but she didn’t even try to fight mord

[@Endslikecrazy]

Watch nercrit's “The world of Riots MMO is already Done”. Others are saying it already but more attention to this cant hurt, its such a good video for lore

[@CyrSciencer]

My boi Kled thinks he own Noxus land

[@graveslayer9666]

And he’s perfectly capable of making people think the same

[@yurimaldonado4966]

Yeah today we learned that Noxus is like, a slightly more chill imperium of man

[@jazperpascual2078]

Pantheon lore dive would be crazy

[@luk4s56]

mordekaiser after his death used death magic to fuel his afterlife kingdom, using strong people he slain as his solders and weaklings as literal bricks, so after leblanc and vladimir banished him, he used all those corpses and built his after life kingdom, and an imortal army just like him so if he gets revived again now he has army of imortal solders just like him,

[@Lord_Ivoundy_Creood]

You should also do Piltover Lore, there are many more stories for future series there

[@myaps1859]

Sid left out a lot of details here. He didn't mention Mordekaiser creating a whole underworld kingdom/empire from the souls of the living that he conquered before his 2nd death. He didn't mention Swain tricking the demon Raum in a battle of wits, making Raum his pet, instead of the other way around. Guile is NOT LeBlanc He didn't even talk about Urgot

[@Zhekov11]

You should react to character voice lines too when you do deep dives. Champions like Pantheon, Aaatrox, Kindred and Jhin have some pretty cool voice lines.

[@SilverLicas17]

Mordekaiser: biggest flex in videogame.

[@gexianhen]

Arcane is somewhere around 6 to 10 years in the past of present lore of Runeterra

[@Battlechicken12]

Jaghatai Khan needs a video

[@whitewolfO1]

You should watch some of the champion teasers/trailers. Some of them like the Jinx one are awful, but some of them are arguable as good or better than the good league cinematics like Ekko's or Ryze's. And Sion didn't go to Demacia and sneak in to attack the king or something. He met them on the field of battle in formation, his troops didn't charge with him, and he just plowed through the Demacian soldiers and the king's bodyguard and killed him anyway while they were all trying to kill him. Fucking unit. Honestly the biggest problem with League lore is they've retconned and rewritten it like 5 times now for some parts. Its hard to tell what's current anymore and I honestly thought some of the old lore was more interesting.

[@charliemareko1669]

nice now read just need a necrit morderkaiser video and you ll fully understand him , atleast his story

[@gamertide1222]

I know you said you were going to do this in the last lore video, but jhin is the actual goat and his storyline is incredible. It even goes into zaun at one point

[@vasaramadanovic8045]

He didnt say how Katarina"s step brother Talon wasnt the first asssasin their father sent, but one of many since she killed all but Talon, also she went to demacia, killed their king and fell in love. You can read on it in her coming book

[@vasaramadanovic8045]

also when she killed assasin that were sent her way she decapitated them and send their heads to her father

[@joshuamoore9875]

Lore suggestions: Digimon (demon lords especially) Chronicles of narnia Bionicle Persona 5 Transformers Power rangers Fate grand order Conan the barbarian Starcraft

[@thewoold]

This theory is probably from some other video from a decade ago. But is leblanc even a singular person? Sure shes a playable champ, but in the lore 'no one has ever seen her.' And Im damn sure whatever Mel killed at the end of season 2 wasnt LB.

[@ondravele9201]

Am i trippin or is it possible KZbin unsubscribed me from Nux taku and then recomended me this video?

[@SamTheGumMan117]

Oh now this is where the fun begins

[@fruitgummy2461]

damn this nux guy still keep going after so much people jumping on him.

[@not_a_try-hard3084]

Should do more necrit videos, he’s the league lore guy

[@AshArashi-tg]

32:18 This is misinformation Yasuo master help Riven destroy her blade but it accidentlly blow up

[@Muadmh]

If you want to see more of Ambessa's backstory, you should watch the music video "Blood, sweat and tears". Maybe even react to it.

[@gheebuttersnaps277]

So a big part of mordekaisers lore is that anyone who dies on Noxian soil or is born in Noxus. He claims their souls

[@003mohamud]

Noxus seems to be if someone mashed together fantasy Transylvania with Rome

[@hollowichigo1023]

You gotta do Ionia, demacia, shurima, and the freljord

[@TheScourgeFromBelow]

we actually had confirmation (by some Riot worker I believe) that Leblanc is not Guile, she is not part of the trifarix (though she might be influencing whoever it is)

[@anubis9151]

I can believe it, but that doesn't count for much, if it's a game dev, doesn't mean he actually know the lore, they are different departments and (s)he might've gotten incorrect information, or info that might be an idea but since it's not yet cannon, it might change by the time it would be. Though I always thought it was weird the one that never shows herself and always hides her very existence would just plain out admit her involvement at the highest levels of power, just didn't make too much sense to me.

[@hunterofhotdogs4505]

Swains story before his rise to power is laterally noxus is at war in three directions and not lousing hard

[@mustafasoylu8281]

Under 1 hour gentleman and female gentleman

[@genesisbeyond4256]

Nux, Adventure Time when? I'm suffering from widthrawal.

[@jazdzuch4404]

Btw Rell was trained to kill Mordekaiser with her metal bending cause he is just metal + soul