I feel like the “Piltover not being above on top of Zaun” thing could be fixed with Piltover expanding on top of zaun

I think the blueprint for Blitzcrank was the thing Sky was gonna show Viktor when she said she wanted to do something to help people, before she had to be vacuumed. Viktor might put Sky's design to work to honor her.

Two points that I think could be adjusted, 1. At the end of Arcane Jinx obviously blows up the council. A fight breaking out and Piltover claiming upper Zaun seems a likely event, establishing the "pre-arcane" PnZ 2. In the event of conflict and potential hazards, we could see the start of Renata's story taking place, with her using the opportunity to gain loyalty and fill in the power vacuum created by the death of Silco.

I would say there's still room for Singed to get his horror roots back, just later than expected. He could be set up to join with noxus before an "Arcane 3" which could switch focus to the Invasion of Ionia

I hope they don't make Viktor a villain. I really liked how he was using shady methods to genuinely help people. I also liked how the cult of the glorious evolution may have been out of his control

Its quite possible (with the limited use we saw for the Hexgates) that the big Hexgate towers are programmed with a target for the airship being sent, and then they just have to make a return trip normally. Even with having to come home in a more mundane fashion, instant delivery of trade goods (like the mentioned wine in one of the council meetings) would probably be enough to dominate the economic landscape.

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How I figured the hexgates work was other nations could use them on return trips but not on trips to Piltover. So let’s say it’s takes a Noxus air balloon like 3 weeks to get there, they would be able to get back instantly using the fast travel of the hexgates. So it basically halves travel time for trade.

About Renata : Technically Silco is dead now... Right ? So my guess would be that in Arcane S2 we see Renata climb to fill the void of power left by Silco. Side note : That void pun makes way too much sense considering shimmer is void fueled. ANYWAY.

For the mass relay towers, it could also be a sort of fast travel for the MMO too

with renata they could have her just take all of silco's shimmer stuff after his death. Thus, rebranding it as her own. Keeping it functionally the same thing, but with the different names.

Victor could potentially become a kind of tragic villain. Arcane is setting him up to being corrupted by the void, due to the shenanigans with the hexcore, which could gradually corrupt his scientific side and make him more and more obsessed with the "glorious evolution". In fact, id say it paves the way to a great internal struggle between the good victor we know from arcane and what he inevitably becomes, with an intermediate stage in between similar to his lol version.

I really don't think things such as Heimerdinger building that T-hex will happen, since in the announcement they talked about all content coming up being canon, not necessarily past content.

i think ezreal would be a nice addition in season 2 as a way to transition to different stories in different regions, you know, since he travels a lot and has a lot of different adventures. He wouldn't necessarily push season 1 and 2 story forward, but he could have his own incredible stories in the future, since we already know the pilltover/zaun story ends with s2. I hope this will be a bit like AHS in a sense, different seasons for different regions or sets of characters

Honestly not making Ekko look like a perpetual 12 year old is the best thing Arcane ever did for League

Convergence is really awkward for Riot since the last cutscene shows the LoL multiverse. It's probably easier for Riot to ignore it and make it not canon.

I think Zaun is still mostly underground in Arcane, just not directly below Piltover

The Ekko changes are my biggest worry. As an Ekko one-trick, I’m super invested into his lore, especially the core universe. I love Arcane Ekko, but it feels like his character is too different to merge everything. I honestly prefer the core universe lore over Arcane, and I’m scared of losing all of it.

Hoping for Camille and maybe Ez next season!

They still can make underground city under Piltover. Technically in Arcane the big mining catastrophes which destroyed Zaun did not happen yet.

I think Ryze not being blue makes sense because of the Young Ryze skin. You can make it so that Ryze became blue due to all the runes finally changing him once enough of the were on his body.

Given that Arcane was in production for like six years, Riot had tons of time to avoid creating all these lore inconsistencies but are only now attempting to address them.

I think it's also important to note, because of the medium of TV series, they can't include every character that's from Zaun and Piltover. It's best to imagine that this is early in the timeline and some characters haven't become who they are yet. And also, both the cities are HUGE! It could be very likely that their stories are happening at the same time but we are just not seeing it.

I could see ziggs coming in and being some kind of connecting thread between ziggs and jinx being both an inventor and explosion lover

i like the idea of ori being taken to viktor by singed to save her from an illness

I kinda like the idea of mixing modern things with standard fantasy. I feel like if they keep the Hexgates rare and only in Piltover and Noxus the world will stay feeling big. Singed could also still being doing horrifying things off screen. He's a side character so it makes sense that they wouldn't put much focus on him. Maybe they could make a scary movie or a spin off series centered around him. Silco is also dead, so they could easily just say that Renata took his place after he died. For Ekko, maybe he used time travel and messed up the timeline which led to him being an orphan in Arcane? I feel like that could also make for an interesting story for a spin off series or movie. Arcane is mostly focused on Jinx, Vi, Viktor, and Jayce. It makes sense why they won't be exploring the other champions as much, that'd just be too much to do in a limited amount of time. Saving their full stories for shows/movies centered around them seems like a good idea to me.

I think a lot of this can be handled with time skips/perspective skips. For example, just because Renata is a major power broker in Zaun, doesn't mean that it's happening right now in Zaun. It could be events that occur 5-10-15 years later that detail her rise to power. The timeline can be a little bit timey-wimey when you merge multiple universes.

If Vander turns out to be Warwick does that mean he's got that dawg in him?

I really hope in season 2 they manage to have Zeri in there. Maybe not even a whole storyline, but if we're going down the shimmer path, it would make sense to have the vigilante that is Zeri show up. Maybe they could give her more of a story that way, too, because right now her lore feels lacking.

The only new character that I'm really hoping for is Ziggs bro matches Jinx's personality really well, they both like explosions and he would be a great companion to Jinx. He's possibly also a scientist as well, maybe with connections to Heimerdinger. This would also give the show another yorlde character, where there will be 1 yordle from each of the two regions.

if arcane is cannon doest that mean that every arcane skin is cannon and the base skin isnt?

Necrit must be so excited about having so much work and a promise for a bit more lore workpace in the future.

I really have a bad feeling about Arcane 2: making it canon means they will now almost be forced to adapt to the current story, rather than just being free to do whatever they want and we all know what happens when stuff like this happens-

To be honest Necrit, Ekko didnt get much sincere dialogue in arcane, i dont think there was any reason to mention parents, so they still could add it to the story later as a flashback or something

I feel like a lot of these characters being in the background of shots would really liven up the universe while supplying a lot of the fan service various players want to see. Just little hints to and around various characters to get the various one tricks excited every now and then.

about zaun. in arcane there are some shots where its clearly underground (the addict village for example), but one place is gonaa be hard to implement; the dredge. the massive prisonmine where urgot was imprisoned and where the crab we know today came to be. when zaun is (kinda) on the same level as piltover, how will the dredge work, also the same goes for the prieviously know as the "deepest parts of zaun", places where you can find mundo, singed, twitch and later on the void. i hope in acrane or other media they will explain this. (also i wanna see urgot in the next season in hopes that he might get for once a good skin)

Could the fast travel tower/device in arcane be cannonized as the new "Sun gate" that is mentionned here and there and also in Renata's voicelines ?

Probably a form of illusion magic, in order for Ryze to keep himself more hidden.

ive spent the past few months working on the p/z chapter of my runeterra dnd campaign, spent days coming up with ways to reconcile arcane with the then-canon lore, found solutions to all of the major problems, and then they dropped this on me :’)))) cant wait for season 2 to tear down all my theories god bless

I like how despite this being the third video on this topic, you reexplain everything again in the beginning of the video for all of those who have only seen arcane.

Heimer being only 300 y/o also brings up the question of how did he saw the rune wars (I think he's referring to the rune wars when he's talking about of how humanity can't control magic )

Long shot on Ekko, but since we know he develops the ability to truly time travel in convergence he could have gone back to when he was a child to try and stop something and inadvertently killed his parents leading to current Arcane Ekko.

@Necrit The RELAY are called HEXGATES in ARCANE which I think is a variation of Lol SUMMONER RECALL and RYZE's ULT (REALM WARP)

about the fast travel tower, given how it work you could say is economical/faster, for noxus to ship stuff to piltover, then from piltover to other zones, the traveling back taking as long as usual, but this would lower shipping cost and times, and turn piltover into a trading hub

It is a bit weird how they're going to make everything work, but I think it is doable with some shifting around. Like for Renata as an example, she could still become the chem-baron she is. Silco is gone and there is now a power-vaccum that people will fight for. Singed is a bit weird as he's clearly middle aged and we don't quite fully know his origins of how he ended up in Zaun, so there's some room to wiggle something in there. I think Jayce will want to begin Militarizing Piltover with the Hex-tech after Jinx's attack, and Viktor will want to use it to help people instead. Jayce could be introduced to Camille here and set-her story up along with the expansion of Hex-Tech. Viktor could create Blitz, or they could shift that to Ekko and Heimer, and just have Viktor focus more on the mechanical stuff. I don't know if we'll get much more of Vi & Jinx as it felt like they were the main focus on season 1, and season 2 will shift away from them a bit. Urgot could be introduced along with another potential Noxus figure like Swain, which I felt like was being foreshadowed in season 1 with all the Crows. There could be some sort of conflict which severly hurts Urgot and that results in him getting left to die in Zaun. He then changes and could then be set-up for the cinematic where we see Vi & Cait take on Urgot (Seeing as that is also canon now). I don't think we'll see much or any of Seraphine, Mundo, Twitch, Zac or Ziggs. They don't strike me as characters that will be major players in Arcane's story. They could be referenced or have like a small scene to help with their story or character development. Seraphine could potentially used in Season 2 as she could provide music which ties the story of Piltover vs Zaun. As for Ezreal and the Ionian's that travel to Zaun looking for Jhin, that's also something I'm not entirely sure on. Riot could just drop that whole story or they could make a cameo in the background of a scene.

The thing that confuses me most about the announcement is that Arcane being canon from now on forward will either mean that the plotarmor champion have (Jinx, Vi, Caitlyn, Jayce, Viktor, Heimerdinger, Ekko, Singed, Warwick) will increase a thousandfold or that some actual, current, popular champions get killed off?

My best guess as to how they would solve ryze is just saying that his scene in arcane was Jayce's pov, whether his perception of Ryze is altered by magic or just the situation at the time

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The Silco/Renata thing is solved so easily by the fact that Silco is now extremely dead and that this will create a power vacuum in Zaun. One where a new Chem Baron(-ess) might step in and take over in his place.

I think Camille should be an easy shoe in as an escalation in brutal force after jinxs attack

My thoughts on the relay tower was that it was a piltover only commodity like say if noxus bought a shipment of merchandise from piltover part of the appeal to pick piltover over other locations where it could be purchased would be that safe an effective means of transport. You could order one day then get it delivered after 1 or 2 business days the return trip for the ship tho doesn't have to be fast either or be heavily guarded its an empty ship with the bare minimum crew for operation because when it held value it was blasting through the sky like a comet essentially untouchable by normal means of raiding. The system would be set up so the ships are essentially valueless and expendable when not actively holding cargo and that makes it attractive for piltover because it let's them keep the tower tech to themselves while making as much as they want from the fast delivery they offer and quality of the merchandise sold while barely having to spare a thought on how the bare minimum ships get returned

If you want to think about what characters will be added in Season 2. Look to Noxus. Darius, Draven, Swain, Mel's Mom. I think that's where they're taking it next season, which then probably leads us to discovering either Demacia or more of Shurima.

Ekko doesn't have to be an orphan to be in the Firelights, he can still have loving parents. It's just something that needs to be explored in Season 2 in SOME degree. (We don't need an episode about him and his parents, but it would be nice.) As for Mundo and Urgot, those two are very easy to bring into Arcane 2, and we already have two examples of how they can do it. Vander and Viktor. All we really need is a background character for a Chem Baron who's a giant guy who gets in the way, and have Boram Darkwill send Urgot to Zaun to find "allies"... and have Urgot find a down-on-his-luck, desperate-to-finish-his-experiments Singed. Evil Singed isn't too difficult to bring out of this as well, even without going the Shimmer route. I wouldn't put it past them to have Mundo given to Singed as punishment, and Singed experiments on him, which turns him into Mundo the way that he turned Vander into Warwick. That's all probably really basic and simple, and I doubt Arcane would do any of that as written - they're just examples of how it's possible, without too much work. Singed and Orianna... that's going to be something they probably walk back. They never SAID it was Orianna, but they certainly liked it when we took it that way, so there's a responsibility there to clarify. Or modify somewhat - maybe Singed is the Godfather, or an Uncle, or just a family friend. Or the picture is someone entirely different and only exists in Arcane.

Was Ryze already blue by the end of the ruination? If not did we know how he turned out that way? I'm pretty sure he had normal skin with marks on it. Could it be that ryze turned blue sometime after this meeting with Jayce?

Man I am in love with this content. I like to watch Asmon react to you. I watched all the videos he did wayyy before I even knew who asmon was but I can't wait for your uploads these days. It's just nice to sit here and watch you go in depth on something I love. Thanks

I've been reading the comments here and as much as I'd like to see characters like Jhin, Camille, Renata, while some do have good reasons why they should be in S2. I'm just thinking how hard that would be 😅 since the main characters have to fix the situation that happened after the end of S1. Continuing with the storyline with Warwick and then adding like 10 characters they'd have to properly develop within 8-10 episodes. Hopefully no one gets disappointed just because their favorite character didn't show yet. But realistically there's only so much screen time they can use which is necessary for the old characters and the new story which will be told.

Even though Ekko reconciles with his parents in Convergence, it might still be something that spurs him into helping actual orphans find a family. And since it isn't explicitly confirmed that he is an orphan in arcane, it is possible to somehow merge them.

Pls add Zac and Dr Mundo in Arcane season 2!

These towers would be really convenient in the league mmo maybe thats why they put them in

I think zeri might make an appearance in season 2 mostly due to well ingame both of them have a passive called *zaunites stick together* or something like that and a2 might explain it or look deeper into it

Ekko is the 2nd person in this universe who can actually have different stories. The firts being zilian. I think its likely for ekko to go through time displacements and end up in different futures and past. And could give some butterfly effect to his story. Pretty cool

I think Riot is overly ambitious by wanting everything to be one universe. Arcane should be it's own thing, alongside other movies or shows they may release in the future. Everything else should work together just fine. And I don't think it's too much to ask of the audience to accept that Arcane is just it's own thing and not connected to the rest. Every franchise is turning into a multiverse at the moment, so Runeterra having two different versions isn't that difficult to understand. And are just going to forget about the other alternative universes from the skins?

With the teleport a option could be that only piltover has them so you can fast travel to anywhere you want but if you want go come back to piltover yo gotta make the travel for weeks/months

I’m honestly expecting a cameo of Swain. So much raven imagery in the first season and several references to noxus

I do not like the idea that Viktor is going to become "Evil". From what I understand of his stories and character's he has never been portrayed as evil, only as misunderstood and maybe a little grandiose. It really shouldn't be a question on how Viktor is going to become "Evil" but more on how Viktor is going to embrace further and further self augmentations in his own brand of progress.

Now they should release Silco as a champion in legend of Runeterra, and make Rennata use an upgraded version of Shimmer and control a ruined Zaun after Silco died and left all addicts without doses.

awesome video as always necrit

I knew he was gonna end off the video with Professor Von Yip xD Love it

In the Ruination book, Ryze is not blue/purple, he is a normal human with strong magic affinity for runes, so maybe he will get a big big update soon TM

I loved ekko’s original lore and I like ekko’s appearance in arcane but I don’t know how they’re going to do this but I hope somehow they combine the two

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I really think they're gonna turn Sevika into Renata. Similar appearance, similar attitudes, and Sevika seems to be best poised to fill the void left by Silco, putting her in the same position Renata would be RN. In Arcane 2 Riot can either combine the characters, totally forget Renata exists, or have 2 entrepreneurial undercity cyborg ladies with the same arm missing. There seems to be too much aesthetic and narrative overlap for them to exist in tandem, and considering how Renata was released during Arcane I really doubt they'll scrap her. Of course Renata's lore would need to change, but no more than most other characters already have. Just my thoughts.

Question! If Arcane is Canon does that mean Imagine Dragon is canon now? Since they are in the series

From what I got about the gates its not just Noxus they send ships to. It seemed like they were the only place with this tech especially since the device runs on so many hex gems and when a single one was taken it became this huge fiasco, so I doubt anyone or anywhere else in the world has this tech. From what we know it seems like they're a trade hub. Meaning if it's faster to travel to piltover rather then another country , you travel to piltover and get instantly transmitted to another locatation. But if it's faster to just travel to the other country you would still do that because either way you have to make the return journey the old fashioned way.

If i had to guess, they wouldn't make any of these teleporting towers anywhere. Currently Jayce has full authoriti over Hextech, so for one, he wouldn't let this technology get out of piltower. I also presume at some point thr tower will be destroyed, and hextech becomes so much of a threat after Jinx's Shenanigans, that they will never build one again.

I'd love to see Zeri in Arcane 2. She fits the theme and her powers would make some stunning scenes visually!

Perhaps Renata took over officially after Silco died? I've always imagined she'd simply take over with that happening, possibly earning Piltover's trust by deliversing Silco's body to the council or something. It could be really interesting. Though I don't believe she'll appear as more than a cameo in S2... unfortunately... Her and Camille could make great secondary villains for the political relations plotline.

the hextech portal thing would be great for MMO fast travel explanation :D

I just have a tiny hunch fiddlesticks is gonna show up somewhere and i have no clue why

Seraphine better show up in Season 2. She can literally heal Powder with her singing voice and would be the only one who can understand her.

I don’t like the way you brush past things that completely change the worldbuilding of Runaterra. There’s a reason why Piltover is built above Zaun, which is to escape the toxic air. That doesn’t make sense if they’re next to each other. Silco is the first to call the undercity the “Nation of Zaun”, which if we’re following the canon presented in Arcane, would completely vanish the entire canon of Oshra Va’Zaun being the city that was there in the first place. The very name “Piltover” existing wouldn’t make sense because the city is no longer built above the river Pilt. Corina Veraza would make zero sense giving the context from LotR to Arcane, giving that she’s Silco 3.0 (or the OG Renata) That means Mel would most likely die if there’s no mention of her at all in League or Lotr, which is spoiling the 2nd season before it even begins. Viktor doesn’t make sense. Ekko doesn’t make sense, Orianna doesn’t either. Camille suddenly stops having any importance. You’re defending mediocrity. You’re defending a terrible idea. This is not for the best. They had two years to clear this up before giving the announcement and we only received silenced on their part, now we have to wait until Fall 2024 (Another whole year) wondering what’s canon and what’s not just for Arcane season 2 to come out and (I’ll be coming back to this comment once this happens) present even more incongruity to the narrative that they will not be able to fix properly. To which you will then say “It’s just fine I don’t really care.”

well ekko is the time boy so you can still make it canon in a way that in the future he manages to travel back and grow up with his parents

The towers might be a way to make fast travel in the mmo canon

League should not influence Arcane. Arcane should influence League.

The tower speeds up travel further from a place then Piltover, I understood it more as a hub that can speed up trade, but to get to Piltover it is still normal speed.

18:39 SEVIKA SEVIKA SEVIKA PLEASE GOD MAKE SEVIKA RENATA, MY PET THEORY WILL NEVER LEAVE MY HEART. I BELIEVE, I ALWAYS BELIEVED!!

I dont think that just because Ekko's parent werent mentioned in Arcane mean they will be retconned. With all the shit he dealt, i could see him isolating himself from them so that they are safe, and I think situation with Zaun and Plitover is pretty simple too... we didn't see all of it in Arcane, and the panoramic shots we see during the series kinda show that they are much bigger than just what we see.

Ekko's threads being spaghetti feels right lol. He's a product of all his timelines

Wasnt there a whole thing with Zaun sinking? Could that be used to have both the vertical and horizonal difference? Maybe Piltover could even start to build overtop of the fallen city.

since renata first came out that i've had this theory and i still believe it might be true: renata is just future sevika, i mean she's a powerful woman who has followed many powerful before her so whether it was her intention to become the "boss" of zaun or she happened to become the one running the city purely by circumstance i just think she will become renata, they even share the prosthetic arm (renata's just being more advanced)

To be fair, for ekko most of his in universe lore occurs after he makes the z drive which he hasnt dont yet. As for his parents and his upbringing, we don't really see what happens to ekko or his parents between act 1 and 2 so they still have a huge chunk of time to work with that. We only saw a few clips of him in act1 when he was powders age, so we dnt really know what he was doing behind the scenes.

That ship tower tech might be the gate you use in ARAM

i think we should get mentions or nods to the champions that ar enot story relevant but around, Have a poster up of a seraphine concert. Have some chatter about urgot and mundo in zaun stuff like that

The bridge could just be linking Piltover to Zuan's elevator, where it still leads downstairs.

3:05 Now that I think about it, this area is also a map for project L, so they might've had the idea to retcon the structure of PO&Z for a long time

The cat lived. You see it again sitting with some kids when Ekko is showing Vi the firelight hideout, where he states that everyone there has been affected by or a victim of shimmer.

Here's some ideas •ekkos parents are alive, they just work so much they're never around. Possibly mining? •singed can be oriannas dad and he just changed his name to singed as a cover up •shimmer could have been his attempt to save orianna, but ended up killing her and that's why he changed his name and went into hiding. • vander/Warwick could be his first attempt at bringing back the dead with tech and shimmer • singed and a tainted Viktor could work together after to try to resurrect orianna using singed's knowledge of bringing the dead back and Viktor's knowledge of technology and the hextech gemstones. After all, they both would have people they're desperate to resurrect. •zaun could eventually be below piltover due to a massive quake in that huge canyon.

This feels like a Star Wars Legends retcon moment. It could be amazing, and put out some really quality stories down the line, but some of us will always miss the old versions of our characters

I love Ekko's new story arc... i think it's amazing and way more interesting. Victor as well... amazing storyline for him. I'm excited to see what happens with those two especially.