Actually not, Raum is the demon of secrets.. so Swain would know, he wouldn’t let leblanc be on the council.

Its confirmed by a rioter that Leblanc isn’t the faceless but who’s to say Leblanc doesn’t have influence over them

It's not her apparently

@@zilexfaulty4954 LeBlanc and the Black Rose have influence over everyone, so no surprise there

Not her but doesn't mean she didn't have any influence right there

When the "bad guys" are actually nicer than the "good guys" in Demacia

@@lucasfernandez3523 Now that i think about it Demacia is a little bit more corrupt except for Jarvan IV

was that the monogol empires brutal conqeuors but equal rights for religions' Gender and other things like Skilled and IQ Valued over blood and gold

​@@neilhannan5112that's wrong Mongols killed and slaughtered people from different religions and hated people with high iq they literally burned any books or libraries which slowed human development

they like NAZI EMPIRE

it's basically the riman empire with a twist.

I'm sure plenty of luddites died with their words as society advanced

@@TheGamingAbyss of course

In Runeterra that sounds pretty good

Mongol Empire

Always like how Each Faction or Nation has one Positive and Negative trait. Like the Meritocratic Expantionist Empire. Or Demacia. Hates mages but you can find some of the most Good Characters in the game there.

my favorite crakhead

He is the spirit of noxus overwhelmingly violent and extremely land hungry

Aside from expanding and conquering nations. Noxus is good place to live if your incredibly good at something and get reward for it.

As a Gangplank main, I hate Kled

Isn't ethnicist too, which is a plus.

You could argue the fire nation had a good reason to conquer. If you look at every other nation none of them come even close to the mechanical prowess of the fire nation. the water and earth nations are living like cave men while the fire nation has fully functional tanks. (The air nation came kinda close and may have been farther along if.... well....) Of course the statement "we should share our fortune with the world" shifted to something far darker by the end of 100 years and they were clearly the villains. But life woulda been better for a lot of people under a slightly less evil fire nation.

it isnt leblanc , it has been confirmed

@@delusionofillusion473 it isnt like lebancs whole deal is lies. Im chosing to put my tinfoil hat on and say THATS A LIE!

@@delusionofillusion473 nothing is confirmed with leblanc

@@markofthebeast2130 it has been confirmed that she isnt of the trifax , just check it out yourself

She surely couldn't be the mysterious The Faceless Pale Lady *wink wink*

She’s not Guile/The Faceless if that’s what you mean. She is one of the leaders of the Black Rose, which runs Noxus from the shadows. But Swain and the Trifarix are explicitly working AGAINST the Black Rose, so it would make no sense for her to be on the Trifarix. Then again maybe there’s some insane 4D chess nonsense happening here and she’s somehow playing both sides, who knows.

no way that the person who literally has the same face as the guille statues could be guile

Pretty sure that’s what’s accepted, but never been confirmed

It is but in lore she’s unknown

Definitely true! It's very interesting to see how the "idea" of a meritocracy plays out against the reality!

True! But weirdly people with other experties can raise in their own areas! LOR shows this with other noxian character! Overall very interesting nation

Meritocracy kind of takes care of that too, theoretically. Presumably anyone with the ability to rise to the top would realize that sabotaging your own nation will see it swiftly annihilated by its peers.

There is a solution to every problem. In your entries' case, 1. Befriend those promising individuals or at least plant seeds for you to use them later on. 2. Align the education system to produce what you want. 3. Accept anyone who rises to a position of power or prominence and endlessly test them. Nobody can be good at everything and nobody can be strong all the time. When they inevitably need help, present yourself, whether they can through you or not. If the former, this is nothing Stockholm Syndrome and learned helplessness can't remedy. That way, you control the person who delivers a product or service very well, without losing what makes them useful.

i think so too because in the comics Darius answers to Swain

Swain pretty much controls the whole nation so he probably indirectly controls the military. Also considering hue’s a tactician and a lot of his official art show him in battle (his splash art is a ton of noxians marching- you can see the banners, his LoR level one is him standing in a battlefield with a bunch of city breakers behind him- and his Level 2 is him using his ultimate to kill a bunch of ionians) I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that he sometimes leads expeditions himself, also his short story is literally him discussing tactics so tbh it’s confirmed that he definitely goes to battle sometimes.

Sort of. See swain may be the official leader of the military but the legions ultimately listen to Darius. He takes orders so long they serve Noxus, which is something Swain has no problem with

@@sturmnacht8503 it’s not that I don’t believe you but where are you getting this from? Officially Swain outranks Darius as the Grand General, unless you mean the legions are more inclined to listen the Darius because they like him more.

@@surrealllama Alright I think I did a major oopsy, I missunderstood the backstory. In lore he violently removed officials to make Noxus less corrupt, Swain was trying to impress him by quickly doing reforms which to me meant that Darius must have held some power over him hence that. But nope he is only in charge of the elite legion nothing more. Could have sworn I heard it otherwise in some yt videos tho

All of these nations have big problems. The safest bet is buy some cheap real estate in old Camavor and ride out the recession

@@JustBlaisYT I never said it was perfect, just that Noxus is the best choice in my opinion, since it has fairly little opression despite swain looking like a imposing dictator. Their idea of creating world peace through conquering the entire world isn't perfect, but you can't help but feel impressed with the amount of effort put into it.

Good one there. It is true that Raum can only get secrets from persons, and given that LeBlanc is pretty much just a bunch of illusions and clones, Raum wouldn't be able to know any of her secrets, only the secrets of her human puppets. But I think Swain would have predicted this. The obvious lack of secrets from Guile would lead Swain to believe that LeBlanc's behind it using her magic, and eventually he would take the current Guile out, choosing quietly a new Guile that is more of his preference. Unless, for some reason, it was beneficial for him to let her be there. But I'd say that's unlikely. Also, being so close to Swain and so high in the Noxian government wouldn't be beneficial to LeBlanc; she manipulates others from the shadows to do her biding, and getting to be one of the officially three most powerful persons in the empire contradicts her methods. She simply doesn't need the position to be influential, apart from being dangerously close to Swain. Unless she risked being close to Swain to really keep him in check, knowing that he knows she's there and that he allows her to be. Which would lead to be every trifarix meeting a direct intelectual duel between Swain and LeBlanc, and Darius watching. But, then again, unlikely. Perhaps, just perhaps, LeBlanc has assisted to the council as Guile once or twice, and Swain wouldn't have noticed that singular event, although he would suspect the possibility of such a thing happening from time to time.

Swain would not allow that on the council. He knows about Leblanc and her illusions. He is one of if not the most knowledgable individual on runeterra. He's working against black rose and more importantly Mordekaiser

Mr Brazil

i’d say it’s pretty much the same actually lol

@@fuckomcducko2844 You would be wrong.

Life sucks basically anywhere Freljord? Raiders, snow and terrible circumstances Ionia? Constantly get invaded + Many demons in the area due to the amount of unburied soldiers from the noxian invasion Demacia? Good luck if you are a mage, depending on which class you were born into you either have a nice or harsh life. Also constant fear from invasion from Noxus Shurima: Again raiders, MFING darkin, have some ascended emperor dickhead as your ruler Noxus: Be born into a nation which gives you nothing and forces you to fend for yourself. If you are good in one of the principles of strength you will live well, if not then gg Bilgwater. HAHAHAHHAHAHA no Pirate town, corruption, murders from the bloodharbor ripper, posibility that your captain doesn't pay the tithe and naut joinks your ship, also civil war Targon? Religious persecuiton and darkins. Don't forget the aspects being dickheads as well (Ishtal I have 0 knowledge of)

Heh good luck on that one

I doubt Ionia go down easily. They might be outnumbered but they're beoken af

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I think that's the real deal people don't seem to get when they praise Noxius for being a meritocracy. Sure if you're good at fighting for this warmongering nation you'll be respected and move up the ranks, but everything else, from the manufacturing of weapons to the crafting of day to day goods is secondary to the expansion of the state. If you're a carpenter making the structure for trebuchets, there is no "upgrade" in life for you, if you maintain the harvests there isn't a "high grain cutter" for you to ascend to. If you want respect and to be able to do more, you have to serve in battle. "Screw the infirm or impaired, it's a meritocracy not a charity."

that is definitely one of the areas that makes noxus a morally grey society,

Well according to lore noxus does respect farmers and artisans who contribute to the empire, they just don't get rich. I would argue being a farmer in noxus is better than a farmer in medieval europe, atleast you get to live a relatively free and quiet life, bonus points if you're a retired veteran who got given land, that way you can contribute even as you age.

Noxus doesn’t just mean strength as in battle and physical strength. They admire strength of all kinds. And without the fabric weavers and the veggies seller noxus wouldn’t really function that well, so I’m sure they see value in those people

After reading the latest comic "Katarina" comic I think it makes sense she represents Guile.

@@azrieldalusong5042 Katarina is more of a sort of judge, she’s there to make sure non of the three leaders get corrupted. Also the trifalix was set up before the comic happened

yep

The idea they are the US of A in a Fantasy setting with Swords sounds fun.

Yes and no, manifest destiny was expansionist and drove a lot of America's goals forward but it was also exclusionist, only white people could benefit, Noxus does not care about that, neither race or gender factor in what you can do for the empire and in the end, for yourself.

Wtf was the last part of this comment??

That's right! One of the things I like about Runeterra as a world is that many of the nations are shades of grey vs definitively "good or bad" - and Noxus is no exception!

@@kataki7p21 dematcia doesn't like 'different' people of any kind for example not just mages.

@@kataki7p21 it’s accurate there is a lot of discrimination across runeterra (unique to the fantasy - such as demacia hates mages and shurima enslaved icathians) but Noxus, ironically (despite drawing parallels to irl fascist states,) is one of the only regions with basically zero prejudice towards one’s circumstance/race or background etc, because they judge purely on strength

@@fuckomcducko2844 actually they have plenty of prejudice and suppression, such as those born with deformities, people who are charitable, or those who don't appreciate being uprooted from their homes and sent to work and fuel a neverending and monstrous war machine. Abuse is fine so long as it doesn't interfere with noxus' conquests. And an entire army of undead ready to massacre any village that shows discontent

but better!

This is currently my plan for tuesday!

@@JustBlaisYT Yay! 🤗

made by singed

It'll probably be included in the actual Noxus lore video.

No shot are we forgetting Mordekaiser! He’ll be here early next week!

it’s vladmir

@@fuckomcducko2844 No it's Teemo

Noxus has hundreds of thousands of highly trained soldiers as well as battleships. Bilgewater doesn’t exactly control the sea monsters- they hunt them. I don’t think Bing water has a chance here

LB is always 10000 steps ahead that’s kind of her gimmick lol

@@fuckomcducko2844 Not anymore. Thats Swain now.

It was never mentioned it is LeBlanc anywhere. Also confirmed on twitter to not be her by a writer. The spell in the game is representing something which is probably yet to come.

Yes but the thing is that we know it, but in universe the vast majority don't which is why its treated as a secret

@@katiequeen7225 how do we know it though? Legit curious

LeBlanc isn't the representative of guile. The reason she's on that card is because they can't reveal who it actually is.

It’s in the description!

@@JustBlaisYT thanks man great video 👍

Swain still needs at least one of the other leaders to agree with him if he wants to make a big decision tho. He’s like- the main leader, but if he gets out of hand the other two can overrule him.

@@iothedango and darius follows him without question

@@cesar6447 Yeah, and Swain ordered Darius to kill him if he becomes corrupted

@@iothedango which just proves how submissive darius is, literally will do it bc he was told t odo so, not bc he actively decided that swain was out of line

@@cesar6447 oh no yeah, I agree he’s definitely following swain, and Swain knows how to use this to keep it fair.

“We will make Ionia ours, or we will make it rubble.”

She is but the lore treats it as ambiguous as in lore basically no one knows

She is, but people in universe don’t know that

apparently no, I dont remember where that was confirmed tho

She is called “the pale lady” but “the faceless” isn’t ever called that. Generally it’s complicated, there are both implications she could be The Faceless and direct statements she isn’t one. My theory is that it’s not her since the council was handpicked by Swain and it would be weird to put his biggest enemy by choice but it’s not completely out of the picture and it was intentionally left vague

Leblanc is the pale lady, but the faceless isn’t the pale lady

You're right! Technically, the Immortal Bastion is beneath the capital city, Noxus Prime, as the capital was built on top of it - but they're still often used interchangeably! A great piece of info!

@@JustBlaisYT i meant that the first pic isn't the capital city

@@wjillem3699 interesting! Is there a source for that? I’ve never seen that as anything other than Noxus Prime

@@JustBlaisYT noxus prime has three towers, if you look closely, you can see that the first pic has four.

Now we’re getting somewhere

This would be pretty cool the only problem is that one of the short stories confirmed that the faceless is human

She's been confirmed to NOT be the Faceless!

She isn't. The faceless is still unknown and Leblanc is just an ancient witch having a cult beneath the bastion.

we love the illusion of equality masking colonial machinations

@@JustBlaisYT Preach. If only there were a real world neocolonial superpower, to which we could apply the lessons we learned from noxus... Maybe one with a pithy little 3-letter acronym..

No its not 💀💀 its like russia everyone is equal like communism russia isnt much different from usa in the past

I hate Noxus...and many people just shrugging off their flaws because they are the "good guys" because of inclusivity...fck it