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Firstly, we open with an image of a wolf which represents one half of Kindred. This is in reference to Ambessa blood, sweat and Tears because Mel has “The Mark of the chosen/The Mark of the Wolf.” Also the opening starts on the same exact beach that Ambessa survived on, you can look at it shot for shot, I think it is on Rockrund, a beach near noxus. Next part shows Katarina attending a ball dance. For some context, League released some Noxus skins for Ezreal, Renata Glasc (the most powerful chembaron from Zaun), Thresh, and some others. The reasoning is that the “Black Rose” apparently has invited some other strong suitors to a party, hoping to gain their pledge. We don’t see them here (it is to be assumed they all might make teases or appearances in the next series), but Katarina snuck her way into the dance. Katarina is an assassin for Noxus, very skilled. Next we have Darius, a young darius going up against young Trundle, a troll from the Frejlord. Now we technically don’t know if Noxus at this point is attempting to push in Frejlord or if actually the Trolls came too far down on purpose. The Trolls of Frejlord are close with Lissandra who can make ice-borne weapons and true ice weapons. To keep it short, Trundle’s club is not “True” ice, if it was, no mere mortal can actually touch the weapon, they literally die if they touch the weapon. But “Ice-borne” weapons are still very strong weapons, which is why you see the weapon start to freeze Darius' hand and arm. The gate that Mel is walking up to is the opening Arch to Noxus and in the far distance is the home capital, Immortal Bastion. It actually is the largest standing building in all of Runeterra.. Next as Katarina is attempting to kill her target, we see Elise pop out who is a spider. She also got invited to the Noxus ball, presumably protecting someone. If I am correct, Elise is more of a shadow Isle’s champ, but she is part of the Black Rose because Leblanc saved her and she became mutated after being bitten by a Spider-demi god called “Vilemaw.”. At the very end, we officially get to see Leblanc, it is confirmed this is her official VGU (Visual Game Update) and as of right now, lore accatue appearance. Along with Leblanc we get to see Vladamir, he actually used to be human MANY centuries ago, but he magically altered himself, absorbed the power of darkin and has been using blood magic to keep himself young. Vlad and Leblanc established The Black Rose centuries ago and they work from the shadows. There is technically a third person, but we do not know who that is yet. We again hear reference to “opportunity washed up on our shore = Mel” (again showing a wolf because she has the mark of the wolf from Kindred) The calamity they are talking about is the return of Mordekaiser, which the black rose is trying to prevent. To keep it short, basically all of Runeterra does not want the mofo returning and he is actually banished underneath the immortal bastion (Also much of Runeterra doesn’t actually know who he is because when he existed was centuries ago, except for Leblanc and Vlad and any other people part of The Black Rose organization.) As per usual, the black are considered “evil”, but in their evil doings, they are trying to prevent a worse event from happening as referenced right above. The very last thing people are Guessing it’s either a reference to Aatrox sword, or Naafiri dagger, both of which are Darkin weapons. Hopefully that breaks everything down for ya lol. On a personal note I am mixed about this trailer. On one hand, it stands amazingly on its own, and it’s basically teasing their next series. Anybody correct if I am wrong, but Riot Games announced that this year, they would be resetting their seasons back to season 1 (thus why it’s called season 1 cinematic) and changing their format, since league came out in 2010, every year is considered 1 season = 1 year, thus they always do a top tier cinematic for launch. (this year would’ve been season 15 cinematic) . But this year, they are going to reset seasons, and “chapters” throughout the season, meaning they were upping their cinematics now to 3 in a year. My point being, I am slightly sad they didn’t do their other animation. I don’t know if Riot Games is just going to go full hard with Fortiche on everything moving forward, but compared to previous season trailers, just a slight let down. But if it wasn’t for comparison, it’s an amazing trailer and if we get two more this year, that would be awesome. They definitely let out a lot of champs people wanted such as Draven, Riven, Rell, Swain, Mordekaiser, Samira, Kled, and some others. I feel like for some very die hard fans of just league, it could start splitting up the player base/fan base, just slightly. I personally end up leaning towards loving this trailer though, I love the freaking music. I don’t think anybody expected to see Trundle or Frejlord and I think once we get into the Noxus show, they are definitely setting up all their puzzle pieces to then expand everywhere else, Shurima, Ionia, Frejlord, Demacia, etc. I also just wanted to point out if people haven’t thought about it, Katarina is a VERY skilled assassin, not only can elise transform into a spider whenever (Idk why she stops, but it’s a trailer) but to take on two arms, plus her spider arms, that takes some mad skill and training. Again I know it’s a trailer, but katarina is really bad ass, just like Darius, embodies much of Noxus willpower, strength, and skill.

1:09:11 Will go down in history for the visual?

Having no knowledge of LoL outside of Arcane, I had no idea who these characters were or which of them was important. I was totally expecting his head to pop off 😱

YES AISHA, LEBLANC HAS ARRIVED, I REPEAT: **MOTHER HAS ARRIVED!!**

where can I submit my unpopular opinion? I got a actual real hot take - Ekko is overrated and I don't like him, he got so much screen time and ended up with a weak and unsatisfying character arc

Thirst review 💯

I can already tell that Elise and Katarina are going to be my two favorite characters for the Noxus series. Their character designs are just peak levels of awesome and the way they fought with that music playing in the back? *Chefs Kiss*

“What’s in the water over in Noxus?” Girl I’m wondering the same damn thing🤣 they look so gooddddd! Mel, Katarina, LaBlanc, everyone

Christian Linke didn't give a confirmation on what location is next after Arcane, but stated in an interview with Necrit that the Regions they are looking at most are Noxus, Ionia and Demacia. Noxus is the logical followup to Arcane in my mind, since we've already been introduced to the area in Arcane. The reason many people say "this has nothing to do with the next show, its the next League season" is that the next League season is indeed focused on Noxus, they are making changes to the map, will be releasing champions and skins related to the Region. But my only response to that is: Can't it be both?

YESSSSS I WANTED TO SEE THIS REACTION SO MUCH 🎉🎉🎉

Mel is gorgeous as always, but the LeBlanc, Katarina and Elise designs are just... chef's kiss. Fortiche people really know how to design and animate hot characters in a way that you don't usually see. Speaking of, Darius and Trundle having a shirtless wrestling match also made me feel some kind of way. Like, believe it or not, Trundle already had some official art that made him look like a thirst trap, and he has his fair share of... fans, but Fortiche just effortlessly pushes it further without making it the main appeal.

Katarina is GORGEOUS omg her design is FIRE I'm OBSESSED!!! I'm also biased about red hair so that totally helps 🤣. I just want more of her and Mel plz

10:20 you're starting to experience every League players feelings about the game xD

"It's giving timebomb" 😭🤣

Spider woman was Elise. She can transform from a woman into a spider.

Elise is actually my favorite female character design 4:47 so i feel you 😂❤

👋 Sorryyyyy running late on watching your vids, I had to take time to watch the show first (and course family stuff, holidays) Loved the show overall! BUT I had to drag my knuckles through the first few episodes, I have my opinions, and I will share them near the end of the season watch 👀👀👀

The beach Mel stands is the same beach Ambessa stands at the end of Blood Sweat & Tears

Just WOW! There are not enough words in any language to describe my excitement and the DETAILS! THEY NEVER MISS!! Aahhhh my Arcane withdrawals are being soothed and satiated from this. It's so great to be back!!

OOO HOW DID I MISS THIS!! I'll BRB going to watch the vid!

Dope trailer. P&Z was only the beginning

It's great watch or react to this videos by Necrit. What Is The Black Rose? (Arcane Lore Explained) How League's New Skins Expand The Lore And League's Universe Explained For Arcane Fans

Apparently this Bite marks 2025 cinematic chapter 1 is one of more than there are chapters in League of Legends so there will be cinematics for it. Necrit is already working on explaination video. Plus he will see a new comic soon and it seems to me that the Arcane Ambese Chosen of the Wolf book is still available in English.

Champion trailers/teasers next lol

Crown getting melted into a sword for a former slave is the shit. Arcane watchers shipping every possible brotherhood into a couple thing is getting cringe no.. its just brotherhood

dang i missed a lot since act 1 i love these keep reacting to whats happening on the screen its great.. honestly i would love watching you go through champ lores,teasers,trailers reading stuff etc...

Riot is really good at providing content creators and streamers with unique opportunities to try new stuff and go to different events. They invited you to the Arcane Season 2 premiere right? Go ahead a spend the next year learning french, then just ask Riot for a tour of Fortiche. Make it a suggestion for some kind of event. They might send you and hand full of YTers to Fortiche. Nothing beats a failure but a try!

I hope that people are more forgiving of Ambessa once they learn more about Noxus because literally young mel wouldn’t have survived growing up in noxus, she didn’t have brutality for it. Also compared to other characters Ambessa is very conniving but not the MOST evil person lol

when I saw this i knew you were about to be hype about katarina...... thats OUR GIRLLLLLLLL.... they put in her abilities so well in her fight with elise

miss fortune in noxus kek

Champions: Darius The Hand of Noxus, Trundle The Troll King, Katarina The Sinister Blade, Elise The Spider Queen, LeBlanc The Deceiver, Vladimir The Crimson Reaper

Noxus is the greatest military power on Runeterra. If it falls, what then?

Theory time:My thoughts are that this is a younger Darius, years before the establishment of the Trifarix. Maybe right after he has become the Hand of Noxus. Darius is going to have a new axe! He's gonna get the fat one from 2XKO, the Runeterra based fighting game that is supposed to come out late this year! I also think that the Silken Dance( the masquerade that Katarina fought Elise in) isn't a one time game event, but rather a Black Rose tradition used to conduct sensitive business and scout new possible members. I think Arcane happens much earlier on the timeline than most fans think and that the next show should pick up with Mel and her return to Noxus as matriarch of the Mardardas. Boram Darkwill should still be ruling Noxus, and this should be before the the 1st invasion of Ionia. Singed being a wanted man in Piltover-Zaun has also fled to Noxus, where he will be recruited by their military to make weapons. The main storyline should be the what going on in Noxus during the Ionian invasion, Darkwill's fall, and the rise of the Trifarix. I want this to be about 4 seasons. I think Rell should be introduced as Mel's unknown twin! I think that would be interesting. Ambessa should have been the person running the Black Rose's mage School/weapons project. It was deal she made with LeBlanc in order to add mages into her bloodline. According to the deal, she was to give all arcane gifted children to the Black Rose for training, but she hid Mel's power instead and sent her to Piltover partially for that reason. We might get a few scenes of the war because the latter half of this show, Seasons 3 & 4, take place during the Ionian invasion, but it shouldn't really focus on that, the main plot should still focus inside NoxusI I would have the next show after Noxus, be in Demacia. It would be 5 seasons. S1 would start about a year or so before the Noxus show ends. It would set up characters like Lux, Garen, Jarvan IV, Sylas, and Fiora, as well as have major flashbacks to Targon with the story of Pantheon, Kayle, and Morgana. S2-S4 would address the system of the mageseekers, continue progression of the Kayle/Morgana story, give side stories for Shyvana and Fiddlesticks and show the creation of Galio. S5 would have the full outing of Lux as a mage and the full Mage Rebellion. In the very last episode Jinx would show up to help Demacia rebuild and restructure their society and start to build a life long friendship with Lux. This canonically should start around the same time as the last year of Arcane's story, Outside of flashbacks, this should be about a 5 year story. Sometime after the Noxus show ends, but before the Demacia show does, a theatrical movie release should happen. It should be a story about Jinx in a Bilgewater adventure. That is where she headed after leaving Piltover-Zaun. After a high speed, adrenaline pumping, gun blazing pirate adventure with Miss Fortune, and being tested by Illoai, she should head to Demacia. The events of this movie should happen a few weeks after the events of the Ruin King game. They could introduce Nilah here and coincide a new champion drop ingame with Jack, The Winner! He's a badass Sharkman who made some unknown deal with Tahm Kench. Also, in Legends of Runeterra, a digital TCG, Miss Fortune has a monkey idol that is stated to have been taken by her from some old enemy. Also, there is a slot machine robot that had a 3 bomb jackpot and it actually blew up the 1st time someone hit the Jackpot. They've since fixed the robot but removed the bomb function.. I think it would be cool if Jinx was the original designer of the robot and made the idol in a buhru temple.

The moment I saw Katarina in there I immediately thought: oh boy Aisha is gonna love this!

*Darius literally fighting with every ounce of strength he has* “Come on man fight back” Lmao. Great reaction.

Fortiche has done all the cinematics for the last like 8 years or so!

Hi Aisha - I thought you would like this! Glad you did =) In my oppinion Mel's arrival and the exchange between Vic and LeBlanc hint strongly at what the follow up series is going to be. The rest is more what we would expect from a (game) season cinematic and this 1st season (split) of League which the title is refering to, is going to be Noxus themed in game. Still - it's likely that the shown in game champions will be part of the show as well , but maybe not the shown scenes...

Great reaction to the video! I'm excited for any future show or movie that Riot and Fortiche makes together after Arcane. Personally, I'm hoping for a "Noxus vs Ionia" or "Noxus vs Demacia" series. ^_^

Welcome home mel there are no nerd scientists here I think you'll miss them

Regarding learning French and going to Fortiche, after 4 months unemployed after a mass layoff. Im super tempted to get the fuck out and go to Paris to be a lighting/comp artist for Fortiche. But I don't know French and I'm sure I will suffer immensely. I get a bit of a laugh out of the idea there are probably tons of Arcane fans trying to find the Fortiche studio and it reminds me of a time where we had a production on my floor that was doing a My Little Pony special, and we actually had a "brony problem" where they sort of took advantage of people being polite and holding doors, inadvertantly letting in the bronies that would sneak into the studio. We had emails about it, it was madness. I wonder if Fortiche has the same issue with Arcane fans ahaha.

“its giving timebomb. everything reminds me of them” you making me imagine a darius x trundle romance

We are addicted

After over a decade of cinematics, I feel like Riot with Fortiche has finally defined their art-style. 2013 we had a the slightly campy flat-material look like in Get Jinxed (which is still great, but it's a dated look), we went through the hyper-realistic for its time cinematics which look good but it feels like any other game cinematic. And now we have had a build up over the last few years of worlds videos and Arcane to land in this truly iconic art-style that is fully their own. It's gotten to a point that we now in the animation industry refer to this style by naming Fortiche or Arcane. I now think of this art style explicitely as Fortiche-esque if someone else was to be similar visually. There is a certain tragedy regarding studios that put out absolutely phenomenal art, they collapse because the cost of their efforts outweighs the financial stability compared to cheap content-pumping. Despite Riot's inexperience with full-fledged animation (at least Arcane as a full length series was new to them) they seem to understand this reality, and they worked really hard to keep the lights on at Fortiche during Arcane's production pause, and I think we will keep getting cinematics like these between production cycles of their next series. Riot understands the value of Fortiche and the foreclosure of such a studio would be a tragedy. Oh also, anybody getting a touch of Silco vibes out of Vladimir at the end here? It's how he sharply moves his head as he speaks, and the narrow flat bridge of his nose. Honestly I love it. "This fandom is a prison".. that hits home hard. I have not been able to move on. Nobody else is doing this level. I get people say certain anime's are far superior to this and I've looked into them and it doesn't remotely connect to me. I was so concerned that post-season2 that I was gonna be in a dire dry-spell but this cinematic immediately had me sated for the time being.

I get so much joy from seeing you excited about this stuff. I'm pretty reserved on the surface but underneath I am nerding out hardcore, so your giddiness makes me feel so understood.

Darius was fighting Trundle, the king of the trolls. Katarina was fighting Elise. The last two characters you saw were LeBlanc and Vladimir.

5:01 I think its called "true ice" from the watchers or sth like that and the ogre looking guy (who's also a champion in LoL) might be an iceborn. Necrit said sth about true ice in his lore videos which I can recommend. 6:05, 7:05 that is Noxus capital city called the Immortal Bastion

Art is better when it has a finish, I'm glad Arcane didn't ride until the wheels fell off...they respect their audience.

I totally agree on so many levels with you. I also wasn't sure if I could get excited over another show than Arcane. This cinematic showed me: "Yes I can!". I still want some of the plot holes of season 2 to be filled, but if they chose to do it with a rpg or a spin off movie starting there I am completely fine with it. I will embrace a Noxus show with open arms. 😍 And yes all the champions look fire, BUT the Fortiche treatment made them way less oversexualized at the same time. They did the same with Arcane. Just compare their looks to the old splash arts. And they are still hot af in this cinematic. I like that a lot. Elise the spider queen may be may fav (says the guy with the arachnophobia) 😍😍 Great reaction. Absolutely relateable!👍

the end credit scene could be a hint for the next show

Hot take - Vi and Cait didn’t get a happy ending. Their ending was uncertain, full of trauma and grief. Even the dialogue between them feels uncertain