Makes perfect sense: the audience is familiar with Mel and enjoys her character. She will be our eyes into this land we’ve heard about while searching for the Black Rose and rebuilding her house since the BR seems to have stripped those holdings from House Medarda.
plus she has actual in lore plot armor but the skill, knowledge and ability to back it up Mel is the chosen of the wolf. she is watched over and protected by kindred for god knows what for since she was a literal seedling. meaning she's also our eyes into the higher lore topics as well what dos kindred want her to do? probably to kill mortikizer and/or lablank. kindred wants that whole faction dead but as hes just the ferryman of the dead hes an observer till their rightful time has come. best he can do is challenge them at death door to make sure they die, if they havent already been pireced by one of his arrows or torn apart by the worlf. the thing is that whole faction be cheating death and as the actual god of death is gone kindred is in a weird position. he cant get rid of the ghosts as for one reason or another they survived his arrows. thus he made a new one out of one of his champions and her name is mel (yes this is why places like the shadow isle can be. kindred holds no true power over death, technically mortikizer hold more then he dos and mortikizer is a chariltan pretending to be the god of death. actual god of death? who know the true god havent been on ruintara longer then most of the new gods can even remember back to)
Yo did anyone notice that Mel’s eyes are no longer the same hazel-green that they used to be? They’ve become gray with spots of color, similar to Viktors after the hexcore. I bet it has something to do with Mel’s awakened powers as mages have unnatural eye colors, as well as possibly relating to the visions she’s seen to get in this MV?? Normally in arcane unnatural eye colors are often synonymous with corruption (jinx and silco corrupted by shimmer, Viktor corrupted by the hexcore/magic, etc.) so this’ll be interesting relating to Mel’s entire “you will never be a passenger” and dealing with the lack of control she feels in relation to her power and new role in the world after having her entire world turned upside down.
Not to mention I feel like the colors inside Mel’s eyes might be related to her whole empath thing? Maybe as she uses her powers more and sees the world through different ppls eyes/feels more ppls feelings their eye colors will be added to the mix? Rn it looks like the colors might be an almost gold and green, which could be related to her past eye color or possibly some characters she has interacted with in the past. (Jayce? Viktor? Her mother? Leblanc? Lest? Idk man) anyways crazy far fetched theory but it would be cool to see it.
within league lore Noxus is an expansionist empire that is currently running military campaigns in Freljord, and Ionia with Darius leading many of the Frelijodian campaigns. Trundle's club is also made of true ice which can not be melted and kills non-iceborn (such as Darius) who touch it, Darius surviving holding a true ice frozen axe is genuinely one of the most bad ass things one could possibly do in Runterra.
Super interesting to see right of the bat the parallel between Mel and Leblanc even in this teaser. We see Mel trailing her hands along the history of noxus carved into a stone, an unchangeable past, while Leblanc trails her fingers over changing pictures of the present, events currently taking place (besides the Darius one, which doesn’t actually depict Darius but rather a symbol of the trifarix adding onto my whole theory that that is absolutely past Darius), events leading up to something she is planning and laying the blueprints for. Basically we see Mel grappling with the unchangeable past, what is set in stone, destiny and history, in contrast to Leblancs relationship with the present and future. This definitely has something to do with Mel’s tragedy of having to accept her “destiny” of becoming the wolf and taking after her mother, becoming the noxian she was “always meant to be” while also having to deal with the fallout of her mothers actions (against the black rose, in noxus in general). I’m excited to see where Mel’s arc will go since her arcane s2 arc felt incomplete because of lack of information + tonal whiplash, hopefully this series will make some amends.
I also think that leblancs relationship with the ever changing present and future is another interesting take on immortality in comparison to that of heimerdinger, seeing as Leblanc is 1000+ years old. Both heimerdinger and Leblancs character revolve around preventing calamity based on their knowledge of the past, but heimerdinger keeps his head in the clouds and stayed fixated on said past, unable to live in the present and completely uninvolved in what is actually going on behind the scenes, oblivious. To contrast this, leblancs knowledge of the past and goal of preventing mordekaiser from entering their realm (calamity), she actively works to manipulate the present and future into elaborate plans from behind the scenes.
I really hope that Noxus won't be so heavy on the understanding of the lore, as I really wanna understand the character but as a person who's never even touched LoL besides Arcane I don't know any Lore But I'm glad I watched this vid as it did give me a little more of a base to understand
i’m so excited for another season! i’m glad they plan on expanding the story and will most likely add, what it seems, more magic involved in the fights. also happy to finally see another mao video. also MEL? like finally this girl is getting more story time she’s a godess
Darius' flashback is when he was younger, most likely stopping the Freljordian Trolls' attempts at raiding Noxian settlements, Katarina infiltrated Elise's little Silken danse (where she invites prospective members of the black rose.... or just people who will literally be on the menu for her and all the blood mages around), Mel there isnt much to say, and Lb and Vlad were most likely not referring to Naafiri, but some different goal they'll be saving till the next show. I am quite excited to see what they cook. Do you know if they'll be continuing the next series with Fortiche or if they will work their Riot magic to elevate some other relatively small studio to greatness?
Can you please make a video about one tiny detail about Jinx in season 1? She was in her room after the screw up on the ship. She was talking to herself and one of her bombs looked like it was about to go off, but she went off instead. Also I forgot to mention that Isha has a few details on her outfit from Silco, Vander and Felicia as well. The black wristbands are Vander, the Damascus patterns are Silco and her necklace is Felicia.
I’m very excited to see what they have in store for us. I’m it’s asking for a lot but I hope we see jinx 😅.. it also wouldn’t make sense tbh. Just wishful thinking bcs I’m hoping she’s alive !
i REALLY hope that they DON'T have leblanc's league look. i think her look in arcane was PERFECTION, even if it's not her "real face", i don't think we need to know what that is. or at least, not this early.
I'm not sure if we can really get A SHOW in the future. It's never confirmed by Riot. Maybe what Christian Linke said about exploring the lore is just these cinematics. I hope I'm wrong.
@@beden653 Considering the economic situation and the crazy budget of Arcane, they may have changed their original plan. Maybe that's why they never used the word SHOW on future projects. Of course i hope their next move can be bolder, not safer.
@Zelig21 They need to find a good way to monetize their projects. No one wants to play a game with a toxic community with echoes of interesting characters.
I've seen some news articles where Alex yee said they are aggressively producing arcane content and Cofounder said that their profits allow them to create bangers, as it's a brand passion project. Tencent is usually hands off and hopefully a movie will be much more profitable
@@maofone th-cam.com/video/myTwJWJRhJs/w-d-xo.html Here's a Chinese animation TH-camr based in San Francisco. He was invited to the Act3 premiere a month ago. According to his latest video, he had a conversation with Linke at the premiere and Linke said there will be no more shows like Arcane. Future story will be released in multiple ways like cinematics and MMORPG. I don't know if Linke said that in a very certain way or just some random talk so I still get some hope. But to be honest it's more likely that we won't get a show anymore. Movie could be an option and surprise, but I'm really afraid it will lead to a Marvel/Disneyland way which is a totally waste for Fortiche's talent. TV series is perfect.
Since when is the C in Leblanc silent? I think someone lied to you lol, maybe it the case in like french but you are pronouncing Leblanc from league correctly.
Makes perfect sense: the audience is familiar with Mel and enjoys her character. She will be our eyes into this land we’ve heard about while searching for the Black Rose and rebuilding her house since the BR seems to have stripped those holdings from House Medarda.
plus she has actual in lore plot armor but the skill, knowledge and ability to back it up
Mel is the chosen of the wolf. she is watched over and protected by kindred for god knows what for since she was a literal seedling. meaning she's also our eyes into the higher lore topics as well
what dos kindred want her to do?
probably to kill mortikizer and/or lablank. kindred wants that whole faction dead but as hes just the ferryman of the dead hes an observer till their rightful time has come. best he can do is challenge them at death door to make sure they die, if they havent already been pireced by one of his arrows or torn apart by the worlf. the thing is that whole faction be cheating death and as the actual god of death is gone kindred is in a weird position. he cant get rid of the ghosts as for one reason or another they survived his arrows. thus he made a new one out of one of his champions and her name is mel
(yes this is why places like the shadow isle can be. kindred holds no true power over death, technically mortikizer hold more then he dos and mortikizer is a chariltan pretending to be the god of death. actual god of death? who know the true god havent been on ruintara longer then most of the new gods can even remember back to)
I feel like noxus is gonna be a dark series and I’m here for it
Yo did anyone notice that Mel’s eyes are no longer the same hazel-green that they used to be? They’ve become gray with spots of color, similar to Viktors after the hexcore. I bet it has something to do with Mel’s awakened powers as mages have unnatural eye colors, as well as possibly relating to the visions she’s seen to get in this MV?? Normally in arcane unnatural eye colors are often synonymous with corruption (jinx and silco corrupted by shimmer, Viktor corrupted by the hexcore/magic, etc.) so this’ll be interesting relating to Mel’s entire “you will never be a passenger” and dealing with the lack of control she feels in relation to her power and new role in the world after having her entire world turned upside down.
Not to mention I feel like the colors inside Mel’s eyes might be related to her whole empath thing? Maybe as she uses her powers more and sees the world through different ppls eyes/feels more ppls feelings their eye colors will be added to the mix? Rn it looks like the colors might be an almost gold and green, which could be related to her past eye color or possibly some characters she has interacted with in the past. (Jayce? Viktor? Her mother? Leblanc? Lest? Idk man) anyways crazy far fetched theory but it would be cool to see it.
within league lore Noxus is an expansionist empire that is currently running military campaigns in Freljord, and Ionia with Darius leading many of the Frelijodian campaigns. Trundle's club is also made of true ice which can not be melted and kills non-iceborn (such as Darius) who touch it, Darius surviving holding a true ice frozen axe is genuinely one of the most bad ass things one could possibly do in Runterra.
I love mel’s empath form
The CEO of twinks got me off guard 😂
Super interesting to see right of the bat the parallel between Mel and Leblanc even in this teaser. We see Mel trailing her hands along the history of noxus carved into a stone, an unchangeable past, while Leblanc trails her fingers over changing pictures of the present, events currently taking place (besides the Darius one, which doesn’t actually depict Darius but rather a symbol of the trifarix adding onto my whole theory that that is absolutely past Darius), events leading up to something she is planning and laying the blueprints for. Basically we see Mel grappling with the unchangeable past, what is set in stone, destiny and history, in contrast to Leblancs relationship with the present and future. This definitely has something to do with Mel’s tragedy of having to accept her “destiny” of becoming the wolf and taking after her mother, becoming the noxian she was “always meant to be” while also having to deal with the fallout of her mothers actions (against the black rose, in noxus in general). I’m excited to see where Mel’s arc will go since her arcane s2 arc felt incomplete because of lack of information + tonal whiplash, hopefully this series will make some amends.
I also think that leblancs relationship with the ever changing present and future is another interesting take on immortality in comparison to that of heimerdinger, seeing as Leblanc is 1000+ years old. Both heimerdinger and Leblancs character revolve around preventing calamity based on their knowledge of the past, but heimerdinger keeps his head in the clouds and stayed fixated on said past, unable to live in the present and completely uninvolved in what is actually going on behind the scenes, oblivious. To contrast this, leblancs knowledge of the past and goal of preventing mordekaiser from entering their realm (calamity), she actively works to manipulate the present and future into elaborate plans from behind the scenes.
The animation in this Cinematic is so clean
I really hope that Noxus won't be so heavy on the understanding of the lore, as I really wanna understand the character but as a person who's never even touched LoL besides Arcane I don't know any Lore
But I'm glad I watched this vid as it did give me a little more of a base to understand
Definitely will be accessible because that's just good storytelling. I don't like researching league lore cuz that tends to spoil me
i’m so excited for another season! i’m glad they plan on expanding the story and will most likely add, what it seems, more magic involved in the fights. also happy to finally see another mao video. also MEL? like finally this girl is getting more story time she’s a godess
Btw it’s a new show, not a new season
@SulkyStella yeah i know. my bad
2:06 my favourite running joke in this community this is great
Darius' flashback is when he was younger, most likely stopping the Freljordian Trolls' attempts at raiding Noxian settlements, Katarina infiltrated Elise's little Silken danse (where she invites prospective members of the black rose.... or just people who will literally be on the menu for her and all the blood mages around), Mel there isnt much to say, and Lb and Vlad were most likely not referring to Naafiri, but some different goal they'll be saving till the next show.
I am quite excited to see what they cook. Do you know if they'll be continuing the next series with Fortiche or if they will work their Riot magic to elevate some other relatively small studio to greatness?
Can you please make a video about one tiny detail about Jinx in season 1? She was in her room after the screw up on the ship. She was talking to herself and one of her bombs looked like it was about to go off, but she went off instead. Also I forgot to mention that Isha has a few details on her outfit from Silco, Vander and Felicia as well. The black wristbands are Vander, the Damascus patterns are Silco and her necklace is Felicia.
I made a short about that before as per your suggestion
Mel is peak bueaty
I’m jealous that Jayce got to lay it down with her
I’m very excited to see what they have in store for us.
I’m it’s asking for a lot but I hope we see jinx 😅.. it also wouldn’t make sense tbh. Just wishful thinking bcs I’m hoping she’s alive !
one evolved twink is crazy 💀4:07
I assure you, no league of legends player pronounces LeBlanc with the C silent lol
The symbol at 2:43 is a fist within an axe for the Hand of Noxus.
i REALLY hope that they DON'T have leblanc's league look. i think her look in arcane was PERFECTION, even if it's not her "real face", i don't think we need to know what that is. or at least, not this early.
I'm not sure if we can really get A SHOW in the future. It's never confirmed by Riot. Maybe what Christian Linke said about exploring the lore is just these cinematics. I hope I'm wrong.
Even in the first season documentary, the creators said that after the second season there will be stories outside of Piltover
@@beden653 Considering the economic situation and the crazy budget of Arcane, they may have changed their original plan. Maybe that's why they never used the word SHOW on future projects. Of course i hope their next move can be bolder, not safer.
@Zelig21 They need to find a good way to monetize their projects. No one wants to play a game with a toxic community with echoes of interesting characters.
I've seen some news articles where Alex yee said they are aggressively producing arcane content and Cofounder said that their profits allow them to create bangers, as it's a brand passion project. Tencent is usually hands off and hopefully a movie will be much more profitable
@@maofone th-cam.com/video/myTwJWJRhJs/w-d-xo.html Here's a Chinese animation TH-camr based in San Francisco. He was invited to the Act3 premiere a month ago. According to his latest video, he had a conversation with Linke at the premiere and Linke said there will be no more shows like Arcane. Future story will be released in multiple ways like cinematics and MMORPG. I don't know if Linke said that in a very certain way or just some random talk so I still get some hope. But to be honest it's more likely that we won't get a show anymore. Movie could be an option and surprise, but I'm really afraid it will lead to a Marvel/Disneyland way which is a totally waste for Fortiche's talent. TV series is perfect.
all i need is mel as the protagonist and if it's possible maybe some mel x leblanc action 😍😍😍😍😍😘😘
do i need to clarify that im joking lmao@@dylanpurnell7480
@@crisssstopher You should've put (i'm joking btw) or something like that at the end.
@@dylanpurnell7480 nah the emojis already are the tone indicators
@@crisssstopher Sorry, I'm not very good at talking to people, whether that be online or irl.
Mel betraying Leblanc was so funny cuz like you killed her best friend wtf did you expect
2:43 Darius
Since when is the C in Leblanc silent? I think someone lied to you lol, maybe it the case in like french but you are pronouncing Leblanc from league correctly.
Probably someone lied to me idk where I got that from
Leblanc is a French name and when u pronounce it correctly (as in the French pronunciation) I believe it should have a silent C. Idk tho
Oh Mel. Always the most boring part of everything you’re in. At least you’re sparkling now!