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steelandscience · 2 years

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Earlier I found a fantastic episode by episode analysis of little League tidbits left in Arcane, made by @sylvanas-girlkisser. And it got me thinking again about where the heck Jayce and his mom were in the flashback scene again, so I thought I would make a post about it, just to compile my thoughts and questions. If anyone has any headcanons or ideas or lore to share, please do!!

If we assume that Jayce and Ximena Talis are in Frejlord, which is the most common theory I've seen, then I have a few questions:

Does anyone have any theories or headcanons as to what they were doing in Frejlord? It’s been a while since I’ve seen anything about it. I know Jayce says that his family essentially forged the tools that Piltover was built with (which I always took to be kind of both metaphorical for good rhetoric as he gives speeches and also literal), so I’m assuming he is from Piltover, and not an immigrant into Piltover.

(Although if he was an immigrant into an already established Piltovan family… that could be interesting… especially because different aspects of Jayce seem to vacillate between upper class and Piltovan working class.)

Frejlord doesn’t exactly seem like the place people would go for a pleasurable vacation lol. And if it’s this far away, how did they get there in the first place? I could be very wrong, but travel doesn’t seem particularly fast in Runeterra.

There’s also Targon, which has snowy mountains as well, and is also supposed to have a safer grassy area around the base of the mountain. But it’s not that much closer to Piltover than Frejlord is, and I don’t know why baby Jayce and his mom would be voluntarily climbing up Runeterra’s magical version of Mount Everest, so I don’t know that it’s very likely. Also what little we see of the mountains in the show look quite different from the geographic features for the art of Mount Targon.

Now, after the realm warp / teleportation...

I don't know much about Ryze and how his power works, but I was wondering if we know anything about WHERE Ryze realm warped Jayce and Ximena to? Is the grassy field just the base of the mountains just north of Piltover, as we can see Piltover is surrounded by mountains on the map?

The butterfly Jayce sees when they land is the same as the butterfly Viktor sees in Zaun (cute), so I feel like it would make sense for Jayce and his mom to have been deposited near Piltover.

If he did place them neatly into Piltover, how did Ryze know where Jayce and his mom needed to go? Because they were so far from home if they were in Frejlord, what if he accidentally put them in a safe place but in a place where it would take them months to get back home? (I’m genuinely asking haha I don’t know much about Ryze at all)

Is it possible they were just caught in the snow in the normal mountains just north of Piltover, and weren’t in Frejlord at all? I can’t find any definitive information as to if it snows in Piltover; I have read that it's supposed to have a rather equatorial warm climate in lore, but in Arcane, Caitlyn has the shooting competition with Grayson in the snow. And if Jayce and his mom ended up in Piltover (or just outside it), we do see snowy mountains in the background.

If that area of the world experiences all four seasons, perhaps they weren't in Frejlord at all... Maybe they were just there in the mountains around Piltover in the wrong season and were unlucky enough to encounter a blizzard. I mean, I’ve often seen places like Norway and Greenland depicted as “snowy” on world maps, like Frejlord here because there is a certain degree of permafrost in those countries, but a bad winter blizzard in the northern half of the United States (where they still get all four seasons) has as much likeliness to give you frostbite from exposure as any other snowy place, right?

Anyway, I think I'm starting to believe that Jayce and Ximena were not that far from Piltover at all, and Ryze was just there for Reasons, and he deposited them to the nearest geographical safe spot, which was also-- thankfully-- still quite close to their home.

#but if anyone has any ideas as to what they would be doing in frejlord or how they got there please let me know!!#i would genuinely love to hear them #im a sucker for jayce traveling the world lol #I think it just interests me because travel shapes your outlook on the world so much #especially if you have a near death experience while travelling lol #also i know nothing about ryze besides the fact that he is pretty much the only mage that could have realm warped jayce and ximena #so if you have any interesting tidbits about him please send them my way!!#asks and reblogs and replies are always welcome #im a lore nerd for everything i like lmfao #sir e speaks #jayce arcane #ryze #jayce league of legends #arcane meta #arcane analysis #arcane thoughts #arcane league of legends #league of legends lore

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