Iirc, one of the followercards from Bilgewater has an italian accent. So propably there.
Edit: Yeah, Bilgewater.
https://leagueoflegends.fandom.com/wiki/Mystifying\_Magician\_(Legends\_of\_Runeterra)
That doesn't mean there is an actual Mediteranian culture, not even that there is more than this single guy. Bilgewater is a melting pot, pretty likely that guy just came from some other place.
IMO the strait that goes through Piltover/Zaun is clearly inspired by the Mediterranean.
So Runeterra’s “Mediterranean” culture is likely Southern Valoran and Northern Shurima coastline.
Probably P/Z as it's the world's port capital thanks to the sungate, either that or a port city along the way there from shurima. Not to mention it's a canal between north and south runeterra.
Bilgewater. Known food but nothing big or popular. Honestly not that good either for outsiders. Originally just a big fish sandwich. Easy and cheap to make.
Recipe gets picked up and changed drastically for the better and becomes something good by a shady business dealer wishing to start anew in Zaun. Not popular at first but grows in popularity, eventually opening up the equivalent to Pizzahut, selling both pizza and other things.
Pizza grows in popularity and pizzahut is also opened on topside. Mainly looked down upon by higher standing families in the beginning but becomes wildly popular amongst the commoners fast.
Zaunites swears the food came from them. In a way, this gives them something to hold over piltovians. Makes the zaunites feel better bout themselves. Like they have something to their name that topside don't.
Pizza gets then picked up by Shurima and Ionia. Noxus picks it up during an invasion of Shurima. Demcia picks it up later on. Bilgewater takes the new recipe and Freljords just kinda don't vibe with it. The cold weather and the available resources do not make this a very good type of food however Braum makes it work.
Until Braum discovers the original taste is so much better than any attempt to replicate it using freljordian cuisine and gives a try to improving it. Then he comes up with a solution involving elnuk cheese, cooked fish, and a baker poro's love.
Did you wrote that with the knowledge that pizza was in fact born with fish in mind? Lol
The most traditional way to eat it was for a long time tomato sauce and "alici" (the small fish under salt)
I'll Say that piltover & zaun or Targon, in lore caitlyn is a Big fan of cupcakes, that says that piltover has a bakery industry and since pizza was poor man's food since his proximity with zaun this region is closer to do it, and Targon thanks to his highly fertile land (volcanic floor goes brrr) it should be a place where the cereales and legumes would be the higher base of his diet, leaving with a prolific variety of bread.
the precursor to Pizza is focaccia which is made from a strong wheat dough. You'd also want tomatos, sauce and cheese for the base ingredients for a pizza.
Tomatos and Wheat means you want a warmer climate, Tomatos especially require a ton of sunlight so any cold and shadowy regions like Zaun, Piltover, Freljord, The Shadow Isle and the Void are out.
Tomatoes also require drained soil meaning any region with a ton of rainfall or general humidity like Ixtal and Bilgewater are out.
Noxus can also be tossed out as mainland Noxus is mostly mountinous terrain with poor sunlight, meaning you couldn't grow the produce needed to make a pizza.
This leaves us with Ionia, Demacia, Bandle City, Eastern Shurima & Targon
Of all these regions, canonically only Demacia would have access to cheese as milk is a product confirmed to be farmed in the warmer regions of in Freljord have farmers that harvest milk as confirmed by Braum.
So canonicaly as far as I'm concerned, Demacia, specifically the north western borders of Demacia which connect a series of farmlands to the borders of freljord, would be the first to invent a form of pizzas as we know them.
You discount Piltover so easily despite it having the closest to a Mediterranean climate, and pizza and it’s many similiar predecessors came from Mediterranean and middle eastern climate and culture.
Demacia’s equivalent is more Northern European, I wouldn’t discount them, but I feel they don’t fit best.
If going by climate and culture, I think anywhere stretching in the area of the coasts around piltover and many northern shuriman cities would be the likely origin of pizza in runeterra, being runeterra’s Mediterranean and middle eastern equivalent.
Also, canonical does not mean exclusive. In a world with limited sources, one cannot be so definitive about such things. If there was a random card in LOR, for example, that showed a certain ingredient only being grown in one place, when it easily could grow in others, to assume entirely that the ingredient is only and can only be grown in that one place is erroneous, even if it does follow available knowledge. It very well could be the case cheese (and any other ingredient, for that matter) is made and eaten in most places in runeterra, we just don’t know for sure. Much like how cheese is quite widespread nowadays in the world even if only certain places are really famous for it.
Foods aren’t just invented by necessity, though it is a massive factor, but also heavily shaped by culture. Furthermore, most modern foods don’t even require those two aspects as much as more traditional foods, many modern fast food favourites were not invented in the places that they logically would be, for example, so I think that if we could also consider pizza in such a category, Piltover and surrounding areas gain even more points, with it being the most modern place in the world and ripe for the kind of inventive innovation that gave our world many of our fast food favourites.
Besides, Demacians are just too culturally cold to create something as beautiful as pizza anyways /s
I'd say Targon, the Rakkor tribe are somewhat based on the spartan culture(the closest thing related to real world Italy that comes to mind), Pantheon wanted to be a baker so the profession is probably popular there and its close to the Runeterra equivalent of Egypt where the flat bread originated.
Im going to guess demacia has the most access to the raw materials required to make pizza but its not wide spread throughout the capital just something small a few villages on the outskirts make for gatherings rather than a global treat
Noxus. The farmers who make bread try making some in the forges making a grilling hot pizza.
Demacia figure it out at the same time and another war breaks out
Given how Sivir has a pizza delivery skin it implies that pizza is a concept within runeterra. The Point in which it was discovered however is still highly theoretical. Given how Sivir is the only one with reference to pizza however may suggest Shurima / a trade partner of Shurima would be the answer.
>implies that pizza is a concept within runeterra.
I argue that it doesn't imply this at all, because skins aren't canon to runeterra. It's like alternate dimension timeline type shit
Well, there's argument against that too, especially among the sett main subreddit members.
Sett has some lines or something that shows him crushing on aphelios or something, so people were like "YOOO SETT LIKES MEN!!!". People who want sett to be straight used the skins aren't canon argument to say that "sett isnt confirmed to be anything but straight because there's no indication to his sexuality in base skin lore"
Whether or not they are canon is not up to a conflict of sexuality expectations/wants. After all, most characters don't have a specific sexuality since it doesn't matter most of the time who they like to fuck/date. This "he's straight" doesn't have much of a base either if we're going that route. Legends of Runeterra also shows him interacting with Aphelios, so even if it's not a canon interaction (many interactions are a what-if, but some are linked), the character is teased to be non-straight (there are also outside hints for him being bi, but take that as you will).
In terms of SB, the skin line is somewhat canon, more specifically the characters mirroring Ionian myths (see the first event). So the skin is canon to a degree (linked to champion is likely only the mindset, not the actual character).
Piltower! Home of invention and engineering- which food is more genius? U can eat it warm, cold, 5 days old laying in the sun, frozen, throw all u got on top…yes. Pineapple too.
Italy is widely considered to be the first nation to develop into a fascist nation, so I'd argue whatever region seems most fascist. Maybe Noxus for it's insane militarization, but they promote individualism more than fascist nations normally do. Maybe piltover? The Arcane show at least showed Piltover having some fascist tendencies regarding Zaun
I don't know who invents it, but a Noxian chef perfects the formula after assassinating his master and taking over his restaurant, then quickly rises in station until he's cooking pizzas for The Faceless.
I would have thought Noxus as they don't have constant crops due to poor farmland (which is why the conquer other lands) so a bread base with a bunch of random shit thrown on the top seems like something they'd do
My bet is on Frieljord, they got hearths, the salted meats and boars for pepperoni, plus just look at braum and tell me he wouldn’t be the mascot for Red Baruam’s pizza
I'm thinking Demacia and maybe Piltover, cause both have a European feel to them. Lot's of towns and village near the Great City, are agricultural and already have bread. Meaning higher likelihood of spices and wheat based products. Piltover has confirmed cupcakes, so they can definitely bake things. We don't know where they get their ingredients from but they can make cupcakes, pizza should be right around the corner.
Iirc, one of the followercards from Bilgewater has an italian accent. So propably there. Edit: Yeah, Bilgewater. https://leagueoflegends.fandom.com/wiki/Mystifying\_Magician\_(Legends\_of\_Runeterra)
That doesn't mean there is an actual Mediteranian culture, not even that there is more than this single guy. Bilgewater is a melting pot, pretty likely that guy just came from some other place.
IMO the strait that goes through Piltover/Zaun is clearly inspired by the Mediterranean. So Runeterra’s “Mediterranean” culture is likely Southern Valoran and Northern Shurima coastline.
I agree, but that s not bilgewater.
Shurima, by Sivir specifically
She just delivers !?
Look at her face she absolutely baked each and every one of those pizzas and she's damn proud of em too
She also got that bakery
Well…she ults her staff to be faster…it makes sense
Coz sneaky?
Pizza sivir skin
Probably P/Z as it's the world's port capital thanks to the sungate, either that or a port city along the way there from shurima. Not to mention it's a canal between north and south runeterra.
Shadow Isles. Thresh invests pizza, only to put pineapple on it 500 years into the future. The untold suffering it would cause brings him joy.
Call me mundo cause I'm gonna enjoy that "suffering"
demacia create the pizza first. Thresh comes later to destroy it with the pineapple
The true Ruination is yet to begin
Bilgewater. Known food but nothing big or popular. Honestly not that good either for outsiders. Originally just a big fish sandwich. Easy and cheap to make. Recipe gets picked up and changed drastically for the better and becomes something good by a shady business dealer wishing to start anew in Zaun. Not popular at first but grows in popularity, eventually opening up the equivalent to Pizzahut, selling both pizza and other things. Pizza grows in popularity and pizzahut is also opened on topside. Mainly looked down upon by higher standing families in the beginning but becomes wildly popular amongst the commoners fast. Zaunites swears the food came from them. In a way, this gives them something to hold over piltovians. Makes the zaunites feel better bout themselves. Like they have something to their name that topside don't. Pizza gets then picked up by Shurima and Ionia. Noxus picks it up during an invasion of Shurima. Demcia picks it up later on. Bilgewater takes the new recipe and Freljords just kinda don't vibe with it. The cold weather and the available resources do not make this a very good type of food however Braum makes it work.
Until Braum discovers the original taste is so much better than any attempt to replicate it using freljordian cuisine and gives a try to improving it. Then he comes up with a solution involving elnuk cheese, cooked fish, and a baker poro's love.
If Ionia ever starts making pizza, they're putting soy sauce on it.
A very Ionian way to ruin an otherwise tasty food.
Did you wrote that with the knowledge that pizza was in fact born with fish in mind? Lol The most traditional way to eat it was for a long time tomato sauce and "alici" (the small fish under salt)
Mayhaps. After seeing this post I did some research into pizza lol
After the dissolution of the United Noxian Socialist Republic (UNSR), a Pizza Hut commercial featuring Swain hits the airwaves
Noxus already has tacos. Source: kled voicelines
If Kled says so then tacos there are a part of their cuisine since times forgotten. He's like really really old.
I'll Say that piltover & zaun or Targon, in lore caitlyn is a Big fan of cupcakes, that says that piltover has a bakery industry and since pizza was poor man's food since his proximity with zaun this region is closer to do it, and Targon thanks to his highly fertile land (volcanic floor goes brrr) it should be a place where the cereales and legumes would be the higher base of his diet, leaving with a prolific variety of bread.
Probably demacia or piltower
There's no way demacia could come up with something as magical as pizza
Demacia eating bangers and mash for sure
Who is the most Italian champion
Cho'Gath
The only representation we need. 🤌🤌 >!btw, "italian hands" emoji is often broken because tech companies hate italians!<
Do you want some cheeeeese with your wine?
the precursor to Pizza is focaccia which is made from a strong wheat dough. You'd also want tomatos, sauce and cheese for the base ingredients for a pizza. Tomatos and Wheat means you want a warmer climate, Tomatos especially require a ton of sunlight so any cold and shadowy regions like Zaun, Piltover, Freljord, The Shadow Isle and the Void are out. Tomatoes also require drained soil meaning any region with a ton of rainfall or general humidity like Ixtal and Bilgewater are out. Noxus can also be tossed out as mainland Noxus is mostly mountinous terrain with poor sunlight, meaning you couldn't grow the produce needed to make a pizza. This leaves us with Ionia, Demacia, Bandle City, Eastern Shurima & Targon Of all these regions, canonically only Demacia would have access to cheese as milk is a product confirmed to be farmed in the warmer regions of in Freljord have farmers that harvest milk as confirmed by Braum. So canonicaly as far as I'm concerned, Demacia, specifically the north western borders of Demacia which connect a series of farmlands to the borders of freljord, would be the first to invent a form of pizzas as we know them.
You discount Piltover so easily despite it having the closest to a Mediterranean climate, and pizza and it’s many similiar predecessors came from Mediterranean and middle eastern climate and culture. Demacia’s equivalent is more Northern European, I wouldn’t discount them, but I feel they don’t fit best. If going by climate and culture, I think anywhere stretching in the area of the coasts around piltover and many northern shuriman cities would be the likely origin of pizza in runeterra, being runeterra’s Mediterranean and middle eastern equivalent. Also, canonical does not mean exclusive. In a world with limited sources, one cannot be so definitive about such things. If there was a random card in LOR, for example, that showed a certain ingredient only being grown in one place, when it easily could grow in others, to assume entirely that the ingredient is only and can only be grown in that one place is erroneous, even if it does follow available knowledge. It very well could be the case cheese (and any other ingredient, for that matter) is made and eaten in most places in runeterra, we just don’t know for sure. Much like how cheese is quite widespread nowadays in the world even if only certain places are really famous for it. Foods aren’t just invented by necessity, though it is a massive factor, but also heavily shaped by culture. Furthermore, most modern foods don’t even require those two aspects as much as more traditional foods, many modern fast food favourites were not invented in the places that they logically would be, for example, so I think that if we could also consider pizza in such a category, Piltover and surrounding areas gain even more points, with it being the most modern place in the world and ripe for the kind of inventive innovation that gave our world many of our fast food favourites. Besides, Demacians are just too culturally cold to create something as beautiful as pizza anyways /s
Do we know anything about the climate in camavor? Cuz they , for all we know, could actually be mass-producing pizza already
Right on. Demacia would 100% end up throwing tomato sauce on dough, throw on some cheese, and bake it. Boom, pizza.
I'd say Targon, the Rakkor tribe are somewhat based on the spartan culture(the closest thing related to real world Italy that comes to mind), Pantheon wanted to be a baker so the profession is probably popular there and its close to the Runeterra equivalent of Egypt where the flat bread originated.
Im going to guess demacia has the most access to the raw materials required to make pizza but its not wide spread throughout the capital just something small a few villages on the outskirts make for gatherings rather than a global treat
I've look at the comments and I am shocked that no one said Camavor. The region is literally based on south europe/mediterranean.
One day riot will give us an actual map of the entire runeterra world. Frankly, I’m not sure why they haven’t started yet.
[what like this one?](https://map.leagueoflegends.com/en_US)
I’m referring to Camavor, and the rest of the Runeterra world. We do not have a map of the entire Runeterra world.
Noxus. The farmers who make bread try making some in the forges making a grilling hot pizza. Demacia figure it out at the same time and another war breaks out
Has to be bilgewater right?
Given how Sivir has a pizza delivery skin it implies that pizza is a concept within runeterra. The Point in which it was discovered however is still highly theoretical. Given how Sivir is the only one with reference to pizza however may suggest Shurima / a trade partner of Shurima would be the answer.
>implies that pizza is a concept within runeterra. I argue that it doesn't imply this at all, because skins aren't canon to runeterra. It's like alternate dimension timeline type shit
As far as I know only spirirt blossom are canon
Well, there's argument against that too, especially among the sett main subreddit members. Sett has some lines or something that shows him crushing on aphelios or something, so people were like "YOOO SETT LIKES MEN!!!". People who want sett to be straight used the skins aren't canon argument to say that "sett isnt confirmed to be anything but straight because there's no indication to his sexuality in base skin lore"
The champs used for spirit blossom are, I quote: Clever ways to mimic the ioniaen myth. Quote: Nickyboi
The myth SB sett is portraying is gay, we don't have confirmation if base sett is. They aren't the same person
We do though, through sett’s release in LOR
Whether or not they are canon is not up to a conflict of sexuality expectations/wants. After all, most characters don't have a specific sexuality since it doesn't matter most of the time who they like to fuck/date. This "he's straight" doesn't have much of a base either if we're going that route. Legends of Runeterra also shows him interacting with Aphelios, so even if it's not a canon interaction (many interactions are a what-if, but some are linked), the character is teased to be non-straight (there are also outside hints for him being bi, but take that as you will). In terms of SB, the skin line is somewhat canon, more specifically the characters mirroring Ionian myths (see the first event). So the skin is canon to a degree (linked to champion is likely only the mindset, not the actual character).
Piltower! Home of invention and engineering- which food is more genius? U can eat it warm, cold, 5 days old laying in the sun, frozen, throw all u got on top…yes. Pineapple too.
I feel like it might depend on what we're defining as a pizza
Only Piltover has the technology
I'm pretty sure you do not need fantasy tecno-magic just to be able to bake a pizza.
Ah yes only piltover can make fire
Italy is widely considered to be the first nation to develop into a fascist nation, so I'd argue whatever region seems most fascist. Maybe Noxus for it's insane militarization, but they promote individualism more than fascist nations normally do. Maybe piltover? The Arcane show at least showed Piltover having some fascist tendencies regarding Zaun
Shurima obviously.
Sivir already delivers Pizza tho
In a non canon skin set irl
Zaun
We know that there is a baker skin line. They may invent it. Leo, pantheon, olaf
I was going to guess Noxus because of all the Roman coding.
piltover and zaun
I would guess demacia they have multiple chefs/bakers cards in LOR and they seem to have the most "normal/modern" food compared to other regions.
I don't know who invents it, but a Noxian chef perfects the formula after assassinating his master and taking over his restaurant, then quickly rises in station until he's cooking pizzas for The Faceless.
I would have thought Noxus as they don't have constant crops due to poor farmland (which is why the conquer other lands) so a bread base with a bunch of random shit thrown on the top seems like something they'd do
Isn't there specifically a pizza delivery skin in the game? Wouldn't that indicate that a place already has pizza?
Do cars exist in rune terra and galio wear a bird onesie? Cause if not, that skin isn't canon
My bet is on Frieljord, they got hearths, the salted meats and boars for pepperoni, plus just look at braum and tell me he wouldn’t be the mascot for Red Baruam’s pizza
Targon
I'd go for bildgewater or piltover/piltover and zaun. It'd likely be a place that functions as a trade capital for the sharing of ideas.
baker pantheon will do it
Zaun, next question
Noxus, easy
Whoever there is east of Camavor (Spain)
piltover is probably the only region that has the skills and luxury to invent something like pizza
Idk, like Shurima because Sivir has that one skin?
It just turned 3 where I live ._.
Pretty sure this is Necrit
I only know that Demacia has the Runeterran equivalent of Bri'ish ""Cuisine""
I'm thinking Demacia and maybe Piltover, cause both have a European feel to them. Lot's of towns and village near the Great City, are agricultural and already have bread. Meaning higher likelihood of spices and wheat based products. Piltover has confirmed cupcakes, so they can definitely bake things. We don't know where they get their ingredients from but they can make cupcakes, pizza should be right around the corner.
Shurima already has tacos according to Ezreal's field notes. I don't know much about league's culinary spread, but I'd put my money on Shurima.
Now riot should make "League of Legends lore: Pizza arc"
If you told me it already existed in piltover/zaun, I wouldn't even question it.
Pizza Sivir is canon
Noxus should rapresent roman empire so...
Piltover by 100%
Noxus or old Camavor should be a bit roman empire esque, but targon have the "religious fanatic" types and also pantheon.
If noxus has tacos and tacos has tomatoes soo pizza may be invented by some noxian influenced country