Zone Galleries

Concept art and environment galleries for every zone.

About zone galleries

Environment art and concept work for each of the thirteen zones. These galleries are the visual reference the written canon assumes you have: what Piltover actually looks like at street level, how Shuriman ruins are built, what colour the light is in Ionia.

Concept art occupies an unusual position in the canon. It is authored by the same teams and it establishes things no text ever states, but it is also exploratory — a gallery will often contain three incompatible versions of the same place, only one of which was ever built.

Read alongside the zone pages, which carry the written account of the same places.

Environment art answers questions the prose does not think to raise: what people wear when they are not fighting, what a street is paved with, how tall things are. Most of the specific, checkable detail about how Runeterra looks comes from these galleries rather than from any text.

They also preserve versions of places that were never finalised. Where a gallery holds several incompatible takes on the same location, that is a record of a decision in progress, and it is worth reading as one rather than as a contradiction.

How this index is filed

Every entry below is a work Riot published, linked to the original rather than summarised. The list is filtered the same way the rest of the Archive is: champion spotlights, cosmetic adverts, tournament recordings and storefront promos are filed out, so a search for zone galleries returns zone galleries and not a battle-pass trailer that happens to carry the same tag. What you see is the filtered set, not everything the database holds.

Each work is also filed by the zone it belongs to and placed on the in-world timeline, so the same entry can be reached three ways — by form here, by place from the zone pages, and by date from the timeline. Ordering here is by publication, newest first, which is the order Riot released them rather than the order they happen in.

The rest of the Archive

The archive is one set of works cut several ways. Zone Galleries is one form; the indexes below hold the others, and every entry in all of them is filed by zone and placed on the in-world timeline.

The Archive of Runeterra is the full index, the timeline puts it in in-world order, and the codex wings describe the world these works are set in rather than the works themselves.

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