In the early LOL universe, the two most successful opponents were Demacia and Noxus. It's just that the success of "Battle of Two Cities" has made the difference between Picheng and Zuan more fierce, especially the three-dimensionality of some characters such as Jace, Jinx, and Wei.
On the other hand, Demacia and Noxus deliberately portrayed each other as opposites in the early days of the release of the fist, who is the opposite and who is the positive?
The representatives of both city-states are brave and fierce, so what is the difference between their bravery?
If you have been exposed to the RTS game "Age of Empires", I believe that you will not be unfamiliar with Demacia's clothing style.
Like it, Demacia's costumes refer to the aristocratic style of medieval Europe, with gold, silver and blue as the main colors, silver armor, gold embellishments and blue cloth combined, imitating the external impression of the once-flourishing chivalric road.
When it comes to chivalry, the first thing that comes to mind is definitely a lot of good qualities: adhering to faith, taking honor as the bottom line, having good morality and literacy, protecting the weak, resisting foreign enemies, and so on.
These are of course their merits, enjoying a very high reputation for loving the people internally, strengthening themselves with strength and faith without fear of strong enemies externally, they are heroic and self-denying, more like lions who maintain their authority and dignity.
But what is the real chivalrous way?
It is mentioned in Schopenhauer's book that they care so much about honor that they often have deathmatches because they are slandered, which is nothing more than another version of military rule;
Knights served the monarch, and their honor came from the city-states and monarchs, so they did not dare to rebel against the upper echelons, even if the feudal monarchy was rotten.
Demacia is famous for its self-sufficiency brought about by its geographical advantages, a unique condition that allows them to develop a common belief, which over time forms a sense of class solidification and xenophobia, and the knights are defenses against foreign enemies and cannot defend civil strife.
Noxus, on the other hand, is closer to the war-torn country of history books than to the glorious knight image.
Years of war and displacement have prevented The Noxus from becoming humble and docile, but in disguise and cruelty.
The epic praises the image of the hero, who is covered with scars, the armor on his right shoulder is broken, and he returns with a giant sword that has long been broken in two, and does not forget to smile reassuringly at the worried people;
The history books record the real image, the battlefield is devastated, the soldiers fight each other, there is no mastery of the elegance and demeanor, has long learned in the war numbness and inhumanity.
In Noxus, to be afraid of death, we must first learn not to be afraid of death, and to be reasonable, we must first learn not to be reasonable.
Noxus has a few more real bloodsheds and cruelties than Demacia, and they must become more courageous and make others feel that they are primitive and violent from the heart.
If the Demacias are more like lions guarding their territory and dignity, the Noxus are more like disciplined and peeping wolves, who care more about victory than honor.
This can also be glimpsed from their usual weapons, guns, giant swords, halberds are all heavy weapons, more is the suppression brought by the sense of power; giant axes, flying axes, daggers, magic, as long as they can become power, cunning or disdain, can be used.
I hope that one day I can make the animation of these two opponents, compared to the Twin Cities, there are fewer changes in the course and hidden contradictions, and more battlefield battles and military conquests.