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Before League had hundreds of champions, it had four. The mad chemist Singed launched alongside Annie, Sion, and Sivir as part of the original roster, which is a funny thing to think about now that flinging poison in a straight line and running away is still a viable strategy over a decade later.
There's a night elf patrolling Darnassus called Crildor who has no quests, sells nothing and just wanders about. He's a memorial to a Warcraft fansite moderator who went by that name online and died in a car accident in 2003, one of the quieter tributes hidden in the world.
Present Mic's civilian name, Hizashi Yamada, is thought to be a small nod to Yamada Hisashi, a well-known Japanese radio DJ. It fits, considering Present Mic's whole hero persona is basically 'radio host with superpowers.'
Goggins' transformation into the Ghoul wasn't one mask, it was nine individual prosthetic pieces applied in sequence, along with a punishing daily prep schedule. He's since described the whole ritual as genuinely nerve-wracking, especially in the early days before the process was refined.
Meenu, the sharp young girl Chloe crosses paths with while shopping in India, was a brand new character created for this game, and voicing her marked actress Tierra Rorls's very first video game role.
If you're playing with the Wild Wasteland trait switched on, head southeast of Goodsprings early in the game and you'll find a skeleton inside a blown-out refrigerator. It's a direct callback to the moment in the fourth Indiana Jones film where he survives a nuclear blast by hiding inside a lead-lined fridge, except in the wasteland, that plan clearly didn't work out so well.
Inside Odin's Hidden Chamber, Mimir points out symbols that don't belong to Norse tradition at all, he specifically flags ones linked to Egyptian, Celtic, and Japanese culture. It's a small line, but it quietly suggests this universe has a lot more pantheons than just Greek and Norse.
Maya Hawke, who plays the sharp-tongued Robin Buckley from Season 3 onward, is the real-life daughter of Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman, two actors who defined a lot of 80s and 90s cinema themselves. It's a fun bit of casting trivia that only clicks once you notice the resemblance.
For a while Jagex was quietly working on a follow-up project codenamed 'MechScape,' aimed at an older audience and built around a sci-fi setting rather than fantasy. It used the same engine tech that powered RuneScape, but the project eventually got shelved and never saw a proper release under that name.
On the multiplayer map Lockdown there's a building just outside the normal play area with a window round the back that most players never fly past. Peek through it with a Recon Drone or in Spectator mode and you'll find an oversized teddy bear casually holding a pair of gold Desert Eagles.
