Mom's Stories Are All Lies! o(╥﹏╥)o

The Kingdom of Demacia stood on the coastal canyon plains along the western shore of Valoran Continent, in Runeterra. It was a powerful, well-established, prosperous feudal monarchy whose people took pride in obeying the law!

That was the basic impression people in other parts of Runeterra had of the Kingdom of Demacia.

But in truth, just as the Noxians described the Demacians:

Their country was really a typical, self-sufficient agrarian kingdom. Its society had stagnated, and it remained lost in the glory of its former Dark Age of Technology, believing that Demacia was still the most powerful nation in Runeterra.

In short, Demacians were born conservative and intensely xenophobic. They were a bunch of stubborn, old-fashioned frogs in a well—a bunch of hardliners, destined to be wiped out by the Noxian Empire!

Of course, that was the Noxians' opinion... Though it was rather one-sided and extreme, sometimes you had to admit that the people who knew the Kingdom of Demacia best were often its enemies.

Although the Demacians regarded justice, honor, and duty as supreme principles, many people who had visited Demacia knew that its people also hated almost anyone and anything they didn't approve of!

For example:

The Noxians, who frequently waged war against them, trying to seize their kingdom's territory and conquer them? And all the advanced technology, literature, and knowledge brought by merchant fleets from Piltover to trade...

Even...

People from other countries were just as likely to be hated!

And magic in particular!!

In the Kingdom of Demacia, magic was like a rat crossing the street: everyone wanted to beat it down, and it was suppressed and had to be eradicated!

That was because, many years ago, magic had pushed this land of Runeterra to the brink of extinction...

So after the Rune Wars, a group