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There were no secrets that could stay hidden forever, and Runeterra was no exception...

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Yesterday, a major event with the potential to affect all of Runeterra began spreading like wildfire through the streets and alleys of Silvermere, the capital of the Kingdom of Demacia!

Word had it:

Two of the three great figures of the Noxian Empire—the Noxian Grand General, Jericho Swain, the most important member of the Trifarix Council, and the Hand of Noxus, Darius—had been captured alive by members of an evil mage organization called the Gray Order! And, of course, they had also captured the Pale Witch, a mage of great influence in Noxus!

Demacians undoubtedly despised magic, and it was practically taboo in the Kingdom of Demacia. They dared not, nor were they willing to, speak much of it... But if people or mages outside the Kingdom of Demacia, somewhere else in Runeterra, did something that benefited Demacia, they were more than happy to talk about it.

After all, those people weren't Demacians, and they weren't on Demacian soil. People elsewhere, whether in Freljord or Ionia, could use magic and other "seriously illegal" methods that were forbidden and persecuted in Demacia, and do so openly.

So, after the Dauntless Vanguard of the Kingdom of Demacia "triumphantly returned" from the front lines at the Gate of Mourning, news of the Kingdom of Demacia's "great victory" over the Noxian Empire began to spread. No one knew who had let it slip, but in just a day, the story was being trumpeted throughout Silvermere—and indeed, across the entire Kingdom of Demacia!

As a result, today the streets of Silvermere and the Great Demacian Plaza were filled with a rare, festive joy, like that of a major holiday. Countless citizens poured out of their homes and gathered in the