Locations of Runeterra

Bazaars and acrobats filled its streets, where both Malzahar and Samira were born.

Legendary capital of the Shuriman Empire, restored from the sands by Azir.

Whimsical yordle homeland in the Spirit Realm, accessible through portals.

A conquered city-state integrated into the Noxian Empire.

Lawless pirate port city built into coastal cliffs, ruled by rival captains.

Illaoi broke tradition, leaving its golden temples to shield Bilgewater from the Harrowing.

Cosmic dimension beyond Mount Targon where the celestial Aspects reside.

Zed found a ten-year-old Kayn wielding a broken sickle here after a Noxian massacre.

Syndra slept for decades beneath its fortress before tearing the tower loose and flying off.

The monastery here raised the orphaned Sona until monks smuggled her to Demacia ahead of Noxus.

Lillia was born from a fallen dream bud here, something that had never happened before.

Kusho, Shen, and Zed finally captured Jhin along this riverbank, ending their long manhunt.

A dried-out sea of petrified bones, said to be the source of the fabled Ymelo stones.

Ryze battled a voidborn within its icebound walls to claim a World Rune.

Founded as a refuge from sorcery after the Rune Wars, built on petricite that dampens magic.

Once the learned capital of the Blessed Isles, reduced to ruin by the Ruination in 25 BN.

Hextech-powered gateways enabling instant transport, backbone of Piltover's trade.

Lee Sin and Udyr broke a Noxian siege here before training under its abbot in self-mastery.

Its mountain road once bore a statue honoring Kusho's banishment of the demon Zogao.

This human tribe, linked to Varus, holds Galrin and Sudaro at Ionia's southern edge.

Frozen bridge over a bottomless chasm where the Watchers were sealed away.

First city consumed by the Void after rebelling against the Shuriman Empire.

The dark fortress at the heart of Noxus, and a hidden conduit of souls.

Scholars gathered here to study ancient glyphs during Ryze's runic search.

The hidden capital of Ixtal and seat of its ruling Yun Tal, buried deep in the jungle.

Jhin, Shen, and Zed each trace part of their story to this Qaelin Highlands settlement.

Kusho disguised himself as a calligrapher here to help capture the serial killer Khada Jhin.

This young river only began to flow after Shurima's buried capital rose again from the sand.

Gold and gem deposits discovered nearby swelled this northern Shuriman city's population.

Coastal armories known for lethal firearms later armed the killer Khada Jhin's performances.

Taliyah passed through with a caravan on her long journey home, shaping stone as she rode.

Mountain monastery of the Kinkou Order, guardians of spiritual balance.

Jhin razed this village early in his career, killing most of its people.

Vast ancient rainforest bordering Ixtal, teeming with deadly wildlife and ruins.

Bel'Veth devoured an entire city named Belveth, reshaping its remains into this Void realm.

Hidden temple of the moon-worshipping Lunari, rediscovered by Diana.

Headquarters of Demacia's mage-hunting order, fortified with petricite.

Known as the Veiled Temple, it phases into the physical world only during rare lunar events.

Mordekaiser's self-forged death realm, a kingdom of enslaved souls.

Conjured by magic from the Oasis of the Dawn, it feeds the Renek and Kahleek rivers.

Peak where mortals meet celestial Aspects atop Runeterra's tallest mountain.

Jhin detonated his bombs here to cover his escape from Zed, leaving it in ruins.

Renekton razed the grand library here, the closest he and Nasus ever came to bloodshed.

Its underground fighting pits gave rise to Sett, who became their champion and owner.

K'Sante killed a colossal cobra-lion at its waterfall, earning the name Pride of Nazumah.

Shurima's empire was born and died here, where its first Sun Disc failed.

Noxian arena where legal disputes are settled through trial by combat.

Shen banished a demon here that had long terrorized the surrounding lands.

Omikayalan is a sacred Ionian grove in Navori, once home to the colossal God-Willow.

Hidden volcanic forge of the demigod Ornn, master craftsman of the Freljord.

Beneath its temple, a well imprisoned the Darkin Varus for over a thousand years.

Ezreal recovered the Elixir of Uloa from a trap-strewn hovel near this outpost.

Ancient forest of magic-absorbing petrified trees, source of Demacian petricite.

Noxus's crushing defeat here forced a shift to a grinding war of attrition across Ionia.

Grand Piltovian plaza where annual Progress Day innovations are unveiled.

Rakan and Xayah rescued Consul Akunir and Speaker Coll here, spreading their renown widely.

Birthplace of Xin Zhao, whose fishing crew was seized by Noxian privateers in foreign waters.

Principal settlement of the Avarosans under Ashe's unifying leadership.

It carries the name of an ancient Shuriman nation whose location is now lost to history.

Climbers begin here, the lowest tier of Targon beneath the Upper Slopes and the Peak.

Deadly desert territory of the burrowing Xer'Sai predators led by Rek'Sai.

Born here, Xerath was later taken as a slave and struck an unlikely bond with young Azir.

Its households tend the living wall of vines that shields Ixtal, and hunt what prowls its edges.

Treacherous archipelago housing Bilgewater and surrounded by deadly waters.

Cursed, mist-shrouded land of the restless dead, once the shining Blessed Isles.

A waypoint in Shen and Zed's search for Jhin through the Southern Zhyun Highlands.

Since Shurima's empire fell, only Ixtal has held this jungle, home to the dragon mother Yvva.

Grand temple of the sun-worshipping Solari order on Mount Targon.

Its banks were among the places Zed searched while hunting Jhin after his return.

Sacred Ionian grounds where the Spirit Blossom Festival honors the dead.

One of the charted way stations where Lucian crossed the Black Mist hunting to save Senna.

The instrument of Ascension that forged Shurima's god-warriors, restored with Azir's return.

Chiuq boasts in The Axiomata that its road to Ixaocan beats the long trek from Semchul.

The cosmic mountain realm where mortals ascend to become vessels of celestial Aspects.

Once a generation an Aspect leaves this city to empower a mortal on Mount Targon.

Zed's own followers drove the Kinkou Order from this temple during the Noxian invasion.

Secretive Ionian temple dedicated to lethal martial combat traditions.

The Kinkou Order took this long-abandoned temple as its new base after Master Kusho was slain.

A northern Shuriman port now under Noxian control, its history reaching back to Icathia.

Its villagers took up pitchforks against the Noxian Legions while Ahri watched from a willow.

Ravaged in the Noxian invasion, this southeastern Navori settlement endures to this day.

Bustling market at the border between Piltover and Zaun.

Ryze passed through its Rune War ruins while hunting the last of the World Runes.

Mystical Ionian pool reflecting the spirit realm with prophetic visions.

Gladiatorial arena where Noxian warriors fight for glory and social advancement.

Imposing Frostguard stronghold built over the sealed Watchers' prison.

Pix, disguised as an injured bird, lured Lulu here, the first yordle ever to reach it.

Sivir was orphaned by raiders here and grew up looting the half-buried ruins of fallen Shurima.

Defunct neutral institution where nations once settled disputes through combat.

Bilgewater's sea-monster processing docks, the city's economic backbone.

Parallel spirit dimension alongside Runeterra, closely tied to Ionia.

The lowest, most toxic level of Zaun where the desperate survive.

Akali, Jhin, Kayn, Shen, and Zed are all tied to this small Zhyun cavern town.

Spectral prison where Thresh eternally tortures collected souls.

Refused as prefect, Qiyana bared the hidden path in spite, and outlanders leveled it by dawn.

Best known as the lost desert grave where Ezreal recovered his gauntlet.

Sealed necropolis beneath the sands holding Shurima's ancient emperors.

Its monastery prison held Khada Jhin for years after Kusho spared his life at Jyom Pass.

The withered remnant of the Blessed Isles, corrupted since the Ruination of Helia.

Mount Targon's middle stretch, climbed between the Ring of the Mountain and the Peak.

Cassiopeia nursed her poisoned mother here before transforming into a serpent in its crypts.

Underground vaults of forbidden artifacts where Thresh became corrupted.

Crumbling ruins of a once-prosperous Shuriman trade city buried in sand.

Rakan's performance at its harvest festival first crossed paths with Xayah.

Ahri and Yasuo are among seven champions tied to this hidden Navori village on Noxus's border.

Master Yi's home village, burned by Noxus, where he later trained Wukong among the graves.

Destroyed homeland of the Wuju sword style, obliterated in the Noxian invasion.

Stonemasons here labor to restore a three-hundred-yard cliff statue of the Ascended Xolaani.

Toxic industrial smog blanketing Zaun's lower levels, a permanent pollution cloud.

Named for the Ionian island of Zhyun that it stands on, and still active today.

Grief drove a vagrant Kassadin to ruin here, until whispers of the Void gave him purpose.

A stone landmark rising from the southern dunes, linked to both Brand and Ryze.

Renekton held it against ten-to-one odds, earning him the title Gatekeeper of Shurima.