Second Part - Deceit of Bridging the Rift
This is Riot’s own making of Arcane and not my timeline of events.
This is my analysis of Bridging the Rift; I will demonstrate that you can’t believe anything Riot say, and they purposely conspire to deceive and hide IP theft.
Arcane: Bridging the Rift | Part 4 - Musical Misfits
1. It opens with Riot Games’s former CEO Nicolo Laurent- who fled to France amidst many allegations of sexual harassment and misconduct- stating that when they decided to make the TV show Arcane, they knew music would be a big part of it.
2. Brandon, one of the founders of Riot Games, then states music is very personal to Christian and that team.
3. Linke is then introduced as a showrunner, writer and creator. Just for clarity, Melinda Dilger ran the show, I wrote it, and Fortiche Production SAS created it, thus Linke is none of those things. He’s a phone operative in the Bro-Mancing club.
4. Linke quotes his co-conspirator Alex Yee in saying “when you go write a script, or sit down to write a song, some one asks you are you gonna write a great song today. It’s kinda like going fishing.” Really, these pair are fishing for scripts whilst we are also supposed to believe Linke wrote it in 2015, or 16, or 17, or even 2012, depending on which of the very unreliable timelines they wish to pretend are correct.
5. We are shown music making software on a computer screen. The date in the top right corner is Wednesday, 9 February 2022.
6. We are then introduced to Alex (Mako) Seaver, a composer and songwriter for Arcane. Seaver states that he has been working for Riot since about 2016 on their worlds events each year. He writes anthems for them, beginning with Legends Never Die.
7. Seaver says, “About two and a half years ago Christian reached out and he’s like what do you think about Arcane, do you want to get involved, and I was like yes please.”
8. Assuming that this was filmed around the same time as the snippet directly before it, it would place the time of recording around February or March 2022. Around 2 and a half years before was around October 2019. Yet we know people have been asked, perhaps paid to lie for Riot and made to sign illegal NDA’s pertaining to these lies. Thus this timeline of events is unreliable.
9. I’ve shown that Reed (Ekko), Mia (Powder), Bridging the Rift & Riot’s solicitors in 2021, have lied to present false timelines. I’ve shown that Melinda Dilger Back scheduled to March 2020. I’ve shown that Aurelien at Fortiche played loose with timelines, which isn’t wrong but it’s not accurate, he’s at least a year out. I can also show that Ella Purnell (Jinx) stated in an interview with ONE Esports that she never met her co-stars because most of it has been done in COVID time over zoom.
10. In Part 3 - Killstreaks Meet Keyframes, Amanda then states, “they’ve been spending what 3 or 4 years on the music for this show.” That was in mid to late 2021. Thus Amanda’s forged timeline would place this around mid to late 2017. And this is just silly for many reasons. One is that Arcane was just an idea in 2017 with perhaps a pitch if you believe the evidence which Linke posted. Fortiche was shut down after this period and Arcane had not been greenlighted. Moreover, Trueshot made the music, Trueshot was officially launched by Riot Games in February 2020. Furthermore, Melinda Dilger has stated in Podcasts, and we see this on the back drafted schedule of development made by Melinda Dilger in mid-2020, that it was a lot, they were doing it all at once including the music and this was all during the pandemic.
11. Alex (Mako) Seaver could therefore not have been recruited to produce the music for Arcane any time before mid-2020 perhaps later.
12. Linke then states that they always wanted to make the music during development, from the very beginning, and not just in the post-production phase like it is in Tv and films. Thus this confirms what I just explained.
13. We then meet Alex Temple, songwriter and composer, who explains that the first he heard about Arcane was in Linke’s composers room via some index notes stuck around his desk area.
14. Christian Linke transitioned to a new role as head of Riot's animation studio in August 2023, thus this could have been any time as Linke was still a composer until the show was given the greenlight in Mid-2020.
15. Linke then states that the music on Arcane started with Alex Temple.
16. Christian Linke states that for the first few months of working with Temple they stayed away from any imageries of the show and just explored themes of isolation.
17. We are then introduced to a violinist called Ray Chen.
18. Ray’s LinkedIn profile states that he began consulting for Riot in Jan 2019 as a Music Consultant & Recording Artist. On Chen’s YouTube channel, 7 Jul 2023, Chen confirmed that he is really good friends with Linke and Yee and the other Alex Temple, so he was able to watch a pilot which they had made, which back then had filler music to it.
19. Ray Chen's initial collaboration with Riot Games was the track "Awaken," released on January 22, 2019. This song, featuring vocals by Valerie Broussard and Chen's violin performance, was part of a cinematic trailer for League of Legends. In 2020, during the global lockdowns, violinist Ray Chen recorded and released an album titled Solace from his home. This album features selected movements from J.S. Bach's Six Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin. To achieve a professional sound, Chen built a home studio and collaborated remotely with London-based producer Jonathan Allen. Solace was released digitally on August 7, 2020. in November 2020, Chen performed at the Golden Horse Awards. These activities highlight Chen's adaptability and commitment to his art during a challenging year for performers worldwide. Later, in 2021, Chen contributed to the Arcane soundtrack, notably performing alongside Sting on the song "What Could Have Been."
20. On this YouTube channel, Ray Chen confirms, they asked if he would like to be in the show, he said yes. He makes a cameo appearance as an animated character performing in a theatre during Episode 5, titled "Everybody Wants to Be My Enemy." In this scene, his character plays a violin piece known as "The Concerto," composed by Alexander Temple.
21. Thus we know that when Ray started working on Arcane, they had only a pilot, and this must be after mid-2020 and likely into 2021because they had not yet been given the greenlight until then and Ray had developed a close friendship with Linke starting in 2019 and he was not working on it during lockdown.
22. Alex (Mako) Seaver states that he had being doing orchestra stuff with Alex Temple for about two and a half years, but it was only about a year ago that he was asked to do a 12 pop music soundtrack to go with the show.
23. We’re then introduced to a songwriter called Sebastien Najand. Seaver explains that they are “Homies” and that they made the Riot music videos for Rise and Awaken together.
24. Sebastien Najand had worked on music for many years at Riot Games but became a Principal Composer in April 2020, around the time Arcane was given the greenlight, and he is still in this post presently.
25. Linke confirms that Sebastien Najand was interviewed for this Principal Composer role.
26. We are then introduced to Bea Miller, an American singer and songwriter, who has collaborated with Riot Games on multiple projects. She provided vocals for K/DA's single "The Baddest," released on August 27, 2020. K/DA is a virtual K-pop girl group created by Riot Games, featuring characters from League of Legends. Then in 2021 Miller performed "Playground" (2021) for Arcane.
27. Linke states that he’s dream was to write the songs early so they can even still edit the sequences and boards, again confirming that it was all taking place in the latter half of 2020 at the same time. For a great many reasons, of which I’ve explained in part 1 and in this part and across other communications, this could only have taken place in the latter half of 2020.
28. We are then shown Linke in a zooms meeting. He is talking to three people, explaining the above mentioned early work on the music.
29. One of the three others in the meeting is Pierre-Arthur Goulet. In 2021, He was the line producer for the Imagine Dragons x J.I.D: Enemy" (2021) music video, which is featured in the animated series Arcane. Thus in 2021, there was still a lot of early work taking place all at once.
30. Kiahna Manker is the third person down on Linkes screen. We see her name and face. Kiahna Manker has worked at Riot Games for over 8 years. She was an Associate Content Producer until November 2020 when she began her role as Production Coordinator on Arcane. Again showing that Arcane was made in late 2020 onwards. This role of Production Coordinator is needed from the very beginning of production and even in pre-production, particularly in large, complex projects like Arcane. Thus we are almost out of 2020, and Kiahna has just been recruited for this role.
31. Linke says he had trouble collaborating with Artists because he would say hey we want to make music with you, and they were like cool, when do they go out, and he would say in like two years and they would say, ok, never mind.
32. We know that this isn’t accurate, unless Linke was making music for a story that did not yet exist for sequences and boards that did not yet exist. We know that the boards were made during the same time the voice acting was being recorded as there is evidence of this in Bridging the Rift and in other interviews. We know that this all happened in the latter half of 2020, under the guidance of the babysitter.
33. We know that before this, they had developed a pilot which was used at the end of 2019 to announce that they wanted to make Arcane. We know that this announcement contained snippets of music videos and other cinematics which they had already released, and others they were working on already. This includes “Get Jinxed” 2013 & “Rise 2018 as well as the Ekko cinematic and the cowboy like character who wasn’t in Arcane. We also know that the announcement video has been updated without updating the metadata or upload date.
34. Furthermore, The Arcane: Animated Series Announcement | Riot Pls: 10th Anniversary Edition - League of Legends, was worked on as a project for the announcement and to gain funding. In the video we see a number of people working on the Announcement which had not yet been greenlighted. Riot has a long history of working on and making announcement which do not go anywhere and are often just to tease out the reactions of fans. We know it was shut down around this time.
35. Moreover, The Linkedin of Lola Delmas’ from Fortiche- who might be one of the people we see in the announcement video- worked on the announcement from May 2019. Moreover, Storyboard Artist for the actual show began working on it from Sep 2020.
36. The Linkedin of Thomas Cailliez shows he worked the announcement video as an Artist Lighting/Rendering from May 2019 onwards. This again is around the time Linke asked for 65 grand to make some promotional material to try and gain funding.
37. Lola Delmas, Bénédicte Battesti, Guillaume Poignant and many more profiles show that they began working on The Arcane 1oth year of LOL announcement video in late May / June 2019 and only worked on lead material of Arcane until September 2020.
38. They speak about how Linke understand music and he’s stern and will tell them when it’s not working.
39. Riot Games’s former CEO Nicolo Laurent explains that Linke started off at Riot answering phones and dealing with the problems of the players, such as billing problems.
40. Nicolo Laurent says a couple of years later he started writing music and they were like Oh my God, this guy is an amazing talent.
41. Yee explains that he interviewed Linke and as Linke explained his work history of being in a band, Yee said don’t care, how well will you serve the players. Lovely and professional way to interview… Not. This obnoxious, ignorant and arrogant personality shows in many interviews when both he and Linke talk down to people and talk obsessively about fight porn and how they are bosses and how Linke has a nazi like one mistake policy, he says as he look up into the camera like we are meant to be scared or find it cool.
42. Yee then explains that Linke told him that He was a big deal and played in a band in front of 100,0000 people. Linke then gives us a self-aggrandizing smirk.
43. I checked out the band, called Panik. Linke joined them as a bass guitarist after a member left. They were a pop teeny bopper band. I was surprised to find that I actually half enjoyed the music. They had talent. They had the sound of the time.
44. Seaver states that Linke is a freak because he gives us feedback like no the cello needs to be an octave lower and he just knows who to speak music.
45. Seaver jokes that Linke told him his song sounds unfinished.
46. Linke says “you gotta brake them before you can build them up.”
47. Seaver then says “He goes to give us high fives and we flinch. We’re all so broken.
48. They then talk about the final track being hard to figure out and someone recommended Pvris.
49. In 2021, PVRIS collaborated with Japanese guitarist MIYAVI on the track "Snakes" for the soundtrack of Arcane, the Netflix animated series set in the League of Legends universe. The song was released on November 20, 2021, and is featured in the series' soundtrack.
50. They open her demo up for the first time on camera. Which is staged.
51. We see Dan from Imagine Dragons, who has worked with Riot on other things. He explains that he has been working with Riot and Linke for many years.
52. Linke told Dan what he had been working on and showed him slide and storyboards, at that time it was in very easily states of Arcane. He states that it was enough that he understood the dynamic and what was at play with the sisters, Vi and Jinx.
53. Dan explains that Enemy, the song he wrote, was about people feeling alone and isolated and the song is written in isolation and feeling like it’s you against the world.
54. Then they perform Enemy, which is a phenomenal song. "Enemy" by Imagine Dragons, featuring JID, was released on October 28, 2021, as the lead single for the Netflix animated series Arcane: League of Legends. The song was written by Imagine Dragons, JID, Justin Tranter, and producers Mattman & Robin. While the exact dates of writing and recording are not publicly disclosed, the song's development occurred in the months leading up to its release, aligning with the production timeline of Arcane.
55. Seaver explains that he had to write the final song of season 1 and adapt it to the Jinx rocket launcher moment.
56. We states that then they had to pick an artist to sing the song, and they chose Sting. Sting collaborated with Riot Games in 2021 to contribute the song "What Could Have Been" to the soundtrack of Arcane: League of Legends, a Netflix animated series. This track, featuring violinist Ray Chen, was released on November 20, 2021, coinciding with the premiere of the series' third act.
57. Seaver speaks about writing "What Could Have Been” on a YouTube video called The Making of ‘What Could Have Been’ from Arcane (17 Dec 2021), He states that he was choked up when showing the song to people because he had been with the characters for three years. That would make his involvement date back to December 2018. We no this is incorrect. Earlier in this episode of Bridging the Rift, he said that he was involved around 2 and a half years before, and this gave a date of around October 2019. Yet we know people have been asked, perhaps paid to lie for Riot and made to sign illegal NDA’s pertaining to these lies. Thus this timeline of events is unreliable.
58. To end the episode, Linke explains, “you work on these moments for so long that you think oh my god this is gonna be amazing. But you just don’t quite know until you actually see everything done. And you just have this feeling for like 2 to 3 years, where you go. I think it’s gonna be amazing, but I’m not quite sure. And you just kinda have to wait because you know. Does the music come together; does it have that magical touch. You know, does the storytelling come together, does the acting come together.”
59. Thus, we’re at least a quarter way into 2022, perhaps later and Linke has just told us that he has been working on Arcane for 2 to 3 years. Again this isn’t accurate, as I’ve shown that nothing Riot says is truthful or accurate. But this shows that he had been working on Arcane from between March to mid-2019 or March to Mid-2020. This of course is a Freudian slippage and a far cry from the fake 2016 we have been told. Yet some from Fortiche have emailed me claiming that they started working on Arcane in 2012, before Jinx was even created. Over 2 to 3 years is a massive time difference. If they had been working on it for 2 years, Linke just added 50 % on to the timeline. As we know it didn’t get the greenlight until mid-2020 and we know that they have purposely lied to extend the timelines to hide IP theft, it would be safe to take the lesser timeline of 2 years which gives us to mid-2020, which is when all the actual evidence points to the production and making of all of the Arcane show being made, less for a few promotional ideas, many taken from other projects and music videos and games, cinematics and website world building stuff. Thus you heard it from Linke himself.
M.W. Wolf
