Arcane has come to an end but the closing out of Vi, Jinx, Caitlyn, Jayce, and Viktors stories is more like a beginning than an ending. According to Riot Games, Fortiche, and Netflix, the shows finale didnt arrive because its getting canceled; rather, its because it was simply the end of this particular story. But its certainly not the end to animated collaborations between Riot Games and Fortiche set in the League of Legends universe. And while there hasnt been an official announcement of a new show just yet, there are plenty of new projects in the works.According to Arcane showrunner and co-creator Christian Linke, Fortiche and Riot are bouncing around ideas about all kinds of other projects in the League of Legends world that could provide the basis for a new animated series. We have over 160 champions in our game. Theres tons of them where Im like, I want to know their story, Linke said in an interview with Polygon. Now is the time, luckily, that we also can start thinking about that and dream big. So we have a slate of different projects were exploring, nothings in production yet, but were really building stories of all these different tonalities and they should be very different. They should not feel just like, OK, they should be their own style, their own tone. So thats the next step for us.But for Linke, the appeal of a new show isnt just getting to venture into a new corner of League lore, its also getting to explore an entirely different tone than that of Arcane. We havent done enough yet for the whimsical tone of League; Arcane is pretty dark, Link said. But theres a lot of fun characters. Theres the Lulus, the Teemos, the Amumus, the Poppies, the Tristans. What do we do for those? And I think I would definitely want to take things [in a new show] into the extremes, like the different genres. What are we going to do in horror? What are we going to do in more abstract, more artistic things? Thats the real power of animation. Youre not grounded by what reality is. So we should take advantage of that.Of course, when exactly well get to see Riot and Fortiche take jump into these new genre and settings remains a mystery. Arcane famously took nearly a decade to pull off, and while we likely wont have to wait that long for a new show, its still likely to be at least a few years before Netflix returns to Runeterra.