[Skin Idea]: Geomancer Karma (1350-3250 RP)

Alternative names: Elementalist, Elemental Queen, Neidan(internal alchemy)

Context: One of Karma's core concepts since the relaunch is the unity of two opposing forces, bringing together harmony and violence, peace and war. Karma is a versatile mage, seen most clearly when using her ultimate to specialize in either offense, sustained solo combat, or defense and utility. She also has awesome casting animations where her entire body moves as if she is one with the ability itself. My skin idea aims at expanding upon Karma's ability to bring together opposing forces through her own inner harmony, emphasizing how diverse these abilities are, and adding some more flare (no pun intended) to Karma as she dances around the battlefield with grace and power, wielding not just absolute control over her own spirit, but the very spirit of Runeterra herself.

**Appearance:** Very regal. She is to have the appearance of both supreme sorceress and authoritative minister, but with her elegance she also has a raw and sensual look to her as a vicar of Runeterra. She sports a larger and more exquisite tiara with a few jagged spikes on the front. Her hair on top is gathered into twin braids that join together into a bun at the back before cascading into flowing raven tresses. A long lock of hair hangs loosely on each side in the front, anchored to the bun in the back. Her gown has a large webbed collar that opens up into a low v on her chest. Above her hips is a tassled cord holding the gown closed. The gown fits rather tightly until it reaches her thighs, at which point it bells out. It ends high in the front and trails in the back. Its sleeves end at the elbow, with draping cloth hanging from halfway down each sleeve. Underneath the gown she wears a corset that shows at the bust line. She sports double shoulder guards on each shoulder that curve up and outward into points, and of her Mantle of Decorum is made of a colorless crystal. On her arms and legs we can see arcane markings.

Q - Inner Flame: Projectile is instead a ball of fire with streaks of frost spiraling around it, exploding into a frosty and fiery blast.
R - Soulflare: Projectile is a large shard of ice cloaked in rising flames. On detonation the area is coated with ice fragments and frost that slowly melt before flames erupt in the area.
Context: Fire and ice are obvious opposites and they fit the ability's effect very well, dealing damage and slowing. The fire still keeps an essential aspect of the original ability. Having a frosty fireball for one version and a fiery shard of ice for the other helps distinguish which is which.

W - Focused Resolve: Tether is a small stream of water laced with stray arcs of lightning that grow over the duration, zapping the target from above with lightning to snare them.
R - Renewal: Tether is a heavy stream of high pressure enveloped in an erratically bursting arc of lightning that grows over the duration, with the water cascading around both targets. A large blast of lightning zaps the target from above, creating an eruption of water from below as it snares the target.
Context: Lightning and water are similar to the war and peace juxtaposition. Both have current and flow, but water is steady and is seen as a means for healing, cleansing, and rebirth, whereas lightning is chaotic and seen as a sign of divine punishment and destruction. Water slowly creates equilibrium by evenly dispersing things, lightning rapidly creates equilibrium of ionic (no pun intended) charge. Hence the lightning for damaging the target and immobilizing it at the end, and the water for preparing the target to be struck and restoring Karma's health.

E - Inspire: A vortex of wind gathers around the target, spiraling protective chunks of earth around them.
R - Defiance: The earth erupts around the target in a shockwave of biting winds. Vortexes of wing gather around all affected allies, carrying protective craggy chunks of earth around them.
Context: Earth and wind represent the contrast between the land and the sky, the earth and the heavens. To attempt to bridge the two is an infamously defiant act against the gods in many religions. Wind symbolizes change and motion; earth, structure and endurance.

So far, the skin would merit a **1350 RP** pricing, with completely changed and extra flashy spell visual effects that would come with new sound effects. Depending on how fancy Riot would want to get with her VO to reflect her elemental makeover, this could escalate into a **1820 RP** skin as this does present a complete re-imagination of the champion.

I propose we take it a step further and make it an ultimate (3250RP) skin. To do so we could add the following things:

**Summoner icons** of the elemental pairs of each of her abilities (fire/ice, water/lightning, wind/earth) in the Ionian twin dragon symbol, with banners of Karma casting the corresponding ability.
 
**Alternating attack particles** of the six elements, and new attack animations for each element. When her last spell cast is Q she alternates between fire and ice; W, water and lightning; E, earth and wind.

 
**New casting animations** for her abilities. Her Q could remain pretty much the same but maybe while her W is active she has a hand extended toward the target and the tether starts at that hand. For her E she could whirl around and stomp the ground. That sort of stuff.


**VO interactions** with various characters based on their elemental powers.

**Fatal blow animations** on her attacks and spells. If an enemy dies to a fire basic attack or the final explosion of **Soulflare**, they are incinerated in a narrow pillar of flame. If an enemy dies to an ice basic attack or the initial damaging effects of **Inner Flame** or **Soul Flare** their model is frozen solid briefly before the ice shatters and the death animation plays. If an enemy dies to a water basic attack or the damage over time from **Renewal**, a torrent of water erupts from below them. If an enemy dies to a lightning basic attack or the damage from **Focused Resolve**, they are disintegrated with electricity. If an enemy dies to a wind attack their or the damage from **Defiance**, their corpse is knocked up during the death animation. If an enemy dies to an earth attack they are turned to stone during the death animation.
   
**Evolution** of all of the above (except icons). When she maxes out Q her fire and ice basic attack particles/animations are cooler and she constantly has fire engulfing one of the dragons on her Mantle of Decorum and frost covering the other. When she maxes out her W her water and lightning basic attack particles/animations are cooler and little lightning bits constantly alternate between the twin dragons with a cascading sphere of water between them. When she maxes out her E her earth and wind basic attack particles/animations are cooler the other floaty bits of her Mantle of Decorum become jagged rocks rotating in little vortexes. All of the effects on her Ionian floaty thingy flare up whenever she casts Mantra.

Other notes: Again, Karma is a very versatile champion, and has recently become one of my favorites because she can jungle, top, mid, or support and is very fun to play. With her versatility comes a lot of items that are viable for her that have cool elemental visual effects that would just work even more with this skin idea.
Rylai's, Randuin's, Frozen Heart, Iceborn Gauntlet, Orb of Winter -> Ice
Liandry's, Sunfire Cape, DFG, Elder Lizard -> Fire
Mikael's, Talisman, Twin Shadows -> Wind
Face of the Mountain, Banshee's, Seraph's, -> Water
Solari, Zhonya's -> Earth
Odyn's, Ionic Spark (please bring back), Storm Shield Relic -> Lightning

Any fans out there that would pay good money for this kind of skin?

Thanks for reading! Best of luck on the Fields of Justice! Maybe you'll find Geomancer Karma there soon!

P.S. - If you are interested in this skin please comment and upvote, on here and on reddit, and spread the word. The faster this gets more hype, the more likely it will actually happen! And if anyone is a good artist or knows one, an image of this skin idea would be epic.