Volibear

Darkf0rgd·6/2/2019, 5:28:36 PM·25 votes·11,439 views
VoliConcept

So I did a quick (and quite rough) sketch of Volibear from the written description / interaction with Udyr.

"In the forest behind Najak, the great black-leaf trees cracked and shook. Taller than a mammoth, it stepped out of the woods. Walls of muscle, each limb larger than a man, propelled the beast forward. Its broken, ancient armor of dark, metal plates was caked brown by the dried gore of a hundreds of battles. Broken weapons, rusted with age, jutted from its back and shoulders. One half of its face had been stripped of flesh, revealing oily bone, teeth, and horns. From its mouth, an unnatural, black blood dripped. Its four eyes, impossibly ancient, alien, and pitiless, looked over Sejuani and Udyr." "Udyr climbed up the rubble of a stairway to a ruined square. Surrounded by tall stone buildings, he found the monster waiting for him. Alone and in the middle of the city, the bear spirit’s avatar impaled corpses on stakes arranged in some unknowable pattern. Black branches and roots grew from the speared bodies around the beast, like worms slowly crawling from the earth. The flesh and fur on the Volibear’s face had healed, it’s muscles seemed thicker, stronger than before. The Volibear’s eyes turned to Udyr as the shaman approached. Across its face, a dozen new eyes bloomed, each as dark and cold as a spider’s. Perhaps it smelled the foreign magic on the Winter’s Claw shaman, and now deemed him worthy of examination. Somehow Udyr knew, this time, it spoke to him alone. “I will be reborn. You cannot stop that, son of man,” the beast said.

Rawr? Volibear

13 Comments

Hammermancer6/2/2019, 5:52:18 PM13 votes

Zilean GET THAT ARMORED BEAR OUT OF MY LEAGUE OF LEGENDS

(upvoted for art tho)

Hemulen Magi6/2/2019, 9:59:38 PM7 votes

"Its four eyes, impossibly ancient, alien, and pitiless, looked over Sejuani and Udyr."

Maybe by 4 eyes, they meant he has glasses. https://previews.123rf.com/images/victorianovak/victorianovak1608/victorianovak160800538/113576570-portrait-of-polar-bear-with-glasses-and-bow-tie-hand-drawn-illustration-.jpg Volibear: Udyr? Is that you? And who's this lovely lady with you? These ancient eyes aren't what they used to be. Udyr: Shut up, four eyes. I'm going to murder you. Volibear: Oh... Well, I guess there's no point in self-pity. Please inform my relatives back in the old country of my passing.

Tiniest Turtle6/2/2019, 9:31:12 PM2 votes

It's a good piece of art, I just don't like the weird direction they're taking him in.

Wert the Wacky6/3/2019, 3:43:21 PM2 votes

I really hope that they don’t go for the multiple eyes look... He’s still supposed to be a bear, you don’t see Oren or Anivia wandering around with fifty eyes

SennaFirstPick6/3/2019, 8:17:30 AM1 votes

fixed it for you

https://imgur.com/Wn4SlBU

BigFBear6/5/2019, 7:35:17 PM1 votes

I like his new lore but this concept looks ridiculous (no offense).

GelsominoKiller6/2/2019, 9:46:36 PM1 votes

Nice art! Reading the story, I envisioned a much less clean, symmetrical, mundane creature.

For example: a much more traditional armor piece, impaled more weapons, rust everywhere, dry blood soiled fur etc

21mackd6/3/2019, 12:55:03 AM1 votes

Looks like Master Yi got a little busy with the current volibear

ZaneShadow6/3/2019, 4:30:51 AM1 votes

I’m excited by the new lore but worries it won’t come out in gameplay. Like, the deformed monster in this picture represents how he is NOW in the lore. (Wonderfully drawn by the way).

But that’s not his perfect form, that was destroyed by Ornn. I’m wondering if they’ll have him slowly regain his true form over the course of the game, kind of the Juggernaut version of Kayle?

Could be fun in a lot of ways, like gaining progressively more cc immunity or rediculous tankiness as the game progresses. But that’s just my random garble of thoughts, I barely have an interest in the current champion but love his lore.