Defining the "Arclight" "Justicar" and "Arbiter" themes

Salt and Veigar·1/17/2015, 9:33:08 PM·2 votes·1,775 views

Recently Arbiter Velkoz has been changed to be a part of the "Arclight" skin set. While the skin fits in the set appearance-wise, the name sounds a bit awkward imo. I feel like it would be best keeping the skin name as Arbiter Vel'Koz and holding off adding another addition to the Arclight skin line because and I quote

"It has been stated that Arclight Varus is how Varus looked after he used the power of the corruption, but "before the darkness consumed him".

To me Arclight has always felt like a theme for champions who are dark and corrupted but weren't always so, and Arclight is them before darkness took hold.

Now onto the other skins themes. Vel'Koz DEFINITELY should not be part of the Justicar set. Justicar is a sort of "Altered fate" set of skins for the chaotic and evil champions. Vel'Koz simply seeks knowledge, like all void champions (except maybe Chogath ?) he is not inherently evil he hungers for knowledge in the way Khazix hungers evolution and the other void champions are just hungry. Sure Void Champions could be considered as chaotic forces that threaten Runterra but they aren't evil per-se...

Good examples of possible skins for the Justicar set are Lissandra Elise

Now to "Arbiter", Arbiter champions are those who "stand in judgment". A champion with the skin should be powerful (lore wise at least). Arbiter skins feature champions that are super serious but at the same time they remain calm collected, elegant in the way they carry out their "duty". Since Vel'Koz was the only one with the skin it can be kind of hard to pinpoint an exact theme other than "Protoss" but these are some champions who I think would fit the the Arbiter theme.

Thresh (I know there is an Arclight fan-skin but a light themed Thresh skin is better off in the Arbiter set) Diana Vayne

2 Comments

Tabs1/17/2015, 9:56:12 PM1 votes

People always seem to like a new skins original name, then it gets changed :/

Gunpoint1/17/2015, 10:44:27 PM1 votes

Diana's joke is too funny to be placed in the Arbiter theme. But in all honesty I was wondering why it wasn't Arclight Vel'Koz originally and it really should be Arclight.