[Champion Concept] Ghisin - the Hundred-Year Specter
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Champion Type
Assassin
Short Lore
There's a saying among a certain Vestayan tribe that goes,
"The darkest of our kin; In one-hundred years she will breathe once more. In one-hundred days she will devour the world."
Once a member of a Vestayan tribe that has long passed into mystery, Ghisin was born with a greater connection to the spirits than most in her time. Through them she peered into the future and beheld the coming of a demon that would consume her kin. Seized by fear but driven by a love for her people, Ghisin killed her morals and began feeding on the thoughts and essence humans to grow strong enough to face the coming evil. In the end, her appetite grew until she forgot the reason with she began her feast, and she became a monster in the eyes of her people.
Fearing the end result of her ravenous hunger for minds, Ghisin's tribe banded against her and sent her into the shadows. But it wasn't the end; her endless consumption had turned her into something decidedly different from them, and they knew a day would come in which her specter would stir again.
Now Ghisin stalks the shadows of the world again, her compassionate heart long lost to her hunger for souls.
Appearance
A demonic fox specter who walks on all fours, her fur an unnaturally bright white but her eyes and claws pure red. While prowling unseen, she takes on a more tense and composed appearance, but the true feral monster within comes forth when she moves to kill.
Statistics
Health: 585 (+ 85) Health Regen: 8.5 (+ 0.8) Mana: 380 (+ 50) Mana Regen: 10.1 (+ 0.65) Melee: 125
Attack Damage: 68 (+ 3) Attack Speed: 0.669 (+ 2.7%) Armor: 36 (+ 3) Magic Resistance: 32.1 (+ 1.25) Movement Speed: 345
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Abilities
Specter’s Night
Range: 1100
Ghisin’s presence calls up lesser Roaming Specters, causing them to appear on the map and roam in neutral territories. Ghisin can sense nearby Roaming Specters, revealing them on the minimap and in the fog of war as dark shadows.
Eater Of Her Own: Ghisin may attack Roaming Specters to Consume them, Storing them (capped at 3). Ghisin’s basic attacks on-hit consume 1 Stored Specter, if any are available, to deal bonus physical damage to and Possess the target with 1 Specter for 12 seconds, up to a maximum of 9 Specters for large monsters, large minions, and champions, and 1 otherwise.
Possession: Ghisin can sense Possessed enemies the same way she does Roaming Specters. Some of Ghisin’s damaging abilities may Purge Possessing Specters, destroying them and dealing their host magic damage per Purged Specter.
Bonus Physical Damage: 10 + 4 per level + 20% Bonus AD Bonus Magic Damage: 8 + 3 per level + 16% Bonus AD
Q: Spectral Swarm
Range: 1150 Missile Speed: 1600 Cost: 50/55/60/65/70 mana Cooldown: 11/10.5/10/9.5/9 seconds
Active: Ghisin howls, causing all Roaming Specters within the cast range to charge enraged in the direction of the target location, stopping upon arrival and with each dealing physical damage to and Possessing for 12 seconds the first Possession-elligeable enemy in their wake, instead stopping if the damage is lethal. Enemies become Possessed by each Specter intercepted, but will not take additional damage after the first.
Upon stopping, Specters behave as Roaming Specters.
Ghisin can deploy a set number of Specters per cast, and will supplement with her Stored Specters if the cap is unsatisfied by Roaming Specters. The ability cannot be cast if Ghisin is unable to deploy at least 1 Specter.
Maximum Specters fired: 4/5/6/7/8/9 Physical Damage: 90/135/180/225/270 + 120% bonus AD
W: Soul Lullaby
Cast range: 950/1050/1150/1250/1350 Area of effect: 225 Cost: 30 mana Cooldown: 8/6.5/5/3.5/2 seconds
Passive: Ghisin’s basic attacks against Roaming Specters gain 425 bonus range and reset her basic attack timer.
Active: Ghisin enchants all Roaming Specters within the cast range, attracting them to converge at 300% movement speed to the target location while also immediately Consuming and Purging all Specters already in it. Purged enemies are also slowed by 60% for a duration if a champion, or forced to flee for the same duration if not.
Duration: 1/1.25/1.5/1.75/2 seconds
E: Phantom Rush
Range: 500 Cost: 50/55/60/65/70 mana Cooldown: 14/13/12/11/10 seconds
Active: Ghisin takes on spectral form and dashes to the target location, dealing physical damage to nearby enemies where she stops, also Consuming and Purging all Specters in range. The range of the ability is increased by 50% toward Roaming Specters or Possessed enemies.
If Ghisin Consumed or Purged at least 1 Specter with this ability, the ability’s cooldown is reduced.
Physical Damage: 65/100/135/170/205 + 20% bonus AD Cooldown Reduction: 30/35/40/45/50%
R: Night March of One-Hundred Souls
Range: 650 Cost: 100 mana Cooldown: 140/120/100 seconds
Active: Ghisin curses an area around her, dealing physical damage to nearby enemies, and then Haunting the affected area for a duration, summoning a number of Specters per second to swarm in a panic in the Haunted area, up to a maximum amount at a given time.
Ghisin may reactivate the ability to end the Haunt early.
Once the Haunt ends, all remaining Specters scatter randomly, wandering up to a maximum distance of double the original Haunt range before acting as Roaming Specters.
Physical Damage: 150/250/350 + 150% Bonus AD Haunt duration: 5/7/9 seconds Specters summoned per second: 2/4/6 Maximum Specters summonable at a time: 3/6/9
Roaming Specters
Control Type: Autonomous Target Type: Minion
Gold: 0 Exp: 0 CS: -
Health: 1 Move speed: 280
Abilities:
Homesick: Roaming Specters favor remaining in the jungle and river, and will head there at 50% movement speed while in the lanes or bases.
Fox’s Prey: Roaming Specters cannot be targeted or damaged by units other than Ghisin.
Ideal Host: Ghisin’s abilities cannot interact with Roaming Specters that have Possessed large minions, large monsters, or champions unless otherwise noted, nor can she Consume them.
Un-Ideal Host: Roaming Specters that have Possessed small minions and small monsters are still treated as Roaming Specters by Ghisin’s abilities, and will leave their host freely if Ghisin’s abilities would need them to.
Final Farewell: Possessing Specters automatically Purge themselves against non-champions when their duration ends.
Long Lore
One among a tribe of fox Vastayan, Ghisin was born with a deep ability to commune with spirits, through which she obtained great wisdom and insight into events yet to unfold. She gained recognition among her tribe at a young age when she foresaw that a great and sudden onset of snow-melt would consume the dwellings of her people, killing many and devastating their livelihood. Realizing that her word alone would not be sufficient to avert disaster, Ghisin climbed the nearby mountains and obtained evidence of the early melt, bringing it back to her tribe. With this warning, Ghisin's tribe quickly relocated to safer environs, and just in time before the prophesized snowsurge came down the mountains.
This was only the start for the young fox. As she grew older, Ghisin time was gifted with yet more visions of future events, which which she carefully guided her people away from hardships. Over time, her people began to come to her looking for advice, and she happily obliged them, offering whatever wisdom she could glean from the spirits. In time she became a respected priestess among her people, with her words being taken in deep regard.
But then a horrible night came when Ghisin dreamed once again of disaster. From that night on her nights were beset with visions of her own bloody demise, heralding the oncoming of a horrifying shadow that devoured the souls of the dead and sundered the living. She saw her own people, their lives stolen and their communities reduced to ash. She tried to hide her visions from her people, but no matter how she tried to see into the future to find some way to avert this disaster, the dreams only became sharper and clearer, hinting at their imminent fulfillment.
Her powers as they were weren't enough to save her people. Something had to be done.
It was known among her people that they had the power to feed on lives through influencing emotion, but it was also known that this sensation was dangerously addictive, and thus a dangerous taboo. During yet another sleepless night, Ghisin found herself wandering the forests near her tribe's current residence, and soon she stumbled upon a human community. Standing atop a hill, she glared down at them, jealousy raging in her heart. Destruction didn't loom over their heads - and even if it did, they weren't burdened with the certain knowledge of its coming. For the first time in her life, Ghisin considered her gift a curse, one that was driving her mad with fear and yet offered no solution.
She had to do something. Even if it was a horrible thing.
Breaking the laws of her people, Ghisin descended upon the village that night, beginning a grizzly hunt. She darted from the shadows, quickly beguiling the simple humans with calming images, taking their life energy, and then disappearing from sight again. The humans quickly learned that a demon was among them, but though they gathered to stop Ghisin, she eluded the hunters, picking them off one by one. By morning, she was the sole living thing standing in that village, and yet she was more alive than ever before. She could feel body flowing with power she once couldn't have imagined.
She could do it. With this, she could confront the shadow and save her people. Grinning ear to ear, she returned to her tribe, only to find them arrayed against her upon her arrival. She frowned and stepped forward, realizing what was coming. Her people had noticed her departure, and sensed what she'd done - but too late to stop it. She tried to explain herself and her motives, but her fellow Vastayans refused to hear her.
Realizing the hopelessness of her position, Ghisin fled into the woods. With the aid of the spirits and the strength she'd gained from the humans, she managed to elude pursuit. After establishing a new den for herself in the southern woods of Ionia, she began to plan her defense against the dread shadow once more. She'd depleted the life force she'd seized from the humans to come as far as she had, but this didn't trouble her.
There were plenty of feed from. As many as she needed to contend with the coming terror. One village bled into two, then three. Ghisin's murderous nights became more efficient each time she made her attacks, and upon returning from her third rampage, she felt sure that she would finally be graced with a vision of salvation.
Instead, she found herself surrounded by hunters of her own kind. They struck without giving her a chance to speak, dealing crippling injuries before Ghisin could even move to defend herself. As she lay bleeding on the ground, the Vastayan foxes - her own people - warily watched the life leave her.
So, that was it. All of her struggles had been for nothing. Everything she'd done for the sake of her kind.
In desperation, she reached out to the spirits one last time, and she was gifted with one final vision. The shadow that fed on death was attacking, but this time the visions were from another perspective. So that was it.
Well, she'd been guided her whole life by her visions, even when she strove to defy them. The only path left to her was to see them through.
Laughing into the dirt, and labored to force herself up. Looking the hunters in the eyes, and said to them, "Know this: In one hundred years I'll return. I'll scatter our tribes like ashes!"
Unwilling to hear any further, the hunters struck her down.
Her body died, but Ghisin did not pass into eternal rest. Her connection to the spirits remained with her even in death, and her own wayward soul, in time, managed to piece together its own awareness again with their aid.
It then consumed them. The spirits that guided her in life became her prey in death. Not even Ghisin herself could remember exactly how long it took, but eventually she became fully aware of herself again. And she hungered. Her very form, built from a conglomerate mass of consumed specters and spirits, repelled the spirits that wandered the land, but she hunted them down. Her hunger for souls and life - the foundation from which she existed in the land of the living once more - drew her ever onward.
She no longer looked to the spirits for guidance, or to the living to protect. They were food, one and all, for the endless hunger of the shadow that a young fox once foresaw in her nightmares.
