At this point i wasn't even expecting a response, its great to be able to keep talking about this.
That would be a fitting end for such a madman as
, I would feel bad for the rest of Shurima though.
The thing about the World Rune is that having the most powerful tool doesn't make you the strongest.
studied magic for his whole life, and so he became as strong as he is when finally ascended. If the shadow magic were to come from a world rune,
wouldn't really know how to use it at its fullest, but he is getting a lot out of it though (shadow solidify, turning into pure shadows, creating dopplegangers, going through walls as a shadow, stealing souls-shadows, getting inside people as a shadow being), that can't be covered just with instructions taken from a scroll inside a box, that scroll (or World Rune) would need to be able to give shadow magic to the user (or Zed to be an amazing watcher to be able to find so much people attuned to shadow magic by birth)
To put another example, I think that as strong as
is, and even when he is attuned to wind magic, he won't be able to create the same wind that
could, because he can control his magic (as he helped Taliyah to do), but though martial arts, not pure mage control, so his wind techs are binded to his sword and learnings, same as
's, he wouldn't freely unleash the wind, as
also wouldn't freely unleash the shadows.
I didn't remember that part about
showing his face, then there are 2 options i think.
1. Zed only becomes that shadow being in battle for sneaking and better blending withing darkness, when attuned fully with the shadow magic (like his disciples, they all seem like Zed's shadows in pajamas), when he isn't in combat his body returns to normal.
2. The World Rune isn't inside Zed and hasn't still taken control of him, so he is just zebra man, but not with a shadow covered body, just ionian tanned skin and shadow master's white stripes.
I didn't remember that part also. In some media removing the shadow leaves the user in a catatonic state, and is compared to removing the soul, that might be what Riot is trying to do here with the shadow reaping technique, but it kinda interferes with the shadow isles.... And it would make
quite scary if the black mist ever visited Ionia and he started reaping souls out of it to empower himself...
SOULSTEALER ZED!! YOU HEARD IT FIRST HERE!!
Jokes aside.
I think that the Void can't be just a Runeterra problem, it is a whole dimension, so it shouldn't be just focusing in a planet.
If they needed some kind of trigger to appear, like Icathia, then they would appear just in Runeterra, and once this one was destroyed, they would disappear. If they could appear freely, then Targon would need to defend every planet and wouldn't even worry about something as small as Runeterra.
Why are both parties so focused in Runeterra? It is just because Riot wants so? or because there is something really important in Runeterra, for both Void and Targon that we don't know yet because Targon hasn't been fleshed out (nor will it in some years to come).
Isn't
's enemy implied to be submarine voidlings? it felt so clear out of how they were described in her story. We don't know about
though, he is outdated, but the way he was described its in the middle point between the Void and a Darkin (
something dark
,
devoured him,
gave him a new form hidden under the suit and new powers)
About 
The thing about her old lore is that she was batman on lol, so there wasn't really much that you could know of her. With the new story Riot gave us a piece of her personality, and she ended up being a maniac, but she is still quite cunning, as you could tell by her color text with the widow and how she was found out. Being a natural born killer doesn't make you any less influential or interesting (Look at
),
is a Demacian noble, and also a hunter of dark arts, with her resources, cunning and desire to kill, she isn't going to be friends with the black rose unless it really helped her to achieve something, and if it didn't, she would probably be behind their heads, hunting them down like animals, like she always does with black magics.
More lore is in order to determine how she plays though, is she known just in Demacia? Or is she a dark, whispered secret spoken by the followers of the dark around Runeterra while shivering? Sadly, we won't get any more lore about her in a while. Its up to imagination.
I do understand why the Lore can't tell stories every second, if they did it, while having to send every story though the many filters and teams they have there, stories would never arrive nevertheless (they explained something like that long ago, that every little piece of lore needed a lot of seals of approval), in order to not get story wrong on the long run, and having to rewrite it later on (like they are already doing)
Runeterra feels dead though, the world spins around the champions, or so it seems, because we only get info about it when they are revealed.
How's Nami going?
What is the Black Rose doing? We haven't even been told
Noxus?
How is Lux doing with the mages?
What does Karma do as an elder?
Syndra? is she still chilling in her palace?
Soraka?
What are the Shadow Isles champion doing while not rampaging inside the mist?
Whats up with the Void and the Glade?
Targon? How is Aurelion going right now? has Targon weakened further?
Freljord? Who is winning or won?
The Watchers? What are they?
Akali?
Kennen?
Yordles in general?
These and many more are questions that could be solved, not in a new champion bio, but as small side stories published every once in a while, like shadow and fortune (that was also an
teaser)
But the Lore team just won't answer any of these. I REALLY want new lore, i love reading it and theorizing about it, but i do understand why they won't give us little bits regarding how big RIOT is.
The reincarnation part is interesting. It adds another layer
How does it affect people? does magic relate to it?
for example: if
died and reincarnated, is it possible for him to become an mage? or he will still be the magicless warrior he already is?
If a mage reincarnate, will it keep its magic attunement?
It all depends on Nagakabouros, that is one of the biggest misteries on LoL, but that is ok this time though, as Gods are supposed to be inscrutables.