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Some thoughts about Vladimir

SaltyToplaneGoat·2/9/2016, 2:48:33 PM·10 votes·1,913 views

Don't get me wrong, current Vlad as we know him is one digusting guy to deal with, but reading his lore there is something that makes me think: in some kind of weird fucked up ritual his teacher goes into some kind of "blood-pool" form and Vlad absorbes him - and with that the knownldge of him and every other hemomancer before him.

But... is Vladimir a collective existence now? Or is he still an individual? Is he actually in control, or is he jst a puppet posessed by his old masters? Because if he didn't just take in their knowledge but also their personalities, it wouldn't be weird for them to surpress his original personality and use him as a vessel to reach their goals.

That would make him quite a tragic character: he's maybe just some dude with a blood-fetish, but he has voices in his head telling him to murder everything and drink their blood while following some kind of agenda - and those voices are not his imagination, but actual entities that have control over him.

39 Comments

Over Innsmouth2/9/2016, 3:20:28 PM2 votes

As far as Riot canon goes, he's an individual whose accumulated (likely) centuries worth of a Sith-like Rule-of-Two style of master-student teaching, making him the pinnacle of Blood Magic that's ever existed so far.

I do really like your idea though, but sadly it probably won't get reflected in the update, since that'd require a VO Update. He's only getting a gameplay update and associated visuals to match abilities (although I keep my fingers crossed for a Shen-level VU). Personally, I think that he and Swain should be sat down and swapped in terms of update priority. People know Swain and what he does, his identity and gameplay pattern are significantly healthier and need less tweaking. Vlad is a relic in terms of gameplay comparable to Xin Zhao in terms of binary-ism and his incredibly linear playstyle. Swain should be mid-year update, Vlad should be the big, Sion-level project that Riot's proposed.

Spizzle90002/9/2016, 9:28:08 PM2 votes

You saying he's disgusting in game, or lore-wise? And yeah I agree with TheUntitledKing on that it's kinda like the Rule of Two.

James Stone2/10/2016, 6:59:56 PM2 votes

Nah, he's a dick. He absorbed the power and MAYBE the conscience of his former Master and trainer, but he's still himself, and "himself" is A HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE dick.

This ain't some Alucard shit, whom himself is also a giant dick, but smaller than Vlad, Vladimir is really just a pollock with a huge attitude problem. He's an individual and that individual is a massive tosser

Krizalid2/9/2016, 3:06:14 PM1 votes

He's individual posessing knowledge and powers of others.

morris12/9/2016, 4:27:52 PM1 votes

Reading Ahri's lore I also have a weird feeling that Ahri is a he. And that's weird.

option paralysis2/10/2016, 9:47:00 AM1 votes

How could you even think someone is controlling him and telling him to kill if this is in his lore: " the teenaged Vladimir had brutally murdered two boys of his age, for no better reason than to enjoy the intoxicating scarlet bloom that surged forth. He realized immediately that he would never be able to suppress his murderous desires." That was before he met the monk.

Just read the league judgements about him - http://leagueoflegends.wikia.com/wiki/Vladimir/Background