The Next Darkin

calibergunsaint·12/3/2017, 5:25:03 PM·2 votes·1,609 views

As we know from Varus's story, Varus is searching one of the remaining Darkin, his "sister". We can infer that Shurima sealed her, as Varus says there are warding sigils in that place, moreover he regards Shurima as a strong empire, saying the Shurima he knew can't be what it is now, a wasteland. We also see that there are statues of a crocodile, a jackel and a great serpent in that tomb. A great serpent, just like the one that made Casiopia what she is today. I think that maybe Nasus and Renekton sealed her away, and that she will be some sort of a snake-looking mid laner/ support, able to poison and slow enemies, even control some snakes and maybe even the people her statues turned into monsters. What do you think?

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Wrathof30012/3/2017, 6:22:37 PM4 votes

You actually have this backwards. The Shurima Varus remembers was actually a desolate wasteland, as the Darkin Wars probably occurred before Shurima rose to power, so he is surprise to find that it is a nation now/ was once an empire. The tomb Varus encounters, is the tomb in which Xerath and Renekton were sealed until Cassiopeia released them. This was also where she was cursed, hence the snake statue. Since Nasus and Renekton were the latter of the Shurima's Ascended hosts, they couldn't have been the ones to seal the Darkin, its even questionable if the Darkins would be common knowledge to them, Nasus may know of them, however he was a librarian/ historian after all.

The ones responsible for ending the Darkin Wars are likely the Targonians, due to the revelation the a the Darkins are a race alien to Runeterra and Targon is the only faction with dealings beyond the realm of Runeterrra. It has also been speculated that a former Aspect of the Sun may have had a a hand in establishing Shurima teaching them how to harness the Sun's energy (hence the Sun Disks), the flame haired woman is likely this former Aspect of the Sun.

Żügżwäng12/3/2017, 6:23:44 PM2 votes

Theyll most likely make a support and middle darkin to give people the option for a full darkin team.

Existential Bard12/3/2017, 6:57:52 PM2 votes

Seeing as Zoe was just released I doubt they will make another mage next. I feel the support darkin is the next one on the roster, since Varus is an adc, his sister darkin could be the support. Maybe the new support will have synergy with Varus within her kit (similar to xayah and rakan)

GreenLore12/4/2017, 12:28:19 PM1 votes

While I hope that the female darkin in his color story will be the next champ,it could also be just a teaser for a character that riot plans on doing,but on whom they haven't even started to work on.

After all its kinda natural that there'd be at least 1 female darkin and Varus traveled all by himself from ionia to shurima,so regardless of where this female darkin is coming from,it is probably not too hard for her to get to shurima. So riot might really just have the concept of "female darkin" lying around.