So, after reading the recent amazing azir and xerath stories I decided to look back at the shadow isle stories and read them too (never did before). I started with hecarim's and I have to say, I don't like it.
Hecarim hates everything and likes to kill everyone... and that's about it. What kind of story and character is that? I hope the others are better and have more depth.
His story seems unfinished. From the Altar quotes and from final part of Shadow and Fortune, it seems that Hecarim at least at one point had the intentions of being a good man in life. Its unknown if he became corrupted by his own desire or by something else before he committed the ultimate act of betrayal against Kalista.
“You can be free, Hecarim,” said Illaoi, her voice strained to the limits of endurance by what she had unleashed. “You can move on, live in the light as the man you always dreamed of being before his grief and folly remade you.”
Hecarim roared and swept his glaive at Illaoi’s neck.
Miss Fortune’s blade intercepted it in a clashing flare of sparks. She shook her head.
“Get out of my city,” she said.
Hecarim’s blade drew back for another strike, but before the blow could land, the light finally pierced his veil of darkness. He bellowed in pain and fell back from its burning touch. The dark rider’s outline shimmered, like two picture box images wavering in candlelight on the same backcloth.
Miss Fortune caught a fleeting glimpse of a tall rider, armored in silver and gold. A young man, handsome and proud with dark eyes and a future of glory ahead of him.
What happened to him?
But either way, I agreed. Shadow Isles needs another lore pass to clear a few more things up.
Just out of curiosity,what did you expect?
Personally I thought that Hecarim was once a more noble man,based on what the altars said,but his lore kinda makes it so that he was always kind of a monster. Though I liked his betrayal of his captain and how he actually wanted to join kalista on her quest.
Huh, are you sure you didn't just read the color text? I thought Hec had one of the better Shadow Isles lores, because it shows us more about how he's a schemer and a backstabber. He pretty much manipulated the Ruined King for years, and murdered Kalista before she could stop him from unleashing the curse onto the Blessed Isles. (Which sets up her whole B E T R A Y A L gimmick)
His color text though is, yeah, just "Hecarim trampled a lot of dudes". Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Hecs story? Can't clear one side of the jungler without feeding the jungle camps Kappa.
