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Questions about "magic stealing" in the lore. Permanent? Effects on the victim?

Jarmander·1/16/2020, 12:04:28 AM·9 votes·11,800 views

Went through some of the lore pieces including Sylas' Freljord expedition and Galio/Lux's first meeting. Obviously spoilers below if you haven't read these short stories yet.

In Sylas' story, he steals the frost magic of an iceborne and some sort of shaman which enables him to permanently be able to use ice magic and withstand true ice. Stealing this magic from the Shaman nearly killed her as she seemed to lose her resistance to the cold. On the other hand, the iceborne didn't really seem to have any negative effects after having his magic stolen.

  • Is Sylas' ability to steal magic a sole property of petricite that he simply takes advantage of? Or is it a power specific to him?
  • Will the ice shaman fully recover her powers with time much like a depleted battery? Or has she permanently lost her frost magic?
  • Why didn't the iceborn warrior lose his iceborn magic and die from his own iceborne weapon after having his magic stolen by Sylas?

In Galio's short story, he meets a 13 year old Lux and causes her to not be able to use magic for a little while. He then exclaims that he does not want Lux to visit him anymore because he doesn't want to steal all her magic.

  • Does this imply that Galio's "magic stealing" properties are permanent? Or do the affected mages (such as Lux) eventually fully recover? (Again, much like a depleted rechargeable battery). If it's the latter, then why is Galio so opposed to Lux visiting him if she can just go sleep it off and recover her magic soon enough?

Thanks!

9 Comments

Mogarl1/16/2020, 3:00:00 PM5 votes

I imagine it depends on the source of the magic. If they are an innate sorcerer like Lux then they produce their own magic, so they'll just make more magic eventually. The Shaman however "received her power from the gods", so her power was not innate. If her magic wasn't innate then there is nothing to replenish it after Sylas takes it.

Zombie Slayer1/16/2020, 1:04:13 AM2 votes

I thought he couldn't even touch the true ice since when he picked up that weapon he ended up starting to die but only survived by taken that one Winters Claw dudes magic.

From what I know he has the ability to sense magic and he can absorb it, the Petricite just helps with that.

From looking at some stuff with Demacia on Necrit's channel I remember him talking about the Petricite potions the mage seekers use to "heal" a mage but they will eventually die since the magic is apart of their being. Most likely she recovers after a couple minutes or a couple hours allowing her to be fine in the cold.

Iceborn is a bloodline type thing from what I read in the Realms of Runeterra so most likely he wouldnt be able to lose it.

Galio is a also made of Petricite and maybe due to being made of that he can sense magic somewhat similar to Sylas and since he isn't aware of what Petricite does he probably thinks he is taking her magic for good. Galio could just not want to take her magic and make her weak but also I have a theory that Galio is only able to be alive because of something inside him using the magic as fuel and burning it up hence why he ends up falling to sleep after a mage is killed.

Terozu1/16/2020, 4:49:18 AM1 votes

He didn't steal the iceborns magic, he used the Iceborn as a conduit to steal the true Ice's magic.

PinkPowerCoin1/16/2020, 9:56:53 PM1 votes

From what I could gather with the comic and short stories, his power Basically works like Rogue/Hope from the X-Men. The transfer is only temporary.