I'm Confused With A Bit Of Odyssey Lore

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I think you missed a bit of lore hiding in the VO and the short story. I'll do my best to explain this without spoiling anything.

So, Rhaast is not from the Odyssey universe. No corruptant is -- he is alone, having fallen through the Ora Gate at an as-yet (pay attention to the special loading screen tips when the mode goes live!) undetermined point in time, and can't return on his own. Being a corruptant, his ultimate goal is to consume all of existence (this is why he sounds like he wants to eat people) and and then leap into the Dark Star itself, ending time, thought, and matter. However, the Dark Star does not exist in Odyssey. This "Ora" stuff does instead, which is biological fuel that enhances people and technology. In order to reactivate the Ora Gate for his own purposes he needs both a body (he somehow got trapped in this scythe, again pay attention to the loading screen tips!) and a TON of Ora, so he subtly influences Kayn and makes his unbidden ambitions take over his mind. Twisting his youthful anger into an obsessive need to adsorb the Ora of other sentients, Kayn takes Sona, someone who can speak to Ora and who knows how the Gate operates, and attempts to 'open' it and gain 'unlimited power.' This, of course, is a ruse. Rhaast is lying the entire time -- he doesn't care about Ora as anything but a tool.

Sona escapes, and Rhaast and Kayn end up getting stuck with each other for years longer than either of them intended as they hunt her down. She joins the Morning Star, Kayn starts chasing the crew, and bingo bango here we are.

I don't think anybody knows what Rhaast really is. To understand his true self would be like a normal human comprehending an eldritch god -- even the general concept of the alien, sentient Dark Star would break an average person's mind. Jarvan is just a mortal emperor doing Mortal Emperor Stuff, and Kayn starts actively disobeying him the minute he picks up the scythe. Dude has no idea what a Dark Star is... we do because, obviously, we have Player Knowledge. They do not.

As for the Ora Gate? I know what it is and how it works, but I'm not talking ;)

Annnnnd... yeah, I didn't spoil anything! Hope that helps!

So Kayn is hum... Rhaast complete puppet. I almost feel bad for him now. Rhaast does what he wants and is feeding himself on Kayn desilusions.

Now there is a Dark Star J4 and it's pretty ingruigjng. There is no way he didn't get corrupted by the Dark star himself leading to this skin. Too much coincidences. DS J4 bio also oddly match to this idea.

Tell me more dear Rito I can't wait ! I love how you wrote the whole idea of Dark Stars and Rhaast being overall way superior to humans in concepts. Even Kayn ambition seems so small in comparison to Rhaast thirst for world end, and somehow i dig this suff.

Would Riot ever consider making the story play out in the event itself instead of having to go read something else that takes you away from playing the actual game? As in letting us PLAY the story instead of making it a kind of second thought that isn't really necessary to actually play the game mode?

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I think you missed a bit of lore hiding in the VO and the short story. I'll do my best to explain this without spoiling anything.

So, Rhaast is not from the Odyssey universe. No corruptant is -- he is alone, having fallen through the Ora Gate at an as-yet (pay attention to the special loading screen tips when the mode goes live!) undetermined point in time, and can't return on his own. Being a corruptant, his ultimate goal is to consume all of existence (this is why he sounds like he wants to eat people) and and then leap into the Dark Star itself, ending time, thought, and matter. However, the Dark Star does not exist in Odyssey. This "Ora" stuff does instead, which is biological fuel that enhances people and technology. In order to reactivate the Ora Gate for his own purposes he needs both a body (he somehow got trapped in this scythe, again pay attention to the loading screen tips!) and a TON of Ora, so he subtly influences Kayn and makes his unbidden ambitions take over his mind. Twisting his youthful anger into an obsessive need to adsorb the Ora of other sentients, Kayn takes Sona, someone who can speak to Ora and who knows how the Gate operates, and attempts to 'open' it and gain 'unlimited power.' This, of course, is a ruse. Rhaast is lying the entire time -- he doesn't care about Ora as anything but a tool.

Sona escapes, and Rhaast and Kayn end up getting stuck with each other for years longer than either of them intended as they hunt her down. She joins the Morning Star, Kayn starts chasing the crew, and bingo bango here we are.

I don't think anybody knows what Rhaast really is. To understand his true self would be like a normal human comprehending an eldritch god -- even the general concept of the alien, sentient Dark Star would break an average person's mind. Jarvan is just a mortal emperor doing Mortal Emperor Stuff, and Kayn starts actively disobeying him the minute he picks up the scythe. Dude has no idea what a Dark Star is... we do because, obviously, we have Player Knowledge. They do not.

As for the Ora Gate? I know what it is and how it works, but I'm not talking ;)

Annnnnd... yeah, I didn't spoil anything! Hope that helps!

So the TLDR is that they're separate universes and that Dark Star Jarvan and Odyssey Jarvan are separate people?

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As for the Ora Gate? I know what it is and how it works, but I'm not talking ;)

Annnnnd... yeah, I didn't spoil anything! Hope that helps!

So...that means there's more to come, right?

All aboard the hype train!

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I don't think anybody knows what Rhaast really is.

I bet that he is a just a fallen warrior from the Galactic Empire of Azir

http://www.leaguesplash.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Galactic-Azir.jpg

Because inmortal galactic emperors are better than human emperors.

you nailed it you said it better then i could