How does Swain control Sion?

NotaRobot1006·11/21/2019, 2:57:12 AM·1 votes·5,431 views

As in what's his strategy beyond "Point Sion at enemy city, sit back, watch"? Of course getting Sion to wreck whoever or whatever's currently in front of him isn't an issue. But how does Swain get him to stop? Sion's bio says that hundreds of Noxians died just trying to restrain him back when Boram tried to get him reinterred. Getting Sion to stop was clearly an issue back in Boram's day, so much so that Boram stopped using Sion altogether.

Now Swain's using him as a siege engine. The bio mentions Swain brought Sion to Hvardis in an iron cage, but how in the world did he get him back in the cage, and then back inside his monument? Swain must have pulled it off somehow because the next few sentences talk about Sion seeing light come into his tomb like it's a recurring event. But it never says Swain found a way to stop Sion from killing his own allies or give him any kind of "off" switch.

Swain's got a bunch of arcane Secrets thanks to his demon arm and general intelligence network, so I'm sure he's figured out some way to get his suffering abomination of flesh under a degree of control. I just have no idea what that way is.

6 Comments

DartExplosion1011/21/2019, 3:24:28 AM4 votes

he asked nicely

Infernape11/21/2019, 3:02:08 AM2 votes

perhaps Swain knows how to use blood magic or whatever magic reanimated him in the first place.

Whyte Lyon11/21/2019, 3:27:45 AM2 votes

I dont think there is a definitive answer to this, at best some peiced-together theories.

I will add this however, ever since the Swain update of 2018 which had the result of contradicting with Sion's own biography (which ik has been fixed by now) but his further stories like Reborn and In The Mind of Madness still feel like they're skimp and outdated. I would love for the writers to bring them more into the fold by either updating them or converting them into a new larger story, which seems feasible with how Cassiopeia's Colour Story was re-released.

I think Reborn was completely snuffed out but the other one is still passable as canonical, although it's still a disappointingly brief story.

RyzeTheSmurfMage11/21/2019, 10:08:41 AM2 votes

"How does Swain control Sion?" By giving him orders