Darkin lore request, pls rito read :)!

PoxHydra··6 votes·1,336 views

Yo!

I was thinking about champions and their lore and I somehow just remembered how everyone reacted when Aatrox was getting released and how everyone assumed Jax was a darkin since there was an Aatrox looking shadowy-figure in his splash art during the time, and I thought to myself, isn't it possible for some Riot employee to like do some little explaining or Q&A or something?

I mean right now it feels like Riot just came up with the "Darkin" race as they were making Aatrox and that there are no plans for them at all, so I just thought, wouldn't it be just awesome if you were to at least confirm if Jax is/isn't a darkin, give a tiny tease/hint to what the other darkin are, if there ever will be any, are they forgotten? Since I believe that the darkin concept is HUGE and has MASSIVE potential too because everyone just loves new champs and there are tons of Jax/Aatrox mainers that want some closure!

I mean Aatrox might not be in the best of places right now in the game but his backstory is one of the coolest straight outta runeterra, and Jax is very similar to Aatrox (Not much is know about him and he is godlike in combat according to lore), so for him to be a darkin wouldn't be much of a surprise so confirming his race as a darkin (in case he is one) would just be really awesome :)! Because I feel like LORE wise there is so much left that needs to be explained, like the whole "Shadow Isles" thing, like "who is the ruined king?" and "why shouldn't mordekaiser be trusted?", and so so many more questions, and I honestly feel like the darkins is the best way to start cleaning up some lore questions, we don't need to know all about them, just maybe a little tease, for example, is there any female darkins? Do the darkins get along? where there many of them? how did they come to? where they created by someone/something? I remember one dev clarifying that there were 5 REMAINING, meaning that there has to have been more of them right? But if there was more of them and they are now dead / ceased to exist, why wouldn't we be aware of them or their existance? I feel like it would be kinda strange if Jax WAS a darkin because he resembles NOTHING like Aatrox at all, the only feature they both have in common is that they are slightly monster-looking badasses with a humanoid structure, so do all darkins look different, in that case they are less of a race and more of a group of strange powerful beings?

I don't know! My head is running with ideas and theories, rito help xD, if you don't want to spoil any surprises about the darkins (if there are any) at least just confirm if there will be any in the future because if not then there is no reason to hold out on such information ^_^! Ooh and also guys, if you have any cool theories or speculations do post them below, I'd love to hear! Maybe there is a darkin in the league already, we just don't know it O_O!

TL;DR: Much story is untold, pls give some teases and hints to darkins, they are a good start :)

12 Comments

GreenLore4 votes

Honestly by now I think it is far more likely that Jax is some sort of spirit similar to Bard and kindred.

I mean they are all very mysterious and wear masks with glowing holes.

Peridition1 votes

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Honestly by now I think it is far more likely that Jax is some sort of spirit similar to Bard and kindred.

I mean they are all very mysterious and wear masks with glowing holes.

Great point. I think Jax is a bit too whimsical to be a Darkin. But he does mesh well with Bard as you just said. Judging by the cinematic from last year, I bet they will even removed his voice if he ever gets a update.

I imagine the remaining Darkin to be more demonic in nature. I also imagine part of their theme is a harness a living weapon which is an part of their body. Jax isn't really cohesive with that.

gatchi1 votes

Man i keep forgetting about darkin, so im with ya. Whats the point of having a race if you dont do anything with it?

However i actually dont want any questions answered about Jax. So much of his character is built around mystery and the implication he may be from outside of all of this.

PoxHydra1 votes

But thats the thing, they teased Aatrox with Jax, meaning they have some kind of connection, and Jax is so impressive as a champ but all we know is legit this, "He was so good he had to use a lamp because otherwise he would never lose" ... yeh.. well... is it BECAUSE he is darkin? or because he trained for millenia or sum shit? xD like sure he is mysterious but that doesn't mean he gets 0 lore xD

GreenLore1 votes

They teased nothing about aatrox and jax. The only "tease" was that people see a horned figure in the fire of Jaxs lantern,which might be just fire that happens to look like that.

PoxHydra1 votes

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They teased nothing about aatrox and jax. The only "tease" was that people see a horned figure in the fire of Jaxs lantern,which might be just fire that happens to look like that.

I remember seeing somekind of image of Aatrox standing to Jax's left on his splash art and it REALLY resembles Aatrox from behind, you can see his horns and such, and that is like a tease or hint to that they are connected or at least somehow have SOMETHING to do with each other, maybe Aatrox is the reason Jax is so OP if he ain't a darkin himself, however that wouldn't make much sense since he is taking so much pride in Tryndamere and creating him but says nothing about Jax :O!

I found this little image here, this is where at least I can see Aatrox :)! http://cdn.leagueoflegends.com/game-info/1.0.15/images/champion/backdrop/bg-jax.jpg

DwarvenGiant1 votes

Well, it might resemble Aatrox, but it could really be anything. This thing could be a statue, another Darkin, or just an other horned creature.

I think that for now, the interesting thing is that we don't know if Darkin, as a race, are like demons, who could potentially have completely different forms from one another (See Tahm Kench, Swain and Shaco), or possibly a race like yordles or humans, defined by physical similarities (Which Jax doesn't really share, along with every other champ we have, with Aatrox).

I think that the latter possibility, of the Darkin being a physically-defined race, would be the one Riot will work with.

That said, I think that I wanna hear more about Jax, before hearing about Aatrox and/or what/who remains of his race.

Celio Hogane HD1 votes

My headcanon is that the lamp is a Darkin and Jax is holding him inside.

PoxHydra1 votes

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My headcanon is that the lamp is a Darkin and Jax is holding him inside.

xD damn.... never saw that coming... #FearTheLamp #LampCarry #TheoneLamptorulethemall

ninjaIRL 1 votes

Before the previous lore got scrapped, Jax entered the League of Legends right after the head Summoner, Archmagus Reginald or something similar, disappeared without a trace. Players speculated that the head summoner, Reginald, actually disguised himself as a fighter and entered the League of Legends as Jax. The unbeatable champion. Jax initially had access to every form of weapon and it seems he used almost all forms of weapons until the Summoners decided to limit his use to just one weapon. Jax, as cocky as he is, told the Summoners that he's fine with a bronze lamp post and so the Summoners restricted him to that bronze lamp post.

PoxHydra1 votes

Hm, is it possible that Archamgus Reginald is a Darkin ;)? I mean, he is obviously of high importance and he is in one way considered "godlike" if he is unbeatable that is. And so... the conspiracy begins xD?

The Red Warden1 votes

Actually the entire idea of the institute of war was retcon bed away so the entire Reginal line has been forgotten. Besides, Jax was created years before Aatrox was even conceptualized.

Jax doesn't exist in the lore currently as removing the institute part out of his lore only leaves you with random brawler dude who is good at fighting.

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