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@Riot: Where are the Other Darkin?

SSmotzer·5/9/2017, 9:01:13 AM·0 votes·1,988 views

Aatrox, he is all about war. War this, war that, war makes his sword ROCK hard... but what are the other Darkin?

Are they an allegory to the Horsemen of the Apocalypse? With War, Famine, and Pestilence being the first 3 and then Death shows up to end it all?

And are the 2 hidden Darkin Kayle and Morgana? Considering the angel race is no longer canonical and the next best thing to a winged near immortal race of extremely powerful creatures that seem to embody some facet of humanity being the Darkin, in their cases salvation and damnation, which are the outcomes of the Apocalypse.

If a Darkin were to have been in the Shadow Isles or the Void, would they be consumed by it? Could they be part of their factions? Famine being part of the Shadow Isles and being emaciated as all get out, eating everything, while Pestilence is just engorged with the Void, practically bursting at the seams, infecting everything they touch, and since War is a very human force, it makes sense that Aatrox is just kickin' it with Tryndamere.

Tl;DR: When are we getting a new Darkin champion?

15 Comments

Sharjo5/9/2017, 9:08:27 AM6 votes

I can say with a pretty reasonable degree of certainty that Kayle and Morgana are not darkin. Like at all. They don't look like sentient weapons last I checked.

And we'll probably be getting a new darkin champion at some point. There's been a lot of darkin gears churning away while no one was looking.

Ralanr5/9/2017, 2:49:15 PM1 votes

Based on recent in lore discoveries, Darkin may actually be sentient weapons (So Aatrox might actually be the sword, the user is just the vessel it uses to fight and talk).

This leads to a popular theory that Varus's bow is also a Darkin and it's slowly corrupting Varus in order to take control later as a new host body. It keeps up with Varus's "power at a price" thematic and still lets "I'm on borrowed time." Be an impactful line.

Now none of this has been proven (unreliable narrator is something Riot likes to point out in champion interactions and that shouldn't stop there) so we could be wrong. But I like the idea of the Darkin being sentient weapons that eventually take control of their users.

TyrekGoldenspear5/10/2017, 1:09:32 AM1 votes

They saw what happened to Aatrox.

They want nothing to do with the rift now.

GreenLore5/11/2017, 9:05:14 AM1 votes

Overall I can understand why Riot is hesitant to release more darkin. After all they made it clear that there are only 5 darkin,so every darkin release has to be perfect or otherwise they get into a situation where they have already 5 darkins in the game and then regret making one,because they thought of an even better idea for a darkin.