Dear Riot, about Yorick's lore

Karukos··61 votes·9,515 views

The Yorick rework is coming closer and closer. Many wait for it and I think everybody is excited to see what Riot is going to do about his gameplay kit and honestly so am I. However, I also know that Yorick is one hell of a rework, big in scale, same as Sion as far as we know. With sion's rework came tons of lore for the champion a bit more depth to a champion that was previously a walk Arnold Schwarzenegger reference.

Now my concerns about this topic is what you are going to do with my dear Gravedigger. I really wanna see stuff added to him and explored, however, I am afraid that Yorick is going to turn into a monster, that he, in the current state of his lore, totally is not.

I roleplay Yorick now for almost 5 years. Originally just chosing him cause he was open I came to love him, not cause of his playstyle, but because of how he was in placed into the Shadow Isles. A place of vile creatures with destructive behavior and psychopathic tendencies, he was the human between them. He was not here because of a choice. He was not an undead because of the wrath of chances lost or anything like that. Yorick was cursed because he did not carry on the legacy and instead of being angry about it he just accepts and does his duty, working his ass off only then looking for another way when he notices that this is not the solution. And even though he did gruesome work and got somewhat dull to all of it there is a small thing inside of him that is still human as seen in his Judgement:

> "Why do you want to join the League?" The man persisted. > > "I want to do... something else. I want to remember... and be remembered." Yorick felt like something was guiding his tongue. There was water on his face. > > What is this? What's happening?

There is water on his face. He is crying. He is not a monster, he is somebody without purpose and with frustration about it. he is a human trapped in this world for over many lifetimes he does not want to experience.

So now please Riot, preserve this. Perverse this human Yorick. This man who wants purpose, who wants to be remember. Who works his ass off so he might find something that gives this all meaning while he suffers from his unliving. Please Riot, do me this favor. And in case you wonder if people even want to see this version. I made a post on my RP blog a few days ago. For the fact that Yorick is so unpopular, it did gain a fair amount of notes. So please take this into consideration when remodeling his lore.

36 Comments

RiotRiotJaredan68 votes

All I'll say is that I know the team doesn't envision Yorick as the monster you fear he might be.

Brutusness6 votes

Considering, you know, Yorick's name, I'm guessing you guys are gonna make his character pretty Shakespearean and tragic.

DarkRitual22 votes

Death quote: "Alas, poor me."

LambGotTheCakes1 votes

Rito plz

Blakers13 votes

To have played since 2009 and never known that Yorick's name comes from Hamlet... I really should take more literary classes...

Ariel the Cruel1 votes

"Alas, poor Yorik. I knew him, Horatio. Such a jovial fellow. A man of infinite jest."

Or something like that.

Warlord Dienekes2 votes

Also worth mentioning as of that quote Yorick is a skull.

DeathBot6661 votes

You've played yorick since 2009?

But he's been off meta since... since...

When did he come out again?

TerraRising1 votes

{quoted}

You've played yorick since 2009?

But he's been off meta since... since...

When did he come out again?

June 22, 2011.

turkeyBACON2 votes

Sounds like that they've played LoL since 2009, in general. Thus a blanket statement that includes the arrival of yorick to the league.

TerraRising1 votes

{quoted}

To have played since 2009 and never known that Yorick's name comes from Hamlet... I really should take more literary classes...

Bro... Unless you found some early, EARLY build, that's impossible. Yorick came out on June 22, 2011 (he's almost 5).

Karukos5 votes

OH THANK THE GODS!!!! ;W; Thanks for confirming that, I was terribly afraid that would happen

billxx1 votes

I see what you did there

Primadox1 votes

Good

Troll for Trump2 votes

Are you guys still going with the "family heirloom gravedigger shovel" thing from a few years back?

Malicious Metal1 votes

The Shadow Isles are too small for two megalomaniacal monsters :9

333lom11 votes

Is there any chance of a sympathetic/light-hearted character from the shadow isles?

To be honest, we already have a sympathetic character on our mind. Light-hearted is a bit of a challenge on the Shadow Isles though.

This is from Jaredan's Ask.fm http://ask.fm/RiotJaredan/best

And I believe he was thinking of Yorick. At least we kind of know that they have in mind his old lore, but to what degree he wil be sympathetic remains to be seen. I hope they don't make him "sympathetic" in a way they did Xerath.

Karukos3 votes

Same tbh. In all aspects of this comment!

Beyond Legends2 votes

Unfortunately Shurima needs a villian, I guess Xerath fitted the bill. I think riot needs more development of Xerath part, but I don't think we'll get to that anytime soon. It's probably a years off at this point. Though I'm looking forward to Ryze and Warwicks new lore once the rework comes out.

Photos of Ghosts3 votes

Exactly this.

Monkey D Luffy3 votes

I don't even bother to read lore anymore, it's disgusting how Riot have handled it, it's not a stable lore and who knows when it will be changed again, I personally can't be bothered to read lore anymore.

VentusDragoon9 votes

You really should. The new lore is beautiful.

Blakers17 votes

I agree with both of you. The knew lore is very well written for the most part, but something about it just doesn't feel right. I think I just miss the days of the Journal of Justice and interviews with champions before they would join.

Karukos5 votes

The new lore is technically well made, but the ideas and world building behind it is sometimes very questionable (looking at the Targon update specifically)

Monkey D Luffy1 votes

I agree it's well made and I would actually enjoy it if Riot actually respected lore.

DaedricTerror131 votes

Yeah I fucking loved that shit too, but I found the concept of the league itself fucking retarded.

People playing games to win battles, i actually pretended it was the way it is now, just a world where powerful beings warred, a lot more real that way.

Warlord Dienekes3 votes

Eh, some of the new lore I've liked. Some of the new lore I thought was crap. I can see why some are excited for changes while others are dreading them.

Decrit3 votes

... and while reading this i crack up laughing everytime i see the word "remember" xD

Shadowkirby142 votes

I actually wanted a Yorick who can sense the corruption within people's souls and judged if they deserve to be remembered or forgotten. If chosen to be remembered, he will wait until their final days and bring their souls to eternal rest. If chosen to be forgotten, he'll summon up his ghouls to tear them to pieces and devour their souls.

Yorick himself doesn't remember who he once was but his own name. Once he discovered about his forgotten lineage, he wants to be sure that nobody deserves such a fate.

Featuring Yorick the Forgotten.

Karukos1 votes

Definitely a cool idea, even though I would have a different vision for him. It sticks with him being a nice dude however... in some way or form.

Oleandervine1 votes

Not all of the Shadow Isles inhabitants are corrupted souls though. Maokai is the last essence of life that simply got up and walked away from the Isles to search from a way to reverse the creeping undead there; Kalista was a betrayed soul and she too has remnants of her humanity within her, mostly as rage, but also in that she struggles to grasp and hold her identity with the seas of souls swimming in her head from her years of collection.

Karukos7 votes

I admit I totally forgot that Maokai was on the Shadow Isles now. However, Kalista is still destructive in all her ambitions. DESTROY THE BETRAYERS! is basically all she is about. Yorick is not in the same vein. Yorick is "I want to remember and be remembered" At least that is what stuck out the most to me.

DaedricTerror131 votes

Yorick mostly wanted his family line to live on.

CarbRundum1 votes

Wait what's a Yorick?

DaedricTerror131 votes

You WILL REMEMBER Yorick Mori! soon.

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