Shadow Isles Short Form Lore and Mordekaiser Title Change

Sharjo··13 votes·2,177 views
10/14 PBE Update

I figured I'd link this for easy viewing and for people to voice their outrage (If you feel that, maybe you don't; I know I don't) at Morde's title being changed to "The Lord of Death". Here's the paragraphs for those who don't wanna visit Surrender@20 for whatever reason:

Mordekaiser, now the Lord of Death

''All things must die... and yet I live on.''

The baleful revenant Mordekaiser is among the most terrifying and hateful spirits haunting the Shadow Isles. He has existed for countless centuries, shielded from true death by necromantic sorcery and the force of his own dark will. Those who dare face Mordekaiser in battle risk a horrific curse: he enslaves his victims' souls to become instruments of destruction.

Hecarim

"Break their ranks and ride them down without mercy. Crush the living and feast on their terror.''

Hecarim is an armored colossus who charges from the Shadow Isles at the head of a deathly host of spectral horsemen to hunt the living. A monstrous fusion of man and beast, cursed to ride for eternity, Hecarim revels in slaughter and crushing souls beneath his armored hooves

Kalista

''When wronged, we seek justice. When hurt, we strike back. When betrayed, the Spear of Vengeance strikes!''

A specter of wrath and retribution, Kalista is the undying spirit of vengeance, an armored nightmare summoned from the Shadow Isles to hunt deceivers and traitors. The betrayed may cry out in blood to be avenged, but Kalista only answers those whose cause she deems worthy of her skills. Woe betide those who become the focus of Kalista's wrath, for any pact sealed with this grim hunter can only end on the cold fire of her soul-spears."

Karthus

"'Death is not the end of the journey, it is just the beginning...''

The harbinger of oblivion, Karthus is an undying spirit whose haunting songs are a prelude to the horror of his nightmarish appearance. The living fear the eternity of undeath, but Karthus sees only beauty and purity in its embrace, a perfect union of life and death. When Karthus emerges from the Shadow Isles, it is to bring the joy of death to mortals as an apostle of the unliving.

Thresh

''The mind is a wondrous thing to tear apart."

Sadistic and cunning, Thresh is a restless spirit who prides himself on tormenting mortals and breaking them with slow, excruciating inventiveness. His victims suffer far beyond the point of death, for Thresh wreaks agony upon their souls, imprisoning them in his lantern to torture for all eternity."

45 Comments

Shíny15 votes

Mordekaiser, The Mordekaiser. Good job Riot.

RudeMcRude1 votes

Well Mordekaiser is technically Murder Emperor, but Lord of Death is close enough

Big Lincoln7 votes

for fuck sake

Master of Metal >

Sharjo5 votes

Nope, now he's the Lord of Death. Enslaver of Souls, Revenant of the Shadow Isles, you get the idea.

I imagine the title change is to put more emphasis on the idea of the metal body of his being a prison rather than a weapon, but I dunno.

Big Lincoln6 votes

Lord of Death is terrible. That's the kind of name an angsty preteen would come up with

Master of Metal is far better

Sharjo6 votes

But he's not a master of metal anymore; he uses deathly magic, not metal, to kill people now. So the title's actually appropriate at this point.

Plus why would a Master of Metal be imprisoned by said metal? I mean the implication has always been he's trapped in there. How can he claim to be a master of the very thing he's chained by?

Big Lincoln6 votes

the metal suit is a tether for his soul

the shit awful VFX and sound updates were bad enough, but rewriting him to be another generic SI spooky ghost is actually upsetting

Sharjo7 votes

They stuck him on the Shadow Isles three years ago. They probably intended to bring him more in line with the other Shadow Isles champs anyway from a visual standpoint since that time.

Also remember; the paragraph is no indication of what's changed and what remains the same from the most recent version of Morde we've seen. We'll probably be waiting until the 28th at the earliest to figure that out.

Big Lincoln3 votes

yeah, and for 3 years he was still a metal-wielding beast that actually stood out from the spooky ghosts n' zombies

the entirety of him was that he was a dude who predated the shadow isles and his power extended to dominion over metal (which is unique to league), why is he using their god-awful green-magic shit

"Master of Metal" just flat-out sounds better. It rolls off the tongue and it doesn't make me cringe.

Pyrodinium1 votes

Not long ago I mused on the whole Master of Metal gig. I envisioned Morde asa ruler over iron and weaponry, making swords turn over to strike their wielders, crushing soldiers with their own armor...

Yeah, it probably can't be done adequately. LoL's constraints weigh heavily when it comes to delivering champion's thematics. :/

Sharjo1 votes

I liked to imagine Morde's metal powers came from him being able to sorta manipulate the suit of armour, but not fully, so he could make some sort of use out of its power. Kinda like rattling his own cage and sending chunks of it flying off, but with more direction and evilness.

I can still dig this though.

Pyrodinium4 votes

Master of Metal also is something a preteen could come up with.

Although it would be a subversive preteen rather than an angsty one.

Chromatic Eagle1 votes

But he would still be a master of his prison.

Sharjo3 votes

But then why is it a prison?

Chromatic Eagle1 votes

Idk.

Mordepool1 votes

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Nope, now he's the Lord of Death. Enslaver of Souls, Revenant of the Shadow Isles, you get the idea.

I imagine the title change is to put more emphasis on the idea of the metal body of his being a prison rather than a weapon, but I dunno.

All these changes. And no community consideration

Meep Man5 votes

I would rather the title be something more like "The Undying Reaper" than "The Lord of Death". It just sounds a little over dramatic in my eyes. Maybe just simply "the Undying".

Wheatloaf1 votes

I think a walking suit of armor that enslaves the souls of his enemies and wields a mace bigger than his head is pretty dramatic to begin with.

frigginmurlocs1 votes

I would also take "First of the Undead"

TerraRising3 votes

Another Shadow Isles update, and nothing for Yorick. God damn, Riot is certainly consistent with their distain for the Grave Digger...

(And please don't talk about the mythical "rework." We all know that it's not happening for another Soon™-teen years.)

At least they forgot about Elise and Evelynn as well, for all it's worth (which isn't much).

Sharjo2 votes

I must've said it four times today now but whatever; Yorick, Eve and Elise are most likely just not part of the Harrowing this year and thus aren't getting updated for it, similar to how Fizz, Tahm Kench and Nautilus are Bilgewater champs but didn't get updated with Burning Tides.

I'm not saying they shouldn't; they ABSOLUETLY SHOULD get updated. Especially considering they've still got short paragraphs for lores atm.

TerraRising2 votes

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I must've said it four times today now but whatever; Yorick, Eve and Elise are most likely just not part of the Harrowing this year and thus aren't getting updated for it, similar to how Fizz, Tahm Kench and Nautilus are Bilgewater champs but didn't get updated with Burning Tides.

I'm not saying they shouldn't; they ABSOLUETLY SHOULD get updated. Especially considering they've still got short paragraphs for lores atm.

To be blunt, you could have said it 400 times today and I would have said it. :)

And, I get why Yorick and Eve were left out: Yorick is Yorick and Riot hates Yorick (and Yorick fans) and Eve is due to get a rework some time after Urgot (think 2XXX instead of 20XX). Elise's omission boggles me, though.

Lintu Puck1 votes

Yorick gets his rework by the end of next year, so not much longer.

TerraRising1 votes

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Yorick gets his rework by the end of next year, so not much longer.

I hope you're right, I really do...

However, I do have a memory and I know how long ChampUp has taken with Sion and Poppy (champs with less complicated tech behind them). I also know that there are too many other problems with Yorick at the moment (what lane/role will he be shoved into, what will his guaranteed new ult do, what AI will his minions have, what will he look like after the changes, and so forth.) It might be too much work for the team as it currently stands and they'll just move to Urgot to save them all the trouble.

Lintu Puck1 votes

the current update schedule we have been given at the moment is as follows -Marksmen Update -Poppy Rework (Sion-level) [by the end of this year -Shen Update (forget exactly what it entails but it isn't anything to major) / Taric Rework (Sion-level) [can't remember if it's Shen first or Taric first, but both due within the first half of next year] -Yorick's long-awaited rework (by next years end)

so baring any major backstage issue this is the current line-up for now.

Fasmodey2 votes

Lord of Death sounds cool. I like it.

I want to hear what are Mordekaiser mains' opinions.

Sharjo2 votes

I imagine they're foaming at the mouth.

Fasmodey2 votes

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I imagine they're foaming at the mouth.

even it sounds cool, I think they had gone easy. That is a pretty basic title and teenager thing.

Lord Boltrix1 votes

Oh we are, we ARE!

And a good number of us are considering bringing a curse upon certain unmentionables.

Tesla Effect2 votes

Yorick Yorik Senpai, you shall get your short bio and long lore when your Full Relaunch comes, some day...

JedenVojak2 votes

Pheh, they're just changing and retconning everything at this point.

They're trying too hard to make things "legitimate." Things aren't allowed to just be fun and cool anymore.

Caytheles1 votes

So, i am not hating here,, just asking.

Now all of the undead champions are Haunting spirits from the Shadow isles that bring death to humans in their own way?

The only one i dont really like is Karthus' his first lore is what made me main him when i started the game. But he will still be my favorite champion due to the memory of his lore.

Sharjo1 votes

Karthus's lore has changed dramatically over the years, but the biggest changes came with the Twisted Treeline VU, which put him on the Shadow Isles, and his own VU, which cemented him as the unliving pope archetype.

Everyone involved with the Shadow Isles is a bringer of death in one way or another. Kalista's kinda doing her own thing but the others are all working for the interests of the Shadow Isles.

GenoXx1 votes

WOOT!! Shadow Isles lore :D.....!

Btw...lord of Death fits Mordekaiser then master of metal. Just think about what he can do;

  • Enslave people's souls against their will and use them as instruments. Only thing metal about him is his armor, and it's not about his armor entirely, it's about the trapped soul in the armor.

I am also loving Kalista's new lore

Ebonmaw Dragon1 votes

Mordekaiser, the Lord of Death Metal!

That would be better.

frigginmurlocs1 votes

Mordekaiser summoner 11 summoner 14 item 3035 item 3185 METAL

Chromatic Eagle1 votes

His kit still has metal names, icons, and USED to have sounds. He's a giant suit of armor wielding a giant mace while summoning a whirlwind of metal shards. You can't just move him away from the metal.

Sharjo1 votes

Well they can and did. Probably to emphasize that he was never a Master of Metal and was actually a slave to it, considering that iron suit is his prison, and to bring him in line with the Shadow Isles aesthetics and such.

Chromatic Eagle1 votes

And we're pretty vocal about why we dislike it. Same thing about trying to change Fiora's title.

PopePancake1 votes

If we have to change the title, i'd prefer Paladin of Pain over Lord of Death

Lord Boltrix1 votes

What about Knight of Broken Souls?

charcharmunro1 votes

Mordekaiser means "Death Emperor", so he's now "Death Emperor, The Lord of Death".

...That's actually kinda so cheesy it's cool.

Stars Shaper1 votes

Shouldn't that translate to "Murderous Emperor"?

Passionlip1 votes

I can get why they changed the title, but Lord of Death is just stupid. HIS name has the same meaning, i know the game is aimed at teenagers that can't tell the difference, but i think Riot should try to be a bit more interesting. In the boards they proposed a lot of good names - Paladin of Pain and such -, some by Malicious Metal, who actually LOVE the champion. I think this should be thinked a lot better. (and, i friggin' love Master of Metal ;_;)

Tesla Effect1 votes

Inb4 "the Lord of Death" changes to "the Ruined King". Remember when people thought Captain Gangplank was the main skin for the guy, then everything changed...

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