Understanding of Nagakabouros

Naut A Loss·11/22/2018, 8:23:53 PM·7 votes·8,701 views

Hi there, just like other people within the community I also spend my spare time reading the lore and trying to understand it. I also scale the power of each champion from any possible information that I can gather, debating how powerful each one is (by lore) in comparison to other verses (such as Marvel etc).

So I have some questions that could help me scale the "true" power of Nagakabouros;

First of all, I understand there is a statement comparing it/her power to A-Sol, "She is like the theory of relativity and he is like a dung beetle," I wanted something more quantifiable (if possible). An example of comparison being like destroying a universe in comparison to a star.

Next, I have found some instances mentioning that different dimensions exist within the LOL universe (primarily spawning from the interaction with A-Sol and Bard) whilst there also being mentions of A-Sol being a guardian of a "realm." basically, my question is, are dimensions equivalent to realms? Or are they on a somewhat higher plane?

Furthermore, what is the interactions between the Dark Stars and Nagakabouros? Do they fear her power? Or are they not?

Finally, the topic of realities have been mentioned (linking back to a discussion about A-Sol being a "guardian" to a single reality), is there a way to justify how powerful it can be to "destroy" or "create" any of these realities and realms? Would there be a way to somewhat quantify the strength of a character capable of achieving such extraordinary feats?

I hope a writer that worked on Illaoi and Nagakabouros can help answer this, as well as those that have worked on other beings such as A-Sol, Bard and Kindred.

Thank you for your time.

9 Comments

EdgeLady11/23/2018, 2:03:23 AM3 votes

Personally, considering Nagakabouros as one of the "great" gods we know about, ones who are truly above almost all life on Runeterra, I personally like to think of them like this:

Aurelion Sol: the omnipotent (can literally make galaxies, stars, etc.; he's kind of the "creator god" archetype) Bard: the omniscient (knows where to be at the right times to help people, seems to know his way through different dimensions according to Aurelion Sol, always "serves the greater good in an odd way" with his actions) Nagakabouros: the omnipresent (as mentioned, represents the movement of all life, has a presence in every soul as hinted by many of Illaoi's lines, even has relations or a presence with the Aspect of the Sun, according to her)

People often lump all these terms together or mix them up when describing god figures, but I think that concerning Runeterran gods, they are certainly very different, yet all essential to how the world was made and functions today. For example, Bard can't create what Aurelion Sol can, but he seems to know more than him and has a certain wisdom that Aurelion Sol definitely seemed to lack upon being captured by Targon. Nagakabouros seems to have the wisdom of exactly what he is, a presence of movement in all things, but not necessarily with the altruistic wisdom of Bard, and nothing hints that he can create anything at all.

{quoted} What this says to me is that, if we look at Nagakabouros like a cardiovascular system, the Swimming City could be one of two things: the immune system, or a clot.

Considering that analogy, I'd guess the Swimming City is something more of a "clot". Pyke is certainly stagnated and unable to die the way he is, as literally spelled out in his respawn quote "Death keeps spitting me right back out". This might also be hinted in his taunt to Illaoi saying that "her sermons have damned him"; he kept moving, but became stagnated in the process. Nagakabouros clearly wants both life and death to move, as shown by many of Illaoi's lines. Therefore, like what happened to Pyke, the swimming city is perhaps an unintended, stagnate consequence of things following Nagakabouros's principles (could be creatures, people, anything; we don't know yet), similar to how a stagnant clot unintentionally forms in moving blood, and can be very harmful for the rest of the system.

RyzeTheSmurfMage11/22/2018, 9:48:49 PM2 votes

Dark Star isn't cannon btw

Cetri11/22/2018, 8:30:47 PM1 votes

My understanding of what Nagakabouros is something like.... Nagakabouros is to the beings of Runeterra what the cardiovascular system is to cells.