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What is Rek'Sai's motivation?

Maple Crusader··2 votes·1,380 views

Disclaimer: I am only paying attention to the old lore for this thread. Please don't go off topic with the lore retcon nonsense.

The first Void Champ, Cho'Gath, is "imprisoned" by summoners. He lets himself stay imprisoned in his cardboard box of a cell until he gets bored. As for the youngest of the Voidborn, Kog'Maw, he is focused entirely on eating everything. His sense of taste is his method to experience the overwhelmingly, delicious environment. Kha'Zix wants to consume worthy prey and adapt their features to become the ultimate life-form. The death of Rengar will be a major step in the Voidreaver's evolutionary meal plan. As for the Void's Knowledge seeker, Vel'Koz, he Learn Beams any interesting pieces of knowledge to analyze and remember. Through this method, he desires to discover Zilean's chronokinetic secrets. Since Rek'sai existed in Runeterra since the era of Ancient Shurima, which means that she was one of the earliest known Voidborn in Runeterra. With this in mind, what drives her?

16 Comments

Shaded Striker8 votes

I hope we actually find out.

If her expanded lore is just a scenario of her eating a caravan in the Desert, I won't be very happy.

Legacy of Xion7 votes

People are claiming this is the best VO for a monster champion...but I disagree.

She's an ancient terror of shurima.

Then she shouldn't be a Void monster, she should be a regular monster

Why? All void creatures are able to speak Runeterran dialects, either through eating, learning, or Malzahar. There's no real reason to have her have no words, and when I see someone go "her movements and such!"

Yes, I can definately see her inner feeling of abandonment by Cho'Gath as she rips apart Lux, as she presses Draven down and devours his face.

Sigh...

redniwediS3 votes

Well, according to some theories it's quite alright for her to be voiceless.

The Void adapts and learns, with each of it's agents being better adapted for their tasks than the last. Rek'Sai is ancient, and perhaps one of the first Void born to enter Runeterra. She cannot change like Kha'Zix can, and may have entered long before the Void knew any dialects. That said she is quite clearly intelligent, but might just need something like Malzahar to act as her voice.

Could make for some interesting interactions.

Legacy of Xion4 votes

I'm playing the jerk observer for now, so bear with me.

Ancient Void born can't speak.

A fucking ARMADILLO GETS HIT BY THE SUN AND CAN GO "ok." "Alright" and stuff. I'm sorry, I see the direction but I do not agree. Yes it can create really interesting interactions...in lore. The last bit of lore I saw was Kalista's lore. Which said and featured her name exactly once in the damn thing.

I don't buy "she is too ancient" because, at that, Xerath, Azir, Renekton, and Nass shouldn't be speaking - they should be blabbering in some random language we can't understand.

Yeah, speak through malzahar...but what good is that when we don't even know why Amumu is sad, what The Grey Order really does, or who framed Yasuo Rabbit?

redniwediS2 votes

Guess I could have clarified a bit better, but I meant she can't speak any Runeterran dialects. Other Void creatures might understand her just fine.

Legacy of Xion2 votes

I don't care if Cho'Gate knows what she is saying I want to know. Me, the player. Gnar is essentially a toddler. His makes sense. Rek'Sai is a Void Queen, who has devoured and preyed upon Shurima. There should be no reasonable explanation to why she can't speak.

With this VO you could say Rek'Sai is a male. Genderless. Literally nothing says what Rek'Sai is bebeyond a burrowing predator. Of Shurima.

Narasimha2 votes

Its more like this. The Armordillo speaks because it has reason to. It has to convey things. From what we know of Rek'sai, she has no reason to speak. After all, what use are a prey's words to a predator? Granted, with the retcon, we have no idea what Rammus is up to anymore, past or present.

BLU Medic6 votes

I'm worried she won't get any motivation, same way Gnar didn't really get any motivation. Kalista, you can assume that the Rift is a good place to make deals with people, but even that wasn't developed past "she was betrayed, now she makes deals with betrayed people to kill their betrayers in exchange for their souls".

Radial3 votes

Didn't they say she doesn't even have the intelligence to speak? Maybe she's just hungry. Or bloodthirsty.

Colgate Gator2 votes

Well, you mostly destroy your question by telling us to not mention the retcon, since nobody needs a motivation to fight in that arena anymore. Hell, I have no idea where or why they are fighting anymore, guess they forgot about that in the Lore remake.

About the Void, it is supposed that the Void will sometime consume Runeterra, maybe Rek' Sai decided she has been a lazy ass for long enough, either that or she's just hungry, I dunno. For all I know, they write the Lore in toilet paper nowadays, take a guess what happens to their notes.

It's the same as Braum and Gnar, they give us some background info about them, some ancient story told, but about the current situation? Eh...It's anybody's guess.

A Superb Villain2 votes

The same motivation Pac-man had.

Wait...

GreenLore2 votes

Rek'sai would have been most likely an imprisoned champ in the old lore. She is most likely the first champ where it actually made sense that they did a retcon,because she really doesn't seem to be the type who could even understand(or care to understand) the benefits of joining the league.

Alternatively if they were able to communicate with her(somehow),they could have threatened her to kill her kind if she doesn't join or made it clear that she might get hunted down by other champs if she continues what she is doing now.

Or they might have been able to stick summoning magic onto her and are now summoning her against her will every time(similar to ezreal,maybe she ate someone with the same kind of glove)

LordTobiothan1 votes

She seems like she's cho gaths dog

Narasimha1 votes

What drives her? Probably hunger. She's a monster in the purest sense, a being that a human is unable to comprehend. An animal doesn't really have reasons, its driven by its primal instincts. Being so old, she's probably not as focused and refined as her younger kin. She doesn't really have a purpose nor need one.

Gigahappytown1 votes

Shes a predator the league has respawning wildlife AND champions Thats infinite food all easily located and nowhere to run

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