A small thing that just occurred to me about Garen

ForgottenLuck·7/18/2017, 12:09:40 AM·13 votes·900 views

In the Demacia event, we got the short story, For Demacia, which hinted at a connection to Nocturne (though it never openly states it, it is quite simple to decipher it is him), a creature made of fear and darkness. Though interesting it suddenly hit me with Garen's taunt "Fear is the first of many foes.", leading me to believe that Garen came with this saying after the incident.

Also I find that this can be quite interesting since in my opinion Garen's ARC in the lore is quite simply his fear, I don't mean to insult him in any way, but it was heavily implied his fear and suspicion of Lux being one of magic, and how Garen needs to be constantly denying the fact over and over again. That plus the fact of his, though not yet stated, feelings for Katarina, another being of magic and from Noxus no less. Having to choose between his loyalties and responsibility to his home and what he feels is the right choice, makes this one line a lot more interesting than I originally believed.

It is interesting how this Line seems to be more important than just a random taunt and I wonder if RIOT took it into consideration in his lore.

15 Comments

Fasmodey7/18/2017, 12:19:46 AM8 votes

Katarina has no magical powers. She could teleport in her old gameplay but now she just moves ''very fast'', so fast it is blink type.

WOOOOOOOOHOOOOOO7/18/2017, 8:42:42 PM1 votes

You might be thinking too deeply into the line, but you are correct with Garen. His whole character arc seems to be the struggle against fear, he is after all the Dauntless Vanguard (if that's still a thing)

GenoXx7/18/2017, 10:21:12 PM1 votes

Katarina's family isn't magical.....at all. They were famed assassins that work with blades, Katarina is just pretty fast thats all. CAss got her abilities from shurima......