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Ebonmaw Dragon·5/3/2015, 2:05:30 PM·70 votes·20,682 views

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WHO THE HELL IS THIS GUY AND WHAT DID HE DO TO BARON NASHOR?

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Seriously Riot? SERIOUSLY? YOU KILLED BARON NASHOR?...And replaced him with another guy with THE SAME NAME?

I mean, is not the first time that a scumbag monster steal the job of another monster (I'm looking at you Vilemaw), but... _MURDERING SOMEONE AND REPLACING HIS IDENTITY? _ THAT IS SICK!... even for the voidborn standards.

... and don't tell me that the dragon skull on the lair of Vilemaw is the skull of Ebonmaw, because Riot confirmed that Ebonmaw is alive (Im writing this post after all)

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RIP Sweet worm... you will never be forgotten...

... wait... actually, Baron Nashor was dead in the old lore... however.... that lore got erased with the retcon... ANYWAYS, it doesnt explain why they have the same name.

Maybe... they are the same Nashor... but, since he is a hydra worm snake thing, he can lose a head without dying?

So Riot... I demand an explanation.

51 Comments

junglerboy165/3/2015, 5:47:42 PM53 votes

See the thing is, now that the IoW is gone, the real Baron Nashor came back to Runeterra. The good ol' worm we were so used to was the IoW's half baked replica of the Real Baron, fabricated from scraps of eyewitness accounts and a single scale (thus why he was so minor in scale and overall very unimposing) since the IoW is no longer up and running, there were no summoners left to maintain the old Baron construct, and it reverted to a natural state of simply being a pile of inanimate matter. Enter Baron Nashor proper. Now that the IoW has left his stomping grounds, Baron Nashor has returned to his rightful place as the dominant creature of Summoners rift.

TL;DR: Old Rift and its creatures were all faulty man-made constructs imitating the real rift. The IoW no longer exists, so the Rift has been reclaimed by its former wild inhabitants (part of why they are so much more brutal and violent than the old imitation creatures).

GreenLore5/3/2015, 5:48:39 PM15 votes

Maybe Nashor is part of a weird species that doesn't shed its skin after a time,but sheds parts of its skeleton. Like when it becomes bigger it completely spits out its old skull and simply grows a new one(I think it was confirmed that he is from the void,and void monsters have usually a weird biology)

Tesla Effect5/3/2015, 2:53:22 PM10 votes

This is the real Baron Na'shor, the Voidborn of the Rift.

Sharjo5/3/2015, 2:25:32 PM8 votes

So it goes like this:

The skull is a reference to the old baron. It's a jokey thing.

New Baron is Baron Nashor in his entirety. He's not an imposter.

It's like how there's a dragon skull next to Vilemaw. It's a reference to Ebonmaw.

It. Is. A. Reference.

Reference.

Referential.

A tribute to the old.

Remembrance.

I've run out of words I can replace reference with, but you get the idea I imagine.

DwarvenGiant5/3/2015, 2:45:15 PM3 votes

Although it might not be canon anymore, according to lore, old Baron was known to not be the real Baron. I think that this guy might be the real Baron Nashor.

AYD Ankrauser5/4/2015, 2:43:57 PM3 votes

Baron molted and kept it as a reminder of who he once was.

JevelFaithful5/3/2015, 9:41:40 PM2 votes

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Maybe... they are the same Nashor... but, since he is a hydra worm snake thing, he can lose a head without dying?

Actually, I think they hinted at this. About how baron might just be a single tentacle of a much nicer void beasty. =)

HouseCat015/3/2015, 6:21:58 PM2 votes

I always thought that was Cho'gath xD

MeesterMoo5/3/2015, 9:15:41 PM2 votes

Wait, who's Ebonmaw?

Fasmodey5/3/2015, 11:04:17 PM2 votes

because he has a dark, secret head that can re-create itself with eating technical issue.

gubigubi5/4/2015, 12:12:26 AM2 votes

Clearly baron nashor is like a giant spider/snake and needs to shed its old skin in order to become bigger.

Mistress Madoka5/4/2015, 2:10:46 AM2 votes

The Old "Baron Nashor" was a magical construct made by the Summoners of the Institute of War, Made to be a Less-powerful-than-the-real Nashor.

My theory is that New Nashor is the Real one and Ate the old one.

DarkFaun Fortes5/4/2015, 3:18:39 AM1 votes
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KnivingDude5/4/2015, 4:36:52 PM1 votes

It's a snake thingie right? maybe he shed his skin.