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The Immortal Bastion, Mordekaiser, Elise, and Swain

Dreamspitter·6/4/2018, 6:29:09 PM·15 votes·27,531 views

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The Immortal Bastion in the old lore was a fortress built by a "Revenant" of great power. Tribes united against him and defeated him, forming the nation of Noxus. In the new lore this revenant was Mordekaiser himself. Mordekaiser Morde's bones were kept in the fortress until his skull was stolen and brought to the blessed isles. Those isles became the Shadow Isles and his Liches brought the rest of his bones to the isles. Now Morde lives on the isles, but still wants his fortress back. But the Fortress still has a connection to the Shadow Isles through The Black Rose. Elise Elise serves Vilemaw the Spider God and trades lost relics from the isles with Leblanc in exchange for Black Rose members. Leblanc

Does Mordekaiser know this?

And is there a way he could use her as an agent to put him back on the throne? I mean if he ruled again he could promise Vilemaw endless numbers of the living to consume -although he would use most for his undead armies.

Then....there's Swain.Swain Swain's parents sought a demon that lay within The Immortal Bastion

They sought a power, a shapeless voice cackling in the darkness of the Immortal Bastion. Something like a raven’s caw…

And that power sought Swain out. But why?

As he lay on the verge of death, a raven approached to feed, and Swain felt an old, familiar darkness press upon him again. But he would not let it take him. He could not. Staring into the the bird’s eye, he saw reflections of the evil strangling the heart of Noxus. A black rose. The pale woman... and her puppet emperor. Swain realized that he had not defeated the hidden cabal, and they had betrayed him to what should have been his death, after seducing Darkwill, the man they failed to overthrow. All this was glimpsed, not in the mind of a raven, but something more. The power his parents had been seeking, the demonic eyes blazing in the dark…

This doesn't sound so much like a "realization" as something psychic. In D&D terms it sounds like he passed a Will save and maybe even reversed the effect onto the bird. But does this sound like the demons we know? TahmKench Feeds on misery, Evelynn feeds on pain and suffering. But what then does Beatrice The Raven feed upon?

Cast out of the military for his “failure,” considered nothing more than a cripple, Swain set about uncovering what truly lay within the Immortal Bastion—an ancient entity, preying upon the dying and consuming their secrets, as it had attempted to consume his own. Swain stared into that darkness, seeing what even it could not: a way to wield it.

The demons we have seen prior all fed on some human emotional energy. But secrets....are something different. What's more, why did it take up residence within the Immoral Bastion? Was it....imprisoned there originally by Mordekaiser perhaps? Or was it drawn there by the dark magic dealings of The Black Rose?

That aside Swain originally knew nothing of sorcery -he was no mage or necromancer. How did he manage to learn more about what took up residence there? How did he actually learn to control it and how did that work?

Never make a bargain with a demon that you intend to keep."

And what bargain did he make? What did he offer and how did Swain turn the "deal" around on Beatrice?

47 Comments

RiotRiot Scathlocke6/4/2018, 7:58:01 PM10 votes

These are all, indeed, questions. :-)

FAAtheguy6/4/2018, 9:00:49 PM4 votes

I actually think that both the secret demon and the invasion of Ionia can help us understand the end goal of LeBlanc Leblanc . Right now there's not a lot of info we can find but something tells me it has something to do with spirit realm.

We know that when Noxus invaded Ionia Boram was under LeBlanc's control. But I don't believe that the resources were the main reason of the invasion. LeBlanc obviously knew about the thin line between Runeterra and spirit world in Ionia. What she might've actually wanted was to control this region so she could access the spirit world. However, she underestimated Ionians and their power, or maybe she knew about their potential so blan B was created.

We know that demons are what people of Runeterra call "evil" spirits. So lets say, if one wanted to catch a demon, what would he do: lock him up and deprive him of his main source of power, in this demon's case: human secrets (not sure). Thats why she trapped him under Immortal Bastion. With him LeBlanc can understand how spirits work and maybe even try to enter their realm.

This also explains why Swain Swain was able to make a deal with the demon. Both of them were desperate: one needed food and the other power to lead the empire. So the bargain was beneficial for both parties.

Also, so far we don't really know LeBlanc's reaction to Swain surviving and allying with the demon she captured. That may also be the reason why she hasn't killed Swain yet: she's afraid the demon will also die.

Or I might be just reading too much into things.

Oleandervine6/4/2018, 8:22:31 PM3 votes

Secrets are interesting things. They're knowledge, for sure. But they're knowledge with burdens. It's a mental burden on someone to carry a secret with them, to yearn to tell it, but be bound by loyalty or integrity not to divulge the secret. There's a great amount of willpower involved with secret keeping, and there's a great amount of paranoia and mental guarding involved with not telling a secret. There's also a great amount of relief lifted from a person and their soul when they can finally tell a secret.

There's a pattern with secrets, just like there is with pain and misery. Kench and Evelynn both operate in the way that they build up a person's pleasure/happiness to maximum extents, and then sink them deep into misery and eventually death, drawing sustenance from the happiness they consume. A secret by default builds up a desire in a person, an urging, and the longer the secret is kept, the more powerful this feeling becomes. There's a great sense of happiness and release when a secret is finally told, much like the same release that Evelynn and Kench feed off of when they bring their victims from happy to miserable.

Beatrice operates in the same way that Kench and Evelynn do. They all feed off of a built up emotion that is released in their prey. Beatrice just feeds off of an emotion that she doesn't need to cultivate in humans and can easily harvest at their time of death.

Linna Excel6/4/2018, 9:39:07 PM2 votes

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But what then does Beatrice The Raven feed upon?

My first guess is pride.

Sexy Jack Rabbit6/4/2018, 11:47:35 PM2 votes

I kind of just realized a clever shtick with the demons in Runeterra.

Evelynn and TahmKench represent Lust and Gluttony at first glance.

But once you see what they really are they actually represent Greed and Envy respectively.

Onkel Malte6/5/2018, 4:24:14 PM1 votes

I always suspected that LeBlanc actually set the whole Swain/Demon thing up, to make him another pawn in her grand scheme.

But I think there might be some major personal bias because I'm a real LeBlanc fanboy

Lord Phazanor 6/5/2018, 5:20:07 PM1 votes

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TahmKench Feeds on misery

Finally someone that knows Tahm Kench =/= Gluttony.