The final two Darkin

King Braum·6/26/2018, 2:24:21 AM·2 votes·2,406 views

Now I know im late with this but Vaarus' comic he mentiones uniting the five, most likely reffering to the five Darkin or fallen ascended from the fall of Shurima. my question is who are these Darkin?

now the most likely answer is that these will be two new champions each sporting their own weapon but where's the fun in ending a theory like that? no. with our new knowledge that Darkin are nothing more than fallen Shuriman legends I can only assume Vaarus is reffering to two of Shurima's most well known Ascended champions. not Azir and Xerath, but Nasus and Renekton.

my reasoning goes as followed. there is a good likelyhood that the current lineup of darkin dont know Xertath and Azir ever ascended, with Xertath's ascension bringing the empire to instant ruin and the darkin being busy waging war against space bugs the fall of shurima probably came out of left field to them, probably the same reason why there was such a powerstruggle between the darkin, the empire didnt fall over the course of time, xerath destroyed nearly all of shurima within an instant.

this brings me to my following point, Renekton and Nasus were already ascended long before any of the darkin even more with Nasus being known as the eternal guardian of shurima and Renekton leading Shurima's armies, one could assume that Vaarus and Aatrox had interacted with both before.

now here's my prediction, somewhere in the future there will be an event staring Aatrox, Nasus and Renekton, representing two/three factions of the darkin, Aatrox who seeks to destroy and enslave, Nasus who seeks to protect, and Renekton who will either act like a rogue or join Nasus to defend Shurima once more. the event would be a power struggle between ascended and darkin. if not, I suspect Nasus and Renekton will atleast get a Darkin skin out of this all representing what would have happened if Nasus and Renekton would have joined the Darkin war instead of being self exciled and locked up with an insane bugzapper.

Anyways, that was my theory, let me know what you think below, I personally think its pretty plosible and one of the more obvious events to have but im not a story writer for riot so what do I know.

EDIT: This is litterally only minutes after posting this but I just realised with Azir wanting to build a new shurima, Nasus' return to protect the empire he once lost and Xerath being all against slavery it gives a good reason for the current ascended champions to want to join together to fight this common threat considering the Darkin seem pretty keen on destruction and enslavement, which honestly you shouldnt need that big of a reason to want to stop but even then it seems like every ascended champion would have a personal reason to want to stop the Darkin in Shurima.

EDIT: It seems I missed Vaarus' comment on having a sister so unless renekton is just a really pissed off girl I'm afraid this Theory is wrong, Thank you for GroxTerr0r for pointing this out and shattering my dreams.

However I still think my predictions can hold true with the strong ties the Darkin have with Shurima and the amount of Ascended champions we have with proper reason to want to defend their home, even more with the Ascended champions probably making for very good hosts to the darkin, like seriously.. imagine Nasus holding Aatrox's Blade, or Renekton with Raash's scythe, their combined power would likely push them beyond anything a darkin or ascended would achieve on their own.

6 Comments

Rhasst6/26/2018, 2:29:02 AM3 votes

this doesn't work, because I varus' lore (or comic? don't remember) he tries to look for a SISTER, which I don't think means either nasus nor renekton.

Ebonmaw Dragon6/26/2018, 2:33:08 AM1 votes

The whole darkin thing started after Shurima exploded thanks to Xerath. It seems that the Ascended assumed that Xerath died, so, it is possible that they think that Renekton died as well.

Nasus is mentioned in the lore, and he is not considered a Darkin because he decided to not participate in the war (It is possible that other Ascended did the same). So, when Rhaast mention the 5 Darkins, i doubt that he is talking about Nasus and Renekton.

The lore of Varus mentions that her sister is a Darkin as well, and he is looking for her, so, it is safe to say that she is the fourth darkin. Valeeva could be the name of her sister.

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Anyways, i dont think that Renekton would care about protecting Shurima, in fact i can see Renekton helping the Darkins since he is also an Ascended who got trapped in a bad place for a long period of time.

Emperor of Fate6/26/2018, 6:50:59 AM1 votes

i write it in another post but you assumption is wrong...nasus and renekton are not darkin because darkin are fallen ascended that must meet the following requirments : 1) ''being trice-cursed''https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_PL/story/the-legend-of-the-darkin/ we know that this is not the case for nasus xerath or renekton.

  1. relying on a host to live ( aatrox , varus stories) due to the aforementioned curse...( zoes magic that imprisoned them in weapons)

  2. Being nothing like the noble warriors they once were ( disfigurement and mastery of dark magic) https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_PL/?mv=true

Also from the twilight of the gods we learn that nasus and renekton didnt take part into the war that led to the creation of darkin and thus effectively avoiding the curse : “Nasus rejected us the moment Azir fell,” “He has been walking the forgotten paths of this world, wracked by grief and adrift in memories of his** lost brother**, but always he is drawn back to the land of his birth.”

So basicaly nasus became a hermit and renekton was sealed to the tomb ( things we knew anyway)....its ironical that renes prison became his salvation since he saved him from Myisha's spell!'