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Are Darkin weapons or are Darkin in the weapons?

ProtestantCaesar·6/30/2017, 9:43:26 PM·2 votes·1,471 views

Kayn's champion reveal says >He audaciously wields the sentient darkin weapon Rhaast, undeterred by its creeping corruption of his body and mind. There are only two possible outcomes: either Kayn bends the weapon to his will... or the malevolent scythe consumes him completely, paving the way for the destruction of all Runeterra.

but the description of his passive says >Kayn wields an ancient weapon and fights the darkin within it, Rhaast, for control.

And, for good measure, I'll mention Eduard Santangelo's Vastaya Journal which referred to Darkin as >Those horrifying, sentient weapons known as Darkin.

We don't know that much about the Darkin yet. If they're living weapons, were they manufactured for a war? Or is living weapon just a phrase used because they're good at killing, meaning they're basically just monsters? My guess is that the reason these quotes seem odd is because we don't fully understand Darkin yet. I am also guessing that Darkin are living weapons within other weapons.

Can a Darkin not be in a weapon? I'm thinking of Shen's spirit blade. Is that a blade that is a spirit? Is it alive? Is it a Darkin (a weapon-within-a-weapon) that is not within a weapon, and is just a living weapon? (Of course, if it is a living spirit that is a blade, it doesn't have to be a Darkin.)

6 Comments

Darf Rakki7/1/2017, 8:45:22 AM2 votes

If you look for one of the special interaction videos for the base form Kayne, one of his voice over lines triggers when you are recalling. It goes something like this:

Rhaast: The weak run, stay and fight! Kayne: Did such foolishness lead to your imprisonment?

I feel like that confirms your theory, and to add to it, I think the Darkin were defeated long ago and sealed into the weapons somehow.

Wrathof3007/1/2017, 3:02:39 AM1 votes

We need to wait on Kayn's lore for any official information, and that's assuming we get lore about Rhaast within his lore, and its not all about Kayn and his life as Zed's apprentice. For now I would say, Darkin are in the weapons and eventually became the weapons (a prisoner that fused with his cell, the ultimate jail).

Ýones7/1/2017, 9:08:19 AM1 votes

I think Rhaast was in the Noxian invasion to Ionia, he was defeated by someone and imprisoned in his own weapon.