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Why is Senna a champion at all?

JedenVojak·12/3/2019, 3:34:24 AM·3 votes·3,779 views

So....

Apparently hitting Thresh's lantern causes the spirits to all pop out of his lantern. That kinda makes sense. Also apparently Lucian's dead wife was able to retain her ego while within the lantern due to some newly announced childhood curse, and somehow re-corporialize after she was released from the lantern. It's also pretty nice that she was able to construct a new gun which is some kind of composite formed from other hunter weapons from... within... the lantern?

I kinda had the impression that when Thresh kills someone, their body remains behind but their soul pops out like in the game. But somehow she was able to get her body back, and make a gun out of weapon parts from other hunters - did they get sucked into the lantern somehow? Is Thresh's lantern sucking in more than souls? Also if senna has a Thresh/Kalista/Hecarim-like ghost body, why doesn't she glow blue like the other ones, is that also the curse?

Also, why is a curse that makes Senna get hunted by supernatural monstrosities want to keep her alive in the lantern? Is it just keeping her alive so it could eat her itself? Does this mean she's gonna get hunted now that she's out of the lantern? What is gonna happen to Senna if the shadow monsters get her, are they not gonna try to eat her?

Narritively speaking, doesn't bringing her back like this cheapen her death and subsequent soul-capturing? Why couldn't she just be allowed to pass into the great beyond gracefully?

Now don't get me wrong, from a game mechanics perspective a character which both damages and heals at the same time is pretty neat. I can also see the desire to have a kind of "friendly ghost" character since all of the ghosty characters up till now are some malevolent entities tied to the Shadow Isles. However, did Senna really need to be the person to fulfill this role?

I guess it's a moot point since the character's already out there, but something like this just leaves me scratching my head.

14 Comments

GreenLore12/3/2019, 9:49:25 AM4 votes

The gun and her body aren't physical, they are manifestation of her soul/the souls of the other purifiers.

Souls being able to manifest the weapons they wielded in life isn't really anything new, Hecarims halberd isn't a physical weapon, his armor isn't really physical either, they are part of his soul, when he dies his weapons and armor disappear with him and he respawns with them on the shadow isles.

So if the black mist is able to replicate armor and a weapon, then its not unreasonable to believe that it could also replicate the guns of the purifiers.

Senna herself is also merely shaping her body like her original one, when she uses her E we see what she really looks like. In threshs lore it was mentioned how he became more inhuman looking over time, so most of the shadow islanders likely used to look relatively human back in the past.

Arakadia12/3/2019, 7:50:27 AM2 votes

She was just 'dead wife of guy to make guy angry' when she was in the lantern. Now she gets to be her own character. Sure it does play down the lantern though, especially how she was tortured for years and resurrected with the unholy magic of countless undead souls but came out in tact mentally and physically.

Her getting her body back is pretty silly. Pretty much just Riot wanted to keep her more clearly looking like a good guy, and didn't want to threaten any sex appeal she had.

UomoAfide12/3/2019, 2:45:34 PM2 votes

Tbh, the only issue i have with her lore is this "Curse of life" she holds. It seems to be a big factor in her story but i'm not sure if i understand it completely.

Camille Ferrøs12/3/2019, 7:47:17 PM1 votes

A good question that has no good answer...