What if Mordekaiser had instigated the rune wars over wanting to pass his world to a greater one?

kasfas··1 votes·731 views

The idea is that during the rune wars, Mordekaiser was still expanding his empire, but sought greater power, to be more grandiose, to become more than possible. He acquired runes that he used in a ritual that game him knowledge above all other sentient beings. He knew the world he lived in was simply a pale comparison to ours (yes our world, or one very similar to it) and sought to gain absolute power to reach the next world. He knew he would never be able to achieve this goal in a single lifetime, so he pursued knowledge that would preserve him for near eternity. The rest of his story stays the same more or less, but this allows him to keep his fourth wall shattering ambition, and make him into someone who wants to rule not just his own world, but even more. Perhaps even the ancient targonians could've seen his ambitious behaviour after his incantation and they would be the ones to stop him, but that is a discussion for a later day.

So what do the rest of you think? And if you can please keep it constructive.

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Sharjo1 votes

Timeline wise Mordekaiser's downfall was immediately succeeded by the birth of Noxus as their progenitors were the ones to take him down, so I feel Morde likely came to power in a time after the Rune Wars had already petered out, at least in Valoran, since the implication is that the Rune Wars just ruined all of the major civilisations and nations of Valoran. At least that's how I see it.

My point is of course moot if Noxus was around when the Rune Wars were a thing, but a part of me just says that such a thing isn't the case or else Noxus would've conquered the world long ago with World Runes.

Malicious Metal1 votes

I feel his state of undeath was only possible due to a World rune though. The necromancers raised him on a rune-covered slab, it might as well explain why he's the strongest of the undead and can't exactly be banished and killed.

Sharjo1 votes

Potentially, but I feel like the Rune Wars would've been mentioned in his lore if that was the case, since he then went on to raise an empire, which would kinda equate to him winning out and surviving the whole Rune War deal.

It's possible, but I'm not 100% sure on it. Mordekaiser's reign, for me at least, came at a time where the world was in the Rune War aftermath, with humans scattered in small societies and warbands, a perfect world for a malevolent undead behemoth like Morde to take over if the right tools are left in place, which they were. I'm open to other ideas though since League's timeline is a very delicate and interesting subject for me.

kasfas1 votes

Perhaps that also, but whenceforth came these world runes? I say that they were placed in the world by tamperings of an intelligent race detached from that world unto which many would solve disputes or simply enjoy themselves, of which Mordekaiser is aware.

That's my idea anyway.

kasfas1 votes

Im not sure that he was destroyed by noxians, because in his official lore he "was once mortal, a brutal warlord-king who ruled the lands of eastern Valoran long before the rise of Demacia or Noxus".

Sharjo1 votes

It was the progenitors of Noxus, as revealed here:

https://soundcloud.com/leaguecommunity/ep-25-inside-shadow-isles

Basically the fellows who founded Noxus were the same folks who brought together that alliance which felled Mordekaiser.

kasfas1 votes

But still that doesn't mean he was still a living man when he was taken down. He would've been the specter considering he spent many years as a specter being revived continuously for centuries. It is VERY likely he would've been a part of the rune wars.

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