[Tematics and Lore discussion] - Mordekaiser

Hi all! I am a big Morde fan and i want to talk about his lore and thematical cohesion. At the beginning i bought Morde because i... eh, because i like metal. Pretty much a shallow reason, i agree. The biggest focus of this post is how storytelling, lore, aspects, particles, art and all can better find a solution in the case of Mordekaiser, and is not focused on what actually is his lore.

Morde is weird. Metal dude in a clad iron armor, take that away and what remains? An undead. That spams metal magics. And that probably is just a Wraith possessing/cointained in an armor. Then you look at the lore and you see stuff like suffering, soulstealing and maladies. Maladies.

Even the skill reasoning is a bit off: he generates metal and attaches it to his own armor/body/vessel in order to better resist the enemy, or he uses his own body as resource material for his magics ( thing that is associated with health costs. he also regenerates metal? ) and uses the metal scraps for temporary backup; either way it' s pretty much reasonable, it' s magic, so is Mace of Spades and Creeping Death while making maces of steel appear from the ground to hit the enemy seems really and really off. The only thing that makes you think about him as an undead his is ultimate, and it is pretty much reasonable because probably he does what in life did/wanted to do, and his situation as an undead of some sorts does not define how he wants to use his powers but instead is merely a condition with few power opportunities.

But if you see the bigger picture, you see a champion that wants to be "metal" at all costs and so few speaks of his beign an undead, wraith or what is, and that it is incoherent of what you expect in any case.

I like the metal identity, it' s a bit of a joke but it is a "serious" joke, but i would like that to clash (heh) better with his undead iron juggernaut he is.

How do you see him more? Take consideration that probably Pentakill Mordekaiser is just a "what if" alternate story situation, with a different Mordekaiser in a different situation and all.