Bard, Soraka, the Watchers and various celestial powers

Solideus·2/25/2015, 11:43:50 AM·6 votes·3,018 views

Bard reinforces a hunch I've had that Riot is building a **holistic celestial mythology **that stretches across Valoran and it's cultures. I'd bet **the Watchers **are creatures of the same realm as Bard, as was **Soraka **before becoming a mortal. There's a common aesthetic between the celestial spell-effects, weird horns, bizarre anatomy and occasionally getting involved with mortals.

The Shuriman **Sun Disc **and Targon's **Solari/Lunari **also play into the same theme in other ways.

Soraka once lived in an enchanted grove, so maybe the nature-spirit-theme is related to the celestial mythology-theme. At the very least Soraka and Bard seem to have striking thematic similarities.

**The Meeps **also remind one of Pix, Lulu and the Glade. Going even further on the conjectural course one could imagine the old Shadow Isles, where Maokai was a nature spirit, could once have be related to the other nature-spirit-themes.

There's also obvious similarities between Jax and Bard, as other's have pointed out. I don't know what the connection might be, though; doesn't really add anything to the theories above.

But further, adding even more conjecture, these celestial characters might turn out to be an anti-thesis to the Void, being **Celestial **in nature and all. I can imagine one could find a decent amount of thematic elements to support that theory.

What do you think?

7 Comments

Deep Terror Nami2/25/2015, 11:56:08 AM1 votes

I think there are just a lot of obvious themes that are easy to work on, especially when they have a lot of actual mythology and stories behind them. I'd guess that connections between most lore pop up after they're working around a theme already. You mention the Sun Disc stuff, but that is straight up Egyptian mythology with Ra and/or Horus (Azir), Sebek (Renekton), and Anubis (Nasus), though none of them have connections with the Solinari/Lunari in the game right?

dandyangel2/25/2015, 12:08:12 PM1 votes

Cool story

AKL ZCX2/25/2015, 12:34:41 PM1 votes

I don't think we can group all non-Void immortal beings to the same group (Celestial ). For ex: Brand and Anivia (elemental beings ) are not exactly in the same page with Soraka and Lulu. Nocture in addition, is on a realm of his own (nightmare ). We also have the undead from Shadow Isle, the Shuriman demi Gods, the Darkin ( Aatrox )... etc

SchaakaKon2/26/2015, 3:14:06 PM1 votes

There certainly is alot of potential lore! Tis a shame though..