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What are the chances of Swain having studied blood magic in his youth?

Blood Magicks·1/19/2018, 12:25:08 AM·10 votes·1,634 views

A lot of people are noticing the effects on Swain's teaser, in particular his transformation:

https://i.imgur.com/ErZGKJS.gif

And saying that it quite resembles the effects of blood magical Darkin Aatrox Kayn, the blood mages in the Varus comic, and of course Vladimir and Sion .

So, what if Swain knows quite a bit of hemomancy and started his career as a hemomancer? What if that's how he got introduced into the Black Rose in the first place? What if Rakan's "given Vastayan blood" quote is quite legitimately to do with Swain's arcane explorations?

What if he used blood magic to outsmart and bind the Demon (that's a theory from /r/SwainMains)?

My other tinfoil thread isn't gaining much traction so let's try again.

Finally, on a bit of a tangent, are sanguimancers considered warlocks?

18 Comments

ChompyWulf1/19/2018, 1:23:35 AM4 votes

My tangent take "blood magic" is actually advanced waterbending.

GreenLore1/19/2018, 1:08:08 AM1 votes

Well the thing is that Noxus has a red,black and dark grey color scheme,so it makes sense that they recolored his abilities into red.

DeadUnborn1/19/2018, 2:07:16 AM1 votes

Beatrice is confirmed to be a Demon and the one giving powers to Swain. That being said the use of blood magic cannot be rules out by him. However the overlap with Vladimir might be too great

ssj8Brolykugeta1/19/2018, 3:26:03 AM1 votes

Yes tie everything into the darkin for one huge mega event staring aatrox. His in game playstyle may be disgust but i still love him thematically

Gamer Gallade1/19/2018, 3:37:27 AM1 votes

He does have Vastian blood on him and it could be the reason why he has that power to grow wings.

That and Noxus is known for some blood magic and all sorts of dark arts that we know very little of because The Black Rose.