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Questions about the Aspects

d00mface·10/21/2018, 6:58:20 PM·2 votes·4,242 views

I was laying in bed thinking about the Aspects last night and a couple questions popped up in my mind. I figured I'd present them to you and see if any of you had an answer/theories/etc. If a Rioter came by and had answers that would be rad too!

What is the average lifespan of an Aspect? I'm talking more about the human host here than the aspect within them for this question. I've seen some people say the hosts only have human length lives, but other people say that they can live much longer. People cite Zoe as an example, but tbh It's not clear to me whether she herself has lived millennia or if some strange time dilation is going on where its been only a short time for her, but a much longer time back on Runeterra. Does becoming an Aspect enhance the lifespan of the host in the same way the lifespans of the Ascended are increased or is does it not effect how long they live?

** If an Aspect has gone bad (both the host and the aspect within them as well) what is there to stop/punish them?** I recall during the Aatrox AMA that a rioter mentioned a 'celestial ideal' being 'deleted' and have to wonder if that is the only possible punishment for aspects/celestials gone bad. Is there a way to destroy an aspect without destroying what is represents? Could they be imprisoned the same way the darkin were?

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Falrein10/21/2018, 8:04:21 PM3 votes

Well ... I feel like your second question is about to be answered with this lady's Morgana rework :) Well, maybe not, but I feel like she'll explore Targon's darker side or something.

KestrelGirl10/21/2018, 7:26:00 PM1 votes

Aspect hosts are most likely functionally immortal as long as they are not killed by a higher power, like Aurelion Sol or another Aspect. This can be seen not only with Zoe but with Pantheon, whose previous female host was killed by Aurelion Sol but had apparently been around for a long, long time. (She's probably the golden-armored warrior queen who took down the darkin.) who had a previous female host killed by Aurelion. (The golden-armored warrior queen specifically sacrificed herself to contain Varus' corruption. She was buried alive.)

Having an idea deleted is punishment enough, honestly. Aspects seem to be intrinsically linked to concepts so I don't think there is a way of killing one without also killing its celestial ideal.

Jaspers10/22/2018, 9:29:10 AM1 votes

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** If an Aspect has gone bad (both the host and the aspect within them as well) what is there to stop/punish them?** I recall during the Aatrox AMA that a rioter mentioned a 'celestial ideal' being 'deleted' and have to wonder if that is the only possible punishment for aspects/celestials gone bad. Is there a way to destroy an aspect without destroying what is represents? Could they be imprisoned the same way the darkin were?

That thing mention in the AMA always seemed off for me. Because it was so far fetched, not only that an Ascended may be inhabited by a concept but if they die so does the concept? Yet about 3 Ascended died in the Icathia story and 7 in the Origins story. Meaning there are 10 less 'concepts' in the world now. What if one of those was 'love'?

I think they need to ignore that piece of lore as just Rioter ideas and not canon. But alas. They also made Darkin just a bunch of egotistical humans so...

Won't comment on your first question as people have already answered it. Aspects seem to be of an other worldly almighty power but need a host to function in the real world, that said they don't take over the host completely, Diana is still Diana.