Malzahar lore theory

Fefnil·Sep 16, 2015·2 votes·883 views

I have a theory: what if Malzahar hasn't actually sided with the Void, but is only "faking" it? I mean, let's analyze the situation: he is, as far as we know, the most powerful prophet in Runeterra (second only to Zilean, but he is practically a cursed god with the inability to influence the world, even if he is the most powerful being in Runeterra, so he doesn't count). He knows that the Void will come, but he also probably knows that they will fail the invasion. He is connected to someone in the Void, someone who constantly sends him malefic visions, but he chose to keep this connection because somehow this will lead to the Void fail. Maybe he had a vision and he saw that, to save Runeterra, he had to join the Void. Could it be?

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GreenLoreSep 16, 20152 votes

Zilean isn't a prophet,he can't see the future,only the past;).

Overall a nice theory,but I kinda doubt it. Thats with Cultists in video games,they often know that they are serving some evil monster,but think its coming is inevitable anyway so they rather play the right hand of the devil than to act against him.

And honestly it seems to work for malzahar.The voidlings see him as one of them,meaning that when the void attacks malzahar might be the only human who gets spared(maybe his cultists too,but we can't be sure)

FefnilSep 16, 20151 votes

Can't he? In the lore Zilean used too much divination and that cursed him.

Yeah, that's probably the best theory, but Malzahar still didn't join Void by his own will, he got forced because he constantly got the visions from the Void. I think that he had to join just to make them stop, but I don't think that they would brainwash his mind. Or maybe there is a third option: he could be simply controlled by the Void being whom he is connected to. That could (maybe?) explain why his body is not physically injured while Kassadin's is.

GreenLoreSep 16, 20152 votes

Nope Zileans chrono displasia causes him to experience his past the whole time. From his lore:

He now mentally drifts through time, from any point he has already lived to the present, unable to impact the events which unfold

And overall I think we need to wait for malzahars lore update anyway,his lore leaves some things rather open and we can't even be sure how much of it is still canon.

FefnilSep 16, 20152 votes

Yes, the chrono displasia makes him drift through past, but the lore also says that he got the displasia in the first place because he divinated too much.

GreenLoreSep 16, 20152 votes

He tried to do this,wanting to create the ability to look into all the possible futures. It never said that he actually succeeded;)