Rework: Yorick - What Will Become Of Him?
ChampUp are working on Yorick at the moment. Intriguing stuff too.
He's planned to receive a gigantic update in the future if not already ... but reworked into what?
First, this isn't about updating his gameplay. These are inspirations for champion redesign. Second, gameplay updates can be inspired by these new or edited themes you suggest.
Here are some ideas. Please suggest your own in similar format! :D
- Yorick - the Ghoulish Gravedigger Yorick is a malformed cannibalistic monster.
http://i.imgur.com/cnp09IM.png [Pic #2] [Pic #3]
Yorick becomes a ghoul. In LoL, a ghoul can be identified as an unliving. An unliving is someone who has passed into the afterlife while they were alive (not after death). Yorick becomes an obnoxious, pale and flesh-colored crawling thing with unnatural transformations to perk his need to feed. The Difference: Undead are restless; Unliving are arrested. The unliving can persist like undead but depend on life essence (e.g. blood) or they'll become dormant and motionless. They also retain their physical bodies; not fused with impermeable material like Hecarim or Mordekaiser. These are ways for them to anchor in the corporeal world. With this understanding, unliving are volatile and potentially much more violent like Sion.
Yorick endured the curse of the Shadow Isle long enough for it to consume him. For a time the land was lush and fruitful until the curse harrowed the land, and all its life was taken. There was no life source and no-one alive but Yorick. Bereaved and starving, Yorick sought to alleviate his stresses in finding a way to cure the land but was limited to only find ways to survive. He became thin and weak, and less resilient to the tinging harrowing of this curse. His weakness lowered his defences enough for the curse to occupy him. In his mind, every ailment was gone except for the one need to feed.
Yorick realized he could feed on anything but he knew where he buried the dead. He hurried there and hastily dug their graves and wafted with the rotting of their corpses. The ghoulish transformation began as he fiendishly fed on decomposing flesh and blood, and his eyes filling red. He sprung half-transformed from one grave to another. He knew where else he could find populations to feed on and he could sense their carcasses. He looked his tinseled red eyes into the direction and made haste on all fours. The surge of gluttony desperately transformed his body until he arrived, starving, flailing wildly as every other ghoul was feeding upon each other. His mind was deteriorating or overwhelmed with hunger and the excitement of the battlefield.
For a moment he paused as his mind questioned morality and confusion but quickly let a bellowing howl. Yorick fought to feed. In his mind was to survive but the irony was he was not alive anymore! He fought other ghouls, ate their battered flesh and curdled blood. He was at a tactical vantage and fought tirelessly until the end when every ghoul was feeding on everything, and everything had calmed because of Yorick.
PROBLEM: There's no characteristics in this short story. It's more about what he becomes. Tahm Kench theme is about peculiar sorts of hunger so this Yorick may need further definition.
######This idea is inspired by my own ideas that establishes a symmetry between LoL's world of undead and (new) unliving; consistent expansion upon a fictional world. [READ MORE]
- Yorick - the Herald of the Dead Yorick not completely consumed by the curse found new purpose.
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Yorick becomes a spirit medium who started his new 'life' as a grave digger. When the curse consumed him he was able to retain his corporeal form. He assumed the worse and thought he had died, and upon realizing the undying spirits were revealed to him. He was not a mage and none of this made sense to him but some of the undying spirits knew him and asked for him to bury their corpses. He learned to understand their voices over time and during that time he was confused why he was never hungry and never slept. Yorick felt normal .. but walked like a zombie. Every day looked the same and soon did not realize the difference. There was nothing for Yorick to do, nothing made any sense but the voices of the dead. Following their instruction he wandered to locate and bury the dead on the corners or Isles where life is barely kept.
As Yorick wandered the Isles he experienced all kinds of unnatural phenomena due to the curse that had harrowed the land. Inconsistent wailing chimes with occasional reverberating sounds of chains was heard and lonely Yorick thought to commune back the same. It made no sense and he only sounded the voice of a typical zombie. He was the only zombie, it seemed. Everyone else was a ghost or a corpse but Yorick seemed to retain his corporeal body and that was unique to him and everyone, and may be why ghosts come to him. He is their link to the corporeal world. Mordekaiser and Hecarim are the subjugators and bringers of undeath so they'll never turn to them - only Yorick.
He had buried some few corpses and continued his travels while speaking with the undead spirits. It was comforting. He strayed into locations known for their previous magical torrent and encountered a tree. He recognized these trees in his childhood but they were deformed. Yorick's emotions pummeled and stood gazing, life-drained for a while when a tree moved, struggling. 'a treant!'. He hurdled towards it, stumbling, and saw it was in trouble. He wanted to help .. but how?
The treant was able to fend for itself but Yorick was not seasoned in battle to identify this. He watched and behind him the undying spirits also watched. Those spirits he helped had felt the same emotion as Yorick and they also must have wanted to help. How? How can death fight death? One fierce ghost with spears whispered in his ear prompting Yorick to give the command, and Yorick knew why else they had summoned here.
Yorick pointing his spade gave the command that compelled the undying spirits to fulfill the command. What was Yorick capable of? They wisped through his corporeal body and charged. The treant looked to Yorick when the curse was grappling it but then came a howl of ghosts loosening the grip, slowing it down, and the treant fled.
PROBLEM: Zombie-like and curse may conflict with Amumu theme. EDIT: updated Karthus lore is the diplomatic herald theme.
- Yorick - the Grim Doppelganger (double-goer) - [Read] Yorick persists through vessels of other's whether dead or alive.
,they will remember Yorick Morey
