Noxus is burning in Swain's teaser.

Blood Magicks··13 votes·2,200 views

If you look closely at 00:16ish you'll see fires in the city. Some look like bonfires on the streets, some might be burning buildings.

This is what I think is happening.

Swain's ascension to Grand General story will be the focus of the narrative part of his rework. He will either take the throne when the city is under threat or cause the riots himself. This is most likely the anti-Darkwill rebellion.

"But the Grand-General Jericho Swain knows there are many kinds of strength—and the greatest leaders of the next age will be those who can wield them all..." - he will unite several vastly different, maybe conflicting forces, to achieve his ambitions (is this where the potential changes in Sion's promo become evident? That last one is tinfoil-y.)

EDIT: Here's a picture with the fires and all:

https://i.imgur.com/edxf0LG.png

20 Comments

TheGrawell15 votes

Do you know a thing about torches and bonfires and lack of electricity in medieval cities?

Blood Magicks6 votes

I'm sure the excitement for the torches and bonfires caused him to casually give himself a majestic speech and transform.

Also, fires in a southern province in broad daylight? You can also hear battlecries in the beginning.

TheGrawell4 votes

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I'm sure the excitement for the torches and bonfires caused him to casually give himself a majestic speech and transform.

Also, fires in a southern province in broad daylight? You can also hear battlecries in the beginning.

https://universe-meeps.leagueoflegends.com/v1/assets/images/factions/noxus_splash.jpg What about these fires? Street torches and bonfires for signalling, for example.

Blood Magicks2 votes

The light is dim so that's city torches, you can't see massive pillars of smoke like in the video, that seem to be coming from random places in the streets.

https://i.imgur.com/mMSDY4Y.png

DarkSoul19941 votes

Pretty sure it's actually fog/mist.

LunSeiSleidee8 votes

Cautiously optimistic about this. He has white hair so I should hope they kept him old: and the hairstyle is the same he had before, but less silly.

I just hope I'm not up for a sudden disappointment.

Wait, WHERE'S BEATRICE?????????

Valaran Nara5 votes

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Cautiously optimistic about this. He has white hair so I should hope they kept him old: and the hairstyle is the same he had before, but less silly.

I just hope I'm not up for a sudden disappointment.

Wait, WHERE'S BEATRICE?????????

You know, what saddens me is, after you said that, and I saw the ravens flying by, I can imagine that there's no beatrice but just random birds that perch upon him. And if there is a Beatrice, she's not anything more than a raven he befriended.

Since her being a demon would mean a bunch of rules Rito has to abide by that woulnd't ruin the personal modus operandis that both Tahm and Evelynn adhere by.

TogetherWeHunt2 votes

I recall hearing somewhere that Beatrice plays a bigger role that pre-rework... We'll have to wait and see tho...

Sukishoo3 votes

Well he does say "by my hand will noxus rise once more" so makes sense that it's burning ;) So he's probably gonna rise to power with that happening

Bottom Laner3 votes

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"But the Grand-General Jericho Swain knows there are many kinds of strength—and the greatest leaders of the next age will be those who can wield them all" - he will unite several vastly different, maybe conflicting forces, to achieve his ambitions

Swain is a Pokemon master confirmed

BestJhinUniverse1 votes

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Swain is a Pokemon master confirmed

He is the guy with 5 sparrows and a farfetch'd.

Meep Man2 votes

I honestly think they are just outposts in the city. Noxus appears to sit in a fairly chilled climate, or at least a climate that would be chilly during the winter. It sits in a rather flatlands surrounded by extremely rocky mountains kind of area.

GelsominoKiller2 votes

I see blood magic...

Blood Magicks1 votes

What are the chances of Swain being involved in a blood cult?

Thefrostyviking1 votes

He is bonded with a demon, maybe blood magic comes as a part of the kit?

Doozku1 votes

Nah, blood magic is liquid because its just manipulating blood. Swain's energy is just raw magic power, it's probably just red because it fits with the Noxus color scheme.

Doozku2 votes

I don't think so. If Noxus really was burning, you would think that would be a pretty important part of the picture that the artists would put focus to, instead of an extremely subtle detail that you have to be looking for in order to find. I think those are just torches.

Ralanr1 votes

I didn’t hear much of a city sacking sound in the background. So I’m not sure.

THE RlVER KlNG1 votes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCr7y4SLhck

Swain sounds so much like Terenas Menethil it's crazy. Also that music is insanely good - sounds like it was ripped straight from a Ramin Djawadi Game of Thrones piece. Haunting and melancholic then BAM demon time.

KoggyStyle1 votes

ornn was meta at the time, nothing to see here.

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