New Shuriman/Void Champ teased?
So, in the brilliantly written story "Where Icathia Once Stood", we get the introduction of 2 Ascended Shuriman warriors. There were 9 in total, but Riot decided to only focus on 2 of them.
The second one introduced was decried to be like a Vulture that acted more like a mage than a fighter, shooting out blue fire from his claws. This guy very clearly died.
The first one that I want to focus on is the Ascended General. This is her description:
"Their leader, with skin as pale and smooth as ivory, turned her monstrous head towards us. Enclosed in a golden helm carved to resemble a roaring lion, her face was mercifully hidden, but I could feel her power as she swept her scornful gaze across our line."
What's interesting is that not even the Vulture Ascended got that level of detail. All he got was a passing description of "Yeah....he looks like a vulture that spits blue fire." Riot took at least a short paragraph to describe this one. Thing is, in the story, she seems to die. This is how it's described:
"An abyss that bled purple light tore open amid the Shurimans, and I saw their ivory-skinned general overcome by whipping cords of matter. She fought to free herself with wild sweeps of her blade, but the power we had unleashed was too much for her. The pulsing, glowing light spread over her body like a hideous cocoon."
Thing is, when you read about the death of the Vulture Ascended, you realize that the General's death was far more.......vague. This is how the Vulture Ascended was brought down:
"I saw a flash of movement, and flinched as something flew through the air above me. I recognized the vulture-headed god-warrior from earlier in the battle. Its flight was erratic, its limbs already partially ruined and unmade by the strange matter spilling from the rents in the earth.
It flew towards the pavilion with desperate beats of its ravaged wings, and I knew I had to stop it. I ran towards the towering creature, nocking an obsidian-tipped arrow to my bow.
The thing stumbled as it landed. Its legs were twisted and its back was alive with devouring tendrils. Feathers and skin sloughed from its head as it limped past the bodies of dead priests, whose own flesh bubbled and roiled with internal motion.
Fire built around the god-warrior’s hands, ready to burn the pavilion with the last of its power.
Saijax had said the Sun-Emperor had more armies, and we would need our weapon intact if we were to defeat them. I drew back the bowstring, an obsidian arrow aimed at the god-warrior.
I loosed, and the arrow sped true, punching through the dissolving matter of its skull.
The god-warrior fell, and the fire faded from its hands. It rolled onto its side, the flesh falling from its bones—I saw threads of sinewy, pallid matter forming beneath.
The god-warrior sensed my presence, and turned its vulturine head to me. One of its eyes was milky and distended by growths of a strange, fungus-like substance spreading across its skull. The other had my arrow protruding through it."
He goes on to ridicule Axamuk, and basically all of Icathia for stupidly releasing the Void, but as you can tell.......the Vulture's death is very clearly defined, where as the General is said to just have been overwhelmed.
If Kassadin and Malzahar are anything to go by, we do know that the Void doesn't always kill.......it transforms those it swallows.
So.....we have a Shuriman Ascended General that got an odd amount of description of whom was "cocooned" by Void matter. If you are to ask me, that sounds like a PERFECT opportunity to tease a Void Transformed Ascended. Think of a champ that's a combination of Kassadin and Nasus.......that sounds AWESOME to me.