So...Tahm isnt a real creature...

GenoXx··3 votes·1,104 views

Instead, just some demonic force that manifest into being. I lost all interest in this champ.

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Sharjo4 votes

I don't see how that's not interesting, I mean he's a god damn river demon. A mother fucking RIVER DEMON. How many times do you meet fucking RIVER DEMONS that look like CAT FISH IN A SUIT AND TOP HAT AND SPEAK WITH A SOUTHERN ACCENT?!?!

I kinda wanna see what he looks like when his appearance is attuned for other parts of Runeterra. I want those.

Also what is the point of this post? It's one damn line saying "ugh, demon. lame.". Why? You never had to make this but you decided to, enticing my need to exclaim about fucking RIVER DEMONS.

Ironclad Dragon1 votes

{quoted} I kinda wanna see what he looks like when his appearance is attuned for other parts of Runeterra. I want those.

That's why I asked Riot that in the Q&A. If he's appeared throughout history, to different cultures, he would have to look different in order to deceive them. Imagine in Shurima he'd pass himself off as an Ascendant.

Sharjo1 votes

I'd imaging him being crocodilian unless his form is specifically tied to fish, in which case I dunno what he'd look like in Shurima.

I can imagine he'd be a salmon in Freljord, and maybe a Koi fish in Ionia.

GenoXx1 votes

I get it. you like the concept. However, I find it kinda dull now. It's like Tahm isnt a creature, but some entity that cant be killed. What i was at least expecting, was some creature that lurks around bilgewater tempting people for deals. Now that its revealed he's a demon, he just seems like this unstoppable force. I don't know if they are trying to put him on par with Attrox but, it takes the fun away knowing that he isnt his own. So what, is Aatrox a demon now too? My point of the post is to state that fact. Demons in runeterra.....looking at how the next champions are going to be---oh boy.... Wander what role he plays in the Bilgewater eevnt? None, Because he's not from there. "Nobody knows"(TM)

Sharjo3 votes

You see if you'd put that in the post I wouldn't have as many problems with it. That one line just sounded like whining, but now you've explained yourself and it makes more sense why you made this. You should've started with this!

Also he's currently tied in with Bilgewater presumably because survivors of Harrowings make for a buffet of anquish for him to dine on, so he's got relevance to the event. What role he'll play is what's up in the air.

Peridition1 votes

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I get it. you like the concept. However, I find it kinda dull now. It's like Tahm isnt a creature, but some entity that cant be killed. What i was at least expecting, was some creature that lurks around bilgewater tempting people for deals. Now that its revealed he's a demon, he just seems like this unstoppable force. I don't know if they are trying to put him on par with Attrox but, it takes the fun away knowing that he isnt his own. So what, is Aatrox a demon now too? My point of the post is to state that fact. Demons in runeterra.....looking at how the next champions are going to be---oh boy.... Wander what role he plays in the Bilgewater eevnt? None, Because he's not from there. "Nobody knows"(TM)

Who said he's unstoppable? He's just a really old, mythical evil creature.

He's inspired from the tales of river monsters/demons all over the world. Who are usually in turn inspired by giant fish, alligators or salamanders.

Dreamspitter1 votes

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Who said he's unstoppable? He's just a really old, mythical evil creature.

He's inspired from the tales of river monsters/demons all over the world. Who are usually in turn inspired by giant fish, alligators or salamanders.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBh-E0iXjHU#t=17

GreenLore2 votes

In what way isn't Tahm his own character? Even if he'd be the manifestation of gluttony(not saying he is),doesn't mean he isn't his own person.

And I dunno whats the problem with demons in runeterra.I mean it was already implied that Swain(or at least beatrice) and shaco are demons(shaco being the demon jester and swain calling himself a demon bird in his ult form),its not an entirely new concept.

Dreamspitter1 votes

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In what way isn't Tahm his own character? Even if he'd be the manifestation of gluttony(not saying he is),doesn't mean he isn't his own person.

And I dunno whats the problem with demons in runeterra.I mean it was already implied that Swain(or at least beatrice) and shaco are demons(shaco being the demon jester and swain calling himself a demon bird in his ult form),its not an entirely new concept.

He does say demon in his voiceover. http://leagueoflegends.wikia.com/wiki/Swain/Background

Hmm...

Dreamspitter1 votes

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I get it. you like the concept. However, I find it kinda dull now. It's like Tahm isnt a creature, but some entity that cant be killed. What i was at least expecting, was some creature that lurks around bilgewater tempting people for deals. Now that its revealed he's a demon, he just seems like this unstoppable force.

And that isnt cosmically horrifying?

http://i.imgur.com/nKSQItO.jpg

Tell me you're just going to punch Cthulhu, Y'golonac, or "It" in the face and "kill" them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21uz0v-_N1Q#t=4s

Quints1 votes

I see it more to be a Louisiana bayou accent

kiwishrew2 votes

"I have an opinion; let me obnoxiously voice it out to people on the interwebs!"

Aproxima1 votes

Personally I believe the problem is a bit elsewhere/another reason why not to care. The reason is shared with a lot of recent champions. ((Let's just put aside the fact there's no logical reason why other people couldn't copy Ekko's time-device and screw around as well))

When announcing the great retcon, Riot stated they didn't feel comfortable with summoners because they were these OP entities that'd solve everyone's problems just by snapping their fingers...and then they make champs like Bard.

So now instead of a complicated corruptible system based on trust, you've LITERALLY got an omnipresent guy who solves all the great crisis by himself just like that ((probably by stealing some of your shit)).

The same design goes for Kalista, Tahm Kench and probably some other who I don't even care about enough to remember. They are these forces of nature that no-one can actually do anything about, because they're just there for the sole reason of screwing with people.

Logic.

Dreamspitter3 votes

{quoted}

Personally I believe the problem is a bit elsewhere/another reason why not to care. The reason is shared with a lot of recent champions. ((Let's just put aside the fact there's no logical reason why other people couldn't copy Ekko's time-device and screw around as well))

When announcing the great retcon, Riot stated they didn't feel comfortable with summoners because they were these OP entities that'd solve everyone's problems just by snapping their fingers...and then they make champs like Bard.

So now instead of a complicated corruptible system based on trust, you've LITERALLY got an omnipresent guy who solves all the great crisis by himself just like that ((probably by stealing some of your shit)).

The same design goes for Kalista, Tahm Kench and probably some other who I don't even care about enough to remember. They are these forces of nature that no-one can actually do anything about, because they're just there for the sole reason of screwing with people.

Logic.

What if I told you.......that as soon as Diana were to bring the moonstone to Nami, Bard would take it?

Remember, in Bard's video the old man was going to use the arcane artifact to defeat the Noxian invaders...until Bard stole it from him. He didnt even stop to rescue any people.

"We....will...die without it" -Old Man

He hasnt solved anyones that we've seen thus far. I think he performs a function, but by doing so has created many of them as well. Then that might make you question, is he good? Is he evil?

"It must be remembered that there is no real reason to expect anything in particular from mankind; good and evil are local expedients—or their lack—and not in any sense cosmic truths or laws. We call a thing "good" because it promotes certain petty human conditions that we happen to like—whereas it is just as sensible to assume that all humanity is a noxious pest and should be eradicated like rats or gnats for the good of the planet or of the universe. There are no absolute values in the whole blind tragedy of mechanistic nature—nothing is good or bad except as judged from an absurdly limited point of view. The only cosmic reality is mindless, undeviating fate—automatic, unmoral, uncalculating inevitability. As human beings, our only sensible scale of values is one based on lessening the agony of existence."

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/H._P._Lovecraft

That aside Kalista hasnt exactly "screwed" with anyone, but if you want her help to avenge your betrayal...it means giving up your soul. By contrast Thresh screws with people in a very direct way.

"Whose mind shall we snap?" -Thresh But keep in mind he was HUMAN once...as are all the shadow isles inhabitants. Elise Evelynn Karthus Mordekaiser Hecarim (and no I didnt forget Yorick but I dont think he's as much of a dick as the rest)

"Let the world burn!" -Brand but as we learned from Brand's interview in the journal of justice, he does not see himself as "Evil" rather he is RENEWAL. And has reformed the world MANY times. And yet it is human nature to resist destruction.

"Ah Tryndamere, my greatest creation!"- Aatrox Aatrox seems to be war incarnate, he always takes the underdog's side to help it overthrow another, greater force. In some sense he keeps a balance by not letting any one group gain absolute power. At the same time, he slaughters many innocent people. Does he really solve problems exactingly?

"The frozen watchers shall return." -Lissandra Trundle The Frozen Watchers, and their servitors, Iceborn like Lissandra have unknown goals, beyond bringing another ice age. They are very ancient, and even yordles like Gnar have been experimented on by them, and frozen in True Ice. Humans were not able to destroy them, only bury them. I wouldnt say they exactly "screwed" with people, they gave Lissandra and others cool powers, and giant fortresses...but all in the name that humanity would serve whatever their interests were. Trundle is currently aiding Lissandra.

http://i.imgur.com/r3x6fuO.jpg

"No time for worrying, eh? "-Braum very ancient, he might be an iceborn. He definitely DOES solve peoples problems, mostly limited to the Freljord and not the world (he's no superman).

"Om nom nom"/"Ftagn." -Velkoz RekSai Chogath Khazix KogMaw /Malzahar nuff said

Shaco Nocturne Fiddlesticks all screw with people (fid most definitely does I think, without the League to bind him) but not on the scale of the Harrowings, or with the insidiousness of the Void Cults, or the Frozen Watchers, or Brand's world wide barbecue.

Dreamspitter1 votes

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Instead, just some demonic force that manifest into being. I lost all interest in this champ.

define "real".

http://i.imgur.com/KbsZ8t1.jpg

ShaftyMegee1 votes

Da fauq? What is skarner? What is vel koz? What are THE YORDLES??

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