Art and Nature of the Void: What does it look like and What IS it?
"The Void is a nightmarish dimension said to exist outside space and time, where terrifying living weapons were wrought to win an ancient and long-since ended war. No-one truly understands how the Void came into existence, but tales of its terrible denizens have wormed their way into the dream consciousness of almost every culture’s legends, creation myths and dark folktales. Those few scattered grimoires and madmen that dare speak of the Void at all, speak of it as an infinite realm of unfettered creation, tortured landscapes of crazed organic machinery, magical weapon-looms and mountainous flesh-forges."
What would that EVEN look like?
I would love to see Riot do a video or animation, or even a comic where a character is in a landscape slipping into the Void. I sort of imagine the artwork of H.R. Giger + Animation of Cyriak + The Dogscape + DMT. Lots of DMT. Now on the one hand I want to imagine the dimension itself as full of impossible things. But at the same time, the description makes it sound decidedly corporeal, and living. From all the things that we have seen come out of it, purple or pink seems it would actually be a dominant color -albeit colors might shift and change. We're told that the void is 'dark' even though void magic has a distinct spooky glow to it.
At the same time, look at what it did to Kassadin. He's a rarer example of something coming out of it, and looking distinctly cold and technological. The little lore we have says that the things within the void were 'living weapons' made by some other civilization. In some ways this perhaps plays into Xenomorph/The Thing like themes, and Giger's biomechanics. What seems like an interesting (if not original) idea would be depicting the Void itself consuming something, not unlike the Creep/Blight mechanic of Starcraft/Warcraft.
Another question is...what is it like actually moving through the Void? Some things like Vel'koz actually float freely so the environment could be any kind of open space. But we're told of mountainous forges and looms weaving weapons long after the war has ended. So their are massive edifices. Most things seem to have legs, and they don't move REALLY fast or slow so we'd think it has 'normal' gravity, and some kind of atmosphere since some things can have wings.
Now. Let's look at that Nami comic from a couple weeks ago.....
Nami runs into....some very weird fractal stuff.
https://i.imgur.com/rZ7cDNr.png
She loses her light source, and has to brave the pitch dark and cold in which the monsters that plagued them thrive.
https://i.imgur.com/MALYL1R.png
Then she discovers a cavern, that's strange with the same fractal creature characteristics. It's also very purple.
https://i.imgur.com/uR4PT4G.png
She says it's beautiful beyond all words....but also nightmarish. And then would you guess what?
https://i.imgur.com/W4XddVY.png
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GoMadFromTheRevelation
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ThirdEye
He talks about a "world beneath the world" which I don't quite think is a sort of hollow earth concept. I think it's more a world, outside of the world. Other possible connections could include the backgrounds of both 
and 
. The artwork we do have of the Watchers feels cyclopean, and void like.
https://i.imgur.com/k1mzN87.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/aIu6CLa.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/xH79oEg.jpg
Alsp remember that Malzahar's background tells us "When Malzahar's cracked feet finally failed him, he found himself kneeling at the base of a bizarre crumbling obelisk. Beyond it lay the alien geometry of a ruined city and the giant decaying idols of dark and horrific gods." This implies there are indeed statues of powerful void entities treated as gods. The Frozen Watchers seem to fit quite well as an incarnation of that.
I sort of feel that 'The Void' tends to leak into our world, especially close to the "deep" places. The bottom of the ocean abyss, the mountains of madness, the ruins of cities so infamous as to be spoken of only in whispers.
