Could the Maiden of The Mist Be...

The Aqualious·Sep 9, 2016·10 votes·1,807 views

The Ruined Kings Wife that he was trying to restore?

Disclaimer: If someone has brought this idea up already or something else like that I apologize sincerely, I can be out of the loop at times

This idea comes to me for 2 big reasons

The way she talks about him when Yorick buys the Blade of The Ruined King, praising him and speaking good about him, as if he knew him well, and who better to know the man then his spouse?

She was the source of this Black Mist mess to begin with, and in Hecarium's lore especially it has been seen just how much of an a change this mist can cause, so it would be possible for her to have been changed into the being she is now

And furthermore, twisted by the Isles dark powers, as many have been.

This was just my 2 cents on the crazy lore we have in this game

Whatcha guys think?

20 Comments

SkelenthSep 9, 20165 votes

I thought she was confirmed to be an embodiment of the mist itself?

The AqualiousSep 9, 20161 votes

If that's so, I still feel that there still must be some connection to the queen

SkelenthSep 9, 20164 votes

Why though? Because they're both female? Because that's all the connection they have

The AqualiousSep 9, 20161 votes

And the Sword quotes, and my brain liking neat lore tie ins

SharjoSep 9, 20165 votes

Nah the Maiden's a conglomeration of souls; It's not one singular soul or person. It's effectively the voice of the Mist given form. No direct connection to the Ruined King or the queen.

OleandervineSep 9, 20162 votes

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Nah the Maiden's a conglomeration of souls; It's not one singular soul or person. It's effectively the voice of the Mist given form. No direct connection to the Ruined King or the queen.

This was confirmed by Rioters in the QA - she is a collective of lost souls.

GULAG 4 USep 9, 20162 votes

I think not.

Calls him father
The Spouse, as shown by the altar, clearly is against the undead. The maiden is for.
The maiden wants the expansion of the undead, the spouse wants it undone.

DwarvenGiantSep 9, 20161 votes

I have a hunch that the form that the Mist took- the Maiden- is related to the King's wife, the Queen.

Probably not physically, because I doubt that the Queen herself looked as messed up as Maiden is, in life, but in a symbolic sense. Similarly to how Hecarim's current form is of a half-man, half-horse (centaur-like, basically), because he was a great general and rider in life.

The AqualiousSep 9, 20161 votes

And because the mist swept him up while he was riding away

DwarvenGiantSep 9, 20161 votes

Exactly. While it's technically an amalgamation, the Shadow Isles champions seem to have some kind of symbolism in their corruption, respective to each of them.

KeepeSep 9, 20161 votes

Based on how she praises the Ruined King, I'd disagree. There is a distinct disconnection from the way she speaks of him. Sure, it implies she knows him, and what he did, but it comes off as a fan-girl more than it does a spouse.

Stars ShaperSep 9, 20161 votes

Doesn't the maiden refer to the Ruined king as a "father"?

SharjoSep 9, 20165 votes

Mainly because his actions effectively birthed the mist in to existence. In a weird way yeah, he's the father of the Mist.

Stars ShaperSep 9, 20161 votes

Exactly what I meant, if the Mist was connected to the Queen someway she would call him dear.

SharjoSep 9, 20165 votes

Indeed.

Then again that queen might've been quite kinky back in the day.

Ebonmaw DragonSep 9, 20161 votes

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Mainly because his actions effectively birthed the mist in to existence. In a weird way yeah, he's the father of the Mist.

So, the queen is the mother in a weird way?

Ebonmaw DragonSep 9, 20161 votes

Im convinced that The King and The Queen were introduced in the game with the first update of The Twisted Treeline... and it makes sense so far. My Theory says that they are the Spirits from the Altars of Twisted Treeline:

Here is a copy paste of my old post:

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... What if i told you that its possible that the Ruined King is already in the Game?

The East Altar of the Shadow Isles, the Lord who lost her wife... and memory.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EqVmP4SzrAs/UI98sx_SL9I/AAAAAAAAJdE/BOOVpnFwrr0/s1600/alkty.png

Who else, but him, tried to do everything to revive her wife?

http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/leagueoflegends/images/5/50/EastAltar.Generic7.ogg/revision/latest?cb=20121120191901

You have to consider that almost all the characters from the Shadow Isles have a connection with the Ruined King, they all mention him at some point (Except Elise, but she is a queen of the spiders who needs no king)... Even the Lady Altar says "For the King!"... But the Lord? he never mentions it... Why? Because he IS the Ruined King (according to this theory)

http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/leagueoflegends/images/b/b8/WestAltar.Special3.ogg/revision/latest?cb=20121120195754

This theory is also supported by the fact that the Lady is one of the few characters from the Shadow Isles that remember the past... and she knows who was Hecarim (before he was "consumed by the darkness"). Why she knew Hecarim before the insident? Because she was the Queen.

http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/leagueoflegends/images/5/5e/WestAltar.Hecarim1.ogg/revision/latest?cb=20121120195717

Now, with the new lore of Maokai, this theory makes more sense considering the quotes of the Female Altar that say:

http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/leagueoflegends/images/6/61/WestAltar.Generic3.ogg/revision/latest?cb=20121120195453 http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/leagueoflegends/images/8/8b/WestAltar.Generic4.ogg/revision/latest?cb=20121120195453 http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/leagueoflegends/images/c/ce/WestAltar.Generic19.ogg/revision/latest?cb=20121120195609

The lore of Maokai say that "Reanimated as a rotting corpse, the queen begged to return to death."... Why would she want that? Because as my dear zombie of Zaun say: http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/leagueoflegends/images/0/0f/Urgot_Select.ogg/revision/latest?cb=20121120025828

It would not make sense for her to like her current form (Its clear that Maiden of Mist agrees with being what it is) considered what she said... and Riot said that The Maiden is many souls and the mist itself.