An altarnate path in the Darkin lore that could have been taken ( Please share your ideas on it )

BananaTheMighty·7/18/2018, 7:26:24 AM·1 votes·1,455 views
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I think the new Darkin lore changes are a bit sadenning, we wanted to know more about this mysterious race of blood creatures yet it turns out they are just sealed god warriors. I have an idea of an altarnate lore, I will show you guys the changes I would make part by part so that you can have a clearer view on it and at the end I will have a sum up of the everything that I put together.

--- 1 --- Lets say first that instead of making them trapped ascendants, we make them stay as just a race. This gives Darkins that we know bit more personality, while Rhaast and Varus`s struggles about freedom still bears little familiarities except the number of persons inside them ( and I still do not think making Varus a Darkin is a good idea ) it would still help. Mainly the only Darkin trapped would be Rhaast and it would add a bit to his concept.

--- 2 --- It would also be a nice move to remove that '' Darkin '' side of Varus which was just thrown at him out of the blue but I do not think Riot would remake that much work for the lore of the Darkin. Cause If they want to do this, they have to make another '' Darkin bow user '' at a point which would take time. For now lets be realistic and make him the Darkin of '' Hatred '' so that he can fit better into the story we are creating.

**-- 3 -- ** Lets make Aatrox a wise and talented fighter like he was before. His inspiring leadership and his calmnes troughout the battle fits much better to him then to be a death wanting warmonger. He is much more calm than the other Darkin and has a better understanding over humanity and the blood magic itself. Giving him powers some of his kind obviously lacks.

-- 4 --- Lets make Darkin`s at core more of an incarnation of life essance or life itself. Their weapons while not being their prisons, symbolizes indivudial darkins that holds them, living and improving with them. We already know blood of others can give you knowledge and power trough the use of blood magic which is at the essance used by The Darkin. Lets say that they drain blood which is at core an essence of life. They store this blood on their weapons, gaining knowledge and power from the blood of the ones that they drained. Giving them knowladge and power beyond imagination. Darkins live eternally yet after some time, like the life itself they have to change and improve. Darkins when the time comes ( by using all of the blood that they have drained and by the power of their weapon or their bloodmagic ) infuse their bodies with blood, improving their bodies and minds, ascending them to a place where they are even better then before. Lets make it so that they were always 5, each one representing a diffrent aspect of life '' War,Death, Life, Love and Hatred''. I think this would be more fitting at to what Darkins essentially were.

--- Conclusion/TL;DR --- Darkins are an ancient race of creatures which are the incarnation of life. Troughout history, they apper at the key moments, chancing the fate of the humanity and the Runeterra. Each Darkin wields a weapon who symbolizes itself and its aspect and each of them weaves the essence of life using blood. Darkin from time to time, improves themself by using their powers over blood and they ascend to a level that is even mightier that their old form. There are only 5 of which that we know. And only Three of them were documented. The Blade, The Sycthe and The Bow representing '' War, Death and Hatred ''. Theese creatures use blood in ways no soul has ever thinked about, even thou primative some men actually managed to mimic their usage of blood creating a type of magic that gives the user the strength of thoose who were drained by him just like the Darkin.

-- Thanks for Reading -- I know that at the conclusion it seems like we did not add that much to Darkin lore, I do think this is way more fitting to the Darkin than to be corrupt Warmongers. Aatrox himself did not need that much of change at all but I assume they did it just so they can. I hope you liked my ideas on the subject guys, I am restless to listen to your ideas on the topic

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GreenLore7/18/2018, 4:11:00 PM2 votes

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--- 1 --- Lets say first that instead of making them trapped ascendants, we make them stay as just a race. This gives Darkins that we know bit more personality, while Rhaast and Varus`s struggles about freedom still bears little familiarities except the number of persons inside them

How would this give the darkins more personality? I mean I would have preferred it if the darkin were their own race,but just because the darkins belong to a unique race doesn't add any character to them. If anything the new version gives them more personality,as it means that they were all mighty god-warriors of shurima that eventually started to fight among each other over the remains of the shuriman empire(and some parts of runeterra as well) and that were forcibly entrapped by the humans.

In general I think the idea of darkins representing different aspects of life is not a good idea,because thats pretty much already what demons and spirits do(and aspects to some extend as well).