We need more stories about magic hurting Demacia

The Ecdysiast·1/9/2019, 2:44:11 AM·2 votes·2,060 views

With Lux and Sylas's stories, all we have are accounts of Demacians unfairly hurting and ostracizing their own people for even being capable of magic. Galio, Demacian's most powerful protector against magic, wouldn't exist if not for it powering his movement.

So we need some incite as to why Demacians (at least the ruling class) have such a hatred for magic. The fact Noxus uses it is a moot point when it's shown that there are in fact Demacians born with the power to do so. It's not as if it's because Noxus had the power that they couldn't.

Even if the explanation becomes that without enough petricite the ruling class is afraid they'd lose their power to mages, we still need the explanation in writing. Otherwise what we have is a situation like the Garen/Darius VS. event where one side is painted as the villains without showing the reasons and benefits of their rule.

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JarodDempsey1/9/2019, 3:21:23 AM2 votes

magic is a metaphor for everything considered heresy...it's the classical theocratic battle against all that would seek to overthrow its oppression. There arent more stories about magic hurting demacia because they dont exist, just like many of irl religion's forbidden things. I'm really glad silas has unshackled himself, with some luck his will to free demacia from its current rule combined with its otherwise sensible society could lead to a civilization the likes of which runeterra hasnt seen since the targonians (though hopefully they will have the sensibility to not imprison the creator of the stars lol)

Jobriq1/9/2019, 2:46:08 AM1 votes

Who was the girl in Sylas' story? I thought it was Lux at first but she died so....

Sulghunter1/9/2019, 2:59:48 AM1 votes

My guess is that the Rune Wars left such a scar on the Demacian People's collective memory, that they've decided to persecute any and all magic with extreme prejudice to ensure the horror of another Rune War can be prevented to the greatest extent possible.

I do have to note, the WH40K nerd in me is giddy a little, with the Demacians and magic users relation being thus: "Suffer not the witch to live". They even have a sanctioned psyker (Lux)