So hey....we can finally say that The Lunari does not bring moon stones to the Marai. But who??

GenoXx··6 votes·838 views

It was already 30% farfetch'd and predictably cliche to begin with(although i debated about it) I contempt with saying there is no connection what so ever. The new targon lore kinda nulls that, but i do want characters like Nami, Nautilus and fizz to be visited also.

Who was bringing the moonstones to the Marai? There could be a civilization that kinda co-exist with them. Loosely speaking, that civilization could just be aware of the tradition they have been following. Maybe it's a small society in one of the jungles that makes the trade? I wouldn't say they are well known or known at al lfor that matter. For humans to make trades with a race people don't believe exist like the Marai it must be done in a sorta discreet kind of way. And when i say discreet i mean, not even Demacia is aware of this hidden society. Well, villges and tribes found in brazil come to mind.

I am unsure of the geographic location of the new map. But i dont think new Nami would appear in Bilgewater first. That is too ez to do. An area maybe on the southern continent that was mentioned by narrative. Was it Conqueror's Sea that was in between Valaran and the Serpent Ilses? Idk, what do you guys think?

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Sharjo3 votes

Bard.

Ok some may think I'm joking and really Bard can be used as an excuse for most things of a mystical and unknown nature, but I can imagine something called a moonstone which is supposed to illuminate the darkness being celestial in origin. Picture a world where the Marai are forced to the bottom of the sea to survive for whatever reason, and Bard sees this and recognises a need to preserve the Marai because they're important to Runeterra's future later down the road. He is able to retrieve a celestial object to provide them with protection, but the object's power is limited and will only last for a given amount of time, and requires a trade; an abyssal pearl. Bard makes the journey every century to resupply the Marai with a moonstone, having already gone over with their leaders about the process and Bard being remembered simply as an undescribed hero.

Fast forward to the modern era and Bard is nowhere to be found as other duties in the cosmos have prevented him from returning to the Marai, and thus Nami has to step up to take up the mantle of Tidecaller. Hell we can even extrapolate that Bard communes with the Marai who he finds would be best to come and claim the Moonstone, and that's how Tidecaller's "appeared" over history. Also potentially the Moonstone could be the Pearl from the prior meeting, transformed by celestial energies in to a radiant stone of great energies.

Eh I dunno. Maybe? Who knows really.

GenoXx3 votes

I dont want to give bard too much credit. The celestial backgrounds i can see for the stones. But, i feel a human could fit for that role. Maybe a tribe that was wiped out by a rival tribe. Because of them being gone, the trading stopped. I feel bard shouldn't be everyone's hero.

Sharjo1 votes

I mean, Bard's whole job is keeping the universe safe, so even with this theory I can see it being too...small scale? I dunno it depends on what counts as small scale when even the tiny thing can lead to the fall of entire nations and worlds. The question of who the people trading with the marai were comes down to who benefits from/wants/needs their survival and who benefits from/wants/needs the Abyssal Pearl.

Lintu Puck3 votes

like maybe how the Solari wiped out the Lunari?

Tattersall2 votes

I feel kind of dumb saying this, cuz' you're Sharjo and you've probably thought of everything. Maybe you're chalking it up to be just a miscommunication on the Marai's part, but maybe, just maybe, you forgot this detail.

The legend says that the Tidecaller trades with a "landwalker," and Bard is definitely not a landwalker.
Once again, I feel dumb saying this cuz' you're Sharjo.

Sharjo2 votes

Landwalker can mean just about anything considering that the Marai are a culture that have (seemingly) very limited knowledge of the surface world. I could see them mistaking a being like Bard for a landwalker, considering that he's such an enigmatic and mysterious entity, that they only remembered him as the being who saved their people. That plus him wearing physical clothing means they might not have even known he's incorporeal. I mean let's not forget that when Bard was originally released there was a fair bit of discussion about just what he is and how he looked behind the clothes, before it was revealed he was a spirit.

You're right to question me, and I'm totally up for being wrong, but I feel like in this case him not necessarily being a "landwalker" by nature would mean little to a culture so in the dark about surface life, but hey that's just me.

10Tickler1 votes

We could replace bard with any number too tho...

Ryze: It's a mostly-benign Runestone that the Marai misheard as 'moonstone', now that he's gathering them again, the Deal's off.

Taric: Aspect of the "Protector", in the past, the Protector's aspect came. Taric just didn't know yet!

Tattersall1 votes

A while back, I thought that it's possible that Nautilus is supposed to be the guy with the moonstone. I mean, Nami and Naut are rivals for no reason. Also, it's possible that Nautilus's "destiny" was thrown off course by whatever turned him into what he is now. It also could've happened on purpose, like there's a supernatural force or being that doesn't want the Marai to have a moonstone.

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