Shower thought: Darkwill, as a npc, had more on impact on Runeterra than 75% of champions

ChunLii·Oct 10, 2017·6 votes·678 views

That's really funny to think about though I think it's really awesome than a npc is so important.

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SteelMankindOct 10, 20172 votes

I think League lore would feel pretty small if all the important, named characters were also playable champions.

And I wouldn't say 75% of champions. Darkwill is perhaps of equal importance to 5 or so champions in the Swain's potential coup storyline. There are plenty of other ones which have nothing to do with him. In fact, the only champions I can think of who are perhaps less important than Darkwill are Annie, Nocturne, Shaco, Fiddlesticks, and Elise - so basically champs who are in dire need of a lore update.

ChunLiiOct 10, 20171 votes

Darkwill was responsible for the Ionia war and Sion's first resurrection. Outside of Swain rebelling against him. Even people with updated lore like Garen have less of an impact.

KuroCaliberOct 10, 20172 votes

I mean darkwill was in a position of power, none of his achievements were tied directly to his innate talents.

KloqdqOct 10, 20172 votes

League's story as a whole is the kind of story that isn't really set up to ever move forward with all of it's champions because Riot has pretty much linked Story to Game as we've seen with Gangplank's death in lore caused him to be removed from game. This means if you are dead, you can't be in the game.

That's why Alt-skins create separate stories which allow Riot to do whatever the hell they want. NPCs also have a lot more freedom to do whatever as long as they don't kill any champions. Which really puts a damper on plot progression of different characters when none of them can ever really be truly harmed more than they already have been.

SteelMankindOct 10, 20172 votes

You have a point, though I'd imagine that, given a choice between a compelling plot involving the death of a playable character, and maintaining the precedent set from GP being unplayable during Burning Tides, they'd chose the former.

Really hope they're faced with that decision, though, as you are correct that League's story is limited if all the characters we know the best have plot armor.

KloqdqOct 10, 20171 votes

Yeah it really does kind of suck with how this all works. Even the biggest and bad-est of conflicts can't really be solved because of the effects it would have on all the champions. The void as a whole is the largest threat to the world but we can't beat the void or have them win because of the massive effects it may have on the champions. We could do it technically but I don't think any MMO game in lore would be willing to do something like that to be completely honest :s

Chembaron YamadaOct 10, 20171 votes

Was Urgot a servant of Darkwill? seems like he was the last regent of Noxus, according to posts here and Urgot got sold to Zaun because he didn't side with Swain, didn't he?