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Some thoughts about the Aftermath of the Mage Rebellion and Jarvan IV burning the letter.

Angyal·8/17/2019, 5:33:56 PM·8 votes·11,315 views

After reading both Issue 4 of the comic and the story where we follow Xin Zhao and his reaction to Jarvan burning his father's letter which pertains to the fair treatment of mages in Demacia, the discussions around this have been interesting. I have seen plenty of discussions talking about the abrupt mood shift of Jarvan, and as up until now we have seen him as a more progressive figure in terms of allowing non Demacian things into the country. Now why would he be so angry against anything that does not align with Demacias Ideals? The answer is that HE CANT ACT ANY OTHER WAY.

Lets break down what just happened in Demacia:

  1. Mage rebellion just happened, hating mages right now is now even more popular than ever.

  2. Jarvan III just died, the general populace loved him as their king. This feeds into the hatred for mages even more.

  3. With the Mage rebellion concluded, the Mage seekers will have EVEN MORE POLITICAL POWER within Demacia and can now go to more extreme methods to deal with mages.

Now lets go over why Jarvan IV had to burn his fathers letter:

  1. If he did follow his fathers wishes, he would have a coup on his hands by the Mage seekers (Or the Crownguard, not too sure if they had a hand in killing his father). The style in which Jarvan III wanted the mages to be set free would not be possible due to what just recently happened due to the rebellion and the now reinforced purpose of the Mage seekers within Demacia.

  2. It doesn't make sense that the King would now out of all times would suddenly decide to make a letter freeing all mages. And Xin and Jarvan IV both agreed, he was a very stubborn person. But the closest person who could possibly change his mind would be his son. The idea to free the mages was the Prince's idea from the start. This would be done by injecting this into conversations between when they were talking to each-other until the King made the idea his own.

In other words, Jarvan IV has to play the part of the grieving son to ensure that he does not die and that the vision that he and his father tried to achieve does not amount to nothing. He has to wait for an opportunity that will allow him to bring mages into Demacian culture while neutering the power the Mage seekers currently have within the country (and that opportunity is possibly going to come in either the shape of a small blond girl or a giant gargoyle statue, perhaps both).

6 Comments

YDy2ZkRq028/17/2019, 8:52:08 PM7 votes

Yeah, I totally agree with this post. While I think that, at least partially and definetly focused towards the mages who joined Sylas, his anger still played a part on that decision even if his progessive vision for mages isnt gone. There's also the fact that the magessekers will be one his best allies if he wants to stop Sylas, freeing mages now and putting the magessekers against him, even if it didnt cause a coup, would means all the mages in Demacia would be completly free to join Sylas and that the ones who specilized themselves to imprision them would simply ignore the issue.

It seems like people miss the point that Jarvan's rage against Sylas's rebellion is extremly justified, even if he wants to free the rest of the mages, he needs all the tools at his disposoal to end the rebellion.

Not sure if I worded what I wanted clearly but great post dude ^^

RyzeTheSmurfMage8/17/2019, 6:00:56 PM5 votes

Sounds much like Azir before he was betrayed by Xerath. Although I prefer Jarvan to have made that decision both from his rage at his father's death and political pov to not cause yet even more unrest in the political scene of Demacia (to give him some flaws too otherwise he would be the perfect king p much. And before you say it since it's such a big paralel to Jarvan's current situation no Azir is not the perfect king either cause while he wants to restore his nation and its people to greatness and is against slaves he is a conquerer so sooner or later he would start conquering other nations too Great post btw

enshine8/17/2019, 9:23:30 PM1 votes

the mage rebellion?

did someone at riot finally get around to playing dragon age 2 and 3?