Is There a Demonic Realm?

Meep Man·4/9/2018, 2:54:37 PM·5 votes·3,145 views

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We have an ever growing cast of demons in League of Legends. Nocturne, Evelynn, Tahm Kench, and maybe Shaco are all demons. They are rare enough to clearly not be your everyday occurrence like some monsters, but where do they come from and why? Evelynn was said to be born of agony. Tahm Kench is likely born from greed. Nocturne is born from fear. Demons in League of Legends are clearly made from intense concentrations of mortal emotions that, usually through magic, manifest into living negative emotions. However, where exactly do demons dwell? Is there an equivalent to Hell in League of Legends? Is there a central demonic gathering point when a demon is born? Are all demons drawn somewhere? I ask because lately most of the evils in League have been all leading to the Void.

Shurima is in a civil war, but is also bordered with Icathia where the Void has slowly been emerging. Mount Targon/Aurelion Sol has seen the Void slowly appear more and more across worlds, and have noted a dark presence within it that seeks to kill all life. The Watchers in the Freljord were the big bads of the Void likely sensed by Aurelion Sol.

Now all we need is for some weird Void thing to occur in Ionia/Noxus and boom, we're all Void. However, the demons (and Darkin) are unique in that they are not tied to the Void seemingly. They work on their own accord for their own desires and needs. I wish demons would be expanded more and made more into a culture than local legends.

4 Comments

Sharjo4/9/2018, 3:37:39 PM6 votes

The origin of demons seems to be within the Spirit Realm, as Shen's bio alludes to. Personally I like to figure that demons and spirits are in parallel to one another, given the similarity in origin between Janna and Evelynn; born of human prayers/suffering respectively, and then going on to actively participate in human culture to some degree, acts by which give them power and stability. Before the Rune Wars, Evelynn barely even existed at all. When people looked to Zaun for the future of oceanic travel as opposed to Janna, she nearly disappeared entirely.

But I'm getting a tad off track here. Suffice to say, as far as we know at the moment, any kind of demonic realm would seemingly be synonymous with the Spirit Realm as a whole.

Camille Ferrøs4/9/2018, 3:49:01 PM1 votes

The Spirit realm would be the answer...since demons are magical beings they originate from there