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Confusion about Black Mist's origin.

Craxsian·8/25/2016, 4:54:19 PM·3 votes·4,185 views

This is a piece from Hecarim's lore:

Hecarim and his warriors slaughtered the guardians until a lantern-bearing wretch finally led the king to what he sought - the secret to resurrecting his wife.

But when the queen returned to life she was a horror of decayed meat and maggot-ridden flesh who begged to be allowed to die once more. Repulsed at what he had done to his beloved wife, the king enacted a spell to end their lives and bind them together for all eternity. His conjuration was successful, but unwittingly empowered by the many potent magical artifacts stored on the island, its power was increased a hundredfold.

A hurricane of black mist surrounded the king, spreading across the island and killing everything it touched.

And this is a fragment of the announcement of Yorick's rework:

If you aren't caught up on the latest Shadow Isles lore, here's a quick summary: Long ago, the Ruined King travelled to a place then known as the Blessed Isles; He wanted to use the Isles's eternal waters to bring his wife back to life. But the waters were never meant to reverse death, and when the King lowered her corpse into the magic waters, they became corrupted. The resulting Black Mist that emerged from the pool caused a magical cataclysm that morphed the Blessed Isles into the Shadow Isles—a place where the dead find no resting place. Yorick, a former monk on the Isles, is more-or-less a good guy, but he's being slowly corrupted by the mist, which clings to his back in the form of a cape comprised of thousands of agonized souls.

To sum up, on the Heca lore, Ruined King made a spell which provoked the birth of the Black Mist because of a magical butterfly effect, but after it is said that the wife's corpse causes it by its contact with the magic waters on Yorick announcement.

I would like to know if this is a kind of mistake or it's been changed and the last of them is the canon one.

Thx for reading ^^.

26 Comments

Sharjo8/25/2016, 5:00:49 PM7 votes

The initial resurrection of the queen polluted the waters, which served as the catalyst for the Ruination, which was in turn amplified by the magical artifacts stored across the Blessed Isles when the king enacted his spell.

That's how I understand it.

GreenLore8/25/2016, 5:00:59 PM2 votes

It's likely that the king first tried to revive his wife with the waters(corrupting them in the process) and when it didn't work,he used his spell to bind them together,which reacted with the corrupted water.

Oleandervine8/25/2016, 5:04:42 PM1 votes

Or, like any reinvention of lore, Hecarim will need his lore revised to accommodate changes in Yorick's story, since he is no longer a Lantern bearing wretch. Most likely, Yorick's new lore will be the canon lore, and Hecarim's will be retconned. They're showing the Isles a bit more love lately, and with three Harrowing approaching, we may see a lore event for the Isles since there are changes coming.

Oleandervine8/25/2016, 5:33:12 PM1 votes

The past has shown that the lore is always changing. Look at Targon, with Leona, Diana, and Taric. Look at the Freljord with Trundle, and Skarner and Amumu with Shurima. There is always changes in lore to make Runeterra a more believable place.

Ebonmaw Dragon8/25/2016, 5:34:52 PM1 votes

Maybe the spell that the Ruined King did required to put her wife on the water.