Battlecast: The Nature of the Void

Laughing Fish··2 votes·1,157 views

As we all know, the Battlecast line of skins, story tidbits, etc. are from an alternate dimension where Viktor's Glorious Evolution conquered Runeterra. Many of the Champions who were converted were from the Void. Now at first this sounds all fine and dandy right? WRONG! The Void is supposedly a place between dimensions, but not a dimension itself. Where do I get this? Cho'Gath's lore.

There is a place between dimensions, between worlds. To some it is known as the Outside, to others it is the Unknown. To those that truly know, however, it is called the Void.

So this means that there are only three possibilities.

  1. There are multiple versions of the exact same voidborn. There are two Vel'Kozes, two Cho'Gaths, etc. Not just members of the same species, but exact duplicates. This could mean that the voidborn are like bees in that their DNA does not vary among members of the same species. I find this highly unlikely, due to the voids rapid evolution.

  2. The Void is not a place between dimensions, but is a dimension itself. This would allow there to be alternate dimension forms of the Void, which would allows one Void's Vel'Koz to travel to our Runeterra, and a separate Void's Vel'Koz to travel to a separate Runeterra.

  3. The Battlecast are from the future. Either the voidborn on our Runeterra one day travel to an alternate dimension, or the far more likely an alternate dimension Viktor travel to our Runeterra. Viktor then proceeds to enslave Runeterra, and sends his minions back in time.

The Void is a mysterious place already, and this just makes it more mysterious.

TL;DR: The Battlecast prove that either the void is not a place between dimensions, or that the voidborn have no variation among species, or that the Battlecast come from the future.

17 Comments

Sharjo4 votes

tl;dr skins ain't canon.

There's actually not that much that the skins infer about creatures of the void other than they have a biology that can support cybernectic enhancements in some way.

Saruyan3 votes

of course it is 2, just because it says its between 2 dimensions doesnt mean it isnt its own. the void is clearly a place that people can potentially visit and possibly study.

Laughing Fish2 votes

I see. So you think it is a dimension that exists in the middle of other dimensions? Like some kind of hateful, vile burrito?

Saruyan1 votes

its the only option that makes sense to me

Destínum2 votes

I'm pretty sure the Battlecast series is meant to represent a possible future for Valoran, a.k.a. they are from another timeline.

Laughing Fish1 votes

An interesting point. That is the theory I consider most likely.

Destínum1 votes

It all also depends very much on what you define as a "dimension". Do different timelines count as "dimensions"? Different universes? If it's the second, then the void could very well be a place between dimensions, a.k.a. a place between universes but not a universe in itself. Even though this might make it so the Void doesn't really folow the laws of time, as soon as Voidborn enter an actual universe they will. Therefore, there will naturally be a Cho'Gath/Kog'Maw/Vel'Koz etc. in several different Runterra-timelines.

Laughing Fish1 votes

I see. That is a point I had not considered. As soon as the voidborn leave the void, they are instantly bound by the laws of time and space. But as they are not bound to the laws of time and space before they enter the universe, this could theoretically make it appear from the point of view of someone inside time that there is many versions of each voidborn, when in fact there is only one.

The Anagram King1 votes

Battlecast skins are from an alternate reality where Viktor has conquered most of the known world for whatever reason. Jayce and co. are the last remaining pockets of resistance.

Pulsefire Ezrael's battle suit also comes from this alternate reality. Buuuut I can't remember if he travelled back in time, or if the suit was thrown through time and found by Ezrael in the current timeline. Or both at once.

Destínum1 votes

There was never really an official story behind it, but one of the people who made PFE said they imagined that the normal Ezreal found a warphole or something to the future, found the suit, heard what had happened in that timeline and then traveled back to his own time with the suit (either to try to prevent that future, or just because he wanted to show of his awesome new high-tech toy).

GreenLore1 votes

the alternate realitys also have alternate versions of the void.

The void is a world that lies between dimensions,but dimensions =/= alternate reality.

With dimensions they most likely mean stuff like the spirit realm(from bard),the celestial realm(from soraka) or the angel realm(from kayle and morgana,but well that might be retconned in the future) and not the alternate versions of runeterra.

Laughing Fish1 votes

Interesting theory. So the Void exists in every reality, and is occupying the same space as Runeterra simultaneously, displaced just beyond our comprehension? This would imply that perhaps the void is not as different as we believe, it is just a dark reflection of our own world.

333lom1 votes

Well, there are two hypotheses in physics which are trying to explain some quantum effects: one is the Many Worlds theory, and the other one is the Multiverse theory. The first one suggests that there may be infinite number of variations of a universe. The other one suggests that there is an infinite number of different universes. Double the infinite number xD So.. the Void could technically be a part of the Multiverse, like a different universe apart from Runeterra. And the BC time-line could be a future version of Runeterra, with a different version of the Void interacting with it!

Laughing Fish2 votes

This is the best theory yet. This would allow the void to both be a space between dimensions, but also have different versions of the void. http://media.giphy.com/media/b8kHKZq3YFfnq/giphy.gif

The Soulforged1 votes

I think that they are thinking of timelines =/= dimensions, and dimensions being places such as the worlds of taric malphite runeterra and morg/kayle's world.

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