Dammit, Rito

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-C6VsDeSo8ZA/UVxYmf9caRI/AAAAAAAADE8/XifgPV_n3t4/s1600/challenge+failed.png The new unveiled Shadow Isles lore is good, damn good. But it just crushed a hope of mine. I was close to posting my own theory and interpretation of the scant little Shadow Isles lore we had (before today), spent weeks tweaking its wording and contemplating it for whole days. When I saw last week or so that you had turned your attention to Mordekaiser and the other Shadow Isles champs though, I was spooked (pun intended) into action. I was worried that soon you'd beat me to the punchline and my carefully-composed work would be for naught, which it now is, D:

Now, what you came out with, it's absolutely and irrefutably better than what I was cooking up. But I hope you can understand that conceiving a whole culture (because I interpreted Yorick's lore to mean that the Isles always had deathly spirits, but never harmful), an entire system of how the spirits of the dead became what they are in the afterlife, a whole plot of the Ruined King wanting to unite the warring Isles under one banner but lacking the power to do so, him turning to the aid of an ancient but obscure shade who turned out to be Mordekaiser, and so much more, even coming up with a way of tying in Evelynn and explaining her ambiguous nature . . . only for all those weeks of musing and reiteration to be blown out of the water so completely, it would give me cause to lament. I was so close . . .

Woe is me, you beat me to it. I love the new lore, but it burdens my heart. Dammit, Rito, you crushed my fanfic dreams! Woe woe! WOE! Okay, I'll stop now. Again, your stuff results in a wholly better product and you rock for finally shedding light on the mysterious Isles. But seriously, what am I going to do with all this crap, I don't want to delete it forever.