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Yorick's current role on the Shadow Isles does not seem like it would fit in the current lore.

GenoXx·5/28/2016, 3:20:21 AM·1 votes·754 views

He was suppose to be the ferryman of the Shadow Isles. This role was to help other dead people climb the ladders in tiers of power. I'd assume that means one form to the next. But I thought about it, why exactly would the SI need a ferryman when they have morde who can seemingly grant such power. As he did with his sorcerers. He's also the "grave digger" I do not understand why they would need that role there also. The King and queen's remains must still be near the Altars for them to be bound to them. Wouldn't grave digging be more a necessary thing for other none shadow isles? What graves are there to dig when there was a order there instead of a kingdom? I don't find it too likely that they had a cemetery there.

In this current lore, what defines Yorick as a character? Did he possibly still attempt to find his body? What about his family's business? This have me worried about the "extra" characters of the shadow Isles. Did Elise walk the lands of the isles alive and returned to Noxus also w/o dying? Who is Evelynn?. Things like this needs to be addressed. Yorick is too much of a good character to just leave him as he is.

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GreenLore5/28/2016, 11:01:19 AM1 votes

Well Yorick gets a relaunch this year and he will get a completely new lore alongside of that.

Overall though I think that Yorick was simly a gravedigger in life,which is why he still is one,even if the undeads wouldn't have much use for one.

Alternatively it could be Yoricks job to dig out the dead that were buried on the blessed isles after their deaths,then reanimated by the curse of the shadow isles and who are still stuck in their graves(though this job would eventually be finished)

Chase Me Daddy5/28/2016, 2:43:02 PM1 votes

Yoricks problem is just that he is just... there. He just does what he did do when he was alive, dig graves. Yorick is probably mostly harmless (except his ghouls, but we don't even know what they are). But the thing we know is that he will be somewhat significant in his new lore. Guess we gonna wait till end of this year and see what they'll do with him. Generally tough I think most undead champions from the shadow isles are reborn by death and have lack of memory (Kalista). So guess Evelynn and Yorick will have ended some way similiar. If Eve is even undead. Just too much lack in the lore to even say what both are. The reworks hopefully fix that.