Does Into the Abyss affect Nautilus?
With the release of Nami's comic we were essentially given confirmation that the darkness threatening the Marai is the Void, whereas before it was just some unknown malevolence. Since we have this confirmation, it calls to mind another champion that was affected by a "darkness" in the depths, our very own big daddy Nautilus. I ask, to those who care, is his transformation a product of exposure to the Void?
There are a small number of issues concerning this inquiry. First is the design of Nautilus himself. We have numerous examples of Void corruption in canon and skins. Rift Herald is a mutated scuttle crab, Kassadin is a corrupted human, as is Malzahar. Void Fizz and Void Illaoi are non-canon but still fall under the same design principle as other types of Void corruption, particularly later designs, like the Rift Herald.
Nautilus looks nothing like a Void corrupted human. This is likely due to the fact that Nautilus was conceptualized before the Void had a concrete design. This brings up further complications because what he should look like would have no resemblance to how he does now. Presently, he's just a very big mutated thing in a diving suit that was also mutated, possibly becoming the suit. Therein lies much of his charm as a character and a champion; Nautilus is a big, burly monster that looks like the very iconic image of a classical diving suit.
An alternative - that quite a few have considered ever since Burning Tides - is that Nautilus was corrupted by the Black Mist, not the Void. His aesthetic doesn't quite match that of a Shadow Isles champion, but he does bear a startling resemblance to Mordekaiser, a prominent figure of the Shadow Isles and Immortal Bastion.
http://ddragon.leagueoflegends.com/cdn/img/champion/splash/Mordekaiser_0.jpg http://ddragon.leagueoflegends.com/cdn/img/champion/splash/Nautilus_0.jpg
This falls apart given the nature of the Black Mist and the Shadow Isles, particularly how they ensnare victims as eternal slaves, since Nautilus not only moves outside the Black Mist, but has actually fought off a Harrowing. By himself.
All that being said, how does the release of Into the Abyss affect Nautilus? Does it encourage the possibility of him being Void corrupted despite inconsistencies? Or does it have no real impact on his origins?
=new underwater threat" theory DEstroyed. However, I doubt that 
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got powers, but then we have people like 
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(he sort of embraced it and he got powers) 
(his desire to be an undead, allowed for him to obtain powers from the Mist without being bound to it per se). So I think it's fair game for the Shadow Isles too, you should have made a poll, 
, so maybe the void infection her region suffers isn't present in the seas near Bilgewater. (The have enough to deal with the Black Mist, if you ask me.)
