Should Rek'sai have been a Brakern?

Variks the Loyal·Dec 16, 2014·2 votes·1,125 views

Call me crazy, but everything about Rek'sai's appearance yells 'scorpion' to me. Her large forelimbs, her long tail, her multiple legs, even smaller Xer'sai look scorpion like.

This led me to believe Rek'sai's kit may have been an abandoned Skarner full-rework that they liked and repurposed. But with Skarner's new association with Shurima and the nature and history of the Brakern unknown now, would this have been a good place for Rek'sai? Or rather, Rek'sai's kit?

I imagine a champion with her kit, labeled as 'Queen of the Brakern', building crystaline tunnels and shooting fractures while underground. So on, so forth. Maybe it could be a skin for Rek'sai one day. Anyone else get a similar vibe?

6 Comments

GreenLoreDec 16, 20143 votes

While I disagree that she looks that scorpion like,I have to say that she could have easily fit with the brackern,considering she has a similar colour scheme as skarner and lives in shurima just like him.

Also we don't know how the other brackern look like,they might not even look like scorpions,but like other animals,so the difference in looks(and behavior) could have been explained by that.

Regardless she also makes sense as a void creature,so it is a matter of preference

SharjoDec 16, 20141 votes

When she came out, I was convinced she was either a Brackern of some kind of had a connection to the Brackern somehow, relating to Skarner's new (yet to be published) state of being as a Shuriman creature. I still believe she and her kind have affected the Brackern in the past, but it's just my musings. I can just imagine in the past Brackern and Xer'Sai fighting each other.

Also as a question, Outerbeasts is a new term that's been thrown around with the Noxian Cartographer's journal, anyone recon whether Outerbeasts are specifically Voidborn or maybe just a name for creatures in the deserts of Shurima?

GreenLoreDec 17, 20141 votes

yeah when I saw the teaser I was like "she looks like a brackern,but those purple things look like void energy,so maybe a voidborn or heck maybe even a brackern who got mutated by the void"

Overall I think that since skarner got relocated to shurima and is guarding something that lies underground,it is kind of ineviteable that he will get into a conflict with the Xer'Sai who might simply burrow into his realm.

WaffletimewarpDec 16, 20141 votes

I can kind of agree, considering my first thought when they released her teaser was that Rito was giving Skarner the ol' Freljord treatment like Udyr and Trundle.

That being said, I'm glad she isn't. I like Skarner as the last of his kind, even though apparently he isn't via retcons.

Nightmist DarkDec 16, 20141 votes

how about retconning Skarner again and make him Skar'Ner and make a him a void creature? and when he gets his VO redone to remove the Crystal Scar quotes he gets a new Void voice and quotes?

WaffletimewarpDec 16, 20141 votes

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how about retconning Skarner again and make him Skar'Ner and make a him a void creature? and when he gets his VO redone to remove the Crystal Scar quotes he gets a new Void voice and quotes?

I'd rather them not. I was incredibly relieved when it was a new champion. Massive retcons are almost never good, just look at the immediate reaction to Riot saying Udyr of all champions was from the Freljord.

I don't play Skarner, but I respect his character as basically the only reason the Crystal Scar is significant aside from a minor mention in Sion's remake. It's basically the same reason I refuse to use any skin but Traditional Trundle when playing him.