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The Watchers will soon be here...

TheHobbits··16 votes·6,425 views

It is said that when the Void breaks free into this world, the Watchers will return. It is evident that the Void is leaking through more and more. Rek'Sai has made her way here and soon the Void Gate will be an item within the Summoners Rift store.

You cant tell me that the Void isn't coming. And when it does, The Watchers will return...

"Everybody's forgotten who built this bridge and why. Everybody's forgotten the war that gave this place it's scars. Everyone, but me. I was there! I saw the battle! I died here, and I never left this place! I was bound here to stand guard and sound my war horn when our enemies ever returned. And now, now the howling grows louder, and I sense something evil stirring in the abyss, my hand reaches for my war horn. This place will soon see a battle again. One that will shape the Freljord for all time. And if the Freljord falls, so too will the rest of the world. Yes, this is more than just a bridge." ― Greyor

"We are the chosen, destined to receive the gifts of the Watchers. Our faith is tested by bitter cold and endless winter. A crucible that separates the worthy from the unworthy, purging doubt, and leaving purity behind. The others fight like neglected children, petty squabbles that will amount to nothing in the end. We have purpose, to prepare this land for new masters. The Watchers return. Our ascendance is at hand." ― Lissandra

EDIT:

I must clarify to all that the Watchers themselves may not be from the Void. It is just rumored the WHEN the Void comes into this world, the Watchers will return.

35 Comments

Nveriyoth2 votes

Even though there's TECHNICALLY no lore tying the Watchers / anything Freljordian to the Void, I support and approve this message.

TheHobbits5 votes

Purple glowing gem, single eye, tentacles. Yup, Void.

LANWhale1 votes

Looks like Vel'Koz....Interesting, very interesting...

Edit: Never heard of such a theory but i always felt that the Watchers where more than what people make them to be. As well I assumed that they would get help from another worldly power.

TheHobbits1 votes

Looks like Vel'Koz....Interesting, very interesting...

Edit: Never heard of such a theory but i always felt that the Watchers where more than what people make them to be. As well I assumed that they would get help from another worldly power.

Its not a 'truly' said anywhere, but put 2 and 2 together and the theories start to sound more legit.

Nveriyoth2 votes

Purple glowing gem, single eye, tentacles. Yup, Void.

Thing is, those could be horns on the side. And no Rioter has EVER CONFIRMED that it is, in fact, Vel'Koz. However, I agree with your inference. I thought "Holy crap Vel'Koz looks just like the thing on HA" when he came out. What I'm saying is that it's just never been official. I mean, everybody thought that FMG was the author in Gravity Falls after leaked images of younger him writing in a journal, but that was turned around when it was revealed that he only worked for the author, probably in response to it.

TheHobbits9 votes

Gnar was frozen in True Ice. True Ice is an element of the Ice Born. These powers were given to the Ice Born by the Watchers. Take a look at the cave paintings. Looks similar to something right?

LANWhale1 votes

I almost forgot about this...thing. I want to believe it is Vel'Koz but sadly when Vel'Koz joined the league that was his first time very being in Runettera, but maybe this conforms that there are more creatures like Vel'Koz in the Void. But at the same time this could be a extinct animal that was a threat to cave-yordles. Although those zap waves can be seen as lazors rays or something else, but what?

TheHobbits1 votes

ICE BOLT!

hehe, but seriously, It could be anything really. Lasers, magic, ice. As they are cave paintings, they would have been done in the way they could explain it in their limited knowledge.

kunkudunk1 votes

Well, given that they said that rek'xai is from the xai species or whatever, I believe we can assume that the second half of the void creatures names are their species. Thus, Koz is most likely a species of void born that are intelligent, ocular based creatures. So even if vel'koz hasn't been to runeterra till now, others of his species could have been.

Orangesilk1 votes

Rek'Sai queen of the Xer'Sai, so Vel'Koz of the xxx'Koz

kunkudunk1 votes

Exactly, although apparently I have been misspelling Sai for like two weeks now.

Shíny3 votes

Gnar was actually frozen by anivia, a rioter in LAS confirmed.

Good theory, but i can reveal that its been said that anivia frozen him, because he seems to have potential to fight against.... And here is where the mysteri begins." Sources 1 2

LANWhale1 votes

Yes this is true, but then what is the cave painting then? That thing wasn't Anivia (It doesn't even look like her) especially since it seems Gnar survived the attack and was able to recognize it.

Shíny1 votes

Oh no, thats totally a watcher. The watcher threat almost definitely is the reason for anivia to freeze him, so gnar can team up with ashe and her merry men :)

LANWhale1 votes

So what your saying is that Anivia can see the future...hm interesting theory I assumed that she could always recount her past lives but...interesting either way. Although I do want to ask, was Gnar frozen in the Freljord or somewhere else?

TheHobbits1 votes

Looks like he lived off from the mountains.

As for Anivia, from here lore:

Though Anivia's past lifetimes have faded from her memory, she knows her purpose: she must protect the Freljord at all costs.

She cant remember the past and Gnar could not communicate or even comprehend what happened. How does this plan work of freezing him to be a future ally if know one knows anything?

LANWhale1 votes

I don't know just the way Shinji phrased it sound like she knew the future but other than that I don't know. Also the Runeterra we know now, even with he new map coming, doesn't mean that the geography was different back then. Which actually makes me think if the Freljord was always the Freljord? Ya know what i'm saying?

TheHobbits1 votes

I know what you mean. Mt Everest was nothing, now look how big it is. Mountains form.

LANWhale1 votes

Know i'm wondering how other places looked during Gnars time but another theory for another time back to the theory at hand, its hard to say if the Void directly influenced the Watchers or if the Watchers are Void born but there is one things I can say, their symbol resembles to closely to Vel'Koz to be a coincidence maybe Vel visited them or rather one of his species. I think this what happened, especially since with the introduction of Rek'Sai we now know there are indeed species of Void born.

TheHobbits1 votes

Know i'm wondering how other places looked during Gnars time but another theory for another time back to the theory at hand, its hard to say if the Void directly influenced the Watchers or if the Watchers are Void born but there is one things I can say, their symbol resembles to closely to Vel'Koz to be a coincidence maybe Vel visited them or rather one of his species. I think this what happened, especially since with the introduction of Rek'Sai we now know there are indeed species of Void born.

It may have been the mountains in the center of the Runtera. South is where the jungles used to be. Now its all desert.

Narasimha1 votes

One doesn't need to know the future to see the signs. We don't have the capability to predict exactly when a volcano is going to erupt, but we DO know roughly when its going to blow.

RavenKouhai1 votes

She cant remember the past and Gnar could not communicate or even comprehend what happened. How does this plan work of freezing him to be a future ally if know one knows anything?

Maybe she figured/hoped she'd be able to free Gnar before she reincarnated again?

edit: she froze him to be a future ally, not necessarily for herself. also, don't we have to assume that Anivia UNFROZE him too, since he was trapped in true ice? the only other person who could have unfroze him was Lissandra.

TheHobbits1 votes

Gnar was actually frozen by anivia, a rioter in LAS confirmed.

Good theory, but i can reveal that its been said that anivia frozen him, because he seems to have potential to fight against.... And here is where the mysteri begins." Sources 1 2

But why would Anivia freeze him? To fight him? To keep as a future ally? Seems a bit hit and miss to me.

Acolyte of Steel1 votes

I'd say keep him as a future ally. Seems to be the only logical conclusion... It looks like the Watchers killed Gnar's parents, and Gnar fought off the Watcher. So, it seems to be in Anivia's benevolent nature to freeze Gnar and save him for the time he will be needed.

Nveriyoth1 votes

Gnar was frozen in True Ice. True Ice is an element of the Ice Born. These powers were given to the Ice Born by the Watchers. Take a look at the cave paintings. Looks similar to something right?

BRO I told you, I completely agree with you! I think that Vel'Koz and Watchers and whatnot are in cahoots! BUT NO RIOTER HAS EVER OFFICIALLY CONFIRMED IT!!!! We are living on the fine line between rebellion and continuity, or something.

TheHobbits1 votes

BRO I told you, I completely agree with you! I think that Vel'Koz and Watchers and whatnot are in cahoots! BUT NO RIOTER HAS EVER OFFICIALLY CONFIRMED IT!!!! We are living on the fine line between rebellion and continuity, or something.

Im not trying to poke at you, Im just continuing the discussion.

GreenLore1 votes

looks actually more like horns than tentacles

DwarvenGiant2 votes

You do know that these dialogues exist for nearly a year and half, right? "Soon" can mean any time..

Here's something to support the theory: After Vel'Koz was leaked,people started theorizing about that Vel'Koz is a Watcher. But when Vel'Koz was revealed and had his Q&A, Riot Opeli said that, while Vel'Koz is not a Watcher himself, it's not crazy to think that there's a rift of some kind on the Bridge.

I think that the Abyss of the Howling Abyss is not the literal abyss under the bridge.. The Void is referred as "Abyss" in a few places (a really obvious one is Koggy's title, "the Mouth of the Abyss"). ;)

GreenLore1 votes

Overall it was never confirmed that the watchers are from the void. It would be a bit weird for them to be from there considering that so far we didn't have any void creature who has any sort of elemental power,so why would the watchers be voidcreatures with ice powers? Has the void any ice at all?

Also while the statues do resemble vel'koz,that is mainly because they seem to have only one eye and something that could be tentacles(but they could also be horns) and the statues at the side have actually hands and the towers(who seem to be watchers) seem to have a more humanoid body in general.

RoyaiChaos1 votes

And soon we're going to have that Poro event on the bridge .... INB4 THE WATCHERS ARE ACTUALLY POROS Like, what if the new skins featuring poros are actually just the champions after the watchers have taken over.

Bixits1 votes

If anyone here plays Neopets...there should be a site-wide event where everyone can pick a side and battle it out. Everyone who participated get's a reward but the winning "side" gets something special in remembrance of the event (a skin, icon, ward etc.)

WoodenIncubus1 votes

So like the Lunar Revel event? We chose an icon from three and the most chosen one wins?

Solideus1 votes

I doubt The Void is directly connected to Freljord or The **Frozen **Watchers. (Shurima, on the other hand...) Some think they looked similar to Vel'Koz, but I believe the statues' "tentacles" are really horns. The Watchers seem rather to be cyclopean, possibly hairy, creatures with horns or tusks. Also they seem to have eyelids, Vel'Koz does not. http://i.imgur.com/zOjvWIb.jpg The image is from Freljords Promo Page; That's what they look like in the flesh, supposedly.

The Soulforged1 votes

I actually have my own take on how the watchers are related to the void. Writing a short set of stories for LRP. Here is the link to the thing where u can see part 1-3 http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/story-art/bBxUQPg4-lrp-the-legendary-once-guardians-part-1 Edit: I still however am in the process of making part 4

TheHobbits1 votes

I must clarify to all that the Watchers themselves may not be from the Void. It is just rumored the WHEN the Void comes into this world, the Watchers will return.

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