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Varus's bow may not be a darkin

ABcmaSter··2 votes·760 views
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Sure rhaast has quotes to varus. Telling him "the 3 or 5 of us will lay waste to this realm." But to me it seems like rhaast is mistaking him for a darkin. If you go on the link you can see riot stating that darkin may not know of each other.

While they know how many there are, the darkin may not know for sure who exactly are the other darkins. Only aatrox and rhaast know each other. I also think that if rhaast were to discover varus he would mistake him for a darkin because of all the corruption varus has and a living bow. Rhaast calling him demon pants as well.

I think rhaast doesn't know if the bow is kin. On top of that rhaast does not know the name of the bow if it is even a darkin as he has always been saying varus's name. Maybe so riot doesn't give too many details away or riot is trying to play with us.

Also the bow doesn't even look like it matches the theme of a darkin. Since rhaast and aatrox are both red, grey dark color. The bow (or varus) is purple with black. Aatrox actually can make his blade purple so I guess there is some resemblance, but there is no red or grey.

But who know. I guess we just to wait for Aatrox's update which I think they will give more lore.

11 Comments

Wrathof3002 votes

Rhaast doesn't know the person's name, so he calls him demon pants, but he knows the Darkin's name is Varus. Not all in game quotes reflect the lore, this could be an example of what Rhaast 'would' say if he met Varus. Varus being purple and not the standard colour theme is simply due to him being outdated, Varus was released before Aatrox.

Edit: You may have read it wrong, that the darkin don't know each other. But rather the 3(Aatrox, Rhaast and Varus) we know of don't know the other 2.

ABcmaSter5 votes

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Rhaast doesn't know the person's name, so he calls him demon pants, but he knows the Darkin's name is Varus. Not all in game quotes reflect the lore, this could be an example of what Rhaast 'would' say if he met Varus. Varus being purple and not the standard colour theme is simply due to him being outdated, Varus was released before Aatrox.

Varus is not the darkin. The bow is. He knows the person's name but not the darkin's. Or maybe he assumse the darkin is named Varus if it is a darkin.

Ralanr2 votes

Does he ever tell demon pants what he plans to do or is he telling the bow what he plans?

Like does he say anything along the lines of, “Hey, Demon Pants, lets go kill shit”

Because if not, then Rhaast could be talking to two different people on the same champion.

Stars Shaper1 votes

I really want to see the new Varus lore asap, the potential with what is happening in Ionia is really high.

The only chance to have him as a Darkin wielder is that he actually suppressed the Darkin in the bow and his life strenght is slowly being sucked up to keep its powers working.

GenoXx1 votes

I don't like how they just slapped the title of Darkin to Varus. He had promising lore if they ever got to it...but now it's just obligatory "I'z am Darkin" And will be a story of how the darkin in the bow has a hunger fir revenge. Who coincidentally was picked up by a man wanting revenge..

Wrathof3001 votes

It won't be a coincidence. More than likely his lore will remain relatively the same, but instead, exploiting the man's grief and want for revenge, the darkin would tempt him into picking up the bow. Much like how Rhaast called out to Kayn.

GenoXx1 votes

The thing is, he was already an archer to begin with. That was his weapon and he was good at ti, hence why he was chosen as the guardian for the Pit of Pallas. It couldn't have possbily been another bow in the pit...

Wrathof3001 votes

The thing is even if his lore stays relatively the same, details can still be changed, maybe he won't be an archer to begin with, maybe the Darkin was not trapped in any weapon and Varus sealed it in his bow, maybe the man was and archer and the darkin is indeed also a bow (coincidence yes but coincidences happen). Maybe the man's name is Varus, maybe the Darkin's name is Varus, all of these are details that could be played with, without changing the arc of the story; man protects forbidden power, hence he could not save village, thus resorts to taking the power for himself (whether or not he is tempted to in his future lore) to exact vengeance on Noxian invaders.

GenoXx1 votes

All I'm saying is, something doesn't need to be retcon. Only things that was relevant to the IoW should have been retcon. Eh, I'l stop rambling.

Dreamspitter1 votes

{quoted}

Sure rhaast has quotes to varus. Telling him "the 3 or 5 of us will lay waste to this realm." But to me it seems like rhaast is mistaking him for a darkin. If you go on the link you can see riot stating that darkin may not know of each other.

While they know how many there are, the darkin may not know for sure who exactly are the other darkins. Only aatrox and rhaast know each other. I also think that if rhaast were to discover varus he would mistake him for a darkin because of all the corruption varus has and a living bow. Rhaast calling him demon pants as well.

I think rhaast doesn't know if the bow is kin. On top of that rhaast does not know the name of the bow if it is even a darkin as he has always been saying varus's name. Maybe so riot doesn't give too many details away or riot is trying to play with us.

Also the bow doesn't even look like it matches the theme of a darkin. Since rhaast and aatrox are both red, grey dark color. The bow (or varus) is purple with black. Aatrox actually can make his blade purple so I guess there is some resemblance, but there is no red or grey.

But who know. I guess we just to wait for Aatrox's update which I think they will give more lore.

{quoted}

Sure rhaast has quotes to varus. Telling him "the 3 or 5 of us will lay waste to this realm." But to me it seems like rhaast is mistaking him for a darkin. If you go on the link you can see riot stating that darkin may not know of each other.

While they know how many there are, the darkin may not know for sure who exactly are the other darkins. Only aatrox and rhaast know each other. I also think that if rhaast were to discover varus he would mistake him for a darkin because of all the corruption varus has and a living bow. Rhaast calling him demon pants as well.

I think rhaast doesn't know if the bow is kin. On top of that rhaast does not know the name of the bow if it is even a darkin as he has always been saying varus's name. Maybe so riot doesn't give too many details away or riot is trying to play with us.

Also the bow doesn't even look like it matches the theme of a darkin. Since rhaast and aatrox are both red, grey dark color. The bow (or varus) is purple with black. Aatrox actually can make his blade purple so I guess there is some resemblance, but there is no red or grey.

But who know. I guess we just to wait for Aatrox's update which I think they will give more lore.

Aatrox update was only supposed to be a gameplay update.

ABcmaSter1 votes

Ik. I just said that he could get more background or something idk.

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