Lore of Legends of Runeterra: SHADOW ISLES

well hello everyone and welcome to another video on legends of runeterra last time you guys enjoyed when I explained Freljord and as you guys requested this time we are going to have a look at the shadow Isles now this video will be a little bit shorter than the previous one and that is because the shadow Isles don't have that many known characters a lot of the things will be new to us simply because we don't know a lot of these ghosts and specters and even the couple that we do know you may not even remember but don't worry I will remind you everything so because I know how long these videos usually are let's just dive right into it however as you can see Elise is the first card we could just click on her and have a look at what she says but everyone knows that her story doesn't start on the shadow Isles it actually starts in noxus now among the noxian cards we have the precious pet which is just a Lisa's favorite companion the description says she loves them all she just loves this one more and in the background you can see a lease and you can see that Elise made this little spider its own bed the second spider among the noxian cards is the house spider the description says my spiders love company shame that company never feels the same again a quote from Elise however the reason why I even started with noxus is because of this card the arachnoid century now although this is supposed to be one of ELISA spiders I do believe that this specifically might be Elise herself and that's because if you don't remember her story Elise is a noxian from house key Farah but she serves vial mod the spider god of the shadow Isles what she does is that she lures her victims to the shadow Isles there she offers them to vile maw and vile mo makes her immortal in this picture you can see that Elise found another victim she managed to make another noxian aristocrat fall in love with her the description says oh how she captivates me her endless legs voice of paralyzing sweetness and eyes red as the rose to think she chose to dine with me tonight the quote of hapless aristocrat I would say remember this person because he will come back later but you don't need to because going back to the shadow Isles cards he is the first thing you see when you click on Elise of this picture is cool for two reasons number one this is a part of a bigger story yes the guy in the background is the exact same person she just made fall in love with her but the second reason why this is awesome is because this picture shows what Elise does she lures her victims to a noxian boat and she sails to the shadow Isles during the entire trip no one knows that Elise is actually a spider and she is able to conceal her beautiful nature with beautiful clothes and if you are confused what Elise is holding in her left hand here well that's actually her noble robe here you can see the exact moment at least undressed from her noxian clothes to reveal what she really is in fact this exact scene can be read in her story on universe the description says once the head of a powerful noxian house LDC stark ties to the shadow Isles granted her unnatural youth and beauty in exchange for a few and winning souls offered in sacrifice an easy decision and when Elise levels up you can see the same fool being prepared for lunch and her upgraded version actually gets a different description it simply says beauty is in the many eyes of the beholder of course this is a pun because spiders have many eyes but that's not the only story Elise has here normally I would just go through the cards as they are in the collection but I will now skip back and forth to give you the full second story that Elise has here it starts with the description of the spider Lane here we have a different aristocrat Lord Sasson he also became a victim of Elise and the descriptions of the spiders show us what happened the first one says what are you afraid of it's just one little spider this most likely comes from an early scene where Lord seson was following a lease to the shadow Isles and when they marched into a cave he saw a spider but as they kept going lord Sisson realized that the spiders were with Elise the description of vile feast says milady I didn't realize you were such an anorak no file could you perhaps call them away from me lady Elise please but this is not how the story ends we got one more card right after that after Alyssa's transformation this is what we get the description says Lady Elise where where you go and this is actually what the card says when you play it in the game anyway with that said now we can go through the cards normally so let's continue with Kalista her description says in life she was the general a protector a hero but as flesh gave way she was left with note but the blazing fires of retribution an undying spirit of vengeance and of course we have the levelled up version but that one has the same description now what's interesting is that you need to remember that Calista hecarim and the ruined King are all from a kingdom that we don't really know where it is yet there are some speculations most of which point out that it might be near Knox's but still nothing is confirmed we still don't know where they are actually from what we do know is that all the soldiers around Calista are the soldiers from the army of the ruined King and surprisingly enough if you look at the background you can see that one of the soldiers has armor very similar to noxian armor so this may be another hint that they really were part of the noxian empire then we have thresh whose picture actually shows sena and the description are just lyrics of Thresh's theme then we also have the upgraded version again the description is exactly the same and then we have hecarim that's not thunder the shadow of war is on the horizon again we have the upgraded version and again the description is the same now because hecarim summons his Chargers we also have them and their own description no longer bound by flesh rider and beast became one determined to race mindlessly into battles they no longer understood of course these spectral riders are a combination of humans riding on their horses that's why they look like centaurs they are not actually undead centaurs they are just people who merge with their horses during the ruination next we have fading memories somewhat of a random spell that depicts a woman that is trying to remember her sweet life but then there is ravenous butcher one of the cooler cards from the shadow Isles the description simply says you are what you eat no further explanation given but I'm not sure if I eat that then there is spell called absorb soul which is simply Thresh's Lantern then there is crawling sensation which has really creepy description that creeping feeling on your skin isn't nearly as unsettling as the one underneath it then we have mark of the shadow Isles power but at what cost this is simply a reference to the fact that anyone can really travel to the shadow Isles and embrace its power the catch is that you are sacrificing your soul for it then there is oblivious Islander this is actually a little bit of a reference to the shadow and fortune story there there was a fisherman on a boat during the harrowing and as the madness surrounded him and undead creature started attacking bilge water he was a little bit drunk and he didn't really know what was even happening at the end of that story after Olaf yes Olaf traveled across the world to fight the undead after he killed a giant undead Kraken worm he was just floating on the water the fisherman noticed him after he was put on the boat but being from bilge water where everyone is trying to kill you the fisherman didn't want to die and so he grabbed the knife in attempt to kill Olaf Olaf pretty much just looked at him and the fisherman froze in fear that's where that story ended so I do believe that this oblivious Islander might be a reference to that story then there is sinister Poirot I wouldn't really consider this canon I do believe that this is just a comedy card for the purpose of having puros in a shadow Isles deck but then there is the wardens prey now this man does look a little bit similar to the man that Elise captured but I did do a lot of cross-referencing and these two people are two different guys anyway the description says he held his breath as best as he could praying the word and would move on little did he know the pursuit would be the beginning of freshest delighted torments of course even though it looks like fresh is looking for the man he already knows where he is he is just toying with him then we have arachnoid horror the description mentions that all of these horrifying creatures are just local fauna so this being - used to be just a normal spider then we have the black spear aka the spear of Kalista again the reason why this spear looks a little bit different is because it is from the armies of the ruined King a totally different nation then we have cursed keeper this is pretty much as an example of a soul being tormented I do believe that this is supposed to be representing someone who is carrying their burdens now you may be asking what is the burden that this man is carrying and the description even says madness and time never was there more terrible pair because if we and what happens if this man dies his berlin's are unleashed the description says time may have stopped but the madness remains it's just an example of all the madness that is happening on the shadow Isles then we have glimpse of beyond and remember the shadow Isles used to be the Blessed Isles and the eyes that you can see on a couple of things from the shadow Isles were originally a symbol of the Blessed Isles the symbology may have been a little bit twisted by the black mist the description says I have earned we were not meant to be are beyond the pale curtain whatever inside lingers there comes at far too great a cost growth of Airy friends don't let Vindicator now remember the name Arry Rennes because there is a little bit of a story with her too here you can see that every friends is titled dauntless Vindicator meaning that she's from the Messiah and the description suggests that some demacian slug beyond the pale curtain by which they mean death this may or may not come back later then we have Haunted relic first of all again you can see the eye but also remember that the Blessed house was full of magical relics that entire island was like a massive vault full of magical items so when the ruination happened all those magical artifacts became sentient and that's how the majority of the evil spirits was created in fact looking at the second part of this item you can see that it summons Unleashed spirits the rescript and says each spirit another victim of the relics a lure they seize in silence as they await the arrival of the next greedy fool again these things are the artifacts that are now sentient then we have miss trace this thing appears in the story is quite a lot and it usually appears during the harrowing stories in shadow Isles during those times this thing is pretty much common the specters of the Isles shed their identities long ago to become amalgamations of pure unappeasable hunger then there is charge carry it the description says she saw what I see madness is cruel mistress apothecary at least the others make some degree of sense the words of a demacian surgeon which suggests that there was a demacian group who ventured onto the shadow they saw the horrors it offers and then they managed to escape some of them touched by madness for the rest of their lives but you'll see that we know more about these guys then we have Sol Shepard the interesting thing about this is that she is still alive she doesn't look undead at all what's even more curious is the description only the Fallen knew that she did not walk alone only they could see the countless companions she led down the path to lands beyond in other words the living didn't know what she did but the dead saw that she was shepherding loads of souls this art piqued my interest not only do I really want to know who this person is but also you can see bunch of demacian soldiers lying on the ground again another proof that demacia did try to explore these lands then we have stirred spirits some look at the ruination and only see the destruction and misery others see the glass half full I'm not sure what else I can say about this they can drink for all eternity then we have Dark Water scourge I am not exactly sure if this is a Kraken worm I thought that they are supposed to look like sea serpents but I weigh just like sharks this is just a converted local animal then there is frenzied speed or now this kind of spider is not killing the victim or paralyzing it even as you can tell even from the description these spiders only trap the victims in webs and they do this for a special reason look at the little pedestal beneath the victim remember that now remember it no longer because it is actually fresh offering spell those spiders were preparing offerings the description says kneel before your thanked God better yet die before it because when an offering is served to the god the gold rewards its followers this is incredibly cool because as you'll see from the description it seems like Elise does have some kind of control over vial more who is your God what can your God do will he let you wither and die defending him or will he give you life and vitality like no mortal has ever known why serve a God who won't serve you the quote of Elise you see this reveals that while Elise doesn't control vile more because she is a loyal servant and she's giving him a lot of offerings vile mo is willing to help a leaseback not just by making her immortal but by attacking specific regions for example this to me seems a little bit demacian but now you may be asking how the heck did val mo get from shadow Isles to demacia or pretty much anywhere else in the world now that is a question I don't have the answer to I assume that vile mo can just borrow underneath the world which is pretty cool let's be honest but either way we got more lore for Val mo and that is pretty awesome then we have iron Harbinger it's pretty much just another one of hecarim soldiers then we have mist skull leaving behind a foul parody of life I have seen it corrupt my lands so I go now to those cursed isles to end this area friends don't let Vindicator this is the reason why the demacian ventured into the shadow Isles they saw the black mist corrupting not only just build water but other parts of the world as well and they wanted to end this and so they sent a small army to the shadow Isles to see if they can deal with it but as you'll see they were not as successful as they thought they would be then we have onslaught of shadows it's hecarim hoof then we have phantom prankster her cruelest trick wasn't slaughtering the soldiers who trusted the cries of a little girl but sowing doubt in the survivor so they were never sure to ignore the cries of their own daughters that is creepy as hell again this time you can see the mass in soldiers this is one of the encounters they faced when they traveled to these lands then there is Scrabble of Sorrows a cursed living parchment now you may be asking how can a parchment get cursed well if that parchment becomes sentient there are ways to torture it after all Thresh managed to torture a living mirror so what is this fellow's curse little did the author know that soon the ruination drew in no no that's not right the ink spelled again little did the author know know it reminds me of my finals then there is splintered soul I lifted the body from the water to identify the poor soul as I laid my hand upon his shoulder it turned and showed its face it was me arrey rants demacian soldier you can notice that she's no longer a Vanguard soldier she is just the mass in soldier I wonder if this is a reference to the fact that the rest of her squad died and so she was no longer a member of the dauntless vanguard because the dauntless Vanguard was gone anyway her story will still continue then we have the undying which may be a reference to Voldemort I mean it even has a want the old martyr remember trailing his comrades to her doom but it had been here since he could remember why then we have ancient rock Alice now notice that the croco leaf has some clothing on him and he even wears the eye of the Blessed Isles so I do believe that this was a local creature perhaps even uncorrupted somehow the description shows him singing put him in the cage dum dee-dum pluck up every soul one by one never let them go no no sir else them spirits make a quite a stir out of the melody I made it up then we have chroniclers of doom now first things first I love the armor I love the mask I love the crown I really like this design the description says there was a time when she set with her father a Lord greater as she studied the dusty tomes he hoped one day she would take on the mantle but not like this then there is the box which nobody escapes then there is ray scholar now this is a spectral that is totally silent in fact she doesn't really do much but the awful thing about her are the things that come with her then there is ethernal REM eater again notice all the triangles and eyes all of that is the Blessed al symbology spirits lend your voice to mine together we will call down a darkness unending so pretty much we have no idea who this is then there is grasp of the undying although it's a rune in League of Legends here it doesn't actually tell us anything then there is a spell called possession again the armor on the soldier could be anything really it doesn't seem to be demacian - it's either Knox's or it is the ruined king's army then there is tortured prodigy he toiled night and day perfecting his composition then in a blink of an eye a dark silence blew through him others screamed and ran for their lives he noticed nothing just a little bit of storytelling showing you what kind of people lived on the then there is withering Vale showing you that it is the screams of the souls because yes even though the souls are technically with the shadow Isles now the black mist doesn't distinguish friends or foes everyone screams in torture then there is atrocity killing means nothing to those who cannot know death which is the reason why the riders of hecarim just ride around and kill anything then we get to the interesting creature starting with the soul Gorger the description says as our ships near those Haunted islands I ponder this did those nightmarish creatures originate on these twisted chores did they ever truly live you can see that boat is from Airy rents demacian soldier so going back to what I said before this card actually confirms that our events was Adam a sin soldier first don't let Vanguard later so she did survive the attack on the shadow Isles because this card is one of the first parts of the story this one talks about what happened when they arrived on the shores then we have the rekindle or with a pretty cool description what used as a dying candle have other than to light its successor this is a pretty cool Dark Souls II character but then we get Raza the sunder and this is probably my favorite shadow Isles character we were told they called it a legends journey we were going to for the masses future we sailed with such hope but all all those lives for what our events demacian soldier this is what made them retreat all the things you see at the bottom all of those are the machine soldiers and you may be wondering what does it look like when this creature Cleaves through someone well as nice harvest shows it literally evaporates everyone this card is connected to the Thunderer so this shows you not only the size of his weapon but also what it does then there is vengeance which of course is connected to Calista the betrayed invoke a list on their dying breath hoping her spear brings them vengeance and of course usually it does but then we finally get our first and probably only sight character from shadow Isles that we know if you look at the blades that is half lit with the power of the shadow you may remember this guy from a story we covered on our channel because ladies and gentlemen this is led rows kalista's lover in life and the only man who was able to bring Calista back from the madness unfortunately he didn't succeed and in the end instead of saving Calista he was consumed by the madness as well most spirits lost themselves as the passing years eroded their memories but anguish anchored led rose to his past some things even time cannot absolve now this makes me think that maybe Wright created led Rose because legends of Frontera was already being made and so because they had commander led rose as a card it was easy to use him in the story for league of legends actually looking back at some of the cards I think a lot of these things happen this way we'll have a look at i/o nyan next probably and you'll see that some of the cards there were also made before the stories so legends of runeterra was teased right before our eyes but we never realized it nor was there a way to really realize it next there is spectral matron drew a nation corrupted all those caught in his path the kind became cruel the brave became brutal reason gave way to resentment we didn't learn much about this person but I wonder what the heck is she holding in her hand then there is card for the ruination now this isn't the black mist the ruination is the event when the ruined King has the massive spell that destroyed the islands so this is what it looked like when the islands were actually transformed in fact the ruins below are Helia the capital city of the Blessed Isles you can see the similarities in other pictures as well and the description is a direct reference to the story of the ruined King to think something so pure as love could cause something so cruel and inescapable of course the ruined King caused ruination because of the pure love to his Queen then there is the heroine the risky princess on certain nights a tide of hungry spirits well the black mist it carries them across the seas to prey on the living and feed the growing darkness with foul nuan life and now I saved the best card for last scuttle Geist now I quickly want to mention that the armor at the bottom here that does look a little bit demacian but it also looks like a try fairy in Legion from noxus so again it is really hard to distinguish these two armies especially since the contrast on these pictures is so low to give you that creepy vibe anyway this giant beast has this description once a beast of burden for a kingdom long forgotten this monster of scavenges across forgotten battlefields adding scrap to its shell and the source of the debt to its core of course you can see that at the back of this giant crab there is all the scrap it ships its buildings it's anything it can pick up and you can see how it is inspecting a dead soul as the description said this used to be a normal beast well quote-unquote normal it was still massive and it was a burden to the kingdom long forgotten which in this case probably means the Blessed Isles but looking at this it seems like the burden got even bigger but there is it for the shadow Isles as I said next time we will probably have a look at Ionia because I saw other people requesting it but still remember comment down below what nation you would like to see next as I said we didn't get a lot of new lore here but these cards still served as awesome world building so with that said because these videos are already too long thank you so much for watching and I will see you next time hey did you know that we have social media and twitch where we talk about other League facts and stories and did you know that we have 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Channel: Necrit

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Keywords: Lore, Story, Necrit, Necrit94, Shadow Isles, Lucian, Senna, League of Legends, Legends of Runeterra, deck, cards, LoL, LoR, Thresh, Elise, Hecarim, Ruined King

Id: 721Y75BUC8M

Length: 23min 54sec (1434 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 18 2019