Makes sense but in lol we have two types of lore champions the champions who don't push the lore: Naafiri, blitz, hecarim, vayne, taric, pike and a lot of others. And the ones who push: Zoe, ekko, zillean, aatrox, leblanc, viego, thresh and a lot of other champions. For me it makes sense that some champions don,t push the lore and some others push, like imagine how fast the lore would end if all the champions pushed it.
@abelyoramandradesilva3749 bro the lore will never end. Imagine a novel with 12 chapters and how many events happen in such a novel.we littarly are in chapter 1. We never explored ryze, like that guy alone has insane story potential with many possible encounters with characters. And demacia noxus piltover shurima and the island of ionia. How isn't this lore infinitely explorable with infinite possible encounters and events. There could be an event where all of the nations gets to defend the world from one big threat to the world of runterra despite all their fights and wars between them. This is just an idea i came with on the spot. Like aliens that come to runterra to gather magic and it's whole new champion type. The lore objectively can't end and it's so unexploited right now.
Every champion Pushed Lore in some way. (Maybe not Mundo) Taric told us how it looks when you climb Mount Targon Zoe is concept of "What if Celestial beings were more human and less serious?" Kayle and Morgana - beggining of Demacia and "What is aspect has children?" Naafiri and K'Sante in their stories told us that even ANIMALS can be Ascended/Darkin LeBlanc stories in some way pushed forward the Lore but in some way she just unvailed little stuff that already happened while setting few more question marks. WHOLE ruination event pushed the world forward with each conected champion evolving trough it. Fiddle became primordial great demon, first of 10, Nilah is wielding power from second of their kind. Gwen and Lillia are new type of creature not fully a spirit not fully a real person - more like animated wish of something bigger or stronger Milio didn't gave a lot but still he gave some champions(Zyra, Qiyana, Neeko, Nidalee) place to settle in timeline. Vex is exact oposite of every Yordle we already have. She reveals that Yordles as spirits cannot die. Every Yordle is somewhat personification of concept or archetype. They are immortal and obsesed about something so they become IT. That means they are kind of "unfixable" they will be themselved no matter what. That's why Yordles look liek caricature of their chosen persona Tristana is soldier, Heimer is more about thinking than doing, Lulu wants to "Do magic!" even tho it works 50/50, Vex seems to be depressed 24/7 but still some good feelings spark trough. Just like Veigar tries to be evil but he can't - even Mordekaiser didn't turn him on his side. EVERY champion adds something to the table.
@@fantasticalthoughts hey man makes a lot of sense what u said but they are already making the start of the end. There is the void in the lore that is equivalent to the aliens and sadly the riot games creator of the game is already going to an end of the lore like the rushed one of the worst world enemy( viego) and im feeling that for some sad reason they are gona rush the attack of the void that probably will be in 2 or 4 years in the future
I actually think the lines talking about how powerful she is isn't actually reality, but that is her own perception of herself. She thought she as an individual was powerful and could kill or rule all others. But then she realized that this way of thinking was flawed to begin with. Because every Darkin thought the same about themselves was why they lost.
Basically, I imagine Atroxx has the same opinion of himself. And when sealed i bet he was saying “I was so close to ending those other idiots!! How did I let this happen?!” Just like Doglady here.
Imagine naafiri just coming up with an amazing plan but aatrox ran in 5 mins ago and Xolaani is playing with blood and whispering to herself. It could be tho that she was a tactician.
I think the lore description of Naafiri's power was based in her own opinion of herself. It _is_ written in third person, but the words used to talk about her feel so personal and intimate, like the narrator is more focused on telling us how she feels, not stating the facts
@@danielwoods3896 i think it was that good, prpbably riot has been releasing Complicated champions in a row that sett just feels Like a perfect change
Well, to be fair even she say she is the most powerful doesn’t mean she was. Everyone was fighting for power and leadership, so in their minds they were all the most powerful and deserving of uniting the Darkin.
About Naafiri being especially powerful and having "almost" led the Darkin During the story I interpreted that as her subjective opinion and thought it was a quite spot-on detail Since the story is written from Naafiri's point of view, as a Darkin, it makes a lot of sense that she would believe she was "that close" to rule them all, wouldn't it?
I thought the same, her story is about she leaving her ego to embrace the "pack" thinking so it makes sense that she thought of herself as the most powerful darkin and best suited to lead the other... Just like the other darking xD
The bio's are always written from a narrator's perspective, however since in this scenario the narrator describes her thoughts, what you said is indeed correct
Ok, can I talk about how the lore team really made their homework? Because the lore incorporated the idea of how the dune hounds are an apex predators together, just like african wild dogs in real life, one dog is just... A dog, but a whole pack are the scariest thing in the savannah, lions and hyenas go out of their way to kill a pack member, just because how dangerous they are. MAN I LOVE NAAFIRI
This is just a thought. Maybe instead of being actually powerful enough to rule the darkins, Nafiri was only relatively powerful, and her claiming she could lead them is just her overconfidence speaking. It is mentioned that she is ambitious, and in my opinion, most ambitious people are also overconfident.
You have such a great way of making lore entertaining, even to people like myself who don't really seek it out or care for it much. Good stuff as always
Yep, btw you could take a little inspiration there and try theme (lore accurate) team comps with FFS. Just a single problem either convincing others there to watch some lore or to try to fake you know it XD.
I got the impression that the emphasis on Naafiri's power was more of a nod to the general arrogance the darkin all seem to posses rather than directly referring to their canon strength.
i feel like naafiri WANTED to be picked up by a host, waiting for whatever living thing would grasp it, so she willingly separated parts of the weapon while being VERY confused of becoming one with not just one, but multiple vessels. that would leave anyone completely disoriented
Literally every single darkin want nothing more than for a host to pick them up. Obviously? It literally even says in her lore that she called out to the hounds, so they could kill the guy and Naafiri could take over him that way. Every single darkin want to be picked up by a host. lmfao.
How can she even know there is a way out of the prison? Aatrox had no idea he can control others when they pick him up, so how does Naafiri know about it? Was she used before, if so why was that never mentioned in the story?
I think the idea of Naafiri being powerful enough to lead the darkin is all in her head. Like some of the other darkin, she vied for leadership and believed that she deserved to be in control because she believed she was the strongest. It turns into a story of a massive ego humbled into looking at the power dynamics from a different perspective.
can we take a moment to appreciate that he will tell the lore over and over again for us and new viewers even tho he doesnt have to. Really appreciate this kind of effort man
4:45 It was never explicit said that the souls of the Darkin were sealed inside the Chalicar, the "reverse ascension" Ta'anari did with the reflection of the moon on the glass amphitheater seemed to actually killed the Ascended present there because the process of ascension was apparently reverted, Ta'anari even said to Myisha that he was mortal once more before being betrayed by her, she then used the chalicar to cut open his chest and used his heart to create the first Darkin weapon (that supposedly still exists) That's my interpretation at least...
We don't know what did she end up doing with his heart, but the rest of what you said is correct. The Chalicar is a powerful magical weapon, which of course Sivir can't really exploit. However they couldn't really make Ta'anari into a Darkin and they honestly had no need to, as he got reverted back to his mortal form. Apparently this moonfire ritual couldn't be used to defeat the rest of the Darkin, thats why they resorted to the sealing method. Some were perhaps so powerful they couldn't have defeated otherwise. This mishap from Necrit is not surprising in the slightest, though
Since the story is from Naafiri’s point of view, it could be that every Darkin thought they where the most powerfull and close to leading everyone else, not just Naafiri being another very powerful Darkin
I think Naafiri's hype is most likely that high because all champions weren't having a proper event to introduce them (Except Viego, tho it was catastrophic, he stilled was hyped) But Naafiri remind us of the Darkin Even that is yet to come, thus the hype I think, and not Naafiri itself.
Hey, remember when they fundamentally changed all the rules of the Void by releasing a character and then did absolutely nothing with it because of course the shittiest batch of Star Guardians to ever be thinked up should take the spotlight instead?
Took a while but finally feel like we got another Champ that fits perfectly. She is also the first simple champion in a long time not with an overloaded kit like everyone seem to have now. She is interesting cause she seems to want to unite her kin well the rest of the darkin are just off doing their own things. If she could unite her Kin they could get revenge on Xolaani
0:31 why is this an issue? i find it pretty funny and creative that some random animal gets a strong artifact that turns it into an apex predator and nothing more.
To me this creates a new path for future darkness story lines because the text makes it sound like naafiri has shaken off her madness at least a bit via the pack wisdom could lead to like so many outcomes It feels like her plot line could change so much that the only thing holding her back is lack of character development seeing as her only goal right now is: find darkin
When the story talks about Naafiri being one of the most powerful darkin and that she could lead the rest, I think it means that this is, in her madness and lust for power, what Naafiri thinks. It fits me less about the dogs taking the dagger. Still I don't see why she couldn't be one of the most powerful, after all those who have awakened have done so by chance, not because of their power.
0:07 I thought we were pretty unified about Renata as well? Awesome Lore, Incredible design, good kit with a strong ult. I'd say, she was received very well (but maybe i'm just a delusional Renata main XD)
12:45 for the sake of immersion I'm writing that part of the story off as Naafiri stoking her own ego, she is obviously subservient to Aatrox otherewise she wouldn't have followed his memo
Every struggle nafiri has trying to get her allies to be alongside eachother is justice and its interesting you said it was rushed given how I've seen things irl. So many left behind cuz they are not good enough when everything is everything for everything to have everything and to leave anything behind is to accept nothing as a result. Whether we all unite or not is not the question, do you think the time is worth connection or a lesson about why it is connection?
Personally, I think Naafiri talking to herself about how powerful she was and how she almost ruled all the darkin is just her ego. From her story, it seems she was kind of a "I'm the best, I'll kick everybody's ass and I don't need anyone's help, I'm a god, I can take on the world on my own" kind of person and she is a power crazy darkin so it does fit. She is saying something like "oh dude I could TOTALLY solo every single darkin! Aatrox? Pffff! I could beat Aatrox with one hand but daaaaamn this aspect of twilight! Well I guess I can't really fight them now BUT if not for this pesky aspect, dude! I would totally win trust me. She practically saved them!" It's kind of like if I said "dude I could totally beat Goku". Naafiri does give off that kind of vibe, at least to me.
I kind of want a Darkin where their entire shtick is they hunt kther Darkin. Not to become more powerful or to take over the world or anything, but just because they got bored with all of the classic Darkin motivations and decided that they wanted to do something new, that being hunting their brothers and sisters because they're really the only thing they know of at the moment that would entertaining to fight
Completely off topic but your voice helps me sleep at all times of the day.I work weird hours and ill need to take naps to recover I’ll put on a lore video and pass out. Good shit man 🤠
They weren't, the story never reinforced or even hinted at this prior to LoR, quite the opposite actually. They all chased their own desires, and hated the rest, they became cruel warmongers with nothing of their former nobility remaining
I like how naafiri darkin weapon is a dagger with an eye and that instead of possessing a human, she possesses a wild animal. Thats pretty bad ass. I also love her adaptive story to it and how she begins to learn with the dog pack. Its a very unique and interesting story. Man riot/league always has interesting story well 90 percent of them are.
Necrit, Ascendeds aren't only in Shurima there are also those who were in Icathia and most of the darkins come from Icathia thanks to LoR confirming that Aatrox was once called the blade of Icathia
Honestly, I took the dogs eating the dagger as a consequence of her decision to call to them instead of to the man carrying her. I've always kind of imagined the Darkin has a minor amount of influence over the people around them... allowing them to persuade more hesitant individuals to becoming their hosts. So, when she called to the hounds, she influenced them to seek power they didn't even know existed... and they took it greedily and happily.
I think Naafiri should be considered an unreliable Narrator when she speaks of her power. The Darkin went mad because of power so it would make sense that each and every one of the Darkin would THINK they were close to becoming leader, even if the reality looks different.
The "Naafiri is really powerfull" part seemed to me as part of her lamenting. Could be that's just how she sees herself. They are pretty mad after all.
I have to say, of all or LoL and LoR- the lore and story and characters of shurima and the dark in are my absolute FAVORITE and i always get so amped when there is new ones
How I personally interpret Naafiri saying she almost lead them, is that she just thinks herself more powerful than she realistically is. Not saying she isn't powerful at all, just that if I were a near immortal god being my ego wud be pretty big, especially after having eons to remember the days when I could take on some of the best of my kin. Like many of the Darkin she probably thought she knew best and wanted to lead her own way. I'd love to see a story where she actually meets the others and has to confront that the other Darkin don't share her ambitions and even treat her as lesser because of her form, maybe even flat out ignoring her.
Nice lore coverage as always! I think many people (especially a friend of mine) are going to be very happy to finally get a new non-human champion into the game.
I feel that the part where it's said she was powerful enough to almost led the darkin is just her mere pride and ambition, her regret glorifying what could have been if she didn't get tricked and trapped like all the others, just the bitter, mournful musings of someone alone with her thoughts and nothing else, like a lone dog, howling.
I was under the impression that her statement about being able to control all the darkin was more of a baseless boost instead of her actually being that powerful.
I think when she says that she almost led the Darkin it is her pride speaking. Its most likely what most of the darkin thought in their hubris. I think this is true because this isnt a narrarator in the 3rd person(an all knowing narrarator) , but a narrarator in the first person(Naafiri) whom has certain biases. Her real strenght is to be determined
Personally also not a fan of how they treated the Darkin weapon as something that can break, BUT it opens up a very interesting new avenue as to why other Darkin weapons haven't been broken: If each piece of the weapon acts as a conduit into the Darkin's mind (and to slip under their control), chances are that a Darkin split over many many pieces would just either reassemble their weapon - assuming their power gets weaker, the more they are split - or that the Darkin would just take over an entire country with their own hivemind, by breaking themself into more and more parts. Could be an interesting way to take a potential Darkin (in LoR or something), where the entire gimmick is that they're a hivemind of a lot of people, that got dominated because they all have a tiny shard of the original weapon on their body somewhere.
I think you have a misconception about Darkin weapon. Those weapons aren't "un-DMG able", but "indestructible". Part of weapon is made literally by Darkin's FLESH, you can look at Aatrox sword with a beating heart, Raast and Naafiri have eye with flesh around it. It had been said Aatrox blade and Raast can change their side, big/small at will. Darkin weapon can be damaged, but because it made with Darkin flesh, the regeneration will never stop.
Doesn't matter how hungry dogs are, they WON'T eat a pipe of metal (remember that the sword the guy used to defend didn't get eaten). They eat Naafiri blade because the flesh, and if you look at Naafiri, the whole blade still there, intact inside pack mother's skull.
It was said that an unimaginable force pulled the immortal souls of the Ascended into their weapons, which were already tools used by Gods. Therefore the fact that a dog can just break them apart is incredibly stupid. The Ascended's weapons are also quite large, since they are too, around twice the height of a normal person. In one of Elise's stories, its mentioned that a Shuriman tomb-raider wields an obisidian sword he looted in the ruins, which is theorised by the guy to only have been a dagger for the huge Ascended
Darkin (Ascended) vs Void rematch? The year that I seem to recall that Bel’Veth claimed she would give the world a bit of hope since she thinks nothing can stop her anyways. Darkin unites (something that might be unthinkable according to Bel’Veth) and fights back the void to save the world (but for their own reason, perhaps to take dominion over it for themselves?).
One thing i do really like about Necrit is the fact that he always make a quick recap of the lore so that even a person who is ignorant of it could catch-up with what's going on..... Have you ever considered working as a history teacher??
About the blade splitting part: what if the hounds just bit into it at the same time, so as they say whoever touches it gets possessed. Idk if the story explicitly says that it shattered because that’s a contradiction, but maybe just an inaccurate recollection of the event.
I think you have a misconception about Darkin weapon. Those weapons aren't "un-DMG able", but "indestructible". Part of weapon is made literally by Darkin's FLESH, you can look at Aatrox sword with a beating heart, Raast and Naafiri have eye with flesh around it. It had been said Aatrox blade and Raast can change their side, big/small at will. Darkin weapon can be damaged, but because it made with Darkin flesh, the regeneration will never stop.
Doesn't matter how hungry dogs are, they WON'T eat a pipe of metal (remember that the sword the guy used to defend didn't get eaten). They eat Naafiri blade because the flesh, and if you look at Naafiri, the whole blade still there, intact inside pack mother's skull.
Somehow the sense of nonachievement, famish and restlessness (plus the fact she's also a four legged mammal - despite being feline) remind me of Zira from the Lion King 2. Plus some Hyena vibes too.. Also, there are some epic visuals that seem to be inspired by The Prince of Egypt too. The feral energy I get from this cinematic makes my blood almost tingly, I'm super excited to see it in game!
I truly feel like the fact that Naafiri is already in shurima is already progressing darkin lore, if I remember correctly both aatrox and varus lore brings up them traveling to shurima and meeting up with at least 3 other darkin, the next darkin release may be a huge event based in shurima
Wrong, the last time we heard from Aatrox was in Pantheon's story, where he was apparently defeated. However what happened to the sword after that is probably not known even by the writers
Now imagine a Darkin Hunter champion. Someone that roams around runeterra stopping the cultists in their ambition of utilizing the darkin blades. Might even have a collection of them and sealing lesser darkins.
It would’ve been cooler if she was actually a weaker Darkin who already had experience using blood magic to make smaller versions of herself and the pack enhanced that in a surprising way for her. Like she had looked down on animals, but experiencing the minds and thoughts of pack animals made her go, “oh, this is so much better.”
so technicly naafari made it that: aatrox became depressed and suicidal rhaast had to babysit (actually gets babysitted) kayn and be used like a toy varus became the fusion of a couple
I think she thinks she was really powerful and close to uniting all, but she is absolutely mad so it is possible that this was simply her madness and not the truth.
Be a sand farming peasant > Decide to become a warrior for the empire > Be so damn good, you're chosen to ascend > Your leader dies and you go mad > Some wimpy twilight traps you in a weapon > You get turned into a weapon > You get stolen by a dog > You corrupt the dog and fuse yourself with it > Congratulations instead of becoming a God you became a Dog.
I feel the more host one have to more control they have over madness Like her and Varus are very much in their right mind when approaching issues versus carnage without intent
what matters to me is whether naafiri can push the lore forwards and not just a missing piece to the darkin story
Makes sense but in lol we have two types of lore champions the champions who don't push the lore: Naafiri, blitz, hecarim, vayne, taric, pike and a lot of others. And the ones who push: Zoe, ekko, zillean, aatrox, leblanc, viego, thresh and a lot of other champions.
For me it makes sense that some champions don,t push the lore and some others push, like imagine how fast the lore would end if all the champions pushed it.
@abelyoramandradesilva3749 bro the lore will never end. Imagine a novel with 12 chapters and how many events happen in such a novel.we littarly are in chapter 1. We never explored ryze, like that guy alone has insane story potential with many possible encounters with characters. And demacia noxus piltover shurima and the island of ionia. How isn't this lore infinitely explorable with infinite possible encounters and events. There could be an event where all of the nations gets to defend the world from one big threat to the world of runterra despite all their fights and wars between them. This is just an idea i came with on the spot. Like aliens that come to runterra to gather magic and it's whole new champion type. The lore objectively can't end and it's so unexploited right now.
Every champion Pushed Lore in some way. (Maybe not Mundo)
Taric told us how it looks when you climb Mount Targon
Zoe is concept of "What if Celestial beings were more human and less serious?"
Kayle and Morgana - beggining of Demacia and "What is aspect has children?"
Naafiri and K'Sante in their stories told us that even ANIMALS can be Ascended/Darkin
LeBlanc stories in some way pushed forward the Lore but in some way she just unvailed little stuff that already happened while setting few more question marks.
WHOLE ruination event pushed the world forward with each conected champion evolving trough it.
Fiddle became primordial great demon, first of 10, Nilah is wielding power from second of their kind.
Gwen and Lillia are new type of creature not fully a spirit not fully a real person - more like animated wish of something bigger or stronger
Milio didn't gave a lot but still he gave some champions(Zyra, Qiyana, Neeko, Nidalee) place to settle in timeline.
Vex is exact oposite of every Yordle we already have. She reveals that Yordles as spirits cannot die. Every Yordle is somewhat personification of concept or archetype. They are immortal and obsesed about something so they become IT. That means they are kind of "unfixable" they will be themselved no matter what. That's why Yordles look liek caricature of their chosen persona Tristana is soldier, Heimer is more about thinking than doing, Lulu wants to "Do magic!" even tho it works 50/50, Vex seems to be depressed 24/7 but still some good feelings spark trough. Just like Veigar tries to be evil but he can't - even Mordekaiser didn't turn him on his side.
EVERY champion adds something to the table.
@@fantasticalthoughts hey man makes a lot of sense what u said but they are already making the start of the end. There is the void in the lore that is equivalent to the aliens and sadly the riot games creator of the game is already going to an end of the lore like the rushed one of the worst world enemy( viego) and im feeling that for some sad reason they are gona rush the attack of the void that probably will be in 2 or 4 years in the future
@@fantasticalthoughts u can not make a good story if you just put things together.
I actually think the lines talking about how powerful she is isn't actually reality, but that is her own perception of herself. She thought she as an individual was powerful and could kill or rule all others. But then she realized that this way of thinking was flawed to begin with.
Because every Darkin thought the same about themselves was why they lost.
I had the same interpretation🤝
spot on my guy
Yeah I thought of the same thing
I had the same idea. Felt less like her actual power among the Darkin and more just her own ego.
Basically, I imagine Atroxx has the same opinion of himself. And when sealed i bet he was saying “I was so close to ending those other idiots!! How did I let this happen?!” Just like Doglady here.
I like the idea that she didn’t “almost lead the darkin” because she was powerful, but because she was smart and tactical.
Imagine naafiri just coming up with an amazing plan but aatrox ran in 5 mins ago and Xolaani is playing with blood and whispering to herself. It could be tho that she was a tactician.
Nah, that's just her coping mechanism.
@@josiahlewis5838 AAAAATROOOOX JENKINS!
@zema9401 oh god he just ran in *enemy double kill!*
@@zema9401 gwen gaming
riot showed us that they can still make simple champions with good lore and designs
It looks like a jungle camp monster.
@@tony-cotterellisyou can pet her
All is forgiven
@@tony-cotterellis🤓🤓🤓
@@tony-cotterellis it doesn't
and make them stupidly broken
We need a cinematic that pits Naafiri against Yuumi
Dawnbringer and nightbringer skins!
@@bengorohagrid859Nightbringer Yuumi
and the result is yuumi being deleted from league. Good idea
Nature is Metal style, right?
@@crisscore157I second this
I think the lore description of Naafiri's power was based in her own opinion of herself. It _is_ written in third person, but the words used to talk about her feel so personal and intimate, like the narrator is more focused on telling us how she feels, not stating the facts
The 3rd person narrator being herself also makes sense because she's no longer 1 entity, but a pack.
do you think maybe the lore description of xerath as traitorous short sighted scum was written in azir's perspective?
there only 2 most powerful darkin in the lore so Nafiri being the 3rd strongest is just capping on her part.
"Dude I could TOTALLY beat Aatrox this goddamn aspect of twilight saved his ass so bad! Sooo unlucky man!" ~Naafiri
The release of Sett in 2020 truly shattered my expectations and left an indelible mark on my mind.
You could even say that he suplexed and W'd the entire League community.
I was taking a break, was it that bad?
@@danielwoods3896 i think it was that good, prpbably riot has been releasing Complicated champions in a row that sett just feels Like a perfect change
@@danielwoods3896huh? They were praising Sett's impact to the Runeterra lore.
how they have zolani 's picture. is that a real champ?
Well, to be fair even she say she is the most powerful doesn’t mean she was. Everyone was fighting for power and leadership, so in their minds they were all the most powerful and deserving of uniting the Darkin.
About Naafiri being especially powerful and having "almost" led the Darkin
During the story I interpreted that as her subjective opinion and thought it was a quite spot-on detail
Since the story is written from Naafiri's point of view, as a Darkin, it makes a lot of sense that she would believe she was "that close" to rule them all, wouldn't it?
I agree. Besides, all Darkin are ridiculously powerful; half of the reason they needed to be sealed away
I thought the same, her story is about she leaving her ego to embrace the "pack" thinking so it makes sense that she thought of herself as the most powerful darkin and best suited to lead the other... Just like the other darking xD
The bio's are always written from a narrator's perspective, however since in this scenario the narrator describes her thoughts, what you said is indeed correct
Ok, can I talk about how the lore team really made their homework? Because the lore incorporated the idea of how the dune hounds are an apex predators together, just like african wild dogs in real life, one dog is just... A dog, but a whole pack are the scariest thing in the savannah, lions and hyenas go out of their way to kill a pack member, just because how dangerous they are.
MAN I LOVE NAAFIRI
Naafiri when she meets yuumi: *finally, a worthy opponent. Our battle will be legendary*
This is just a thought. Maybe instead of being actually powerful enough to rule the darkins, Nafiri was only relatively powerful, and her claiming she could lead them is just her overconfidence speaking. It is mentioned that she is ambitious, and in my opinion, most ambitious people are also overconfident.
You have such a great way of making lore entertaining, even to people like myself who don't really seek it out or care for it much. Good stuff as always
Yep, btw you could take a little inspiration there and try theme (lore accurate) team comps with FFS. Just a single problem either convincing others there to watch some lore or to try to fake you know it XD.
I got the impression that the emphasis on Naafiri's power was more of a nod to the general arrogance the darkin all seem to posses rather than directly referring to their canon strength.
i feel like naafiri WANTED to be picked up by a host, waiting for whatever living thing would grasp it, so she willingly separated parts of the weapon while being VERY confused of becoming one with not just one, but multiple vessels. that would leave anyone completely disoriented
Literally every single darkin want nothing more than for a host to pick them up. Obviously? It literally even says in her lore that she called out to the hounds, so they could kill the guy and Naafiri could take over him that way. Every single darkin want to be picked up by a host. lmfao.
How can she even know there is a way out of the prison? Aatrox had no idea he can control others when they pick him up, so how does Naafiri know about it? Was she used before, if so why was that never mentioned in the story?
I think the idea of Naafiri being powerful enough to lead the darkin is all in her head. Like some of the other darkin, she vied for leadership and believed that she deserved to be in control because she believed she was the strongest. It turns into a story of a massive ego humbled into looking at the power dynamics from a different perspective.
can we take a moment to appreciate that he will tell the lore over and over again for us and new viewers even tho he doesnt have to. Really appreciate this kind of effort man
4:45 It was never explicit said that the souls of the Darkin were sealed inside the Chalicar, the "reverse ascension" Ta'anari did with the reflection of the moon on the glass amphitheater seemed to actually killed the Ascended present there because the process of ascension was apparently reverted, Ta'anari even said to Myisha that he was mortal once more before being betrayed by her, she then used the chalicar to cut open his chest and used his heart to create the first Darkin weapon (that supposedly still exists)
That's my interpretation at least...
We don't know what did she end up doing with his heart, but the rest of what you said is correct. The Chalicar is a powerful magical weapon, which of course Sivir can't really exploit. However they couldn't really make Ta'anari into a Darkin and they honestly had no need to, as he got reverted back to his mortal form.
Apparently this moonfire ritual couldn't be used to defeat the rest of the Darkin, thats why they resorted to the sealing method. Some were perhaps so powerful they couldn't have defeated otherwise. This mishap from Necrit is not surprising in the slightest, though
Since the story is from Naafiri’s point of view, it could be that every Darkin thought they where the most powerfull and close to leading everyone else, not just Naafiri being another very powerful Darkin
Always happy to see lore videos on champions with more lore than Shaco!
So any champion?
@@thesolarhunter exactly
That's not a very high bar to set, I don't think Shaco even exists in lore right now
@@jsc1jake512 and you would be correct
I think Naafiri's hype is most likely that high because all champions weren't having a proper event to introduce them (Except Viego, tho it was catastrophic, he stilled was hyped)
But Naafiri remind us of the Darkin Even that is yet to come, thus the hype I think, and not Naafiri itself.
Hey, remember when they fundamentally changed all the rules of the Void by releasing a character and then did absolutely nothing with it because of course the shittiest batch of Star Guardians to ever be thinked up should take the spotlight instead?
I'm not hyped for some event, I'm hyped for the puppy
Darkins and their lore is popular among the players. So it's not that surprising that a solid Darkin character would also become popular.
Event? I lost all faith of events last year😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁
Got a HOT feeling that this story continues in LoR someday! The darkin ballista could be the first darkin that she encounters!
Oh boy, dog vs chicken. Who will be roasted the most by Aatrox?
@@kalebriss one day we'll find out!
Took a while but finally feel like we got another Champ that fits perfectly. She is also the first simple champion in a long time not with an overloaded kit like everyone seem to have now. She is interesting cause she seems to want to unite her kin well the rest of the darkin are just off doing their own things. If she could unite her Kin they could get revenge on Xolaani
Good narrative yes but her kit is over tuned the bleed and true sight from a press dumb
Let the bleed go away for true sight on Q mark
0:31 why is this an issue? i find it pretty funny and creative that some random animal gets a strong artifact that turns it into an apex predator and nothing more.
To me this creates a new path for future darkness story lines because the text makes it sound like naafiri has shaken off her madness at least a bit via the pack wisdom could lead to like so many outcomes It feels like her plot line could change so much that the only thing holding her back is lack of character development seeing as her only goal right now is: find darkin
When the story talks about Naafiri being one of the most powerful darkin and that she could lead the rest, I think it means that this is, in her madness and lust for power, what Naafiri thinks. It fits me less about the dogs taking the dagger. Still I don't see why she couldn't be one of the most powerful, after all those who have awakened have done so by chance, not because of their power.
Riot didn't confirm she was strong enough to beat aatrox. She did. Doesn't mean it's true. She could just be really overconfident. I like that.
Just noticed now that the shape of the dagger is literally on the "leader" creature's face, the ear being the handle, we can see it at 10:20
I'd love to see the original forms of the darkin sometime.
You can see in the cinematic how the raider is trying to pick the blade up before the hounds but is unsuccessful
I think the "really strong" and "almost ruled" part is essential for all the darkin
Naafiri's story and cinematic is sick, I love it
I'm not much of a LOL person but I adore this character concept and the story is fantastic imo
0:07 I thought we were pretty unified about Renata as well? Awesome Lore, Incredible design, good kit with a strong ult. I'd say, she was received very well (but maybe i'm just a delusional Renata main XD)
I mean, she had potential. And then they did absolutely nothing with her.
@@Ronan-ht6jc same with Bel'veth
Lets hope for Arcane Season 2
12:45 for the sake of immersion I'm writing that part of the story off as Naafiri stoking her own ego, she is obviously subservient to Aatrox otherewise she wouldn't have followed his memo
Every struggle nafiri has trying to get her allies to be alongside eachother is justice and its interesting you said it was rushed given how I've seen things irl. So many left behind cuz they are not good enough when everything is everything for everything to have everything and to leave anything behind is to accept nothing as a result. Whether we all unite or not is not the question, do you think the time is worth connection or a lesson about why it is connection?
The part where it says she almost led the Darkin was from Naafiri's perspect8ive. It tells us she got quite the ego, like all Darkin seem to have.
Personally, I think Naafiri talking to herself about how powerful she was and how she almost ruled all the darkin is just her ego. From her story, it seems she was kind of a "I'm the best, I'll kick everybody's ass and I don't need anyone's help, I'm a god, I can take on the world on my own" kind of person and she is a power crazy darkin so it does fit. She is saying something like "oh dude I could TOTALLY solo every single darkin! Aatrox? Pffff! I could beat Aatrox with one hand but daaaaamn this aspect of twilight! Well I guess I can't really fight them now BUT if not for this pesky aspect, dude! I would totally win trust me. She practically saved them!" It's kind of like if I said "dude I could totally beat Goku". Naafiri does give off that kind of vibe, at least to me.
I kind of want a Darkin where their entire shtick is they hunt kther Darkin. Not to become more powerful or to take over the world or anything, but just because they got bored with all of the classic Darkin motivations and decided that they wanted to do something new, that being hunting their brothers and sisters because they're really the only thing they know of at the moment that would entertaining to fight
Completely off topic but your voice helps me sleep at all times of the day.I work weird hours and ill need to take naps to recover I’ll put on a lore video and pass out. Good shit man 🤠
I’ve heard this man explain the shuriman empire more times than I can count but love it everytime
Sounds like the darkin were split into multiple factions after Asir’s death and Naafiri and Aatrox were the leaders of some of these factions.
Xolaani and Aatrox were among the 2 biggest faction leaders from what I know. Any other factions were of smaller scale and lesser impact.
They weren't, the story never reinforced or even hinted at this prior to LoR, quite the opposite actually. They all chased their own desires, and hated the rest, they became cruel warmongers with nothing of their former nobility remaining
12:57 to me that part just feels like ego on Naafiri’s part, she sees herself as one of, if not the most powerful darkin.
I like how naafiri darkin weapon is a dagger with an eye and that instead of possessing a human, she possesses a wild animal. Thats pretty bad ass. I also love her adaptive story to it and how she begins to learn with the dog pack. Its a very unique and interesting story. Man riot/league always has interesting story well 90 percent of them are.
Necrit, Ascendeds aren't only in Shurima there are also those who were in Icathia and most of the darkins come from Icathia thanks to LoR confirming that Aatrox was once called the blade of Icathia
Honestly, I took the dogs eating the dagger as a consequence of her decision to call to them instead of to the man carrying her. I've always kind of imagined the Darkin has a minor amount of influence over the people around them... allowing them to persuade more hesitant individuals to becoming their hosts. So, when she called to the hounds, she influenced them to seek power they didn't even know existed... and they took it greedily and happily.
I think Naafiri should be considered an unreliable Narrator when she speaks of her power. The Darkin went mad because of power so it would make sense that each and every one of the Darkin would THINK they were close to becoming leader, even if the reality looks different.
The "Naafiri is really powerfull" part seemed to me as part of her lamenting. Could be that's just how she sees herself. They are pretty mad after all.
Naafiri: these dogs useless
Hounds: [borks]
Naafiri: I see, you are wise beyond words.
that TLDR explainer would be a fire animated series like Arcane. League lore bout to be pop culture soon if they could produce it fast enough
I have to say, of all or LoL and LoR- the lore and story and characters of shurima and the dark in are my absolute FAVORITE and i always get so amped when there is new ones
14:26 Oh wow, holy, I didn't even think about that lolololol.
One Darkin left for a support role and the Darkin Team is complete.
How I personally interpret Naafiri saying she almost lead them, is that she just thinks herself more powerful than she realistically is. Not saying she isn't powerful at all, just that if I were a near immortal god being my ego wud be pretty big, especially after having eons to remember the days when I could take on some of the best of my kin. Like many of the Darkin she probably thought she knew best and wanted to lead her own way. I'd love to see a story where she actually meets the others and has to confront that the other Darkin don't share her ambitions and even treat her as lesser because of her form, maybe even flat out ignoring her.
Nice lore coverage as always! I think many people (especially a friend of mine) are going to be very happy to finally get a new non-human champion into the game.
Smartest man in shurima, picking up eldritch weapons with a long stick and wrapping it in thick (even LEAD-LINED) cloth
oh woah, I had completely forgotten about Omen until you brought his image up lmao!! YEP, WE FINALLY GOT HIM! (a her now)
I feel that the part where it's said she was powerful enough to almost led the darkin is just her mere pride and ambition, her regret glorifying what could have been if she didn't get tricked and trapped like all the others, just the bitter, mournful musings of someone alone with her thoughts and nothing else, like a lone dog, howling.
Everytime Nasus kills Naafiri he better say "what have I done?" And when they see each other they say "what da dog doin"
The story didn't say she WAS a really powerful and almost took over the Darkin.
She THOUGHT she was.
Like every other Darkin.
the whole line about her "leading the Darkkin" could just be her hubris about how she perceived the war against the other Darkkins.
I like how she seems to be the solution to all this chaos
My dog has eaten so many things that the pack eating the dagger just seemed like common sense to me
i read the "she was strong and was going to be the leader" as her pov and her view - not actually being one of the strongest, but feeling like it
Im just glad they finally made a monster champ after so long.
I was under the impression that her statement about being able to control all the darkin was more of a baseless boost instead of her actually being that powerful.
Imagine if Xolaani gets Silco-ed and she is replaced by Naafiri down to her goals even.
Like how Silco was basically replaced by Renata.
It's been so long since we've gotten to hear necrit talk about league lore
I think when she says that she almost led the Darkin it is her pride speaking. Its most likely what most of the darkin thought in their hubris. I think this is true because this isnt a narrarator in the 3rd person(an all knowing narrarator) , but a narrarator in the first person(Naafiri) whom has certain biases. Her real strenght is to be determined
Rhaast before: immna kick zuyan's ass
Rhaast now: aaaa edgy boi too powerful
Been waiting on this video. But she’s a pretty solid character
she is hype because her entire kit brings us back to the good old days of 2016~2018 but most importantly you can pet the doggo.
A Necrit lore video? In this lore economy?
We're blessed.
Personally also not a fan of how they treated the Darkin weapon as something that can break, BUT it opens up a very interesting new avenue as to why other Darkin weapons haven't been broken:
If each piece of the weapon acts as a conduit into the Darkin's mind (and to slip under their control), chances are that a Darkin split over many many pieces would just either reassemble their weapon - assuming their power gets weaker, the more they are split - or that the Darkin would just take over an entire country with their own hivemind, by breaking themself into more and more parts. Could be an interesting way to take a potential Darkin (in LoR or something), where the entire gimmick is that they're a hivemind of a lot of people, that got dominated because they all have a tiny shard of the original weapon on their body somewhere.
I think you have a misconception about Darkin weapon. Those weapons aren't "un-DMG able", but "indestructible". Part of weapon is made literally by Darkin's FLESH, you can look at Aatrox sword with a beating heart, Raast and Naafiri have eye with flesh around it. It had been said Aatrox blade and Raast can change their side, big/small at will. Darkin weapon can be damaged, but because it made with Darkin flesh, the regeneration will never stop.
Doesn't matter how hungry dogs are, they WON'T eat a pipe of metal (remember that the sword the guy used to defend didn't get eaten). They eat Naafiri blade because the flesh, and if you look at Naafiri, the whole blade still there, intact inside pack mother's skull.
The dagger is not broken. It’s literally on her face. Look at the red part of the left half of her face.
It was said that an unimaginable force pulled the immortal souls of the Ascended into their weapons, which were already tools used by Gods. Therefore the fact that a dog can just break them apart is incredibly stupid. The Ascended's weapons are also quite large, since they are too, around twice the height of a normal person.
In one of Elise's stories, its mentioned that a Shuriman tomb-raider wields an obisidian sword he looted in the ruins, which is theorised by the guy to only have been a dagger for the huge Ascended
Naafiri: complains about her new tick-infested and smelly vessel
Naganeka: cluck cluck
Me on my way to listen to Darkins' lore again for the 968th time at 3 A.M.
Dang necrit out did him self.. this is a very good summary of the lore of the darkin and ascended, and i only came for naairi
Darkin (Ascended) vs Void rematch? The year that I seem to recall that Bel’Veth claimed she would give the world a bit of hope since she thinks nothing can stop her anyways. Darkin unites (something that might be unthinkable according to Bel’Veth) and fights back the void to save the world (but for their own reason, perhaps to take dominion over it for themselves?).
Icathia really said to Shurima, "F*ck around and find out."
Very informative, Thank you Necrit.
12:40
The story is from Naafiri's perspective, so it is possible that she's just be very prideful and thinks that she was that powerful.
I look forward to hearing AAtrox´s new voice lines
I dont think thats happening anytime soon
They don’t tend to add lines to old champs when they introduce new ones.
One thing i do really like about Necrit is the fact that he always make a quick recap of the lore so that even a person who is ignorant of it could catch-up with what's going on.....
Have you ever considered working as a history teacher??
About the blade splitting part: what if the hounds just bit into it at the same time, so as they say whoever touches it gets possessed. Idk if the story explicitly says that it shattered because that’s a contradiction, but maybe just an inaccurate recollection of the event.
I think you have a misconception about Darkin weapon. Those weapons aren't "un-DMG able", but "indestructible". Part of weapon is made literally by Darkin's FLESH, you can look at Aatrox sword with a beating heart, Raast and Naafiri have eye with flesh around it. It had been said Aatrox blade and Raast can change their side, big/small at will. Darkin weapon can be damaged, but because it made with Darkin flesh, the regeneration will never stop.
Doesn't matter how hungry dogs are, they WON'T eat a pipe of metal (remember that the sword the guy used to defend didn't get eaten). They eat Naafiri blade because the flesh, and if you look at Naafiri, the whole blade still there, intact inside pack mother's skull.
It could be that Nafiri's line about almost leading the Darkin is just arrogant bluster.
Vienna sausage in pants joke hilarious 😂....keep em comming!
Somehow the sense of nonachievement, famish and restlessness (plus the fact she's also a four legged mammal - despite being feline) remind me of Zira from the Lion King 2. Plus some Hyena vibes too..
Also, there are some epic visuals that seem to be inspired by The Prince of Egypt too.
The feral energy I get from this cinematic makes my blood almost tingly, I'm super excited to see it in game!
I truly feel like the fact that Naafiri is already in shurima is already progressing darkin lore, if I remember correctly both aatrox and varus lore brings up them traveling to shurima and meeting up with at least 3 other darkin, the next darkin release may be a huge event based in shurima
Wrong, the last time we heard from Aatrox was in Pantheon's story, where he was apparently defeated. However what happened to the sword after that is probably not known even by the writers
Loved the whole presentation of her cinematic
Well done again, @Necrit!
This vaguely reminds me of Anubis from Jojo's bizarre Adventure, with how she whispers to humans and animals to pick her up so she can possess them.
Now imagine a Darkin Hunter champion. Someone that roams around runeterra stopping the cultists in their ambition of utilizing the darkin blades. Might even have a collection of them and sealing lesser darkins.
It would’ve been cooler if she was actually a weaker Darkin who already had experience using blood magic to make smaller versions of herself and the pack enhanced that in a surprising way for her. Like she had looked down on animals, but experiencing the minds and thoughts of pack animals made her go, “oh, this is so much better.”
Hey necrit love the videos and i cant wait for you to do a video on her interactions with the other legends and the lore behind it
To be fair, everyone was pretty united on release Rell.
Before the midscope, the utterance of her name would be met with a resounding *"Who?"*
I've never read lore but that tl;dr was frickin epic
so technicly naafari made it that:
aatrox became depressed and suicidal
rhaast had to babysit (actually gets babysitted) kayn and be used like a toy
varus became the fusion of a couple
I think she thinks she was really powerful and close to uniting all, but she is absolutely mad so it is possible that this was simply her madness and not the truth.
just came up with the though. Imange getting a Ascended camp who turns into a Darkin as Ultimate or slowly by each level. Would be kinda sick
Be a sand farming peasant > Decide to become a warrior for the empire > Be so damn good, you're chosen to ascend > Your leader dies and you go mad > Some wimpy twilight traps you in a weapon > You get turned into a weapon > You get stolen by a dog > You corrupt the dog and fuse yourself with it > Congratulations instead of becoming a God you became a Dog.
I feel the more host one have to more control they have over madness
Like her and Varus are very much in their right mind when approaching issues versus carnage without intent