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[–]synesthesiatic[S] 63 points64 points  (16 children)

Oo. If I do a splash art for her I maaaay take the gun out and go with the AP mage thing.

[–]BigJammy 285 points286 points  (15 children)

She was inside Thresh lantern as a human, too weak to escape without her gun, but strong enough to not be completely consumed. This peculiar situation intrigued Vel'Koz, who wanted to study her as a human between life and death, but Thresh would have never allowed that.

So Vel'koz and Senna made a pact: she partially surrendered to the Void to get enough power to escape the lantern and keep on with her mission to destroy the undead creatures of the Shadow Isles, but in exchange she had to let Vel'koz study her.

Now she's free, but she's no more a mere human, she's more. She's the conjuction link between human and void, a true hunter whose power come out only when she's fighting. She's no more the woman Lucian used to know and love. He will never forgive Thresh for capturing her, and Vel'Koz for corrupting her. Now she's a monster fighting monsters. The half void woman.

tl;dr: Senna is an half-void mage who fights undeads.

[–]MelcorScarr 13 points14 points  (14 children)

While it is well written and well thought through...

this is exactly what Kassadin is right at the moment.

PS: For clarity, it is often assumed that Kassadin is a being or harbinger or whatever of the Void. In truth, he actually tries to hinder the void from invading runeterra, since he has seen the evil that came from it.

[–]BigJammy 11 points12 points  (13 children)

Yes and no. From Kassadin lore we know he was once a human, who fought the void and survived, but his relationship with Vel'Koz is not really friendly. Vel'koz has two lines about Kass:

"A man who survived the void? Implausible."

"An evolution of man and void. How unusual."

From these we can get a few things: Vel'Koz doesn't know how Kassadin became what he is now, so he doesn't understand how Kassadin preserved his human mind and why he's fighting against the void, even if he himself is a creature of the void.

Vel'Koz life is devoted to knowledge, so he sees Senna as an opportunity to study the transition of a human into the void, while keeping her on his side. Kassadin saw the void, fought it and survived to protect Valoran from it, while Senna embraced the void to use it.

[–]unlockedshrine[BEST GERRIT EU] (EU-W) 8 points9 points  (8 children)

Malzahar surrendered to/embraced the void too, if I'm not mistaken.

[–]Killm360[🍰] 9 points10 points  (7 children)

Nope he was in a desert and was kneeling down to an obelisk thus granting him vision of the void consuming everything in the future and granting him power

[–]shotgun_ninja 5 points6 points  (3 children)

This sounds more and more like Lovecraft all the time.

[–]Vrapcor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I realized that too as I was reading. They should make a crossbred human and Void champ like Innsmouth.

[–]Bbqbones 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Reminds me of something I read about Carcosa. The theory that its a universe which hasn't been born yet, but is trying to be born early through our universe.

[–]7deTreboles 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The void lore is all lovecraft-inspired

[–]unlockedshrine[BEST GERRIT EU] (EU-W) 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, and he decided to become the prophet of the void, so he embraced it.

[–]raw_dog_md -1 points0 points  (1 child)

Why do people know stuff like this :o

[–]Killm360[🍰] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I re read his lore actually :P

[–]MelcorScarr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But in the end, they are both the same for me, the conjunction between humanity and the Void. For me, it does not matter if you are willingly embracing the shadow to fight the shadow or if you do not want to embrace the shadow that is about to influence you to keep on fighting the shadow.

In the end, you have the shadow in you and fight the shadow...

But I guess this is one of the discussions where neither of us should and could win. We have our opinions, I respect yours, and while I'd love more "tons of lore", I doubt this kind of thing is realizable on the scale of lore-telling Riot is at in the moment, as the fine line between Kassadin and Senna in your proposal is indeed too thin.

If Riot was able to heavily improve their lore- and storytelling... hell yeah, you are right. At the moment... the differences are not big enough to emphasize on.

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[–]BigJammy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

[–]Mischx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The only problem is that the Void and the Shadow Isles aren't the same thing...