User blog comment:Emptylord/Blogs/Time-themed abilities/@comment-5514182-20131220064303/@comment-3974211-20131222142456

I want to preserve his theme to, to the best of my ability anyway. I actually used Xerath as my inspiration for Rewind - combining both Rewind and Chronosphere into a single ability, the rewind-time-revival.

Remember that in Zilean's current lore he is a seer and a sorcerer, not a time traveller. His choice to use time-themed abilities is because he's mad. It'd be nice to capture an element of being a seer into his kit, as well as the time-theme. The passive on Rewind was initially an innate, Chronodisplasia, but I felt being able to see where you were 7 seconds ago wasn't really strong enough to be his main innate ability - the theme of his consciousness lagging felt very good thematically, though.