User blog comment:Emptylord/Leaked Champion: Vel'Koz/@comment-5489694-20140124182201

SHUMA-GORATH! ^o^

I don't think the tentacles in the splash arts are Vel'Koz. Kassadin's splash is tied to The Void but for the tendrils to be directly tied to Vel'Koz that'd mean Vel'Koz had been in ~development for about 3 years and that's a really long time. [How long was Vi in ~development or w/e I'm trying to say].. Now that I look at the Hired Gun splash I can sort of see it as Lucian fighting the Battlecast Vel'Koz (if that's Vel in Cho's splash) but at the same time there's a large amount of tentacles in the picture so it may just be nothing or something we don't know about yet.

The gate with the giant lock is definitely a 'prison' of sorts. I'm guessing the gate to the gate was locked by Avarosa or Lissandra when the Iceborns and Avarosa felled the Watchers. I've heard that Liss goes on a rant about Avarosa and the Watchers or something after a game on the Howling Abyss but I've never heard it myself (I don't own Liss).