Icathia City

Icathia City was the capital of Icathia, before its fall.

Lore
A great and terrible battle was fought against the Void before the walls of ancient Icathia. In the aftermath, the lands all around the damned city became deserted wastes, and its very existence was struck from the maps of Shurima. It was hoped, perhaps foolishly, that the horrors unleashed there would eventually be forgotten.

Other Related Champions

 * was one of the Ascended that had fought against the Icathians at the Battle of Icathia.
 * probable point of entry to Runeterra.
 * emerged from the Void near Icathia.
 * ventured into the Void through Icathia's Void Rift.
 * probable point of entry to Runeterra.
 * probable point of entry to Runeterra.
 * origin of power and location where he ventured into the Void.
 * fought multiple voidborn near Icathia in the past.
 * probable point of entry to Runeterra.
 * fought multiple voidborn near Icathia in the past.
 * fought his master in Icathia to prevent the use of two World Runes.
 * tribe originally lived near the Void rift of Icathia.
 * fought multiple voidborn near Icathia in the past.
 * probable point of entry to Runeterra.
 * traveled to Icathia in search for her Master, Norra.

Shuriman Subjugation
Axamuk, the last of the Mage Kings, was the final ruler to fall before the Shuriman Sun Empress when she led her golden host of men and gods into the kingdom of Icathia. Ever since then over thousands of years Icathia was a vassal state controlled by Shurima, its people subjugated and enslaved. The ruins of its cities walls stood as a reminder to their defeat.

Fall of Icathia


During the last days of Icathia, the once noble warrior order of Kohari was rebuilt to retake the city. The city had been filled with screams, as baying crowds chased down and murdered every Shuriman official they could find. Resentment for centuries of humiliating laws intended to eradicate Icathian culture—and brutal executions for breaking those laws—came to a head in one blood-filled day of violence. It didn’t matter that most of these people were merely scriveners, merchants and tithe-takers. All servants of the Sun-Emperor were killed.

Sun disc effigies were pulled from rooftops and smashed by cheering crowds. Shuriman scriptwork was burned and their treasuries looted. The statues of dead emperors were desecrated.

A day after the massacre, an army of stonewrights, laborers and thaumaturges were hefting giant blocks of freshly hewn granite into place of the cities ruined walls with windlass mechanisms that crackled with magic. Ten thousand men and women were conscripted to defend the city, clad in armor of boiled leather and armed with axes, picks, and spears. Three blocks of deep-ranked infantry formed the bulk of their line. Shuriman corpses were impaled upon wooden stakes driven into the earth at its base, and flocks of carrion birds circled overhead. A silken pavilion of crimson and indigo had been raised at its summit. Robed priests surrounded it, each one weaving intricate patterns in the air with their star-metal staves.

The Sun Emperor turned his gaze upon this rebellious satrapy and marched east. It's five armies consisted of tens of thousands of men, riders on golden mounted cahriots ahead of the army. Heavy wagons the size of river barques bore strange war-machines that resembled navigational astrolabes; spinning globes orbited by flaming spheres and crackling lightning. Robed priests came with them, each with a flame-topped staff and an entourage of blinded slaves. At the heart of the army were the god-warriors. Nine Ascended (between them ,, Shabeke, Shabaka, Ta'anari and Enakai) lead by their leader Setaka, were armored in bronze and jade.

The battle was long and bloody, the Icathians would have been overrun by Shurimas might of their army and their god-warriors if not for the combined power of their mages. What happened next sealed Icathias fate. The pavilion exploded with forking traceries of light. Arcing loops of purple energy ripped into the sky and lashed down like crashing waves. The force of the blast threw everyone to the ground. The sky, once bright and blue, was now the color of a week-old bruise. Unnatural twilight held sway. A nightmarish light, sickly blue and ugly purple, smothered the world, pressing down from above and blooming up from somewhere far below.

An abyss that bled purple light tore open amid the Shurimans, and Setaka was overcome by whipping cords of matter. She fought to free herself with wild sweeps of her blade, but the power of the Void proved too much for her. The pulsing, glowing light spread over her body like a hideous cocoon. Slick coils rising from the earth, or from the very air itself, to seize the flesh of mortals. Men and women were swept up and enveloped, bodies dissolve as the tendrils of foul energy overwhelmed them.

Aftermath
At the end of the battle the territory where Icathia once stood became a Void taken wasteland from where the forces of the Void attacked every lifeform it encountered. The Shuriman Ascended fought against it for years, many god-warriors and even more mortals died at this war, but though the heroic actions of Horok, who found a way to end Void corruption destroying the Void hearts found far below the ground, where unknowabeastle horrors were hidden, the Ascended were able to seal the greatest rifts.

On a battle to seal an ocean rift on the eastern coast, Sypahx and Ta'anari fought for ten days and nights and were able to drive the Void back after the death of seven thousand Shuriman warriors died on the red shore. Only the Ascended heroes returned alive.

In the great battle to seal the Great Rfit of Icathia, Sabeke and Sabake, twins ravens Ascended had teir minds shattered with a glimpse of the Watchers. Even though those were some of the most affected, all the Sunborn(self given name to the Ascended who survived the war) lost something on that victory. Nightmarish memories of this war would haunt them and reinforce their fall into Darkin.

Locations

 * Zilean's Tower: A building displaced in time due to elemental meddling with time.

Trivia

 * Icathia may be based off a lost Arabian city named :
 * which has been mentioned in the Quran, and later on became a significant subject in H. P. Lovecraft fictional works.
 * As such, many void related elements in LoL's lore appears to draw inspiration from Lovecraft. Malzahar finding Icathia parallels with Lovecraftian character Abdul Al'hazred finding Iram.
 * The name Icathia resembles:
 * Pre-Greek, from Phoenician , lit. "old town > colony", from root ʕ-t-q "age".
 * Lovecraft's fictional planet, from Arabic , from root ɣ-w-θ "help" (> Hebrew יְעוּשׁ Yeʕuš)