Talk:Sylas/@comment-24971427-20190109020447/@comment-7709681-20190109024600

Camille added up because finally gave depth to Piltover, and Xayah and Rakan not too much as it was the Vastayan Field Journal that came alongside them, so being thankful for them in respect of enriching the lore is more incidental than anything else, as otherwise they are self-contained and don't interact with anything important other than the Order of Shadows.

Kaisa didn't add up to the lore at all, rather is contradicting and invalidates everything and everyone related to her and the Void (and a bit later, Kassadin was retconned into a nomad Batman with Void-cancer for a revenge that doesn't make sense), made worse with the Watcher's retcon last year (which in on itself brought equally bad issues) with The Eye in the Abyss. The stories that came alongside her release that didn't had to do with her however, specially Where Icathia Once Stood, did add up to the lore in tenfolds.

Pyke and Sylas have attractive and very exploitable themes, but their lore are just... meh. Inmortal cursed pirate with a blacklist? Fisher swallowed by fishes with magical guts so that he could become "literally to hateful to die" and speak of interesting stuff that unfortunately lead to no resolution. A mage used as a trackdog to hunt other mages while plotting how to escape and start a mage revolution for revenge? He wouldn't be relevant to become a champion without the convenient help of a thirsty blonde mage.

Visually, much like Kaisa, he seem to be designed more for blatand fanservice more than narrative purposes, because otherwise the way he was imprisoned doesn't make much sense.

And if you hear Sylas' quotes, he does bring up those contradictions you speak about. He doesn't interact with noxians (thankfully), but with demacians speaks of destroying his country if it means that mages become legal and tolerable, so that means he likes being demacian. The only one that speaks off fondly is Lux but just because she's a mage, not because he simpatizes or cares for her. Everyone else is his enemy, even other mages.

Him stealings ults seems more to give him a unique trait gameplay-wise, as ignoring that his kit is an overload of effects in an otherwise simple kit. Lore-wise is because apparently he found out how to use petricite to absorb magic at his favor, but the reader would assume it means storing magical energy, not literally copying spells.