Talk:Aatrox/Skins/@comment-10566629-20130607190207/@comment-24271832-20131209173642

"Justicar Aatrox looks like a Protoss"

That was my first impression as well.

As I've not played some of the games other folks are referring to, that may be why I made that associatoin.

FWIW, one of the basic references to living, life drinking swords in contemporary Fantasy/ Swords&Sorcery literature was Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melnibone and his sword Stormbringer. (Granted, these owe a debt to older legends and stories that go back a long way.)  Elric and Strombringer were the first stories I read (back in the 70's) where the sword absorbs the life essence of whomever got hit with it, and fed it to the hero/antihero using the sword. This trope/device  has become a commonplace in S & S RPG's ... and IIRC, in some early D & D editions. Memory a bit cloudy on that.