Thread:Emptylord/@comment-1888392-20140718161143/@comment-3974211-20140819104201

I'm... not sure. It's interesting... but I think the perspective is wrong (or, the timeline, or whatever) - the general picture it paints of the Shadow Isles doesn't feel right. For example, I do not think that Yorick was present before the corruption: I imagine Yorick was a resident of Valoran who died, and was resurrected on the isles after it was a realm of death. I imagine the pre-corrupted Isle was more similar to the Spirit Realm in Avatar - it's not spirits as in souls, it's more like wisps, or fairies, or that sort of thing. It wasn't an island where life and death existed in harmony, it was more a place of eternal life (spirits can't die, in theory). As for where Nex comes in - I always imagined that she was the King's sorceress, and it was her who created the Shadow Isles.

I imagined her as being the first reaper-like being (as with Hecarim, Thresh, Karthus, etc, maybe it was the cost of her spell - or a side effect). I'm not really sure as to her motive, though. Why would someone want to collect souls? Maybe the Ruined King is on the otherside, and she wants to pierce the veil? The first spell she cast merely prevented people from passing over, but didn't successfully open the gate.