User blog comment:ND999/Daemons of Runeterra/@comment-24430045-20150707235017/@comment-3110123-20150708082203

Being a lore-nut I do get ideas occassionally and I love to see the backstories of multiple characters tied together into one coherent whole. Also, as a Fiddlesticks player I feel obligated to give him a backstory since the removal of Summoners (and in turn Istvaan, the man who summoner him) left him more-or-less without one. Now since Riot hasn't done much to replace old lore since the Shurima event, I felt the need to do a bit of that myself.

It's true that Vilemaw might be a normal spider who turned into a monster because of the Shadow Isles' influence, in quite possibly a similar matter Maokai was transformed from a normal tree. But Riot stated that Vilemaw, much like Baron Nashor, is supremely more powerful than any one champion, meaning his power is equivalent of a god. Depending on when Riot will add more lore into the Shadow Isles there isn't much else we can say about him.