Thread:Tesla Effect/@comment-26252250-20150328051037/@comment-26252250-20150430040332

Thanks a ton man T_T7

In gratitude, allow me to share how I suspect the French Playing Card Quintet might fit in the lore of Runeterra.

The Glade.

You see, the older a champ is, the more likely their oldest skins are direct copies of some pop culture thing or another (as opposed to, say, Star Guardian Lux, where the resemblance to Sailor Moon is merely superficial and it ends there). Annie has two that do this: Red Riding Annie (and by extension Big Bad Warwick) and Annie in Wonderland (and by extension Mad Hatter Shaco).

The conundrum was... how to even? And then I remembered that those are fables, and like fairy tales (at least the versions before the Brothers Grimm's) are rather... imaginative by definition (Guess who comes into the equation? Yeah, that tasted purple.)

AiW as you know has the Queen of Hearts and the Queen of Hearts and her card soldiers, and well you can probably guess where I'm going with all this.

And Wildcard Shaco? Since I posit Shaco might become the darker side of the Glade, I would also posit that Wildcard Shaco is, as often happens, how his "tales" portray him, by the fearful who tell them no less.

Honestly, I wouldn't mind if the Glade were to get fleshed out as the place where all the silliness you can think of (and the darkest of thoughts, in consequence) can become reality.