Thread:Emptylord/@comment-1888392-20140718161143/@comment-3974211-20140728020038

It is a transformation that is limited by resource, a la Shyvana, although I currently do not require it to be full to be activated. That wasn't really the angle I was getting at from my question (I'll admit I was vague, but I was rather hoping you'd checkout her page to her page and see the huge section devoted to her ultimate and innate). To reiterate: which mechanic would you prefer for Nex's abilities while in her transformed state (my examples were: Nidalee in the sense of three independent abilities, Shyvana/Quinn in the sense of the same kit with tweaks, Swain in the sense of the transformation is an independent ability with little interaction with the rest of the kit, and some unique variants proposed on her page as well). The question about her innate is regarding how she acquires the resource that would be used for the transformation (it's souls, but should it be like Iron Man, King's Tribute, Damnation, etc).

As for her lore, I'm currently imagining that her motivations are past tense. She created the Shadow Isles in an attempt to do something, but it failed. She somehow managed to prevent death from happening and feels its her responsibility (i.e. Queen of the Damned). Maybe she's still trying, but other directions are entirely plausible. Maybe she wants to erase death altogether. Maybe she wants to do that because she needs all their souls to do something (a la Fullmetal Alchemist's villain).