User blog comment:Toymakers Creation/The Shattered Crown/@comment-1920550-20150713220102/@comment-1920550-20150714024342

Hum, i don't know how you portrayed the ritual that created the undeath and the Black Mist, but i imagined Morde teaching the ritual to the King, knowing that Maokai would interfere and knowing it would be sabotaged. I pictured that because of the ritual being sabotaged, the King would seek the Heart to complete it and revive Eve in full at the cost of damming the Isles forever, while Morde wants it for whatever reasons, so that would be the core of the rivalry, not for revenge or control of the Isles from the King's side. You could also write a parallel between Mao and Morde as fellow nature spirits, siblings, etc.