Talk:Sylas/@comment-24971427-20190109020447/@comment-7709681-20190109055703

@beast1996 - An anarchist would cause havoc but not aiming at taking lifes or destroying the country from its settlements, just destablelize the established order, things he has already done. Sylas is a revolutionary performing a coup d'etat for equality of rights for mages at best, or a terrorist that is willing to destroy his country if it means mages are aceptable at worst.

Also, if you have been scourned your entire life because you deviate from the norm and are forcefully exploited to hunt down others like you, you would take it personal. And Lux' relationship with him isn't personal, he took advantage of her for his own benefit, to escape; only threats her well because she's a mage.

The problem isn't the chains, is that is just the chains. In a world of fantasy like Runeterra, in a nation where the importance of nullifying magic is a priority, making a pair of shackles to the arms and one to neck seems as a weak safety measures. Being capable of receiving visits, even incognito, seems like terrible imprisonment measures.

The theme of magical oppression, mage slavery/revolution is great and open for exploration, such as it happens in the Dragon Age series, but here is dilluted by the fact that Sylas wouldn't be a thing if Lux didn't thirsted for him so much.

And the long bio states that petricite doesn't nullify magical energy, it absorbs it, but nothing about absorbing spells, is him that replicates spells by contacting a mage. If it is to suppose, his shackles absorb the necessary magic for him to use the spells of those he contacts with the chains.