Thread:Dojo88/@comment-25050130-20150503000119/@comment-26252250-20150504005449

Hmmm... now that I think of it... if Xerath corrupted the ritual, and assuming it was him that transformed Cassiopeia, could one think that Cass' is a "sort-of-Ascension-gone-half-way-and-all-messed-up" kind of deal? I mean, the tomb guardian had really corrosive venom. By all accounts, Cass should be dead (of course she's not gonna be since she wouldn't be playable anymore, but you guys get the point).

See Sharjo, the deal with Amumu and Rammus I derive from this:

- Let's assume that humans and yordles evolved at roughly the same time (they didn't build the Mothership, it was already there when they settle in Yordle Land and founded Bandle City) and that Yordles specifically came from Freljord (Gnar) and decided to split after the Watchers and the Iceborn Horde started wrecking everything (Ursine, Trolls, and Yeti, on the other hand, seem to have held their ground, which would explain their isolationist tendencies, excepting Trolls, who seem rather nomadic as of now).

- On their way to Yordle land, they probably founded (or helped found) the Shuriman Empire, and the discovery of the Sun Disk probably prompted this (think of it like this, ancient Yordles came from the blistering cold, and the Sun Disk was probably seen as a source of relief to them) I'm talking about from even before Nasus and Renekton were even born. While the specifics escape me at the moment, there likely was a Yordle dynasty in Shurima (similarly to the Nubian Pharaohs, and the Greek Ptolomeans Cleopatra descended from) and Amumu was the last of that line.

- The Iceborn Horde, the Void Rift in Icathia (enter Rek'Sai when she was a young girl) probably poked their heads in from time to time. This prompted drastic measures. Enter Rammus.

- Then shit got real ugly when the Watchers started projecting their influence beyond Freljord. The Void Rift probably got worse, and Rek'Sai matured, and her babies started being a huge plague. Enter Nasus and Renekton. I wonder how old they were when they undertook the ritual?

- Fast forward a few centuries, and enter Azir and Xerath. Bard probably tried to minimize the damage from the fall of the desert empire.

That's a rough mental draft of what I think the deal is.