Talk:Yorick/@comment-27010991-20130811143449/@comment-27010991-20130813221017

It's not like he absolutely must use/channel his power through his shovel. It's okay as a weapon and a tool, by all means, shovel away, but a magical artifact? His powers could come from his blood, his willpower, some curse, attunement to the spirit realm or whatever else, there are as many possibilities as there are leaves on a tree in midsummer. Why did they have to pick one of the more ridiculous ones? It's not Teemo we're talking about, it's a guy who's supposed to represent death.

By the way, Death's usual tool of trade is a scytche - unusual for a weapon, yet still deadly sharp and gruesome. If everybody started portraying death with a shovel in his (its?) hands, slapping his victims (or recipients) over the head with it, I'd probably laugh so hard I would stop fearing death right then.