Talk:Bard/@comment-25545696-20150223003259

According to MY research. the champion will be Ao Shin. Why? Because of this:

Research was done based on the champion preview "Wonder Above"

The text in many lines talks about divinity, immortality, and atemporality i.e. "is not bound by time".

Ao Shin is based of a chinese dragon, that is divine, atemporal and immortal. Also, Qing Long is the chinese dragon that represents air, water, wood and the east. By the way, he is also a constelation. I find it reasonable to think Ao Shin is related to Qing Long

The text mentions 3 names: Great Caretaker, Bard and Mountain Shrines, which would refer to Ionia (Ao Shin is its Guardian/Caretaker), the Solari (live in Mount Targon) and Bilgewater (Bard is the name given by those of the FLOATING VILLAGES, Bilgewater is a port city state built on the ocean)

Ionia and Bilgewater both shore the same sea, Guardian's Sea. I believe the name is due to Ao Shin living above it. By the way, both cities, and the sea are at the east of Valoran. Qing Long/Ao Shin represents the east, the cardinal direction. (if you search for its constelation, it bears some resemblance with the starts shown on the background image of the first text.)

The text speaks about shurima and its fall, aswell as about the ascendants. Ascendants we know are Azir, Nasus and Renekton. They all have animal appearance and divine. The only ascendant not to share that is Xerath, because he had a corrupted ascention, now has no physical body, but has divine powers. This part speaks about divinity, and an ancient event, Ao Shin is related merely as telling this story to the people of Bilgewater, the floating villages, hence the title "bard".

Mentioning the Watchers reinforce the theory that it is indeed, Ao Shin. The text reveals that they were causing troubles all over Runeterra, not only freljord. That means Ionia has also been affected, that means their guardian would come down to protect them.

But how could Ao Shin be both at the sky, being a constelation, and protection Ionia at the same time? Thats because he was not. The constelation was absent in a time not long ago, as mentioned on the last piece of text. It was absent because he was not at the sky, but protecting Ionia from the watchers, that happened in the past but not too long ago.

Any question or debate can be started, but this is just a theory, although i strongly believe that it is indeed Ao Shin.