User blog comment:Shinen-san/Shard, the Broken Reflection (anti-magic support champion concept)/@comment-6292556-20150520092443/@comment-4996845-20150521032443

That he is. Except he didn't leave the islands in time, instead attempting to fight the tide of undeath on his own - having in the end become the twisted treant.

I intended Shard and Maokai to know and respect each other, with Shard envying his resolve to fight it out until the end and Mao pitying Shard for tormenting himself over what has become of themselves and the Isles.