Talk:Kalista/Background/@comment-24844042-20141111081916/@comment-24213013-20141111130602

You are mistaken young sir, it is a refference to the Ruined King of the Shadow Isles.

For those of you who do not know the Isles were once a beautiful place that got destroyed and transformed into the undead-haunted land that is today. The cause of the destruction was a ritual that was supposed to break the barried between life and death, ordered by the King (yet unnamed) and performed by the court mages.

Needless to say it all ended very very bad. The Isles were destroyed, became the Shadow Isles and the King became the Ruined King.

Now the interesting part revealed by Kalista's VO is that she saiy something like "he was noble untill grief overcame his reason" - from which we might deduce that the purpose of the ritual was probably to bring back someone dear back from the dead. Sneaky Riot...

Also from here we can deduce why he's called the Ruined King - he lost all that he once held - that certain dear someone, his kingdom, his soul perhaps...