The Ruination Novel Revealed Old Camavor

[@eydis9554]

I hope if we get Necrit's human form one day, he will look like actual Necrit

[@kaekaeno]

Oh yes

[@TheReaLFrankage]

Does he have a ghost cat?

[@krazy5241]

He already does

[@peri2656]

Will he have chiselled abs

[@JimSamable]

Pyjama Party Necrit 😂😂😂

[@erconeoriginal7374]

What!?!?! Hecarim isn't shirtless with an 18 pack?!?!

[@ethanv.a.t.exclamador4030]

Impossible...

[@runtd7795]

I just love how low-fantasy and grounded old camavor looks, too bad we'll probably never see such an aesthetic in game

[@azurclerx951]

You have Gwen… The only “real” Camavorian character in a way (Even tho she isn’t really Camavorian since she is from a little Camavorian girl’s imagination)

[@stcy000]

Not in league of legends. the riot mmo on the other hand - i feel Camovar ruins and culture will eventually be introduced there. or maybe if Riot or a member of Riot forge develop an rpg

[@Loliston]

@@stcy000 Maaan, imagine a RTS from Runeterra universe... holy shit, that could be so fucking awesome Can already see Shurima with the late game units like the ascended God-warriors, that would require you to build a sun disc Void would also be insane, with all the organic firepower And them Camavor, with Dragons and the Iron Order...

[@chaotik900]

@@azurclerx951 Vlad and gwen are the last living Camavorian champs, the same way Yorick is the last man alive of the blessed isles.

[@azurclerx951]

@@chaotik900 Yeah but I didn’t count Vlad since he got more Noxus in him now with all what happened for him. Gwen has made Camavor -> Present without any influence so that’s why I classified her as the only “real” Camavorian character (And Viego,Kalista, etc… are completely ruined so I don’t count them as “Camavorian” but “Shadow Isles”)

[@niffry]

I honestly really like how they designed Kalistas human face-- it actually just looks like they re-constructed her more ghastly and emaciated one we're used to, keeping that strong jaw and smallish mouth

[@yauma1098]

It would be fun if Riot released some kind of what if scenarios either as short stories or cinematics with different animation styles, like what if the dagger ment to Viego actually hit him, what if xerath didn't become ascended, what if jhin killed zed before shen came to rescue, what if irelia didn't cut Swain's arm, what if Icathia never used the void, what if pantheon didn't die, what if gangplank didn't kill mf mother, what if seraphine was a interesting champion, etc...

[@f3rbus]

I really love this idea, I’d also love to see if they did a What If sort of thing about different skin lines with alternate lore to the main story. Like a whole episode about High Noon or the Battlecast skin line would be dope

[@Benxall]

💀

[@rileytaylor4880]

There was this one idea that I always wanted to see was a “what if pantheon and aatrox’s situation were flipped” like if pantheon was a darkin and aatrox was the aspect of war, like the stories of the skins could stay pretty close to they’re original lore but have a twist. Like Aatrox was the targonian aspect of war and was very power hungry causing mayhem and being shunned by other aspects, and pantheon still being Atreus but having found the “darkin spear” that took control of him till one day the aspect of war found him and killed him but the man still remained alive with an ember of the darkin’s power.

[@axylum4453]

@@rileytaylor4880 yes, give us Darkin spear. League needs more Darkin

[@zoomgle7954]

the last one XD

[@yauma1098]

Wishing for a Jhin novela either as him before his arsenal as the golden demon, when he was released and created chaos in Ionia and piltover or after being freed again. The last one we don't know if it happened because the world walker expansion in LoR doesn't tell you if that was before he decided to go after Zed again

[@fuckhead0]

while more Jhin is lovely, I kinda don't like how he's being handled thanks to LoR, the mystery is such an important part of Jhin and how he works as this menacing killer, having so much of his past revealed and given context undermines him, if the explanation was vague or maybe a joker-esque scenario where his past is "multiple choice" then I would like it better but they straight up gave us the identity of who freed him and provides him equipment plus resources, it's a sour taste and if even more of his how-to's are revealed then we're just left with a killer with style

[@rimurutempest4945]

I might be in the minority, but god I hope we don't actually get a Jhin novela, or at the very least not from his perspective. Mystery makes Jhin, revealing more of him just diminishes his character.

[@kaekaeno]

@@rimurutempest4945 The only thing I can think of similar to whole idea is a novela or short story from Jhin's perspective, but like in more "poetic" way. Kind of like Awaken cinematic, we got confirmed that guards in his traps actually were bleeding heavily, but he saw that as exploding colorful flowers. So something that shows us how he sees the world in that way. But I agree that making a book with Jhin without the mask and stuff would change too much about his character

[@TheNicokapo]

2:45 Perhaps at this point Viego was already using all of Camavor's fortune to save Isolde. We have seen how it looks the royal armor with Viego, so it IS unbelievable that the royalguard (assuming they are) would have only leather armor. Hope you read this Necritos

[@demandro]

About assasin: maybe Shaco will finally get lore, one of his abilities is literrary called "a knife in the back"

[@shadowscorpion8661]

how funny would it be if Shaco was the fcking assassin.

[@anoven7008]

I think the lack of armor for the guard makes sense time wise, this is earlier modern runeterra time so it’s safe to assume that they didn’t use a lot of armor back then. Probably because there weren’t any huge threats at the time.

[@aurorasdrawingcorner]

Well Hecarim wore a ton of armour

[@ZyderZaw]

@@aurorasdrawingcorner I guess since he was a high ranking officer he would be allowed to spent a lot on his armor.

[@nerdyandweirdybutmighty5256]

I think only the high ranking wear alot of fancy armours

[@ShadowAngelS2K]

if we get these as skins, it would mean Hecarim's skin would be a Legendary skin

[@PowerEd8]

I want human Kalista!

[@MrDhyanugreat]

@@PowerEd8 As if we don't have enough booba in the game... ^

[@TKinfinity01]

@@MrDhyanugreat Never enough Booba.

[@DjuraValtr]

most likely wont happen sadly

[@vladnica1723]

I hope nothing bad happens to the protagonist at the end of the book

[@nathangraham2853]

I'm sure the main characters won't get killed and come back as undead monsters or anything like that

[@happypepper9326]

Quite sure no character will be betrayed, killed or transformed in an undead ghost, cursed to suffer for centuries and respawn everytime they re-died, forgetting a bit of their past and humanity in the process. So, don't worry.

[@GothremenBhason]

I wouldn't have said it any better lol

[@Vernafveik]

People complain about certain champions receiving too many skins Meanwhile Thresh mains are quietly sitting around a table enjoying their 7th visual overhaul.

[@richardruego1769]

Damn it's true

[@sickmuse23]

It'd be an excellent crossmarketing opportunity if Riot released a "Camavorian" skinline for the first three characters around the novel's release. Or a human Kalista or Hecarim skin at least. Big kudos to the artist too! Kalista looks very similar how I imagined her living form, and Hecarim... Well, let's just say his look surprised me in a good way xD Also Viego has never been this creepy to me. In his human form, especially on the book illustrations, he gives the impression of a whiny pretty-boy, incapable of doing anything on his own. But this smug bastard expression on his face and the look in his eyes with the red dots tell you he means business, and a serious one of that (provided he FINALLY intends to). And there's grumpy librarian Grael... He reminds of myself as I'm trying to read on public transportation in dim light xD

[@happypepper9326]

I remember the interview with the Airship Syndacate. They were really terrorized about an "elephant in the room" that what never addressed. I fear that some of the beautiful lore in the Ruined King game (for example the Ahri tribe, or the Buhru collaboration with the Blessed Islands), could be just added in the game because the characters, and not be canon. Let's hope that book will confirm the game, and not to create another timeline.

[@thomasway0320]

Damn, I really thought they’re giving us a fixed version of the Ruination event story with this book, but I’m still looking forward to the stories of the past kingdom.

[@lalechuga1761]

I am a Thresh main and I am generally offended dude. Just give us a solid human thresh form ffs. I personally love the night at the inn one.

[@severedproxy]

TBF I'm kinda ok with the light camavorian armor, especially since from what I see they have the same climate as us. Heavy armor will kill you due to heat stroke. (but I'm sure this is not what the authors inteded). Reminds me of the explorers who visited our country. Light clothing with a few armors here and there. IIRC they were called conquistadors and they colonized us for hundreds of years.

[@redgokudera]

Well yes, Camavor is heavily based in older Spain. Viego's name is just "Diego", with a V in place of D XD

[@severedproxy]

@@redgokudera 100% agreed.

[@Loliston]

2:46 Maybe, differently from Noxus, Camavor doesn't have that many sources of metal, which would explain the leather-based armor, and don't let the simplicity fool you, leather armor was very effective, couple that with the chain mail and the helmet, those soldiers are more protected than most champions! Coming back to the possible lack of metallic resources, that would explain why Hecarim has the full set of metal armor, Hecarim was the commander of the Iron Order after all, maybe what made them stand out as an elite force was what named them, Iron! (And obviously the rigorous training) I hope the book is structured similarly to how George Martin does, with each chapter from a different perspective, that way you can explore so many storylines, we could see things from Thresh's point of view, from Yorick's, Kalista's, Ledros's even from Viego's, so much potential man!

[@thrall6647]

Greetings! If I renember corectly Japan did not have a lot of good metal and metal armor was realy rare. I like this armor desing.

[@Loliston]

@@thrall6647 Yeah, thats also translated to their swords, their techniques were developed especially because of the poor metal quality!

[@claudionosotti8812]

I really hate how they turned Viego and Isolde into a "complicated" relationship ffs the entire Ruination happened bc they madly fell in love while young and Viego's love for her was so strong he couldn't keep it together when she died basically bc of him and was willing to challenge even god-like unknown powers to resurrect her and then amidst the whole fuck up that event was they also went like "eh, maybe Isolde didn't really love him you know" which to me is just complete trashing of the entire premise of the story. They turned a kind of star-crossed lovers narrative into a basic, boring and useless "he was a crazy tyrant, maybe even abusive towards her, she hated him and helped Sentinels fight him to kill him once and for all". I really wish they would've at least stayed true to their own narrative, it would've made the story more tragic, Gwen's existence and motives deeper and overall would've felt more emotional to see Isolde forced to help kill the love of her life...

[@ViLSuzerix]

I agree, well said.

[@mlinxl9090]

Isolde hates Viego? where did you get that?, they loved each other very deeply and Isolde still loves him. They just confirmed the relationship wasn’t a perfect fairytale, it doesn’t mean Viego was abusive all the time

[@diothesquealer6173]

That is what I don’t like about villian story writing. They only do this so that we don’t actually like the “bad guy”. You can give a villain a wholesome or loving backstory but all of the sudden we hear that they were truly evil or irresponsible and they committed tons of war crimes and such. I hate that. Can’t we just have one villain that is actually just misunderstood in action?

[@claudionosotti8812]

@@mlinxl9090 They hinted it with the story + Gwen's voicelines against him all come from a place of hatred even tho she's literally alive bc of a piece of Isolde is inside her. She literally says that Isolde pitied him and that she hasn't forgotten Viego, but Gwen can't forgive him as if he intentionally hurt her to begin with when everything went down as an accident. All points toward a love that started very strong from both of them but then Isolde started to have second thoughts. To me this is awful bc they always teased the Ruined King as a kind of tragic anti-hero, someone who was not evil and didn't want to conquer the world for his own selfishness, but was willing to do anything to resurrect the love of his life, but then you add in the fact that not only he wasn't a good person, like, at all, but also that he was delusional in believing Isolde still loved him so much and now the extreme actions he did just feel... dull. As if he was just a spoiled brat that felt entitled to a love that didn't exist anymore.

[@BlindWithoutLimits]

@@claudionosotti8812 i think it was more because Isolde accepted her death and didn't want to be "saved" or "resurrected" if she died. She had found her peace. But Viego out of love (a selfish form of it but love anyways) did resurrect her, leading to a lot of pain. She loved him but was accepting that it was her time and that she'd see him again once he died. Instead due to the obsessive nature of his love, he tore that peace from her and cast them both into a dark and painful cycle. Now they can't be together in peace, as he's trapped himself in a way. She wanted things to be ok, but his desire to not lose her (for a while) cost them everything. I still find it very tragic.

[@mr.boomguy]

It must be kind of insane for you Necrit, to soon read about the character that is based on you. I know that if I where covering a game for years, then a character where made in my honor for it, It would take some time for me to get used to it xD

[@sanketsane3684]

I have been following the League of Legends lore for a few years now, and I thought the Ruination Novel really helped bring the characters as well as the Camavor and Shadow Isles regions to life. Although, I haven't played the game much recently, when I see others playing the game with a champion such as Kalista or Thresh, I would likely be thinking about their background story and other details found in the lore. The book is definitely something to read for someone interested in lore.

[@kagami27]

An upload on my birthday? :O Thank you, Necrit! haha

[@kagami27]

@Sathriel Thank you! :D

[@Caporai]

This made me think about their own SCP Artifacts in Blessed Isles. Since Yorick can commune with the dead, would he also be similar case of an artifact?

[@aaronklein3480]

yorik is probably not dangerous enough to end up in the vault... he wasnt even dangerous enough to be mentioned in the story...

[@thelittleredhairedgirlfrom6527]

@@aaronklein3480 The video game mentioned him

[@gerardchrisyeyapsenang1963]

Absolutely amazing, from games, music videos, comics, animated films and now riot novels the progress of riot is really amazing

[@valentinoopris916]

Ledros will make a good supp in LOL of top but for his story that want to protect his love well supp fits better with the "protect" theme maybe he will have something like kalista spear to link with his adc

[@hollystepp3735]

As long as they leave Kallista's splash art as that and NO further change. She's attractive but normal, that is a very normal woman with little skin shown. Keep it that way. Please. Also, did anyone notice they mispelled Kallista's name on their website? .-. ngl very conflicted for this. Extremely excited about Kallista's novel and extremely afraid of her getting the unbound Thresh, Spirit blossom Kindred treatment. Also Anthony Reynolds is an okay author, he did the Garen novella. I've read a few of his books like the Word Bearers trilogy and Kharn. He's a competent writer on a similar level as Mercedes Lackey when it comes to world building so high hopes for that.

[@spookyghost5797]

I'm so happy that they gonna release it in Hungary too. :) Also great video as always.

[@KimParkkinen]

I am so happy that it has an audiobook version as well. I can listen the book while I'm on the move. ❤

[@samv.l.5819]

I really hope they work more with demons in the future

[@cfields1331]

Man the Riot Mmo has so much to work with. I hope they do it right

[@MindokInAh]

Here's an idea for another similar tragedy novel, one on the fall of Icathia, that would end with the void destroying the region. We could see characters like Jax, Zilean, even Aatrox pre-darkin when he was just an ascended warrior.

[@Aatrox44]

omg kalista was so awesome on human form . i want that as a skin.

[@k-sanend6474]

Ohhh noo... Human Hecarim is hot.... His ruined form is decent already and now... Oh no 🥵🥵🥵

[@Naph008]

I like how simple the armors are in camavore I love this medieval vibes it gives

[@kalfkeith5646]

Hecarim would looks amazing with the Ruin king's novel Hecarim as a skin.

[@pingezz]

Cant wait for riot to make gragas the one who originally tried to assassinate viego

[@GothremenBhason]

Ooh my God XD not Gragas lol you cracked me up, good job

[@deportanuja7636]

Would love to see an audio book of this with Necrit narrating, would listen to that in a heartbeat

[@peacepham7838]

Not sure about that. In that webside there's already audiobook version, won't risk with laws.

[@jsc1jake512]

I think it'd be interesting if they reworked Shaco to be the one who assassinated Isolde. There's a lot of potential with that. It'd be pretty easy to spin him as a demon, his associated emotion could even be grief because of Isolde's death affecting Viego. Not to mention that Kathkan has some history with demons (namely, Ashlesh) and it wouldn't be too hard to say that Shaco could've been controlled by the Kathkani in some way in the past for warfare. The hardest part is figuring how all this fits in, it's confirmed that having a demon's name gives you some power over them so maybe he could be an Azakana (lesser demons) controlled by Kathkan until Isolde's death when he gets to feed on grief and breaks free of their control? Another problem with this is to figure out what he's doing in the present and there would probably have to be some kind of timeskip in his lore as well.

[@xiaolongbao0111]

i just finished reading the book two days ago, i have so many thoughts on it, but I'll wait for Necrit to post a video about it. And yes, Necrit, the king's adviser, is present in the story. idk if his full name by canon is Nunyo Necrit, but that's how Kalista and Viego call Necrit in the novel.

[@Zeliek]

The book's author says he played Shaco!! My fanfic that Shaco is a Camavor demon is so close to happening!!

[@maxterdelta2220]

It would be cool if they brought human look kalista as a skin to lol, she looks cool

[@vibe9188]

When you realize that nothing of the Ruination would've happened if it wasn't for Kalista deflecting that damn dagger xd

[@harakoni2135]

Im pretty excied about this novel coming out, i wanna dig deeper into old camavor with viego and everything about it in general.

[@Flimmertje]

Human Hecarim looks really cool.

[@ghost_ilamas9615]

Well you said their armour was a bit simpler than any other region. currently, they are living thousands of years from the present day :v

[@Fledor.]

I've already pre-ordered the book! I'm sooo excited!

[@kekstarpl7996]

There was leak or in some post about creating knight champion. Ngl when i saw ledros first thing to come to my mind was: That's hell of knight. I know there isn't any way that he will be this champ but still concept and lore wise it would be to great. Knight that failed to protect his loved one now goes to find traces of what he lost

[@waterlily440]

What if the man traveling with Kalista is actually Ledros?It would make sence,since he wants to protect her and probably wouldn't want her to go on a potentially extremely long and dangerous trip alone

[@berryman5145]

It's gonna break my heart if Necrit is not in the book...

[@absolutesilva6010]

Ah yes ....camavor....necrit's homeland

[@JLawrencium]

Damn, Hecarim looks hot

[@zaa488]

That big guy behind Kalista is must be Ledros

[@Greenscyth22]

I wonder if they mentioned if the Harrowing affected Kathkan or if they were spared it's wrath?

[@dark_fusion1288]

So instead of looking for some mysterious magical land for a cure, Kalista could have ventured to the most likely suspect (a rival nation) and this entire ruination shiz could have been avoided.

[@MeLlamoBauti]

she was told to get a cure,not to ask for trouble on another country,she had a rough situation

[@dark_fusion1288]

@@MeLlamoBauti Yeah thats true. Guess there is no situation where everything is fine given who her king was :/

[@Francisconi.]

I would like that with the release of the book, they release skins from "before the ruination" of Kalista, Viego and Hecarim. Also, present Ledros as the new champion. Let it be in his "ruin" form and another skin from "before the ruination". It would be justice after that Ruination event.

[@hishiron9525]

what if we get a legendary skin for hecarim "camavor hecarim" with his human form riding a horse

[@miles12pega]

Necrit is gonna cause an inception when he studies Necrit

[@Sanest_E]

Thresh Into the Runeterraverse

[@ArmadiusC]

Hecarim: "Do you wanna horse little one?" *Proceeds to rip one of his ruined soldiers and his horse apart "Here you go"

[@quickprey7868]

yo... hecarim... hecarim kinda... he's kinda...

[@jorenxdeee536]

Imagine riot having an open world rpg game in runeterra, damn the world building is gonna be so goood

[@astylfranklin9402]

Camavoran soldiers armor most likely looks like that being they're from ancient times

[@zorgbuckleberry9082]

Can't wait to see human Yorick! Surely Riot wont forget he is there.

[@FUNKK1]

actually that makes vladimir from camavor too cuz he still mentioned as from Noxus bangin leblanc there

[@pinkpuff8562]

No fucking way. Man on horse. Juan moment.

[@ThorTheIceman]

im waiting necrit to cover necrit lore

[@Nickboy275]

I really hope necrit ends up partnering with riot to make this an audiobook

[@yonats]

Already Pre Ordered the novel. Super hyped!

[@Mentos069]

Where did you preorder the novel from?

[@yonats]

@@Mentos069 amazon :)

[@charliepea]

A pre-ruined Kalista skin would be nice, like pre-boid Kassadin or Young Ryze.

[@deguzmanacp.stem-1655]

He looks like chair from the witcher, nilfgard’s general y’know

[@randomshortvids4793]

The protector must have shield in order for her to protect 😁

[@vitax.19]

Unfortunately it is another book that will not be released in my country. Tnks Rito

[@Incarnato009]

What it's the Maiden of the mist? The ult of Yorick, who is she? What is she?

[@Lesdrasill]

2nd continent is League of Legends 2

[@nininho4964]

Hecarim is like the classic Mount and Blade player. Raids every peasant village.

[@Nelizen]

I mean if i been alive/undead, for like 1000 years i probably would of changed my look a few times too, maybe even six times.

[@vron-re6oi]

they could make a movie about this

[@LichKingg23]

9:26 I See what youy did there. Clever!

[@4TBeans]

I think everyone's just mad a man got the prestige skin

[@CyanideCold]

This just go so much drip, he is just flexing on us.

[@Ower8x]

This makes the fact that Calista was completely absent from the SoL event ... even worse ...

[@ilucasz]

5:50 Just like Yone, actually, but with two more visuals to mess things a little more.

[@niffleraku]

I don't play the game, but I really enjoy LoL's lore, so more books would be really nice

[@rowanmessaridewsbury1110]

WAIT. Does Kalistas partner on the ship... HAVE FUR??????

[@kool-aidman6955]

Wait, the sentinels of light event is canon?! DAMN IT!!!

[@ninjatoriumnova2483]

As much as I think that the whole Ruination thing has been done to death already, this could actually be interesting.

[@Chirarine]

Anyone else noticed at 7:42 that Kalista's name was spelled wrong (Kalisa)?

[@waheebtaudros6]

When you reviewing the Valorant cinematic

[@leonieschusterschitz8173]

I hope we get a tiny gwen cameo in her doll form………….

[@samuilatanasov5463]

Okay, it is now confirmed that Vladimir is Kalista's grandfather

[@noaharcilla]

kalista doesn't need that treatment 💔

[@varickgames2512]

fan games developer and heavy lore enjoyer: *very heavy breathing*

[@gillesnotard69]

Viego basically ruled Mondsadt

[@dutssz]

I'm confused, not only does thresh looks completely different from his actual look but he is sporting the soul lantern? wasn't the lantern that he hel as a human a completely different thing that was held with a staff instead of the chains?

[@djsona5428]

I'm so excited about the recent explosion of league lore over the last couple of years. This IP is going places, maybe it'll be on the level of WH40k or DND some day.

[@latishabuckner8231]

I'm gonna buy this book, but a part of me is dreading it because we know how these characters end up 😥😣

[@santaclause7568]

Riot sait that belveth wasent the monsterchamp, so mabey the monster champ will be from camavor or the blessed iless or mabey even a new demon.

[@annahedlund3687]

Khalistas side kick looks a bit like King wukang tbh

[@mentalpopcorn2304]

Are you going to do a series/long video on this book? I will read it if not, but would much rather hear about it from you

[@brentg6127]

We NEED human Kalista and Hecarim skins, PLEASE Riot