When Shen says, “Balance must be restored.” I don’t think he means that the kid must die. Yes, that’s one way to restore balance but he kind of implies multiple solutions to this problem. I think he was trying to teach Akali to resolve things without conflict.
9:10 Shen does only have two blades, the one that floats is the spiritual manifestation of the second blade. Which has both a spiritual form and physical form. In game when Shen presses q you can see that he pulls the spiritual blade back to him and switches from using the steel blade to the spirit blade. They look identical because its the same blade.
The thing above the guardian might not be power flowing into it or anything like that it might be the ghost/lingering afterimage of the tree that was on it's head that was just cut down
Though I wonder if someone was missing an arm or something like that it would also show up in the spirit world? Maybe it goes away when the person accepts the loss of the arm or something like that? Or maybe guardians are especially linked with their trees or something like that or as mentioned it might also be the land empowering the guardian
And the red link is just a way of visually saying that the Guardian has the kid on deathlock, as a hostile. And when it turns green, the Guardian accepts the kid as a 'friendly' or ally, and override its previous protocol to kill him. As simple as that, no life and death mumbo jumbo.
Now Im wondering if the Guardian is hell bent on hunting just the one(s) who cut its tree. I mean what if the tree was cut by more than1 person? Do they all glow red? If so, Noxians can literally send a pack of slaveworkers and let them get targeted while the others bring the Guardian down or even drive those Guardians into the Ionian settlement. It literally ignores Akali even though she did made an attempt on its life.
Hey Necrit, Shen main here so everything I say is 100% canon. From a gameplay stand point, Shen’s spirit blade is both physical and spiritual, but is only empowered when both unite (he uses Q). This leads me to believe the the blade in lore exists in both planes. I also means the spirit blade on his back is inactive until the unite in the same position. I believe that it is not too far of a stretch to consider this but it’s my interpretation.
Yea, thats a cool observation. And i have so many questions. After shen uses spirit refuge on akali, he teleported near akali. He didn't use stand united or shadow dash. Maybe he is mobile than what we have in the game. There once was a story that shen suddenly appeared in the capital of noxus. The reason why I told u that is because, for the first time we knew shen was the one who infiltrating the noxian camps in Ionia from the zed comic. He also might be connected to certain characters in noxus like, swain and LeBlanc. And the last question, is shen connected to zoe? She is called aspect of twilight right?
@@kiranraveendran2437 i think its stand united he is using. whne shen is ulting in game he makes some special moves whit his hands and it looks like he does it there too (hard to tell)
winterx kiran So, Shen is much more mobile than he is in game. This is shown is the Zed Comic. He doesn’t use stand united in the story, rather, Shen can travel through the spirit realm in the blink of an eye similarly to Zed’s shadow dash. Secondly, Shen appeared in the capital of Noxus to combat Mord (I believe it was Mord, if not, a great threat) and this was not during the invasion. That combat happened after he became the eye of Twilight. Finally, Shen and Zoe are not linked to my knowledge. Zoe is called the Aspect of Twilight because of the Targonian Ascendant, but the Eye of Twilight is just the title of the Leader of the Kinkou.
Jonatan Jensen the slight hand movement was just to use spirits refuge (the safety dome) as well as to reposition his spirit blade’s position. Shen extends his hand when he does this in game
@@private5018 It could be. The lore of K/DA does mention how the people don't know the crystal tails Ahri has and the parasites on Kai'Sa are actually real and not special effects.
What if it's not exactly that the guardian is being empowered by above, but is more leaking magic. Almost like an exhaust pipe spews the remnants of using gasoline as fuel, this guardian was activated by the blood of a guardian tree. Mayhaps it is literally like an exhaust pipe from using that magic as fuel?
About the spirit realm looing like KDA: As the music video switches from normal vision to spirit realm vision we can see that Evelyn is also changing appearance. We can see her physical form and her spirit form (kinda), since she is a demon. Thats one of the best references i have seen in a while.
I love shen, in his solo stories he is depicted to be extremely strong. Love the solo story when he single handedly stops an invasion from the spirit world and saves Noxus.
He might be the strongest of all becoming second to mordekaiser. Actually he saves Ionia. And I think he might be connected to the demons in the game like evelyn and fiddle. And he might have some connections to LeBlanc and swain as well.
@Plague Doctor Well top 1 would be Aurelion Sol right? Then the Celestials/Aspects like Zoe and Pantheon. After them would be the Demons. Then Manipulators like Morde, Ekko, and then Shen?
@Plague Doctor i have to disagree. Pantheon? Really? If he were still an aspect maybe, but then again i'd say all aspects are more or less equal in strenght. But Pantheon how he is right now is Atreus, more human than Aspect. He's not even close to being in the top 5, i wouldn't even put him in the top 10. Also, i wouldn't put Aurelion on 1. He may have "created" Runeterra, but not willingly or to his knowledge. He found out years later and just because he's big doesn't mean he's more powerful than other beings. It's hard to rate the Champions of LoL on power because from most of them we don't know their real power. Take Karma for example: In game all she does is shield a bit and do some dmg, but in lore she's describes as one of the most powerful beings in Ionia, if not the most powerful being. Or the demigods of Freljord. We don't know their real power in lore because Ornn doesn't do much in lore and Anivia and Voli are outdated. Granted, Voli gets his rework soon, but if we can tell his real strength from that is questionable. Rating them on strength alone is like searching for lore on Gragas: There's too little to get a big picture.
@Plague Doctor Again, Pantheon right now is Atreus, not the Aspect of War. The aspect is dead, killed by Aatrox. The god is dead. But i can see that there is no point in talking to you. You could be hit in the face with facts by Riot themselfes and still would believe that it's easy to rate the powers of characters WE DONT KNOW THE REAL POWER OF.
KDA universe theory: What if the neon parts of the music video were them actually in the spirit realm. It would be supported by Evelyn being seen as a more demonic looking shadow in the neon parts. So spirit realms existence in the KDA universe confirmed?
what is shen carries 2 physical blades on his back, and 1 spirit blade with him via the spirit realm? this spitir blade is then the one that is not on his back.
My though is that the spirit blade is theblade on his back, but what's on his back is just the physical form of it. Since it's a spirit weapon, though it stays wrapped up on his back (the shot near the end of Shen's back the sword looks very close to the spirit sword but is completely wrapped in cloth) but the spirit of the blade can go wherever shen needs it to.
@@cztompy i have the same thought but maybe it is the spirit of the blade itself. so he does weild two weapons its just one is the spirit blade with both its physical form and spiritual form, it would make sense that maybe the link isnt connected to shen but instead is connected to the blade.
yeah, it looks very similar to the sword on his back, so maybe he uses its "magic" outside spirit realm in this form. like in game he uses this form not to damage enemies but to protect himself or to weaken them (i guess their spirits or something)
actually, I thought the "balance" shen was talking about was the concept of karma. The green on the seeds represent a good karma, and the red on the guardian was attracted by the bad karma of the kid.
Maybe the extreme green colour was already there, all the time, before the kid cut the tree, maybe that's why it turned red when the tree "died", and finally when the kid and Akali planted the new tree, that original green returned, and so did balance
Necrit, I think you went too quick to launch these videos, many of your points seems a little too rushed and strange. Here some of the things i think would be more probable to explain some of your points. 1 - The kid is dressed in Ionian form even being an outsider because he is a settler, Noxus doesn't want to burn Ionia, they want to colonize it but their campaign failed but they still have people there so when people stay for some time in a place, plus some reasons that would be too much to point, they tend to adopt the custom of the natives because it makes life easier, clothing being one of the most common. 2 - The guardian tree isn't this system of chance where a person might cut them and awake a stone golem, they are more probably control valves of spirit energy, they exist to purify and transform energy, they are called guardian trees because this function of them is essential and akin to protection. 3 - The light on top of the golem isn't coming from above unto it, it is coming from it, it is a leak without the guardian tree the energy inside the golem is going out. 4 - About Shen third sword, I may be wrong but i think that one was just a spell and a projection of his spirit sword, during the Zed comic we see Zed kill a master that had a magical spear, the spear could create many copies of itself but when its owner died it revert to being only one, Shen sword may not be able to create many copies but it can make at least one and imbues it with its barrier abilities.
Shen didnt want to see the kid died. He gave Akali spirit vision to show her the seed and what is needed to be done. He knew how to save the kid but wanted to test Akali
After you mentioned the glowing hilt of Shen's swords, I noticed at 12:01 that they glow red, indicating death. I just thought that was a cool little detail from the artists!
I think that the spiritual blade works in this way : since in-game it floats and when he uses the Q the spiritual blade merge with the normal blade that you are talking about, probably the spiritual blade its like a ghost. He can either use it as a ghost to create shields and teleport it, or use it in an attack by merging it with the normal blade. And of course, i suppose that when he doesnt have to teleport it and he just have to carry it around, he may maintain it merged with the blade. That explains the story.
Could the reason that Akalis hair is glowing with some sort of magic be because of the strange design in her hair cut on the back? Even if its something minor like a weak charm or something like that it would still resonate?
I know this video is a month old, but I’m pretty sure that the third blade, is an astral projection of the big blade in Shen’s back. At least in-game, the floating blade is commented through a string of light to the blade in Shen’s back. And both of them glow the same color.
Just wanted to say thank you for all the time and work you put into these cinematic explanations, especially as you wanted to get them out in a relevant timely manner!
Necrit, when Fiddlesticks recalls, there is a symbol that pops up around him, maybe that could help you with the demonology theory Please like so he sees this
Akalis hair glowimg could be a neat treat. For a long time and across many cultures hair was believed to have inherent magical property and seeing Akalis hair glow reminded me of that. Rapunzel, Vodoo magic and many more things relate hair with importance. That's why soldiers would get a lock of hair from their wife/loved one, when they went to the battlefield (because a part of that person would always be with them).
Another interesting detail is that while they are in the spirit realm, each character glows at different amounts, which I assume indicates their connectivity to the magic and thus their power level. For example, in 7:09, while Akali has a little blue glow on her hands , Shen's entire visible body has turned blue. Furthermore, in 7:21, we can see that the kid has no glow, which means that he has no magic.
im not sure if Riot is putting irl references but the monkey is a symbol of life and longevity in China (Journey to the West, Sun Wukong, which is also who Wukong is based off on) and outside of that water is seen as a symbol of life in itself it might be just a specific talisman Akali use to release water, like how another talisman of hers in game releases fire in her recall animation also a quick google search told me that the monkey zodiac is connected with the earthly branch and something called "shen" so might be a thing 👀
the fact that there are 4 people all saying first baffles me. like you can just go to the newest comments and scroll to the bottom and see who is first lol. Also whyyyyyy do people say first anyway? do they get a secret reward or something
I think u understood shen wrong when he said that balance must be maintained, I think shen wouldnt hurt a child he was just talking about the seed as a hint to akali,I think he means that if the kid cuts the tree , another one should be planted and wanted to see if akali would catch the hint if she doesn't obviously he would stop the spirit in the last second but that was a test after all so when he saw akali plant the seed with kid he knew there was nothing to worry about.
The reasoning for Akalis hair lighting up is reference to whitches and how their hair and how they believed that hair held their power it's a Strech burn who knows
@@canadiangoose1370 *Passive:* you deal +500 damage on-hit to Brambleback. *Q:* swing your axe in a cone in front of you, applying on-hit effects. *W:* collect enemies you take town as Branches, 10 Branches for Champs and 5 for Large Monsters. active: toss up to 10 Branches in a line, dealing damage and slowing per Branch. *E:* chop down your target at melee range, dealing %max health damage and bonus damage under 40%health. under 20%health, deals 50%True damage. grants a Branch on use. *R:* summon your Alpaca-Goat with its chariot after 1s, granting you massive movement speed and a shield. if the shield breaks, time runs out or you recast, hit all nearby enemies with ALL your Branches stored.
I don't think Shen wanted the kid to die, I think he wanted Akali to understand that balance has to be mantained and that it doesn't need to be as simples as if you kill something u have to die, there are other ways to restore balance and I think that is what Shen does, he probbably wanted her to see the seeds and see that she could restore the balance that way
shen's spirit blade on his back is the phisical part of the actual spirit blade, it's covered in cloth and in it self is a blunt stick, the actual spiritual part is the floating one. So when he uses twilight assault, what he's actualy doing is recalling the floating spiritual balde to the blunt blade (the conduit). That's why he apears to have 3 swords: the steel saber, the true spiritual blade and it's conduit to handle the spiritual blade.
The smaller blade behind his (out of his view) right shoulder is the Steel blade used to hurt the normal realm, while the bigger blade behind his left shoulder is the Spirit blade, u can see in game how when u use q he draws the bigger blade and the blade spirit, the thing floating in the air, gets into the spirit blade. Into/around/however u want to describe the process where its like a shdow around the physical blade.
Okay but, like, Garen and even Darius look hella thin compared to in game and art, but Shen here looks like a goddamn tree. WHY IS HE SO BIG 😫 not that I am complaining.
Shen's VA is still being used, for example recently in Legends of Runeterra, Persona 5, that one kids show on Disney Channel (Ladybug or something. The villan I mean). And his voice is still the same.
I believe the two blades on shen's back are the physical blade and the spirit blade, and there are only 2 swords. The spirit blade is not drawn and used like a normal blade, instead it takes on its own spiritual form as the floating blade we see normally.
You know what's more good? _This animation also teaching us to balance our own world_ We cut tree, we must plant another tree. If we didn't plant a new tree, just like on the cinematic, death is always the cost.
12:32 not only did they showed the kid a lesson, the whole point was actually teaching Akali that not everything is resolved with violence. That's why Shen was mostly on the side lines intervening when necessary (and also hinting Akali there's another way). Another point I should add is that I highly doubt Shen would let the kid die, he has the power to simple stop the guardian when ever he wanted and hand out the solution (planting the tree), making it a fail for Akali. So yeah, the kid wasn't the only one that learned a lesson.
7:40 maybe the guardian isn't powered from above but it is the blood of the tree that is leaking sprit stuff, which is why only is at circle where the blood was
Shen does have "3" blades in game, 2 on his back, one floating around, he use the steel one for his regular auto attacks, then when he calls the spiritual blade he switch to the second sword, thicker, glowing in blue for the empowered attacks, note that the floating blade is the replica of that second sword he uses for the empowered attacks
I wonder if the guardian was not actually apart of nature, but a sort of sentry the long-forgotten race that lived once on Ionia, but once they died people believed it was apart of nature? just a little idea I had in the back of my head.
Necrit, I'm quite confident that the third blade is the a manifestation of the spirit blade he has on his back. In game, when Shen uses his q, the "3rd blade" flies to him and he uses the spirit blade as it's sort of vessel. The reason I say this is because I think the spirit blade on Shen's back is just a means for him to summon the actual spirit blade which resides in the spirit realm; the 2 spirit blades are the same thing just on different plains of reality.
The third blade is actually apart of the spiritual blade. Like in game when you activate q it becomes one with your blade for a empowered attack. This could mean that the third blade is the spirit blade own magical current that exist within the spirit realm but the one shen has on his back is its actual form that its linked to.
yup, it could be it's just one spirit blade but the one attach on his back is just its physical form with spiritual power in it and the other one is just, a blade.
I think that the reason the reason there ate 3 blades is that, the blade he carries on his back (that is not not the blade to kill things from the physical realm) is the physical manifestation of the spirit blade. Shen is a human therefore he exists on the physical realm, so he would need a physical blade to wield, that can take the power of the spirit sword and kill spirits. So, whenever he is protecting someone he doesn't need to wield the spirit blade therefore it appears as this massive thing floating in the air, while when he is fighting spirits, he passes the blades power onto a special blade (the one on his back) to wield. Would also explained why when you dont press q the blade on his back doesn't shine.
From game itself I can tell this: 1 blade is for physical realm, 2. Blade aswell but it can be infused by magic just like Shens Q in game and that floating one is simply spirit realm one.
My guess is that Akali's hair and makeup are glowing because the soaps and makeup that are produced in Ionia are made through magical means. As in the wood weavers weave together very specific trees/plants to create saps and berries that would be perfect for their products. The side effect being that using those products make you light up like a flood light to anyone who can see into the spirit realm
The third blade is his Spirit Blade, a manifestation of Shen's power. In game, he commands the blade with his Q, which empowers the spiritual sword which is always on his back.
About the whole balance of life vs death bit: The kid took a life replacing it with death, planting the tree replenished the existence of that life hence balance was restored. Consider the life energy as currency and death energy as debt, taking money away you create debt. By planting the tree the kid paid off the debt.
never has planting a tree been so intense
true :))))))
I don't want to mess with nature anymore
Top tier xtreme gardening
You have never played "Don't starve" ey?
Wrong, tree planting is a very difficult job. Look it up
The fight between Akali and the red buff shows why Akali isn't a top tier Jungler
Akali jungle is a troll pick. She has the worst monster damage in the game.
it's blue buff get it right
@@faceless8424 yeah i do it when im bored and i like to penta some enemies
ey i mean if its night blue..............
nvm hes a joke loli
@@beanz845 i du not know wat du u say
Originally, I thought the guardian tree was actually Mecha Kingdom Jax
Good to know I am not alone
Same
Ur so FCKING Idiot lmao i love u!
Me too😂
I thought he reminded me of something!
no one:
Necrit on every cinematic video intro: Well i really want to make a video about Valorant
Fr, man be complaining a lot init
Maybe he just doesn't want us to be disappointed.
technically, he is been doing a video about valoran, its just not the one he wanted to do
In the legends of runeterra when you use the Spirit refugee card with shen on the field, he says "my fathers Blade"
When Shen says, “Balance must be restored.” I don’t think he means that the kid must die.
Yes, that’s one way to restore balance but he kind of implies multiple solutions to this problem.
I think he was trying to teach Akali to resolve things without conflict.
exactly, since he also asks akali if shes going to teach the kid a lesson "with the steel?"
Maybe Akalis hair is glowing because she used magic to style it like this. I mean how else do you get hair to look like that?
True
So yasuo's hair could possibly be also made by magic
So, Poppy's hair also got magic. Now demacia hates her.
I'd rather say yasuo's hair was made by a huge gust of wind
@@ミニシュ yordles are pretty much MADE FROM MAGIC.
9:10
Shen does only have two blades, the one that floats is the spiritual manifestation of the second blade. Which has both a spiritual form and physical form. In game when Shen presses q you can see that he pulls the spiritual blade back to him and switches from using the steel blade to the spirit blade. They look identical because its the same blade.
that makes sense now. liked
"We do know Bilgewater and Targon will be joining"
*Cries in shurima*
Roit please give us some shurima lore it has been so long it's like they forgot about shurima
@@davute9546 Where Icathia once stood might be from a couple years ago, but it's still among the best short stories in the Universe
@@MattHatter360 yeah it's a great story but It was written quite a while ago and we haven't gotten a lot of stories in shurima since then
*Cries in Void*
@@davute9546 What about Twilight of the Gods?
The top part of Akali's clothing was a bit transparent.
now i notice it too.
pretty good eye for details
Can i get a timestamp? Uh... Asking for a friend
Im just joking, don't actually do that
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@@DrBraxel when he said that the tatto was on the cloth
yeah... that was a necrit "sister in law" moment xD... its just transparent i guess
The thing above the guardian might not be power flowing into it or anything like that it might be the ghost/lingering afterimage of the tree that was on it's head that was just cut down
Yeah that was what i thought aswell
Thats what T B skyen Said aswell
Though I wonder if someone was missing an arm or something like that it would also show up in the spirit world? Maybe it goes away when the person accepts the loss of the arm or something like that?
Or maybe guardians are especially linked with their trees or something like that or as mentioned it might also be the land empowering the guardian
And the red link is just a way of visually saying that the Guardian has the kid on deathlock, as a hostile. And when it turns green, the Guardian accepts the kid as a 'friendly' or ally, and override its previous protocol to kill him. As simple as that, no life and death mumbo jumbo.
Now Im wondering if the Guardian is hell bent on hunting just the one(s) who cut its tree. I mean what if the tree was cut by more than1 person? Do they all glow red? If so, Noxians can literally send a pack of slaveworkers and let them get targeted while the others bring the Guardian down or even drive those Guardians into the Ionian settlement. It literally ignores Akali even though she did made an attempt on its life.
Akali: we must save the kid!
Shen: It iss what it iss
14:08
"Let me see what you have"
"A GUN"
"NO!"
Hey Necrit, Shen main here so everything I say is 100% canon. From a gameplay stand point, Shen’s spirit blade is both physical and spiritual, but is only empowered when both unite (he uses Q). This leads me to believe the the blade in lore exists in both planes. I also means the spirit blade on his back is inactive until the unite in the same position. I believe that it is not too far of a stretch to consider this but it’s my interpretation.
Yea, thats a cool observation. And i have so many questions. After shen uses spirit refuge on akali, he teleported near akali. He didn't use stand united or shadow dash. Maybe he is mobile than what we have in the game. There once was a story that shen suddenly appeared in the capital of noxus. The reason why I told u that is because, for the first time we knew shen was the one who infiltrating the noxian camps in Ionia from the zed comic. He also might be connected to certain characters in noxus like, swain and LeBlanc. And the last question, is shen connected to zoe? She is called aspect of twilight right?
@@kiranraveendran2437 i think its stand united he is using. whne shen is ulting in game he makes some special moves whit his hands and it looks like he does it there too (hard to tell)
winterx kiran So, Shen is much more mobile than he is in game. This is shown is the Zed Comic. He doesn’t use stand united in the story, rather, Shen can travel through the spirit realm in the blink of an eye similarly to Zed’s shadow dash. Secondly, Shen appeared in the capital of Noxus to combat Mord (I believe it was Mord, if not, a great threat) and this was not during the invasion. That combat happened after he became the eye of Twilight. Finally, Shen and Zoe are not linked to my knowledge. Zoe is called the Aspect of Twilight because of the Targonian Ascendant, but the Eye of Twilight is just the title of the Leader of the Kinkou.
Jonatan Jensen the slight hand movement was just to use spirits refuge (the safety dome) as well as to reposition his spirit blade’s position. Shen extends his hand when he does this in game
@@philipklote9857 you can see in 7:17 the stars in the back of the spirit tree.
6:39 Love how Akali sudennly turns into her kda version for no real reason xD
Modders who can't afford the kda skin for akali but still want that neo aestethic
Maybe we have seen the spirit realm, but on kda and we didn´t know that it was another thing beside a special effect
@@private5018 Maybe Shen was the one filming that shot XD
@@private5018 It could be. The lore of K/DA does mention how the people don't know the crystal tails Ahri has and the parasites on Kai'Sa are actually real and not special effects.
RAGE MAGE new skin idea: camera man shen
I just think the "3rd blade" is just a spiritual representation of the spirit blade. But thats just my assumption
yes i think it too, in actual game I think it the passive sword can creates shield
What if it's not exactly that the guardian is being empowered by above, but is more leaking magic. Almost like an exhaust pipe spews the remnants of using gasoline as fuel, this guardian was activated by the blood of a guardian tree. Mayhaps it is literally like an exhaust pipe from using that magic as fuel?
I just remembered one Swain's quote to Ionian/Vastayan Champion, (nv) that Ionia's magic is like blood spilling from a wound.
11:32 - Speaking of the color red symbolizing death, have you noticed Shen's swords in the spirit realm? I love that little detail there.
He mentioned it in the video tho
About the spirit realm looing like KDA: As the music video switches from normal vision to spirit realm vision we can see that Evelyn is also changing appearance. We can see her physical form and her spirit form (kinda), since she is a demon. Thats one of the best references i have seen in a while.
Necrit: I’m really excited to release a video on valorant
Riot: haha lore videos go brrrrrrr
I love shen, in his solo stories he is depicted to be extremely strong.
Love the solo story when he single handedly stops an invasion from the spirit world and saves Noxus.
He might be the strongest of all becoming second to mordekaiser. Actually he saves Ionia. And I think he might be connected to the demons in the game like evelyn and fiddle. And he might have some connections to LeBlanc and swain as well.
@Plague Doctor Morde can Because Aatrox and other Aspect can't fight dead monster like mordekaiser...
@Plague Doctor Well top 1 would be Aurelion Sol right? Then the Celestials/Aspects like Zoe and Pantheon. After them would be the Demons. Then Manipulators like Morde, Ekko, and then Shen?
@Plague Doctor i have to disagree. Pantheon? Really? If he were still an aspect maybe, but then again i'd say all aspects are more or less equal in strenght. But Pantheon how he is right now is Atreus, more human than Aspect. He's not even close to being in the top 5, i wouldn't even put him in the top 10.
Also, i wouldn't put Aurelion on 1. He may have "created" Runeterra, but not willingly or to his knowledge. He found out years later and just because he's big doesn't mean he's more powerful than other beings.
It's hard to rate the Champions of LoL on power because from most of them we don't know their real power. Take Karma for example: In game all she does is shield a bit and do some dmg, but in lore she's describes as one of the most powerful beings in Ionia, if not the most powerful being. Or the demigods of Freljord. We don't know their real power in lore because Ornn doesn't do much in lore and Anivia and Voli are outdated. Granted, Voli gets his rework soon, but if we can tell his real strength from that is questionable. Rating them on strength alone is like searching for lore on Gragas: There's too little to get a big picture.
@Plague Doctor Again, Pantheon right now is Atreus, not the Aspect of War. The aspect is dead, killed by Aatrox. The god is dead.
But i can see that there is no point in talking to you. You could be hit in the face with facts by Riot themselfes and still would believe that it's easy to rate the powers of characters WE DONT KNOW THE REAL POWER OF.
KDA universe theory: What if the neon parts of the music video were them actually in the spirit realm. It would be supported by Evelyn being seen as a more demonic looking shadow in the neon parts. So spirit realms existence in the KDA universe confirmed?
Kinda and it makes sense cuz when Akali's in Spirit Realm, Eve's glasses glow when she's invi ingame.
Or maybe there is no connection and its just cool so they decided to do the neon thing in this cinematic.
@@MEGASTRIX Well at least it is a referencing the spirit realm.
thats epic
"Hopefully their will not be another Cinematic."
Rito: "Another one."
what is shen carries 2 physical blades on his back, and 1 spirit blade with him via the spirit realm?
this spitir blade is then the one that is not on his back.
My though is that the spirit blade is theblade on his back, but what's on his back is just the physical form of it. Since it's a spirit weapon, though it stays wrapped up on his back (the shot near the end of Shen's back the sword looks very close to the spirit sword but is completely wrapped in cloth) but the spirit of the blade can go wherever shen needs it to.
ghettosmurf314 That’s some 200IQ 5Head thinking my man
@@cztompy i have the same thought but maybe it is the spirit of the blade itself. so he does weild two weapons its just one is the spirit blade with both its physical form and spiritual form, it would make sense that maybe the link isnt connected to shen but instead is connected to the blade.
I always thought it was a spirit blade cause the blade has a spirit lol
Ahh yes, the spitir blade
3:03
I don’t think that’s paint. It looks more like the top half is some kind of translucent lace.
If it were trance lucent, you'd be able to see the net through it too.
Theory: Akali uses magical hair dye so it is a different color in the spirit world. And her natural color is blonde.
Ill raise you one higher: Akali is bald and thats a wig
Bryan Ng that’s honestly terrifying
Ah yes the four realms: Shadow, Death, Spirit, and Minecraft.
U mean the 6 ... nether realm , overworld and the end >.>
Maybe one of the swords is the spirit sword’s conduit.
yeah, it looks very similar to the sword on his back, so maybe he uses its "magic" outside spirit realm in this form. like in game he uses this form not to damage enemies but to protect himself or to weaken them (i guess their spirits or something)
what I always believed
"Akali's tattoos are painted on her clothes" you sweet summer child. That material is sheer and thus people can see through it .
This cinematic should've been called "Akali, the mom"
actually, I thought the "balance" shen was talking about was the concept of karma. The green on the seeds represent a good karma, and the red on the guardian was attracted by the bad karma of the kid.
Maybe the extreme green colour was already there, all the time, before the kid cut the tree, maybe that's why it turned red when the tree "died", and finally when the kid and Akali planted the new tree, that original green returned, and so did balance
"Shens eyes are blue.. For the fanfictions..."
Necrit, I think you went too quick to launch these videos, many of your points seems a little too rushed and strange. Here some of the things i think would be more probable to explain some of your points.
1 - The kid is dressed in Ionian form even being an outsider because he is a settler, Noxus doesn't want to burn Ionia, they want to colonize it but their campaign failed but they still have people there so when people stay for some time in a place, plus some reasons that would be too much to point, they tend to adopt the custom of the natives because it makes life easier, clothing being one of the most common.
2 - The guardian tree isn't this system of chance where a person might cut them and awake a stone golem, they are more probably control valves of spirit energy, they exist to purify and transform energy, they are called guardian trees because this function of them is essential and akin to protection.
3 - The light on top of the golem isn't coming from above unto it, it is coming from it, it is a leak without the guardian tree the energy inside the golem is going out.
4 - About Shen third sword, I may be wrong but i think that one was just a spell and a projection of his spirit sword, during the Zed comic we see Zed kill a master that had a magical spear, the spear could create many copies of itself but when its owner died it revert to being only one, Shen sword may not be able to create many copies but it can make at least one and imbues it with its barrier abilities.
How many times Rioters need to point out Death Realm of Mordekaiser is a pocket dimension within Spirit Realm, for you to know.
Even the cinematic team doesn't know how to properly indicate balance
I'm actually excited about the "Tahm Kench" race. It seems that the demon just took the form of a common race, not that its his actual demonic form.
Shen didnt want to see the kid died. He gave Akali spirit vision to show her the seed and what is needed to be done. He knew how to save the kid but wanted to test Akali
"Why do you think akali's hair is glowing"
How do you think akali can keep her hair so pointy?
After you mentioned the glowing hilt of Shen's swords, I noticed at 12:01 that they glow red, indicating death. I just thought that was a cool little detail from the artists!
Kid wears gray, Necrit: **THAT TORQUOISE LOOKS LIKE EMERALD GREEN**
I think that the spiritual blade works in this way : since in-game it floats and when he uses the Q the spiritual blade merge with the normal blade that you are talking about, probably the spiritual blade its like a ghost. He can either use it as a ghost to create shields and teleport it, or use it in an attack by merging it with the normal blade. And of course, i suppose that when he doesnt have to teleport it and he just have to carry it around, he may maintain it merged with the blade. That explains the story.
Could the reason that Akalis hair is glowing with some sort of magic be because of the strange design in her hair cut on the back? Even if its something minor like a weak charm or something like that it would still resonate?
right could be a rune hence why her tattoos glow smart
I know this video is a month old, but I’m pretty sure that the third blade, is an astral projection of the big blade in Shen’s back. At least in-game, the floating blade is commented through a string of light to the blade in Shen’s back. And both of them glow the same color.
Necrit fans after 1 sec he didn't post a video: *SCREAMS IN TERROR*
Just wanted to say thank you for all the time and work you put into these cinematic explanations, especially as you wanted to get them out in a relevant timely manner!
Necrit, when Fiddlesticks recalls, there is a symbol that pops up around him, maybe that could help you with the demonology theory
Please like so he sees this
Didn’t he already make a video on fiddle?
That is, literally, the first thing he mentioned when checking out fiddlesticks
Akalis hair glowimg could be a neat treat. For a long time and across many cultures hair was believed to have inherent magical property and seeing Akalis hair glow reminded me of that.
Rapunzel, Vodoo magic and many more things relate hair with importance. That's why soldiers would get a lock of hair from their wife/loved one, when they went to the battlefield (because a part of that person would always be with them).
Isn't the energy in the guardian's head emanating off of it, not being drawn into it?
Agreed
Another interesting detail is that while they are in the spirit realm, each character glows at different amounts, which I assume indicates their connectivity to the magic and thus their power level. For example, in 7:09, while Akali has a little blue glow on her hands , Shen's entire visible body has turned blue. Furthermore, in 7:21, we can see that the kid has no glow, which means that he has no magic.
7:39 Warhammer winds of magic!
I just realized that the Navori Province is the same place where Syndra is from
The God of all lores Necrit
I like the speech of Necrit
Iloveit
This Ionia explanation reminds me of Frozen 2 where the elements work with you just like the nature does.
Didnt shen get a rework with a voice update. Pretty sure that wasnt 10years ago
I don't think Shen got a voice update. Gameplay update and visual but no voice updates.
Shen just got the visual and gameplay update, his voice is the same
No voice update. Same with fiora.
I demand a voice update right now.
@@kiranraveendran2437 same
im not sure if Riot is putting irl references but the monkey is a symbol of life and longevity in China (Journey to the West, Sun Wukong, which is also who Wukong is based off on) and outside of that water is seen as a symbol of life in itself
it might be just a specific talisman Akali use to release water, like how another talisman of hers in game releases fire in her recall animation
also a quick google search told me that the monkey zodiac is connected with the earthly branch and something called "shen" so might be a thing 👀
the fact that there are 4 people all saying first baffles me. like you can just go to the newest comments and scroll to the bottom and see who is first lol. Also whyyyyyy do people say first anyway? do they get a secret reward or something
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now give me that secret award
@@3rl0y ok but only if you keep it ultra secret k. I will reveal the secret recipe for the crabby patty
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I think u understood shen wrong when he said that balance must be maintained, I think shen wouldnt hurt a child he was just talking about the seed as a hint to akali,I think he means that if the kid cuts the tree , another one should be planted and wanted to see if akali would catch the hint if she doesn't obviously he would stop the spirit in the last second but that was a test after all so when he saw akali plant the seed with kid he knew there was nothing to worry about.
The reasoning for Akalis hair lighting up is reference to whitches and how their hair and how they believed that hair held their power it's a Strech burn who knows
"SHEN'S EYES ARE BLUE! Just for your fanfictions" Thanx Necrit I didn't expect that kind of detail xD
Oy I'm here quickly! And for my main as well? Nice
Tree chopper kid is my main too!
Canadian Goose lumber jack life :D
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*E:* chop down your target at melee range, dealing %max health damage and bonus damage under 40%health. under 20%health, deals 50%True damage. grants a Branch on use.
*R:* summon your Alpaca-Goat with its chariot after 1s, granting you massive movement speed and a shield. if the shield breaks, time runs out or you recast, hit all nearby enemies with ALL your Branches stored.
Why would you need a third colour to make it balanced? As long as life and death remain equal than the world will have balance.
akali is like an over entitled bigger sister, ''sigh... ill teach him a lesson!''
I don't think Shen wanted the kid to die, I think he wanted Akali to understand that balance has to be mantained and that it doesn't need to be as simples as if you kill something u have to die, there are other ways to restore balance and I think that is what Shen does, he probbably wanted her to see the seeds and see that she could restore the balance that way
Why Riot doesn't like Shurima?
Because Xerath has gone too far. xD
That man is my favorite Champion.
Because Azir screwed up.
In Asian lore, the monkey is about water and plants. Makes sense since Ionia is the Asia of Runeterra.
This is the first time i am kinda early
me too
Early squad! Im part of it
Uh congrats I guess?
shen's spirit blade on his back is the phisical part of the actual spirit blade, it's covered in cloth and in it self is a blunt stick, the actual spiritual part is the floating one. So when he uses twilight assault, what he's actualy doing is recalling the floating spiritual balde to the blunt blade (the conduit). That's why he apears to have 3 swords: the steel saber, the true spiritual blade and it's conduit to handle the spiritual blade.
The smaller blade behind his (out of his view) right shoulder is the Steel blade used to hurt the normal realm, while the bigger blade behind his left shoulder is the Spirit blade, u can see in game how when u use q he draws the bigger blade and the blade spirit, the thing floating in the air, gets into the spirit blade. Into/around/however u want to describe the process where its like a shdow around the physical blade.
Okay but, like, Garen and even Darius look hella thin compared to in game and art, but Shen here looks like a goddamn tree. WHY IS HE SO BIG 😫 not that I am complaining.
Shen's VA is still being used, for example recently in Legends of Runeterra, Persona 5, that one kids show on Disney Channel (Ladybug or something. The villan I mean). And his voice is still the same.
The two blades on Shen's back is a dauble blade that is detachable look if you combine the edges it fits perfectly.
9:42 maybe his spirit blade has a power to manifest itself wherever Shen wants it to?
I believe the two blades on shen's back are the physical blade and the spirit blade, and there are only 2 swords. The spirit blade is not drawn and used like a normal blade, instead it takes on its own spiritual form as the floating blade we see normally.
You know what's more good?
_This animation also teaching us to balance our own world_
We cut tree, we must plant another tree.
If we didn't plant a new tree, just like on the cinematic, death is always the cost.
12:32 not only did they showed the kid a lesson, the whole point was actually teaching Akali that not everything is resolved with violence. That's why Shen was mostly on the side lines intervening when necessary (and also hinting Akali there's another way). Another point I should add is that I highly doubt Shen would let the kid die, he has the power to simple stop the guardian when ever he wanted and hand out the solution (planting the tree), making it a fail for Akali. So yeah, the kid wasn't the only one that learned a lesson.
these league clips are short but heart touching, funny, flabbergasting and inspiring ❤️ i love em.... I NOW CANT GET ANY MORE EXCITED FOR ARCANE
The sword shen is using to save akali and his w is described as a manifestation of his ki in the game so its not a sword at all but just his ki
*Akali moves her finger*
Necrit: Write that down, write that down!
"It is bleeding which means that the tree is alive" All trees are alive Necrit...
7:40 maybe the guardian isn't powered from above but it is the blood of the tree that is leaking sprit stuff, which is why only is at circle where the blood was
Shen does have "3" blades in game, 2 on his back, one floating around, he use the steel one for his regular auto attacks, then when he calls the spiritual blade he switch to the second sword, thicker, glowing in blue for the empowered attacks, note that the floating blade is the replica of that second sword he uses for the empowered attacks
I always thought that the magic above the guardian is like a "shadow"/ "spirit/soul" of the tree that the boy cut down.
I wonder if the guardian was not actually apart of nature, but a sort of sentry the long-forgotten race that lived once on Ionia, but once they died people believed it was apart of nature? just a little idea I had in the back of my head.
Necrit, I'm quite confident that the third blade is the a manifestation of the spirit blade he has on his back. In game, when Shen uses his q, the "3rd blade" flies to him and he uses the spirit blade as it's sort of vessel. The reason I say this is because I think the spirit blade on Shen's back is just a means for him to summon the actual spirit blade which resides in the spirit realm; the 2 spirit blades are the same thing just on different plains of reality.
Why does akali have so much drip? From the haircut to the tattoos, no wonder she's in a kpop band.
Maybe red means "unbalanced" not death and green balanced not life, which is why you need 2 colors :D
The third blade is actually apart of the spiritual blade. Like in game when you activate q it becomes one with your blade for a empowered attack. This could mean that the third blade is the spirit blade own magical current that exist within the spirit realm but the one shen has on his back is its actual form that its linked to.
yup, it could be it's just one spirit blade but the one attach on his back is just its physical form with spiritual power in it and the other one is just, a blade.
I just can't get enough of Akali's (O.O) face when Shen touches her shoulder.
That's just like my cat on catnip.
I think that the reason the reason there ate 3 blades is that, the blade he carries on his back (that is not not the blade to kill things from the physical realm) is the physical manifestation of the spirit blade. Shen is a human therefore he exists on the physical realm, so he would need a physical blade to wield, that can take the power of the spirit sword and kill spirits.
So, whenever he is protecting someone he doesn't need to wield the spirit blade therefore it appears as this massive thing floating in the air, while when he is fighting spirits, he passes the blades power onto a special blade (the one on his back) to wield.
Would also explained why when you dont press q the blade on his back doesn't shine.
Akali's mask dissapears after her first assault on the guardian, and reappeared somewhere later :thonk:
maybe it falls down and she has too readjust it idk
Did Shen just "Golden Experience" the Guardian Tree to life...
I Shen Giovanna have a dream............
I think Everything goes KDA in spirit realm, that's why Akalis hair is like that.
From game itself I can tell this: 1 blade is for physical realm, 2. Blade aswell but it can be infused by magic just like Shens Q in game and that floating one is simply spirit realm one.
the other is for cutting food
My guess is that Akali's hair and makeup are glowing because the soaps and makeup that are produced in Ionia are made through magical means. As in the wood weavers weave together very specific trees/plants to create saps and berries that would be perfect for their products. The side effect being that using those products make you light up like a flood light to anyone who can see into the spirit realm
The third blade is his Spirit Blade, a manifestation of Shen's power. In game, he commands the blade with his Q, which empowers the spiritual sword which is always on his back.
About the whole balance of life vs death bit: The kid took a life replacing it with death, planting the tree replenished the existence of that life hence balance was restored. Consider the life energy as currency and death energy as debt, taking money away you create debt. By planting the tree the kid paid off the debt.
The two swords work out. One is just the physical anchor for the spirit blade. So he can swing it in his hand
Just wanted to say that in 11:00 the paper she has is just what she has in game with ctrl+1