Skarner's New Lore Arrived... (Lore Explained)

My answer to the questions about the other brakerns (it's not a real theory, more like a cool "what if" since I don't think Riot will give monster champions much lore or compelling stories anymore. But it's ok, I'll do it myself).

There used to be more brakerns, a lot more. Even in his isolation, skarner could hear them through the vibrations in the earth. Sometimes the older brakerns stopped moving and their sounds became more like a quiet melody, this process of crystallization is the last stage of a Brakern's life, im which their elemental magic is so refined that they become part of runeterra itself, creating new waves of magic under the surface of the planet. This also happened to Skarner's mother many centuries ago, in her lair down near the center of the planet. He can still hear her melody in his chamber.
But her melody is the only voice is still able to hear from his loved ones. Everything else is quiet. But before there was the silence, there were the screamings.
Skarner will never forget the first time he heard it, the sound of a brother dying, then he heard another, then many more. They all screamed, some in fear, some in anger, some in agony, but one by one, all their svreams fizzled out, like drops of water in an allconsuming desert.
What followed was excruciating to listen to. Crystals all around the world, shattering, their melodies breaking and distorting, leaving to never be heard again and with them, the magic left as well.

Now there are only two sounds Skarner hears over the walls, his mother, stll sleeping, stll safe, and a voice, a voice calling him, a nightmarish sound just outsides his walls, slowly clawing his way through the barrier.
Mandibles clapping, claws digging and giant jaws laughing with a sound of millions of screams.
Cho'gath is coming to finish his meal, and it's only a matter of time before the last two sons of Nixalę fight each other to the death, a fight that will shake the mountains and determine the future of an entire nation.

finally soms REAL LORE! beside the cringe lore that riot set striaght that become so oo stinky that every champion lost their lore.

At least he did not become Ultron after seeing the true face of humanity

things evolve and get bigger when they get access to more oxygen so since skarner spent a long time on the surface he probably got ALOT bigger with time (since there's not alot of oxygen underground where brakern mostly spend their time)

How's Skarner not Ixtals God? How did they not worship the mountain sized scorpion people as their pantheon? How did anyone forget where something that big was last seen?

wouldn't suprise me if they got skarner cards soonish in Legends of Runeterra with this update and lore live now

K'sante was released in 2022 ????

They should've kept his old lore

maybe with evolution, like in our earth, all the brackern became small scorpions and only skarner is the ancient massive scorpion left

Skarner splash show us that the city is build on his image, there are highlight in green on the city drawing to show that

Perhaps the lore is being worked on for a large overhaul, that or they are slowing down the story progression. Only logical explanation.

Is Skarner still the last of his kind?

I don't think the last line should be read as he'd rather destroy Ixtal directly than letting them go. It's more likely that it refers to his isolationist mentality eventually killing the kingdom. The passage of time to him is nothing, but to the humans of Ixtal it's been about a hundred generations since the isolation began. It's a miracle that Ixtal hasn't collapsed already.

Skarner literally is just a soft protective puppy. So Adorable

bro hates change

Runeterra confirmed is a Hallow Planet

Skarners new lore is very good imo. People don’t understand the end but I think it’s similar to those stories about AI killing humanity cause it was the best way to keep them safe. He will do anything even kill them if it means he doesn’t have to witness their pain again, his paranoia spear heading this

About the Ixtali contribution to the creation of the ascended... maybe it was a secret project from them.

Sure, the new lore says that Skarner can read the "waves" in the earth to observe the world, but that doesnt mean he knows all (and even if he says he knows, remember to take all a character say about themselves with care), and going by the fact that Skarner sense of time flow seems very different than the human one, maybe when he finally noticed the ascended, it was after Ixtal started to rethink their involvement with them.

And i think it is pretty clear that when Skarner noticed the ascended Ixtal civilization was already well in its tracks, so i don't think this is that big of "plothole" if even it is one.

We don't know all the details that go around the writers train of thought, LoL lore is very good but it doesnt have the same cohesion as a book, a few considerations can be put in place.

Galio de gauche

i think the "become the roots of its destruction" line means that, he will do anything to protect ixtal, even if that overprotection ends up leading to their self destruction or something like an outside attack is able to reach the city and no one is prepared to defend themselves becasue they know nothing about the outside world

What if they change it so all the remnants of the brackern were affected by the void and turned into the Xersai or whatever reksai is, they did mention having a keen awareness of vibrations

I dont play league anymore but your videos are still entertaining, carry on man!

Fascinating!

No!!!!

I just want to see a story where Skarner interacts with Malphite, the 2 big bois of ixtal.

Ok but giant, massive fckng Skarner and Malphite vs The Void cinematic when?

My headcannon is that Skarner never left his broodmother. The entire continent of Shurima is on her back.

BABE WAKE UP, WILD RIFT RELEASE NEW TRAILER ABOUT KALISTA, AND YES SHE HAVE FAMILY

brooo what about our queen seraphine what will happen to her

>Ixtal portion says that they partook in the first ascension
>Whereas Skarner's portion says he watched the ascended fight for land before Ixtal even joined them

My Headcanon is just that each portion of the lore is written in the way of the POV of each of the characters and/or civilizations
Ixtal people saying they helped with the first ascension except they never noticed the ascended people that Skarner did see (I mean considering the size of skarner he could see things way far than humans would)
again, just a headcanon

As for the last sentence "Even if he becomes the root of their destruction" my read is that he'll protect Ixtal at whatever cost, even if that leads to the city coming down by itself
Similarly to stories/series/movies where they show overprotection, where the one that is being overprotected starts to crumble in despair and desperation at the lack of freedom, like how you woudl go insane by staying in a single room and nothing more
if Skarner forces Ixtal people to remain, the civilization may go into insanity and/or cause the Ixtal people to hate him and come to an act of war
that the sentence is less of Skarner's POV into destroying the city, and more in a narrating POV where the city may come to hell if Skarner enforces people to stay.

Im waiting for quianna to leave ixtal, find nilah, befriend her in someway, and bring her to fight skarner

I won't trust your titles again!

I'm just glad Skarner's family isn't Seraphine's skateboard anymore

wait so where is shen from? is he not from runterra?

At this rate they should just consult you to see if any new changes check out

Does anyone knows what they will do with Camille? Bracken and Hextech are huge parts of her lore.

So, Skarner adopted the humans.
Like humans keep ant farms - he keeps humans

He's the first earthbender

you know how they could have saved the Brackern lore? make it so that Skarner lost his brothers to the piltovians and that he couldn't help them because he was sealed away in Ixtal to protect it.
that would make it way more believable that he would rather destroy ixtal than let his brothers' sacrifice go to waste.
there, 30 seconds and i connected the lore to the existing ones without too many changes

Old lore was better.. Why riot has to destroy every thing good? Riot is like reverse Midas: Everything they touch turns to garbage.

So the Brackern are pretty much Badgermoles, having taught Ixtal Earthbending?

In regards to the size, i think it might be safe to assume that skarner is about the same size as the broodmother by now... maybe....
perhaps because he specifically stayed behind to "learn the ways" he's an exception and grew that big despite the rest of his clan remaining smaller (yet probably still big compared to humans)

Riot should hire you as a Storywriter😊

I miss my kind

The explanation for Shurima X Ixtal relationship could be simple, members of the Ixtali people participate in the creation of the ascended before the whole nation joined the empire. But Skarner wouldn’t have known of that fact, so from his point of view they didn’t know of each other

Can't wait for the hollow earth reveal

SERAPHINE IS SAVED

Skarner is the only one we see cause he is basically the kid who goes out to play with bugs while the others stay inside and just chill