The Void
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Facing the Void
Mistress, Pleased to note, caravan skirting the site revealed something new. As reported, these creatures appear to seize into reality. Form abstract at first, likely not original, individuals assume solid shape then feed voraciously on anything nearby. Such immense strength, hunger, I can scarcely imagine results if directed against our enemies. Will advise caution—move outpost closer to ruins. I remain your servant.
Mistress, No creature movement in last four days. Many in outpost camp complain of mild headaches, aversion to light. Some appear lost in thought, cannot readily remember own name, rank, close family, or purpose of expedition. Feels somewhat infectious. I remain.
Others gone into ruins. Memory. Memory? Like trying to hold on to water. Not entirely unpleasant. Not. Not entirely. Are these my hands? I can't. Hard to remember. Must fight. Fight it. If you don’t fight, it washes you away. Nice. To be washed away. When I close my eyes, close, my eye. Nothing— Go to back, go to, go back now. Ienthia awaits me.
An Unknowable Power
In the abyssal darkness, deep underground, it is believed that the first great Void creatures to walk the surface of Runeterra now lie, dormant and unseen. If that is true, then they have waited patiently through the millennia, and it must surely now be time for them to rise once more.
Salt the Earth
One of the few known ways to combat the Void is to starve it. With no organic or magical sustenance nearby, the Void’s material growth will slow, until it eventually falls into a dormant state.
The Voidborn
Though it has bred many of them, no two horrors of the Void are exactly the same. Their otherworldly forms are as varied as they are terrifying—yet all are driven by an insatiable hunger, with the eerie pulsing of their hearts driving them relentlessly onward.
Armored In Darkness
Some legends suggest that, when they first emerge into the Runeterran air, the Voidborn are generally pale, fibrous and flexible. As they age, sections of their form harden into a darker, shell-like chitin, which can become strong enough to turn aside almost any weapon.
The Touch of the Void
Over the centuries, many mortals from the world above have answered the Void’s call, or been dragged down against their will. There are those among them—few and far between—who have survived the encounter... though not a single one of them returned unchanged.
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