Hwei:"after all this years, I finally find you, why did you do all of this!" Jhin: "It was funny"

Hwei being step 4 makes his "3" gimmick all the more profound. Hwei's "3" number scheme represents what happens if Jhin's 4th act never comes to pass.

Jhin has a quote "My work asks questions. It never has answers" And now Jhin's work has left Hwei with so many questions and no answers

Jhin really going through his Joker phase FR.

Fun fact: Jhin is indeed classified as a Mage in the collection tab in the client.

I like that there are no demons in the story. He feels like a counterpart to Jhin

So this means Hwei is canonically Jhin's n°1 fan

Before Hwei Bio: Oh, a demonic artist revenge story. After Hwei Bio: Oh, a depressed artist love story.

Im not gonna lie, i always found it funny that people really thought he was gonna have connection with demons SOLELY because eyes and teeth on his visuals, when those are near perfect representation of the darker side of his artistic vision consuming him.

Gotta remember that Jhin's nickname was "the Golden Demon"

On the PBE, Jhin and Hwei have a quest, sort of how Vi/Cait and Jinx, or Lissandra and Ashe have, where one has to kill another with their ultimate. If Jhin wins, he gets 4.444 Lethality. If Hwei wins, he gets 3.33 Magic Pen. Making me think that Hwei's thing is 3.

So Hwei is searching for jhin to understand what it was all four?

I really don't think hwei needs to be connected to demons, he feels perfect as just an artist, he NEEDS to express himself not because he is forced to by others, but because he himself feels natural need to do it. If a demon was involved i actually think it would undermine his complex emotions.

I can now imagine a legendary skin for hwei that can change into either light or dark for the whole game (kind of like kayn&rhaast)

I’ve been starving for this. Necrit blessing us all with quality content as per usual.

Jhin is a mage. Well, not a mage mage, wizard kind of type. But he has magical powers. If you read his abilities you see that they say: ''Jhin imbues the final bullet with dark magics to critically strike.'' ''Jhin launches a MAGICAL cartridge.'' He may not be a mage who casts spells, but he has magical powers that he uses in his art.

finally jihns art was apprecieted

Technically Jhin is a mage, since he infused his daggers (first murder weapon) with magic and later the bullets for his ranged weapons.

Wonder if Jhin kept Hwei alive due to his simmilar passion for arts, or cause Hwei's name consists of 4 letters. 🤔

Also fun fact about the very last bit with Jhin, his secondary role in the client is listed as a mage (or at least used to since idk if thats still there or not)

Hwei look at his destroyed village and be like: "Peak Arson! This is so peak 🥹"

Jhin WANTS to be killed by Hwei. It would create another Jhin, continuing his legacy. That is step 4.

The best way I can describe their relationship is will and Hannibal in the Hannibal TV show

Jhin's nickname is literally called "the golden demon" and did influence Hwei in some ways. It doesn't have to be an ACTUAL demon since Jhin messed with his complex emotions like an actual demon so its pretty close imo. I'm pretty sure Jhin wants Hwei to pursue him so Hwei could create a path of destruction just to get some answers. Hwei is Jhin 4th tragedy in the making but it isn't certain yet until he finds him. There is alot of different directions this story could go so I'm super invested in it and I already fkin love Hwei as a champion. ... I just noticed all my favorite champs/lore are either crazy/depressed/tragic like Hwei, Vex, Jhin, Aphelios, Jinx, Zoe lmao

i think he wants answers but he already kinda know it, jhin freed him from his ties or chains to his duties since they were holding him back, now he can explore the potential jhin saw on him, he is free to explore his talent withuout retrains. Talking about it wouldnt have helped him, we are bound to be what others expect and dont prioritize our potential, but without a reason to stay he could trully be free. Destuction can be a new way to renew things, old ways or traditions are hard to change and leave little room for improvement. starting anew can bring something much better or worse, it all depends on what is painted on the new canvas.

I think it would be really interesting if Sona was one of those people that were exiled from Hwei's temple for becoming too good at their mystical art. Sona being able to telepathically communicate, and force emotions and even body movements, on others through her music lines up exactly with the guidelines Hwei's story states are reasons for someone to be exiled from the temple.Then at some point after her exile, while she's wandering trying to find a new home, she gets picked up and brought to Demacia. And if Sona was part of the temple, that would open up the possibility that it's not explicitly a paint-magic temple, but an art-magic temple, and that there could be other future champions that were prior exiles from there with other art forms. Imagine a new champ that literally dances around the battlefield, or one that makes sculptures that come to life to fight for them, etc. Heck, maybe even Jhin was an exile playwright who was able to make his actors perform exactly as he wanted in a puppeteer type way against their wills, and he grew fascinated with tragedy plays and wants to make the whole world itself into one giant tragedy filled with death and beauty. Could even say that Sona managed to follow the "light" path and resist the temptations of the "dark", while Jhin was the opposite - falling fully into the "dark" and losing sight of the "light". While Hwei is now having to experience that struggle himself.

Wouldn't it be crazy cool if the emotion magic thing Hwei and Sona have was the antithesis of the Demons? It would be dope what you can do with a demon and the ability to influence emotions via magic. Or maybe Demons ARE that magic (sry if I am out of the loop on a bit of lore)

I like that Hwei isnt connected to demons. We need to remember this about worldbuilding... just because it is there not all needs to be connected. A world isn't so small that every single things has to have a connection with it other. A balance must be struck with each new story, it is fun to make unexpected mixtures but it good too have "homegenious" situations. We got Nillah recently as someone with a direct connection to a demon... and even as a expansion of the world as she is from a new continent, i don't think that if Hwei did have a demon contract it would make his story bad, but i like that the "demon" he is connected too is in reality one of the well constructed "monsters" from universe. About Jhin's magic... i think he is a illusionist, his main form of damage is "physical" but he can imbue his weapons with magic to create images, and in the case of his lotus bombs they get empowered because they must be some sort of special "magitech", like hextech but Ionian in nature. We do know that the Kashuri armory was making very special weapons even by the standard of Piltover and Zaun, and Jhin having what i think is a genius level intellect he must be able to at least be able to replicated some of those weapons... but he is still connected to some of the inventors to replenish on new toys.

Dope ass champion. The Vex OTP in me makes me especially dig his gloominess, green hair, and fear as well!

I defintely see it more as a student finally having his eyes be open by a master and less of a romantic thing but to each his own.

2:37 he kinda looks like Victor in Arcane 🧐

A small thing to note is that the temple massacre was Jhin's first performance after being freed from Tuula

Hwei is Jhin's art project. I think the disaster is Jhin's way of painting emotions onto Hwei so he can both unleash and give direction to his art. Or smth like that, we gotta wait and see.

To the debate of it being a sorts of "romantic" obsession or not - I don't interpret it that way, but honestly, I feel like the writers want people to interpret Hwei and Jhin as they please. I think Hwei's mind is too complex and disturbed to be discerning those things clearly anyway.

Riot drops an arcane teaser: 20 MIN VIEDO LETS GO!!! Riot drops new lore: yeah 13min... I guess.

I kind of wished the bio (or video) went a bit more in depth with basically Hwei after the temple explosion. In the sense of him going around and either traumatizing people with his art by showing them atrocities or helping people. It's an interesting duality that fits with his character and something I think, at least the former, that Jhin brought out in him. I'm really interested to see where Hwei's story goes from here and I hope it isn't the last we hear from both Jhin and Hwei.

One random thing that just came to mind in that the "ink circle" behind Hwei, besides looking like the Ouroboros, it also reminds me of the japanese "Ensō" ink circle. Please google it if you are interested, since the explanation would be a little long to write here. That Ensō circle has some interesting meanings in japanese culture. And since Ionia is basically the "Asia" of Runeterra, they may have took some inspiration from Ensō as well. If it's the case, maybe we can understand a little more of Hwei's art, his inspiration and his view of the world from there too. Also, the Ensō ink circle is related to Zen buddhism. And since Hwei was also in a Temple, that's another small connection there...

And eventually, his genius was finally understood.

One rioter said on reddit or twitter i dont remember that they never planned to connect hwei to any demons

3:58 "the cool thing about this is sona is orphan" XD

I mean, camilles eyes did turn blue in the awaken cinematic after seeing the traps. Refrencing her passive

Yeah that's my favourite part about Hwei's bio/reveal. Always wondered what Jhin's bombs were meant to be. Always assumed they were some hextech fireworks- now I imagine they're infused with ink magic.

Ionia is a land of Art. Hwei's painting Sona's music Irelia's dancing Yasuo's swordsmanship Jhin's killing Yi's Wuuju Everything in ionia comes down to art

It makes me wonder if the Jhin teaser shows the 4 masters getting turned into "art". It's 4 different people in the teaser.

Jhin has been listed as a mage in the list of champions on the client for bare time, thats crazy

After many years Hwei finally manages to track down and ask Jhin a very important question. "Why did you do it?", asks Hwei. Jhin pauses for a moment and then turns to Hwei and says, "lol, lmao even" before swiftly taking his leave.

Everytime Jhin gets Lore connections, its always peak- Gahdamn. Also- Necrit. Have you watched the new videos on the Legends of Runeterra videos? Another chance to make a vid out of a ~1minute video!~

So if we no longer get written medium like color stories, does that mean we will get a cinematic for hwei?

Necrit actually found the hwei

Omg, Necrit, you have such a great voice and charisma to read stories, i wish i could have audio book read by you

Even if there are no other Demons in Hwei's story, there is always The Golden Demon. 😎

I missed these kind of videos tbh. Long time fan here.

As a Jhin main, I like this. That splash art is so beautiful btw.

Horray! I was waiting for Necrit to talk more about Hwei, but I'm surprised I'm this early :D

4:05 You know. It is the attention to detail. And the fact that you made the connection between their magic origins add so much more depth to the world.

happy to hear sona mentioned ♡ thank you necrit

Now that i think of it, Hwei does know how Jhin looks under the mask. Technically so does Shen and Zed but they couldn't recognize him in a croud since he doesn't have noticeable features. Hwei spent some time with him talking and comparing art so would he be able to identify him? He could have had the mask on the entire time tho, specially since he introduced himself as his stage name Khada Jhin.

11:28 he IS his rival though... there is literally a whole in-game event where they have to kill each other

i need it in arcane season 3 please just imagine how gentle the colors would be the first half to the episode with jhin and hwei getting to know each other better then it cuts to black as hwei is asleep just to awake to the walls "so red with blood, flames, and... flowers." just imagine thousands of little explosions in a spider verse like art style

I feel like jhin WANTED his step four to be hwei killing him...

I love how Necrit's eyes glow up when he said :"Its lore accurate"

I have i serious insomnia that i can't handle without medication , but somehow, your voice helps me so much falling in sleep, thank you.

I am relieved. Honestly. I think an artist doesn't need demons to have power and imagination. I think the artistic developers see him as a "self insert".

In league client, achievements section, Collection tab, you can see that Jhin is considered to be a Mage because he's listed in the Mage Specialist achievement, that always bothered me for some reason

I feel like Jhin did this to make an artist he felt was worthy to out shine him and take his place or kill him

Hwei is step 4. In game, the two get passives when facing each other at level 12 (4 and 3 being present). If Hwei is able to ult Jhin to death, he shows him their skill and able to make Jhin cry from either the beauty or pain. If Jhin is able to ult Hwei to death, he makes Hwei his fourth piece and reaches his own twisted artistic talent as he puts an end to Hwei's.

Jhin: *destroys Hwei's home* Hwei: beautiful... oh wait-- boo hoo.

They are the Hannibal Lecter and Will Graham of Runeterra

I'm RELIEVED about no demons, let Jhin be insane on his own right!

One of the possibilities that you mentioned, that being a "person who dances around the battlefield" seems more akin to Irelia, given that her story seems to be themed around dancing with the blades

I saw some cute fanart of Sett comissioning Hwei and paying him in Arena tickets

Jhin is definitely a mage and his signature spell is gun

in the league client jhin is actually classified as a mage and i never understood why untill this point

Jhin is actually classified as a mage in the collection tab of the client.

Still surprised that people don't talk much about AP Jhin except for Jhin.exe videos

If you check the challenge for getting mastery 7 on mages, it lists the champions that fall under the classification. For quite some time now, I have wondered why Jhin was in there.

Jhin has always been sort of a mage. He gets his weapons from the Kashuri armory and that patron from Legends of Runeterra but he always makes the bullets and infuse them with magic. The gun has to be some sort of hextech weapon that unleashes the raw magic contained in the bullets in different shapes based on the design so that the flesh and innard of his victims turn into trees, flowers and other shapes + I believe he also uses some sort of ilusion to enhance the effect and dissapear when interacted with based on Zed's comic, tho maybe its all in his imagination and the victims only see gore. Also he has to be a mage because he was able to do similar things with knives before he escaped the prison and got upgraded with the new arsenal.

Thats why we find Jhin at the Mage section in the client xd

No Hwei we got a new lore video

We waitin mordekaiser story cmon necrit boy

the dude just wants Jhin autograph

hweis name also forms number 4 on the keybord 😊

Hm, interesting tale, i wonder where it will go and what it will mean for Jhin.

Not good clothing design, however the silhouette in gane is amazing, and his lore is pure fire, that clothing design just really need some upgrades

I would think they're actual rivals since in the game if Hwei kills Jhin and vice versa they get a buff

I thought he’d be paired with the demon of despair thought that would be pretty cool but the story we got is cool too

They both have 4 letter names.

So what you're sayings is jhin knows the Hwei

Anyone know what background music necrotic uses for these videos? It’s relaxing

Necrit: DEMONS

IV BEEN GONE FROM LEAGE FOR 5 MONTHS. AND MORD GOT NEW LORE?!?! WHAT

demons are still there jihn the golden demon

3:57 smash

I wouldn't say that Hwei wouldn't face self improvement by killing Jhin, just that that's merely one of a pallet of possibilities that could unfold when they find eachother again.

Just as jhin is just a crazy and insane man so is hwei a crazy and insane man.

I just realised something. Hwei has a choker. My man will be on hearsteels second album together won’t he 💀.

If he had demon connections I would’ve loved for him to interact with Nilah for example

Mage with guns....hmm I definitely had seen this before 😂

Idk about that demon thing, it looked like a longshot from the start

12:35 Isn't it because his weapons are enchanted?