The last questions have an easy answer: runeterra is flat, and by digging too much the brackern fall off

They had to forcefully retcon his lore just to save Seraphine's ass🤣

Skarner is Rek'sai's hard counter in the lore

The deserts are to the west of Ixtal, settlers from the east implies that they're from the eastern continent, so maybe Camavor?

Soooo Skarner's a Neet mommys boy who plays Civ and gets mad when he loses so destroys his own civilization before someone else can...

A tale as old as time. Man meets dog, man loves dog, dog eats the whole dang chocolate bar (WHY), man goes crazy with the peroxide and ensures it never happens again.

so skarner has become a badger mole from avatar? listens to vibrations, listens and waits, has rock based powers and lives secluded in a (secret) tunnel?

The race that Skarnee is from should have unlimited growth potential, but since they live underground they never get too big, maybe still very large like bus or train size, but not the size of Skarner. The reason he is as big as he is, is bc he lived above ground for so long and was able to grow freely, however he has stopped growing since he returned to the underground

Didn't the story say that the Ixtali people migrated to the jungle, which would mean that the country and place was named after the people and not the other way round? This would mean that the Ixtali could still take part in creating the Ascended, not as a country but as a tribe of people.

Once again everything is bright again

Shurima is to the West, not the East. East is where Viego (Camavor) and Nilah (Kathkan) are from. The people from the East also settled on the Blessed Isles and Bilgewater.

i love the idea of skarner, a bug, oversees the humans as ant-keepers oversees ant colonies

"Is Runeterra hollow?" No but I'd bet it has something similar to the underdark in D&D.

the monsterverse in ruinterra sounds funny with the hollow earth idea. I mean the rest of the clans have to be somewhere, and if Skarner is the only one people have seen, they likely are in a space below ground. Could be a fun place to make cho real in ruinterra. I like the idea of cho being Bel's pet project to destroy the world if she fails to take it over, but idea of void born being in hollow earth and that is where cho has been all this time would be pretty interesting.

Necrit at 1:17: "Because it really feels like the good old days of simply getting good stories" Skarner at 1:17: "...but I am no mere story"

I loved his crystal looked. I will miss that the most

That's a really good story. It sounds like a bit of the start of Attack on Titan.

Hey Necrit! Small correction from a fan! This is a great video but from the east would be the opposite side of Shurima. I think they are referring to the Westward Migration of people from the first lands, Ionia. If you were in Ixtal that would be people coming from the East. Not Shurima

My biggest problem with the new story is that they seemingly only did this to make the arcane cast and other Piltovian champions look better. I mean Jayce and Victor should know where they come from as they are probably the only ones buying them. That would also make Victor who is a fan favourite a big hypocrite and everyone else at one point would either have to throw their weapons away or continue using the enslaved half-dead/undead/dead Brackern. So instead they cut Skarners and the Brackerns connection with the Hexcrystals and turned one of the only champions in League who suffered from oppresion into a paranoid, almost schizophrenic, kaiju-sized tyrant, who basically enslaved all of the Ixtal and I guess would prefer to kill them then let them have their own free will.

So Skarner is now a very possessive yandere girlfriend

Wait, if they fix Skarner's origin and he has nothing to do with Hextech anymore. Hextech also transitions to ancient Rune origins, meaning Seraphine is no longer talking to scorpions in Hextech crystals, she is talking to ancient ghosts?

Republican Galio lore goes hard

Considering the size of Runeterra map as we know it so far, and how massive Skarner is, it is literaly to assume that the map of Runeterra we have now is probably like 5-10% of the actual planet, because to sustain whole several clans of these massives beings, the planet would either have to be massive, OR, it's like spiders, where the majority of them perish before reaching a size as big as Skarner

7:30 Just because Ixtali played significant role in creating first Ascended, doesn't mean they were part of Shuriman Empire, so it's not a plothole in my opinion. Maybe there were diplamatic allies until Shurima decided to start conquering, maybe some Ixtali people left their city and joined Shurima first, or maybe Ixtali people were kidnapped and forced into helping.

Skarner should get cinematic

The scuttle crabs are not baby Brackern. The scuttle crabs are not baby Brackern. The scuttle crabs are not baby Brackern. 😱

SKARNER IN 2025 CINEMATIC FOR SURE

Makes me appreciate the lore a bit more, thanks Necrit!

Now I want to know what he was doing during the ruination

My theory about the Brakkern size (having not read the new lore fully) is that they grow with age, and Skarner is only as big as he is because he’s so old. Although to be fair, that then implies that there should be other Brakkern even bigger than he is lol

So it seems like Ixtal is like the walled city in Aeon Flux but with a paranoid tyrant named Skarner🤣🤣🤣🤣

I like that his main goal is still protective in nature

imagine if runeterra has something like godzilla's hollow earth. that would be interesting

Maplhite appears to be having a visual update next 🔥

Honestly they just need to make a champ that stumbles upon hextech, is able to communicate with the souls lingering in them and decides to desroy piltover while raising an undead army of hextech souls to avenge themselves

Since there are other brekern, couldn't they still keep the lore with Camille and Seraphine just change it from Skarner having direct influence on the story with another tribe being affected. Could solve the size of brekern concern if they are being killed while still adolescent?

Hey Necrit. Would it be possible to do a video explaining how each champion fits in the lore timeline. I know it's not perfect but I think it be an awesome video. It can even be like a 2 hour long movie video mega project. Get the lore people on a discord or kidnap a riot employee and get him to spill the details. When you mentioned malphite in this video I'd love to know more of how each champion pushed the story of runeterra. Have a good day regardless

7:33 Ixtal first member was in Surima and they do help to create the first Ascended, they left their home because of the corruption for power. Those guy met Skarner and form Ixtal, well they do have something to exchange for the protection from him.

Its skarners all the way down

Strong TITAN, trying to protect "his people"... isolating the city and telling everyone that the world outside is dead... Did someone just speedruned Attack on Titan on weekend and came up with idea for new scarner lore?

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I don't need sleep, I neeed to know

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

That segment when Necrit talks about how magic flows in the planet, reminds me of the lifestream from FF7.

Wow I miss getting multiple stories on universe 😢

Let me get this straight... Old Skarner was, what? Close to Rek'Sai size? New Skarner is more like Malphite?

its been a while since the last full lore video :D

Okay the last line went hard

when u described the first time skarner met humans it felt like the same way i would describe seeing a colony of ants

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

So Nila going to fight skarner next

The biggest question I would like to address is the Vidalion related to Skarner? Like can be as a gift initially to translate Brackern's language into Ixtalis as they see seismic vibrations as threads and implied as easier communication between their kin.

they could still say that hextech was made from a brackern clan that is being farmed in secret or something

Yeah I hate that they're making him an antagonist. The setup feels like a step in the right direction, but at the end of the day, he's still a monster to be opposed, not a savior of his people (even if he was a doomed one originally). I feel like having the Void directly do something to the Brackern, and this leading him to those years of isolation -> the world is now changing and the Ixtal that he once knew is long gone -> he must learn to overcome the pain of the past (a send up to his old personality) and advise/lead Ixtal before it makes the same mistakes or worse. You still have a source of conflict, but he's still a fundamentally compassionate character who's not being presented as a problem Qiyana or Milio will have to "solve"

Wild rift is now adding brecklings as objective which i think is really cool of them to explore some of skarners new lore

My head cannon is that skarner became so big in the influence of elemental power, in the centruies he spent with ixtal

I think an easy way to fill in the gap without deleting the idea that Ixtak had a hand in the creation of the ascendant is also pretty simple: have the one who started that experimentation be an Ixtali Scholar or a number of them.

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

I would have loved if they made all alive breckern share a mass quantity due to magic or something, so the more breckern there are, the smaller... And the less there are, well... Skarner :')

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)

I thought his story would be about how his clan got corrupted by void which is why he's the last one. Something like the first mage asked for the bracken to help and after losing hid Ixtal. Well if they are dead underground, Piltover going into Ixtal to harvest Bracken fossils.

Runeterra confirmed is a Hallow Planet

Just played as him in ARAM. He's legit.

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)

>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.

I wonder if anyone worked out how large runeterra is. There are so many Gigantic creatures just roaming the world.

Skarner is probably just like the biggest rooster kind of deal.

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

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

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

11:44 Yeah they didnt think this through… They DESPERATELY wanted to get that “““““““Horror“““““““ element in there Edit: This isnt Horror at all. This is some tagged on, wannabe - M. Night Shamalan - nonsense

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

I don't believe there's a lore plot hole with Ixtal and the Ascended. My best guess is that Ixtal did help the Shuriman Empire create the first Ascended. The Ascended then conquered other parts of the Shurima continent, but didn't attack Ixtal itself. Instead, the Shuriman Empire invited Ixtal to form an alliance, which Ixtal accepted. ^_^

Hm, very interesting, I wonder what this will mean for the Future. Also, yeah, i hope we get some answers onto some of the questions.

volibear: boomer who loves! pain! suffering! death! and wants his region to be full of bloodlust and war!💀 skarner: boomer who fears! pain! suffering! death! and wants his region to be fully isolated and peaceful!☮ the people under volibears controll: 💪👁👁👉🫀🩸 the people under skarners controll: 👁👄👁👉🥀🌻

What I don't like about his new story is it makes him a villain to overcome for ixtal to open to the outside world, and it seems a set up for him to get beaten.

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

We about to get the Hollow Runeterra in the lore.

So, Skarner is now a obsessive yandere who will happily just observe their target as long as they follow the rules

Just like I am suprised RIOT doesnt run things past Vadriril to check for bugs before release. I am suprised RIOT does not run lore past Necrit to check for inconsistencies

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

So what you're saying is... Skarner has a Toxic relationship with Ixtal

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

So even Runeterra has leylines

He's the first earthbender

Maybe the underground of Runeterra is larger than the world itself. Like a magical bag of holding. If that were the case, Riot would never run out of potential areas for their MMO, even if they only stayed on Valoran and didn't explore other continents.

HOLLOW RUNETERRA THEORY LETS FUGGIN GOOOOOOOOOOOOO. Forreal though, that opens up so many options for cool stuff, since we the void seem to love being underground.

So the brackerns are the original earth benders

The fact skarner is so huge he could probably be seen in the map makes him having a full race feel like a big miscalculation, either we've got hollow earth going on or they just didn't even realize that made skarner too big to be a normal race

So riot, how big are the brackern now? Y E S

This thing about energy flowing, sounds alot like ley-lines from gw2, and now thinking about, world runes sounds alot like bloodstones, but hey, I liked the new story from Skarner, really did.

League of Legends' kaijus There are more lands to be explore above surface. What more if there is a hollow earth

imagine the riot mmo, another city where u can do tons of story, and then u go into a dungeon and fight against a boss skarner to farm materials and get your boss armor from him lets wait until 2070 for riot mmo i guess

I've been expecting you ;)

Hollow earth Runeterra? Hmm... Am I smelling an epic Kaiju update for ChoGath?

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

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

runetera is hollow now thats the biggest consipiracy ive heard in that case im borrwing some of garens arm pads in demacia turn it into a consipiracy hat

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.

can you please make a new "How Powerful Are Champions According to Lore"