I definitely think Shimmer has some kind of connection with the Void, whether Singed realizes or not. The hexcore looks like it's turning into some kind of Void thing, which only started to happen once it got a taste of Viktor's Shimmer-spiked blood.

I've played a fair bit of both league of legends as well as the card game legends of runeterra and everything about shimmer's aesthetic screams The Void to me. We'll see in season 2.

Damn. I never heard the missing inspiration rune theory before. That's super cool and sounds 100% plausible.

Fun fact: Arcane magic that is in hextech critals consumes from the memories/souls of a long forgoten species called brekern of which skarner is. This species uses the cristals to pass down the colective knowledge of all the brekerns that used that specific cristal before and when you hear a melody from the cristals that represents their screams of agony, because thier very memories/souls are being consumed when the cristals consumes magic.

I see so many people talking about how Sky's involvement wasn't properly set up but I think it's perfect how it's all about the symbolism and the desperation of "what could have been." We don't get to see any more of her than Viktor pays attention to her.

Why is no one understanding that its the Creature that has a mutation that is amplified by the plant and then extracted from Signed to create shimmer... Signed says "the mutation cannot die" he refers to the Creature... if it was the plant then he would have the plant in the containment tube

(possible spoilers for season 2 cause of the stuff thats already known in game) for me, ive always thought it was similar to the game as we pick a combination of runes to invoke certain abilities. So through out the series we see transportation, but in ep3 we see a hint at time rewinding with the glass shards, hinting at ekkos time rewinding ability. So they can definetly invoke different abilities with different combinations of runes, this is why i think in ep 3 jayce was dialing each rune like a combination. Same with viktors hexcore, its like a rubics cube, he tried every combination in a specific way and then finalized it to see if it worked. So i do think youre right about the inspiration rune missing coming from sky. then again, thats just a theory... A GAA, no seriously its just a theory. pls be nice :)

God damn runeterra's lore is crazy good for it being improvised

It would be awesome if Viktor makes a second Hexcore with Sky’s notes, and maybe because of some of his own innate magic triggered by the shimmer, the colour of the magic ends up orange (matching his in game colour scheme).

I don't think the hex crystal magic was changing color. Shimmer seems implied to just be combustible, hence why it's used as a fuel (and seems to be an implied component in the rounds for Jinx's gun given her shots are frequently purple). To me it just seemed like sparks from the crystal explosion ignited the fungal-like Shimmer growth left on the ground and the fireball in the lab was just all that processed liquid shimmer going up like a gas explosion.

Is it explained more somewhere in League? I always thought it was random powers, but I guess there's some cohesion they are trying to put there. Good stuff.

really well made video and the connection you make between sky and inspiration is really smart

Your attention to detail is amazing, well done! Never even considered the association with inspiration, and it's very clearly intentional.

Love your videos dude! Keep up the good work!

Dang the colors being used so efficiently.

Mm, knowing the lore, I want to clarify some things. First, void isn't exactly magic, more exactly, is Anti-magic, it destroys everything it touches and corrupt them, so IMO, I don't think that shimmer is void, and more just a product of magic with some kind of chemistry combine (after all, it seem that to produce shimmer you need biological producer) Also, the reason (at least I believe it is) that the hexcore is purple is because the magic of the hex gem is blue, and blood is red, so, red plus blue makes purple, also, one item of viktor (is gimmick in game) is the hexcore, in its first form is purple and it's also called "prototype hexcore", meaning, if it's close to the Viktor in game, he will found a way to refine it.

This is welldone👍👍

3:12 nahhh thats raums influence on swain

the core actually try turns itself after recieving Viktor's blood like it's learning its new body, like those AI experiement on tentacles legs, before Viktor use the hand thing to turn the runic symbols and it's more stable, it only create small explosion , I think it's when Viktor hit the wrong combination.... after it vaperized Sky and became a living thing, it actually took a while to responded to Viktor's chair move with a shock, implying it's still learning....

...What? Okay. Hold On. Couple of things. I understand your theory on the Hex-crystals, but both the Atlas Gauntlets and Fishbones ignored that rule. The Crystals ARE unstable because they break not because they're pressurized, which results in a shockwave force strong enough to cause disintegration (which makes no sense because everyone one the bridge except Deckard should've also been disintegrated but whatever). My main issue comes with the claim that "Science and Magic follows the same set of rules," but there's been no insinuation of that, since "science" we've witnessed was mechanical activation of runic magical energy. Mechanical Engineering and Chemical Engineering are vastly different processes. Another is the assumption that Shimmer ensured Viktor's survivability. In the show it's a precaution not a certainty, but based on what we know about shimmer previously, it can both heal and increase durable. The concern was the evolutionary procedure that would take place would be more than his body can handle, because the plants couldn't handle it, what wasn't discussed, and only touched on by Heimerdinger, was that the Hexcore had already changed Viktor, and he did not turn to dust (approaching it when he returned to the lab was how he realized it responds to organic matter). Him needing the shimmer is presumption, but we don't know if he did, what we do know is it was taken to mitigate the risk of him dying. Additionally the second time he used it, he did it shimmerless and a change still occurred; cautiously, whether it was an exchange for Skye is up for interpretation, but I would disagree because it tried to change Skye as well, and she withered like the plants did. I have theories on what happened to change the Hexcore, but all of those would include knowledge from the game's lore so I won't touch as it could be spoilerish (although ppl are pointing it out below, but there's details surrounding it that supports the possibly that no one has touched). Last few Things, the inspiration is probably not a "rune" more than a game specific as in fitting the category more than being one. Inspiration isn't like the others, where the other's focus on boistering abilities and self-improvement, while inspiration is thematically intellectual advantage via tool usage which is probably why the symbol is a magical device (although I'll admit Precision is Ironic). Second: It wasn't the mixture of magic that *ahem* singed Singed, but the ignition of the residue already on the ground. We know Shimmer is ignitable, we watch it occur again in episode 4.

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Wonder how time magic works it ekko uses a device but zilean uses magic.

If sky came faster ...

You spelled adaptive wrong

hmm

Magic is Magic!!!!!