Artist Spotlight: Tyler Soo Lum
Role: 3D Character Artist
Twitter - ArtStation
In light of Riot Games laying off 11% of their staff globally, I want to make a series of posts highlighting the portfolios of those affected, so that we can appreciate their contributions to the world of Runeterra and continue to support them. You can find a full list of those known to be affected here.
Star Guardian Nilah Model (source)
Milio, the Gentle Flame Model (source)
K/DA Akali & K/DA ALL OUT Akali - TFT Arena Models (source)
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WHY STAR GUARDIAN NILAH IS CREEPIER AND WAY MORE TWISTED THAN YOU REMEMBER
First of all, i want to thank and credit Sir Catnip III for uploading the novel on youtube. All the screenshots on this post were sourced from their videos, so again thank you Sir Catnip The Third !!!
Star guardian 2022 summer event surely added a lot of new content regarding the AU, and i couldnt be more happy that nilah took an special spotlight in it
(people will say that it’s not true but i have arguments that, in fact, nilah had a major role in the development of the novel story, however people are not prepared for it nor it’s the topic i wanna discuss here)
Before i dive further in my analysis, i need to refresh your minds (or bring up the evidences to the table)
in the second chapter of the novel, it was revealed to us the nature of Fiddlesticks and what happened to Harp
[context: Syndra is describing what happened to Harp after she fell]
basically, Harp fell and due to an external force, she turned into the monster Fiddlestick we know
(also notice how Fiddlesticks battle act goes by its formal title as part of The Ten, which ashlesh makes part as well)
proceeding with the analysis, now looking at what nilah exposed at the novel
nilah directly affirms that fiddle and ashlesh are alike... they are both fallen guardians
you still didnt get it i believe
ok so... in short, nilah carries a trapped undead guardian in her waist....
cute, isnt it?
(isnt it just like carrying a coffin around?)
ok now i will indulge myself with THEORY AND HEADCANON MOMENT, so from now on be aware that it’s gonna be my interpretations and imagination at play
the whole thing goes further: nilah also says that ashlesh is the star of joy - a pretender star, to be more specific (notice how zoe, despite being a pretender star, is also called star guardian, confirming again that ashlesh was once a common guardian)
this is something oddly interesting, since fiddle is just described as a monster and the only star related directly to it is zoe
this could put ashlesh higher on the hierarchy “can this thing destroy the universe without sweating?”; fiddle is presented much more like a local thread going after tasty star guardians, ashlesh could devour the universe if free
now let’s analise ashlesh situation: is a star guardian (very happy very cool), gets corrupted/crazy, becomes a pretender star, ultimately falls BUT its existence and influence goes on...
what if ashlesh had a different motivation? what if ashlesh was too obsessed to die...?
i mean, zoe lives in anarchy, refusing to follow any rules
fiddlesticks represents the fear the guardians have to face
as fiddle represents its main thematic from the base runeterra, so do ashlesh; “[it pushes joy to its hideous extremes, feeding on the dark, inverted aspects of the emotion, like delirium and obsession]”
ashlesh could be, in this case to make things more interesting, an counterpart for zoe; if zoe respects no rule, then ashlesh follows everything to a literal point
as star guardian it values discipline, discipline spirals into obsession, it wants to serve the First Star so bad it starts to hallucinate, until it is so deep in a state of delirium that it begins to consume everything, without discrimination...
ashlesh is a very interesting character in the SG universe because we have no information about it unlike fiddlesticks, yet we can affirm that, once, ashlesh was just another teenager, living the best of their lives...and then the oath happened
as for last thought, i imagine how things would develop if ashlesh was originally part of nilah’s team? some will say that this is not possible (i actually have a theory explaining this) but im here for the sadness and angst ehehehe...
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