Vel'Koz (2024)

It is unclear if Vel'Koz was the first Voidborn to emerge on Runeterra, but there has certainly never been another to match his level of cruel, calculating sentience. While his kin devour or defile everything around them, he seeks instead to scrutinize and study the physical realm—and the strange, warlike beings that dwell there—for any weakness the Void might exploit. But Vel'Koz is far from a passive observer, striking back at threats with deadly plasma, or by disrupting the very fabric of the world itself.

	"Only by deconstruction is truth revealed." —Vel'Koz
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Background[]

Origin[]

One of the first Voidborn, created by the hands of the Watchers, who has been known by many names but the ancient Shurimans named it Vel'Koz, or "to understand by unmaking". Vel'Koz was created to watch, listen and learn from the living, so the Watchers could know best how to destroy them. And so Vel'Koz did, silently observing the various landscapes of Runeterra, watching as civilizations rise and fall. Now and again it travels back through the great rifts in the fabric of Runeterra, back into the Void to relay everything it has seen before promptly returning back to the goal of its existance.

But to understand, sometimes requires unmaking. Vel'Koz often leaves towns empty, with no sign of struggles except for the withered husks of its former residents, with a distinct dark pit where their left eye would be; a wound left by Vel'Koz's devouring of knowledge.

Destruction of Tokogol[]

Fairly recently, Vel'Koz has been sighted in the region of Tokogol where it destroyed the region's namesake village.

Appearance[]

Vel'Koz is a floating, otherworldly creature, composed almost entirely of three tentacles and a single, massive eye. His central eye is a glowing, violet orb with a dark, catlike pupil, though he also seems to have three smaller eyes protruding from stalks. His tentacles are dark turquoise at the base, fading into bright violet at the tips. He wears a pale, golden armor over his frame.

Personality[]

As a Voidborn, Vel'Koz is shown to be extremely dispassionate towards the denizens of Runeterra. He has zero empathy for the people he studies and executes his tasks with cold and calculated efficiency. However, unlike other Voidborn, Vel'Koz is not obsessed with destruction or consuming the world around him but instead to observe and collect information about the world of Runeterra. This puts his seemingly-cruel approach in a different light, as it appears his experiments are borne solely out of curiosity. To that end, accumulating knowledge seems to be his only drive, and he does this by annihilating the subjects of his study.

Abilities[]

• Voidborn: Vel'Koz is a Voidborn, a being birthed from the Void to enter the material realm. Because the Void possesses different laws of reality, Voidborn have to create new bodies from the matter of Runeterra.
  • Knowledge Absorpion: Vel'Koz can absorb the knowledge of other living beings by inserting one of his tentacles inside of them. By absorbing the knowledge of other living beings, he leaves them as nothing more than withered husks.
  • Void Energy Emission: Vel'Koz can emit powerful beams of Void energy from both his tentacles and his eye. He can control the intensity of these beams from small surgical cuts to massive blasts of destructive power.
  • Levitation: Vel'Koz generally moves by floating above the ground.
  • Tentacles: Vel'Koz can use the tentacles to smash, grip, and crush foes as well as project void energy.

Relations[]

Humans[]

Kassadin seeks to keep the Voidborn from crossing over to Runeterra and thus is his enemy (and a nice research subject). Malzahar on the other hand seeks to facilitate the crossing and thus is his ally (Vel'Koz is no stranger to killing other Voidborn who might destroy his research materials, though).

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Biography

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Trivia[]

• Vel'Koz's lore is the first to be told in first person.
• Vel'Koz's purpose is to gain knowledge on Runeterra. Through disintegration.
• Vel'Koz's eyes can be removed from his body (the largest can even fly, as seen when he dies)
• Eyeballing similarities between Vel'Koz and the Frozen Watchers lead credence to the idea they might be related.
  • The specifics are uncertain, but they imply the veil between Runeterra and the Void shattering in the Freljord and members of Vel'Koz's Voidborn species crossing into the frozen realm.
    • Adaptation (seeing as the Voidborn that Diana fought turned purple from pale after being exposed to Runeterra's atmosphere) was the key to their evolution, and the need for Iceborn 'subjects' and a subsequent 'empire' to conduct mass research on the world they landed in (much like Vel'Koz is doing at present).
• According to his recently updated lore, Vel'Koz may be the oldest surviving Voidborn, whose ancient Shuriman name Vel'Koz roughly means "to understand by unmaking" in modern Shuriman.

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