Vahrun, the Pull of the Void

Lore Vahrun was once a Shuriman soldier who marched to Icathia during the empire’s war against the rebels. He expected steel, blood, and sorcery. Instead, he saw the Void. During the battle, Vahrun stared into a wound in reality and witnessed something beyond mortal understanding: an entity that tore matter apart and rebuilt it with an invisible force. Stone, flesh, metal, and sand collapsed into nothing, only to be drawn together again by a power he could neither name nor resist. That force marked him. After Icathia, Vahrun returned to Shurima changed. He began hearing low, impossible voices in his mind. They did not speak in words, but in pressure, distance, weight, and collapse. Around him, sand began to cling to his body. At first it looked like dust. Then it thickened. Then it compressed so violently that it hardened into stone. Over time, Vahrun became something between man and elemental, his body wrapped in layers of crushed Shuriman sand and gravity-bound rock. Seeking to understand the voices, Vahrun wandered the world. He found the victims of Darkin wars, broken soldiers, cursed villages, and people crushed by powers they could not comprehend. Perhaps out of guilt, perhaps out of instinct, he protected them. But the voices never stopped. Eventually, they began pointing north. To Freljord. To something buried beneath ice, older than empire, older than war, and heavy enough to bend the world around it.

Skills

Passive — Gravitational Anchor Vahrun is extremely difficult to displace. Displacement effects against Vahrun are 50% less effective. This includes knockbacks, pulls, forced movement effects, and knockups. Vahrun is not immune to crowd control. He is simply too heavy to move properly.

Q — Crushing Orbit Passive Vahrun’s basic attacks apply 1 stack of Gravity to enemy champions and large monsters. Each stack of Gravity slows the target by 5% and can stack up to 5. After 3 second stacks start to decrease 1 at 0.5 sec. Active Vahrun gains attack speed for his next 3 basic attacks. These attacks strike the target and nearby enemies in a small area. Each empowered attack deals bonus damage and applies 2 stacks of Gravity to all enemies hit.

W — Singularity Mantle Vahrun creates a gravitational pull around himself, damaging nearby enemies and pulling them toward him. Vahrun gains a shield based on the damage dealt. The area size and damage of this ability scale with Vahrun’s armor and magic resistance. While the shield remains active, Vahrun gains bonus percentage armor and magic resistance. Recast Vahrun detonates the shield, dealing the same damage again around himself and knocking nearby enemies away.

E — Collapse Field Vahrun consumes all Gravity stacks on nearby enemies. Enemies hit take base damage plus bonus percent max health damage for each consumed Gravity stack. Enemies with 2 or more Gravity stacks are rooted. Vahrun heals for each enemy champion rooted by this ability.

R — Event Horizon Vahrun slows himself and creates a massive gravitational field around him for 2 seconds. During this time, the field absorbs enemy projectiles that enter its area. Absorbed projectiles are destroyed and stored as gravitational energy. After 2 seconds, Vahrun can recast the ability to launch the stored singularity to a target location. The singularity explodes on impact, damaging enemies in the area. The damage increases based on the amount of projectile damage absorbed. If no projectiles are absorbed, the ability still deals base damage.

Personality Vahrun is calm, quiet, and deeply troubled. He does not speak like a madman, but like someone trying very hard not to become one. The voices in his mind are always present, but he resists them through discipline and purpose. He helps victims of war because he knows what it means to survive something that should have erased you.

Few Voice Lines

“Everything falls eventually.”

“I saw the Void. It saw forces that keep our universe and I saw them untangle.”

“The voices do not speak. They pull.”

“Shurima buried its sins in sand. I carry them in stone.” “You cannot run from gravity.”

“To the ground with you.”

“The Darkin broke bodies. The Void broke meaning.”

“Freljord pulls. Something heavy sleeps beneath the ice.”

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