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Hello Hori, my fellow Darksiders fan, ever wanted to see what seems to have been what the Pale Rider could have potentially looked like?
Design from the sketch gallery of the Battle Chasers Anthology
.............WELL! Now we know where War gets his muscles! 🤣🤣🤣
This is a man who can punch a large boulder into a magma pit.
In all seriousness though, this is pretty darn cool. Concept art is just the best 🥰
Crossover ideas! League of Legends and Battle Chasers or League of Legends and Darksiders! Or a crossover of all three!
With the first idea, you could potentially write all the characters as already existing on Runeterra, or since multiple realms exist in both BC and LoL, you could use that. With the second idea, you could play with the multiple realms as well, have the Horsemen just stopping in at some places in Runeterra, whether intentionally or not. With the third idea, you could pretty much just go crazy with the multiple realms.
Battle Chasers is open to a lot of ideas, in much part due to the series not really having an ending, at least as far as I know. I got the Battle Chasers Anthology and Battle Chasers: Nightwar, and I think there were new issues within the past year or so, but I do not think there was any ending told. Even then, in theory it could potentially crossover with either, just got to figure out how to properly do just that.
Small tangent real quick, this having crossed my mind while typing this out: multiple realms does not always equate to multiverse. Almost think of the realms as like planets or solar systems, just with very different rules or ways, as one way to put it. Using Darksiders as an example, there's the Forge Lands, Earth, Heaven, and Hell. Each place exist very differently yet can be travelled to, just usually with magic that allows such feats.
For the League of Legends and Darksiders crossover, I can imagine that every now and then that after a mission, War and Strife could stop in at The Last Drop in Zaun. Or another idea I have had, Samael appears in Zaun for whatever reason, and Ekko attacks him because this huge demonic figure appears suddenly and after Rewinding to try getting a better attack in after Samael blocks the first attempt, Samael just comments on Ekko's time powers, calling him a novice in Chronomancy.
Imagine that the Battle Chasers maybe existed in Runeterra's past and Calibretto being found and fixed up by a more tech-savvy champion, and that he has pretty much outlived his friends. Or maybe where the BC characters come from and the Crescent Isles exist far away from the main territories that all the LoL Champions come from, giving reason as to why these characters have not really encountered each other.
If you got an idea you want to add, go right for it!
So...sometimes when I kinda really want to try fleshing out an idea I have had, I try writing a story.
It works well enough as a creative process. Sometimes I feel like I start trying to create it too soon sometimes. I started on a Battle Chasers/League of Legends crossover. Specifically so far, it's the BC characters ending up in Bilgewater after the events of Ruined King.
Oh yeah! I got Ruined King! Having fun with the game, liking the story. Joe Mad and company's art style works really well for the LoL characters.
I'm probably going to finish playing through Ruined King before I fully go anywhere with the fic entirely. Probably gonna try finishing Battle Chasers: Nightwar as well. Wish me luck on finishing playing through that story. I am just pretty bad at RPGs.
Maybe I'll throw in a Darksiders cameo or reference just because I felt like it. Who knows.
So...you know what I think could be cool to see?
A Darksiders RPG. I know there is already a table-top RPG, and that the games have RPG elements, but I mean something like Battle Chasers: Nightwar or Ruined King. Where it's got multiple characters teaming up for a grand tale.
You could have it be the Horsemen teamed up by the Charred Council for a mission, or have it be one or two of them teamed up with say like a Maker, an Angel, a Demon, and someone else and go from there.
Or another cool thing that I think could work is Darksiders characters crossing over into other games. Like I could see War in Brawlhalla. Just have him as a skin for the character that got Hellboy as a skin. Or this idea I saw someone posit somewhere just for fun. One of the Horsemen being a guest fighter in a fighting game, like maybe Mortal Kombat. Or it could be cool for a Darksiders character to be a guest fighter in Riot Games' Project L. I think Joe Mad is not fully connected to the Darksiders series like he was with the first two games, but it could be cool to see if him and Riot could get War as a guest fighter, especially since Liam O'Brien voices both him and Yasuo from League of Legends.
I'm just spitballing random ideas now. Got any idea? Want to share them? Go right ahead.
Been having a whole lot of fun playing Ruined King! I'm somewhere after Thresh was first introduced into the narrative, and let me just say, in Joe Mad's art style the guy looks a whole lot more like Death than he already kind of does.
Just the idea of those two fighting is interesting. The Pale Rider vs the Chain Warden. Which would come out on top?
Related to that: I have had a League of Legends/Darksiders crossover ideas on the brain lately. Even wrote two already and posted them on Ao3. Now I just might continue that Battle Chasers/League of Legends crossover story and throw Darksiders in for the fun of it. I could probably make something really fun out of it. Fun to write, and hopefully fun for others to read.