Viego

Viego is a skinny (too much) man wraith with pale skin and white hair. In his head there is a spectral green crown and he has a triangle-shaped wound on his chest, where Black Mist pours out. He wears a jacket accompanied by black leather pants with light armor and not having a shirt, revealing his bare, sculpted chest. The irises of his eyes are green and the sclera is black. He wields Sanctity, the Blade of the King, a spectral Zweihänder with the crest of Camavor on its hilt.

Before becoming a wraith, Viego was a human that is complexion was almost fair and his skin was lightly tanned along with brown hair. He wore a blue leather jacket and t-shirt with black shoulder pads accompanied by gauntlets with gold details. He also wore brown pants with black boots. He wielded an uncorrupted version of Sanctity, adorned by gold and jewels.

Before being an wraith, he was going to be crowned king when his father died, despite not being prepared for it. Shortly after his reign, Viego falls in love with a peasant seamstress named Isolde, who some time later becomes his wife. Because of this, he had begun to neglect his kingdom in favor of his queen, Isolde, and his enemies began to plot against him. They had sent an assassin to kill the wayward king, Viego, but they were intercepted by Kalista. So instead, Isolde ended up being poisoned.

Even though Viego ordered the nation's greatest healers and scholars to find a cure for Isolde, they failed and Isolde ended up dying. Viego took Isolde to the Blessed Isles and put her in lowered Isolde into the waters' healing properties, hoping to revive her. Isolde revived but.. she arose as a horrifying wraith of shadow and rage, and in her pain, her anger, her confusion at being ripped from death, attacked Viego with his own sword. The magic of Viego's blade and the blessed waters mixed, transforming it into the Black Mist and unleashing ruination. The Blessed Isles would transform into the Shadow Isles and Viego slumbered within his blade for centuries.

Viego would eventually be awakened by Gangplank and Thresh, who planned on using him to conquer Bilgewater. Still weak from his slumber, Viego gathered his strength, fueled by his desire to be reunited with his queen, Isolde. Eventually Gangplank would try to subjugate Viego with a powerful amulet, but would fall to the king's power. He would possess Gangplank and used him to hold off Ahri, Braum, Illaoi, Miss Fortune, Pyke, and Yasuo, while Viego flew to Bilgewater to search for Isolde. The champions of Bilgewater would eventually defeat Viego, weakening him with his own memories and imprisoning him within the amulet.

At some point Viego would escape the amulet and resume his search for Isolde. He would be made aware of a fragment of her soul within Senna and intercepted her and her husband Lucian. Viego would unleash Harrowings in Demacia, Ionia, and Noxus while he tried to separate the fragment from Senna. He would manage to pry a portion of the fragment within her before they escaped. Viego soon encountered a gloomy emo generic yordle on the Shadow Isles named Vex. Vex was enamored by Viego's darkness and agreed to help spread the Black Mist across the world. With the help of his new companion, Viego would unleash a global Harrowing to scour the world for the soul fragments. But Vex ended up abandoning Viego when she found out that Viego did all this for love.

Viego is serious, passionate but arrogant, having an extreme obsession with reviving his dead wife, Isolde. Because of his obsession, he was willing to slaughter thousands of people and defy death itself to bring her back, even wanting to take the world, Runeterra, into darkness.

Isolde was a poor seamstress with light skin and auburn-ginger (sometimes orange) hair. The king of Camavor, Viego, fell in love with her at first sight and they began dating, ending up quickly getting married. Viego was so in love with her that it was already an obsession and he became disinterested in his kingdom, just worrying about her. Camavor's enemies took advantage of Viego's ignorance, and sent an assassin to kill Viego using a poisoned blade.

The assassination was successfully foiled, but Isolde was accidentally grazed by the dagger and subsequently poisoned. Despite all of Viego's attempts to cure her, she ended up dying. After the events of the Shadow Isles and Viego's resurrection, he revived Isolde for the second time. Isolde pitied at what Viego had become: a bitter obsession that ignored everything and everyone else, one that would not let go of what must be lost. She prompted Akshan to kill her and she die.. again. Isolde's soul fragments are now all over Runeterra. Despite that "little" incident, Viego still has the obsession of revive her.

In life, Kalista was a woman with an athletic physique, brown skin, brown eyes, and long, flowing black hair. Kalista is Viego's niece and was his most trusted general in life. Despite being her uncle, Kalista was like an older sister to Viego, the two were friends for a long time since he was largely ignored in favor of Kalista's father. When Viego became king, her negative attitude worsened and they grew apart but she remained loyal to him. She managed to protect Viego from an assassin who ultimately poisoned Isolde.

She would set sail in order to find a cure, but found it too late and was imprisoned as a traitor for her failure. Hecarim managed to convince her to lead Viego and their army to the Blessed Isles for the Waters of Life. When the masters of the island refused to let them use the water, Viego ordered her to kill anyone who opposed them but she refused. She refused and tried to get Hecarim to stand with her, but he and his knights killed her by driving their spears into her back, before killing her lover, Ledros, and all the Camavoran soldiers loyal to her. Some time later, she was revived in the form of a wraith and is now a vengeful spirit.

Gwen has the appearance of a pale young woman of medium height. Her hair is blue and curled into two long curls decorated with dark blue ribbons and she usually dresses in a white dress with black trim and a blue chest, decorated with gold details and holds a giant blue scissors. She was originally a doll created in Isolde's childhood. Isolde loved her doll very much and as time passed, Isolde met Viego and couldn't have much time with her doll, Gwen. Gwen could feel that Viego made her creator happy, but their love became sour and painful. When Isolde died and Viego would cause the ruined, causing Camavor's nation to crumble and Gwen would be forgotten in centuries. Gwen would come to life thanks to the fragment of Isolde's soul that was spread throughout Runeterra.

She would soon be attacked by a swarm of wraiths and remembered the pain associated with Viego, she quickly dispatched the wraiths and knew that they were tied with him. Fascinated by the wonders of life, Gwen would set out to explore the world and stop the pain caused by Viego and the Black Mist and she opposes Viego and sided with the Sentinels of Light to stop the pain he has caused in his search for Isolde's soul fragments. After some time, Gwen continued to clear the black mist on the Shadow Isles and now she is in a house of the Midnight Revel, a grand ball hosted by friendly spirits, whom invited her in as their guest of honor. She attended the party, protecting it from the Black Mist and dancing the night away.

In life, Hecarim was a tall and handsome human, with silver and gold armor and having dark eyes and being leader of the Iron Order, a brotherhood of knights which vowed to protect the king's lands. Under Viego, Hecarim and the Iron Order acted as the king's enforcers and quelled growing dissent after Viego began neglecting his duties. Hecarim and his knights accompanied Viego to the Blessed Isles.

They held off Kalista's forces and pillaged the city while Viego attempted to heal Isolde. When the ruin happened and the Black Mist spread throughout the place, Hecarim called for a retreat, but it was too late. Every member of the Iron Order was consumed by the Mist, ending with Hecarim himself. When the Mist took him, it permanently merged Hecarim with his warhorse. He is now an undead monster, a living engine of wrath. Now, Hecarim does not think highly of Viego and only continues to follow him because he can spread the Black Mist across Runeterra and allows him to pillage the land.

Vladimir is a tall man with an eternally young face. He has medium length white hair and blue eyes that glow red when he uses his magic. Viego is Vladimir's nephew and they are only distantly related due to descending from the royalty of Camavor. After Isolde was poisoned, Viego refused to respond to Vladimir's letter, not knowing Vladimir had the power that could have saved her.

As a human, Thresh was a fair-skinned man with a long, bony face and dark brown hair and black eyes. Thresh took it upon himself to lead Viego to the Waters of Life After delighting how Hecarim and his knights took the opportunity to slaughter the monks and all of the natives that had refused to let Viego use The Waters of Life to revive his wife. Isolde's resurrection failed and caused a blast of magic that corrupted the Blessed Isles' protective mist into the Black Mist, turning all of the inhabitants into wraiths.

Thresh embraced his transformation and eager to act out his desires for cruelty without punishment or the limits of mortality. After a while. Viego would eventually be awakened by Gangplank and Thresh, in order to use him to conquer Bilgewater. Thresh plotted against Viego during Rise of the Sentinels and secretly siphoned the excess Black Mist he was producing in order the unbind himself from the Shadow Isles.

Vex is a yordle with pale skin, purple eyes, light turqoise hair, and a black nose and mouth. Vex was enamored by Viego's desire to plunge the world into darkness and aided him in causing a global ruination, but after finding out that he did all this for love, she ended up abandoning him like trash.

The land now known as the Shadow Isles was once a Blessed Isles beautiful realm, but it was shattered by a magical cataclysm. Black Mist permanently shrouds the isles and the land itself is tainted, corrupted by malevolent sorcery sorcery. Living beings that stand upon the Shadow Isles slowly have their life-force leeched from them, which, in turn, draws the insatiable, predatory spirits of the dead. Those who perish within the Black Mist are condemned to haunt this melancholy land for eternity. Worse, the power of the Shadow Isles is waxing stronger with every passing year, allowing the shades of undeath to extend their range and reap souls all across Runeterra.

Wraiths are the predominant undead found on the Shadow Isles. These twisted spirits are remnants of their former selves that were ripped away from their living bodies by the Black Mist that oozed out of broken heart. The stronger a Wraith's sense of self is, the stronger it will be as a result.

The Black Mist is a thick shroud that covers the Shadow Isles and the surrounding seaside. It's a prison of souls, trapping any living being it touches in the moment of death, only the strongest of souls who retain their personality and desires can escape its grasp. But the manifestations of those souls who escape the Mist can be killed with the right tools or by other spirits. They are doomed to return to the mist, sometimes staying there for centuries, other times just some days. Manifested spirits can use the Black Mist to travel anywhere it touches, even though stronger spirits may venture beyond the isles without a Harrowing.

Expert Swordsman: Viego is an adept swordsman, having had the best fighters of Camavor teach him. Black Mist Mastery: Having been the source of the Ruination, Viego has control of the Black Mist. [Flight: Viego was shown to be able to fly with the aid of the Black Mist in Ruined King.] [Mind Control: Viego can use the Black Mist to possess and control his opponents. This power can also be used on flora.] [Healing: Viego can restore himself with the Black Mist.] [Shadow Travel: Viego can travel through the Black Mist at incredible speed. A limitation of this ability is that he cannot travel if the Black Mist is interrupted.] [Black Mist Creation: Viego endlessly generates Black Mist from the triangle shaped wound in his chest.] [Resurrection: Viego can use the Black Mist to revive the dead.] [Mistwalker Control: Viego can create and control mistwalker ghouls.] Magic: Viego was the first member of the royal family to display magical abilities, likely inherited from his mother. Enhanced Strength: Viego was shown to have strength to rival someone as powerful as Pantheon and could collapse buildings with a single strike. Undead Body: Viego does not appear to have the same physical limitations as someone who is alive, like the need for rest or nourishment. His body has been preserved to look as it did centuries ago.

Viego's real name is Viego Santiarul Molach vol Kalah Heigaari. Maokai and Yorick were hunting for Viego in hope of restoring the Blessed Isles. Senna was cursed to have a fragment of Isolde's soul within her. Viego was in his early 20s during the first Ruination One of the "cures" Viego purchased was a spell that prevented Isolde's corpse from decaying. Viego is the "Ruined King" because he was emotionally ruined when Isolde was killed, which caused him to trigger the Ruination. The black mist corrupts people and makes them look altered and monstrous. Viego controls the black mist and not vice versa, so he hasn't been corrupted by it at all and become monstrous like other Shadow Isles beings. Once he was awakened, Viego set out to revive Isolde by gathering the fragments of her soul, which were stored in fetters scattered across Runeterra. The fetters include: Senna, Gwen, The Maiden of the Mist, a hand mirror, an ivory comb, a wine flagon, a silver flower, a copper sundial, a parasol, a jade mask, a brass bell, and a reed basket.