The reign of the warden

by CrownedBatDuchess

He was well known in the myths. But not in a good way. He was infamous, like a boogeyman. He existed in bedtime stories and campfire tales to warn us and our children not to torture people or play with their minds. But is this all? Was he always so evil? My expansion of Thresh's origin story. Part one of the Shadow Isles collection.

1. Introduction

Introduction:

We all have heard about Shadow Isles, right? The island is so thick in fog that no one can see it. It used to be such a wonderful place. But then the darkness fell. The darkness covered the island, swallowed it and turned the inhabitants into monsters. And so has that cursed place been in ages. A wicked place, filled with wicked souls.

Well, I have told you that the inhabitants aren't the kindest people around. Well, I bet you are curious, right? About who they are. Well, there is Elise, the Queen of Spiders. She pretends to be a leader of the Spidergod worshipping cult, but in truth she is one herself. Then there is Karthus, who was once a man, but gave his life to be one of the undead. Hecarim, the ghostly half man half horse hybrid. Yorick, the gravedigger. Mordekaiser the living agony. Possibly Evelynn; a powerful assasin from Valoran. And finally myself, Pandora. I am here to tell the tragic and twisted tales of the damned souls.

The first tale of the Shadow Isles isn't about any of the champions I mentioned. No, it's about Thresh, the chain warden. The sadistic spectre who brings the souls of the dead to the isles. He isn't your typical grim reaper, however. He is ready to kill people to get the souls he wants. He loves to torture others both psychically and mentally, and to see them break down. He takes their sanity apart piece by piece and then he kills them and steals their souls. But the torture doesn't end here. He continues to play with the souls for a long time. How long? So long until he gets bored. And when he gets bored, no one knows what happens to you. He will possibly devour the souls, unless the souls have started to have a mind of their own .

Thresh's origins are pretty much in mystery. No one knows exactly what he used to be before, possibly not even the warden himself remembers. He has only been in legends and nursery rhymes that warn about him. Those tales tell about an insane jailer who enjoyed to torture his victims. However, the prisoners did an outbreak and ended up hanging the warden. This is all we know about the wardens origins. Or is it?

As a shadowhissler myself I did some research of the acient myths. Not that I wanted to. Because in my opinion the warden is too egoistical. He thinks that he owns this place. That this is his special little basement to his soul collection. His own little horror show. It isn't. No one owns the isles. It is its own sentinental being.

Oh, did I go crazy here? I'm sorry. Well, anyhow, I did some research about some acient stories about Valoran and found something... quite interesting. However, it wasn't until a couple of days ago when I got proof. That was the day when the warden caught an interest in a soul.

It wasn´t any soul however.

It was the muse.

AN hello I usually don´t like to do authors note´s but chosed to do an expection this time. Why? Because this is the first chapter of my newest project the shadow isles saga. So I am on the roll with LoL and wanted to do some expansions into the shadow isle champs stories :3. And I am sorry if the introduction is boring. I promise the next chapter will be better. See ya and R&R

~Chained