The Voidborn are a race of eldritch horrors from League of Legends. They were created by The Watchers of the Void to gain information and consume everything, to aid the Watchers in their return to Runeterra. Some Voidborn are playable champions in the game.
Biography[]
The Watchers were primordial evils who despised reality and the mortals who lived in it. The goddess Lissandra initially promised to aid them in their goals, but she betrayed them by imprisoning them in True Ice for eternity, and rewriting information about the Watchers to be myths to mortals. The Watchers created eldritch organisms known as the Voidborn to gather information and assist them in their goal to destroy the universe. Their first prototype was Vel'Koz, and they have since created many more Voidborn.
Malzahar, a prophet who was drawn into the promises of the Watchers, became the Void's emissary and now summons new Voidborn into Runeterra. Kai'Sa, a human mutated by the Void, hunts Voidborn within their own realm.
Known Members[]
The first five playable Voidborn champions.
Cho'Gath[]
- Main article: Cho'Gath
Cho'Gath was the first Voidborn introduced. It is a being of pure hunger and destruction, who eats mortals and grows bigger as it eats more. Cho'Gath has a xenophobic hatred towards the races of Runeterra and wishes to destroy them all.
Kog'Maw[]
- Main article: Kog'Maw
Kog'Maw is a predator with acidic saliva and a never-ending appetite. He entered Runeterra by being summoned by Malzahar, and wishes to seek the prophet. Kog'Maw is not inherently evil, being more curious and hungry, especially since he is an infant by Voidborn standards.
Kha'Zix[]
- Main article: Kha'Zix
Kha'Zix arrived in Runeterra long ago, adapting over millenia of hunting to the point where he has evolved into a powerful apex predator. He dynamically adapts in conflict to gain an evolutionary advantage over his prey.
Rek'Sai[]
- Main article: Rek'Sai
Rek'Sai is the queen of the Xer'Sai, due to being the largest and fiercest of her species. She and her brood of Xer'Sai entered Shurima and have been hunting and terrorizing the Shuriman inhabitants ever since.
Vel'Koz[]
- Main article: Vel'Koz
The first Voidborn prototype to be created, Vel'Koz has a goal to obtain information of Runeterran species. He has the ability to deconstruct organic matter using lasers fired from his eye, and tests it out on frail mortals in order to see how their bodies react.
Voidlings[]
A species of small three-eyed insectoids summoned by Malzahar. He considers the Voidlings to be his disciples, and summons them to aid him in battle.
Zz'Rot[]
Also known as Voidspawn, the Zz'Rot are armored beetle-like Voidborn who are summoned by the Zz'Rot Portal, which has since been removed from the game.
Kog'Maw's father[]
An extremely powerful Voidborn heading to Runeterra to invade it and bring its end, whose existence is only implied by one of Kog'Maw's taunts: "Terror coming... Daddy coming!"
Trivia[]
- Most Voidborn's names come from the Shuriman language. For example, Vel'Koz's name means "to understand by unmaking" while Kha'Zix's means "you face yourself".
- They are based on the Great Old Ones from H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos and the Xenomorphs from Alien.
- The Voidborn champions, as well as the Voidling and Zz'Rot minions, had their models and animations reused for alien enemies in the Invasion and Odyssey: Extraction game modes.
