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Sadistic and cunning, Thresh Thresh is an ambitious and restless spirit of the Shadow Isles Crest icon Shadow Isles. Once the custodian of countless arcane secrets, he sought a power greater than life or death, and now sustains himself by tormenting and breaking others with slow, excruciating inventiveness. His victims suffer far beyond their brief mortal coil as Thresh wreaks agony upon their souls, imprisoning them in his unholy lantern to torture for all eternity.


ThreshSquare"The mind is a wondrous thing to tear apart."  Thresh
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Background[]

Early life[]

The wraith Thresh was born in the Blessed Isles Crest icon Blessed Isles as Erlok Grael, a monk of Helia. He served in the order for many years, expecting to be recognized among Helia's masters, but due to his humble background he was delegated to work as a warden to safeguard Helia's magical artifacts which he took as an insult. Grael felt bitter towards his new position as he believed himself more gifted than his noble-born peers who got more prestigious roles, and that his lowly position would stop him from being recognized.[1] After years of working in the vault, Grael grew bitter and cruel. Growing frustrated over his fellow wardens getting killed by the artifacts, he took interest in a nameless tome claimed to whisper one's darkest thoughts. Grael kept the tome in his possession, but his superior, Head Warden Rastofir, stopped him and threatened to demote him. Angered, he believed that Rastofir was trying to steal his research for his own benefit, so he arranged Rastofir to be killed by a miscategorized artifact so he could manipulate the order into a pragmatic direction.[2]

The Ruination[]

One day, a fleet of ships from Camavor Crest icon Camavor invaded the Blessed Isles, led by their king Viego Viego whom wanted to use the Waters of Life to resurrect his wife Isolde Isolde. When the monks refused, Hecarim Hecarim and his knights took the opportunity to slaughter the monks and all of the natives. Grael delighted in the carnage and suffering that ensued, and took it upon himself to lead Viego to the Waters of Life. 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. Grael embraced his transformation and took on the moniker Thresh, eager to act out his desires for cruelty without punishment or the limits of mortality. As decades passed, Thresh's spectral form morphed into a reflection of his darkest traits. He roamed the Shadow Isles Crest icon Shadow Isles killing people and imprisoning their souls within his lantern, becoming known in the folklore of Runeterra Crest icon Runeterra as a bogeyman figure.

Capture of Senna[]

Many years later, Thresh encountered Lucian Lucian and Senna Senna, a married couple of Sentinels of Light Crest icon Sentinels of Light, in a forbidden Helian vault in search of a cure for the latter's curse. Overzealous in his goal to save Senna, Lucian refused to turn back, but his decision cost him Senna's life as she sacrificed herself to save him from an oncoming attack from Thresh. The wraith trapped her soul in his lantern, with Lucian spending years battling his arch-enemy, all while Thresh taunted him by holding Senna's soul ransom.

Eventually, Lucian was able to set Senna's soul free by blasting Thresh's lantern open. While he expected the souls to pass on, Senna re-emerged with her newfound ability to control the Black Mist. Though Thresh was defeated, he decided to let them have their victory as he would toy with them in the future.

The Ruined King[]

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Unbound[]

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Appearance[]

As a human, Thresh was a fair-skinned man with a long, bony face and dark brown hair and eyes. After being unbound, he can still assume a human disguise, but with green eyes.

As a wraith, Thresh's head became a twisted approximation of a human skull, floating, fanged, wrapped in green flame, and with three skeletal appendages attached like hair. His clothes were dark blue, extremely tattered, and lined with bones. Most notably, he wore a large overcoat with a flared, oversized collar. He wore black armor on his feet and hands, but his clawed gauntlets glowed a spectral green. He carried a short-handled scythe in his right hand and was known to levitate his lantern with the left hand. The lantern, also seeming to be constructed from bones, glowed and swirled from the souls within. Both implements were attached to chains fashioned from bones. A pair of keys dangled from the front of his belt.

After becoming unbound, his appearance changed once again. He now appears as a pale human with glowing green eyes. Dark symbols appear tattooed onto his forehead and cheeks. His hair features three long pony tails in the same fashion as the once-present skeletal appendages on his head. His clothes are an elegant, black and gold regalia. The chains he carries are golden metal rather than skeletal. His lantern appears to be a large, teal crystal encased in a golden frame. Still, he glows with an ominous green light.

Personality[]

As a human, Grael dedicated his work to becoming recognized throughout Helia, but was narcissistic and spiteful, seeing himself as being worthy of recognition. He believed himself to be perfect and felt bitter towards anyone who stopped his goals, to the point where he had no problem in causing the deaths of his fellow monks to develop his own progress. Observers described Grael as being unsettling and having darkness within his mind.

After becoming Thresh, he embraced his true cruelty and hatred without anyone to stop him. He is a psychopathic sadist who delights in making others suffer even after death, by tearing out his victims' souls and leaving them to suffer within his lantern, even mocking his victims' loved ones. He enjoys antagonizing Lucian Lucian the most, after imprisoning the soul of his wife Senna Senna and taunting Lucian with Senna's soul on ransom. When Senna escaped, Thresh decided to let them win so he could torment them in the future. Thresh is also known for manipulating others for his own gain, such as influencing Viego after reviving him so the deaths he caused would empower Thresh to become unbound, freeing him from his perpetual imprisonment in the Shadow Isles and granting him the power to move around Runeterra. Adopting new human form, Thresh travelled to Noxus where he met Bort. A luckless waiter in a Noxian Inn who had been cursed with a crustacean arm after trying to steal from a mage and consequently was abused and ridiculed by fellow staff and customers alike for his clumsiness and unfortunate condition. Sensing potential in Bort, Thresh murdered all those who had previously mocked him and offered to free Bort from his deformity. Gladly accepting the offer, Bort became Thresh's Phantom carriage driver. Now in command of those who had tormented him, Bort whips and taunts the trapped souls who pull Thresh's carriage as Thresh himself travels deeper into Noxus.

Abilities[]

  • Wraith: Thresh is one of the Shadow Isles's wraiths, created when the Ruination came to be.The Black Mist consumes ones original personality, leaving only a specter consumed by negative emotions and obsessions. In Thresh's, interestingly enough, he seems to have changed very little.
    • Amortality: Being already dead, Thresh can't die again. He can only be banished and lose his material form for a while.
    • Spiritual Constructs: Wraiths can create solid constructs from spectral energy, such as bodies and physical objects. These constructs mainly base themselves around how they looked in life.
    • Transitory State: Being ethereal beings, Wraiths can shift from the physical world and spiritual one at will. This means they can become intangible and invisible, and dissapear from one place to another.
  • Soul Snatching: Thresh' most terrible power, and what makes him so dangerous, is his ability to entrap the souls of others by hooking them with his scythe, and then trapping their souls inside his lantern, were they suffer untold horrors until they become his enslaved thralls.

Relations[]

Viego Viego[]

Thresh was a member of the Brotherhood of Dusk located in the heart of the Blessed Isles, turned undead when the Ruination of Helia struck. Thresh was directly responsible for the Ruination of the Blessed Isles, as he was the one who led Viego Viego to the Waters of Life.

Between conspiring against him with Gangplank and letting Senna's Senna's soul escape his lantern, Thresh fell out of favor with Viego. In turn, Thresh plotted against Viego and siphoned the excess Black Mist he was producing, in order to become unbound unbound from the Shadow Isles.

Sentinels of Light Crest icon Sentinels of Light[]

Thresh tricked Lucian's Lucian's wife Senna Senna, claiming her soul and storing it in his lantern lantern. Lucian traveled to Bilgewater in pursuit of the Harrowing to locate Thresh. It was then he found out Senna's soul is trapped inside the Chain Warden's lantern lantern. Lucian continued to pursue the Mist to free her and finally succeeded.

Thresh made a deal with Lucian Lucian for the vital information that may help him save Senna Senna. After becoming unbound from the mist with Viego being defeated, Thresh came to the Sentinels of Light Crest icon Sentinels of Light for the soul promised by the deal, but they managed to escape. Thresh now plots to capture the escaping Sentinels.

Lucian Lucian and Senna Senna are now dedicated to hunting Thresh.

Runeterra Crest icon Crew of the Charming Lady[]

Thresh clashed with Ahri Ahri, Braum Braum, Illaoi Illaoi, Miss Fortune Miss Fortune, Pyke Pyke, and Yasuo Yasuo in Ruined King, when they sailed to the Shadow Isles to try and stop him and Gangplank from unleashing Viego.

Gangplank Gangplank[]

Thresh and Gangplank Gangplank woke Viego up from his slumber, in order to use his power to conquer Bilgewater.

Ledros Ledros[]

Thresh tried to persuade Ledros Ledros to give up trying to free Kalista Kalista and has succeeded at obtaining his silver pendant which Ledros may use to remind Kalista of her humanity.

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The end began with one man.

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Ruination (Novel)

By Anthony Reynolds Lenné

Camavor is a brutal land with a bloody legacy. Where the empire’s knights go, slaughter follows. Kalista seeks to change that. When her young and narcissistic uncle, Viego, becomes king she vows to temper his destructive instincts as his loyal confidant, advisor, and military general. But her plans are thwarted when an assassin’s poisoned blade strikes Viego’s wife, Isolde, afflicting her with a malady for which there is no cure. As Isolde’s condition worsens, Viego descends into madness and grief, threatening to drag Camavor down with him. Kalisa makes a desperate gambit to save the kingdom: She searches for the long-lost Blessed Isles, rumored to hold the queen’s salvation if only Kalista can find them. But corruption grows in the Blessed Isle’s capital, where a vengeful warden seeks to ensnare Kalista in his cruel machinations. She will be forced to choose between her loyalty to Viego and doing what she knows is right–for even in the face of utter darkness, one noble act can shine a light that saves the world.

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Rise Against Ruin - Unite a party of League of Legends Champions, explore Bilgewater and set sail for the Shadow Isles to uncover the secrets of the deadly Black Mist in this immersive turn-based RPG.

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Shadow and Fortune: Chapter Three

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Steadfast Heart: Issue 1

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Separated by a millennium, personal tragedy draws Viego and Lucian to islands shrouded in mist and mystery.

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Steadfast Heart: Issue 2

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Viego and Lucian grapple with losing the loves of their lives. Will either find peace, or only ruin?

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Steadfast Heart: Issue 3

By Ian St. Martin

As Ruination spreads across Runeterra, the Sentinels begin a quest for allies.

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Steadfast Heart: Issue 5

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Senna trains the new Sentinels of Light, as Lucian searches for the wielder of a legendary weapon in Shurima. Meanwhile, the Ruined King gains allies of his own.

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Steadfast Heart: Issue 6

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The final showdown between Light and Darkness - the fate of Runeterra lies in the balance!

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Take the first step and begin your climb.

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The Collection

By Rayla Heide

A horrible scraping of metal chains drifted over the fields. Outside, an unnatural fog rendered the moon and stars all but invisible, and the regular hum of insects fell silent.

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The Echoes Left Behind

By Anthony Reynolds Lenné

Blood pooled beneath him, bright crimson against pristine white stone. His sword lay nearby, its blade broken. His killers stood around him, shadows on the periphery, but he saw nothing except her.

Mentioned Champion

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No One Lives

By Graham McNeill

Icy waves crashed on the bleak shore, red with the blood of the men Hecarim had already butchered. The mortals he had yet to kill were retreating over the beach in terror. Black rain doused them and stormclouds boiled in from the mourning heart of the island. He heard them shouting to one another. The words were a guttural battle-cant he did not recognize, but the meaning was clear; they actually thought they might live to reach their ship. True, they had some skill. They moved as one, wooden shields interlocked. But they were mortal and Hecarim savored the meat-stink of their fear.

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Redeemed

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Senna woke with a gasp, her breath pluming in the frigid night.

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Shadow and Fortune: Chapter One

By Graham McNeill

Blood on the Streets, Glory in Death, Down to the Bearded Lady/nThe Butcher Blades had hung the Jackdaw from a rusted marlinspike through his jawbone and left him for the quayside scavengers. This was the seventeenth murdered ganger the hooded man had seen tonight.

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Shadow and Fortune: Chapter Two

By Graham McNeill

Something Stupid, The Red Shroud, The Shadow of War

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By Numerous creators

The Purifier Remembers

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The Princeling's Lament

By Graham McNeill

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The Purifier

By Devon Giehl

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There's a saying on my island. “Only through stealing our breath can the wind speak.” You want me to describe the Black Mist that greeted me when I first arrived in the Ionian village, hood raised, relic cannon on my back?

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Long before she became a Truth Bearer of her people, Illaoi had been an acolyte priestess at a Buhru temple on the coast.

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A New Devil's In Town

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“You the marshal?”

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Worlds Collide

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Trivia[]

  • Thresh is between 1050 – 1100 years old, born at some point before the Ruination of the Blessed Isles Crest icon Blessed Isles.
  • After the events of Rise of the Sentinels, Thresh is now Unbound Unbound from the Shadow Isles and is able to steal souls across Runeterra.

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16 Oct 2019 (During V9.20) Added.

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