NEW Katarina Comic Explained 

I'm just so happy that Riot is giving Talon attention. Even if he's just a side character he deserves more love as a character and a champion

Slight correction: Talon didn’t stop trying to kill Katarina because he “wasn’t good enough” , but because he wasn’t good enough to kill her in a single, perfect hit.

I really love the brother sister relationship talon and kata have, is way more interesting than the old one

I really like Katarina's face in this comic, it looks like her but without the generic same face syndrome of the game

What I love most about LoR(e) in Runeterra was that Talon couldn't one-shot Katarina, just like how she can't one-shot him. They both just awkwardly left the 1v1 to go kill some other people, just like how they do in LoL.

Riot needs to advertise this more. It doesn’t show up in the client, and it’s not on the main website. As of writing this comment, less than 200,000 people have viewed the comic on the site it’s posted. I really hope Riot isn’t discouraged to make more of these based on their view count. They definitely need to advertise their lore content more

calling it now: LeBlanc impersonates Marcus and wanted to get rid of Swains loyal and best hired Assasin. She can destabilize Demacia with the mage rebellion (if anyone from the outside knew that The old King wanted to reason with the Mages its Leblanc) and take away a loyal piece from Swain.

I love how Katarina became a redhaired woman with knives to a redhead with a actual personality outside of being an assassin.

this comic is making me like Katarina more. plus, I need more interactions between her and lux

I doubt Marcus is LeBlanc in disguise. She can imitate other's appereances, but people could always tell there was something wrong with that person. Just like Garen did in his novella. But in here, we can see how Marcus matched every move by Katarina, as if he knew them perfectly.

So Kata's dad disowned her because her macro was bad? Then he sent Talon after her but Talon had bad micro?

Now all I can hope for is a voiceover update for kat. No more just bloodlusted voice lines and "better dead than dull" hopefully more character interaction and lore related stuff.

giving talon even just a few pages takes him from being emotionless boring assassin to a protecting brother that also happens to be a skilled assassin

Swain voice line after collecting a soul fragment from Katarina: "He asked her to do what she could not. To kill me." He could mean her father asked her to kill Swain but she failed. And Swain knows this from his demonic powers, similar to in-game

One of my biggest, long standin questions about Noxus is how anyone could enjoy living there or have real loyalty to it. But this comic answers that by giving us Katarina's perspective on her home and her work, and, honestly, she made me believe in Noxus too. Great work on the part of the writers.

I really liked Kata in the comic. She is a bit sassy, confident in her abilities (but not blindly confident and knows when somebody is stronger), and is loyal to Noxus. And her interactions with Talon, while brief, give them both a ton of charachter. She is not just "sexy assassin lady like knifes and kill people", I like that. P. S. Still gonna ban her every time I play midlane. No thanks.

Actually, I could see this linking pretty naturally into a Garen/Katarina story. Garen is on the hunt for Kararina and leads to the scenario of their initial an uneasy alliance. Figuring out that Katarina saved Lux would be a good catalyst that dulls the edge that Garen would have against her, and their journey leads into the two trusting each other. Katarina could also find out about the King's motive for trying to make peace with the mages and how she unknowingly might've messed that up.

It was really cool to see Captain Arrika as well! She’s a LoR card in case people weren’t aware.

I'm LITERALLY crying cuz last night on the phone with my friend I LITERALLY said "I miss hearing Necrit reading me league lore" like this is oddly my comfort place. The world of Runeterra. Riot is just the corrupt pope getting between me and my religion.

Funny how her father being gone is part of the lore than longer than it took him to return. Also, the guardswoman that cuffed Lux and tried to protect her from the other guards is a card in Legends of Runeterra. Her ability is that she arrests an enemy.

I hope they keep making comics

As a Talon OTP for the past 11+ years, I'm so glad to see him get some love.

the crownguard dating the one who killed the crown..... preatty ironic if u ask me

Just to mention this: After Arcane Season 2. They should start porduction of the story of Ionia. The conflict between Zed and Shen, along with other stories that tie to the events. Another reason why I say Ionia, is because Fortiche's art style would look amazing with Ionia's environment.

I loved this comic so much, I love they are finally giving Katarina the spotlight again, I love how they turned her into an interesting character with a very engaging personality, I love her face resembles Sarah Michelle Gellar in some way, giving her badass energy by default, I love the way she's the one unwillingly setting up the huge revolution in Demacia by killing the king, I love they way this story sets up even more stories with her with the possibility LeBlanc is involved, I love they 100% chose Katarina for this instead of LeBlanc herself bc that's the way she's gonna end up in Demacia and metting Garen, expecially after saving his sister !!!! I really missed this feeling about LoL content, this was soooooo well done.

Look, i get it, this story was about Katarina and all that. But just those 2 Talon conversations are a huge W for Talon mains in character development

There's no way they are scrubbing the Garen/Kat ship. If anything, this comic is making her a character that Garen could fall in love with, as her faith and determination in the people and ideals of Noxus mirror Garen's of Demacia quite well!

Haven't read the comic, but Talon might still have been adopted. Katarina just grows closer to him and sees him as her own natural brother.

I never expected to see Katarina lore to be honest. Love what they were doing with her here. Also that is 100% LeBlanc speaking to her lol

This gave me goosebumps bcs of how godly all these reveals are.. I have always wanted to know what happened after lux comic, but it was painful how Demacian lore kinda died at the biggest cliffhanger in history

My real name is Katerina so I have a soft spot for this champion. I'm really glad to hear about this comic and I'm excited to read it!! Riot being nice to my Katarina

Honestly the plot twist in this comic wasn't something I expected and I wonder how Garen is going to react with her.

As a kata main, i can't describe my happiness . my baby girl finally got some lore

I’m so happy that Talon is getting attention. He’s been my long time favorite assassin character

14:33 To be fair, I'd also believe someone would dislike mages if the place *they ruled over* was anti mage, and they did nothing to change that. Actions speak louder than words man

Necrit, im disappointed you didnt mention how the Piltovian device really assembles a Totem, and the good ol' Sonic Screwdriver. It even pick locks and makes a buzzy sound :(

It will be interesting to see how Garen and Jarvan will react to Katarina. She saved Lux but murdered Jarvans father, so Im interested in how those events will affect the relationship between them all. Im also eager to see Kats reaction when she finds out she was lied to about the king.

Okay so here's my theory : - Swain didn't swap Marcus for Katarina, Leblanc did it, using Swain's sigil (she did something similar in the past sending Samira searching for Rell) - Leblanc can't be Markus. As good as she is for taking someone else's appearance, she doesn't steal their physical strengh / knowledge, she wouldn't be able to whoop Kat's butt in a fist fight (we know this from Garen's comic where Garen finds out Leblanc is in disguise by her not knowing a demacian saying)

As a Kat and Talon main, this was a literal godsend, since their lore had been stagnant for like 5 years. It’s great to see both of them get proper character development.

As a Katarina main, ive been waiting for this my whole life.

I always forget that technically Talon and Cassiopeia are siblings. I know they're both Katrina's sibling individually but since they never get any interactions together, not in game, not in lore, not even in fan created content, it's like they're complete stranger to one another

I don't think Riot will ever let either Swain or LB die, which sucks since it would have been cool to see them try to get rid of one another with real consequences. Thats pretty much what keeps the lore back in my opinion

Fun fact: the name of the general in the beginning of the first chapter, Rache, is the German word for revenge

its good to have you back with lore to talk about!

I love more Swain lore so much

i just saw it on the website and wondered "does necrit know?". came rushing over and of course he already has a video up! thank you so much for your love and dedication bro!

I gotta be honest when I say I liked the Varus comic better (Darkin lore simp) but I gotta say that the Katarina comic was amazing. The way it ties into the Lux comic is great and we FINALLY GOT TO SEE MARCUS DU COUTEAU! KATARINA'S DAD. God I was so curious about that guy for the longest time and honestly he's not as much of a dick (from what we saw of him at least) as I thought he would be. Though this comic does make me wonder about Swain and the demon Raum. We haven't really known a lot about Swain to begin with, but it seems like he might just be losing to the demon. Then again, Swain plays 4d chess with Leblanc on Tuesday nights, you know that one lady who orchestrated Noxus' creation and Mordekaiser's second death? Yeah, her.

I like how you got excited for the lux reference to read issue 3. A lot of comics well marvel that I've seen always have those bubbles saying read "issue 77 of whatever."

I believe in the background of one of the scenes with Kat's father we still see some of the Swaivans, which really had me like "heh?"

Crazy that I've just read this like a week ago and I love it!

Necrit, you are giving Talon way too much respect. It's not that he couldn't kill Katarina, it's that he messed up his speedrun strat and salvaged the run, but left just before the end 'cause he didn't get a PB.

Webtoon just recommended this for me this morning; it was a good read.

I WAS WAITING FOR YOU TO TALK ABOUT IT!!!

I may be too lazy or I just love your storytelling. Really appreciated.

Thank you, Necrit. It means a lot.

miss this videos >.< FINALLY NEW LORE!!!

The comic is not finished yet. I can't wait to see what happens next.

Gotta give this video a like now, even though I will go read the comic first cuz I know I'll watch this later and discover new things I will miss😅. Thank you Necrit for all your efforts

damn so many reveals!!!! story is being pushed and i love it

This pieces everything together

I loved Arrika part, she is a folower from legends of runeterra for context.

2 new chapters just came out today, really good

I agree, if all of these goes to the long awaited Garen-Katarina canon interaction and potential romance, I'll buy 10 copies of the game for me and my friends. They already gave fans Caitlyn-Vi, Graves-TF, Udyr-LeeSin and Nidalee-Neeko relationships. I hope Riot just give us the Garen-Katarina, please!

Thanks Necrit for an other great video

are you covering the Yorick short story? I really wanna hear your thoughts!

About the last point of Marcus being Le Blanc, I think thats a bit hard as Kata lost to Marcus 1v1, this would also mean that Le blanc can get/use assassination skills/skills in general on par to the ones whose body she possesses.

Another Banger. Thanks Necrit :D

I liked what you said about katarina calling J3 a tyrant as misinformation because that was the part that hurt me the most when reading it (especially when you realize that were the last words he had to hear from a foreign assasin no less). But one think i'm calling buls**t in the comic is the part where the crowngaurd soldiers without hesitation decided to kill Lux even more so when captain Arrika orders them to stop, that was absolutely insane and in no way is that realistic.

Doesn’t Pantheon also sort of imply some type of relationship between Kay and Garen in his voice lines? I could be wrong, but I think it was something to the effect of, “Battle is a dance, and the fortunate find their partner”. Again, I could be wrong.

Something not mentioned is that Captain Aricka is in this comic too, she is a character introduced in LoR

I would preffer by far a game about being Katarina and doing infiltration missions like a thief/creed game, maybe doing some quests in freljord, some in demacia, etc

and suddenly the video EXPLODES

After all these years, it was Katarina who killed J3. Well damn, thats quite a twist.

even Lux has a voice line about Garen and Kata.

17:20 u can see this side of her on legends of ruenterra when Braums asks her for help She is the best ❤

When is part two coming? Chapters 5 and 6 are up and it seems more will follow. ^^

The lore is getting more and more interesting.

i wish this story arc was a netflix show / third person 3d game, how fucking cool these assassinations would look animated or playable

I think Talon being adopted still works in this comic. It would explain why his hair is black, and why he is so attached to the approval and emulation of his dad

There were hints that the king wanted to make peace with the mages? Why didn't he grow a pair of balls and ordered the Mageseekers to stop their hunts and torture, then? He was in control, he didn't try to do a damn thing. Katarina has my respect for killing this asshole.

The General inn the beginning is called Rache - which means revenge or vengeance in German

Her seeing Talon as a true adopted brother she respects as family makes the deadly dynamic even spicier. Studying history has taught me that familial ties make politics more bloody. Not less. Though it does make me want to see Kasadin and Kai Sa reunite a family without any fights from presumptions and confusion. How many champions have killed tried to kill, or regularly battle their siblings? Hecck, if we consider the two main war mothers of the Freljord as brief sisters by choice, that's another pair on the list. So she finds a compromise that meets her duties and protect the state while letting the old man have his wish. I approve. The Tea house tells me that Noxus didn't just take treasure, life, and balance from Ionia, but adopted some ideas. Mind you, in a more imperial appropriation, but it's a nice touch. A nation is usually changed by conquest and takes on ideas from their subjects/victims. One could argue that Noxus needs strong enemies to keep its focus, that the Freljordian tribes would grow to a formidable power by absorbing the Demacian remnants, or that the Demacian line of succession and control by the military would ensure a swift retribution. Or trying to actually remove the noble families to make the message about full embracing of Darwinsim stick without unearned hereditary power and wealth. That is also valid. Oh, saving his baby sister is a good way to get on a certain captain's good side. Sort of. Still at least they're doing something with these characters. [glares at shyvana being off to the side when she is a perfect chaos element to make things exponentially spicier] "What kind of death... deserves" This is a neat touch for characterizing an edgy assassin. It leans into her profession while simultaneously humanizing her. And it shows she's no fool. Learning more about a target can be far more valuable than a quick kill. 13:57 oh no. This is going to make things more complicated. I also had very high certainty that it was a mageseeker seeking to prolong the oppression of mages. Though perhaps that is how Swain learned of the safe rooms to inform Katarina. Tyrants in court who'd commit treason before allowing reforms. Regardless, this sets up room for her to feel guilt over this when she learns the late king's true character, and for Garen to be enraged over the man he willingly served being killed by the woman he loves. 16:11 Ah heck!. A principled patriot in an imperfect world can be a very compelling character.

Lol lore is what got me into league I hope they update more stories

I do really hope that Garen and Katarina ship sails after so long, but hey, more lore and Katarina's one to top on that? Always good.

Jhin's league voicelines also references garen and katarina. I vaguely remember the words "star crossed lovers"

The lore of Runeterra is really entertaining, I can't wait to get more and more sources for it outside of League.

I really hope Arcane S3 & 4 features characters like Katarina and/or Leblanc 👀

im really glad we finally know who killed the king now, my guess was on leblanc but this is certainly alot more interesting especially with how kata does it for the good of the people and in turn makes it feel alot ebtter than just some bad guy kill king story.

"I Was Not Expecting That, But I Was Expecting Not to Expect Something So It Doesn't Count"

Bordering perfection, this comic borders perfection, talking perfectly with the Lore of Noxus and Demacia, to be even better, it was enough for them to have shown at least once Katarina murdering her targets blinking between them and stabbing them with her fatal precision!

I think the part where kat wake up in the ship and is all strange around her is cause she is trying to undertsnd where she is without open her eyes, so is like let the reader know the she is understanding where she is only by sounds and smell + the crow being here cause demonic power

I like to think that in the next issue the one waiting for her is garden

@Necrit You should look into Garen's champion adventures in Legends of Runeterra's Path of Champions. It shows some new Katerina stuff and would be canon if they still consider LoR as all canon.

Finally some cool lore once again!

Garen and Katarina are only canon in different skinlines, but that does give us, shippers, hope, that it might become reality

omgg this is so good, i hope she doesnt die afterwards ( if they continue the comic storie) also i love katarina really good summary of this

I can't believe they actually made like Katarina. She finally has a character other than "if you run you can't see me stab you"

If The Mageseeker features Garen and Kat meeting, I will buy the ultimate edition bundle

we need a ryze update badly and would love a jedi fallen order type game where you play as ryze collecting all the world runes, or even have that a major story plot of the MMO

Imagine fighting garen as sylas and in the last 3rd kata just jumps in and tag teams with him 10/10 bossfight in my opinion