Runes Decide Our Path

Salvation is a city built in the cracks between space and time, capable of traveling between different timelines. Its founders were survivors from Runeterra after its destruction. They understand and accept that the end will eventually come, but the Guardians' efforts can lengthen the road to that end.

How can Runeterra be protected? Ryze, Salvation's founder, has tried various approaches across different timelines.

First, if the Void devours Runeterra to consume its vast stores of runic energy, what if all the runic energy in Runeterra were sealed away and replaced with other forms of supernatural energy? Would the Void give up its invasion?

Second, if the possibility of supernatural beings coming into existence were erased, the gods and mortals separated, and mortals given blades capable of cutting down Void creatures, could a timeline populated only by mortals withstand the Void's invasion?

Third, the underworld, the realm of the dead, and hell are all names for the world of the dead in Runeterra. If the living on Runeterra cannot defeat the Void, what if demons and undead creatures became its masters? Could the Void still win?

Those experiments from a distant age can finally be put to the test. For the researchers, the time has come to see whether their work paid off. But for Baliard? This is just another chance to clean up after old bald Ryze.