Possibly New Shyvana Noemata?
Dec. 9th, 2024 03:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Hello! It's been a while since I've posted here. Sorry about that, I didn't feel like I had anything too interesting to write about.
A couple days ago, I discovered some new noemata about the continuation of my Shyvana fictotype's canon (definition of noemata is linked). I'm not sure how to tell if it's real, so I'm just putting a 'maybe' sticker on it.
Most of my canon lore feels right, except what was added during the Mageseeker game. I linked the wiki containing my lore, but I'll also provide a summary of my canon backstory before going into my noemata:
My mother in source was a dragon named Yvva, an infernal dragon. Before I hatched, my egg was stolen by a mage who intended to sell me, but before he could make the sale, I hatched from my egg. Unexpectedly, I emerged from the egg not as a little dragon, but as a humanoid with purple skin and scales. The mage named me Shyvana, after my mother. He raised me like a father, and as I grew older, he taught me how to control my infernal and draconic shapeshifting magic.
Unfortunately, my infernal magic also served as a way for Yvva to track me down. Seeking to eradicate the abomination that was a half-dragon, she razed the town I lived in to the ground, killing my father in the process.
For a long time, I lived in the wild, hiding from my mother. But one day, I encountered an injured human. I returned him to the nearest fortress, where I learned that the injured man was Prince Jarvan IV. Despite my peculiar (and draconic) appearance, he offered me a place to stay for saving him. But Yvva tracked me down once again, preparing to attack. I wanted to run, sparing everyone, but the Prince stopped me, offering assistance with ending this once and for all.
After that, I defeated Yvva in battle, then Jarvan IV offers me a position among his military (the Dragonguard), etc etc...
Thinking about the battle with Yvva is uncomfortable, so I don't enjoy going into detail about it. She hated me for being a hybrid, but in source, she was the only mother that I could ever have.
Moving on, the problem with canon is that the kingdom that Prince Jarvan is from. Demacia is known for being anti-magic, and as a half-dragon, I am inherently magical in source. On top of that, as a Dragonguard, I was tasked to kill my own kind. Dragons.
The anti-magic hysteria worsens after Jarvan III's assassination. Demacia discriminates against, imprisons, tortures, and executes mages, but I'm made an exception because I'm "one of the good ones" to King Jarvan IV.
This leads into the next story, the Ruination. Here's another quick summary:
The Ruination was a disastrous event that affected nearly all of Runeterra. Viego, a selfish king corrupted by obsession, attempted to revive his beloved wife at all costs, even though she wanted to rest in peace. To stop the forces who moved against him, he corrupted people's souls by taking advantage of people's despairs and misgivings, using them as pawns.
Shortly after the former King Jarvan III was assassinated, I was imprisoned by the Mageseekers. During my imprisonment, resentment for the Mageseekers and Demacia for their hatred of magic led to my Ruination.
(For clarification, the Mageseekers are an organization within Demacia that search for mages and imprison them.)
What happened during the Ruination event is fuzzy (being a thrall and all), but I think this explains my thought process (and how Demacia treated me) well, "The people of Demacia had always treated Shyvana with distrust and suspicion, as if she might at any moment shed her humanity and turn on them. It wounded her deeply... and stoked the fire of her rage. If it was a monster they wanted... then a monster she would be." (Legends of Runeterra)
The Ruination couldn't last forever, and I was freed from Viego's control after his defeat.
In canon, I return to Demacia after King Jarvan IV disbands the Mageseekers. This clash of ideals (anti-mages vs mages) was intentional by Riot Games to stoke an interesting conflict in the story, but the 'happily-ever-after' resolution of my story doesn't sit right with me. Instead of being my own person, I feel like I've been relegated to being just a plot device.
This is where my noemata differs:
After the Ruination, the Mageseekers' influence had strengthened, and the anti-mage hysteria had reached its peak among the citizenry. Though I was no longer Viego's thrall, I was to be executed for the sin of having been born with magic. King Jarvan IV's tolerance could extend only so far.
On my execution date, I burst from my chains, escaping in draconic form. As I flew away, Demacia shrank smaller and smaller in the horizon. In my chest, smoldering with draconic magic, was no forgiveness... no mercy. Only a sense of burning rage.
In my noemata, I defected to Noxus (the direct enemy of Demacia), but I don't have any details past that.
Reflecting on what I've written above, I refer to it all as noemata because I don't think I had a past life as Shyvana, and therefore, I wouldn't have any past-life memories. For someone who's never really written fanfiction, it almost feels like that, except it feels a lot more personal because it's my fictotype I'm writing about.
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Date: 2024-12-11 09:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-12-13 12:31 am (UTC)It's hard for me to validate myself when it comes to experiences like this, so thank you :) I appreciate it
And no worries, it's in the past now, writing about it helps me feel better also