Karthus Quotes

Champion Select

Pick

• "Agony, ecstasy, peace. Every passing has a beauty all its own."

Ban

• "Ah, the kiss of death."

Movement

First Move

• "So many souls await."
• "We all have a place among the divine. We have only to accept it."
• "My pilgrimage begins."

Moving

• "Solace comes with a still heart."
• "Shed no tears for the dead."
• "May death free us all."
• "Follow my voice, and slip away."
• "You are only the cocoon."
• "Have you ever felt a calling?"
• "I can give you certainty."
• "What trickery is life?"
• "You are the candle burning unto nothing."
• "Death is but a horizon."
• "Soon, all will wane."
• "You have been dying from your first breath."
• "We are forever."
• "You all die, why not choose how?"
• "The Shadow Isles sing louder than any siren."
• "You are a doomed vessel."
• "The faithful never fear the grave."
• "Truth is what I offer."
• "In the end, only the dead shall remain."
• "Pain is the herald of your salvation."
• "Hear the elegy of the lost."
• "You will forget breath, you will forget love."
• "Death is a song all will hear."
• "Never hunger, never tire, never fear."
• "Death is blacker than the blackest black... times infinity." Pentakill
• "Tower diver! Gotta' get away, get away!" Pentakill
• "METAL is the only heartbeat I need." Pentakill
• "We totally topped the charts in the Freljord!" Pentakill
• "Amp it up." Pentakill

First Encounter

First Encounter with Elise

• "You deceive your followers. I will enlighten them."

First Encounter with Hecarim

• "Death's horse needs no bridle."
• "You are but the herald, Hecarim. Remember who you truly serve."

First Encounter with Leona

• "Your light is but a candle in the infinite dark."

First Encounter with Lucian

• "Abandon your mortality, and find your precious Senna."
• "You can always join her, Lucian. It will be bliss!"
• "Lucian! Join her!"

First Encounter with Mordekaiser Both sides

• "A shell of flesh or a shell of metal? Both ring hollow."
• "You give the dead purpose, Mordekaiser. I give them meaning."

First Encounter with Sion Both sides

• "Sion, we must free your soul from the prison of flesh."
• "You are only the echo of greatness, but I can give you a voice again!"

First Encounter with Thresh

• "You may shackle the living, but the dead must walk free."
• "Death has more meaning than torment alone, warden."

First Encounter with Urgot Both sides

• "Abomination, you have cheated death too long."
• "Death. Could not. Break me."

First Encounter with Varus

• "You are on the eve of liberation, Varus."

Taunt

• "I will shred your body, and burn your soul!"
• "To feel the caress of death for the first time... I envy you!"
• "The song of your life will be brief."
• "Your death will be excruciating!"
• "Life clings like a parasite to a soul!"

Joke

• "I'm putting your name in my little black necronomicon."
• "Sorry, I'm booked through... er, brrrr... forever."
• "Listen, mortals, as I speak the word of... my cookbook."
• "What's the incantation again... yes, erm... oh, right, R!"
• "Do you have a moment to talk about death?"
• "Dear diary, met a wonderful ghoul today..."
• "When the going gets tough, the tough get a Deathcap!" Pentakill
• "What have I done? Created beauty by simply rocking! That's all." Pentakill
• "What is that sound? It's the pounding of creation's hammer on the anvil of time!" Pentakill

Joking Near an Enemy Urgot Both sides

• "Urgot, hm, I highly recommend death at this point."
• "But I still have so much to kill for."

Dance

• "Waaao!"
• "Yeh!" Pentakill
• "Yeah!" Pentakill
• "Whoa!" Pentakill

Attack

Attacking

• "It is written."
• "Ah, the kiss of death."
• "Hear my song."
• "The rhythm of your life slows."
• "Join the chorus of death."
• "Your time has come."
• "I sing the word of death."
• "Die by my hand, and rise anew."
• "Rest in peace."
• "Expire."
• "Sleep without dreams."
• "I crave the parting."
• "Revel in the undoing."
• "Release your mortal coil."
• "Sleep now, child."
• "Darkness envelops you."
• "It's time... to wake the dead." Pentakill
• "Join me in this duet of demise." Pentakill
• "Die for metal." Pentakill
• "Silence, groundwalker." Pentakill
• "Lights out—forever." Pentakill

Ability Casting

Using Wall of Pain

• "Feel the frailty of life!"
• "You cannot escape."
• "Your bodies betray you!"
• "Cross over."
• "To flee is to suffer."

Using Defile

• "Sing, my children."
• "Behold my chorus."
• "Countless voices in unison!"
• "Rise and sing!"
• "Feel the spirits."
• "You will not die alone."

Using Requiem

• "Die!"
• "Surrender!"
• "Cease to be!"
• "Sing with your final breath!"
• "Listen and rejoice in death!"
• "Hear me, mortals!"
• "A dirge, for those who remain!"
• "Perish!"
• "Everyone will falter when you die!" Pentakill
• "My son, smite them all!" Pentakill
• "I am the lightbringer!" Pentakill

Shopping

Buying Archangel's Staff

• "Angels too, are the messengers of death."
• "Host of angels, or murder of crows?"

Buying Rod of Ages

• "A companion for all time."
• "Its power grows with time... as does mine."

Buying Rabadon's Deathcap

• "Ah, the song grows."
• "I hear the echo of Rabadon; it is exquisite."
• "A crown for the king of death."
• "Its old master served my patron well."

Buying Rylai's Crystal Scepter

• "None can outrun death."
• "This crystal will sing with me."
• "When death's grip finds you, it clings tightly."

Buying Tear of the Goddess

• "A tear of loss, a tear of joy."

Buying Void Staff

• "It will turn their mantles to shrouds."
• "What can protect you from the inevitable?"
• "No one can hide from the end."

Buying Zhonya's Hourglass

• "The grave has all the time in the world."
• "Freeze that moment, on the threshold of oblivion."
• "The sands slip away like lives."

Other Gameplay

Placing a Ward

• "Dead eyes never blink."
• "I watch."
• "Death sees all."

Recall

• "When I return, more shall join my choir."
• "I go where death bids me."
• "Death prevails."

Death

Triggering Death Defied

• "Behold your undoing!"
• "Gaze upon me and despair!"
• "The shell means nothing!"
• "I am become death!"
• "Time for my encore!" Pentakill
• "You can't kill the metal!" Pentakill
• "The sustain! Listen to it!" Pentakill
• "Waahaahaahaahaaao!" Pentakill
• "This is eleven!" Pentakill