Riven Quotes

See this skin in 3D: Dawnbringer Riven

Movement › First Move

• "The universe waits and trembles."
• "And all that's best of dark and bright..."
• "There is no grey; only light and dark."
• "I am the conquering light."
• "Yesterday was darkness. Tomorrow, we wake."
• "The triumphant move together. We are not alone."
• "Righteousness binds us together."
• "I light the way out of darkness."
• "Adversity is the first path to truth."

Movement › First Move › First Move with Ally Nightbringer Yasuo Both sides

• "Order and chaos... aligned?"
• "The universe is unbalanced."

Movement › First Move › First Move with Enemy Nightbringer Yasuo Both sides

• Riven: "Demon, the time is upon us."
• Yasuo: "I am waiting."
• Riven: "The world waits for our blades to meet."
• Yasuo: "They will wait no longer."
• Riven: "The Light-"
• Yasuo: "- is defined by darkness."
• Riven: "Leave me, demon."
• Riven: "From nothing, there will always come two."
• Yasuo: "I am here."
• "Your true self hides behind a wall of anguish."
• "Our conflict is the crucible of existence."
• "You are... dangerous, but I am more."
• "You cower in darkness."
• "Can your flames burn away your fear?"
• "Let us dance, demon."
• "Your freedom is meaningless without me."
• "The Light reveals the limits of darkness."
• Riven: "It is time."
• Yasuo: "You and I are from a time before memory."
• Riven: "A memory is all you will be."
• Yasuo: "We are not meant for perfection, angel."
• Riven: "I will live. You will kneel."
• Yasuo: "No. You will break."

Movement › Moving

• "Order will conquer all."
• "He is his own master, but also his slave."
• "The universe waits for absolution."
• "Light is coming."
• "The blade does not forgive."
• "Chaos offers false freedom."
• "Illuminate chaos, and nothing remains."
• "He will kneel before the Light."
• "My belief is absolute."
• "I do not regret that which must be done."
• "Only within the Light can we know love."
• "They hide from order."
• "We fight as one."
• "True strength arises from conviction."
• "Follow and win."
• "Order offers sanctuary."
• "I will light the sky with my blade."
• "From true conviction, radiance."
• "The light reaches all."
• "My blade, my promise."
• "Despair is the colour of darkness."
• "Night conceals weakness."
• "I will not be broken."
• "The dawn comes for everyone."
• "The dawn is coming."
• "Bring them to me, drive them into the Light."
• "I will rise above the shadows."
• "The demon seeks to break you."
• "Together, we will humble the universe."
• "I will bind them all."
• "Battle is my destiny."
• "All paths lead to the Light."
• "My truth is unbreakable."
• "Chaos does not seek friends. He seeks annihilation."
• "The sound and fury will fade to nothing."
• "The dawn will triumph."
• "This world balances on the edge of my blade."
• "Chaos begets chaos."
• "Order and virtue guide my blade."
• "Darkness fades away. I will expose its weakness."
• "I move in radiance."
• "I am the blade of the dawn."
• "Harmony is the truth that binds us."
• "The Light does not fear shadow."
• "A golden host behind me."
• "Order raises all to the Light."
• "A new era dawns."

Taunt

• "The universe weeps at the Light's perfection."
• "The universe weeps at the Light's perfection!"
• "Order has forsaken you."

Taunt › First Encounter with Nightbringer Yasuo Both sides

• "You wander, lost in your own darkness."
• Riven: "The sword outwears the sheath."
• Yasuo: "And the soul wears out the breast."
• Riven: "How should I greet thee?"
• Yasuo: "With silence and tears."

Taunt › Taunt Response

• "No more words. Let the blade decide."
• "Darkness muddles your mind."

Taunt › Taunt Response to Nightbringer Yasuo Both sides

• "What is chaos but a plea for order?"

Joke

• "Oh, ugh, not again..." Riven exhales. "That's better."
• "Oh... ugh, not again... That's better."
• "Oh, ugh, not again... ahh, that's better."

Joke › Ally Joke Response

• "Laughter raises us above the dark."

Joke › Enemy Joke Response

• "Dim humour is the sign of a dark soul."

Attack › Attacking

• "I will control you."
• "Your chaos will consume you."
• "Strength together."
• "Fight."
• "Find conviction or fall."
• "Come into the Light."
• "No regrets."
• "I will release you from fear."
• "Make firm your resolve."
• "Disorder will beg forgiveness."
• "Be still while I redeem you."
• "Conflict is our only fate."
• "Dissenters kneel before the Light."
• "The Light reveals truth."
• "The dark fears me."
• "Light's perfection guides me."
• "Give in to harmony."
• "Emotion controls you."
• "I bring the dawn."
• "Another rebellion to vanquish."
• "You cannot fracture the Light."
• "Our blades rise as one."
• "Darkness falls by my blade."
• "Darkness is a fool's solace."
• "The shining blade is my soul."
• "Decide who you are."
• "Your determination wavers."
• "Chaos deceives. Order is truth."
• "Fight your fears. Face me."
• "You will be lost in the darkness."
• "I am the light that splits the night."
• "Dawn sheds the night."
• "Freedom is conquered."
• "Cast aside your shadows."
• "Find peace in the Light."
• "I will cut the darkness from your heart."
• "You deny your desolation?"
• "Distrust maligns the spirit."
• "I will deliver you from chaos."
• "Your confidence trembles."
• "The darkness will not have me."
• "There is doubt within you."
• "Cowardice will be the first to fall."
• "The Light eternal."
• "The blade. My soul."
• "Summon your courage."
• "You fear the Light? Good."
• "Chaos will burn your soul to ash."
• "Embrace the Light."
• "I will absolve you."
• "Give your soul to the Light."

Attack › Attacking › Attacking Nightbringer Yasuo Both sides

• "Flee, fiend."
• "Do not test me, demon."
• "You fear dependence. You fear love."
• "You mistake chaos for freedom."
• "You need me."
• "Your chaos is... ill-considered."
• "You abandoned your soul... for darkness."
• "What is broken will reform."
• "Yours is a hopeless eternity."
• "Discord will be bound in harmony."

Ability Casting › Using Blade of the Exile

• "Harness conviction."
• "Faith in the Light."
• "The universe needs order."
• "I am the breath."
• "I am the quiet."
• "I am the storm."
• "I am order."

Kills and Objectives › Killing a Champion

• "The most noble expression is civility."
• "Death has made your spirit whole."
• "All will bend to the light."
• "Your self-reliance was foolish."
• "You chose a side. It failed you."
• "Reason strikes down emotion."
• "Dawn triumphs."
• "Your soul stands revealed."
• "Chaos no longer haunts you."
• "From certainty, we triumph."
• "Your words echo into nothing."
• "Liberation from the darkness."
• "There is order to mortality."
• "Order remains intact."
• "All kneel... eventually."
• "You're welcome."
• "My conviction is as deadly as my blade."
• "Hope needs no shield."
• "I will bind his legion of chaos."
• "By my sword, perfection."
• "Everything must come to an end."
• "The Light does not require you."
• "So do the dark in soul expire."
• "Your weakness is my strength."
• "You are redeemed."
• "The Light prevails."
• "Chaos forfeits."
• "I have saved you from the darkness."
• "Fractured purpose is lethal."
• "Take refuge in death."
• "The damaged are the most dangerous."
• "Order tempers all souls."
• "The Light will triumph."
• "The future is bathed in brilliance."
• "Joyous is a life lived in the Light."
• "Without order, the universe is nothing."
• "Soon the Light will bind them all."
• "Know the Light."
• "The Light binds all blades."
• "Fight back against the darkness."
• "Order reveals opportunity."
• "Their faith falters."
• "Life is duty."
• "The darkness has fled."
• "You are lost no longer."
• "All shadows fall before me."
• "The Light conquers all."
• "The universe craves order."
• "Order and light."
• "A new light dawns above this world."
• "On wings of light we rise."
• "I am the eye of the storm."

Kills and Objectives › Killing Nightbringer Yasuo Both sides

• "How bright is darkness?"
• "Colder thy kiss."
• "'Tis time this heart should be unmoved."
• "Eternal night fades before me."
• "Fear has betrayed you."
• "Why seek me if you didn't wish to be made whole?"
• "They know not I knew thee, who knew thee too well."
• "Is not the past all shadow?"
• "Know your enemy, know their blade."
• "Those who live in shadow cannot dream of light."
• "Chaos into order. Motion into stillness."

Kills and Objectives › Killing a Shadow Isles Champion

• "There is no demon who can stand against the Light."
• "The Light fears no darkness."

Kills and Objectives › Scoring a Pentakill

• "Only the Light remains."
• "Order illuminates greatness."

Kills and Objectives › Destroying a Turret

• "The broken in spirit crumble easily."
• "Nothing lasts forever."

Other Gameplay › Using a Potion

• "Light nourishes my soul."

Other Gameplay › Placing a Ward

• "All will see."
• "Darkness lurks. I will find him."
• "They will all know the Light."
• "They cannot hide from the Light."
• "Dawn reveals all that is hidden."
• "A vision of light will redeem us all."

Recall

• "Rejoice in the Light."
• "Never regret that which must be done."
• "Chaos is a momentary trial, nothing more."

Death › Respawn

• "We only have to open our eyes to the Light."
• "What the fire does not consume, will consume the fire."
• "I know what I am."

Death › Respawn after dying to Nightbringer Yasuo Both sides

• "Darkness has led me astray... he will pay."
• "This is not over."
• "We will meet again."
• "Chaos divides us only for a moment."

See this skin in 3D: Broken Covenant Riven

Movement › First Move

• "Acts of good may never fully pay for acts of violence... but I need to believe I can try."
• "I don't care if everyone hates each other. The only way to stop this pestilential war is together."
• "Some call the Neverghaast a pestilence... but maybe we're the cure."
• "It's never too late to be branded a heretic."
• "What new blasphemies will I find today...?"
• "I am an exile; once shattered, now made anew."

Movement › Moving

• "Immortality is not worth this thirst..."
• "I have a new purpose now."
• "Aspira tastes of memories."
• "A shattered sword still has use."
• "My blade needs no blessings."
• "The congregation's rot pervades everything they do."
• "Pressure clears my mind."
• "The world changes... I will not."
• "I hunger..."
• "Did I deserve a second chance...?"
• "I won't ask for absolution."
• "Glass always catches the light."
• "All hands are stained."
• "The light stains my sins."
• "My hunger is my penance."
• "The Aspirants are an open wound."
• "The red is growing on me."
• "Immortality doesn't save me from restlessness."
• "My eyes are open now."
• "The Neverghaast are humanity's curse!"
• "There's never enough Aspira..."
• "My heart hasn't ossified yet."
• "The time for faith is past!"
• "A Neverghaast has nothing but time."
• "If I am guilty of anything, it's inaction."
• "Nothing is beyond repair."

Movement › Long Move

• "Murder is a stain that can never be cleaned. I will not hide mine."
• "I used to think salvation was given... But now I know, it can only be earned."
• "I don't expect to absolve the world of evil, just my corner of it."
• "Have I changed...? Or become more of what I already was?"
• "Neverghaast express themselves in two ways: stained glass, and bloodstains."
• "Some deserve death more than others, but my thirst couldn't care less."
• "The congregation may be broken, but it is not beyond repair."
• "Away from the congregation, I see now what they kept from me."

First Encounter

• "Your breath stinks!"
• "I'm not turning you into a Neverghaast."
• "Your sins mean nothing to me."

First Encounter › First Encounter with Broken Covenant Cho'Gath

• "Are you just a weapon, Cho'Gath... or are you more?"

First Encounter › First Encounter with Broken Covenant Miss Fortune Both sides

• "The real enemy's inside the congregation, Sarah!"

First Encounter › First Encounter with Broken Covenant Nocturne

• "Come to feed me to your monster, Nocturne?"

First Encounter › First Encounter with Broken Covenant Rakan

• "You're like me, Rakan... a Neverghaast by necessity."

First Encounter › First Encounter with Broken Covenant Vladimir

• "Vladimir... I could smell your ego the moment you arrived."

First Encounter › First Encounter with Broken Covenant Xayah

• "I respect you for working both sides, Xayah. Well done."

Taunt

• "Know what'll knock the wind out of you? Me."

Taunt › Taunt Response

• "Full of hot air, aren't you?"

Joke

• "Good time for a— What the... really?"

Joke › Joke Response

• "Ahahahaa, hahahahaa— just kidding."

Attack › Attacking

• "I hunger."
• "No prayers!"
• "Your last breath!"
• "Hold your breath!"
• "Your mistake."
• "Your cracks are showing!"
• "Test your faith!"
• "Shards of sin!"
• "Aspira power me."
• "Now gasp!"
• "You're panting."
• "No respite!"
• "Stained rot."
• "Forsaken!"
• "Breath for breath!"
• "See red!"
• "You will shatter!"
• "Bite me!"

Attack › Attacking › Attacking Baron Nashor

• "I've seen true monsters, Baron!"

Ability Casting › Using Blade of the Exile

• "Shattered no longer!"
• "Your breaths are forfeit!"
• "Face a true Neverghaast!"

Ability Casting › Using Blade of the Exile › Ranking for the first time

• "The stained blade shall be restored!"

Kills and Objectives › Killing a Champion

• "Now, exhale..."
• "A feast I can't refuse..."
• "Violence begets death begets Neverghaast."
• "Waste of breath."
• "Thirst is gone... for now."
• "Every move you made, I was watching you."
• "Feeling breathless?"
• "Ahhh... Tastes good."

Kills and Objectives › Killing Broken Covenant Cho'Gath

• "Sorry, Cho'Gath. You never asked for this life."

Kills and Objectives › Killing Broken Covenant Miss Fortune Both sides

• "Sarah... I tried to warn you..."

Kills and Objectives › Killing Broken Covenant Nocturne

• "I'd never defile myself with your Aspira, Nocturne."

Kills and Objectives › Killing Broken Covenant Rakan

• "In over your head again, Rakan."

Kills and Objectives › Killing Broken Covenant Vladimir

• "A selfish life is a squandered one, Vladimir."

Kills and Objectives › Killing Broken Covenant Xayah

• "We could've used your savvy, Xayah. A shame."

Kills and Objectives › Scoring First Blood

• "A warning from the Neverghaast!"

Kills and Objectives › Scoring a Double Kill

• "Never doubt the Neverghaast!"
• "Got my second wind."

Kills and Objectives › Scoring a Triple Kill

• "Three breaths? A nice meal."

Kills and Objectives › Scoring a Quadra Kill

• "Four's a proper lungful."

Kills and Objectives › Scoring a Pentakill

• "Tell your maker there is no Covenant I cannot break!"

Kills and Objectives › Destroying a Turret

• "Shattered like glass."
• "Everything cracks."
• "Another rotten foundation."
• "No more false idols."

Shopping › Opening the Shop

• "The congregation wishes it had such wares."
• "These prices really take my breath away."
• "How about selling exclusively to the Neverghaast?"
• "Hmm... do you have anything in red?"

Other Gameplay › Leveling Up

• "Nice."
• "Power of the Neverghaast."
• "A breath of fresh air!"
• "Ooh... feeling sparkly."

Other Gameplay › Pinging › 'Assist Me'

• "Help a Neverghaast out?"

Other Gameplay › Pinging › 'Danger'

• "Danger awaits!"

Other Gameplay › Pinging › 'Enemy Missing'

• "They're in the wind!"

Other Gameplay › Pinging › 'On The Way'

• "On it."

Recall

• "We all look back through rose-tinted glass."
• "Need a boost. Aspira's running low."
• "Self-preservation is the Neverghaast way."
• "Time for a breather."
• "Only from what's broken can we learn what's worth saving."
• "All this fighting drives me batty sometimes."

Death

• "I could've done... more..."
• "Just one more..." Riven gasps. "Breath..."

Death › Respawn

• "Can't break what's already broken."
• "Glass can be endlessly remade."
• "This war will never end..."
• "I didn't earn this...!"
• "I must face my sins."
• "There's still more I need to make up for...!"
• "Now I'm even thirstier."
• "There is nothing in the beyond..."