Varus Quotes

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Movement › First Move

• Kai: "Corruption runs through this place..."
• Valmar: "Through the air."
• Varus: "Through our veins in our bow."
• Valmar: "Bloodshed carries a price..."
• Kai: "That we cannot pay."
• Varus: "You will. They all will."
• Kai: "You cling to vengenace, Varus..."
• Valmar: "It will consume you."
• Varus: "Let it."
• Valmar: "We don't condone your bloodlust."
• Varus: "Then stop me."
• Kai: "Your pain blinds you. Let us help!"
• Kai: "With all this power, could we not make a new home?"
• Varus: "Nowhere is safe from Empyrean corruption."
• Valmar: "...Or your thirst for revenge."
• Valmar: "Another realm... You must stop, Varus."
• Kai: "You march toward certain death."
• Varus: "All death is certain."

Movement › Moving

• Varus: "You are not my conscience."
• Valmar and Kai: "Nor you ours."
• Varus: "Fire catches on the guilty,"
• All: "and the innocent."
• Kai: "So much death..."
• Varus: "Spare me your judgment."
• Varus: "No hesitation."
• Kai: "Mercy isn't weakness...!"
• Varus: "I was powerless, once."
• Kai: "That doesn't excuse this violence!"
• Varus: "We will be the last Empyrean."
• Valmar: "And what will be left...?"
• Varus: "Empyreans corrupt everything."
• Valmar: "Vengeance corrupts you."
• Varus: "I do what must be done."
• Valmar: "Without question... without remorse!"
• Varus: "Talk is futile."
• Valmar: "That hasn't stopped you."
• Varus: "My fight is your fight."
• Valmar: "As if we have a choice..."
• Kai: "I will always be with you, Val..."
• Varus: "Death will unite us all."
• Varus: "Our realms deserve justice."
• Valmar: "Justice... or retribution?"
• Valmar: "This won't end cleanly."
• Varus: "Life isn't 'neat'."
• Kai: "Could the Foreglow make us human...?"
• Varus: (scoffs) "A fantasy!"
• "Only the weak have regrets."
• "With enough pressure and heat, everything breaks."
• "Empyreans have the strength to kill, not to grieve."
• "Spite is fuel everlasting."
• "This realm is merely a shade of mine."
• "Sentimentality burns from the inside out."
• "My realm will have retribution."
• "All tracks lay before me."

Movement › Long Move

• Varus: "I remember hunting... with my family."
• Kai: "Your heart remains, Varus!"
• Valmar: "Don't let go."
• Kai: "Our love transcended realms."
• Valmar: "And now transcends our form."
• Varus: "Your love did. Mine, did not."
• Kai: "Why were we joined?"
• Valmar: "What binds us?"
• Varus: "The Foreglow. The fall of realms. The fate we abide."
• Kai: "The Foreglow has warped your mind, Varus!"
• Varus: "Do not presume to know me."
• Kai: "We can be an asset...!"
• Varus: "Lend me your strength, not your sympathy."
• Varus: "How do I know it was not you two who destroyed my realm?"
• Valmar: (sighs) "Vengeance leads your mind astray."
• Valmar: "Those you fire at will always fire back."
• Varus: "Only if we miss."
• Kai: "Better this, than to be without Valmar..."
• Varus: "Such dedication better serves my vengeance."
• Valmar: "We face the corruption, as one!"
• Varus: "Do not turn away."
• "Each arrow, a whistle upon the wind; carrying melodies of carnage, and agony."
• "My path was set when my realm died. I will not stray from it."
• "The Empyreans shall suffer a hundred-fold for each realm destroyed."
• "I feel the realms grating against me, like a match perpetually struck."
• "Controlling the Foreglow matters little to me—I deliver death without it."

First Encounter

• "Flames of my realm form every arrow."
• "Mercy is a fantasy in every realm."
• "I wear the very fabric of my realm. I won't be unraveled."
• "My realm chose me to live—and you to die."
• "Do you see kindness in these faces?"

First Encounter › First Encounter with an Empyrean

• "You glow too brightly to hide, Empyrean."

First Encounter › First Encounter with Empyrean Akali

• "A fire cannot defend anything, Akali. You fool yourself."

First Encounter › First Encounter with Empyrean Brand

• "Anger, I can use, Brand. Chaos, I cannot."

First Encounter › First Encounter with Empyrean Kayle

• "Revenge burns hotter than righteousness, Kayle."

First Encounter › First Encounter with Empyrean Malzahar

• "When I kill you, will I hear the Foreglow's voice, or yours, Malzahar?"

First Encounter › First Encounter with Empyrean Nocturne

• "You birthed this flame, Nocturne. Now, it will consume you!"

First Encounter › First Encounter with Empyrean Pyke

• "The first Empyrean: who shall fall to the last."

Taunt

• "Shall I show you the Foreglow's power?"

Taunt › Taunt Response

• "The Empyreans can have your realm."

Joke

• "What... are you-- OW! I will remember this."

Joke › Joke Response

• Varus: "We wonder if your realm is worth saving."
• Valmar: "...It- it's debatable."

Attack › Attacking

• "My pain, my power."
• "Torment draws near."
• "Gleam with blood."
• "More kindling."
• "Embrace despair!"
• "Face my realm's might."
• "My fuel!"
• "A neon inferno!"
• "Fury pulled taut!"
• "You mean nothing!"
• "Oblivion nears."
• "Agony awaits!"
• "Each pierce, a message!"
• "Suffer, as I have."
• "Once flesh; soon, ash."
• "Nothing will survive!"
• "Terror burns."
• "Another doomed soul."
• "Feed my wrath!"
• "You're in my path."

Attack › Attacking › Attacking the Dragon

• "Dragon, I'll show you fire!"

Attack › Attacking › Attacking Baron Nashor

• "You fall in every realm, Baron."

Ability Casting › Using Hail of Arrows

• "Fire!"
• "Erase!"
• "Lay waste!"
• "Raze!"

Ability Casting › Using Chain of Corruption

• "SCOUR!"
• "BREAK AND FALL!"
• "BINDING FLAME!"

Ability Casting › Using Chain of Corruption › Ranking for the First Time

• "The Foreglow provides."
• "Seize and burn."
• "Nothing exceeds my reach."

Kills and Objectives › Killing a Champion

• "Ash will be your only epitaph."
• "Taste oblivion."
• "No one is safe."
• "Already your memory burns away."
• "Delusional and... inconsequential."
• "What's one more..."
• "Death falls suddenly."
• "One more snuffed out."

Kills and Objectives › Killing an Empyrean

• "May we never see our like again, Empyrean."

Kills and Objectives › Killing Empyrean Akali

• "Your only destiny was death, Akali."

Kills and Objectives › Killing Empyrean Brand

• "Pitiful that such a roaring fire could sputter out so weakly, Brand!"

Kills and Objectives › Killing Empyrean Kayle

• "Justice comes swiftly to those who deal it, Kayle."

Kills and Objectives › Killing Empyrean Malzahar

• "Does the Foreglow mourn you, Malzahar? I thought not."

Kills and Objectives › Killing Empyrean Nocturne

• "To die by your own creation... There is poetry in the realms, Nocturne."

Kills and Objectives › Killing Empyrean Pyke

• "Hunting only your selves, Pyke—how short-sighted."

Kills and Objectives › Scoring First Blood

• "Kindling for a greater fire."

Kills and Objectives › Scoring a Pentakill

• "Let every Empyrean flame CHOKE AND DIE!"

Kills and Objectives › Destroying a Turret

• "Might crumbles across the realms."
• "My bow laughs."
• "A monument to failure."
• "Heat exposes weakness."

Shopping › Opening the Shop

• "Show me your... three-for-one deals."
• "Shopkeeper. Tell me of any Empyreans you've met... and any discounts they received."
• "I require no assistance! ...However..."
• "How much would you pay for a bow, with a face on it?"

Other Gameplay › Leveling Up

• "Through power, through vengeance."
• "The fire still grows."
• "My realm is still with me."
• "My aim grows sharper."

Other Gameplay › Low Health

• Varus: "How...?"
• Valmar: "You overreach."
• Kai: "You're hurt..."
• Varus: "Quiet!"
• "The Foreglow fails me..."
• "I won't submit..."

Other Gameplay › Pinging › 'Assist Me'

• "Favor me!"

Other Gameplay › Pinging › 'Danger'

• "Beware."

Other Gameplay › Pinging › 'Enemy Missing'

• "Cowards hide."

Other Gameplay › Pinging › 'On My Way'

• "Prepare for me."

Recall

• "When I am finished, I will face the Foreglow and walk backward into oblivion."
• "I will cross a thousand realms to extinguish the Empyrean corruption!"
• "Peace and Empyreans cannot co-exist. We must be eliminated."
• "Rest is wasted on me; the cries of Empyreans are my sustenance."
• "There is no realm beyond my reach... or my arrows."
• "Now, I pull the string taut—before my next volley."

Death

• Kai: "Val..."
• Valmar: "Kai...!"
• Varus: "I feel... warmth."
• "Extinguished... at last..."

Death › Respawn

• Varus: "I struggle to remember what's been lost."
• Kai: "Your family!"
• Valmar: "Your soul."
• Kai: "At least we're still together, Valmar..."
• Valmar: "'Til the end."
• Valmar: "You waste our power."
• Varus: "Would you have me turn my back on this corruption?"
• "My bow has not yet found its final target."
• "Death was a reprieve from your endless prattle, Valmar and Kai."
• "Have I returned from death, or merely arrived in another realm?"
• "Awaken Valmar, Kai—we idle no more."
• "Empyreans: death is my ally, it will not be yours."