What Does the HEX CORE Actually Do? (THEORY)
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- čas přidán 22. 02. 2022
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The Hex Core is Arcane’s most mysterious technology. All of Arcane’s technology is somewhat mysterious, and while we can’t speculate productively on HOW they work, by knowing what each individual component of the Hex Core does, it’s overall function makes a lot more sense. Hextech is technology of power and efficiency. Shimmer is chaotic growth. By adding organic matter, a lifeforce for the hextech to empower, we get both the evolutionary effect of life made efficient and the terrifying rapid deterioration of life we see consuming Sky.
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I feel so bad for viktor specially the scene when he realizes sky is dead I wanna hug him sdfghj
I don't get it though. He's such a workaholic that it never seemed like he even cared about Sky in the first place until her sudden death. He got a "you really don't know what you have until it's gone" moment.
at least he's alive man i feel bad for sky :(
@@megha7947 same , I didn’t really care about him in that moment. Only Sky
You're just horny. No need to phrase it like that
@@bwingbwinggwiyomi yeah. He wasn't crying about sky but mostly what sky said in the letters.
My guess is that Hex Core is like a Faustian device as when we see Victor no longer needing his crutches and sprinting long distances without tiring but at the cost of becoming more obsessed with it and when he 'disobeyed' the Hex Core essentially took back its 'gift'
I actually thought he took the crutch up to hide what he had done, or to mentally reject what he’d become, not that he’d actually lost the augmentations. I wasn’t sure either way though
@@urieldaluz250 You can see that Viktor loses his "power" shortly after he fails to destroy the Hexcore. It looks like a light is being turned off around his head. Shortly after he spills Sky's ashes, you can also see very well how hard it is for him to stand up and that his face is paler than ever. 😅
Yeah I noticed that too -- the sound the Hexcore makes after Viktor tries to destroy it, the look of realization in his eyes, and then after his leg is more like dead weight than what we saw before. 'I can give and I can take away,' essentially.
i love the idea that the hexcore could be kind of sentient, this theory makes a lot of sense
@@caavalca if you take into account the origin of hextech crystals in lore - not sure yet if this applies to Arcane canon, but in LoL canon, the crystals are the remainders of a species of sentient crystallic beings called Brackern. so they may very well be sentient, since the consciousnesses of the brackern reside within the crystals, and here humans are harnessing their life force for their own benefit
The Hexcore is a Turing Machine, a generalised version of Hextech.
Instead of hard coding (carving) runes into a device and testing if it works, you can align the runes on a hex core and see if it casts the spell.
With a Turing Machine. Instead of writing '4 + 4 =' and pressing 'go'. you can code 'A FUNCTION B stored in C' and rotate different variables into the respective slots.
This explains why Victor says "I've tried every combination of runes", he has literally brute forced all the possible combinations of the 4 characters. The Hexcore is the Acrane universes first general computer.
That's what I figured it was as well. With the addition of magic, one could argue that the may be an element of sentience to it, but ultimately, it seemed like a magic computer
He is missing runes tho.
@@danielcrosby1254 Inspiration, specifically.
@@Creaform003 yeah, and sky said “you’ve always inspired me.” While holding her notebook. I saw on Reddit the missing inspiration rune has something to do with sky’s notebook
@@elysemeyers1256 Thanks, I was just having a nice day and now I'm sad again... What could have been!
It was only on my second watch I realised that Viktor had run out of shimmer when he made his second attempt to use the hexcore on himself, and rather than going to get more he went for it anyway in desperation and would have died if Sky had not intervened and paid the price in his place. It shows how far gone he was at this point because unless I'm missing something this was completely irrational - it was a risk he didn't need to take. Yes getting more shimmer was difficult at that point due to the blockade, but if he'd calmed down and thought about it, not impossible
I never noticed that!
@@damjay005 Me neither! I'm glad they didn't just kill off Sky for no reason. After the Witcher killing off a badass like Renfri in episode 1, I'm a little hyper-sensitive to interesting women characters becoming the "girl in the fridge" trope. I mean, I still think they definitely fridged Sky, especially in that Viktor takes her death as a sign to stop, and doesn't even tell anyone what happened. He just takes her ashes to *his* favorite childhood area (because he didn't really take the time to get to know anything about *her*) to scatter her ashes
@@edenpk8541 I agree, although I wouldn't put her on the same level of interesting as Renfri. She was not really introduced in any meaningful way outside of being a plot device.
Same
WOW! So you mean, his second attempt only worked, because Sky hat so pay the price? And if she would'nt have intervened, Viktor would have died? OMG, I watched this season 7 times and I never thought about that perticular point. 😰 I always wondered, how exactly it worked without the dose oh shimmer, but now it makes sense... I have to go now... (sorry for any grammer mistakes :D)
My theory for the hexcore goes like this:
So, we know the original idea for the hexcore was that it was supposed to be hextech that learns and how it's "backwards" from the way current hextech was being used.
What I understood this to mean was that, currently, they mix and match runes at random until it produces some kind of effect (e.g. teleportation) and then they see if they are able to make use of that effect.
With the hexcore, you would be able to tell it what effect you want (e.g. "hexcore, cast healing magic) and then the hexcore will know exactly what's needed and change the runes on itself to then cast that effect.
The way it currently works, however, is that it learnt from Viktor's need to heal himself and began enhancing life. However, it seems to be going too far and pushing the subject beyond their limits, kinda like overclocking a CPU without a break, leading it to deteriorate.
When Viktor took the shimmer, it managed to give Viktor the boost he needed to survive but, when he tried the second time without shimmer, it would've been too much. If Skye wasn't there, he would have been consumed himself but with Skye, the hexcore seemed to recognise her as extra materia tol use up instead of killing Viktor. So, while it managed to keep Viktor alive, it still had to draw on that extra energy somewhere.
That's at least the idea I got from the hexcore, but it really could go any way and I really like the idea of you presented
this is probably the best theory I have seen for the Hexcore so far. I honestly think you have *the* real explanation for it.
In short, it's basically supposed to be a Hex-Alexa technology 🤣 y'all know what I mean by Alexa.
@@bwingbwinggwiyomi So... "Hexla, life support on."
Would this mean that instead of shimmer, victor can just hold a plant, so that the plants energy will be used?
A very interesting explanation of how the hexcore works. I have to ask one question tho; why did Viktor experiment on himself the second time when he didn’t have a vial of shimmer? He knew he didn’t have any shimmer, he was aware of the sidefects and yet he still continued the procedure.
@@rikmulder183This is super late lol but if you compare the results of both of Viktor's experiments we can see how one method might be more useful than the other.
After using the refined shimmer vial that Singed gave him, the hexcore was able to use up all that extra energy and turn his leg (where Viktor had carved the runes). This means that method was highly effective.
However on his second attempt, without shimmer, we can see how it was probably gonna end up killing Viktor until Sky came and basically sacrificed herself for the hexcore to use as that extra energy. The results after that though are Incredibly minor in comparison to his previous attempt. Only his hand that was touching the hexcore was able to even change (considering how he had already carved runes all over his body, this is an extremely underwhelming result).
The variant shimmer managed to turn and heal his whole leg, meanwhile with Sky it only managed to turn his hand.
Why is Viktor so obsessed with the Hex core? Yes it could save his life but he doesn't know that at the start.
It's precisely because it learns, adapts, and evolves by itself (in theory). If he manages to make it work, he leaves behind something way more lasting than himself. He is faced with his mortality and irrelevancy in the grand scheme of things, but if he leaves behind this thing that evolves on its own, he can post-humously achieve his dream of recognition, discovery, AND improving lives. He hedges all his bets on it because he has to in order to have closure and die with some semblance of peace.
This part of his character really resonated with me. As a flawed human with a big huge ego, I want so badly to leave something behind that would make me remembered for centuries. And no better thing than something that can live on indefinitely without your input. It's perfect.
He came from nothing and fears returning to nothing, why give up something that can give you it all?
I have the smallest ego of any person I’ve ever known and that’s probably exactly why I too wish I could leave a mark, even if it’s just personal.
This was very well said. I think we all want to leave somre sort of impression on our lives that will still exist after we die and they did a great job by displaying that with Viktor.
That's a good point and I mostly agree. I don't think his goal is recognition though, at least not as in public recognition as a person. It is clearly shown that he doesn't get any public recognition for hextech, and that's partly because he wants it to be this way. It would've been very easy for him to get mad about it or maybe even jealous of Jayce, but from what we see in the show he never does. He's happy being in the shadows just seeing his work suceed. So I think he wants to leave something behind, something that actually helps people and innovates technology, but he doesn't necessarily want to be remembered as a person. Therefore I also don't think he has a big ego. Of course he has an ego, but pretty much everyone has one and I don't think his ego is above average. The wish to leave something good behind in the world is just very human, not in itself egotistical. Unless you want to go down the road of "All humans are egotistical, even when we help others we do it because it makes ourselves feel better"
I think he is obsessed with Hex Core because it is the apex of what he sacrificed everything for, which is, I think, what you are hitting on. This is what he gave up his homeland, any relationships he had, his participation in anything besides science. This is what he has been working towards his whole life. It is why he understands now. And I think he knows he is the one who has the unique qualities to accomplish its development. He is near death which is freeing, but still retains the mental talents to unlock its code. I think that is why he asked Jayce to destroy it. I don't think Viktor is scared of it but knows he should be.
i love the fact that Piltover is struggling to learn how to use magic and there are some places in the same universe where everyone uses magic like they breath
This is early in Piltovers time, when hextech first came to be, so it makes sense, maybe in s2 Piltover will be the tech powerhouse it is.
Holy shit I hadn't even thought about this until I saw people's comments suggesting it, but I was wondering how they were going to get Blitzcrank into the show and what if the Hexcore IS Blitzcrank (or turns into him when it "evolves" further)? That would actually make so much sense, especially because Blitzcrank seems to share Viktor's ideals of using technology to protect/save humanity, and Viktor is such a fan of the term "crank it" so maybe Blitzcrank even absorbed some tiny fragments of Viktor's memories/habits!
Either that, or the hexcore is going to turn Viktor into League of Legends Viktor, with the laser arm and cyborg face and all. Why not both? Maybe it imbues Viktor with power while absorbing his life force and incorporating it into itself! I'm excited you guys holy shit let's get our wholesome gentle giant robo-golem on the SHOW
According to the lore, Jayce destroyed a hexcrystal that was hard to manipulate from which Ekko gets his hexcrystal for the zdrive.
hextech is magic in stone not souls of some species
it's going to be interesting to see what they will do with the Hex Core next season, and if I remember correctly didn't they say that the Hex Core was supposed to be a living or have the ability to learn kind of technology?
Victor's interaction with it implied a will to live/exist. Even implying sentience
@@lennycuellar BLITZCRANK LET'S GOOOOO
@@edenpk8541 i did not think of this LESGOO
@@pluto__5625 Blitzcrank is the Reason for Viktor and Jayces falling out. While im sure they'll change the story to fit arcane i can definitely see it having to do with the Hexcore
Hexcore is literally a solidified conciousness of a slumbing race and the reason why hexcore is a great conduit for magic is because those species is literally walking mana crystals
Hextech/Simmer - metaphors for Piltover & Zaun. Hextech is about applying layers of control. Shimmer is about releasing inherent strength but in an unfocused and destructive way. (Superego vs Id?)
I like the idea! Can you elaborate on how hextech increases control?
@@schnee1 So Hextech doesn't "increase" control. Hextech IS control.
The Arcane, as Heimerdinger tells us, and as we see in the first episode with the explosion caused by Powder (foreshadowing there) is inherent destructive and unstable.
Hextech isn't the arcane, it's an attempt to layer enough artifice and technology on top of the arcane to stabilize it and force it into constructive uses.
Without the arcane, the Hextech tools Jace makes are inert. Hextech is only useful as a way to control and direct the arcane energies.
@@ABPutney This is maybe a reason why Heimerdinger allowed hextech to be developed.
I believe the hexcore ( at least in arcane) is adapting and powering based on whatever is put into it. It becomes a live test subject for Viktor to work with. I believe the plants would have grown normally except his blood had already changed the hexcore to function like him, dying. He put shimmer into himself and the hexcore adapted as he did. As for what happened to Skye, time will tell.
When i watched arcane for the first time my attention fell onto the core showing some kind of fear (i think the scene was when Victor tried to destoy it), so maybe the thing is alive and learning (as said in the show).
Hexcrystals are the souls of a dormant scorpion race.
@@5frogfrenzy didn't know, thanks
there's also the fact that is didn't even lash out in self defense. that thing hurt Viktor AFTER he gave up on destroying it
Cant wait to see Viktor slowly turn into how he is in LoL. They did a good job with Jinx, Ekko, and the others,and their designs fit the world better. So I cant wait to see how they deisgn viktor compared to his LoL model
The whole scene of that drop of blood entering the hexcore looks a lot like a metaphor for fertilization to me, especially considering the scene is combined with Mel and Jayce going at it. I bet Mel's gonna be pregnant
fluids were definitely released.
i thought him 'giving' blood gave me a sense of something very archaic and powerful happening, kind of like a sacrifice you make to the gods at their altar.
It also reminds me that blood is a life force. It runs through us like how machines need lube/ or gas. Its way of sustaining. Otherwise, it's just dormant
Give very energy vampire. A sacrifice. A drop was good. But after a level up, it required alot more each time. Like MPs and XP power
@@TK_Danes not sure what MP and XP refers to 😔
@@martinaseidel3316 It looks like the drop of blood - a part of himself - was needed to kickstart life for the hexcore (similarly to how other 'drops' are required to make new life). There's even that strainy stuff the blood mixes with within the core that looks somewhat reminiscent of DNA. Afterwards, the core seems to have a consciousness of its own (like when it punishes Viktor for even contemplating its destruction) Combined with the Jayce/Mel imagery - which must have been put there for a reason - the parallels are just too strong for me to bet against Jayce and Mel having a child in the future. If they live, that is...
@@wamsel95 i guess it would have been a rating problem to use sperm XD but also blood just feels more visceral to me. to extract it, you have to injure yourself.
the cutting for blood later as well as carving runes really shows how far he is willing to go. you know, it's almost 'a pound of flesh' he is willing to pay, in a very non-scientific way.
and i agree, for the story to move forward, mel being pregnant is an interesting complication.
Maybe hex core is like an AI, it takes the energy of hextech and gradually adapts it into better things with little or no input from the user. Since there are numerous rotating runes on it, I thought it looks like Viktor uses it like a computer, turning the runes to create different effects, but eventually the runes begin moving themselves, essentially turning itself into a thinking organism that can make its own magic, i.e. creating life once life is put in and so on
My dear friend schnee, analyze the songs. i have seen with my own eyes that every minute, every second means something in arcane, Music always has a secret meaning :)
Ohhhhh right. There's still supposed to be Brackern mind-souls getting some kinda mangled in the middle of that thing and singing about it. Does Sky's leitmotif start haunting Viktor after she gets dusted or something? Is the special shimmer the cute lizard?
I haven't gone back and listened but there are only so many knives left to twist
Just have to mention, that the music track playing while the Hexcore is absorbing Viktors first drops of blood is called "Romance". 😁😁
@@IllyPaladin well that sure rolls out some implications
@@timetuner As though juxtaposing that scene with another involving dna going places didn't imply enough, lol.
I think Netflix’s _Dark_ said “everything has a cost”.
Its brilliant that Viktor was the one who did this, because its combining the technology of both Zaun and Piltover
Me thinking about hex core before learning lol lore: guess its a corrupted life giving machine that gave itself life so now its a self sustaining thing I guess
After lol lore: wait its all void? Always has been!
Shimmer is the void I think? And hexcore is made from brackerns Soul or where they put their consciousness and brackerns used to fight the void ooooobhhhhh yeah it's all void
Hexcrystals are the souls/brain of a dead scorpion race. Nothing to do with the void. Aside from the Hexcore corrupting from the shimmer in Viktors blood.
@@5frogfrenzy no they are not dead they are just in deep slumber
Purple=void, its the law
@@b-trixangel198 lulu and pix = void?
The hexcore gives him mana and ability power and when upgraded it allows him to upgrade an ability. When the hexcore is perfected his ultimate ability was upgraded. Unfortunately they removed the hexcore in season 10 and replaced it with the hex fragment mechanic.
theres this theory that might play onto season 2:
Victors hexcore isnt working because its missing a rune.
currently hextech is using 4 of the 5 elemental runes, the same kind used in-game: Domination, Precision, Sorcery, Resolve, and the final missing one, Inspiration.
Skye, Victors assistant, was alluded to have discovered the Inspiration Rune, especially because of the color of her clothes and journal and how she said she was INSPIRED by Victor.
so maybe next season, he uses her research to modify the hexcore to fit 1 more rune and voila, the Glorious Evolution we know and love
Here's a few questions I have,
When did Vander and Silco fight ? After or before he took in the girls because it's said that he betrayed silco because he wanted to go to war with Piltover and kill their own people in the process but why would he go against war and then get vi and jinxs parents killed later on?
Why would Vi need to fight and ask Sevika where jinx was if she already knew that Silco was at the Last Drop ? Caitlyn has a gun on her at the time which was shown to make Sevika run for the hills so all they had to do was raid silco and done so what?
1) 1st based on apperance I thought that before anything we've seen in the show, but it only makes sense to happen soon after first revolution and taking Powder and Vi for them to have an ideology conflict. Silco and Vander cooperation -> Failed Rebelion (Bridge Scene) -> Fight
2) If Silco is the crimeboss of underground and runs all things, which Vi suspects while still in prison (C: He works for Silco? Vi: Yeah? They all do!) and gets confirmation while searching the underground. So it wouled be reckless to just go threaten the main person in the region that she doesnt actually know where he is - it's better to instead follow the advice from yordle that 'she could tell them where they can find Silco's number 2'.
2) In addition to Baxland's comment: They had also already visited the Last Drop's vicinity before and had seen that it was heavily guarded.
@@Sturzfaktor2 even though we saw Vi destroy an entire army in episode 3?
@@baxland2539 then why do the kids not recognize silco at all? They didn't know who took Vander
@@DeepEnd2019 I think answer to that is as simple as: kids just didnt see Silco before at all. When he was working with Vander, kids still had parents / when he adopted them, he fought Silco I assume within few days afer. Since that Silco was injured and probably laid low until events of ep2
Can you do a video on shimmer ?
It's pretty confusing too .
What you have to understand that anti-gravity properties that the Hex-tech demonstrates in its first prototype run and then in the Atlas Gauntlets could potentially enable us here on Earth to reach or even exceed the speed of light....
The Hex Core to be like artificially mimicking a magic user, but somewhere along the line turned into an AI.
This really adds up! Especially because once Viktor tried the procedure without shimmer it took sky instead. Pretty neat!
Every time I rewatch Arcane and I come to the scene where Mel and Jayce are intimate alternating with scenes of the Hexcore absorbing Victor's blood. It looks like two unrelatable situations, but I always had a strong feeling that the writers were trying to tell us something. Then while watching it suck the blood out of victors hand, I had a thought.
I think it's obsessed with blood and the same type of euphoria that two human beings can get from being intimate; the Hexcore gets that same sensation when it absorbs human blood. Just look at the way that it sucked so much blood out of Victor's hand.
If this is true, not only is Hexcore dangerous, but messing with it could be a death wish.
Heimerdinger was right. The magic is dangerous.
I like how it slowly goes from Blue to Purple throughout the season which indicates it’s corruption.
I just realised hextech is power and people are seeking power no matter if it costs lifes (blood), time and energy and that’s a good metaphor my god. Arcane was deep and still is. Shiiiiiit…. I love deeper meaning in everything ❤😮
I thinks the core is sentient cus when Viktor tried to destroy it, it reacts towards his intent by affecting his leg
The Hexcore is definitely going to do something else to him that will turn him into the "Glorious Evolution!" Viktor
most hextech is created by providing a gem for power and some runes to direct the power, the hexcore is a gem that can constantly change and realign its own runes, essentially allowing it to fulfill any function that a normal hextech device could do.
So basically The hexcore likes to slerp up life force and use it for speeding up other living things
The unique thing about the hexcore, and the thing Viktor is most excited about is that it can learn and change based on input, much like how organic life evolves based on it's surroundings. If hextech is computers, the hexcore is a neural network. Some algorithms can learn all by themselves, and yet its all calculated on different combinations of input that the algorithm has already been built to receive. In the case of the hexcore, the inputs is the runes and their different combinations. When we use algorithms, they can only manipulate things written written into their code. The hexcore can only manipulate runes, because that's what it was ‘written’ to recognize, but the combinations of the ribs can manipulate REALITY. That's magic.
Upsides of Hexcore: unimaginable boost in power and potential through augmentations
Downsides: dusty lab assistant
I must say that scene reminded me of Fullmetal Alchemist idea of "equal exchange"'s rule. Everything has it's prize.
Remember when Deckard took a point blank hexplotion to the face and just walked it off? It does seems that shimmer provides such a powerful enhancement and resistance to magic that it does seem to work as an insulator or gives enough resilience to the subject that it can save you from hextech's harsher effects.
Remember that Viktor cells were also transformed by the exposure to hexcore+shimmer , which in turn is what would've allowed the hexcore to shut him down on Ep 9 when Viktor tried to destroy it, effectively negating his health boost, leaving him once again frail and vulnerable.
HexTech: Evolution
Shimmer: Mutations
You know, the way how the Hexcore changed when it consumed Sky makes me think it's being controlled by something else.
Notice how it's purple and covered in a fleshy black goop? Remind you of something? What else likes to consume life itself until nothing exists?
Idk, but it seems a bit too Void-like to me.
Reality or at least the Arcane is written in code. Runes are that codes written out, the hextech material grants access to the Arcane that the code can draw from and use to execute certain and specific tasks and functions.
I definitely think the hexcore is alive in some way, it hurt viktor after he was about to throw that stool on it. It’s not afraid of him, he’s apart of it and what’s that stool gonna do 😂 it hurt him as if it was mad, not out of defense. Plus if It wasn’t alive why would it knock him out then? It felt like a response
I know that it's a long shot, but if the Brackern theory is correct in this universe as well, it's possible that the Hexcore is a fundamentally incompatible with more "organic" life. It's the soul of a crystalline being trying to grow a body under those specifications, which can only work for a moment before the Hexcore's focus on minerals causes it to fall apart. And then Viktor infected it with Shimmer, which is Void-based, enabling it to transmute organic life into mineral but also making it more self-aware, hungry, and malevolent.
It's worth pointing out that Viktor's experimentation with the Hex Core only went sideways once he ran out of the shimmer Singed gave him
I wanted to come back here after coming up with my own little theory on how the Hexcore works:
So basically, Viktor developed it to not be bound to a single function like he and Jayce’s other work, it was designed to learn what the user needed it to do, and then do it. While he’s going off on his little tangent, he mentions how the Arcane speaks through mages. This is important.
While Viktor is trying to make the Hexcore work manually, turning the runes on his own, he doesn’t get results…until his blood mixes with it. That’s when we see the Hexcore moving about on its own for the first time. It’s because it now has a connection to a living thing that it’s able to learn about its needs and desires. In this case, that living thing is Viktor.
I think it’s important to add that we were told just before the scene where Viktor touches the Hexcore about his goals in life and current situation: Viktor wants to leave a legacy, but is being prevented from doing so due to his short lifespan. We also know that his goal with Hextech was to improve lives.
So, fast forward to when he’s showing Jayce how the Hexcore affects plants, he talks about how the Hexcore could be the key to two different things: augmenting physiology (improving life) and extending life (Viktor’s current hinderance).
I think that after Viktor’s blood mixed with the Hexcore, it learned what Viktor wanted to do and it provided him with a way to do it (likely the contents of the vision I assume he’s having when he actually touches the Hexcore). Viktor has basically turned himself into an artificial mage.
[Idk if this makes sense I just had the idea and came back here to share]
hextech's reaction with plants is kinda like radioactive material I don't know how to explain it but hextech and the hex chrystals are so much like what radioactive material would be in a marvel comic. it gives you an odd and unnatural power while taking away something else im really not good with words but i think its interesting to see the resemblance
its odd but cool imo
I think that the hexcore is explained more in the lore of other champions, like Camile, but the idea of the Hexcore is a form of "life support", the way I understand, sort of like how iron man core worked, being also able to power other things
The hexcore can be many things but base on prior lore and prime lore. It's a transmutation and reality warping source orb essentially. Magic
My theory is, since Viktor built Blitzcrank, maybe the Hexcore is like Blitzcrank's "heart"? Or more like what keeps him alive
But it would be fun to get some more insight about that in the future
Necrit explains it. The short story is: there is this thing called "void" it is like uncontrollable magic that syphons life energy and mutates it, it is chaotic, parasitic and all devouring. One of the theory is that the hex core is "mutating" by absorbing living matter, transforming itself as "void seed" as Haimerdinger called it.
Woah I hadn't even thought about that. Void wars in Piltover and Zaun? Lol if that happens we could even meet Kai'Sa and some of the Void champions
@@edenpk8541 sadly not. Kai'sa is in Shurima. About the void being involved in Arcane: I personally believe that what it will be showed will be glimpse of what the void is and nothing more. Best depiction of the void and the horrors it brings is best told by the war b/n the Ascended and the Voidspawn. And that will make Arcane way too less of what it is. The charm of Arcane is they get a story that is brilliant and placed in the frame of league of legends lore.
I wonder if that, in the Arcane universe specifically, the hex cores tap into the void when forming their consciousness. The shimmer infused blood that changes into a polyhedron looks very void-esque as does the dramatic changes to the landscape when we see Heimerdinger's second vision.
Hexcore is just Viktor beginning to the glorius evelution
I think the Hex Core works like chaos in the Witcher. To use the magic something must be sacrificed. The bigger, more powerful the spell the more something of value must be given. Viktor’s blood was a trade in a way. So was Sky’s life though accidentally. This is probably one of the many reasons wizards are so dangerous and Heimerdinger is so against the use of magic in the beginning. (I don’t think Heimerdinger know that sacrifices are required , he’s just traumatized by all of the destruction and death he saw that wizards using magic caused in the past) If this is true, the story about the Hex Core and possibly Viktor will probably take a really dark turn later in the series.
My theory: shimmer makes you trip BOLLS.
"what hexcore do?" Check on Blitscrank
The hex core is practically the philosophers stone from fma
i think that if viktor used the hexcore on its own without shimmer it would have worked more efficiently on his body without causing possible damage but i see that he maybe used shimmer to stabilise out the possible repercussions of using the hexcore since he still hadn't figure out how to use it properly on its own.
I think it’s like a computer the magic had to be controlled by runes but a constantly changing tune means it can be used as a infinite spell machine. But it needs life because it performs spells that haven’t been used so uses a lot of magic.
Hextech is the soul of a crystal scorpion. That's it
I believe the hexcore is going to eventually drive both Viktor and Heimerdinger mad by season 2's end. They want to and need to destroy it, however we know it probably won't since it has become a part of Viktor. Heimerdinger will probably stay in Zaun for a little while before moving back to Piltover by act 2. Eventually the two will try to bring peace between Zaun and Piltover.
One might say that beyond life lies, glorious evolution.
Afaik cells die due to physical problems like problems in the dna. Since Singed is trying to stop death, I feel like shimmer would combat cell death, which means that since cell death isn’t a problem hextech is free to do the rapid growth without instakilling all the cells. This can also be why his leg looks devoid of life to at least our standards because if we ignore the fact that it would take millions of years of evolution then we could see that his legs just evolved to not need things like blood flow because mitochondria isn’t needed to generate energy anymore, since hex magic is doing the energy generation itself.
Basically it accelerates life and u need another living being to take the consequence of death
In regards to the whole yen / yang idea. And lets say this idea applies to the characters as well as the Hex Core and Shimmer. Character opisites I can quickly see are Heimerdinger dog thing and Rio, Heimerdinger and Singed. Jinx and Catlin. The Grayson and Vander. Sevika and Mel [both warriors, one magic, one shimmered. One's Mom, One's Dad] Vi and Ecco. And if that is the case?
Is Viktor his own opposite? Viktor was born disadvantaged in Zaun but took a privileged place in Piltover at the academy. He is accepted by Singed in Zaun and Heimerdinger in Piltover. Friends in Zaun were Rio, Jayce in Piltover.
I hope this gets some chatter going .. prove me wrong Arcane super fans 🙂
I'm a bit confused about the opposites you gave as examples. I agree on Heimerdinger and Singed, but I don't really understand your reasoning behind the rest. In regards of technology the big pair of opposites is shimmer and hextech, the hexcore is only one very specific device built at a later part in the series. This also paralles the difference between Piltover and it's undercity.
What parallels do you see between Jinx and Caitlin besides both being important to Vi? The whole dualism thing only works when you compare things or characters that share broader similarities while differing in all the details. They should be parallels and opposites of each other at the same time, otherwise you're just comparing apples and oranges. Not saying you're doing that, but I don't really understand what you mean, so I'd be interested in hearing your reasoning behind it. I think Jinx and Vi are an intended pair of opposites in the show while Cait is the opposite of Marcus.
I also don't really see Vander and Grayson as opposites, at least it was never obviousw to me, I guess I can see though that they were both trying to keep the peace by maintaining the status quo, but coming from opposite backgrounds with conflicting expectations put on them by the people they represent. I think the more obvious opposite to Vander is Silco as they used to share a vision, but later developed opposite approaches and ideals how to lead the undercity.
I don't understand what you mean with Sevika and Mel because from what we've seen so far on the show Mel isn't a warrior and we don't know anything about Sevika's parents, I assume I'm just misunderstanding that sentence. Sevika and Vi are clearly a pair of opposites, so maybe that's what you meant. Mel and Ekko are a bit tricky to integrate in the whole dualism concept, which is fine, it doesn't have to apply to every single character just because it's a concept of the show. Mel is in different ways both an opposite to Heimerdinger and to Silco I guess. Like Heimerdinger she is in a position of political power in Piltover but unlike Heimerdinger who is completely oblivious to how politics in Piltover work she probably understands it the best and knows best how to use it to her advantage out of all the councillors. That makes her in a way the leader of Piltover while Silco is the leader of the undercity and both use manipulation a lot to get into and stay in that position of power. At the same time their goals differ a lot since they represent opposite parts of the city and Mel in the end wants to protect life while Silco is ready to kill pretty much everyone except for Jinx. Ekko is one of the 3 survivors of the group of friends with Jinx and Vi and represents a third way of trying to deal with the Piltover/undercity situation, so I guess he's kinda an opposite both to Jinx and Vi.
I think Victor's most obvious opposite is Jayce. They are both equals as scientists, similarily smart and passionate about their work, but the way the are treated by circumstances and Piltover's society is completely opposite. Jayce becomes the golden boy, rising higher and higher in society until even becoming Mel's equal in terms of power in Piltover, and also builds an intimate romantic relationships with Mel (I know it probably just started as manipulation on her part, but at the end of the season I think it's clearly shown that she came to sincerely love Jayce). Meanwhile Viktor although just as invested and innovative as a scientist as Jayce, if not even more so, gets treated like shit by the high society of Piltover because of his background. They mostly pretend he doesn't exist, Hextech is completely presented as a solo project of Jayce, he never gets any credit for it. Even when Jayce and Viktor talk to the council together, all the councillors address Jayce directly to answer all their questions, like Viktor wasn't even in the room with them and just as capable to answer questions about their work. On top of that while Jayce is becoming a rising star Viktor is literally dying, also because of his background. So I think they are very clear opposites of each other, the show is not even subtle about it at all. Sorry this turned out so long, I'm really invested in the show atm and you said you'd like to discuss it, but I still hope this isn't too much ^^" Also please forgive me if I phrased some things weirdly, I'm not from an eglish speaking country.
@@nimadarillian8573 When I thought about it, I came up with these parallels between Caitlin and Jinx:
-Members of combat forces (Piltover enforcers, Silco's fighters) for their respective cities. They end up, directly and indirectly, fighting one another a lot.
-Accused of only keeping their position in these forces because of having high-ranking parents
-Hate these accusations, because they hate being perceived as weak
And, as you pointed out, they're both important to Vi. If I recall correctly, Jinx tries to force Vi to choose between them at the end, which is when they're most obviously compared.
That said, I didn't notice these parallels until Damon mentioned them, and I agree with you that Caitlin's main opposite is Marcus.
@@nimadarillian8573 Hi.. I too see the connections you are siting, but they don't cross the river like Viktor does so I looked for cross river opposites. Piltover vs Zaun.
By Hex Tech I meant magic. The power of Hex Tech and the Hex Core. Permanent, temporary; ethereal, chemical; rapid development for instant gains and sucess, painstaking slow gains riddled with failures. Schnee made me think about it with his comparisons. Which I loved, thanks Schnee.
Caitlyn, Jinx comparison. So correct deep relationships with Vi is the connector. Vi states the obsessiveness of both when talking to Caitlyn. Both are outsiders in their own communities, and both are intrigued by the others city. Yen/Yang: Law, chaos; Sane; not so much; Parents, Lots of dead parents; No siblings, sister and brothers; Rich, poor: Doesn't embrace magic and shimmer, does actually mix magic and shimmer; tries to solve corruption, ignores the corruption; Control issues, abandonment issues. Police, soldier.
Vander and Grayson: They both are caretakers and protect their communities. Both seem above corruption. And both were in the first war. Yen/Yang: Works for elite, works for self; police, gang boss; mediates piece via threat of violence, by to avoid violence.
Sevika and Mel: Connect by being the number 2 or influencer of their circle. Jayce and Silco. Both are very powerful women. Both seem to have had severe childhoods. Sevika hints at being cast out and Mel definitely was and both didn't see eye to eye their parent, which most likely was a single parent. Yen/Yang; rich, poor; family made, self-made; politician, soldier; sleeps with leader, doesn't; less than loyal, very loyal, magic, shimmered; manipulates, intimidates; Mom issues, Dad issues.
Now for fun, did you realize the two most alignment chart evil characters in this show are Jayce and Vi? No conflict or story if both had not set out on self-absorbed paths to satisfy their own desires. None of this would have happened and Jinx would still be a traumatized schizophrenic being protected by her big sister. . . Just something to think about not get mad about :)
Thanks for the fun conversation...
The hexcore brings The GLORIOUS EVOLUTION
I NEED A GAME WHERE YOU CAN TURN AND SWIPE THE HEXCORE JUST LIKE A RUBIK'S CUBE
The death of Viktors apprentice was the saddest moment for me
I think the hex core is kinda like Fullmetal Alchemist's Gate of Truth. Capable of great power, seemingly sentient, and operates on some sort of code of equivalent exchange, such as with the rapid growth of life resulting in a rapid progression of death.
It Is a great short and I think the analysis is good. But I would like to stress the fact that Evolution is not a process of efficiency, but rather a process of selecting the sufficiently fit. There are lots of things in organisms that are terribly inefficient. A few examples: our eyes are terribly inefficient at processing visual information, photosynthesis also uses oxygen as a substrate, making it less efficient, etc...
And this won't change as long as selection pressure makes it advantageous to have a more efficient process.
I hope I've made myself clear, and that perhaps my little comment will help you better analyze Arcane.
So regular hextech is bound to a singular function and can deviate from that. How ever the hex core can evolve and adapt. It can change it self and others depending on the circumstances.
This dude is so smart it's insane! Riot needs to employ him for season 3!
The hexcore is an 4 colourless mana artifact that when tapped gives you 3 colourless mana :)
I think the hex core is connected to the darkin and specifically blood magic, I think that's why Heimer has his vision
Skarner would be sad to see his family is used to be a battery
While I love the speculation around the core I will go with "my" theory. (Void one)
(Incoming lore dump you might or might not read)
1-First thing is Heimerdinger's reaction to it; we know he FEARS the core. But why? Simply because of what it did the first time. Heimer talks about an even, a war that unleashed magic like no other. We know that this can't be the great rune war because Heimerdinger is too young to have seen it. But there was another magical war that took place more recently, The Icathian rune war. In this event a single "seed" not unlike the core was unleashed and to make the story short let's just say that no one won and now Runterra is in permanent danger. (Recommended to read "Were Icathia once stood")
2- we have seen its behavior in the lore, expressed in the void (the void is the none existing dimension that predates all)
We know that void forces accelerated evolution and growth in places were the magic barrier of the world runs thin. In this places life works kinda like the plant we saw grow and die.
3-its evolution matches the void, going from merely corrupting and infecting to trying to take control of what it was infected and to Shifting its own look.
My bet is that the core is a miniature void rift. Too small for it to truly notice, too small for a watcher to recognize it as an entryway. But big enough to let it spill into the material world.
My theory is that's a completely different type of tech.
Not hextech. But VOIDtech.
The fact that it adapts and can affect biological matter says everything really.
The reason why all of Viktor's experiments failed? They had no other biological matter to absorb other than itself. So it turned them to ash.
And because Viktor was being augmented without shimmer (after he run out of it) it was gonna turn him too to ash. Till Skye came and unknowingly took the price for herself.
I think it isn't out right killing things but rather assimilating life, as we see how it had some kind of sentience in act 3.
Yesterday our Rol Master made us activate a hexcore and gave us 1 Rune to chose (Red, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple) to enhance our characters, it was pretty cool xd
Also lest not forget hextech crystals are skarners dead brothers and sisters. Or well i hope it stays like that in the new lore and in arcane
To me the hexcore is sort of like a dnd dice meets the orb. And give viktor 4 plus speed and sky interfered with the roll and paid the price.
The hex core turns people into quirked upwhite boy gotted with the sauce.
I'm Just waiting for heimer to steel hextech for himself and make all those robots xD
Or for Victor to create blitzcrank
So its essentially just blood magic with a sciencey twist...
Love the content man. Keep up the awesome work
Anybody else get's heavy void vibes? The spirals, the cell like structure?
Looks a lot like void stuff in Riots art.
The runes jayce saw were teleportation runes ,soo it wouldnt be out of the question that viktor opend a portal yo the void and that mutated him
Just like magic - give something to receive something
He pulled an Edward Elrik from full metal Alchemist
Shimmer, hextech core evolution abilities= the Void
Can we all mention how hextech seems to be somehow connected to the void? Ik it might be common knowledge and I am the dumb one here, but when I saw purple my mind was like “FUCKING TURN OFF THAT SHIT”
Yall need to read the hextech lore, its all on league's official page, its basically a living being that was murdered into extinction
Fun fact the hex crystal has glass scorpions souls trapped in Side them
So maybe how hex core exchanges things (e.g. sky's life for new leg) is similar to the law of equivalent exchange like from FMA?
Just realised that the characters in the hextech core are runes in the game.
I don’t know if I should spoil about the hexstones 🤔 but there is more to them but I don’t wana say incase someone doesn’t know lore doesn’t want to be spoiled.
Basically the alchemist’s stonev
The funny thing is that evolution inherently isn’t efficient. It’s why you often find seemingly convoluted answers to biological and environmental problems. My favorite example being pandas- they have an extra “false thumb” just for gripping bamboo. From the point of view of just being efficient it would make no sense to develop an entirely new appendage, but rather to have an existing one change function. Also pandas eat bamboo, a horribly un- nutritious food source and basically have to sit and eat all day.
Evolution will solve a population of species’ problem given enough time (and assuming no extinction) but you don’t get to choose the path it takes.
The law of equivalent exchange
I don't think Viktor understands evolution is he believes that's life being efficient
The speedrun core!
Dude it's so fucking uncanny how much you sound like charborg. Great videos man but it freaks me out!
That is an excellent theory but also do note that the hex core is being corrupted by the shimmer which in my theory is by extension the void which could be leading into the void also learning things I don't know I'm stupid and this might be a stupid idea but hey what's wrong ideas out there