Return to the Necropolis

Sally Rebuilds Vordred

After Vordred’s defeat in Doomwood, Sally takes his skull into the Necropolis and starts putting him back together.

Gravelyn dreams of Artix and Sepulchure arguing over whether birth or choice defines a Champion, and Noxus's skull suggests that she has seen a vision. Following his direction to Sepulchure's Forbidden Vault beneath the Necropolis, she sends you with her father's helm to open it and asks you to recover the scattered biography of the man he once was.

In the Necropolis Dungeon you recover the manuscript of Archillius Webcrick, a Loremaster who became undead to keep serving Sepulchure. He wrote it before the assault on Swordhaven, beginning with the years when Sepulchure was still a knight named Valen.

Webcrick describes Valen fighting beside Prince Aldon, later King Alteon, and the healer Lynaria against a tyrant. Both men loved her, but after a private duel it was Alteon who married her, only for the Champion of Darkness to abduct her on their wedding day. Valen pursued him into the Necropolis alone and lost the fight.

The dying Valen accepted DoomKnight armor from the Mysterious Stranger to save Lynaria, rescuing her at the cost of becoming Sepulchure. Webcrick explains that such Doom Items house beings of Darkness that only Blinding Light can destroy, although a damaged page leaves the rescue's immediate aftermath unclear. Later entries describe Sepulchure sending armies to destroy a shadowborn child destined to replace him. When Celestia and the paladins find the child first, he returns to his war, believing they would have dealt with a creature of Darkness. The same account says the armor struck Lynaria down when she later tried to free Valen with Light.

Sepulchure's helm opens the vault onto Queen Lynaria Alteon's tomb and letters rather than treasure, but Sally interrupts beside the Vordred she is rebuilding with Drakath's Chaos. Dropping you through a trapdoor, she releases a toxin intended to turn the lower Necropolis's living inhabitants into zombies.

Every attempt to climb back takes you farther down. In the depths you meet Lilyandra, who refuses to abandon the last grove of Juniata, the forest that preceded Doomwood. She offers you refuge from Sally's toxin.

Artix lowers a rope to rescue you, only for Sally to send him falling too and strand you both on the forty-second floor, where you decide to bring down the Necropolis literally. After helping defend Lilyandra's sanctuary, you defeat the Shadow Dragon and destroy a supporting pillar while Artix attacks the power source.

The Necropolis collapses, but Sally has finished Chaos Vordred and Noxus holds Gravelyn captive while you and Artix are in no condition for another battle. Facing the threat to her friends, Gravelyn wishes Sepulchure were there, and Lynaria's tomb answers her.

The figure that destroys Chaos Vordred resembles Sepulchure, but Gravelyn recognizes that it is not her father, whose soul the tomb cannot restore after Drakath annihilated it. Watching from afar, Drakath accepts an unnamed voice's challenge to see what would have happened without his intervention, using his power to let the wish change history instead.