Shepherd of Souls - Yorick quotes

Lots of you have requested this one, so here you have Yorick's story.

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Character: Yorick
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(note for Just Another Nobody): thanks for doing Yorick! he's my favorite champion and I even main him top lane.
Anyways here's Yorick Mori's lore summarized and a TL;DR at the end


Yorick was born on the Blessed Isles, which were the Shadow Isles before the Ruination, and he had a mysterious power to see ghosts. Yorick was scared of these ghosts at first, but soon realized they were only trying to find a way to get to the Beyond, as Yorick calls it, or the Afterlife. After Yorick found out that these spirits only wanted help, he started helping them, it was a bittersweet task though because Yorick made new friends but he also never saw them again. Yorick was bullied a lot because everyone thought he was crazy for seeing ghosts and didn't have many friends. Eventually word about Yorick got out to the Brethren of The Dusk who were a religious group of Monks who were recruiting people to join them, and Yorick was the perfect person. Yorick was convinced and went to their monastery. When Yorick got to the monastery he was given a shovel and an amulet filled with the Tears of Life which came from the Blessed Isles sacred spring. Yorick was having a hard time making friends though, just like he did back home, the other Monks were envious of Yorick, since he was born with a gift to see the dead and they had to work for it for years or decades even. One day, as Yorick was tending to the cemetery, and saw a massive cloud of black mist coming towards him, this Mist was worse than anyone could ever imagine, every living thing that was in it's way was devoured by the mist and Yorick even saw people's souls being crudely ripped from their bodies after the Mist started to tell his fellow Monks to take the vial off their neck and join the lost souls in eternity. When the Mist finally reached Yorick it was telling him to take the vial from his neck, but Yorick refused and blacked out. Yorick didn't know how long he'd blacked out, but he saw that he was the only living thing in miles, he would soon learn he was the only living thing on the Isles. The Mist tried to take Yorick by force but it proved futile, instead it wrapped itself around his neck and made a cape of Black Mist on his back made of souls. Yorick found that he could now raise the dead and command them, he also figured out he could summon the Maiden of the Mist, who may or may not be the Ruined Queen. Yorick soon figured out that the Mist came from the Ruined King, he vowed to kill the King and as he would put it 'put the Isles to rest'.


*TL;DR:* Yorick can see ghosts and helps them get to the Afterlife. Yorick gets recruited by Monks, Black Mist comes and Yorick figures out he can raise the dead. Yorick also figures out that the Ruined King is responsible for the Ruination

fun facts
1. Yorick's last name is Mori
2. Mori is short for the Latin term '_memento mori_' which means "be mindful of death" but Mori by itself just means death, so technically if his name was translated it would be Yorick Death.
3. That voice at the beginning that says "Yorick, look what you've become" is definitely the Maiden of The Mist taunting him

The Ruination: When the Black Mist was released and turned the Blessed Isles into the Shadow Isles




Ruined King shortened lore for those who're interested
The Ruined King's wife got poisoned with no known cure and he's so full of grief that he sends Kalista (she used to work for the Ruined King and so did Hecarim) to find a cure for the poison. Months of travelling later she finds the Blessed Isles and talks to some Monks who tell her about the healing properties of the sacred spring. Kalista travels back to the kingdom only to find out that the Ruined King is locked in his tower because his wife died. He asked Kalista if he found a cure for death instead and she said no. The Ruined King was mad with grief at this point so he sent Kalista to jail for treason. Hecarim comes in and convinces her to tell the King about what she found. The King, Hecarim, Kalista and some other soldiers go to the Isles and the King demands they revive his queen. They say no because that would mess up the natural order so he orders Kalista to kill them. Before I tell you what happens next you should know that Hecarim was always jealous of Kalista because she held a higher rank than him. Kalista refuses and Hecarim stabs her through her back, the other soldiers follow what Hecarim did. The last sight Kalista sees before she dies is slaughter. Hecarim, the King and the soldiers press on and get to the sacred spring. Ruined King casts a spell to revive his wife but she begs for the release of death again, he tries to bind their souls but some artifacts underground empower it and he creates the Black Mist by accident. Kalista wakes up, Hecarim gets swallowed by the Mist and his body is combined with his horse and we don't know anything else that happened to the Ruined King and his Queen, the only thing we know is that a huge explosion releasing the Black Mist followed and started the Ruination.

[hunchbackproduction]

Maiden: "Your human form is so confining. You could be infinite."
Yorick: "I am enough."
What a gigachad

[niceice]

Yorick sounds incredibly hopeless, he sounds like he knows that everything is breaking apart and there is no stopping it, but he still tries.

[Lightforeverandever]

Yorick is actually quite positive, dedicated and strong willed.

[mateusz]

Yorick sounds so sad and depressed, but its really inspiring when I play him

[leftmostorange]

truly tragic this man got the treatment he did in rise of sentinels.

[mariapazgonzalezlesme]

Yorick is basically Dark Souls within the Leauge of Legengs.

[nezqwe]

oh shtttt "I see the wolf"" goes to kindred right?

[cthulhu]

One would hope he would see the lamb. But no. He saw the wolf.

[cosmickoi]

Yorick is basically an unkindled that refuses to go hollow💙

[tommyzrrd]

I will come back every 4 months to see how my yorick mains are doing. “ All things fade but me”

[dicorockhimself]

My favorite yorick quote is "You can be infinite" and yorick responds calmly "I am enough" like thats some BDE i ever saw some

[znraborn]

The will of Yorick is unbreakable, but continues to stretch thinner. An inspiring champion, though very depressing...

[CORAGEMPURA]

Yorick may never find
But he fights for the peace

[PoseidonsRage]

"Grave digger, grave digger pray for my lost soul, release me from this earth allow me to grow old"
-Grave Digger Blues Saraceno

[Nolan]

The things I love about Yorick's story are the facts that he is one of the few inhabitants of the Shadow Isles that isn't completely morphed or corrupted by the Black Mist and still has memories of when it was the Blessed Isles. While he is fighting to keep it at bay and eventually put an end to it, he is constantly tempted, tormented, and mocked by it in the form of the Maiden. It's an interesting take on what could easily have been just a stereotypical necromancer character.

[unevolvedgod]

Yorwick bio

"The last survivor of a long-forgotten religious order, Yorick is both blessed and cursed with power over the dead. Trapped on the Shadow Isles, his only companions are the rotting corpses and shrieking spirits that he gathers to him. Yorick’s monstrous actions belie his noble purpose: to free his home from the curse of the Ruination."

[griffinwatson]

Yorick embodies the quote, "death is lighter than a feather, duty heavier than a mountain".

[marcinmarciniak]

One of the most interesting characters and one of the few baddases in lore. In game a crazy oldman with shovel and ghouls as his goons, and He destroy towers faster than You blink.

[Scoltren]

"I'm just happy to have company"
Dude... wanna talk about it?...