Black Scourge Singed and Black Death
Black Scourge Singed is an impressive skin of The Mad Chemist, but strange that it is not as popular in League of Legends as many other skins. It seems that the player’s dislike for this outfit comes from the image and its relatively scary origin.
In fact, the Black Scourge Singed was inspired by the Plague Doctor costume with a crow head mask attached to an anecdote about a medieval century pandemic in Europe.
Black Death – a term referring to a pandemic that occurred in Asia and Europe in the 14th century, culminating in Europe from 1348 to 1350. It is considered one of the deadliest pandemics. in human history, when it killed between 30 and 60% of Europe’s population and reduced the global population from about 450 million to 350 – 375 million by 1400.
During the most horrific period of the world, medieval physicians came to the conclusion that the Black Death was a disease spread through the air, and so the Plague Doctor outfits was also born, with the same effect as protective clothing or medical masks today, to help physicians have the ability to cope with the spread of the disease.
Hidden behind their horror crows mask, is a layer of antimicrobial compound that plays a role in detoxifying the air with a composition of water-soaked straw and activated charcoal. Although later, the Black Death has been studied more specifically, called “Plague” – The disease spread from rats to humans, the images of the crow’s doctor have almost become an immortal symbol and the horror of the darkest times in human history.
If you feel that the story above is not enough horror, please take a closer look at the image of Black Scourge Singed in the game, the chemical tank on the default skin has been replaced by a coffin with human corpses. Inside, this means that when Singed uses Q, that smoke is the gas from the corpse. And in fact, the aforementioned medical doctors are few, and their common task is to clean the corpses of ill-infected patients with muscle plague.
Captain Gangplank and Ocean Death
Vitamin C deficiency syndrome today has become a relatively normal disease in modern medicine, but back in history more than 500 years ago, few people expected that this pathology syndrome became a wicked attack. dream for mankind, especially sailors aboard the ocean ship, with the scientific name of that time Scurvy.
Signs of this disease are making the patient always in a state of drowsiness, fatigue. When the disease worsens, the gums and soft tissue areas bleed. More severe will cause tooth loss, body aches, especially in the joints, dry and chapped skin and gradually leads to death.
Within 200 years, Scurvy had claimed the lives of over 2 million people, and the cause of it began to be woven with terrible and mysterious legends because it was impossible to explain the origin of the disease according to contemporary scientific knowledge.
It was not until 747 that a British physician named James Lind first discovered the root cause of Scurvy syndrome. After experiments on different groups of sailors, this doctor came to the conclusion that Scurvy syndrome only occurs in sailors with an unhealthy diet (lack of vegetables, meat only, drinking alcohol and biscuits). Since then, fruits, especially tropical fruits of the citrus family have become a more valuable food source than meat, for sailors to prevent vitamin C deficiency syndrome this.
The story of Scurvy syndrome is also depicted through Captain Gangplank and the champion story. In the League of Legends Universe, in addition to the fun of torturing prisoners, Gangplank also loves eating oranges. As a senior pirate captain, he probably knows the importance of this fruit to the health of sailors year-round floating at sea. And his skill, by biting an orange, helping heal and eliminating the control effect – A technique that is simple but extremely consistent with real scientific knowledge.
Old Yorick – Omen of Pestilence
Long-time LoL players must still not forget the old version of Yorick – A dark depicted champion in the gaming world. The old Yorick skillset is generally quite simple, but possesses extremely horrible shaping, when he can summon 4 ghosts representing 4 disasters: War (Q), Pestilence (W ), Famine (E) and Death (R).
In particular, W – Omen of Pestilence is a skill that possesses an extremely annoying slow effect:
Contrary to Black Scourge Singed and Captain Gangplank, the old Yorick did not bring the message of any specific event related to the plague. Rather, it is a general outline of the disasters mankind has suffered throughout its development history.
Perhaps many people also recognize the similarity between Yorick’s old skill set and the legend of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in the New Testament.
It is worth mentioning that in the mechanism of action of the skill, W – Omen of Pestilence damages and slows nearby targets, similar to the mechanism of the epidemic: causing extensive damage ( damage), reduces a patient’s ability to perform (slow down) and is highly contagious (slows down the next target when they are within range).