@valta-mus replied to your post “SPEAKING OF THE NEW QUEST UH LYNN? LYNN, SWEETHEART, WHAT WAS THAT?”
oh, DF does have champions, I remember it being given by Noxus during the Light Orb saga that the Undead Invasion that made Artix an orphan was because they were trying to retrieve him because he's the Champion of Darkness. They expand on it more in AQW, but it was established in DF as well.
(apologies for the two comments, the first one felt a bit long even without this second bit)
in regards to Gravelynn's attacks, I... haven't seen it yet... I'm more than just a bit behind, being unable to beat the Monster during the valentine's event made me leave the game for a while & I've been struggling to get back into it.
But yeah, Gravelynn does learn Darkness magic from her dad. It may vary a great deal from AQW, where she said she had difficulty even raising one undead, but she does know doomknight spells.
(sorry again for it becoming more than two)
Don’t worry about the multiple messages, it’s fine! I’m replying via this method this time because I’m pulling out images as evidence and you can’t put images in the other replies :p
(I apologise in advance for the length of this - I got carried away. It’s been a while since I properly stretched my AE lore muscles!)
On the matter of Artix; I’m afraid that you’re mistaken - that’s AQW lore, not DF lore. None of what you said about Artix’s backstory is stuff that was established in DF, that’s all AQW (and possible AQClassic, I don’t know enough about that one to say)
Dragonfable!Artix’s backstory was established in the Darkness Orb Saga (the Light Orb saga was the Sandsea with Zhoom!) and differs quite significantly from AQW!Artix’s. The common factors are that they were both orphaned via the destruction of their villages, found by Lady Celestia in the aftermath, and later became paladins. That’s about it.
In the quest Green Mist, we learn most of the details of Artix’s backstory, including his & Vayle’s shared history and how he was orphaned. He tried to rescue Vayle when she fell in the river, they got washed downstream together, they ended up in the Guardian Tower and found the Darkness Orb, etc, etc.
What follows that is that that night, a mysterious Green Mist rolled into town and turned everyone but Artix and Vayle into zombies.
That is how Dragonfable!Artix was orphaned. He only survived because of his earlier contact with the Darkness Orb - and subsequent resistance of it - gave him an immunity to being turned undead.
And, as revealed in the later Quest Noxus Fumes, that Green Mist was created by Noxus for one very specific reason:
He wanted Vayle and Vayle alone. Noxus turned everyone in that town into zombies so he could get his hands on her and, through her, the Darkness Orb.
In fact, shortly after this is revealed, he mentions this:
Noxus wanted Artix just as dead as everyone else in that town. He actively says so. If he had had the slightest clue Artix survived his Mist, he would’ve found a way to kill him himself.
So, no, DF!Artix wasn’t orphaned by an invasion of undead trying to reclaim their Champion - he was orphaned by a necromancer who wanted the Darkness Orb and only survived because said necromancer had no idea he couldn’t be turned. The invasion is AQW lore, not Dragonfable.
DF!Artix’s unique abilities as far as fighting the undead go are explicitly stated to be a result of his contact with the Darkness Orb as a child ("My contact with the orb had changed me. I could now sense the presence of the undead, and I instinctually knew the best way to battle them.”, also in Green Mist) and, so far as we see, he’s perfectly capable of using Light-based magic. I vaguely recall there being mention on the forums at some point about that not being the case but as far as the text of the game itself goes, Artix is running around using Light magic all the time.
(Additionally, DF!Artix was raised by Celestia for a few years and decided to join the Paladin Order on his own, while AQW!Artix was brought to an orphanage run by the Paladin Order by her, iirc. That’s not important to this discussion, really, I just felt it was relevant to bring it up as another point of “these two have different backstories”)
So, yeah, as far as I know, we currently have no evidence regarding Elemental Champions being a thing within the Dragonfable timeline.
I have no difficulty believing that Sepulchure is teaching his daughter Darkness magic, tbh, but, without spoiling specifics for you, what she did in this quest looked more instinctual than anything else
