Arcane Season 2 Ending Announced: Breaking the Cycle

It seems that Viktor was not wrong when he told Jayce just before his final ascension: “This chain of events started with you. I couldn’t reconcile this in my confusion. Viktor deduced that Jayce’s hextech meant that he was destined for the Glorious Evolution, but it turned out that this hextech was actually the tool that led to his undoing. It was a cycle that began when the older, more wizard-like Viktor went back in time and gave a shard with a blue rune on it to young Jayce, who was frozen in the snow with his mother.

This single act became the catalyst for both Jayce’s investigation and Viktor’s rise; but after many attempts with different runes on who knows how many timelines, the future Viktor also provided his misguided youth with a means to “break away” from the cycle. this only led to “dreamless fields of solitude”, a future of loneliness where the hive mind of humanity he had created left him without any companions in life.

As Viktor puts it: “There is no reward for excellence, only the end of the quest.” His Glorious Evolution meant that there was no more human suffering, but also no more striving, no struggle, no victory over adversity. But the only way he could stop his younger self from pursuing perfection was to show Jayce the wasteland that resulted from his partner’s arrogance. wake him up to the dangers of blind ambition and progress.

Ironically (or perhaps coincidentally), it turns out that one of the failed timelines was a necessary ingredient to convince Viktor to “walk away”, a version of history in which he never had access to the hextech. This is the timeline Ekko and Heimerdinger visit; is depicted in this timeline as Vi died during the robbery depicted here. Mysterious In the premiere, Powder never did anything with the stolen hextech prototype gems, and Jayce probably never made a brilliant breakthrough for Piltover or his ailing friend Viktor.

But Ekko’s visit to the more peaceful Zaun gave him more than just stopping Jinx from killing herself; not to mention a heartwarming chance to meet a more caring version of childhood friend Powder. The Zero Drive also provided the paradoxical power of the Anomaly needed to break Viktor’s mask and allow him to see the future that awaits Runeterra if everyone is stripped of their free will.

In this sense, Ekko is the real hero. MysteriousThanks to both Viktor’s defeat and the unification of Piltover and Zaun; the latter under the banner of a more determined Jinx. And in the end, Jinx was able to “get away” from her cycle the way she wanted, but there was much more compromise and meaning behind her sacrifice. As Ekko said, even way back when Season 2 trailer“Sometimes taking a step forward means leaving a few things behind.”