韦鲁斯 Varus

惩戒之箭 the Arrow of Retribution

台词

“你们没有把我们彻底毁灭，这个失误带来了你们的末日。”

“You didn’t destroy us all. And that mistake will be your undoing.”

传记

韦鲁斯是一名来自远古的暗裔。身为一名冷血的杀手，他最爱的就是用箭矢折磨敌人。先让他们失心发疯，再了结他们的性命。韦鲁斯虽然在暗裔大战结束后便遭囚禁，但却在几百年后成功逃脱，寄宿于两位艾欧尼亚猎人再造的血肉之躯中。这二人无意之间释放了韦鲁斯，从此便背上了那把蕴含着韦鲁斯精魄的长弓。如今的韦鲁斯寻找着那些囚禁他的人，急欲施行报复，但体内的两个灵魂却在阻挠他的每一步行动。

One of the ancient darkin, Varus was a deadly killer who loved to torment his foes, driving them almost to insanity before delivering the killing arrow. He was imprisoned at the end of the Great Darkin War, but escaped centuries later in the remade flesh of two Ionian hunters—they had unwittingly released him, cursed to bear the bow containing his bound essence. Varus now seeks out those who trapped him, in order to enact his brutal vengeance, but the mortal souls within still resist him every step of the way.

无论后来他变成了什么样子，韦鲁斯都曾是忠诚与荣誉的楷模。身为古恕瑞玛帝国的熟练弓手，他被指派守护东部地区的一座神庙，而他将此看作至高无上的职责。

Regardless of what he would later become, Varus was once a paragon of loyalty and honor. A skilled archer of the ancient Shuriman empire, he was appointed as a temple warden in the eastern states, and he held this duty sacred above all else.

在艾卡西亚战争初期，韦鲁斯的家乡虽然与那片诅咒之地相距甚远，却依然遭到了袭击。其他守卫纷纷离岗前去防守周边的村镇，但韦鲁斯却一个人留在了神庙里。每一支射出的箭矢都伴随着他痛彻心扉的怒吼——因为他选择坚守誓言，而没有返乡保护自己的家人。

During the earliest stages of the war with Icathia, even though it lay far from that cursed place, Varus’ homeland was attacked. While other wardens abandoned their posts to join the defense of the outlying villages, he alone remained, screaming in anguish with every arrow he loosed—for he had chosen to uphold his oaths rather than return home to protect his own family.

飞升之团的使者们找到他时，只见他跪在遍地的敌人尸体之间肃穆地冥想。据说，他冰冷的凝视就连天神战士也会感到不安。尽管如此，为了表彰他可贵的奉献，他们邀请韦鲁斯加入飞升者的行列。

Emissaries from the Ascended Host found him kneeling in solemn meditation amid the corpses of his foes. It was said that his cold gaze unsettled even the god-warriors themselves, and yet, in recognition of his noble sacrifice, Varus was offered a place in their ranks.

作为伟大的飞升者之一，他满心的念头却只是为了向艾卡西亚和虚空寻仇。似乎韦鲁斯并没有理解恕瑞玛最终赢下了那场战争，几百年后也并不完全清楚帝国是如何陷落的，他的心智变得无比地扭曲。一桩桩接连不断的暴行，让他成为了一个孤僻、冷血的杀手。堕落的同胞们将他一次次地送进战场。

As one of the great Ascended, he was utterly consumed by his pursuit of vengeance against the Icathians, and the voidling horrors they had unleashed. It is likely that Varus did not even fully comprehend Shurima’s ultimate victory in that war, so twisted had his mind become—nor the empire’s fall centuries later. Atrocity after atrocity blurred together, leaving him as a withdrawn, callous killer, reshaped and sent into battle countless times by his degenerate brethren.

而他们的名字在当今世界令人闻之丧胆。

Their name became feared throughout the known world.

暗裔。

The darkin.

他们一边内斗，一边毁灭任何胆敢与之为敌的人。韦鲁斯手中的水晶长弓专门用于刺杀敌军的长官和英雄，让暗裔更加轻松地剿灭凡人的军团。

Warring among themselves, they destroyed any other who stood against them. With his crystalline bow, Varus assassinated enemy commanders and champions, helping the darkin defeat entire mortal armies with ever greater ease.

最后，一位披着黄金铠甲的瓦洛兰武后麾下的瓦斯塔亚追月者以及人类法师团将韦鲁斯逼到了绝境。他们将他封印在了那把长弓之中，任凭他如困兽一般嚎哭不止。彼时，暗裔的腐化力量已经为人所知，但这位武后在战争的最后阶段还是决定亲自使用这把致命的武器，她为了伟大的胜利而毅然牺牲了自己。

Eventually, Varus was cornered by vastayan moon-stalkers and human mages in service of a golden-armored warrior queen of Valoran. They bound him within his bow, leaving him to howl in impotent rage. By then, the raw, corrupting influence of the darkin was known, and yet still the queen chose to wield the deadly weapon in the final days of the war, gladly sacrificing herself for a greater victory.

之后过了数月，武后带着韦鲁斯来到了初生之土——后来人们称之为艾欧尼亚。此时，弓上的力量已经让她变得可怖不堪，她最后的命令就是让随行者将她活埋在一口无光的井底，深藏在俯瞰着帕拉斯的高山庙宇中。

In the months that followed, the queen carried Varus to the First Lands—those that would later be known as Ionia. Now made monstrous by the bow’s power, her last act was to command her followers to bury her alive in a lightless well, sunk deep beneath a mountain temple overlooking the village of Pallas.

韦鲁斯被艾欧尼亚的自然魔力和神庙守卫的仪轨牢牢禁锢着。

And there Varus was imprisoned, both by the natural magic of Ionia, and the ritual ministrations of the temple guardians.

长弓深藏了数百年，无人知晓，无人触及，已被遗忘。直到诺克萨斯人入侵了初生之土。两位怪兽猎人，瓦尔茂和灵犀之侣凯伊，在帕拉斯神庙与第一批登陆的侵略者作战。虽然他们勇气可嘉，也击退了来犯的敌人，但凯伊也受到了致命伤。悲痛万分的瓦尔茂把他背进神庙，希望井中的禁忌魔力能够挽救凯伊的生命。

The bow remained hidden for centuries, unknown, untouched, and all but forgotten, until Noxian invaders attacked the First Lands. Two beast hunters—Valmar and his heartlight, Kai—fought against the first wave at the Temple of Pallas. Though their courage was great and they drove off the attackers, Kai was mortally wounded, and a grief-stricken Val carried him inside, believing the well’s forbidden magic could restore him.

但这座神庙只会带来诅咒。两人都被释放出来的暗裔之力侵蚀了。他们的身体分崩离析，然后相互缠结成一具新的躯壳。这具躯壳正好可以将韦鲁斯从禁锢中解脱。从井中爬出的是一个完形生物，苍白而非人般地优美，一部分是人类，一部分是暗裔。经过上千年的等待，韦鲁斯重生了。

But the temple held only damnation, and both hunters were consumed by the unleashed power of the darkin within it. The very matter of their bodies was unraveled and bound together again to craft a new body, a body fit to free Varus from his imprisonment. What emerged from the well was a gestalt creature, pale and inhumanly beautiful, part human and part darkin. After more than a thousand years, Varus was reborn.

即便如此，在这具不完美的躯壳里，人类和暗裔的精魂此起彼伏，每一方都能短暂地占据上风，然后又被对方压过。韦鲁斯只想让两个凡人的灵魂永远地沉默，然后为他的同胞们报仇。同时，凯伊和瓦尔茂奋力地抵抗着韦鲁斯的恶意，希望彼此间的眷恋能够最终征服暗裔的仇恨。

Even so, the human and darkin elements of this imperfect form are in constant flux, with each managing to wrest control for a short time before being reined in by the other. Varus fights to silence the two mortal souls once and for all, and wreak vengeance for the destruction of his race. Still, Kai and Val struggle against his malevolent influence, hoping against hope that their love can overcome the darkin’s hatred.

到底他们能与韦鲁斯抗衡多久，没人能够确定。但是如果这个酷虐又自大的杀手完全掌控了这具身体，他就会想办法与自己的同胞重聚，再将符文之地化作遍布灰烬的荒原。

How long they can keep Varus conflicted is anyone’s guess—but should this sadistic and egotistical killer come to fully dominate his new host, it is certain he will seek to reunite with others of his kind, and reduce all of Runeterra to an ashen wasteland.