基兰 Zilean

时光守护者 the Chronokeeper

台词

“人生最苦之事莫过于明知要失去，但是却还没发生。”

“There is no greater grief than for a loss that is yet to come.”

传记

作为艾卡西亚统辖议会的成员之一，基兰是一位天赋异禀的元素法师，追寻时间本质的奥秘。他曾发动力量挽救他的人民于虚空侵袭，如今的他在过去、现在、和未来之间漂泊，弯折、扭曲自己周围的时间。基兰曾踏遍时间长河，从符文之地的神秘诞生，一直到它看似不可避免的结局，寻找着任何丝缕的命运，让他有可能挽回家园的毁灭。

Once a member of Icathia’s governing council, Zilean is a prodigious elemental mage who seeks mastery over time itself. After using his powers in an attempt to save his people from the Void, he now drifts through the past, present, and future, bending and warping the flow of time around him. Zilean has traveled from Runeterra’s mysterious creation, all the way to its seemingly inevitable ending, searching tirelessly for any strand of fate that might undo his homeland’s destruction.

艾卡西亚，一片最荒芜、最邪祟的土地，曾经并非这个样子。这里曾有一个丰富多样的文明，由最后一任古法师王——仁君明主阿克扎姆统治。随着恕瑞玛帝国的疆土在这片大陆上不断扩张，他们对阿克扎姆和平共存的呼声置若罔闻，于是艾卡西亚的军队被飞升者大军的天神战士击溃。

Icathia, most desolate and cursed of lands, was not always so. Theirs was a rich and diverse civilization, ruled by benevolent Axamuk, last of the Mage Kings of old. As the Shuriman empire expanded across the continent, Axamuk’s calls for peaceful coexistence were ignored, and his armies destroyed by the god-warriors of the Ascended Host.

虽然这场溃败让艾卡西亚人心服口服，但也有许多人看到了共同发展的机遇。他们接受了提案，将艾卡西亚变为恕瑞玛下属的自治辖区，并设立了一个统辖议会，由杰出的法师、哲人、立法者共同监管这次权力更迭。

Though humbled by this defeat, many Icathians saw an opportunity for mutual advancement. Accepting an offer of autonomous satrapy, they installed a governing council of distinguished mages, philosophers, and lawmakers to oversee the transition of power.

经过近乎九百年的帝国统治，一个名叫基兰的年轻人加入了议会的行列。他是一名元素法师，对物理事实有着超乎常人的深刻理解，也在当时最伟大的思想指导下进行过研习——从以绪塔尔的伟大育恩，到法拉杰的御星法师，还有数不清的宗师巨匠。

After almost nine centuries of imperial rule, a young man named Zilean joined the council’s ranks. He was an elemental mage with a prodigious understanding of physical reality, who had studied under the greatest minds of the age—from the great Yun of Ixtal, to the astromancers of Faraj, and countless others besides.

在物质领域中，有一个要素几乎无人能够真正理解，而基兰则决定要去掌控它。

There was one component of the material realm that few had ever truly grasped, but Zilean was determined to master.

时间。

Time.

时间是万物皆无可逃避的一个恒定常量。即使是雄伟的天神战士也无法免除时间流逝带来的损耗……即便他们在恕瑞玛的文化中地位至尊无上。

Time was the one inescapable constant, in all things. Even the mighty god-warriors were not immune to its passage… though they were revered above all others in Shuriman culture.

成为执政阶层的一员以后，基兰才更加清楚艾卡西亚市民被压抑的愤怒和不满。虽然这片土地为帝国孕育出了许多英勇的领袖和革命性的思想家，但其中没有任何一人被认可拥有飞升的资格。议会一次又一次地向远在都城的皇帝上书请愿，然而对太阳圆盘的期许却一再被否决，没有任何理由。艾卡西亚付出了那么多，但却似乎永远都不会得到同等对待。

As part of the political establishment, Zilean now saw more clearly the smoldering discontent among the citizens of Icathia. While their land was home to some of the most heroic leaders and revolutionary thinkers in the empire, not one had ever been deemed worthy of Ascension. Again and again, the council submitted petitions to the distant emperor, yet access to the Sun Disc was denied, without explanation. For all they gave, it seemed Icathians would never be seen as equals.

基兰自己的抵触情绪也在增长，但更让他担心的是，他的同僚之中有许多公开讨论重新独立的声音。他是彻头彻尾的爱国义士，但面对飞升者大军，任何反叛都只会导致人民的苦难。为了寻求外交的出路，他作为使节前往临近的卡里克、卡尔杜加和以绪塔尔。他一生中结交了许多盟友，他恳请他们与艾卡西亚站在一起。

Zilean’s own resentment grew, yet he was worried by open talk of secession among his peers. He was a patriot through and through, but in the face of the Ascended Host, any rebellion could only end in calamity for his people. Seeking a diplomatic solution, he went as an envoy to neighboring Kahleek, Kalduga, and Ixtal. He had made many allies in his lifetime, and he implored them to stand with Icathia.

但每次得到的答复都一样。他们不会公然对抗恕瑞玛。如果基兰的人民一意孤行，就只能孤军作战。

Each time, the answer was the same. They would not defy Shurima. If Zilean’s people wanted to, they would do so alone.

回到家的基兰惊讶地发现，议会已经决定为新一任法师王加冕。他们欣喜若狂地告诉基兰他们发现的远古禁忌之力——一份足以确保艾卡西亚胜利的强大力量。

Returning home, he was shocked to find the council had decided to crown a new Mage King. Breathlessly, joyously, they told Zilean of the ancient and forbidden power they had discovered—a power so great, it would all but guarantee Icathia’s victory.

他们向基兰说起了虚空的力量。

They told Zilean of the power of the Void.

他看着那些理智、博学的艾卡西亚人，但在他们的眼中只看得到疯狂。基兰悲痛欲绝，他宁愿祖国的革命遭到镇压，也不愿把这邪恶的化身释放到世界上。

He looked to these reasoned, wise Icathians, but saw only madness in their eyes. As much as it grieved him, Zilean would rather his homeland’s revolution be crushed, than to let this abomination be set loose.

基兰最大的担心成了真。虚空刚被释放到战场上，立刻就吞没了试图控制它的法师们，然后艾卡西亚毁灭了。

Zilean’s worst fears proved true. Once unleashed in battle, the Void overwhelmed the mages attempting to control it, and Icathia was doomed.

他想要逃离都城，但一时间大地震颤，墙倒楼塌。这般恐怖之物根本不该出现在这个或那个世界上，它从地下深处迸发而出，驱赶着前方惊恐的人群。

As he tried to escape the capital, the ground shook. Buildings toppled. Such horrors as had no place in this world or the next erupted from the depths, driving terrified citizens before them.

他们被困住了。数十万无辜的人都将死去。在绝望中，基兰尽可能让更多的人躲进他的塔楼避难，然后他做到了不可能之事。

They were trapped. Hundreds of thousands of innocents would die. In desperation, Zilean urged as many as he could to take refuge in his tower, and did the impossible.

他将整座建筑从时间中移除了。

He removed the entire structure from time.

双腿瘫软、力量透支，基兰瘫坐在冰冷的地板上，看着周围一动不动的身影。虚空被停住了，但仅限于这道墙以内——在外面，艾卡西亚曾屹立的土地，已空无一物。

Crashing to the cold floor, his power spent, Zilean looked at the frozen figures all around him. The Void was halted, but only within those walls—outside, where Icathia once stood, there was nothing.

基兰花费了数十年，试图去理解时间和因果律的奥秘，看起来只有他一人能自由地在这个异常区内自由进行前后移动，而他也不知如何创造了这个异常区。这些人的确是被救下来了。但他就是无法弄清如何进行逆向处理，无法让他们真正活起来。他通过深度冥想和自创的复杂工具，开始卜算过去与现在连接到此刻的丝缕，逐步学会如何跟随这些丝缕一同前进或后退，不断寻找一个他已获得成功的未来……

Zilean had spent decades trying to comprehend the mysteries of time and causality, and it seemed only he could move freely back and forth within the anomaly he had somehow created. These people had been saved, true enough. He just didn’t know how to undo what he had done to achieve it. Through deep meditations and esoteric devices of his own design, he began to divine the strands of past and present that led to this moment, gradually learning how to move back and forth along them, looking for a future where his efforts had already succeeded…

他就是这样发现了真正的威胁：一切的终结。等待符文之地的大灭绝结局。

It was there that he found the true threat: the end of everything. The great unmaking that awaits Runeterra.

从效果上看，基兰现在已经存在于任何地点，而且无时无刻不在。即便如此，他实在是太清楚改变这个世界并催生其他预期之外的命运会带来怎样的后果——通常是自相矛盾，而且总是会更危险的命运。或许如果他能找到一种方式拯救自己的人民，那么这场巨大的灾难也就能迎刃而解了。

Effectively, Zilean now exists everywhere, and always has. Even so, he is only too aware of the consequences of trying to bring about change in the world and sparking other unexpected destinies—often conflicting, and almost always more dangerous. Perhaps if he can find a way to save his own people, then the greater disaster might also be averted.

唯一的问题是，他在此过程中愿意做出什么牺牲？

The only question is, what might he be willing to sacrifice along the way?