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It will be a Vaal & Templars based league. The following wall of text is to explain why I think so:

- 2 days ago Bex tweets "I’m already losing my mind trying not to post teasers": https://twitter.com/bexchangewords/status/1229121750488604672the league has to do with someone gone mad? A lot of people in Wraeclast and in the Atlas have gone mad but I think I know who, specifically.

- 1 day ago Bex posts the Spiderman-meme video on reddit. Copy, mirror, reflection come to mind.

- also 1 day ago Bex posts a "list of things people have guessed", adding that "Some of you are close! Some of you could go further" https://twitter.com/bexchangewords/status/1229484129936232448In the comments, Bex replies "I used to think we could be friends but now I think we could only be enemies." I had to think to Valdo/Venarius in Synthesis.

I was totally focused on Synthesis 2 theory ( "Delve but up" https://twitter.com/bexchangewords/status/1229484129936232448 ) till I saw the image GGG posted here https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2774799

It is similar to the images of the Haunted Mansion and they echo the terrible story of Templar Davaro https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Research_Journal

He was the templar who was studying the Vaal relics that Dominus shipped from Wraeclast to Oriath and he went mad by doing so."I have uncovered a hidden frequency of corruption within the relics - oh, how they now sing to me! They are as mirrors, dimly reflecting shadows and echoings of the past."

He sees Atziri in his visions, giving pleasure to herself. He falls in love with her and starts sacrificing young people to enhance those visions "As the sanguine liquid was sucked up by the stone, my mind frayed and I saw the Queen herself, naked and aroused, bathing in a pool of blood while her hand reached between her thighs."

His madness reaches a point of no return when he ends up killing 2 children and himself to create a family with Queen Atziri: "They are both silent now. Unmoving. And shortly I will join them, and together we shall unite with my queen - a happy family. Husband, Wife, Daughter, Son. My knife still drips beside me."

Edit: spelling and grammar

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about 4 years ago - /u/chris_wilson - Direct link

I'm really glad Bex is back. This ritual is an important part of each league release.