#how would that conversation (correspondence?) between swain and silco go

[mollysunder]

Now that it's confirmed by the finale Swain was already the new Grand General of Noxus we probably should have taken this shot from "Dirty Little Animals" sequence a little more seriously.

Above is a shot of a large man receiving a Pentakill (an LoL metal band like KDA's a girl group) tattoo. There two things very important in this image. One, the tattoo to the left has the same design as the Urgot follow/tattoo artist in Urgot's splash art below to the right.

Second, Pentakill may not exist in Arcane, but the Pentakill symbol is still just Mordekaiser, the Iron Revenant and founder of Noxus.

What does any of this have to Swain? Well the only reason Urgot, an executioner of the previous Grand General, Boram Darkwill, wound up in Zaun was because Swain tricked him. In order to successful seize control of Noxus, Swain had Urgot sent on a "mission" to Zaun. Little did Urgot know Swain made a deal with the chembarons to make sure Urgot was taken care of while he enacted his coup.

There's a lot to unpack with that like: What was Silco and the chembarons' relationship with Noxus, specifically Swain? In previous lore it was specifically a chemtech chembaron that was responsible for Urgot's imprisonment, so was it Silco or Renni or a combination of both who were responsible? How deep does Zaun's relationship go with the new Noxian regime, or at least could have gone (that shipment of shimmer was going somewhere)? Now that the chembarons are either dead or imprisoned (seen in "Hellfire" sequence), who's keeping the lid on Urgot.

Of course this could have been a one off easter egg, but I think with the accelerated timeline arcane has put LoL lore on, this would be an interesting development, especially as Urgot is future antagonist for Vi and Caitlyn.