Someone that looks and acts different than the Void stuff that we’ve seen before,” explains principal narrative writer Jared “Carnival Knights” Rosen. “We needed an established leader with a voice and a role. Someone who could move the Void’s story forward and offer an avenue for future conflicts. With this in mind, the Champions Team wanted to create a character that would evolve the Void and bring in more storytelling potential.
On a physical level, Void champions are insectoid, prehistoric, or gloopy-they don’t offer much humanity, no matter what Rek’Sai simps say. It’s a complex, overwhelmingly powerful concept that seeks to unmake the material realm. The Void has always been something of a mystery, even to us. She is the predestined product of a cancer that has been growing in the Void and changing it from within, undetected. Though the Empress of the Void has only just now graced your screens, she has always been inevitable.