Karthus/Audio

This page contains voice-over (VO) quotes for Karthus in League of Legends.

Champion Select Edit

Pick

Sound Effect
"Agony, ecstasy, peace. Every passing has a beauty all its own."

Ban

"Ah, the kiss of death."

Original

Pentakill

Pentakill Lost Chapter

A skin's voice-over set may feature: a filtered variation for some or all of the base skin's quotes; additional or replaced quotes. A skin's sound effect set may feature: unique events; replacements of the base skin's SFX for some or all events. Skin variants (e.g. Prestige) inherit all audio from their regular version, but can feature unique quotes or SFX.

Movement Edit

First Move Edit

"So many souls await."
"We all have a place among the divine. We have only to accept it."
"My pilgrimage begins."

Moving Edit

15 seconds cooldown

"Solace comes with a still heart."
"Shed no tears for the dead."
"May death free us all."
"Follow my voice, and slip away."
"You are only the cocoon."
"Have you ever felt a calling?"
"I can give you certainty."
"What trickery is life?"
"You are the candle burning unto nothing."
"Death is but a horizon."
"Soon, all will wane."
"You have been dying from your first breath."
"We are forever."
"You all die, why not choose how?"
"The Shadow Isles sing louder than any siren."
"You are a doomed vessel."
"The faithful never fear the grave."
"Truth is what I offer."
"In the end, only the dead shall remain."
"Pain is the herald of your salvation."
"Hear the elegy of the lost."
"You will forget breath, you will forget love."
"Death is a song all will hear."
"Never hunger, never tire, never fear."
"Death is blacker than the blackest black... times infinity."
"Tower diver! Gotta' get away, get away!"
"METAL is the only heartbeat I need."
"We totally topped the charts in the Freljord!"
"Amp it up."

First Encounter Edit

First Encounter with Elise

"You deceive your followers. I will enlighten them."

First Encounter with Hecarim

"Death's horse needs no bridle."
"You are but the herald, Hecarim. Remember who you truly serve."

First Encounter with Leona

"Your light is but a candle in the infinite dark."

First Encounter with Lucian

"Abandon your mortality, and find your precious Senna."
"You can always join her, Lucian. It will be bliss!"
"Lucian! Join her!"

First Encounter with Mordekaiser

"A shell of flesh or a shell of metal? Both ring hollow."
"You give the dead purpose, Mordekaiser. I give them meaning."

First Encounter with Sion

"Sion, we must free your soul from the prison of flesh."
"You are only the echo of greatness, but I can give you a voice again!"

First Encounter with Thresh

"You may shackle the living, but the dead must walk free."
"Death has more meaning than torment alone, warden."

First Encounter with Urgot

"Abomination, you have cheated death too long."
- "Death. Could not. Break me."

First Encounter with Varus

"You are on the eve of liberation, Varus."

Taunt Edit

"I will shred your body, and burn your soul!"
"To feel the caress of death for the first time... I envy you!"
"The song of your life will be brief."
"Your death will be excruciating!"
"Life clings like a parasite to a soul!"

Joke Edit

"I'm putting your name in my little black necronomicon."
"Sorry, I'm booked through... er, brrrr... forever."
"Listen, mortals, as I speak the word of... my cookbook."
"What's the incantation again... yes, erm... oh, right, R!"
"Do you have a moment to talk about death?"
"Dear diary, met a wonderful ghoul today..."
"When the going gets tough, the tough get a Deathcap!"
"What have I done? Created beauty by simply rocking! That's all."
"What is that sound? It's the pounding of creation's hammer on the anvil of time!"

Joking Near an Enemy Urgot

"Urgot, hm, I highly recommend death at this point."
- "But I still have so much to kill for."

Laugh Edit

Karthus laughs in a confident, evil manner.
Karthus laughs in a confident, evil manner.
Karthus laughs in a confident, evil manner.
Karthus laughs in a confident, evil manner.

Dance Edit

"Waaao!"
"Yeah!"
"Yeah!"
"Whoa!"

Attack Edit

Basic Attacking Edit

30% chance

Karthus grunts.
Karthus grunts.
Karthus grunts.
Karthus grunts.

Attacking Edit

15 seconds cooldown

"It is written."
"Ah, the kiss of death."
"Hear my song."
"The rhythm of your life slows."
"Join the chorus of death."
"Your time has come."
"I sing the word of death."
"Die by my hand, and rise anew."
"Rest in peace."
"Expire."
"Sleep without dreams."
"I crave the parting."
"Revel in the undoing."
"Release your mortal coil."
"Sleep now, child."
"Darkness envelops you."
"It's time... to wake the dead."
"Join me in this duet of demise."
"Die for metal."
"Silence, groundwalker."
"Lights out—forever."

Ability Casting Edit

Using Wall of Pain Edit

"Feel the frailty of life!"
"You cannot escape."
"Your bodies betray you!"
"Cross over."
"To flee is to suffer."
Karthus grunts.
Karthus grunts.

Using Defile Edit

"Sing, my children."
"Behold my chorus."
"Countless voices in unison!"
"Rise and sing!"
"Feel the spirits."
"You will not die alone."
Karthus laughs.

Using Requiem Edit

"Die!"
"Surrender!"
"Cease to be!"
"Sing with your final breath!"
"Listen and rejoice in death!"
"Hear me, mortals!"
"A dirge, for those who remain!"
"Perish!"
Karthus laughs loudly and maniacally.
"Everyone will falter when you die!"
"My son, smite them all!"
"I am the lightbringer!"

Shopping Edit

Buying Archangel's Staff

"Angels too, are the messengers of death."
"Host of angels, or murder of crows?"

Buying Mejai's Soulstealer

"A companion for all time."
"Its power grows with time... as does mine."

Buying Rabadon's Deathcap

"Ah, the song grows."
"I hear the echo of Rabadon; it is exquisite."
"A crown for the king of death."
"Its old master served my patron well."

Buying Rylai's Crystal Scepter

"None can outrun death."
"This crystal will sing with me."
"When death's grip finds you, it clings tightly."

Buying Tear of the Goddess

"A tear of loss, a tear of joy."

Buying Void Staff

"It will turn their mantles to shrouds."
"What can protect you from the inevitable?"
"No one can hide from the end."

Buying Zhonya's Hourglass

"The grave has all the time in the world."
"Freeze that moment, on the threshold of oblivion."
"The sands slip away like lives."

Other Gameplay Edit

Placing a Ward: 30% chance

"Dead eyes never blink."
"I watch."
"Death sees all."

Recall Edit

75% chance, 10 seconds cooldown

"When I return, more shall join my choir."
"I go where death bids me."
"Death prevails."

Music

Karthus plays a guitar solo.

Death Edit

Triggering Death Defied

"Behold your undoing!"
"Gaze upon me and despair!"
"The shell means nothing!"
"I am become death!"
Karthus laughs.
Karthus yells.
"Time for my encore!"
"You can't kill the metal!"
"The sustain! Listen to it!"
"Waahaahaahaahaaao!"
"This is eleven!"

After Death Defied expires

Karthus screams in pain and perishes breathless.
Karthus screams in pain and perishes breathless.
Karthus screams in pain and perishes breathless.

Co-op vs. AI Responses Edit

Match Start

"Let me show you an alternative to life."

Player Team Victory

"You have earned a page in my book."

Player Team Defeat

"GG!"

Special

"My song is death."

Trivia Edit

Karthus, the Deathsinger

" It will turn their mantles to shrouds." is a double entendre.
"I am become death!" references J. Robert Oppenheimer misquoting the Bhagavad Gita.
"What's the incantation again... yes, erm... oh, right, R!" references Karthus' iconic meme 'Press R to Win', considering the automatic and almost guaranteed effects of his ultimate.
"I'm putting your name in my little black necronomicon." references H. P. Lovecraft's grimoire of the same name.
"Do you have a moment to talk about death?" references Excuse Me Sir, Do You Have a Moment to Talk About Jesus Christ?
"Gaze upon me and despair!" references Percy Bysshe Shelley's Ozymandias, in which a line within the poem similarly states: Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!.

Pentakill Karthus

Pentakill Karthus represents the singer of the band created by Riot Games, Pentakill.
- "I am The Lightbringer!" is a self-referential to the band's song "Lightbringer".
- "Everyone will falter when you die!" and "My son, Smite them all!" are both self-refential to the band's song "Thornmail".
"You can't kill the metal!" references The Metal by Tenacious D.
"Silence, groundwalker.", "What have I done? Created beauty by simply rocking! That's all.", and "What is that sound? It's the pounding of creation's hammer on the anvil of time!" all reference Brütal Legend.
- A side-by-side comparison can be seen here.
"Tower diver, gotta get away, get away." references Holy Diver by Dio.
- In some localizations, this voiceline is changed in a way that references their popular rock songs:
  - Portuguese (Brazil): Ratamahatta by Sepultura.
  - Russian: Prygnu so skaly by Korol i Shut.
  - Spanish (Spain): Entre Dos Tierras by Héroes del Silencio.
  - Turkish: Şaşkın by Erkin Koray.
"Die for metal. references Die for Metal by Manowar.
"Light's out forever. references School's Out by Alice Cooper.
"Death is blacker than the blackest black... times infinity." references Metalocalypse.
- A side-by-side comparison can be seen here.
"This is eleven!" references Spinal Tap.
In the Brazilian localization, one of his jokes references Toca Raul by Zeca Baleiro (named after Raul Seixas).