Rift Mite

Rift Mites are among the smallest creatures the Void has loosed upon Runeterra, tiny and insect-like, with chitinous bodies of deep purple that glow faintly from the dimensional energy they consume. They gather wherever reality has been torn, clustering around the seams and rifts where the barrier between worlds has grown thin. These creatures feed on the raw energy that bleeds between dimensions, and their numbers swell in step with the wound that sustains them. A single mite is harmless, and even a small cluster poses little threat on its own. What makes them worth fearing is what they signify: a widening rift, an appetite growing, and the near certainty that something far larger is drawing close. For those who watch the boundaries of the Void, Rift Mites are read as an early warning. Their presence marks a place where the walls between Runeterra and the Void have begun to fail, and where they swarm, greater Void entities are rarely far behind. To see them gathering is to know that a breach is opening, and that the harmless herald may soon give way to the horrors it precedes.