The new tank support for League of Legends has finally been revealed. Her name is Rell and she is all metal all the time. Expect her and Mordekaiser to jam out. With that, many people are probably wondering, who is Rell and what does she do? Luckily Riot Games sent out a press release with all that information and TGH has all of it here.
Rell Bio
Rell, the Iron Maiden
“The product of brutal experimentation at the hands of the Black Rose, Rell is a defiant, living
weapon determined to topple Noxus. Her childhood was one of misery and horror, enduring
unspeakable procedures to perfect and weaponize her magical control over metal… until she
staged a violent escape, killing many of her captors in the process. Now branded as a criminal,
Rell attacks Noxian soldiers on sight as she searches for survivors of her old “academy,”
defending the meek while delivering violent death to her former overseers.
“Forge your heart into something strong. Unbreakable.”
Region: Noxus
Connections: LeBlanc, Samira
Role: Support
Posters across Noxus warn of a dangerous criminal, armed with a massive, blunted spear and
borne atop the back of a magical fiend, whose mere existence poses a threat to the safety and
security of the entire nation. Even some within the steeled ranks of the Trifarion Legion have
begun to worry that they will be sent after her to their almost certain deaths.
What kind of monster could be behind such heinous, unchecked destruction?
The simple answer is a sixteen-year-old girl.
The complicated one is unforgivable.
Rell was special from the moment of her birth—and fated to suffer for it. Born the daughter of a
Noxian footsoldier and the heir to a fallen noble house, she enjoyed neither the trappings of
wealth nor the gilded upbringing common to children of the lower aristocracy. Nevertheless, her
parents had grand plans meant to mold her into someone who could shatter through Noxus’
dense political landscape. As Rell’s mother always said, “Excellence is measured in sacrifice.”
Rell’s unhappiness grew with time, sparking something unique within her—a magic unlike
anything seen in centuries: The ability to manipulate metal. To Rell’s parents, this was
something to be exploited—for Rell’s own sake, of course!—and they tried unsuccessfully to
apprentice her with many powerful mages who might whisk their daughter into the political or
military elite.
But someone else took notice of the young girl’s magic. Seeing in Rell a weapon who could one
day face Noxus’ most hated, ancient foe, a certain pale woman visited the family with a dark
bargain, and Rell soon found herself the star pupil of a very special academy, hidden far from
the capital and away from the council’s prying eyes. And though they rarely made appearances
in her new boarding school, her mother and father never seemed more proud or more hopeful of
their daughter’s future.
It seemed, at least for a moment, that perhaps Rell would be loved after all.
Then the true horrors began.
Rell was first forced into combat with another student when she was eight, and, afterward, a
kind of magic sigil was painfully grafted into her arm, amplifying her powers so that she could
become even stronger. Yet while this had been framed as a training exercise, Rell never saw
the boy again. She never saw any of her opponents again.
Every day, she grew more powerful, honing her magic for martial combat. Her body became
covered with sigils that amplified her magical abilities to impossible heights. In time, she could
rip a vein of raw ore from deep out of the ground, twist the walls into deadly weapons, and
superheat an opponent’s armor until it collapsed and crushed them. But her instructors desired
even more from her—all in the hopes that Rell would be the most powerful soldier the empire
had ever known.
On her sixteenth birthday, after a particularly barbaric duel, she’d finally had enough. Casting
her instructors aside, Rell tore past the guards and ripped open the doors of a forbidden wing of
the academy, discovering the true nature of her school: Every opponent she defeated had been
Nullified—their magic forcibly extracted from them and placed into the very sigils covering Rell’s
body—and left as emotionless puppets devoid of memories. This was the price of her power,
and she could never give it back.
Worst of all was the headmistress who oversaw the procedures herself: Rell’s own mother. All of
this had been for Rell, she said. After all… excellence is measured in sacrifice.
Rell raged.
To the small handful of faculty who survived her escape from the academy, it was like the earth
had been torn open into a twisting whirlwind of razor-sharp slag. The building ripped itself apart,
forming an impenetrable suit of black armor around Rell as she crushed those who stood before
her, flattening seasoned soldiers with a lance heavier than a mountain. Bursting through the
front gate on a steed made of rippling iron, she vanished, leaving the Rose scrambling to
recover as many of the Null children as possible and to erase any trace of what they had done.
But it was far too late. Soon enough, the surviving faculty members began to die in increasingly
public ways, and the Null could no longer be kept secret.
Rell is now a threat to Noxus, but not in the way the handbills proclaim. She is a self-styled
defender of the meek, full of unchecked fury, distrustful of everyone, and merciless toward a
government that turned a blind eye to years of suffering and abuse. Not because the empire
was personally responsible—but because they stood by and did nothing.
Riding atop her iron steed, Rell’s eyes are set on nothing less than the complete destruction of
Noxus and saving any children who, like her, survived the Black Rose academy.
And there is nothing in this world that can stop her.”
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