My personal take on LeBlanc's lore and why she's probably more powerful than we think
I think that LeBlanc, and I'm not saying that only because she's my main, is one of the most important characters in the history of Runeterra, she was involved in countless wars, and shaped the political scene of many countries through the ages creating chaos wherever she goes, she is so old she doesn't even know her true identity (estimated to 2000 years but I think it's much more ancient than that), we don't even know if it's only one person, and we don't even know her true motivations, Imo I don't think she is really evil. She did something so bad during the rune wars that she was scraped from it's history.
Her lore has been so much open for interpretation by Riot it made me wonder if they just wanna leave it that way to keep that shroud of mistery around the character, or if they are preparing some expansion on it, or if they are just lazy.
Being inspired by the Lux and incoming Zed comics, I originally wanted to make a comic about this but the big lack of time made me quit , then I wanted to write it like the official champions lore but again, my terrible writing skills got the better of me, so here I will be listing the main points of my take on her Lore until I get some time and inspiration to do something better., unless someone else feels like doing it instead.
Here is my take on her origin and the main points of the story I wanted to write :
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She was born into royalty / nobility in one of the first civilizations of Runeterra, it was a kingdom in the style of the Arclight universe, everyone seemed so good and pure
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At a young age, LeBlanc is very talented at the "Light" magic so characteristic of her kingdom and is good at reading other people
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The kingdom was the only force keeping "order" in the ancient world.
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LeBlanc learning more of the magic, learns that the "Light" is just an illusion created by darker magic, she is drawn to it and masters it even more.
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She, being a bit older and having more access to the internal affairs of the kingdom and its secrets, learns that the "order" is kept by afflicting a lot of atrocities to the enemies of the kingdom (barbarians, rebel population, other nations ,etc ...) and using great illusions to rally people to their cause, win wars and gain power.
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LeBlanc hates all of that, she tries to change it the right way but someone trusted and close to her double crosses her and something (no inspiration) really bad happens to her, both wanting her revenge and following her naive rightfulness, she vows to destroy it all (that's how she learn to never trust anyone)
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Using her people reading skills, she in turn ,manipulates someone close to her to gain access to the origin of the "Light " (staff / stone in her staff or whatever)
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She seizes that power and destroys the kingdom, she then learns that seizing that power has cursed her to keeping the "balance" in the world for all eternity
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Refusing to do it the same hypocritical way, she keeps the balance by staying in the shadows and only manipulating high ranked individuals using any way available to her, but she does it so well, noone ever suspects her.
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She over the centuries does it so much and goes around the world with her new powers and illusion magic that she becomes a myth and it becomes her second nature, she even forgets her origin and why she's doing any of it, but she knows she's bound to something (the curse) and keeps doing it.
I'd love to have your feedback and some of your ideas, I'm going on a vacation next week and will have tons of free time so I might draw something !
PS : I really wish Riot gave us more lore regarding the Black Rose (LB, Cassio, Vlad)