Saturday, December 15, 2012

Evaine/LeBlanc backstory


Evaine aka LeBlanc.
Born to a poor family Evaine was orphaned by her parents before her first birthday.  They placed her outside a mage tower near the city of Noxus.  There the mages took her in and trained her to be part of the student population living in the living quarters of the towers.  She grew up learning about magic and the history behind it, and was fortunate enough to have a strong enough grasp to cast spells.

She grew enamored with spells focusing around illusions, making people see what isn't there and controlling them to do certain things by doing so.  She grew as a prankster, annoying the faculty and the student population with her illusions but was careful to not be caught in doing so in quite some time.  Evaine was eventually caught and mildly punished, but due to her strong grasp on illusions and the magic behind it they decided to set her on a path to focus on it and put her as an apprentice under one Professor Burdan, whom studied greatly into illusion magic.  Evaine was annoyed by Burdan for one reason, he was the only one who ever really saw her illusions for what they were as soon as they appeared.  The two grew close and Evaine focused on illusions with great help from Burdan.

Evaine was still a prankster though, and was expelled from the mage tower at the age of sixteen due to one of her illusions causing a death of another student.  She had made an illusion of a monster stalking a student, one of the students saw this and reacted to it by casting a spell at the monster in order to kill it, but the spell went through the target and hit the innocent student in the process.

Evaine kept loose contact with Burdan, but could never go back and talk and learn as she used to.  She was casted upon the streets where eventually the Black Rose found her.  The Black Rose is a secret organization operating in several different areas: theft, assassinations, diplomatic inbetweeners, lobbyists.  The Black Rose has a influence on what happens within the city of Noxus.  The matron of the Black Rose was one LeBlanc.

Evaine grew to love the Black Rose, she felt as part of a family, something she never had fully.  She was put under the leadership of Kalfran who gave Evaine her missions.  She diligently completed the missions in full and without question, with her strong royalty to the Black Rose and hard work, she rose in the standings of the others.

At the age of twenty, Evaine was called by Kalfran to come see him in a secluded area, which was odd because most of her missions were dead drops with the information needed.  She met up with Kalfran and another, the matron LeBlanc.  LeBlanc tasked Evaine with going to the League using the name LeBlanc and gave her a small magic gem.  This magic gem casted upon Evaine's body the visage of LeBlanc and changed her voice to match her new form.  So Evaine as LeBlanc headed to Sigil to begin her journey and enter the League for the first time, but as someone who has already fought within it.