Early Life
Born in Noxus Crest icon Noxus, Rell's father was a military footsoldier while her mother was an heir to a now fallen noble house, causing Rell's childhood to lack the usual gilded upbringing that other noble children have in Noxus. At a young age, Rell's innate magic sparked; an ability called ferromancy that allows her to manipulate metal. Because of the uniqueness and rarity of this power, Rell's parents saw an opportunity to regain influence within the Noxian nobility and attempted to apprentice Rell with many powerful mages in hopes of getting Rell promoted as a magical elite within the Noxian military. Though the apprenticeships failed, the sorceress LeBlanc LeBlanc took notice of the young girl's magic abilities and visited her parents, striking a deal with them to enroll Rell within an academy run by the Solid Rose Clasic Faction Colors Black Rose.

Black Rose Academy
Rell was enrolled into the Roseguard Academy[1], a boarding school for mages, hidden far away from the Noxian capital. Rell became the star pupil of her school and was visited by her parents on rare occasions, who expressed how proud they were of her. At the age of eight, Rell was forced into her first sparring match against one of her classmates, defeating him easily. While her sparring opponent was never seen again, the academy's staff painfully grafted a magical sigil onto Rell's skin, amplifying her magic. Rell trained within the academy for years and honed her skill in using her magic with martial combat, growing powerful with every sparring match she won and every sigil applied to Rell's skin. Overtime, most of the other students came to fear their turn to fight against her, with some even growing to hate her. One particular student, a boy named Gabriel who had the power to shape dirt into tiny fauna, actually befriended Rell and often comforted her as she recovered from the academy's abuse. Unfortunately, he would be instructed to combat against Rell next, forcing her to fight her only friend as he disappeared soon after, fueling her rage against the academy.[2]

After a particularly barbaric duel on her sixteenth birthday, Rell became up with her mysteriously brutal training. She tore through the academy's guards and faculty to venture into a forbidden wing of the school, discovering the academy's horrifying truth-that her classmates had been Nullified. The students, now called Null, were emotionless, mindless husks that had their magic forcibly extracted from their bodies and turned into the same magic sigils that branded Rell's body. Rell then confronted the academy's headmistress only to discover that it was her own mother, who ensured that everything she did was for Rell's own sake.

In a fit of rage, Rell unleashed her full power and destroyed the school, ripping the building apart and using the metal to form her impenetrable suit of black armor. Bursting through the door with a lance and steed she constructed with her powers, she killed most of the staff and freed as many classmates as possible.

Modern History
Life as a Fugitive

Many classmates, including the Null children, fled after Rell's violent escape. In a bid to conceal the horrific acts that occurred within the academy, the Black Rose swiftly embarked on a mission to recapture the Null and eliminate any trace of the institution. Moreover, their utmost priority was the retrieval of their most valuable asset—Rell herself—who the Black Rose named a notorious fugitive and a threat to the empire. Plastered across Noxus, an array of wanted posters depicted Rell as a formidable criminal, with most Noxian soldiers seeing any mission to apprehend her as a death sentence. Promising substantial rewards to those capable of apprehending her, the posters advised individuals to deliver her to the nearest empire building marked with a signature Black Rose.[3]

Rell has emerged as a self-proclaimed defender of the meek and a violent insurgent, leading a relentless rebellion against both the Black Rose and the Noxian government. Because of the empire's willful disregard of the horrors that happened within the academy, she rides valiantly through the streets of Noxus atop her formidable iron steed and consumed with hatred against the entire nation. Her sole focus now is to dismantle the very foundations upon which Noxus stands and rescuing any survivors of the academy, most notably the Null.

Recent events
A warband in the outskirts of Noxus, lead by a former instructor of the academy named Instructor Lukas, managed to locate Rell and attempted to detain her. A minotaur soldier knocked Rell unconscious by tossing a boulder at her, but she woke up soon after and formed her metal steed from raw ore out of the ground. Rell easily killed the entire warband in a whirlwind of metallic shards and grabbed Lukas, who revealed that Gabriel, Rell's Nullified friend from the academy, was located at the nearby camp. Rell instantly crushed him to death and rode towards the camp to free Gabriel.


Unfortunately, once at the hidden camp, Rell found Gabriel's malnourished corpse, as the Black Rose's warbands usually neglect the Null once they're detained. Pained by the discovery, Rell buried his body and created a gravestone out of metal, using her powers to decorate it with crude animal statues in his honor.[2]

At some point, a compound near the coastal settlement of Qualthala in the southern jungles managed to successfully detain Rell and at least one Null. Fortunately, Rell managed to escape by tearing her cell and the compound apart, leaving a mess of metallic shards and a hole leading into the jungles, presumably escaping alongside whatever Null was imprisoned there as well.[4]