Noxus
Champion Lore

Briar

the Restrained Hunger

A failed experiment by the Black Rose, Briar's uncontrollable bloodlust required a special pillory to focus her frenzied mind. After years of confinement, this living weapon broke free from her restraints and unleashed herself into the world. Now she's controlled by no one—following only her hunger for knowledge and blood—and relishes the opportunities to let loose, even if reining back the frenzy isn't easy.

Briar splash art
Briar splash art
Origin & Background

The Story of Briar

Briar was created by the Black Rose — a secretive Noxian cabal that experiments with the boundaries of the possible. She began as a person. The experiments the Black Rose performed on her converted that person into something else: a being of pure, consuming bloodlust, whose hunger for violence is so total that the only way to make her remotely controllable was a restraining harness that suppresses most of her impulses most of the time.

The "most of the time" is the problem. When the blood starts, Briar's control collapses. The harness fails. Whatever vestige of her original self exists recedes entirely, replaced by something that kills with terrifying efficiency and absolutely no discrimination. She has killed the people she was pointed at and the people who pointed her. The Black Rose considers this an acceptable failure rate.

Somewhere in Briar, behind the hunger and the harness, there may be a person asking questions about what was done to her and why. She doesn't have the access or the vocabulary to pursue those questions yet. What she has is the hunger, the brief moments of coherence between feeding frenzies, and a slowly growing awareness that the people who made her did not do so out of kindness. That awareness is more dangerous than the bloodlust, in the long run.

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The Black Rose
Creators & Handlers
The Noxian cabal that made Briar into what she is — and whose control over her is far less complete than they believe.