The Story of Kled
Kled is a yordle who holds the rank of Major in the Noxian military through a combination of actual combat record, paperwork confusion, and the institutional reluctance to court-martial someone who has fought in as many campaigns as he has and survived all of them. His battle history is extensive and inconsistent — documented across multiple contradictory accounts because different eyewitnesses report different details, and Kled himself provides accounts that are enthusiastic and internally inconsistent.
He rides Skaarl, a cowardly lizard who is nonetheless his closest companion — in the specific way of creatures who have been through enough together that the relationship transcends the question of whether either of them would choose it fresh. Skaarl runs from danger. Kled charges toward it. They have developed a dynamic around this fundamental incompatibility that functions, somehow, as a partnership. Skaarl comes back. Kled never questions why.
He is fighting to protect his land, which he has been granted through his military service, which various forces keep attempting to take from him, which he will not permit. The details of who is attempting to take it and why shift depending on who you ask, but the core — Kled has a claim and will defend it past the point of any rational risk assessment — is consistent across accounts. He is the purest expression of a very simple principle: what's mine is mine, and I will fight you for it, and I will probably win.