The Story of Singed
Singed is a chemist who has spent his career in the pursuit of solutions — specifically, chemical solutions to biological problems, military problems, and the general problem of what chemistry can do if you remove the ethical constraints that most practitioners consider non-negotiable. He is the most brilliant chemist in Zaun, possibly in Runeterra, and he has used this brilliance in service of projects that his original teachers would refuse to recognize as connected to the discipline they taught him.
He worked under Viktor once, in the early days of both their careers — or Viktor worked under him, or they collaborated, the exact hierarchy uncertain. He has worked for Noxian military operations. He has worked for Piltovan research institutions. He has worked for himself. The unifying thread is not allegiance but curiosity, applied to chemistry with the specific danger of genius that has decided curiosity outweighs consequences.
He has tested his formulas on himself to a degree that has fundamentally altered his physiology. The trail of toxic vapor he leaves is not a weapon system — it is a byproduct of what he has become. He is probably not entirely human anymore in the biochemical sense, which he regards as professionally interesting rather than concerning. He is working on something. He is always working on something. The question that Zaun has been unable to answer is what, exactly, the endpoint looks like.