Noxus
Champion Lore

Sion

The Undead Juggernaut

A war hero from a bygone era, Sion was revered in Noxus for choking the life out of a Demacian king with his bare hands—but, denied oblivion, he was resurrected to serve his empire even in death. His indiscriminate slaughter claimed all who stood in his way, regardless of allegiance, proving he no longer retained his former humanity. Even so, with crude armor bolted onto rotten flesh, Sion continues to charge into battle with reckless abandon, struggling to remember his true self between the swings of his mighty axe.

Sion splash art
Sion splash art
Origin & Background

The Story of Sion

Sion was Noxus's greatest warrior in an age that predates the current empire — a berserker whose record of kills made him legendary and whose death in battle against Demacia's founder became the founding myth of a city-state's founding. He was buried with honors. He did not stay buried. The magic that Noxian necromancers eventually applied to him returned him to a form of life, and the Sion who returned is the Sion of legend: enormous, unkillable, driven by the rage that animated him in life now sustained by the magic that animates him in death.

He does not have a full relationship with consciousness. He is aware, in the specific way of something that is very old and not entirely intact, of being a weapon — a fact about himself that he experiences without the complicated feelings a living person might bring to it. He was a weapon in life. He is a weapon now. The continuity is, from his perspective, coherent. He is Noxus's weapon, pointed at Noxus's enemies, which is the same job he had before.

He fights with an axe that is as legendary as he is, and with the specific quality of something that cannot be tired and cannot be frightened because the things that produce tiredness and fear require a stake in what happens next. He has no stake. He is already dead. He crashes through battlefield lines with the momentum of the very large thing he is, and he does not stop, and enemies with the sense to notice this tend to be in a different part of the battlefield when he arrives.

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Noxus
Empire He Belongs To
The nation that revived him — Sion is Noxus's history given physical form, its founding violence still walking.