The Story of Volibear
Volibear is not a champion in the conventional sense — he is a god. Specifically, he is one of the oldest spirits of the Freljord: the storm made divine, the bear aspect of violence and lightning, worshipped by the Ursine tribe since before written memory. He existed before Runeterra's current age and will likely exist after it. What brought him back to an active, present form was a combination of his followers' prayers and his own divine rage at what the world has done to the Freljord.
He does not share Ashe's vision of unification through peace or Sejuani's vision of dominance through strength. He is older than those frameworks. The Freljord he remembers was wild, violent, alive — a place where the storm was respected rather than managed, where power was expressed rather than administered. What the world has become — cities, empires, the gradual encroachment of human organization on natural chaos — represents to him a kind of slow suffocation.
Volibear's relationship with Udyr is the most significant ongoing tension in Freljordian spirit politics: Udyr is the spirit walker who channels animal spirits, and Volibear is one of the most powerful animal spirits — but a god, not a tool, and he has strong opinions about being channeled. The conflict between them is not about power but about what spirits are and whether they exist to serve mortals or to be themselves. Both have legitimate cases. Neither will concede.