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๐๐ฅ๐ข ๐ฒ๐ฉ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ช๐๐ฑ๐ข ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ถ ๐ค๐ฒ๐ฆ๐ก๐ข ๐๐ซ๐ก ๐ ๐ฅ๐๐ช๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฌ๐ซ ๐๐ซ๐ก ๐ฏ๐ข๐ค๐ฆ๐ฌ๐ซ๐ฐ ๐ฉ๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ข ๐ฃ๐ฌ๐ฏ ๐๐ฌ๐ ๐ฅ๐ฉ๐๐ฆ๐ซ๐ซ ๐ง๐ฌ๐ฒ๐ฏ๐ซ๐ข๐ถ ๐ฑ๐ฌ โ๐ฒ๐ซ๐ข๐ฑ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฏ๐.
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๐ถ: ๐๐ข๐๐ค๐ฒ๐ข ๐ฌ๐ฃ ๐๐ข๐ค๐ข๐ซ๐ก๐ฐ, ๐๐ซ๐ก โ๐ฆ๐ฌ๐ฑ ๐๐ซ๐ฑ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฑ๐๐ฆ๐ซ๐ช๐ข๐ซ๐ฑ
Camille, the Steel Shadow
Clan Ferros understands sacrifice.
Most of the familyโs wealth came through harvesting a rare crystal from the brackern, a creature native to Shurima. These hex-crystalsโor โfirst crystalsโโcontained power normally only wielded by those born with innate magical ability. After Camilleโs great-great aunt lost an arm during an early expedition, her sacrifice inspired the Ferros family motto: โFor family, will I give.โ
The brackern were a limited resource, and Camille's family had to augment the crystals theyโd accumulated. Utilizing shadow investments in chemtech and runic alchemy, they developed less powerful, but easier to make, synthetic hex-crystals.
Yet there were consequencesโsynthetic crystal manufacturing has long been rumored to heavily contribute to the Zaun Gray. Furthermore, it was only through espionage, intimidation, and murder that Clan Ferros held its monopoly on this priceless commodity, and ensured its uninterrupted production in Zaun, maintaining the familyโs place in Piltoverโs illustrious Bluewind Court.
As the eldest surviving child of Clan Ferrosโ masters, Camille received every educational advantage. She had exceptional tutors, learning to speak several foreign languages and play the cellovinna at a concert-master level. Camille also learned to read and write Ancient Shuriman while assisting her father on digs in the Odyn Valley.
Traditionally, one of the younger children would become their family's principal intelligencer, working with the clan master to secure their familyโs success by any means necessary. However, Camille's younger brother, Stevan, had a weak constitution, and so Camille took his place. He jealously watched her embrace her additional training, and she became quite adept in combat, reconnaissance, and interrogation.
When Camille was twenty-five, augmented Zaunite thugs attacked her and her father, intent on stealing lucrative trade secrets. Camilleโs father succumbed to his wounds, and in anguish, her mother died soon after. Stevan became clan master, and he doubled the clanโs research in human hextech augmentation, eager to prove himself as a strong leader.
After a year of mourning, Stevan oversaw the induction of Hakim Naderiโa promising young crystallographer from the Shuriman coastal city of Bel'zhunโas the familyโs lead artificer.
Camille requested hextech augmentation from Hakim to push her beyond her human limitations. Hakim was instantly enamored with her, and they bonded over the preparations and late night stories of Shurimaโฆ and eventually, Camille returned Hakim's feelings. Their affair grew reckless, as they knew the surgery would conclude their time together. Hakim would move onto other projects, and Camille would once again be fully committed to the principal intelligencerโs duties. More than that, Hakim worried that in carving away Camille's heart, he might remove her humanity.
Days before Camille's operation, Hakim proposed marriage and begged her to run away with him. For the first time in her life, Camille was torn.
Stevan had no such conflict, as he needed Camille to execute his vision. When he learned of the secret proposal, he devised a planโthe next time Camille and Hakim were together, Stevan set himself up to be attacked. When she saw her brother bruised and bloodied, Camille recognized what could happen when her attention was divided.
Hakim pleaded with Camille, but she wouldnโt listen. For family, she would give. She ended her relationship with Hakim, insisting her surgery go forward.
He was the only one who could safely perform the operation, and so he excised Camilleโs heart and replaced it with hextechโthen resigned. When she awoke, the lab she and Hakim had shared was abandoned.
Camille focused on her work. She took on further refinements, including bladed legs, grapple-spindled hips, and other, minor hex-augmentations, leading some to wonder how much of the woman was left. And as Clan Ferros amassed more power and wealth, Camilleโs missions became darker and more deadly.
Thanks to her hextech heart, she did not ageโbut the years were not so kind to her brother. Yet even as Stevan's body grew more frail, his iron grip on the clan remained.
Eventually, Camille uncovered the depth of Stevan's betrayal, and realized his machinations were no longer in the familyโs best interests. In that moment, she discarded the last sentiment she felt toward her brother.
After installing her favorite grand-niece as clan master, Camille now runs the family's public affairs as well as its more shady operations. As a solver ofโฆ difficult problems, she embraces her more-than-human transformation and the cutting judgment it affords herโbut a strange, mournful keening in her hextech heart may yet prove a troubling portent.
Regardless, Camille refuses to sit idle, and gains invigoration from well-executed industrial espionage, a fresh-brewed cup of tea, and long walks in the Gray.
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