Physical Description: Rae Sin is a lean man of medium height and a skin tone similar to Lee Sin’s. He looks to be in his mid-twenties. He has bandages covering the left side of his face. He is bare chested and has large scars along his torso these scars seem to glow. He has no facial hair and the half of his face you can see looks boyish but drawn.
Lore: Rae Sin grew up in a village a few miles from
the Arcanum Majoris. He had always been a loving and trusting child. No one
ever had a bad thing to say about Rae Sin and he grew up in a loving household
with family and friends. He lived with his parents and his older brother Lee
Sin. Early in their lives it was obvious that the brothers were very gifted in
magic, so much so that the high councilor at the time, Reginald Ashram came to
observe the boys. But while Rae Sin was very talented Lee was a prodigy. The
councilor decided to take only Lee to the school for summoners as he thought it
would be too distracting to Lee to have to worry about his brother. Rae often
thought of his brother and continued to be a loving son and a valuable
community member as Lee quickly shot to the top of his class and was on the
fast-track to become a summoner.
A few months later: As
the mystical energies swirled around Lee Sin he knew he had to concentrate, as
one error could be fatal in his attempted summoning. As he neared the final
steps his successful summoning only moments away, Lee thought of how amazed his
teachers would look and how proud his family would be of him. Right as the
final utterance of the spell was cast, thinking of his family caused Lee to
stumble and lose focus and an image of his brother popped into his head. As Rae was drawing water from the well he felt an
unbearable pressure all of a sudden and a rift opened behind him sucking him
in. Right before the rift closed behind him he saw it erupt in a ripple of
destruction across his village. Unnatural forces tore at him as he flew through
a dimensional space and landed in front of his brother, mangled and torn. Rae
had only a second to look at his brother’s shocked expression when everything
went dark.
As the summoners studied what remained of the body they realized that it was
slowly but surely reforming itself to look like the boy who was killed by the
summoning. Over the course of a few months the body reformed to look exactly
like the boy except for a few enormous scars that ran over half of his face.
One day a summoner walked in to find the body gone. Baffled he turned and saw
the young boy with half his face covered in bandages, his eyes glowing
malevolently. Soon after the summoner failed to check in for a match a runner
was sent to find him, when the runner did not return a search party was sent
out to find him. When the search party did not report back the high councilor
was summoned and he went to find some answers. As Reginald and two of his top
students worked their way through the building they were on their guard, their
hands ready to unleash an array of spells. All of a sudden a portal opened
beneath the students feet and they were sucked in and were gone in a flash of
light. Reginald immediately began casting and not a moment too soon for as he
finished another larger portal appeared in front of him trying to pull him in
but Reginald appeared indifferent to the enormous portal. Eventually the portal
stopped trying to pull him in and a young boy with bandages across one side of
his face and glowing scars stepped through and studied Reginald. Reginald
looked more curious than perturbed by the boy and simply asked,” How is it that
you not only have come back from the dead but now seem to be able to perform
complicated portal rituals in the blink of an eye?” Hundreds of small portals
began to open around Reginald and he looked fascinated as they all tried to rip
him from where he stood and suck him in. Finally Reginald simply looked at the
boy and cast a quick bolt of light his way hitting the boy in the chest. The
boy, finally showing some emotion, looked shocked that someone had thought to
directly attack him right before the bolt hit and stunned him. For the brief
second that he was stunned enormous ethereal shackles appeared and attached
themselves to the boy. After the shock wore off the boy tried to retreat
through a portal but found to his dismay that he could not summon even a small
one. Reginald walked up to the boy and cupped his chin in his hand. Looking closely
he gave a short gasp and asked, “Rae?” Rae looked at him with hate filled eyes.
Reginald looked thoughtful and then finally asked, “What do you plan to do
Rae?” Rae responded, “I will remove all summoners and my brother from this
plane to let them live alone to practice their abominations. That way no one
will ever be hurt by summoners again.” Reginald sighed loudly and asked, “What
happens when the summoners are all gone? I will tell you. Noxus sweeps across
the lands killing indiscriminately until Demacia rises to meet them. Hundreds
of Thousands will die. Without any oversight new abominations of magic will be
created destroying hundreds of the small villages like the one you came from.
The land will be ravaged and it will never end. Unending slaughter of innocents
and soldiers alike.” Rae began to sob and Reginald released the chains from him
just seeing a young boy who had lost everything. “Let me help you. We can study
portals together and hone your skills controlling them in the process to
prevent anything like this from happening again, and if ever the time comes
when summoners must fight against the creatures from the void or anyone who
wishes to slaughter innocents you will be our vanguard to protect the people.”
Rae looked up with renewed hope on his face. Rae waved a hand behind him and a
group of summoners fell out of a portal that appeared, shocked expressions on
their faces. Reginald laughed and led the boy deeper into the school of
summoners.
League Judgment
Candidate Rae Sin:
Rae Sin slowly enters the chamber. He is a young man and walks with a confident
air but appears humbled in the vast and wondrous chamber. He looks around with
his one good eye at the familiar chamber and leans against a pillar as he reads
the inscription at the top of the door, “The truest opponent lies within.” He
nods, brushes some imaginary dirt off of himself and approaches the door. The
door opens as he approaches and he steps inside. Knowing he is to be facing a
trial of some sort he braces himself but is relaxed, confident in his ability
to handle anything his mentor Reginald Ashram could throw at him. A few yards
away a light begins to shine on a man in a chair. Rae Sin walks over to the man
and asks, “Am I to duel you to prove my strength?” The man chuckles and looks
up saying, “I am sure Reginald has faith in your prowess otherwise you would
not be in here. No he is testing your conviction, your reasoning for entering
that chamber and the doorway within.” Lee Sin tilts his head upwards towards
his brother not seeing him with his eyes but with another sense unknown to Rae.
Rae tenses at the sight of his brother who he has not seen in many years, not
since the accident and the death of his village. Lee reaches towards his
brother’s face and says, “How I regret my decision to continue with my
education of magic. It has led to the death of everything I held dear and has
scarred my younger brother.” Rae slaps the hand away and trembles in rage as he
stands before his older brother. “You knew the risks of summoning, you knew you
had to have an iron control on your thoughts and your spells. So why? With no
supervision, with no safeguards, you attempted to summon. Your pride, your ego
caused the destruction of our village and turned me into the scarred man before
you. How could you brother?” Lee looks up to his brother and states, “You are
correct I made an unforgivable and grave error. I lost my home, my family, and
my ambition in one moment of hubris. However I have found new purpose in this
life. I lost my vision protesting the Noxus occupation of Ionia. I fight so
that others may live without war or magic threatening to destroy them. However
the one thing I could not bear to lose has returned to me. My brother you have
come back, scarred, filled with rage for me, powerful beyond my wildest dreams
and taught to harness your power by the same people I abandoned when I made my
mistake. But I am simply glad you live. Now what do you wish of me? If you
desire my life I will give it to you. It is yours as I stole it from you long
ago. The choice is yours.” A minute of silence passed then two, then an hour.
Finally Rae looked up and said, “I will not kill you. You have forsworn magic
and have been working to better the world, you do not deserve death.” Lee
smiled and asked, “Why do you wish to join the League Rae?” Rae confidently
answered, “To strengthen myself and learn more of my new powers so I may do
good for the world.” Lee ponders this for a moment then says, “True but it is
not the whole truth.” Lee asks again, “Why do you wish to join the League Rae?”
and starts to walk away. Rae starts to follow but realizes he can’t move.
Louder this time Rae states, “To prevent others from making the same mistakes
you did and to show myself equal to you in terms of strength and wisdom.” Lee
laughs still walking, “That one was just plain false, I guess you are not ready
for the League.” Rae struggles against his invisible bonds but cannot budge
them. He watches as Lee disappears into the darkness refusing to tell the
truth. After a moment he can move again and Lee has disappeared. He sinks to
his knees and whispers to himself, “I wanted to join so I could find you.” In a
flash of light Rae is embraced by his brother and Rae sobs out, “I hoped my
reputation and stories of me would reach you somewhere in the world. You would
know I had lived and come running to me. Despite the fact that you obliterated
my village and scarred me for life, I still love you my brother and I rejoice
in finally seeing you and I hope to fight by your side and against you in the
coming days.” Lee smiles at his brother and asks, “How does it feel to
share your mind?” Rae simply smiles and shoves his brother behind him as he
races to the new set of doors opening with nothing but light inside them. He
yells, “Last one to the door pays for lunch!” Lee simply chuckles and casually
strolls through the door nodding to the invisible Reginald standing nearby.
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