LeBlanc — League of Legends

LeBlanc once held a position within Mordekaiser’s inner circle. She betrayed him and aided the fractured tribes fighting his dominion, promising to break his connection to the source of power within the Immortal Bastion. Although his rule fell, the ancient fortress retained secrets and dangers that the new Noxian order did not understand. The Black Rose’s later position was built partly on preserving knowledge others had forgotten.

The licensed novel “Ambessa: Chosen of the Wolf” explores an earlier stage of the struggle for control of House Medarda. In accounts of its plot, LeBlanc backs efforts to turn the clan’s succession to the Black Rose’s advantage and employs arcane researchers whose experiments become part of the feud with Ambessa. Those operations offer a more direct confrontation than the distant guidance of the Noxian throne.

LeBlanc’s organization also becomes entangled with Rell, a young mage capable of controlling metal. The Black Rose seeks to weaponize her abilities through brutal experimentation. Her eventual escape demonstrates the danger of creating a powerful captive whose interests are irreconcilable with those of her captors.

The Black Rose supported Boram Darkwill’s rise but could not keep him obedient at first. LeBlanc then deliberately maneuvered a younger Jericho Swain into exposing its conspiracy and seemingly allowed herself to be executed with prominent associates. Later she approached Darkwill again, exploited his dread of death, and offered longevity in return for influence, corroding his judgment and helping push Swain toward disgrace in Ionia.

Swain nevertheless returned empowered by knowledge from the Immortal Bastion, deposed Darkwill, and became Grand General. LeBlanc could no longer treat the Noxian throne as a reliably controlled instrument. The struggle between her cabal and Swain became one of the central unresolved political conflicts in Noxus.

In “Thorns of the Black Rose,” LeBlanc masquerades as Hadrion Granth to draw his cousin, General Brannin Granth, into forbidden depths of the Immortal Bastion. She shows Brannin the real Hadrion’s corpse and exploits his family’s losses after Swain’s coup. Multiple pale doubles appear while she persuades Brannin to swear himself to the Black Rose. Her private intent is not to trust him with Swain’s death, but to use him to test the Grand General’s defenses.

The 2025 short story “Everywhere, and Everyone” moves among LeBlanc’s disguises: she appears in Darius’s Freljord camp as he suffers a True Ice wound, follows Vladimir through Noxus, observes the evacuation of Fae’lor, and watches the Demacian royal gardens from a servant’s vantage point. In the final scene, her dispersed “lesser sisters” are each convinced that they are the true LeBlanc. The narrator herself does not settle the question of which identity is original.

In the Arcane-linked story, LeBlanc’s Black Rose pursues its feud with Ambessa Medarda. The cabal captures Ambessa’s daughter Mel, confines her in a magical Oculorum, and tests her latent abilities through illusions, including the image of her brother Kino. LeBlanc tries to draw Mel into the Rose. Later, during the fighting at Piltover’s Hexgate, Mel calls on the sorceress against Ambessa; after the confrontation, Mel rejects LeBlanc’s claim over her and drives away her manifested presence.

The 2025 Noxus seasonal story introduces Atakhan’s return. After more than a thousand years of imprisonment, the demon is freed by LeBlanc and rampages through Runeterra. The event places a dangerous ancient force back into the struggle surrounding the Black Rose.

The later “Twilight’s End” cinematic follows the Black Rose’s attempt to seize a Darkin weapon in Ionia. LeBlanc and Atakhan confront Xin Zhao and Yunara at the Temple of Twilight, but Xin Zhao accepts the role of Zaahen’s host and Atakhan is destroyed. A manifestation of LeBlanc is defeated there; the sorceress’s ultimate fate is not conclusively settled by that encounter. The closing revelation that demons can be killed has potentially far-reaching consequences for her plans.