Nidalee
They cursed her, invoking the name of their Vastayashai'rei ancestors as they retreated from the fight, empty-handed.
Hurling the spear aside, Nidalee held her dying mother close.
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Illaoi
Despite this, only a handful of temples have been opened in the city, and very few paylangi (islander slang for residents of mainlander descent) have ever been permitted inside. 
Karma
Their world was changing, and true wisdom lay not in resisting that fact, but accepting it.
Though the war with Noxus is now long over, there are still many in Ionia who have become only too glad to meet violence with violence, even against their own neighbors.
Aurelion Sol
He roared with glee when the Sun Disc failed… only to see a second, more powerful one take its place. Eventually, resigned to his fate, he saw the god-warriors cast down their rivals, then chittering creatures of pure darkness, and eventually each other. 
Pyke
Several harpoon lines secured the beast, and though it was far bigger and older than any he had encountered before, Pyke leapt into its mouth without hesitation.
As he set about his work, a deep vibration began to stir in the creature’s cavernous gullet.
Samira
But wherever she may be, one thing is certain: Samira never fails to find her next big thrill.
Seraphine
And so, Seraphine realized, maybe she could help others find their voice, too.
Seraphine has become the premier star in both Piltover and Zaun.
Yuumi
The page Norra had used to travel was lost, but Book might be able to get them close. Yuumi and Book would have to explore every possible threshold. 
Sisterhood of War Part I: Old Wounds
Ian St. Martin
The empire, they levied half the men of my tribe to go fight.” He looked up at the sergeant. “None of them came back.”
“Sounds like you’re gonna get a chance to get some blood back.”
Where Icathia Once Stood
Graham McNeill
I looked to Saijax for strength, to take courage from his indomitable presence. His jaw was set, his eyes hard. 
Garen
Garen saw the pain this brought to his family, and the fear in his young sister’s eyes. 
Ryze
He continues to reject the promise of power within each one, choosing instead to bind them in secret locations, far from prying and greedy eyes.
Even with his life abnormally prolonged by the magic he is exposed to, Ryze cannot afford to rest, for rumors of the World Runes have begun to emerge once more, and the peoples of Runeterra seem to have forgotten the price of wielding them.
Double Down
He slipped them together and placed them flat on the table.
“You have a look that tells me you know you have already lost,” said Henmar with the tone of a man who believes everyone to be his inferior.
Nilah
The precocious child of a large Kathkani family, the girl who would become Nilah was not a warrior at all—rather, she was a lanky bookworm with an interest in myths and legends.
Rammus
It is said that he appears only to worthy pilgrims in great need of his aid, and those blessed by his presence experience great turning points. After the Armordillo rescued the heir to a vast kingdom from a terrible fire, the man renounced his position to become a goat farmer.
A Piece of Shadow Cake
Odin Austin Shafer
If I dive down that pink stone cliff, I might get there in time.”
“Go, save your bread-maker, my love. But I think she will have already fled the town.”
The Burden
“Crap,” Illaoi said. If she was going to stay, she would have to find a way to defend the city without serpents.
Warwick
Then a Piltovan apprenta taking a shortcut, and a philter-faced merchant avoiding a gang, and a dram-dealer, and a tallyman, and a chem punk...
He set up a den not far from a place that itched at the back of his now-animal mind.
Xerath
Fearing her son would suffer a similar fate, the boy’s mother begged an esteemed tomb architect to take him on as an apprentice. 
Heimerdinger
Relentless in his work to the point of neurotic obsession, he is fascinated by mysteries that have confounded his contemporaries for decades, and thrives on answering the universe’s most impenetrable questions.