User blog:BorosPaladin/Josiah, the Hand of Flame

Josiah, the Hand of Flame is a custom champion on the League of Legends Wiki. He was designed to be a melee caster that benefited strongly from highly aggressive play. His ultimate made some interesting balancing necessary: I chose to make the abilities' base damages constant across all ability ranks while scaling his ratios with ability rank. My main concern is that his early game may be too weak and his late game too strong, though I did curve his stats against that.

Abilities
Josiah was inspired almost wholly by this picture from Wizards of the Coast's upcoming Magic: the Gathering set Gatecrash.

Lore:

As strict a society as Demacia is, it inevitably breeds rogues, though not all are of an unsavory sort. Meet Josiah, the Flaming Hand: He hid his magical prowess from his superiors, refusing to join Demacia’s summoners in favor of marching lockstep with its army. In battle, however, his talents were quickly made clear: He could empower himself with magical fires, roasting his enemies within their armor as he struck them. Eventually, however, his superior officers refused to tolerate his behavior any longer, and Josiah fled rather than face whatever judgment awaited him. Not knowing where else to go, Josiah ran towards Noxus, hoping for a vainglorious death in battle against Demacia’s enemy. However, even this failed him; the first few patrols he encountered did not even approach a match for his flame-infused strength. With no other avenue left for his dying glory, he turned towards the League of Legends. Once there, he shed his allegiance to Demacia completely, working with some of the League’s artificers to design new armor for himself. Bearing purest white and blazing red, Josiah strides onto the Fields of Justice with pride as a free agent willing to aid all those spurned by the great city-states. “A deserter is always a threat – Josiah more so than most.” -Garen Crownguard