User blog:Mathetesalexandrou/Phyllis, the Benevolent Botanist

Phyllis, the Benevolent Botanist is a custom champion in League of Legends.

Lore
Phyllis is a child of Piltover, and one that thoroughly enjoys the clean environment of the said city-state. Whereas most children were interested in the cool technology, Phyllis was more interested in the serenity offered by the plant life not harmed by pollution as it might have been in the case of Zaun. Her passion for the plant life grew as a wandering herbalist traveled to heal some of the more unfortunate people with the plants. Having interest in using what she loved, Phyllis asked the herbalist to share the wisdom, to which the herbalist agreed, although he asked in return that Phyllis first use the art to do only good and secondly take a disciple, a prospect Phyllis was all too eager to accept. However, Phyllis would soon realize that the herbalist was from Zaun, and to access his base of knowledge she would have to go to Zaun, and given the state of Zaun, Phyllis was horrified.

However, it was there Phyllis would meet Basilis, a fellow young girl with a similar good intentions. Whereas Phyllis wholeheartedly agreed with Basilis's intention to protect life (and thus made friends with her), Phyllis was no less than disapproving of Basilis's intended methods, and after a surprisingly civil argument, Phyllis and Basilis parted, leaving Phyllis to further delve into the herbalist's library until there was nothing left there for her. Having no incentive to remain, Phyllis quickly departed from Zaun, now a healer doing good for the people while helping to restore the environment. Although Phyllis delighted in restoring nature and helping people, Phyllis couldn't take her mind off Basilis, who was recently sighted with an army of the reanimated dead: How can Phyllis persuade her old misguided friend? To find some peace of mind, Phyllis visited Ionia hoping to get some advice from the sages, and met. It was her meeting with Soraka that Phyllis took up the purpose of defending the sanctity of life as her core mission.

With that as her main tenet, Phyllis could no longer have Basilis spread what she believe was a false shadow of life. After getting blessings and magic powers from the magical creatures of the grove, Phyllis set off to the Institute of War to confront her old friend and to get her off from the misguided ways.

""One does not replace life with steel. No, pretending that mechanical reanimation is life is a grave affront to life.""

- Phyllis

""It is unfortunate that some cannot see or accept the future. Steel shall make the future, and life shall benefit from a unification of steel and flesh, which is preferably led to replacement of flesh by steel.""

- Basilis Pontia