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Once a curious girl of flesh and blood, 
Orianna is now a technological marvel comprised entirely of clockwork. She became gravely ill after an accident in the lower districts of 
Zaun, and her failing body had to be replaced with exquisite artifice, piece by piece. Accompanied by the extraordinary brass orb that houses her hextech heart, Orianna is now free to explore the wonders of 
Piltover, and beyond.
 | "When a moth emerges from its chrysalis, does it remember its life as a caterpillar?" — Orianna |
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Background[]
Early life[]
Orianna Reveck was born in Piltover as the daughter of Corin Reveck, an artificer who designed artificial limbs. She helped her father run his shop as his assistant, but she had an adventurous spirit. 
Corin refused to let Orianna go beyond her neighborhood and instead took her to the theater, where she was inspired by dancers who told stories of different regions, aspiring to visit them some day.
When news about a disaster in Zaun reached the Revecks' shop, Orianna wanted to help, but Corin forbade her as Zaun was too dangerous. However, she snuck into Zaun at night so she could help the victims of the disaster, supplying them with respirators and even giving her own to save a child who could barely breathe. Corin was angry at her when she returned, but soon she became terminally ill due to her lungs being destroyed by the poisonous gas. Corin spent weeks developing artificial lungs and augmented them into Orianna, but kept her lungs wound with a key so she would not venture off again. As she returned to work, the poison spread to the rest of her body, so the Revecks worked hard to construct artificial parts to replace Orianna's failing body parts. She was eventually able to survive perfectly fine, but at the cost of all but her heart being replaced with bionic parts. She started to lose the memories of who she was before as her humanity began to fade.
Several years later, Corin's heart began to fail. Orianna constructed figurines to sell, but they could not raise enough money to save her father, so out of desperation she made a deal with a chem-baron, whom gave her a hextech crystal. As she paid him, she began to run out of money and knew he would turn to violence next time, so she decided to sacrifice her human heart to save her father. She constructed 
the Ball, a floating machine which housed the hextech crystal within, designing it to defend and assist her. She anesthetized Corin to begin a surgery to replace his heart with her own. After the surgery was over, she realized that she had sacrificed the last remnant of her humanity, and was now only a machine. She set off to explore Piltover, eager to find her new place as a lady of clockwork. When Corin woke up and found that Orianna had left, he kept a figurine she had created as a memento to his daughter.
Recent events[]
- Main article: Fieram
Orianna visited a venue for Sir Fiesterly's Fantastical Fair, waiting until everybody had left. She felt attracted toward a fellow automaton named 
Fieram, displayed within a glass cabinet. He asked Orianna for her name, and repeated it claiming her name had soft sounds. He told her that he was afraid of the outside world, and was safe in the glass. He demonstrated a magic trick, to Orianna's awe. The two automatons began to converse with each other romantically, with Orianna interested with him to the point where she started to express her emotions, which she had lessened capability over. When Fieram told her of his dreams of seeing the outside world, she was obliged to free him by breaking the lock and the cage. Two security watchmen noticed and tried to stop her from damaging their property. Desperate to take Fieram with her, Orianna urged him to use his smoke-emitting trick, then knocked the two guards into unconsciousness using her Ball. After seeing Fieram repeat his lines, Orianna realized that he was a simple animatronic only following his programming, feeling sadness towards the revelation. As she bode goodbye to Fieram, she left without looking back, but not before seeing what appeared to be Fieram winking in the distance.
Appearance[]
TBA
Personality[]
Orianna was helpful and altruistic, willing to do whatever it takes to help others even when dissuaded, and often sacrificed herself in numerous ways to offer others a chance to live. She enjoyed crafting like her father, but as she became more robotic she became more detached from her humanity, yet still retained her concern towards her father. She transplanted her own heart into her father as she saw it as the most logical option. After becoming fully robotic, she now wishes to find her place in the world as a robot retaining her human memories.
Orianna has trouble expressing her emotions, but is still capable of feeling them. She initially felt love towards Fieram due to being an automaton like her, even going as far as to attack the watchmen due to believing they were trying to stop her from freeing him. When he turned out just to be a robot apparently following his programming, she was saddened and left feeling defeated.[1]
Abilities[]
TBA
Relations[]
Corin[]
Corin is the father of Orianna. He saved Orianna's life by replacing her damaged organs with artificial ones. Due to his heart starting to fail because of his ageing body, Orianna ends up sacrificing her heart to keep him alive.
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Trivia[]
- Orianna's backstory might be referencing Olimpia from The Sandman by E. T. A. Hoffmann.
- Her new background is an example of the Ship of Theseus debate.
- Vaido Violante, a former apprentice of her father Corin Reveck, created the Atlas Gauntlets, a pair of which are used by Vi. This is retconned in the Arcane (TV Series) as in the show, Vi's Atlas Gauntlets were invented by Jayce alongside his partner Viktor.
- As he was possibly quite young like most Piltover apprentices when working for Corin Reveck, Orianna was likely born around somewhere between 30 and 100 years ago.
- As he was possibly quite young like most
- Orianna's in-game appearance depicts the old chassis that used a key to wind up her lung function.
- In episode 8 of Arcane, the as-of-yet unnamed doctor professes that he once had a daughter whom he lost. The picture of his daughter that he carries within a pendant resembles Orianna. The doctor is credited as Singed, a monikor he likely gained after being mutilated during a shimmer exploison in episode 3.
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