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Brackern

Surrounded around the Shuriman Continent are several clans of Brackern, including clans in the Shuriman desert.

Dormun

• Dormun 1
• Dormun 2
• A depiction of a Mwatis

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The Dormun are gigantic, slow-moving creatures protected with large chitinous plates covering their body. In the harsh conditions of Shurima they have evolved to survive the perpetual drought by utilizing an unknown sense to locate hidden reservoirs of water. Incidentally, certain nomadic tribes have built themselves a permanent home upon the backs of these beasts where they clean the creature and hunt any airborne pests who venture near.

Eka'Sul

Desert goats that travel in herds.

Mwatis

Mwatis are goatlike creatures with large plated casques on their heads. Mwati wool and plate are prised for felting and insulation.

Kmiros

Gigantic scarabs that roam in swarms, looking for unfortunate travelers to feed on. They seem to be common prey for Rammus.

Outerbeasts

Main article: Voidborn

• A Xer'Sai known as Rek'Sai
• Kai'Sa fighting Outerbeasts 1
• Kai'Sa fighting Outerbeasts 2
• Kai'Sa fighting Outerbeasts 3
• Kai'Sa fighting Outerbeasts 4

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Beside the Xer'Sai, other creatures from the Void, referred to as 'outerbeasts', can be found in the desert.

• Xer'Sai: Creatures from the Void that plague the southern deserts. They are the size of big dogs on average, but can be smaller or much bigger. Rek'Sai, as the queen, is by far the largest and most dangerous of her species. Xer'sai burst from their small burrows and ravage anything nearby, to the detriment of desert caravans. Once dead, the Xer'sai decompose at an abnormally rapid rate and become inedible.

Ralsiji

• A Ralsiji
• A Shuriman Camel 1
• A Shuriman Camel 2

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Large and aggressive minotaur-like creatures. They are humpbacked quadrupeds with long limbs and thick horns.

Shuriman Camel

A breed of camels native to the deserts of Shurima and are used by caravans as well as common folk as primary mode of transportation. Despite being well-suited for lengthy travels in the desert landscape, they are still prey to a many predator such as the Xer'Sai.

Sandswimmers

Sandswimmers

Sandswimmers are massive quadrupedal creatures that traverse the Shuriman desert in cyclical patterns. They got their name due to their preferred method of travel. Their narrow bodies and webbed feet are perfectly design for swimming under the sand. They feed on bugs and other small creatures most desert beasts ignore. Scavengers will often memorize the predictable paths these creatures take, and jump onto their backs to ride as far as they wish.

Skallashi

• Skallashi
• Skallashi in The Great Sai
• Skallashi at The Zoantha Cascade
• Skallashi near The Sun Disc
• Skallashi in Nashramae

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The Skallashi are large quadrupedal herbivores. These hardy beasts of burden are common across Shurima, ideally suited to the harsh desert environment. Their key body feature is their long legs. Notoriously bad-tempered, they are nevertheless treated with great reverence. Their brown hides are often painted with sacred symbols of protection, and their horns hung with totems and charms. While these creatures are mostly used for travel and carrying heavy loads, on some larger skallashi people are able to built miniature rooms for more comfortable travel. To own one is often considered a sign of considerable prosperity.

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Swain

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Swain For Alternate Card
Region	Noxus
Type	Champion
Cost	5 Mana
Card text
Keywords	Fearsome
Description	Nexus Strike: Deal 3 to the enemy Nexus.
Level Up	You've dealt 14 non-combat damage.
3 6
Collecting & Crafting
This card is collectible, and costs 3000 or 1
Flavour
"A power beyond mortal understanding gave me the vision to see what most cannot. I peer through the darkness others fear."
Expansion	Set 2 - Rising Tides
Rarity	Champion
ID	02NX007
Artist	SIXMOREVODKA
Artwork	Primary Censored

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Swain For Alternate Card
Region	Noxus
Type	Champion
Cost	5 Mana
Card text
Keywords	Fearsome Overwhelm
Description	When we deal non-combat damage to the enemy Nexus, Stun the strongest backrow enemy. Nexus Strike: Deal 3 to all enemies and the enemy Nexus.
4 7
Collecting & Crafting
This card cannot be collected.
Flavour
"No sacrifice is too great to see my vision for Noxus fulfilled."
Expansion	Set 2 - Rising Tides
ID	02NX007T2
Artist	SIXMOREVODKA
Artwork	Primary Censored

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Swain's Ravenous Flock For Alternate Card
Region	Noxus
Type	Champion Spell
Cost	1 Mana
Card text
Keywords	Fast
Description	Deal 4 to a unit if it's damaged or Stunned. Create a 5Swain in your deck.
Collecting & Crafting
This card cannot be collected.
Flavour
Listen. Can you hear them? The thunder of a thousand beating wings.
Expansion	Set 2 - Rising Tides
ID	02NX007T1
Artist	Kudos Productions
Artwork	Primary Censored

The Path of Champions

Path of Championsedit
Swain
Unlock 750 / 30
Playstyle	Balanced
Difficulty	Hard
Star Powers
	10
	20
	40
	60 10
	80 40
	100 1

Swain is a playable champion in The Path of Champions. See more at Swain (The Path of Champions).

Champion Stars

Stars	Power
	Crush the Weak	Your first spell or Skill each round deals 1 extra damage for each 5 Health the enemy Nexus is missing.
	Collateral Damage	+1 Starting Mana. When a unit dies, deal 1 to the enemy nexus.
	Crush the Weak II	Your first three spells or Skills each round deal 1 extra damage for each 5 Health the enemy Nexus is missing.
	Demonic Ascension	When you damage an enemy with a spell or Skill, deal the same amount to all other enemies as well.

Notes

• Non-combat damage includes any damage which is not the result of a strike between attackers and blockers. It includes:
  • Spell, Skill, and Trap damage
  • Self-damage
  • Non-Combat Strikes
    • Strikes from spells that cause strikes, such as 2 Single Combat and 3 Strafing Strike, occur outside of direct attacking and blocking and are thus considered non-combat damage, even if they occur between attackers and blockers.
• Swain's damaging effect triggers healing from Lifesteal.
• Swain can be drawn by 7 The Leviathan.

Trivia

• 4 Citybreaker is featured in the artwork of 5Swain (Level 1).
• 5 Decisive Maneuver is featured in 5Swain's level up animation

Skins

• Original
• Infernal

Original Swain: Base Skin

1 / 28-Apr-2020

Level 1

"A power beyond mortal understanding gave me the vision to see what most cannot. I peer through the darkness others fear."

Level 2

"No sacrifice is too great to see my vision for Noxus fulfilled."

Level 2

Listen. Can you hear them? The thunder of a thousand beating wings.

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Infernal Swain: Common Skin

Arise in a blaze of cruelty.

Features:

• 2 new artworks

This skin is available for purchase.

700 / 30-Mar-2022

Level 1

Patience, my companions. Let the embers gather. We shall kindle the flames when the moment is right.

Level 2

At last, every piece is in its proper place. Now, rise to the sky, unfurl your wings, and let the inferno rage.

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Quotes

Summoned

• ▶️   "Loyalty through conquest."
• ▶️   "Master your demons."
• ▶️   "By my hand will Noxus rise."
• ▶️   "Glory, courage - excuses for war."
• ▶️   "Born a patrician, I became a soldier."
• ▶️   "Fear the power you do not see."
• ▶️   "The few for the many."
• ▶️   "Vision to see what others cannot."

Enemy 3Irelia present

• ▶️   Swain: "By my hand will Noxus rise."
  • ▶️   Irelia: "And by our blades will it fall."
• ▶️   Swain: "Loyalty through conquest."
  • ▶️   Irelia: "We will never bow to tyrants like you."
• ▶️   Irelia: "Noxians on our shores!?"
  • ▶️   Swain: "Bring these lands to their knees."

Enemy 6Jarvan IV present

• ▶️   Swain: "By my hand will Noxus rise."
  • ▶️   Jarvan IV: "And by mine will it fall."

Enemy 4Kindred present

• ▶️   Swain: "By my hand will Noxus rise."
  • ▶️   Lamb: "He owes us the remainder."
    • Wolf: "I want it all!"

Allied 3LeBlanc present

• ▶️   Swain: "By my hand will Noxus rise."
  • ▶️   LeBlanc: "By which hand? The man's, or the demon's?"
• ▶️   Swain: "Fear the power you do not see."
  • ▶️   LeBlanc"You flatter me, 'Grand General'"

Enemy 3LeBlanc present

• ▶️   Swain: "Fear the power you do not see."
  • ▶️   LeBlanc: "You know nothing of real power, dear boy."

Allied 5Lee Sin present

• ▶️   Lee Sin: "My cooperation does not imply forgiveness."
  • ▶️   Swain: "Nor does mine imply respect."

Enemy 5Lee Sin present

• ▶️   Lee Sin: "You will reap what you have sown, Noxian!"
  • ▶️   Swain: "Victory?"
• ▶️   Lee Sin: "Get. Out. Of my homeland!"
  • ▶️   Swain: "The dragon has fire after-all."

Enemy 3Lulu present

• ▶️   Swain: "Master your demons."
  • ▶️   Lulu: "Demons are easy, mister. Ellafloops, are hard."

Enemy 4Maokai present

• ▶️   Maokai: "Noxus will not conquer the Shadow Isles."
  • ▶️   Swain: "Curious you think we'd seek to."

Allied 5Quinn present

• ▶️   Quinn: "I'm to fight alongside a Noxian?"
  • ▶️   Swain: "I'll accept your apologies after our victory."

Enemy 5Quinn present

• ▶️   Swain: "Surrender! Little Demacian."
  • ▶️   Quinn: "Die! Condescending Noxian."
• ▶️   Swain: "Demacia's walls will crumble."
  • ▶️   Quinn: "Then I'll have a clean shot at your head."

Enemy 7Sion present

• ▶️   Swain: "Fear the power you do not see."
  • ▶️   Sion: "No; Fear me, Jericho!"

Allied 7 The Leviathan present

• ▶️   Swain: "By my hand will Noxus rise."
  • ▶️   The Leviathan: "Grand General."

Allied 2 Imperial Demolitionist present

• ▶️   Swain: "By my hand will Noxus rise."
  • ▶️   Imperial Demolitionist: "Lead us to victory, Grand General."

Allied 6 Lord Broadmane present

• ▶️   Swain: "The few for the many."
  • ▶️   Lord Broadmane: "It won't be much longer till these peasants fall in line."
• ▶️   Swain: "Fear the power you do not see."
  • ▶️   Lord Broadmane: "Rest assured, my lord, they'll never see it coming."

Enemy 4 Noxian Defector present

• ▶️   Swain: "Pledge or perish."
  • ▶️   Noxian Defector: "I perished long ago, my hate is all that's left!"

Enemy 8 Zinneia, Steel Crescendo present

• ▶️   Swain: "Born a patrician, I became a soldier."
  • ▶️   Zinneia: "A snob and a brute? I expected no more."

Sees a Unit Summoned

Allied 6Darius

• ▶️   Darius: "I'll handle this myself."
  • ▶️   Swain: "Do not disappoint."
• ▶️   Darius: "I have my orders."
  • ▶️   Swain: "My favorite kind of soldier."

Allied 3Draven

• ▶️   Draven: "Time for the main event."
  • ▶️   Swain: "Fame went to your head and found ample room within."

Allied 5Gangplank

• ▶️   Gangplank: "Grand General! Stark look fer a man of influence."
  • ▶️   Swain: "You chose wealth. I choose power!"
• ▶️   Gangplank: "What I can't have, I'll burn."
  • ▶️   Swain: "A rough-hewn bully with a talent for destruction."

Enemy 3Irelia present

• ▶️   Swain: "How long can they resist while their cities crumble?"
  • ▶️   Irelia: "You will never quell our spirit."
• ▶️   Swain: "Let them find hope in the rubble."
  • ▶️   Irelia: "You dare defile these sacred lands!"

Allied 5Lee Sin

• ▶️   Swain: "Perhaps I can convice you of Noxian virtues."
  • ▶️   Lee Sin: "You could... if Noxus possessed any."

Enemy 5Lee Sin

• ▶️   Swain: "We will make Ionia ours, or we will make it rubble."
  • ▶️   Lee Sin: "This land cannot be conquered."
• ▶️   Swain: "Stand as a Noxian or die as an Ionian."
  • ▶️   Lee Sin: "I made my choice long ago."

Enemy 4Maokai

• ▶️   Swain: "Your cause is lost, treant. Why fight?"
  • ▶️   Maokai: "Because no one else will!"

Enemy 3Miss Fortune

• ▶️   Swain: "Bilgewater will soon fly the Noxian banner."
  • ▶️   Miss Fortune: "Not while I've got bullets left!"

Allied 5Quinn

• ▶️   Swain: "Today, you fight with me. Tomorrow, for me."
  • ▶️   Quinn: "That's quite an imagination, Noxian."
• ▶️   Swain: "Always a pleasure to meet a fellow bird-lover."
  • ▶️   Quinn: "Don't lump me in with you. That's… blugh."

Enemy 5Quinn

• ▶️   Quinn: "In defense of our homeland!"
  • ▶️   Swain: "A pointless pursuit for a tiresome place."

Allied 7 The Leviathan

• ▶️   The Leviathan: "Orders, sir!"
  • ▶️   Swain: "Bring forth our army."
• ▶️   "Destination in sight!"
  • ▶️   "Bring these lands to their knees."
• ▶️   "Prepare the cargo!"
  • ▶️   "There is no excess when victory is at stake."

Allied 6 Aurok Glinthorn

• ▶️   Aurok Glinthorn: "They are weak. I can feel it."
  • ▶️   Swain: "Let their flaws inform your strategies."
• ▶️   Aurok Glinthorn: "Empire! Battle by battle."
  • ▶️   Swain: "I've taught you well, my boy."

Allied 6 Armored Tuskrider

• ▶️   "Hardly a subtle tool for conquest."
• ▶️   "Humble creatures remade for destruction."

Allied 4 Citybreaker

• ▶️   "They believe that they are safe behind their walls."
• ▶️   "How long can they resist while their cities crumble."

Allied 2 Imperial Demolitionist

• ▶️   Imperial Demolitionist: "For the empire."
  • ▶️   Swain: "The few for the many."
• ▶️   Imperial Demolitionist: "Warmason reporting for duty."
  • ▶️   Swain: "Bestow upon them the gifts of our empire."

Allied 3 Iron Ballista

• ▶️   "Let them find hope in the rubble."
• ▶️   "Courage is useless against a well-aimed shot."
• ▶️   "Their walls cannot protect them."

Allied 5 Legion General

• ▶️   Legion General: "All will kneel before Noxus."
  • ▶️   Swain: "Your eyes tell of battle."
• ▶️   Legion General: "My warhost awaits."
  • ▶️   Swain: "Your service is not forgotten."

Allied 4 Legion Veteran

• ▶️   Legion Veteran: "I helped build this empire."
  • ▶️   Swain: "We no longer merely fight wars - we declare them."
• ▶️   Legion Veteran: "I helped build this empire."
  • ▶️   Swain: "We know the price and prizes of conquest."

Enemy 4 Noxian Defector

• ▶️   Noxian Defector: "You took everything from me!"
  • ▶️   Swain: "The few for the many."

Level Up

• ▶️   Level Up Theme
• ▶️   "Empire above all!"
• ▶️   "Kneel."
• ▶️   "Victory awaits!"
• ▶️   "Witness the strength of Noxus!"

Attack Declared

• ▶️   "Pledge or perish."
• ▶️   "Witness strength."
• ▶️   "We are at war."
• ▶️   "Leave them nothing."

Nexus Strike effect

• ▶️   "Such little lives."
• ▶️   "I will break them."
• ▶️   "Bleed for Noxus."

Block Declared

• ▶️   "You lack discipline."
• ▶️   "You dare oppose Noxus?"
• ▶️   "How tedious."
• ▶️   "Know your place."
• ▶️   "Justify yourself."

Sees a Spell or Skill Resolve

Allied  Black Powder Grenade

• ▶️   "Sacrifices must be made."
• ▶️   "Victory at any cost."

Allied 1 Ravenous Flock

• ▶️   "After the battle, the ravens feast."
• ▶️   "They should thank me for the favor."

Allied 3 Death's Hand

• ▶️   "Their time has come."
• ▶️   "Merely pawns in a greater game."

Allied 6 Decimate

• ▶️   "Our boots are on their throats!"
• ▶️   "One less place to hide!"

Death

• ▶️   "My legacy..."
• ▶️   "Our vision..."
• ▶️   Swain groans.

Turn timer appears

Allied turn timer

• ▶️   "Patience is a tactician's greatest tool."

Enemy turn timer

• ▶️   "Indecision is the first of many weaknesses."

Removed from Combat or Play

• ▶️   "Incompetence surrounds me."

Brought back to Combat or Play

• ▶️   "Show them their place."

Victory

• ▶️   "My conflicts end only one way."
• ▶️   "History will remember us."
• ▶️   "We have done what is needed."
• ▶️   "Raise the Noxtoraa! Remember this day!"

Defeat

• ▶️   "A minor setback."
• ▶️   "This is not the end."

Media

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Change Log

Swain
V4.11	Level Up becomes: "You've dealt 14+ non-combat damage." Old Level Up: "You've dealt 16+ non-combat damage."
V4.8	Level Up becomes: "You've dealt 16+ non-combat damage." Old Level Up: "You've dealt 12+ non-combat damage."
V3.19	Power reduced to 3 from 4.
V3.16	Power increased to 4 from 3.
V1.1	Undocumented: Level Up becomes: "You've dealt 12 non-combat damage." Old Level Up: "When we've done 12 non-combat damage this game."
V1.0	Added.

Swain (Level 2)
V3.19	Power reduced to 4 from 5.
V3.16	Power increased to 5 from 4. Now gain Overwhelm.
V2.7	Text becomes: "When you deal non-combat damage to the enemy Nexus, Stun the strongest backrow enemy. Nexus Strike: Deal 3 to all enemies and the enemy Nexus." Old Text: "When you deal non-combat damage to the enemy Nexus, Stun the Strongest backrow enemy. Nexus Strike: Deal 3 to all enemies and the enemy Nexus."
V1.1	Undocumented: Text becomes: "When you deal non-combat damage to the enemy Nexus, Stun the Strongest backrow enemy. Nexus Strike: Deal 3 to all enemies and the enemy Nexus." Old Text: "When we deal non-combat damage to the enemy Nexus, Stun the Strongest backrow enemy. Nexus Strike: Deal 3 to all enemies."
V1.0	Added.

Swain's Ravenous Flock
V1.16	Text becomes: "Deal 4 to a unit if it's damaged or Stunned. Create a 5Swain in your deck." Old Text: "Deal 4 to a unit if it's damaged or Stunned. Shuffle a 5Swain into your deck."
V1.0	Added.

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