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While many other yordles channel their energy into discovery, invention, or just plain mischief-making, 
Tristana was always inspired by the adventures of great warriors. She had heard much about 
Runeterra, its factions, and its wars, and believed her kind could become worthy of legend too. Setting foot in the world for the first time, she took up her trusty cannon Boomer, and now leaps into battle with steadfast courage and optimism.
 | "Boomer says hi." — Tristana |
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Background
Early life
Like most yordles, Tristana was always fascinated by the world beyond Bandle City. She traveled far and wide, full of wonder and enthusiasm for the varied places, people, and creatures she encountered. Using the hidden pathways that only yordles know, she explored the length and breadth of the material realm, remaining mostly unseen.
She witnessed such breathtaking sights as ice trolls migrating across the floes of the far north beneath kaleidoscopic auroras. She marveled as warships blasted each other to pieces in naval battles that churned the seas. She watched, awestruck, as great armies marched with unity and precision—incredibly strange concepts to a yordle!—across the endless sands to the south.
But Tristana’s carefree, wandering ways changed the day she witnessed the destruction of a bandlewood. These places are steeped in the magic of the gateways they grow around, giving yordles a safe haven from the world. Tristana, dozing in the dappled sunshine, was shaken awake as the trees around her began to burn and topple. A warband of armored marauders rampaged through the woodland with fire and axes, led by a sorcerer wreathed in dark energy.
Tristana hid in horror. The sorcerer focused his power upon the portal at the heart of the bandlewood, speaking one final utterance. Her ears still ringing with pain, Tristana watched the gateway collapse, never to be opened again. The ripples of that destruction were felt in Bandle City itself, causing great despair among the yordles.
Tristana had never experienced anything like the pain of this loss, or the guilt she felt for not acting. Never again would she allow such a terrible thing to happen. In that moment, she dedicated herself to become the guardian of all bandlewoods, and her fellow yordles.
Tristana had often marveled at how mortals protected the things that were dear to them. While she couldn’t comprehend their reasons to guard shiny metals, or walls of stone, she respected their methods, and decided to emulate them. Other yordles watched with curiosity as she took to marching around the borders of Bandle City stern-faced, and watching out for danger. She started calling her food “rations”, and set herself strict times for rest and relaxation.
But something was missing. In her travels, she had seen many powerful inventions, including the black powder cannons of Bilgewater. Inspired by them, she collected enough precious metal discs to commission a gun suited to her diminutive size.
With a wry smile, she named it Boomer.
Since then,Tristana has defended the bandlewoods from innumerable threats. In the jungles of the Serpent Isles, she intervened in a clash between the local Buhru people and treasure hunters from Valoran that was getting too close to a hidden portal, sending them all running for their lives after she leapt into their midst, Boomer roaring. And in the burning deserts at the edge of Shurima, she destroyed a Void-horror after it began consuming a secret bandlewood oasis, killing it with an explosive bomb down the gullet.
Tristana has become something of a legend in Bandle City, and recently, a number of yordles have started to imitate her, trying—and mostly failing—to copy her disciplined ways. Some have even had weapons mimicking Boomer constructed for them by the scrappy inventor Rumble, who is always seeking to win Tristana’s approval. While Tristana finds this all rather embarrassing, she has come to the conclusion that if they are going to defend the pathways to Bandle City, they had better do it properly. As such, she has started training these new recruits, and they have adopted a new moniker—the Bandle Gunners.
Nevertheless, Tristana can often be found out in the wilds on patrol by herself—simultaneously protecting the bandlewoods and also getting away from her new, and rather annoying, trainees.
Contemporary history
Recent events
Appearance
Personality
Tristana has a very rowdy and impulsive personality. She's very excitable (especially when it comes to fighting) and more often than not tends to act without much forethought, in spite of how much she truly means well. One of Tristana's most defining traits is her ambition towards becoming a hero and creating her own adventure, being the reason why she became the feisty and strong-willed powerhouse she is today in the first place. Tristana is also incredibly selfless in spite of how scatterbrained and wacky she is otherwise, as she has protected Bandle City's gateways from mortals of Runeterra to the point of inspiring other yordles to protect the city as well.
Abilities
- Cannon Proficiency: There's a reason why she carries a cannon around.
- Yordle Physiology: Tristana is a Yordle, a being coming from the Spirit Realm and possesses several abilities natural of her species.
- Immortality: Being spiritual beings, Yordles don't age the same way as normal humans, and they can't normally die.
- Yordle Magic: Just like any Yordle, Tristana is capable of performing yordle magic, which she utilizes in tandem with her skills as a gunner.
Relations
- Tristana,
Teemo, Lulu and Corki are friends. - Rumble has an obvious (named his mech 'Tristy') crush on her.
- Tristana finds Lulu to be quite a handful and bothersome yordle.
- Draven had encountered both Lulu and Tristana, fought and fled from them during his return trip from Basilich to Noxus Prime.
- Graves captured Teemo for the bounty on yordles while Twisted Fate refuses because "messing with Yordles brings a whole heap of trouble." Corki, Lulu and Tristana fought Graves when trying to save Teemo, which ended up in Graves being turned into a frog and the Yordles escaping.
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Biography
Starring Champion
Short Story • 5 Minute Read
The fire was crackling away nicely, spreading a warm glow throughout the forest clearing. Tristana lay on her back with her head pillowed on her pack, watching a comet streak across the starlit sky. The winking lights glittered prettily through a swaying canopy of birch and oak leaves. The humans liked to name the patterns in the stars – she'd seen some in an old book in Heimerdinger's laboratory – but she decided it would be more fun to give them names of her own invention.
Starring: Tristana
Video
Wanna go cause a ruckus? When Teemo goes missing, Tristana finds plenty of volunteers to help bring him home to Bandle City—in all the ways that only yordles can!
Starring: 
Corki, 
Graves, 
Lulu, 
Teemo, Tristana, 
Twisted Fate
Short Story
“Here, doodad,” she whispers to the grass. “Pretty please, with sprinkles on top! I'll let you take us somewhere you want to go next.” The doodad—or whatever it's really called—doesn't respond, but I sense it rolling away from Lulu. Well, not really rolling, as such, more making itself be where she isn't.
Starring: 
Draven, Lulu, 
Tamara, Tristana
Mentioned: 
Darius, 
Heimerdinger, 
Janna, 
Poppy
Mentioned Champion
Short Story
A Bandle Scout Mission Journal
By Numerous creators
Another Bandle Scout mission badge complete.
Starring: Teemo
Alternate Universes
Comic
By Gutter Rat
Starring: 
Ahri, Darius, 
Ekko, 
Vladimir
Mentioned: 
Akali, 
Amumu, 
Anivia, 
Azir, 
Bard, 
Blitzcrank, 
Braum, 
Cho'Gath, 
Elise, 
Ezreal, 
Fiddlesticks, 
Fiora, 
Gnar, Heimerdinger, 
Ivern, 
Jhin, 
Jinx, 
Karthus, 
Kog'Maw, Lulu, 
Lux, 
Malzahar, 
Miss Fortune, 
Nidalee, 
Olaf, Poppy, 
Rek'Sai, 
Renekton, 
Rumble, 
Ryze, 
Shaco, 
Shen, 
Sion, 
Sona, 
Soraka, 
Talon, 
Taric, Teemo, Tristana, 
Trundle, 
Twitch, 
Urgot, 
Varus, 
Veigar, 
Vel'Koz, 
Vi, 
Yorick, 
Zed, 
Ziggs, 
Zyra
Comic
By Gutter Rat
Starring: Ahri, Darius, Ekko, Vladimir
Mentioned: Amumu, Anivia, 
Annie, 
Ashe, 
Aurelion Sol, Braum, 
Caitlyn, Cho'Gath, 
Dr. Mundo, Draven, Elise, Ezreal, Fiddlesticks, 
Fizz, 
Galio, Gnar, Heimerdinger, Janna, Jhin, Jinx, Kog'Maw, Lulu, Lux, 
Malphite, Malzahar, Miss Fortune, 
Nami, 
Nasus, Olaf, Poppy, 
Rakan, 
Rammus, Rek'Sai, 
Riven, Rumble, Ryze, Shaco, 
Singed, Sona, Soraka, 
Syndra, 
Taliyah, Talon, Taric, Teemo, 
Thresh, 
Tibbers, Tristana, Twitch, Urgot, Varus, Veigar, 
Volibear, 
Warwick, 
Wukong, 
Xayah, 
Yasuo, Yorick, 
Zac, Zed, Ziggs, Zyra
Comic
By Gutter Rat
Starring: Ahri, Darius, Ekko, Vladimir
Mentioned: Akali, Amumu, Bard, Blitzcrank, Draven, Elise, 
Evelynn, Ezreal, Fiddlesticks, Fiora, Fizz, Galio, Gnar, 
Jayce, Jhin, 
Kayn, Kog'Maw, 
LeBlanc, Lulu, Lux, Malzahar, Nasus, 
Nunu, Poppy, Rakan, Rammus, Rek'Sai, Renekton, 
Rhaast, Rumble, Ryze, Shaco, Singed, 
Sivir, Sona, Taliyah, Talon, Teemo, Tristana, Trundle, Twitch, Varus, Veigar, Warwick, Xayah, Zed, Ziggs, 
Zoe, Zyra
Comic
By Risu
Mentioned: 
Aatrox, Ahri, 
Alistar, Amumu, Annie, Aurelion Sol, Azir, Bard, Blitzcrank, Caitlyn, Cho'Gath, 
Diana, Draven, Ekko, Ezreal, Fizz, Galio, Gnar, Graves, Heimerdinger, Jayce, 
Kha'Zix, Kog'Maw, 
Leona, 
Lucian, Lux, Malphite, 
Maokai, Miss Fortune, Nasus, 
Nautilus, Nidalee, Olaf, 
Orianna, Poppy, 
Quinn, Rakan, Renekton, Riven, Rumble, Shaco, Taric, Teemo, Tibbers, Tristana, Trundle, 
Udyr, 
Valor, Vel'Koz, 
Viktor, Volibear, Warwick, Wukong, Xayah, 
Xin Zhao, Yasuo, Ziggs
Comic
By Numerous creators
Starring: N/A
Mentioned: Aatrox, Akali, Ashe, Aurelion Sol, Azir, Braum, Caitlyn, Cho'Gath, Darius, Diana, Draven, Ezreal, Gnar, 
Illaoi, Janna, 
Jarvan IV, Jayce, 
Kai'Sa, 
Karma, Karthus, 
Katarina, 
Kayle, Kayn, 
Kennen, Kha'Zix, 
Lee Sin, Leona, Lulu, Lux, Malzahar, Miss Fortune, Nunu, 
Ornn, 
Pantheon, 
Pyke, Rammus, Rek'Sai, Rhaast, Ryze, 
Sejuani, Shen, Sion, Sivir, Soraka, 
Sylas, Syndra, Taliyah, Talon, Taric, Thresh, Tristana, Trundle, Udyr, Vi, Volibear, 
Willump, Yasuo, Zed, Ziggs, Zoe
Outdated Lore
Entries
Formare veneficum est formare fatum.
Starring: Akali, Alistar, Amumu, Anivia, Annie, Ashe, Blitzcrank, 
Brand, 
Cassiopeia, Cho'Gath, Corki, Darius, Dr. Mundo, Evelynn, Ezreal, Fiddlesticks, 
Gangplank, 
Garen, 
Gragas, Heimerdinger, 
Irelia, Janna, Jarvan IV, 
Jax, Karma, Karthus, 
Kassadin, Katarina, Kayle, Kennen, Kog'Maw, Lee Sin, Leona, 
Lissandra, Lux, Malzahar, Maokai, 
Master Yi, 
Mordekaiser, 
Morgana, Nasus, Nidalee, 
Nocturne, Nunu, Olaf, Pantheon, Poppy, Rammus, Renekton, Riven, Rumble, Ryze, Sejuani, Shaco, Shen, Singed, Sion, Sivir, 
Skarner, Sona, Soraka, 
Swain, Talon, Taric, Teemo, Tibbers, Tristana, Trundle, 
Tryndamere, Twisted Fate, Twitch, Udyr, Urgot, Veigar, Vladimir, Warwick, Willump, Wukong, Xin Zhao, Yorick, 
Zilean
Trivia
Change log
| Character blurb | |
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| 14 Mar 2019 (During V9.10) | Added. |
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