"I would set the world ablaze to protect our family." In Season 2, Ambessa has her hair braided back into three braids capped in gold. She wears her battle attire, which consists of tan and black garb with accents of gold and red threads, red cloth wrapped around her arms, and golden triangular earrings. In Act 1, she wears a regal headpiece with which she wraps her braids and a militaristic black jacket with large golden shoulder pieces and accents. Ambessa has dark brown lipstick with a golden stripe on her bottom lip and red stripes painted under her eyes. In battle, Ambessa wears a golden feline-like mask.Ambessa is a grizzled, aggressive, and at times barbaric woman who takes what she wants without a second's hesitation. Using her brutality and cunning, she rose to the position of Warlord within the Noxian army and cemented herself as one of its premiere warlords. Exposed to death from a very early age, Ambessa believes that only the strong have the right to rule and that the weak need to be trampled underfoot to make way for progress. Despite this, she is more than capable of being very affable and civil when visiting foreign nations and has even demonstrated certain tastes and desires in male company. As a result of her social darwinist viewpoints, Ambessa has a distaste for mages and magical beings, seeing their powers as being opposed to the idea that on the battlefield, everyone is equal and can win through sheer willpower. Despite this, her desire to win still ultimately leads her to form an alliance with Viktor, whose interaction with Hextech and the Arcane has transformed him into what basically constitutes a mage. She loves her family dearly and they are usually her primary concern, but she struggles greatly to show her love and affection towards them due to being raised in the warmongering ways of Noxus. She is fiercely protective of them and displays a heightened sense of advanced planning, as Ambessa would rather kill and destroy in the present if it meant preventing tragedy in the future. She is completely loyal and faithful to the Noxian ideals, but secretly has begun building a sense of remorse for her actions over the years as her commitment to Noxus and their destructive, hostile treatment of others has bitterly eroded her relationship with her children. While on the surface she stated she sent Mel away because her benevolent and diplomatic nature would be far better suited in a land like Piltover, in reality it was because she was distraught that her ways continuously and increasingly soured her relationship with her daughter.