Ashes to Ashes (Xerath Lore)

hello everyone and welcome last time we talked about the fall of shurima from a Sears point of view today we are going to look at the same story but from the view of xerath that's why it is very important that you watch the azir's lore before you watch the rest of this video otherwise you won't get the full experience so without further ado let's get on it xerath was a nameless slave born thousands of years ago he was the son of captured scholars with only the prospect of endless servitude ahead his mother taught him letters and numbers while his father told him tales from history in hopes that one day this knowledge may give him a better life one day his father was crippled during the building of a monument to the Emperor's favorite horse he was left to die at the site of the accident the boy's mother feared that her son would suffer similar fate and so she begged an esteemed tomb architect to take him on as an apprentice at first the architect wasn't sure about it but soon he was impressed by the boy's eye for detail and understanding of mathematics and language he gladly accepted him and the boy never saw his mother again almost every day the architect sent the boy to the Great Library of nasus to find specific plans for his constructions it was there where the boy met Azir the least favourite son of the Emperor he noticed that Azir was struggling to read a difficult passage in an ancient next and two despite knowing that talking to royalty was unthinkable for a slave he decided to help Azir with the complex grammar in that moment a friendship was created that would grow stronger with each passing day one day as year started calling the boy xerath which means one who shares soon after that he made him his personal attendant over the next two years as they grew together the boys studied the history of shurima on the annual tour of the emperor's Dominion assassins ambushed the Royal Caravan while camping at a well-known Oasis xerath saved Azir from an assassin but azir's brothers were all slain leaving the young prince the only hair of shurima throne as a slave xerath could expect no rewards for his actions but Azir promised that one day they would be as brothers when the Emperor returned to his capital city a new age began shurima endure the years of horror and fear of the Emperor's retribution xerath knew enough about history and how sri m'as ruling worked to know that Azir himself was in danger the Emperor hated him for surviving the attack while his other sons died and since the Queen was still young there was a good chance that she would produce another male for her husband and as soon as she did as years life was over xerath told us here that one day he may need to protect himself and that he should learn to fight Azir agreed and in return he elevated zeref and made him his right hand this position gave xerath great influence over Azir as his judgment slowly became essential xerath bent every effort into seeking out knowledge wherever he could find it no matter the cost the source he unlocked long sealed libraries delved into forgotten vaults and consulted with mystics and doomed deep beneath the sands whenever the whispers about xerath and his ways grew too loud to ignore he would make sure to silence them to xerath the fact that has your never mentioned these whispers was an approval of how he was keeping his emperor safe years passed and xerath took ever darker steps to keep the Queen from carrying a child to term using his magical abilities to corrupt every infant she had without rivals to the throne Azir would be safe when the rumors of a curse arose again xerath would make sure to silence them by now xerath fully realized the size of his power and his desire to escape from slavery turned into burning ambition to achieve power of his own with each murder he kept telling himself that he was doing it to keep his friend alive but one day he stepped too far despite his best efforts to curse the Queen a new prince of shurima was born on the night of his birth zeref summoned a powerful storm and brought bolt after bolt of lightning down upon the Queen's chambers killing both the Queen and her newborn son the Emperor rushed to the chambers where he met xerath his hands ablaze with arcane power the Emperor's guards tried to attack but xerath burned them and the Emperor two cinder skeletons xerath ensured that the mages of a conquered territory were blamed for these deaths and a year's first act upon taking the throne was to lead a brutal campaign of retribution against its people Azir was now the Emperor of shurima xerath had long dreamed of this moment and expected Azir to end slavery in Chima before finally naming him brother Azir did none of those things continuing to expand his empires borders and deflecting all discussions about the end of slavery to xerath this was further proof of shurima moral bankruptcy and he arranged at azir's breaking of his promise as the Earth's face was standards as he reminded the earth that he was a slave and he should remember his place something once noble died in zeref that day but he bowed in supplication outwardly accepting as ears decision as Azir continued his campaign of conquest xerath remained at his side but his every action was carefully designed to increase his influence over a realm he now planned to take for himself to steal an empire was no small thing and xerath knew he needed more power the famous legend of renekton's ascension revealed that immortal did not have to be chosen by the Sun priests that anyone could rise up so xerath plotted to steal the power of ascension he told us here that he could rule more than shurima alone perhaps the entire world and that it would all be possible with the power of ascension surely enough a year soon announced that he would undertake the Ascension ritual fuse and priests protested against this decision but as years ego was far too big by now to let them live for that the day of ascension arrived and Azir marched to work the dice of ascension with xerath at his side Nasus and Renekton were absent for the day's events for xerath had arranged a distraction for them by weakening a seal on a magical sarcophagus containing a beast of living fire when that creature finally broke its bindings Renekton and nasa's were the only warriors capable of defeating it and fortunately for xerath they were the only real protection as your head Azir stood beneath the sun disk and in the final moment before the sun priests began the ritual events took a turn xerath had not anticipated Azir turned to xerath and told him that he was now a free man he and all shurima slaves were now released from their bonds of servitude he embraced xerath before naming him his eternal brother xerath was stunned he had been given everything he desired but the success of his plans hinged upon azir's death and nothing was going to stand in his way too many pieces were in motion and xerath had already sacrificed too much to turn back now no matter how much dead part of him wanted to the Emperor's words pierced the bitterness of xerath's heart but game decades too late as he returned as the priests began the ritual and brought down the awesome power of the Sun with the roar of anger and grief combined xerath busted Azir from the place on the dice watching through tears as his former friend burned to ash xerath took azir's place and the light of the Sun filled him reshaping his flesh into death of an ascended being but the power of the ritual was not his to take and the consequences of his betrayal of isère were devastating the unbound power of the Sun destroyed Rima and consumed its people as the desert rose up the Sun disc fell and an empire built by generations of emperors was undone in a single day even as the city burned xerath held the Sun priests in the grip of his magic preventing them from ending the ritual as he drew ever more of the sun's power into his body his mortal flesh was consumed and remade as a glowing vortex of arcane power Renekton and Nasus saw the destruction and rushed to the epicentre of the magical storm they bore with them the magical sarcophagus that had imprisoned the spirit of eternal fire they fought their way to the dice of ascension just as xerath fell to the ground before he could even react the two brothers hurled xerath within the sarcophagus and sealed it once more with blessed chains but it was not enough xerath's power had been great as a mortal and that power combined with the gift of ascension made him all but invincible he shattered the sarcophagus but its shards and chains remained bound to him Renekton and Nasus charged at the earth but even fighting two against one they were still not able to beat him the battle raged throughout the collapsing city destroying what had not already sunk in Neath the sands the brothers were able to drag Sheriff the word the tomb of Emperor's Renekton was able to wrestle xerath within an ancient vault whose logs were impossible to break and which answered only to the blood of emperors he then called upon Nasus to seal the vault behind them NASA's did so with a heavy heart knowing it was the only way to prevent xerath from escaping Renekton and xerath were now locked in an endless battle as the once great civilization of shurima collapsed centuries past and in time even renekton's mighty strength faded leaving him vulnerable to xerath's influence with poisoned lies and illusions xerath twisted renekton's mind filling him with hate toward nasa's more years past and their destiny was changed once again the tragic fall of shurima was nothing compared to the tragedy of its rise from the grave in a market on the edge of the deaths a stranger appears Cassiopeia a noblewoman of noxus looking to hire a guide to take her to the fame floss sitting but not just any guide she hires the owner of a legendary ancient blade the mercenary called Sivir sever gathers her band of cell swords and they set out into the desert to find the Buried bones of Sharia five days beneath the broiling Sun a scout spots towers jutting from the dunes and a stairway leading underground they climb down into the darkness paints and treasures gleam in the torchlight even Sivir is astonished at the grandeur of the ruins her men hit deeper in only to stumble into traps and be vicereine it fillers stunned with horror but Cassiopeia does not flinch she sees only the statue of a hinge servant silently guarding the door to the tomb of the Emperor's and smiles ancient weapon is a key Cassiopeia betrays Sivir she accepts it as blade puts it into the lock the Guardians curse is triggered the stone servant comes alive it pins Cassiopeia it's John's defendant saves her flesh like acid the truth door opens Renekton emerges the brother he loved and loved away twisted beyond insanity followed by Zarafa provocative torment the city drags herself away lifeblood flooding from the world and then succumbs to darkness a civilize betrayed and bleeding something incredible curves for though she does not know it Sivir is the last in the bloodline of isère Serena's lost em and as her blood soaks into the ancient sands a deep magic sparks to life resurrection first as his mind then his body snatched back from oblivion to be reborn sieze sever wonders at her face he sees himself in this daughter of shurima in that moment he has no thought of empires or rituals he only knows she needs his help he must take her to the Oasis at all the mother of life he smells the waters smells of life raises in time he does not dream that he sharina's greatest emperor can have long last earn his ascension and bring back his broken city he dares not dream that if he can save her Azir can save them all shurima was reborn and as it rose majestically from the desert xerath felt another soul returned to life beneath the sand one he had thought long dead Azir was also newly resurrected as one of the ascendant and xerath knew that there could be no peace for either of them while the other yet lived xerath travelled to the heart of the desert to regain his strength and understand how the world had changed in the millennia since his imprisonment ironically however far he has come from the nameless slave boy a part of zeref knows that he is still in Chains and that is where xerath's half ends in the next videos we will look into the legends of the two ascended brothers and we will shed some light on both NASA's and Renekton if you like this video feel free to rate it as always if you want to keep updated with my channel follow me on Twitter or Facebook and if you want to watch me play some games follow me on Twitch where I do just that thank you all so much for all of your support you guys are incredible especially the last month so as always thank you come again so we still have a lot of story to go through and I am really interested to see if at the end right we'll focus on some kind of war because from what it looks like there will be few sides like xerath on one side then there will be a zero on the other side and then maybe there will be italia on you know the third side and then I'm actually wondering what they are going to do with Sivir and especially skarner and maybe Aramis all right let's see what Rama's gets and I'm just excited so let's see what they bring us and see you in the next video

Channel: Necrit

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Keywords: Xerath, Shurima, Azir, Lore, Nasus, Renekton, Sivir, Taliyah, story, league of legends, Necrit, Necrit94

Id: 6us_3_bEVaM

Length: 20min 45sec (1245 seconds)

Published: Thu May 12 2016