Why is Xayah Attacking Zed?

as we wait for the release of yone and especially his version in the event so we can cover all the spirit blossom stories we finally have a chance to get back onto the rest of the lore and since i'd like to stay around ionia to complement the ongoing event we should have a look at the latest story about rakhan and zaya however before we dive into this one we quickly need to recap their bios because both xayah and rakhan got some minor tweaks in their stories so without further ado let's quickly have a look at those bios zaya comes from the lothlan tribe of the island of kwelin long time ago that place was full of magic which gave the loathland tribe immense power but over time as more and more humans traveled to ionia the local vastaya started negotiating with them accepting them into their community and even breeding with them which resulted in the tribes distancing themselves from the primordial magical essence of the first lands which is a fancy old word for ionia but later as humans started building their cities and castles in ionia some vastaya got annoyed and they started fighting back of course xayah is one of them and she wasn't alone there was enough annoyed vastaya to kickstart a rebellion that started wiping out entire human strongholds meanwhile rakan was born during the decline of the lothan tribe like everyone else he watched humans slowly pollute their magical lands but instead of fighting them directly as a battle dancer he believed the better way would be to show people how beautiful their magic was with the help of either songs or dances perhaps then humans would realize how great ionia used to be and so rakhan started performing wherever he could but no matter how many dances and songs he performed he started feeling useless because he realized he was just an entertainment to all the drunk humans but this all changed when he performed in volunko where zaya was looking for a lost artifact when the two met the first time zaya sorakan is nothing but a buffoon especially after rakhan tried to charm her a couple of times but when xayah explained what she and her group was doing she was surprised to see how much rakhan agreed with her and how much he was mad at the humans too in fact turakan joining zaya's rebellion would finally give him purpose and so xayah accepted him to the rebellion rakan became the perfect distraction for her stealth skills and soon the two even developed feelings for each other years later after the noxian invasion ionians formed groups that were far more aggressive and dangerous such as the navori brotherhood or the hated order of shadow but because of these groups more and more vastaya are starting to hate humans which only helps zaya and rakan recruit more forces this was just a super tldr version of their newly updated bios the only thing that's really new are their motivations for hating humans zaya hates humans because her father used to sing to her about the glory days of the great vastayan heroes while these days all the vastaya do is form alliances with the humans wait for the alliances to get broken and then let humans have more territory and rakhan hates humans just as much but instead of stabbing them in the heart he is willing to give them a chance and show them what they are missing out on but now with their past recapped let's dive into their newest story which i will also shorten because it is quite long called a piece of shadow cake the story begins with zaya dodging bullets that came at her from a nearby temple xayah knew humans called their weapons kashuri rifles which is a name you may recognize from jin's story because it was the kashuri armory that gave jin his gun thankfully zaya was too fast to get hit and while she ran around her tribesmen already climbed the ancient temple and reached what it guarded a quinlan it was a circle of five massive rocks orbiting around each other floating in the sky it served as a great ward which contained ancient enchantments which held back and limited the natural magic of their land from the quinlan's greystone hung a dozen ropes attached to spikes which the vastayan tribe had hammered into it hanging from some of those lines with ropes tied to their waists where the bodies of the slain and on the ground far below were more dead bodies a dozen vastaya had died trying to reach the stone killed by humans cruel gunfire the tribesmen that joined xayah on this mission wear the capsalavastaya their bodies were feathered like xayah's own tribe but their heads were long and from their crown grew great horns with their help and with rakan's superior acrobatics rakan was able to jump from 3 to 3 until he gained enough speed to jump over the temple's walls and straight onto the quinlan after that zaya ordered others to retreat but even though the fleeing vastaya were easy prey for the marksmen the humans didn't take the bait because they knew rakan was the only target that mattered to them upon the quinlan as bullets exploded around him rakhan set down a package but he forgot what he was supposed to do next zaya shouted at him that he had matches behind his ear but he couldn't hear her over the gunfire thankfully when zaya peeked out of the trees and mimed reaching behind her ear rakan saw her and he seemed to remember the rest of the plan and so he lit the match set it against the package and jumped off moments later as he and the capstala gathered around zaya in the woods they witnessed the largest rock of the quinlan blowing up making the other floating stones crash into the ground with the giant quinlan gone the countless centuries old magic it held back was suddenly released back into the land and soon the forest around them shone with light and wonder just as it did in the old days not only that thanks to the magic all the vastaya had their abilities empowered and they felt a rush of emotions they had never felt before as they all cheered laughed and roared in joy before zaya left she told the capsala to use this magic to protect the land then she walked towards rakhan who was standing alone at the edge of the forest unlike everyone else rakhan was a little bit sad because even though they destroyed the quinlan and released its magic in doing so they also destroyed an entire human town as the ionian magic terraformed the land xayah and drakkan watched massive routes smashing dozens of houses the other houses made out of wood became alive and they crushed everything inside them as they collapsed onto themselves to turn into trees there was a woman clutching a child who ran from her home to a horse guard behind her a man barely escaped being squashed by a huge vine that fell onto their house he was carrying whatever he could save he threw it all into the cart but as soon as the wave of magic reached them the cart too burst to life reforming itself as plans from which the vehicle was built zaya watched as he then turned itself into a giant insect-like creature made of wood and vines the man slashed at it with his walking stick but then together with the woman and the child they all fled meanwhile on the other side of the town an old man struggled to keep his footing on the ever-changing earth he scrambled for a few paces before a pair of glowing forest spirits shaped like ghost butterflies grabbed him and lifted him up then as they flew over the trees they dropped him and he landed with a thud after that the man's soul seemed to fight against its physical body seeking to escape its own shell and joined the forest other humans ran past this man and zaya could see all of their souls trying to rip out of their bodies too an old woman grabbed a lying old man lifted him to his feet and together limping they fled finally ziya said that the human's greed brought this to them but rakhan said nothing in reply in the next part of the story rakhan and zaya traveled to the vlotta village the vlotta had always been a small tribe even in the ancient times they were small and nimble but they had massive shoulders that protruded up their backs like wings of bone their fur glittered with green and purple as they entered the village rakhan pointed out that the local magic was unclean and he wanted to leave because it was upsetting his cloak but xayah decided to stay because a victory here would show everyone in zhiyun that a rebellion was possible besides it was the vlota tribe who asked them for help at the center of the humble place they were greeted by levika the vlotta elder he explained that they have heard how ziya and rakan saved consul akunir and speaker cole at pyobi and they were hoping they could help them too of course you may remember both cole and akunir from the other story that rakan and zaya have which we have previously covered on this channel too both of them helped zaya and rakan free prisoners from a prison of the shadow order but after they lost a member of their group during this mission they decided to split and let all the unaware of assaya know what humans have been doing to them anyway after rakan introduced both of them to the elder they learned that north of the tribe there was the colon temple which protected a small crystal quinlan that hardly affected the local magic for many generations the vlotta have lived peacefully besides the humans who tended this quinlan but now a group calling themselves yanley have taken over and they dwindled and darkened the magic of course in the zed comic we learned that the yanle was a local name for zed's shadow order the elder reveals that the vlotta tried to retake the temple with the help of the good monks of gold but they were driven back so they were hoping zaya and rakan would help them here but surprisingly xayah wasn't too happy to help because they were helping humans retake a quinlan and so if they were to help them they would do so by destroying the quinlan not surrendering it to some monks the elder replied that would destroy the volley town and many people would die zaya corrected him that humans would die and should humans try to take their lands back the released magic would help devlotta defend themselves at that point the elder was mad at zaya because she kept interrupting him but rakan calmed him down by jumping up next to him and telling him that he might have to slap him of course by which he meant no disrespect he then said that he is simply protecting his lady who speaks wisdom and rakan told everyone to listen because she speaks the only truth of course rakan wasn't paying attention and so he had no idea what he was talking about in response calmly the elder explains that the monks of cone have never broken their promises and they have even protected them when rakan returned back to zaya's side she asked him what he thinks of this entire situation but he told her that he wasn't paying attention he then kissed zaya on her cheek and told her that they were both yelling they were both angry but the elder was just afraid xayah smiled because she knew rakan was right the elder was just worried and so zaya bowed and apologized to the elder for disrespecting him however she did not back away from what she said as long as they would rely on humans to keep their promises they would never be free their numbers were already dwindling but with the magic free that could all change after her speech the elder stared at her for a moment before telling her that they would consider her words and they would have an answer for her in the morning rakan was surprised by this because he didn't expect to stay overnight especially in a place that did not have chocolate the next morning elder levika made his decision he swore to protect any lands reclaimed by the wild magic released and he assigned the few warriors he had to zaya's command but because xayah knew the vlotta tribe would need its warriors later she decided to use them only as a diversion so while zaya and rakan would retake the temple alone the vlotta would attack the young lay patrols hopefully to take some of their numbers away from the temple and so after a day of travelling they arrived at the giant village surrounding the temple in fact they realized this was the largest town they had encountered in years it was a small city covering the entire volley they couldn't go around it unless they wanted to climb the bare cliffs surrounding the city so their only option was to blend in with the humans and go through of course xayah didn't really like the fact that she would be wearing human clothes but that was nothing compared to how much rakan freaked out when he noticed the cape he was going to wear was grey to him gray wasn't even a caller the story then fast forwards a couple of hours as the night fell the guards were closing the gates after they led the last visitors into the city with rakan and zaya among them as they entered through the gate they could feel the ill magic used to construct the walls it felt alien even for mortal magic it was dark and angry the enormous thorn vines that made the walls hadn't been asked to cooperate they were forced by the magic to hold the stony walls together so naturally zaya wondered what would happen once these vines were free then suddenly both rakan and zaya started to feel magic nearby but they couldn't see it until they looked up above them in a tower a man wearing red robes toot from his eyes float a strange darkness and he held a small bell which missed the dark vapor with certainty rakan realized this man was looking for vastaya and the orders but it was already too late the two ran into an alleyway as the mage screeched a horrific sound he had seen through their disguises and horns of alarm answered the mages cry the city was like a labyrinth but even as rakan and zaya darted from alleyway to alleyway the ever seeing dark mist of the mage's bell poured right after them the bell released a sound no mortal would ever hear or feel the pain of but it cracked like a giant's whip in the ears of the vastaya for a moment as the sound vibrated their feathers they thought they were discovered but then as the bell sound wandered a different direction away from them it sounded like the mage was uncertain where they even were now ahead of them there are guards pulling random people from the crowd and inspecting them when someone resisted the leader of the guards led his shadow tattoos to come alive and give him extra limbs that would slash their enemies trying to avoid fighting shadow magic rakan and zaya dashed into a different alleyway that was free of guards then they sprinted forward only to find out that the alleyway curved right into the main street what's worse they noticed a group of the young lay warriors closing in on them from behind for just a moment rakan stopped and inspected all the houses around them finally when he noticed a house that was nearly ruined but which had recently swept entrance way and clean windows he dragged zaya towards it there they were greeted by the voice of an old woman who asked them what's happening before xayah could say anything however rakhan quickly told the old woman that the guards were looking for them and that they needed help first the old woman looked at the guards and she saw that they were marching towards them after they noticed rakan and ziya's suspicious behavior so then the old woman told them to run behind the corner and enter the house from the side entrance at first it seemed like there was no side entrance it was just a dead end and zaya got mad at recons that he trusted a random old woman but then the wall suddenly moved and it revealed a hidden door once the pair was inside the old woman slid the smuggler's entrance closed hiding it ever existed perhaps sensing danger the woman backed away toward a full moon spear resting against the wall it was a fine weapon that contained ancient magics then the woman asked them if they were vastaya once again before zaya could stop him rakhan nodded and he introduced himself as the battle dancer rakhan of the lothland tribe to zaya's surprise the woman laughed telling them that elder levika told her he was seeking the help of the loathland but she hadn't heard from the vlotta tribe since then the woman introduced herself as abyss gosan which was immediately followed by loud banging on the front door so gothan told rakan and zaya to stay quiet while she gets rid of whoever is outside but as she rushed to the front door to check who it was six young human acolytes appeared from the other rooms in the house they were all bandaged and appeared wounded and zaya could sense they were gathering whatever little magic they could muster so just in case she prepared a couple of hidden magical daggers of her own when abyss gothan reappeared the woman held a finger to her lips to indicate they should stay quiet it seemed like the best option was to pretend nobody was here and so gothen quietly led the more injured monks back into their rooms while the rest started hamming a haunting melody as they began to prepare food a while later when the food was ready gothan and her two assistants sat down at the table with rakan and ziya then gothan explained who they really were it turned out they were the monks who guarded the temple before the shadow order came at first gothan explained that the coal monks were able to hide in the city only because the navori brotherhood helped them but before gohthan was able to finish her sentence rakhan interrupted her asking about the main guard with the shadow tattoos so gothan explained that the ones with the tattoos were the order of shadow they used to be part of the navory brotherhood but before she was able to say why they left rakan interrupted her again asking her if her tribe is at war with theirs patiently gothan replied not exactly they took their temple but they still let most of the monks live as long as they were able to harvest their shadow magic there was some form of peace here as rakan bit into his bread he asked if the monks were singing the song called feln and the falling leaves while cooking this gothan replied yes and she asked beck if it is true that to the vastaya the songs are important while they cook rakan explained that for a stone flower bread they would traditionally sing a happy song that you can drum with after all the vastaya could taste the difference after it was baked that way then the three talked about their mission here gothan told them that she could help them by leading them to the temple apparently she also sent a word to the kinkou order for help and she revealed that there was about a hundred shadow order warriors in the city and about 50 in the temple but xayah told her she was confident in dealing with those numbers without anyone's help in fact even after gosen offered her help many times xayah told her there is no time to wait and they wouldn't need anyone's help then she asked gothan to leave because she wanted to have a moment alone with rakan once gothan left xayah whispered to her khan that they should leave right after everyone falls asleep rakhan suggested that they should at least let them know what will happen when they destroy the quinlan but zaya told him that they would be betrayed if they knew rakan tried to convince her that he likes this abes more than elder levika at least she wasn't afraid but xayah remained unconvinced although she did admit that 50 warriors was a lot then when she asked rakan why did he trust this monk he replied it simply came to his intuition zaya didn't sleep a lot that night she spent most of her time studying the maps and figuring out where the shadow order patrols would be and right as the moon rose together with rakan they sneaked out of the house unnoticed it was calm outside and so they had easy time getting through the city and past the nearby farmhouses that led to the main mountain there they felt the magical environment change and it was obvious the quinlan was somewhere around there but unlike the other quinlans this one didn't dampen the power of the spirit magic to create change its straight up absorbed it all leeching it from the landscape and the spirit realm as rakan and zaya got closer to the mountain first they met only regular patrols but soon they saw bigger and bigger groups that marched downhill with an obvious urgency zaya realized this was probably caused by the vlota divergence just as was planned but instead of attacking these humans from behind xayah decided to save their energy to finish their missions stealthily first although she did realize that the vlota were weak without their magic and so they had to finish the mission quickly they finally reached the temple by late afternoon it took them a while because they had to hide before every patrol they saw at the temple they had no other way than to force themselves in and so as rakan took down the first guard with a feather knife right into his chest the alarm sounded again and the two started working quickly as more shadow warriors rushed in rakhan knocked them all up and zaya finished them off with more daggers when their surroundings seemed clear for the moment rakan took a theatrical bow and he stayed outside to keep the other warriors busy as zaya entered the temple alone inside zaya found strange crystal cubes that somehow against everything that was possible did not have a soul it was as if their maker managed to craft them without leaving any of his essence or the essence of the materials pass into them physically the crystal cubes existed but on a magical level they didn't the story doesn't really explain what these things are so remember these because this will likely be referenced in the future also it might be copies of the magical shadow box anyway to zaya these things were creepy and so she walked past them right into the main hall there she found the center of the temple which was based in red light which came from the quinlan hovering above like many quinlans it looked like floating rotating rocks but zaya watched in horror as this one pulled tiny forest spirits into it then there was a shift in the air and zaia ducked because she knew she wasn't alone anymore soon after that an armored warrior entered the room from the shadows strangely though this one seemed to appear and disappear in puffs of smoke she had known vastaya touched by the clouds with similar techniques but this man's magic was strange even the shadows inside him were touched by something else an echo of the magic of the twilight he was powerful more powerful than any mage any mortal she had encountered weakened as she and rakan were zaya knew defeating this armored warrior was unlikely but since he already saw her she had to face him she threw feather blades but he simply cut them apart with each movement she was getting weaker and he closer she stared as the warrior parried the next of her attacks and sent one of the feather blades up into the quinlan the red stone cracked instantly that's when xayah realized why this quinlan was locked inside the temple it was powerful but it was also very fragile she still knew she couldn't defeat her opponent but her only option was to distract him long enough to get a chance to destroy the quinlan and so she threw as many of her daggers as she could create with her magic forcing her opponent to duck and dodge while knowing that every blade that flew past him had a chance to crack the quinlan but soon her efforts were futile as she quickly became exhausted and so she prepared herself for what she knew would come next she would die and so would this warrior but the vlota would survive then she also remembered rakan and how she would never live through another moment with him this inner distraction gave the warrior a chance to hit her and throw her to the ground but when next the warrior left at her with a killing blow instead of parrying it zaya threw all her blades up and she shattered the quinlan and as its pieces started falling down onto her and the warrior zaya knew this would be certain death but then suddenly rakan appeared and with his golden energy shield he protected zaya not only from the killing blow of the warrior but also from the falling shards however after the shards of the quinlan the temple itself started collapsing and even though rakan tried to hold his magic up to endure as the roof fell on them there was nothing but darkness the next time zaya opened her eyes she saw rakan helping her to her feet in the ruins of the temple the strange warrior was gone and his followers were now fleeing from the released wild magic the forest around them was blooming but as the earth started shaking rakan told zaya that he will try to get to the city in time and save that abbess person but zaya told him that he probably won't have to because she left her a message saying that this would happen before they snuck away after all rakan trusted this woman and zaya trusted him and that was the newest addition to the story of rakhan and zaya i am super glad that now riot is going back to their older cinematics and they are trying to make them all canon so yes this was most likely a story that explained the old cinematic with rakan and xayah so i wonder if the climb cinematic will also get more pc canon maybe echo and blitzcrank will be a thing speaking of which those cinematics also had parts with bilgewater in them and guess what riot just released a massive bilge rotary and story that hints at that so you know what we are going to have a look at next you

Channel: Necrit

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Keywords: Lore, Story, Necrit, Necrit94, Narrated, Explained, League of Legends, LOL, TFT, Teamfight tactics, legends of runeterra, Xayah, Zed, Rakan, Vastaya, Ionia, Noxus, Shadow Order

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Length: 26min 30sec (1590 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 02 2020