Yone & Yasuo Cinematic Explained

well we knew that something was still coming but i didn't expect a 10 minute long piece of an actual anime the event on its own is already pretty awesome but now it gets even better by now you know the deal whenever wright releases a cinematic of any kind i dive straight into it and i try to explain the lore of that cinematic and even here there are pieces you may have overlooked and so without further ado let's have a look at what the kin of the stained blade animation really hides it begins with the final battle of yasuo and yonei which is the only piece of yasuo's lore that pretty much everyone knows yasuo was assigned to protect the elder of their village but because the noxian invasion that was happening around them was quite brutal yasiyo decided to leave his post and save a nearby village by slaughtering all the noxians he could find however when he returned to the elder he found him dead of course the elder died because he tried to cleanse raven's blade which failed the blade exploded and the elder died after getting cut by one of his shards but since yasuo was supposed to be the only person around the elder since the elder died of course everyone thought that yasuo murdered him and that's how we got here yasuo was running from all the swordsmen and eventually he had to fight even his own brother yonei answer for what you have done yoni turn back you have dishonored us you swore to protect him that's why here in this cinematic yoni calls yasuo out and how he was supposed to protect him by whom he means the elder you swore to protect ionia look around you brother your honor stains the ground better than living without it and so yasuo fires back by saying that yonei was supposed to protect ionia and yet as they look around all they see is blood that's what's staining the ground it is yonei sitting in their village instead of venturing out and actually killing noxians i do believe that is what yaso is talking about here that is why yoni's honor stains the ground but i'm pretty sure that when yoona's bio is released we will get more info on his side of the story i'm sorry brother i will not fail you again dani briefly mentions i'm sorry i will not fail you again and what he's talking about here is the fact that yonei blamed himself for not being an inspiration to yasuo yasuo was always impatient and he always rushed everywhere and he wanted to do everything quickly and as his elder brother yonei felt like it was his duty to make sure his younger brother stayed on the right path and yet here he has to fight him and then after you see yasuo using his wind technique which is represented here by the black and white lines around his blade he then wakes up and interestingly enough if you pay attention to the blade here you can notice there is dried blood on it and this will be important later of course this was just a nightmare and as we get to see his own reflection in the blade there is even more dried blood which is even more foreshadowing and then by this shot it is revealed that yasuo is likely in weli again we have seen this tree many times mainly at the end of lilia's cinematic but since we know that this is the place where they celebrate the spirit blossom festival since the main place to celebrate that event is in weli there is a really high chance that this is where we are although it is still not 100 guaranteed and then as yasuo walks through the festival you may notice that most of the people have the same clothes and those are the festival ropes which were also mentioned in the perennial story but then he also ramps into an old man and he calls him offa which is an ionian word for grandfather either way this old man also fits one of the art you can find on universe that's just a tiny reference and then after yasuo helps the old man get back to his feet the old man asks him if he wants to commute which of course is what people do during the spirit blossom festival just to quickly sum it up during this festival it is the only time in a year when the spirit blossoms bloom now when people die their spirits can possess the spirit blossoms and when they bloom that's the spirit's only chance to communicate with the living so normally what one would do is that they would pick up the bloom with the soul of someone they know and they would drink the spirit tea and that's how they get connected with them that's how during this festival the living have a chance to talk to the dead and so as yasuo looked to the tree it is obvious that up on the tree is where he would likely find a blossom with the soul of ioni although with that said after the noxian invasion there were so many death in ionia that there simply aren't enough blossoms for everyone anyway after that the old man calls yasuo yasuo which should be surprising because normally yasuo hides pretty well and usually it is not normal for him to get recognized but it is possible now that people know who he is because in the story confessions of a broken blade yasuo loosened up and he actually talked to a few people in a few villages and so it is possible that he was forgiven by more and more people although in that story it was more about the riven being forgiven by the ionians the point is it is still suspicious that this old man recognized him which considering that you know what happens later it should have been a hint for yasuo i'll never make it up there in time true the road is long perhaps my own temple can still provide a way the choice is yours and things didn't get any less suspicious after the old man offered yasuo his own temple to communicate with the dead instead of trying to reach the blossom tree before the end of the blossom festival and so as you also follows him to the temple which you can see here at the back once again just like in the zed comic here we have even more titanic statues just for context these titanic statues existed in ionia before the human civilization even became a thing so we don't know the purpose of these titanic statues and we don't even know why they are all ruined but we do know that they tied to the past during which it was rumored that titans walked on roon terra it's taken years for the spirit blossoms to return if the land is ready to heal perhaps you are as well the old man mentions that it had taken years before the spirit blossoms returned which is true this was also mentioned in the perennial story and once again this happened because of the noxian invasion with the war ruining the lands i guess the lands just didn't feel like blooming the spirit blossoms and then surprisingly as the old man drops a spirit pedal into the river which by the way might be a reference to the spirit pedals which you give to people during the dating scene but that's not important the old man calls this river river valley so yes we are in wali all along now it is 100 confirmed and as we get this um shirtless shot of yasuo we have two things to mention here first of all i do believe that this is a reference to the image that was used to tease the entire event where yasuo for no reason at all was standing in water but also if you have a look at his blade you can see the dried blood washing away and that is what this scene is supposed to represent it is yasuo washing away his past despite the fact that the dried blood probably comes from a random warrior if this was yones yasuo would be pretty bad at cleaning his let me blade yonay i was winning did you see me take out that big one i saw you dishonor yourself and then as we get this beautiful shot of the past the story shows you exactly what i was talking about at the beginning yasuo was always hot-headed and he quickly rushed into everything and so here as well yasuo was probably defending himself from some bullies but in fighting back he probably also dishonored himself because one shouldn't fight unless they really have to and that's why here his brother looks disappointed because once again as his elder brother he feels like it should be his responsibility to keep yasou on the right path you fight when i have to not when i want to you don't have anything to prove and when he says you don't have anything to prove it could mean a number of things but considering how young yasso is here it is probably happening before they discovered that yasuo is able to wield the wind technique so here yone doesn't have to prove anything because he was already accepted among the blade masters while yasuo wasn't because of how he was behaving so here yasuo probably wanted to prove himself strong so others would see him as a worthy swordsman and then we jump to a point where the two brothers are older and here they were both already accepted among the swordsmen your place is here with elder suma he trained me for this i can help end this war and once again remember how at the beginning i was talking about the elder of their village and how it was yasuo's duty to protect him that's what yone is talking about here he told yasuo that his place is next to elder soma while others are going out to kill the noxians and yasuo argues back that he was trained for this he was trained to kill hundreds of enemies quickly with his wind technique [Music] and then it cuts to yasuo holding a spirit blossom now honestly this part confused me because in the perennial story it was revealed that people actually look for the souls inside the spirit blossoms which means that yasuo would have to find the blossom somewhere and i have no idea where he would get it but here yasio seems to be convinced that this is the spirit blossom with the essence of yoni but whether it actually is or isn't doesn't matter as you'll see in just a second and then the old man offers him the spirit tea which is the tea i was talking about at the beginning as well anyway as he hands him the tea in the background again you can see another titanic statue but then as he drinks the tea yaso starts getting flashbacks which is not what is supposed to happen and when he drops the spirit blossom it turns out it was just an illusion which you know makes sense because i'm not sure how would yasu actually find a spirit blossom with yoni anyway the reason why yasuo is having flashbacks here is because here he is driven by his own emotions specifically i do believe he is overpowered by regret and the reason for that is because demons recently in a post ride released we learned about the asakana the asakana are tiny little demons that are currently polluting the entire ionia these minor demons attach to a host and they drain its emotions until it dies or until they evolve once an azakana drains enough emotions they become fully grown demons and the reason why there are so many azakana in ionia these days is because after the noxian invasion with so many dead not being properly buried the azakana are free to feed on any of the corpses and i believe that this old man is probably another developing azakana that was attached to the old man and here in this shot the purple lines actually indicate the demon draining yasuo's emotions but then yone arrives striking the demon now in this shot if you look at the old man there is no way yasuo would know that the old man is a demon that's why when yasuo rushes in he protects the old man [Music] i'm not here for you and then as we get the reveal of yone he says that he is not here for yasuo which makes sense and i actually speculated about this on our stream and it turns out somehow i was right in the same post where they talked about the azakana at the very very end they also mentioned that nobody besides the kinko order is dealing with them and it mentions if only someone would and as i speculated yonei who somehow came back we are still not entirely sure how that happened is here to deal with the azakana that are polluting the entire ionia so he is not here for yasuo he is here to hunt down yet another demon my theory is that it was the azakana or some of the demons that brought yonei back but still until we get his bio there is no way to be sure about it then the demon mentions that if he lives i will return by which he means that these demons can simply leech onto anything that is living and since this demon is probably focusing on regret as long as yaso lives he can feast on him and then finally the demon calls him suma's great pupil which reveals why it should have been a hint that this old man recognized yasuo the demon also mentions your honor brought him here what but this part gets me a little bit confused because technically yasio is honorless because he did not stand up to his duty but since they were both zoma's pupils the demon can be actually talking about any of them but this line probably wasn't supposed to make any sense because it was just a segue to yone saying this better than living without it [Music] i am no murderer then why are you running and then during the final flashback it was revealed that the reason why everyone kept thinking that yasuo was guilty was because yasuo kept running however he kept running because he didn't want to kill anyone he was only fighting them back in self-defense and so it is this whole cursed circle yasuo kept running away from those who thought that he was guilty and people thought that he was guilty because he was running away [Music] and then as jone kills the demon you can see that he banished him into one of the masks that's why this entire time yone has the masks on his belt it is most likely the prison for these demons quick editor's note after i recorded this wright also revealed the insights post about yone and there even though we don't have jones bio yet they revealed what's the deal with him story wise so it goes back to the asakana i already mentioned that the asakana are the tiniest demons that's why if you have a look at the demonic compendium you can find them at the very very bottom but these asakana are demons that focus on specific emotions the examples given here are self-doubt fear of being forgotten and so on it's very specific feelings now the azakana that attacked jon had been hunting him for quite some time that was while he was still alive and this azakana was feeding on yonez emotions while he was hunting down yasuo however yonei died before the azakana had a chance to strike and so when yone arrived in the spirit realm that was the last opportunity the azakana had to strike and devour yonek's entire soul however yonei managed to defeat it although it did have severe consequences now i understand that this might sound confusing because i literally just retold what we saw in the previous animated trailer however still remember the person we saw in that animation was the legendary elder brother it wasn't yone so despite their stories being nearly identical just keep in mind that the animation is supposed to represent what people imagine in their heads when someone is telling the story of the two brothers you can probably just imagine yonei instead of the elder brother and then the animation would be fully canon anyway after yone defeated the azakana that was leeching him somehow yonei woke up back in the physical realm with a mask permanently attached to his face with the mask having the azakana he just defeated looked inside so technically the azakana is still attached to him but it is in the form of the mask still yonei isn't possessed by it as far as he can tell himself the azakana holds no sway over him unlike what we can see with rust and kane where rask can actually sometimes take over the body here there is no connection between yone and the azakana with that said at least he did get some of his powers then the post revealed another interesting thing the mystery of how yone came back to the physical realm is the point of his story we don't know and he doesn't know either but he can learn what happened by hunting down the other azakana because with each one he kills there is a chance to understand the mystery of his own fate after he killed some of them he discovered that he can seal other azakana into masks and he can do this by learning their nature and their true name so now he is on a quest to discover the name of his own azakana once he learns it that's when he can seal it away too interestingly enough in the cinematic as he sealed away the azakana he shouted kurosagor which might be just another sorry i get on or this might actually be the name of the demon now back to the rest of the video then there is a brief shot of yasuo catching one of the spirit battles which again is the thing that you give to spirits to honor them and he told yonei that he should have his revenge by which he was accepting the fact that he should die but as it was just revealed yoni isn't here to kill humans he is here to clear out all the demons then there is nothing left for me in ionia even the wind has a path brother surprisingly since jones wasn't going to kill him yasuo mentioned that there is nothing for him to do in ionia which revealed that the only reason why yasuo stayed in ionia was because he wasn't able to separate from his past and perhaps he was thinking that the only way to redeem himself from killing his own brother would be to have his brother kill him instead of course this is just metaphorical thinking you can't make someone who's dead kill you and that's why yasuo was grumpy all the time but now that he let his past go he was free to finally leave ionia which is strange for a couple of reasons first of all in the awakened cinematic we are still supposed to have yazoo killing bunch of noxians and since these cinematics are canon that should be happening at the same time the newest rakan and zaya story revealed that wright is going back to their old cinematics and they are making them all canon the newest rakan and zaya story made their cinematic canon 2 and so in the climb cinematic there is also taliyah and yasiyo in shurima so i was thinking that perhaps here yasuo would be traveling to shirima but that's not the case it's easier looking back isn't it the trick is seeing what lies ahead from what i hear most likely thieves beasts and drink it is a lawless place where you can decide your own fate besides we're both looking for something aren't we and you think we'll find it and builds water i think we'll find many things yep ahri and yasuo are traveling to bilgewater but ari mentioned that they are both looking for something and yet few seconds ago yasuo just made peace with his past so i don't know what he would be looking for what we do know is that ari is looking for her past she still doesn't know her parents and she doesn't even know what she is or where she came from so perhaps somehow she would find the answer in bilgewater i have no idea how but there might be a point why ari and yasuo are traveling to bilgewater and that could be by a tiny chance the riot forge game the ruined king because that game is starting in bilgewater where the harrowing happens which is when the shadow isles reach out and it attacks whatever it can and since it has been quite a while since we have last heard about that game it is entirely possible that yasuo and ahri might be part of that game other than that i honestly have no idea why they should be travelling there especially ari but that is it for the cinematic as i said it came out of nowhere but it was a really cool way to reveal yoni i have to say throughout this entire cinematic i was always looking at the background even during the fight with the demon i didn't want to interrupt the fight but there was another titan head in the background also i thought there would be some cool easter egg in the market but i couldn't find anyone selling anything cool here it's all just fancy fabrics with that said i wonder if the demon that was shown here had some deeper connection with yasuo specifically it seems like the demon knew soma really well but that is probably because this demon is an azakana that was attached to yasuo before and from all the flashbacks and memories he probably knew what was happening with the two brothers also the ending is a really nice tie into the perennial story where ari was looking for a bodyguard but anyway that is going to be it for this video unless anything else happens and hopefully right does not release another massive wave of whatever with the spirit blossom festival besides the skins of course i will now go and finally finish the video for akan and zaya and after that i will most likely cover all the storylines of all the spirit blossom spirits because remember all of them are canon even the one where lelia strips you you

Channel: Necrit

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Keywords: Lore, Story, Necrit, Necrit94, Narrated, Explained, League of Legends, LOL, TFT, Teamfight tactics, legends of runeterra, Yone, Yasuo, Ahri, Bilgewater, Ruined King, Azakana, Fiddlesticks

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Length: 23min 40sec (1420 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 24 2020