As he finished his show with a dazzling array of cheap tricks-as Xayah saw them-the crowd erupted and chanted his name: “Rakan.” He took a theatrical bow. Onstage before them stood a preening, flamboyant performer, a veritable golden peacock, who sang old vastayan songs for his captivated audience. As she entered the remote mountain town of Vlonqo in search of a stolen vastayan artifact, she was struck by the strange sight of a braying crowd of excitable humans. It was a beautiful sight, but her tribe was still nowhere to be found.Īfter years spent flitting in and out of the most fortified strongholds and leaving a trail of bodies in her wake, she became known as “The Violet Raven.” She lived alone, focused only on the next mission, and the next step toward freedom for her kind.īut then she met another vastayan who would change her life forever. Almost instantly, magic flowed back into the surrounding lands. Xayah destroyed the temple in order to dispel the corruption.
An ancient vastayan temple had been tainted by unnatural shadow magic, disrupting its connection to the spirit realm.
Xayah’s attackers were soon taught the dangers of getting in her way, as she skewered them with her lethal quills.ĭismayed, she returned to her home, only to discover that her tribe, including her father, was missing without a trace. Others were fearful of her strange appearance and summoned the authorities, forcing her to defend herself. A group of poverty-stricken villagers mobbed her, some of them trying to steal her feathers as priceless trophies. She ventured into villages beyond her secluded tribal home, and learned how little she knew of the outside world. Unwilling to stand by and watch her kind fade, Xayah ignored the decrees of her people and set out to reason with the humans. But, with every new generation, humans encroached further into the Lhotlan tribelands, disrupting the raw, chaotic essence of Ionia for their own purposes. The haunting melodies transported her to a long-forgotten time, when the spirit realm danced freely throughout the physical world. Xayah fights alongside her partner and lover, Rakan, to protect their dwindling tribe, and restore their race to her vision of its former glory.Īs a child, Xayah loved listening to her father sing the ancient folk-hymns about vastayan heroes. She uses her speed, guile, and razor-sharp feather blades to cut down anyone who stands in her way. Deadly and precise, Xayah is a vastayan revolutionary waging a personal war to save her people.
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