Xayah

Name: Xayah Alias: The Violet Raven Race: Vastayan (Lhotlan) Origin: Ionia, Runeterra Language: Fluent Vastayan, Ionian Faction: Independent Occupation: Freedom Fighter, Rebel, Revolutionary Combat-style: Death quills / Marksmanship - High agility/precision Height: 5'3" (160 cm) Hair Color: Dark Raspberry

Appearance: Xayah is a petite woman of slim and lithe build. She has mid-back length spiky and tousled dark raspberry hair tied up in a side ponytail she drapes over her left shoulder and a bang of hair hiding her right eye. On both her face cheeks under her eyes there is a slightly curved red line vastayan birthmark that faintly resembles a tattoo mirroring on each face cheeks. Xayah has slitted amber eyes with black pupils. Her ears are a feathery appendages that poke out of the top of her head. Due to her being a vastayan, she has three sharp talon-like toes with digitigrade legs akin of that of a bird. She wears a simple hooded cape with two holes for her feathery ears, a rope secured loosely around her shoulders with a bird skull as a trophy resting on her right shoulder, her cape consists of dark purplish feathers with raspberrry insides, a greyish dress with raspberry highlights and some black cloth wrap around her thighs and legs serving as makeshift leggings. She wears a leathery bracers with silver highlights and dark raspberry cloth wrapped around it with a few feathers poking out between the wrapped cloth. Xayah has a nose ring on her right nostril and black-painted nails.

Lore: Born in the Lhotlan tribe in Ionia to a vastayan mother and father. As she grew, the humans of Ionia would slowly encroach upon ancestral Lhotlan land. The tribe would simply let them be. Unfortunately, the increasing amount of humans would weaken the link between the vastayans and the ancestral Lhothlan land until their bond between nature broke, making them more mortal than spirit. Because of their newfound mortality and the humans having leverage, the tribe had to negotiate to not get wiped. This lead to the Lhotlan tribe being landless and becoming a nomadic tribe that travels through Ionia for a new home. Xayah resented the fact the Lhotlans didn't try to fight or resist the humans and soon, she took matters in her own hands. Xayah became a freedom fighter, using whatever violent mean possible to undermine human authority over the stolen land that once was of the Lhotlan tribe.

Combat: Due to her Vastayan heritage, Xayah uses magic and her keen eye to take down her targets. Xayah doesn't weapons, she uses her magic to harden feathers with wild vastayan magic, turning them sharp and durable as a steel dagger. Those feathers she nicknames 'Death quills' can be thrown by hands or by using magic to increase their propulsion. She can shoot and throw feathers in quick succession to overwhelm her targets. With her magic, she can recall her feathers back to her cape in a fluid and extremely rapid motion, cutting through everything that are between the feathers and Xayah herself. Because of her Vastyan heritage and strong bird-like legs, she is nimble and agile, enabling her to jump, vault, dash, etc. out of danger. If Xayah hardens her cape, she can use it as a way to shield her and others from harm's way, like a makeshift blanket shield.

Note: Xayah is soft-spoken. Xayah holds a certain 'edgy' and broody charm to her. For example, she hates flowers but loves skulls and tribal-like effigies. She will be more reclusive and introverted since she is focused in her freedom fighting endeavors that will therefore make her seem uninterested at best or completely snappy at worst. Xayah follows loosely plans and handles them by instinct and 'free-style'. Xayah is very anal about Vastayan heritage and tradition, and will mold her beliefs and behavior accordingly with tradition and her own personal vendetta. Xayah yearns to one day bring Vastayans to their proper form that is the 'Vastayashai'rei' so they can be free as spirits instead of being tethered to the physical realm of Runeterra. Xayah will go on various missions, from sabotage to murder. She believes that revolutions with humans can never be done via diplomacy and should therefore be done with force. Xayah is in her element amidst chaos and confusion.

IMPORTANT: Xayah HATES humans so much for what they did to her tribe that she harbors extreme positions/ideologies that pertains to Vastayan supremacy. Therefore, because she sees humankind as vermin that soils her homeland, she doesn't care nor value human lives. Vastayans and nature are what she will fight for and NOTHING is off table if it means to achieve her goals.