Lore
Lyralei, the WindrangerThe western forests guard their secrets well. One of these is Lyralei, master archer of the wood, and favored godchild of the wind. Known now as Windranger, Lyralei's family was killed in a storm on the night of her birth--their house blown down by the gale, contents scattered to the winds. Only the newborn survived among the debris field of death and destruction. In the quiet after the storm, the wind itself took notice of the lucky infant crying in the grass. The wind pitied the child and so lifted her into the sky and deposited her on a doorstep in a neighboring village. In the years that followed, the wind returned occasionally to the child's life, watching from a distance while she honed her skills. Now, after many years of training, Windranger fires her arrows true to their targets. She moves with blinding speed, as if hastened by a wind ever at her back. With a flurry of arrows, she slaughters her enemies, having become, nearly, a force of nature herself.
| Windranger | |
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| About | |
| Associated With | |
| Heroes | 20px|link=Drow Ranger|class=noprint Drow Ranger |
| Races | Angvols Harpies |
| Places | Western Forests Zaru'Kina Njord's Hearth |
| Species | Oyoloe Sun Vine Bloodwood Gilded Falcon |
- Lyralei is from the village of Zaru'Kina, in the Western Forests.
- Lyralei once slew an elusive Oyoloe.[1]
- Lyralei counts among her allies several birds of prey, including sparrowhawks, peregrine and Gilded Falcons.[2]
- Lyralei uses arrows attached with thick ropes to bind her enemies.[3]
- Lyralei can shoot arrows powerful enough to penetrate trees.[4]
- Lyralei has some control over the wind, summoning it to deflect incoming attacks.[5]
- Lyralei brags that she once shot an ant off a worm's backside, but only aimed to wound.[6]
- Lyralei once saved a doomed forest from an unknown threat in Njord's Hearth.[7]
- Lyralei is fond of giving inspirational speeches and pep talks.[8]
Background[]
Although Lyralei never knew her family or people, 20px|link=Grimstroke|class=noprint Grimstroke suggests that she was better off not knowing them.[9]
Relationships[]
- Lyralei is Traxex's main rival, and often says mean things about her.[10] According to Lyralei, Traxex is an "emotionally vacant husk of perpetual sadness".[11] Traxex shoots back by calling Lyralei "completely useless".[12]
Friendships and rivalries[]
Allies meeting Windranger
- ▶️
u Chase them down, Windrunner. - ▶️
r Wind dances, arrows fly! - ▶️ r Sweetly sweetly blew the breeze, on me alone it blew.
- ▶️ u Windrunner, how are you doing?
- ▶️ ▶️ r You don't fool me, Lyralei. I see the killer behind that smile.
- ▶️ ▶️ r I don't know what Traxex was talking about, you're not completely useless at all.
- ▶️ u The breeze said you would aid us, Windrunner.
- ▶️ r What brings you to these wraithly woods, Windranger?
Enemies killing Windranger
- ▶️ u Aw now Windrunner, you don't have to run from me.
- ▶️ You may outrun me, but you'll never outshoot me.
- ▶️ Thanks for the target practice.
- ▶️ Don't like the taste of your own medicine?
- ▶️ u Thanks for the target practice, Windrunner.
- ▶️ u You might have known, Windrunner, that you cannot outrun death.
- ▶️ My arrow found your arrow's mark.
- ▶️ Took you down a notch.
- ▶️ u Don't knock me, Windrunner.
- ▶️ You lost that one.
- ▶️ u Windrunner, slow down and stay down.
- ▶️ u Windrunner, you are always running through my mind.
- ▶️ Too bad. I like redheads.
- ▶️ My arrow pierces the wind.
- ▶️ A mounted bow will always claim victory.
- ▶️ ▶️ r Traxex was right about you: you are a middling talent.
- ▶️ ▶️ r Congratulations, Windranger. You did get there first.
- ▶️ Hm, I always liked red meat.
- ▶️ Submit to your lady, little girl.
- ▶️ The wind should carry sand, not arrows.
- ▶️ ▶️ I guess gingers do have souls. Mm, delicious.
- ▶️ Oh, feather bullets!
- ▶️ Guns are the future, my friend!
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ You were quick Windranger, but not quick enough.
Others
- ▶️ r The softest breath of wind presages the point of the sharpest arrow.
- ▶️ ▶️ Blades against bows!
References[]
- ↑ Bow of the Oyoloe description.
- ↑ Peregrine Flight description.
- ↑ Shackleshot description.
- ↑ Powershot description.
- ↑ Windrun description.
- ↑ Windranger response: ▶️ I once shot an ant off a worm's backside, but only aimed to wound.
- ↑ Cloak of the Northern Wind description.
- ↑ Dark Willow response: ▶️ Spare the rah-rah hero speech, okay?
- ↑ Grimstroke response: ▶️ Trust me, Lyralei, you're better off not knowing your people.
- ↑ Monkey King response: ▶️ I don't want to stick my nose in Ranger business, but that redhead wasn't saying the most kind things about you.
- ↑ Monkey King response: ▶️ Hey Traxex, I don't know what that other archer was talking about, you're not an emotionally vacant husk of perpetual sadness.
- ↑ Monkey King response: ▶️ I don't know what Traxex was talking about, you're not completely useless at all.