Ashe’s importance in Runeterra, and likely her importance in the eyes of her mother, comes down to an individual known as Avarosa. She wasn’t a god by any means, but Avarosa was a queen\u2014who, for the first time in maybe ever, united the warring and raiding tribes of the Freljord, we think, to combat the Void. To dive into why the Void was there to begin with would be to dive into weird cults and a pretty messed up sorceress named Lissandra, who may or may not be her sister, but that’s an entirely different story.<\/p>
Think of Avarosa as more like Theseus from Greek Mythology. Super badass and heroic? Yes. God? No. Queen Avarosa was, from our understanding, the ruler of the best version of the Freljord in the region’s history. By uniting the tribes, the region was allowed to flourish until eventually she was sealed away in Dark Ice, magically enchanted ice which seems to be infused with the powers of the Void itself. Again, though, that’s a different story.<\/p>
In Ashe’s biography, we don’t meet her until a little bit later in her life, when she’s already grown a fair amount after a childhood spent idolizing Avarosa and following in her footsteps. To be fair, though, there aren’t many better people in the League<\/em> universe to idolize. By following in Avarosa’s shadow, she dreamed of a united Freljord in her future, an idea that, by that time, most people thought was foolish or even a myth. When her mother, the leader of her tribe, was killed, Ashe decided to point her tribe towards unifying the region rather than seeking revenge on her mother’s killers.<\/p>
This, as you can imagine, annoyed some people. So much so, in fact, that the tribe rallied together a band of assassins to send after her, which caused her to flee into the Freljordian wilderness. After following a definitely-not-magic hawk around for a bit, she stumbled across an old tomb from which she drew an ancient, icy bow before turning around and slaying her pursuers with it in a single attack. This bow was Avarosa’s, and when Ashe returned to her people, all covered in ice magic and wielding a shiny new bow, they believed she was either the reincarnated Avarosa herself, or at least someone who was heavily blessed by her. Either way, there wasn’t much back-talk after that.<\/p>
So not only is Ashe the leader of the newly-named Avarosans, she also may be the reincarnation of one of the most famous Freljordian heroes ever. In other words, she has all the makings of a super hero. So, with her lore and importance being firmly and obviously spelled out, what do we think will be featured in the comic?<\/p>
