Born to a Targonian Aspect at the height of the Rune Wars, Demacia for many years—until Kayle became disillusioned with the repeated failings of mortals, and abandoned this realm altogether. Still, legends are told of her punishing the unjust with her fiery swords, and many hope that she will one day return...
honored her mother's legacy by fighting for justice on wings of divine flame. She and her twin sister were the protectors of"No human is perfect. But I am not a human." — Kayle | |
Background[]
Early life[]
Kayle and her twin sister Kilam and , the current Aspect of Justice. Due to Mihira ascending while pregnant, the sisters were born with a fraction of her celestial power. As the war raged on, Mihira's celestial power began to overshadow her personality and affections as she dedicated more and more of her time to her duties as an aspect. Fearing what Mihira was becoming, as well as the enemies drawn to her light, Kilam resolved to take their daughters to safety. He fled Targon with his children and they would sail to the land that would be known as Demacia.
were born on Mount Targon during the height of the Rune Wars toBecoming Demacia's Winged Protector[]
The sisters grew to having distinct and clashing personalities. While Morgana was empathizing with the newly arrived refugees, Kayle argued about laws of the settlement because she knew the laws were meant to protect people.
One day, Mihira's sword would fell from the sky and clash into two. From that moment, feathered wings bursted from the sister's backs and remained, confirming the celestial magic would still remain inside them. In that moment, Kayle felt more connected to her mother than ever. While Morgana resented her gifts, Kayle embraced her new power. One day, the settlement was attacked, and the sisters flew to aid the people of Zeffira. While Kayle was busy dealing with the frontline attack, Morgana learned of a hidden wave of enemies attacking the city and left the frontlines to aid the citizens. After the battle Kayle, for a time, lost trust in her sister for leaving her on the battlefield. Since that day, they were hailed as the Winged Protectors.
Battle with the Darkin Blade[]
Kayle and Morgana put on their armors and helmets, and stood against an army before the city walls. They easily destroyed the first wave. Sensing the danger approaching in the skies, the Winged Protectors took flight without hesitation and engaged in a deadly battle with
, who managed to possess a new host. Aatrox was too powerful to be defeated physically for the sisters. As the last stand, Morgana left her sword behind, and stood against Aatrox, binding him with her chains of dark flame. Taking Morgana's sword, Kayle empowered her wings and sword with celestial flames and burned the mortal body of him, sealing Aatrox within his own blade.Battle of the Winged Sisters and Departure[]
Warriors flocked to Kayle's banner at Silvermere's Peak, where she founded a judicator order to enforce the law, and hunted down rebels and reavers with equal fervor. Kayle allowed Morgana to rehabilitate wrongdoers who appeared humble enough to admit their guilt. However, some people in the Judicator Order and especially Ronas, one of Kayle's ardent disciples, decided to arrest Morgana and her followers when Kayle was bringing justice upon a distant kingdom ruled by a cruel, unrighteous king. In an attempt to protect her followers, Morgana conjured magical chains of fire and bound him until he fell dead. His death led to an outbreak of violent riot in the settlement.
When Kayle found out what happened, she became enraged and with her power she summoned divine fire to punish the sinners in the city and Ronas' killer. Morgana flew up to meet her, giving Kayle ultimatum that if she want smite this people, she should start from her sister. The two dueled in the sky, each matching the other’s terrible blows and striking the buildings beneath them to rubble, and killing innocent people without realize. It seemed that one of them was eventually going to win but Morgana faltered because she and Kayle heard their father's screams and stopped fighting. Their father was mortally wounded, Morgana hurled her sword at Kayle through tears, and plunged to the surface like a meteorite to cradle her father.
She took her dying father in her arms, and in a sea of tears, cursed her heavenly inheritance for the destruction around her. A moment later, Kayle landed too, and between sobs Morgana asked her if the purification of mortals by smiting included her father. Kayle kept silent, grabbed Morgana's sword and thought about senseless violence that overtaken the city this day. Сrying because of loss, she soared into the heavens and flew to Mount Targon to find her mother, and swore that she would not allow emotions to dominate her,
Journey to Targon Prime[]
She left Demacia to stand at her mother's side, and to seek for perfect, celestial clarity on Targon. Even though she has been absent from Demacia for many centuries, she has inspired Demacia's culture, law, and architecture. Many pray to the Protector in times of chaos, and hope that she might return, some pray that such a day will never come.
While spending time at Targon Prime, she met
, the current Aspect of Justice and her long-gone mother. With time spent on Targon, she seems to become more moderate towards emotions and mortality and stopped denying them. She also continue to ascend herself and fight the world-threatening problems if needed. She also seems to help some Shurimans in need of Aspect of Justice's help. At some point she met and spent some time with him, as she calls him her old friend, but the details about it are missing.Morgana's Searching of Kayle[]
For centuries, Morgana has tried to find her sister, and written down her findings on her journal. A Solari warrior reported a sighting of a winged creature on the peaks of the mountain, ascending higher. A wind mage said that a bright flame streaked through the air, spinning away faster and faster. A Demacian noble was convinced that the Winged Protector was still alive, so he sent out rider to track her. After decades, the riders found a single white feather beneath Targon. A Lunari child, in the middle of the night, said that he saw a winged ghost, flying around the mountain. Yet, his mother did not believe him.
Many centuries passed, Morgana heard a voice. A lonely, so distant prayer. She had no idea where it came from, but she was so sure that Kayle was praying to her. However, her prayers remained unanswered.
Appearance[]
Kayle is a slim and relatively muscled woman with pale, slightly tanned skin, short cyan hair with a bang on the right side, burning sun-gold eyes with white pupils and pointy ears. She has four wings on her back and two wings on her waist that vary in cyan blue and light gold. She was ascended between her twenties and thirties, so her aging has stopped since then.
Kayle's clothing consists of a golden armor that covers most of her body and brown clothes. Kayle wore a helmet that covered her face when she was the Winged Protector, but after her journey to Targon and her ascension into a more powerful form, she stopped wearing it.
Personality[]
Kayle is an incarnation of justice. While her sister Morgana represents restorative justice and advocates for the repentant, Kayle represents retributive justice and punishes in the fair way possible those who committed crimes without mercy and without taking into account various factors about a person, such as motives, origin, social status, etc. Despite wanting to make the world more just and fighthing to protect innocents and righteous, her lack of empathy towards sinners and zeal makes her quite stoic and cold since she only seeks to punish sinners on an idealistic eye-to-eye level, without forgiveness. As she thinks it necessary for to protect people.
Kayle has big zeal towards bringing of justice and punishing evil in all its forms, no matter if it will be common criminals, tyrants kings or world threats. She is very self-proud of her destiny and occupation as Aspect of Justice and constantly try to transcend even more and receive perfect celestial clarity about justice. While she seems to be cold towards most persons, especially towards sinners, she very much cares about her family and friends.
After duel between her and Morgana, she began rejecting her mortal and emotional parts, as she considered them main reason of this tragedy ever happen, and that became her emotional trauma. After traveling to Targon Prime and spending some time with Mihira, she seems to stop denying her emotions, probably thanks to Mihira's guidance and teachings, who approves Kayle's ideals, but don't want her to lose herself in them. Right now, she is continuing to fight evil, protect innocents and strives for constant improvement and self-ascension, and dreams of building a paradise for the just and glorious, sharing Mihira's ideals.
Abilities[]
- Unique Celestial Physiology: Coming into contact with Heavenly Magic while still in the womb, Kayle has a very similar physiology to the hosts in appearance. Unlike Morgana, Kayle accepted her new Heavenly powers with open arms, and think of them as her destinity.
- : Kayle obtained magical powers over heavenly fire, that is capable of doing severe damage to sinners and purifying innocents.
- Immortality: Due to her celestial alteration, Kayle is immortal and cannot die of old age or by conventional means.
- Flight: Unlike her sister, Kayle has free wings, allowing her to quickly fly great distances. When she is in her second form, her wings are flooded with heavenly fire and give her the ability to burn her enemies with them.
- Sword Manipulation: Kayle can create, control, and move magical swords, using celestial fire of Aspect of Justice.
- : Kayle can create swords that are capable of burning evil. She can by calling down them.
- : Kayle can empower her sword with flames, and send fire waves by swinging her swords.
- : Kayle can make herself or any other person invulnerable for a short period of time.
- : Kayle can remove all evil, and negativity from any person, and purify them.
- Automaton Leading: Kayle can lead the celestial automatons created by a higher power that her mother represents, the Aspect of Justice.
- Omnipresence: Like the rest of the Aspects, Kayle can be omnipresent, and she can hear, listen and appear to everone who invokes, summons and prays to her.
- Empowerment: Kayle, like all Aspects, has the ability to give parts of her power to those she deems worthy.
- Master Swordsman: Kayle is very skilled in the use of swords, her swords are made of celestial magic which gives her the ability to not only melee, but also the ability to launch beams of divine energy from those swords. She also show great strength, as she can use connected "Virtue" Greatsword with one hand.
Relations[]
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Both Kayle and are twin siblings, Kayle being the older of the two. During their living in Demacia, they were Winged Protectors and saved countless lives. Despite their diffirences, they always tried to work together and serve their noble goal. Their relationship soured after the event that lead to the death of their father, and they have big conflict both in attitude towards justice and focusing on Celestial/Human parts of themselves, but deep down they still love each other since they still need each other.
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Mihira is Kayle's mother. She approves Kayle's noble ideals about justice and building better world for righteous, guiding her and caring about that she should not lose herself in her ambitions. Kayle extremely respects her mother, seeing her as the savior of the world and mentor. Mihira is biggest reason why Kayle has chosen the path of fighthing for justice and building a better world.
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Kayle and Morgana defeated Aatrox during his attack on ancient Demacia City that they protected back in the days when they were Winged Protectors. Aatrox and Kayle having radically clashing personalities and hate each other.
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Kayle considers Ryze as her old friend, as well as Ryze shows good attitude towards Kayle, but the details of their friendship are unknown.
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Kayle knows about Xolaani's existence and seems to fight her at least once. In Darkin Saga alternative scenario, she faces her once again, with different possible outcomes, including smiting of Xolaani or Xolaani's possessing the celestial body of Mihira.
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Sylas knows certain truths about the sisters and calls out their power during the events of Lux comics and Mageseeker.
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Trivia[]
- Kayle's name is the modernized, more-revised version of her father, Kilam.
- Both Kilam and Kayle might come from Classical Latin caelum [ˈkae̯.ɫũ] "sky, heaven, whole", from PIE noun *keh₂ilom.[1]
- Typically, caelum yields gens' name Caelia [ˈkae̯.ɫi.a] and then given name Celia.
- Her parents were from one of the tribes on Mount Targon, an earlier version of the Rakkor.[2]
- Kayle and [3] are fraternal twins.
- She was born over 1000 years ago at the height of the Rune War. How much time she has experienced in the celestial realm is unknown.
- Kayle and ascended but are technically not hosts of the Aspect of Justice, being, in fact, Demi-Goddeses. They retained and share the power of the aspect due to their mother, who was the former ascended host of the aspect, being pregnant with them during her ascension, which also makes them half mortal.[4]
- Kayle and [5]
- After her ascension, [6] fully established herself as the next Aspect of Justice, but currently remains as Aspect Of Justice.
have have free will and a more unified identity. - Kayle and [7] became ascended when their wings materialized shortly after their mother's swords fell from the heavens.
- [8] Although over time she stopped denying her emotions and human part. is a condensed version of what has happened to Kayle over the course of her lifetime; as she suppresses her humanity in order to grow more powerful.
- Kayle's [9] and come from the same source but are interpreted in different ways due to their opposing viewpoints.
- [10] represents Kayle calling upon the previous Aspects of Justice to use their swords to rain truth and justice upon the world to protect the innocent.
are Targonian - Kayle and [5]
- Kayle went on a quest to find out what had happened to their mother, the previous Aspect of Justice, and has succeeded in going to the land beyond Targon Prime and is currently staying there.[11][12] With time, she met , and together with her she is serving Celestial Justice goals.
- Kayle's view of justice is idealistic eye for an eye based around law, she believes that every crime deserves punishment proportionate to its scale and that you are redeemed after you have been punished.[13]
- Kayle would believe Demacians have twisted a lot of the original ideals that made them great, and taken them to an extreme. She would also take issue with Demacia's recent lawlessness and chaos with [14] escape.
- Kayle's [13] form is her current appearance over the last 100 years as she strives to be as close to her mother, the former Aspect of Justice, as possible.
- Kayle suppresses the feelings of her mistakes because she fears that she was wrong and is becoming a monster.[13] But with time spent on Targon, she seems to accept her emotions and human part.
- Kayle's worst flaw is her self righteousness and ability to blind herself to her own flaws and mistakes. Her best quality is her idealistic desire to do good in the world and protect innocents.[15]
- Kayle's favourite food is kale.[16]
- In modern times, Kayle's name has been long forgotten and she is known as The Protector within Demacia's mythos.
- Most Demacians are unaware that there were two Winged Protectors and believe that Kayle was the sole protector.
- Most Demacians don't necessarily know the Winged Protectors were even female.[17]
- The Winged Protectors are seen as myth or a legend in Demacia, similar to saints with forgotten names.[18]
- Kayle and justice: retributive and restorative, respectively; both sisters are not viewed as mutual enemies who fight each other but are comprised by a Yang and Yin force that fights back evil.
- They were the first pair of sibling champions (the others being
- Though not a pair, , , and are also siblings.
- They are some of the few twin champions in the game. The other twin champions include with his sister and with her deceased brother Caleb.
- , - , - , - , and - ).
- Their old story resembles the struggle between Michael & Satan, dating back to Early Christianity.[19]
current lore represents the interaction between two approaches to - They were the first pair of sibling champions (the others being
- Kayle's blade is represented as the The Sword stone in Tellstones: King's Gambit.
- Kayle's right hand appears to be more dominant (unlike her who appears to be left handed) as she holds her sword by her right hand, as opposed to whose left hand appears to be more dominant. This likely references the fact that historically right-handedness is associated with beneficence, goodness, light and righteousness, while left-handedness is associated with malevolence, wickedness, darkness and sinfulness.
Change log[]
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A great hero and the strongest among her kind, Kayle is an angelic warrior dedicated to purging those beyond redemption. After conflict divided her people, she took up her enchanted armor and flaming sword in the name of order, disowning her very flesh and blood in the process. When Kayle descends upon the field of battle, her justice is swift—for none can escape the light of divine and righteous fury.
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References[]
- ↑ DeVaan, M. Etymological Dictionary of Latin, p. 80-81
- ↑ Mihira and Kilam's origin
- ↑ Jellbug on Kayle and Morgana's twin status
- ↑ Targonain Aspect hosts
- ↑ Jellbug on the power of Kayle and Morgana
- ↑ Kayle as the Aspect of Justice
- ↑ Kayle and Morgana's Wings Origin
- ↑ Divine Ascent Narrative
- ↑ Black Shield and Divine Judgment Tie
- ↑ Jellbug on Divine Judgment
- ↑ Jellbug on Kayle's whereabouts
- ↑ Kayle's quest
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 Jellbug on Kayle's View's of Justice, Appearance and Mistakes
- ↑ Kayle's thoughts on modern Demacia
- ↑ Kayle's worst flaw
- ↑ Kayle's favourite food
- ↑ Scathlocke on Demacians' view on the Protectors
- ↑ Thermal Kitten on Kayle and Morgana
- ↑ Revelation 12:7-9