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The Great Confluence

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Inai calls his scattered kin together, but none has yet taken a seat.

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Templar Assassin
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Templar Assassin

Human

Lanaya the Templar Assassin, a scholar whose hunt for forbidden knowledge unlocked the door to the Hidden Temple.

“Where the Hidden Ones send me, I go without question. I do not even question why I question not.”

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Stories

Appears in 4 stories

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Wren's Motley Crew

's daughter gathers her mother's friends and anyone she can recruit, , Axe, , and more, to get answers about the murder. Dota Underlords tells it entirely in the captions under 's lines. Kunkka wants answers as much as she does, though she liked him more before a Leviathan was hunting him.

Axe is easy: beer and the promise of a good story. Disruptor may be there to help her or just to keep an eye on Axe. She appeals to Lycan's humanity, settles a debt with Templar Assassin by asking for help, and calls in favors from friends made on her travels.

Kaden spoke highly of , and she hopes the praise was earned. , offering friendly advice, tells her never to trust a zealot; she tells that a believer is the most dangerous creature of all. It is a crew assembled, not a case solved.

The killer is still a question Wren is asking, and Eeb's place is still empty.

Wren's kinship to Eeb rests on a single title, Avenging Daughter, and every recruitment is an ask, not an answer.

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The hero's story

Lanaya the Templar Assassin, a scholar whose hunt for forbidden knowledge unlocked the door to the . She serves the Void Spirit as her master, killing to guard the temple's secrets in return for its answers. She once loved Yurnero the Juggernaut, a breakup she has not forgiven, and her studies drew on the before Boush the Tinker's expedition destroyed them.

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  • Void SpiritCanonServes

    Lanaya serves the master of the , though he says himself that she has never recognized his face. Her true service now comes to pass, he says. What that service is, he has not told her.

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Open questions
  • What is the 'true service' says now comes to pass? Lanaya pledges that once the Ancient falls she will stand ready against 'the upheaval that lies ahead', but no source says whether that upheaval is the Great Confluence itself, the greater conflict Inai prepares his allies for, or something neither has named.
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    • Voice linesVoid Spirit to Templar Assassin, ally response (Valve): 'You have done well, child. Now your true service comes to pass.'
    • Voice linesTemplar Assassin to Void Spirit, ally response (Valve): 'I will serve faithfully in this battle, master, and once the Ancient falls, we will stand ready against the upheaval that lies ahead.'
Ability lore
  • Meld

    Lanaya is as elusive as her covenant with the .

Official biography
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Lanaya, the Templar Assassin, came to her calling by a path of curious inquiry. Possessed of a scientific bent, she spent her early years engaged in meticulous study of nature's laws--peering into grimoires of magic and alchemy, recreating experiments from charred fragments of the Violet Archives, and memorizing observations of the Keen recordkeepers. Already quiet and secretive by nature, the difficulty of acquiring these objects further reinforced her skills of stealth. Had she been less retiring, she might have become notorious among the guilds as a thief-scholar. Instead her investigations led her into far more obscure corners.

As she devoted her furtive talents to unlocking the secrets of the universe, she instead unlocked a secret door that exists in nature itself: the entryway to the most Hidden Temple. The intelligences that waited beyond that portal, proved to be expecting her, and whatever mysteries they revealed in the moment of their discovery was nothing compared to the answers they held out to Lanaya should she continue in their service. She swore to protect the mysteries, but more to the point, in service to the Hidden Temple she satisfies her endless craving for understanding. In the eyes of each foe she expunges, a bit more of the mystery is revealed.

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