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Questions About the Ascended as Teachers

d00mface·6/26/2019, 2:13:08 PM·6 votes·8,541 views

So I was rereading Azir's bio, as you do, when I was reminded of an interesting fact: The fact that Renekton had a side-job as a combat instructor of some sort:

He was a slender, studious boy who spent more time perusing the texts collected in the Great Library of Nasus than training to fight under the stern tutelage of the Ascended hero, Renekton.

 

Renekton took up the task of teaching the growing prince, and under his aegis, Azir learned to wield sword and spear, to command warriors, and to read the ebb and flow of battle.

This brought some questions to my mind. Firstly, did Renekton only teach members of the royal family exclusively or could anyone learn from him? (I'm willing to bet the former.)

Secondly, I'm curious if Renekton was the only member of the Ascended Host in this position. Nasus, Setaka, the ascended/darkin in TOTG, Aatrox, Rhaast, Varus... we know of many Ascended and ex-Ascended currently; I wonder if it was only Renekton who was raised to this lofty position of being a tutor for royalty over the years or if the other Ascended also participated. After all Renekton couldn't be available all the time could he? Surely there were times when he was busy and couldn't be around to teach. In those times it might make sense for another Ascended to step up to the plate and teach don't you think?

In any case I will say there's something almost adorable about imagining this hulking crocodile god teaching scrawny fifteen year old Azir how to fight and such. I'm surprised no one's drawn fan art of that yet honestly.

Follow-up silly question: If you could be tutored in combat by any of the known Ascended who would you choose to be tutored by?

Ya'll probably can guess my answer if you've seen my posts before. Aatrox He seems like he was a genuinely nice guy back before Shurima fell, I'm sure he'd have made a nice teacher right?

4 Comments

Guy Broman6/26/2019, 3:38:33 PM5 votes

I have a feeling as an Ascended hero Aatrox was the dude who took things really, really seriously. By how easily he gets triggered by Taric's luscious and long flowing hair, or Rhaast's impractical weapon of choice I'm guessing the dude had a very strict and rigid vision of what a "true" warrior was. So I feel he'd be a very scary teacher. Or at least the type of professor everyone was afraid of, but when he tried to make jokes no one knew if he was being genuine or not and ended up making them even more scared.

Jaspers6/26/2019, 3:55:38 PM2 votes

Based on the idea that the Darkin in the Twilight of the Gods story refered to Nasus as 'The Scholar', it would be assumed he did as well. What better than to teach the next Emperor than the ageless being who spent all his years learning?

Renekton may have only taught Azir combat, Nasus other things. While I presume it's mentioned as Azir learned to fight from Renekton because of how good he was, in the times he wasn't there, presume Azir had other duties to attend to. He was Emperor to be after all.

Renekton probably over the years trained many people to fight, he wouldn't want his men being ill-prepared to fight along side him.

XIII Vanitas6/30/2019, 4:52:05 PM1 votes

I'm willing to bed the former.

Kinky.