The story doesn't make sense. Ahri is a vastaya but has ALL the characteristics of a kitsune(sexy fox lady that takes the souls/life essence of men). This is only reinforced by her short story that came a while ago(4/5 months?). Are they retconning again?
LordHippoman8 votesShe's inspired by a kitsune. Those aren't things that exist in the League universe, due to being a part of mythologies and cultures that don't exist in Runeterra. I don't think they ever actually called her that in game/lore.
EDIT: also yeah she's weird
Sharjo9 votesAye Ahri's never been refered to as a kitsune/gumiho in the lore ever. Such concepts are, as far as we know, foreign to Runeterra and the League of Legends setting.
Sharjo4 votesAhri's weird.
SkyblazeHydraX31 votesAhri still steals essence so as to become more human, remember? And then there's the pig guy who showed up after; he by all accounts looked and behaved as a human, but could transform into a pig man.
Vastayans are too varied to actually be called a "race"; I'd actually put it as a much larger categorization myself.
Ralanr1 votesI don't think her short story was ever released from the PBE, so I doubt that it was official.
Sharjo1 votesIt was never even on the pbe; it was put out when they announced the statue for her that got taken down because people have balls high standards for their wank statues.
Beyond Legends1 votesHow? Vastaya is basicly a general catergorization that's basicly equivilent of being called human. You do realize kistune belong in the catergory of yaokai right?
Extrasolar3 votesWhat? Vastaya most certainly are not humans. Vastaya is a category full of sentient creatures (multiple different species) with animalistic features, from straight up anthro animals like the otter people, to mix-matches of a bunch of animal features like the chimera that we first see, to humanoids with a few animal features (Ahri), to straight-up shapeshifters like the pig merchant.
Like people have said below, Ahri was never referred in-universe as a kitsune or gumiho. She was clearly based on one, yes, but it seemed like it wasn't a thing that existed in Runeterra, and it seems like it doesn't exist in new Runeterra either.
Placentas1 votesMhm this. There's a difference between what she was based off/inspired from vs what she actually is.
Beyond Legends1 votes...that exactly what I said?
Extrasolar1 votesVastaya is basicly a general catergorization that's basicly equivilent of being called human.
They're not human, though. That's the part that I was talking about.
Furor Nexis1 votesVastaya is a broad term that applies to any sentient creature that has humanoid traits such as standing, talking etc. Because no one but Ahri knows her own origins, it'd be surmised to Ionian locals who've seen and encountered her that they would pass her off as a Vastayan creature.
Sharjo1 votesany sentient creature that has humanoid traits such as standing, talking etc.
You so sure about that? I mean, there's the Ascended. And the yordles. Not very vastayan.
Darius Strada1 votesSo guys let me see if I understand: vastaya are humanoid beings with animalistic/chimeric features that ranges from beings like ahri to beings like Cassiopeia and Nasus ?
BattleBoar3 votesAhri . So far that what ever one think.
Cassiopeia and Nasus. I dont think so do to they where human that where turn into animal/human like form. Vastaya are born as such.
Sharjo2 votesThey were in fact humans who turned in to their current forms. Cass by a curse of sorts and Nasus by the Ascension ritual, just like Renekton, Azir and Xerath.
GreenLore1 votesThing is that Kitsunes don't exist in lol. Ahri might be based on the real world legend,but that doesn't mean that she is the same thing. I mean Azir is clearly based on Ra,but he isn't Ra himself. In a similar way,Ahri is a Vastaya that simply resembles a Kitsune(or more accurately a Gumiho)