An Egg-on-Egg Balancing Act

From the perspective of a tribe, Ashe was undoubtedly a great Warmother.

She had rebuilt the Avarosa tribe and led it to grow stronger, step by step, from a small tribe that could only establish itself in Frostport, on the edge of the Western Freljord Subcontinent, until it claimed the Lakstak Plains and occupied Lakstak City.

But from Ashe's own perspective, all of this was still far from enough.

Perhaps at first, all she wanted was to revive Avarosa. But as more and more people chose to follow in her footsteps, the burden on her shoulders grew heavier and heavier.

That sense of responsibility was what had brought Ashe this far. It was also the weight that drove her onward.

If Ashe had been an ordinary Warmother, she should have been content with the Avarosa tribe's current position and focused on managing it. But clearly, she wasn't about to relax just because her tribe had secured a foothold in Lakstak—not after being drawn into the conflict with the Void and seeing the terrifying things beneath the Howling Abyss.

She saw farther, and she saw more.

And because her gaze reached farther, Ashe had greater ideals than an ordinary Warmother.

Rebuilding the Avarosa tribe from nothing had given Ashe confidence and conviction. Unlike those who merely shouted slogans, she was serious about uniting all the Freljord tribes.

Though both Sejuani and Ashe had claimed to inherit the will of the Three Sisters, what Ashe had done was worlds apart from what Sejuani had done—much like the gulf between Black of Nazumah and Azir of Shurima City when it came to "reviving Shurima."

Political ideals were easy to recognize. From the very beginning, Lux had been certain that in many ways, Ashe was just like her.

Or, to be more precise, Ashe