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Zaya "Mercy" Kha - Warrior of Light

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September 5, 2026 at 9:40 AM
Before heading to Tural, she spent some time exploring her homeland. She couldn't properly enjoy her time back in the Steppe the first time around, so she spent weeks travelling between the tribes and living in her mother's culture. She had missed her home, but the Scions were home now.

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August 31, 2026 at 10:09 PM
trying to share some lore alongside the pics this month!

After EW, she spends months recovering on her island sanctuary. She had fallen to darkness and forbidden black magic, and her fight with Zenos took a big mental toll on her. Some time alone helps her feel better and...

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August 2, 2026 at 3:35 PM
she smiles again for the first time in years. She's never truly "fixed" but better enough to move forward and begin to fix her broken relationships with the Scions and others.

She 'rises' again to become the hero the world deserved, rather than the hero she was before.

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August 2, 2026 at 3:35 PM
"Mercy, please!"
"You know, I quite like the sound of that."

When she returned to the Scions post-HW, hair lighter and Voidsent energy surrounding her, she had left the name Zaya Kha behind. She was now Mercy, and could not wait to hear that word uttered as her enemies' last breaths.

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September 1, 2026 at 8:40 PM
She used to hate being the WoL and dreamt of what her life would have been without the Scions. She used to blame being the WoL for a lot of her problems, but now she has accepted that deep down it was her choice to do everything she did.

She will now follow fate's path and trust in it.

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September 1, 2026 at 5:51 PM
Despite a lot of her features coming from her Voidsent joinings, she was actually born with her fangs. Her tongue is also blue, although the snake split was due to her powers.

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August 27, 2026 at 5:40 PM
She promised to never use the power again, but fears the day she has to to save her friends. If she does it again, what will stay changed this time? Will she ever come back?

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August 2, 2026 at 9:31 PM
After the events with Nidhogg, she went missing for a few weeks and returned with lighter hair and the smile gone from her face. She had gone to practice her black magic and uncovered secrets she shouldn't have.

She keeps it a secret from the Scions due to black magic being forbidden.

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August 3, 2026 at 9:14 PM
This scene happened twice in EW, once after Zodiark and once after Ultima Thule.

She hated herself for the incident in Garlemald, and the Final Days made it even worse. She blamed herself for starting them.

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August 28, 2026 at 9:07 AM
Now disliked and feared by the whole group, she spent the whole night awake outside thinking about it all; thinking about whether it was the weather or the loneliness that made her so cold that night.

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August 6, 2026 at 9:12 PM
When she first joined the Scions, she created a small garden in the Waking Sands. Sadly, it was destroyed during the Garleans' attack. She never started it again in the Rising Stones, but happily gardens on her Island Sanctuary nowadays.

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August 9, 2026 at 9:45 PM
Whereas Zaya starts off by trying to integrate herself, constantly chasing any kind of relationship with them, and then over time refuses their help and company and isolates herself.

Post-EW/DT she goes back to being friendly, but the journey is still there.

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August 26, 2026 at 7:21 AM
Towards the end of EW, she felt the most lost on her journey. Then, in the Aitiascope, she met her old enemy, Belle. But, unlike her worries, Belle helped her and guided her, giving her the push she needed to end the Final Days.

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August 31, 2026 at 1:55 PM
In From the Cold ended differently due to her black magic. Zenos discovered it immediately and used it against the camp, revealing her secret and injuring people. The Scions had already been wary of her since post-Stormblood, and this worsened the animosity between them.

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August 6, 2026 at 9:12 PM
Due to her black magic, she shares an affinity with the Void. During Endwalker, she used a Voidsent's power multiple times and took on a void-touched appearance, gaining its abilities, claws, wings, talons and more temporarily. She still retains some of this to this day (scales, eyes).

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August 2, 2026 at 9:31 PM
For Ultima Thule, she regrets letting the Scions see her in that state after her battle with Zenos. Although promising not to use her Voidsent form again, she used it against Zenos and disappointed all of the Scions, scaring some with the brutality of it.

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August 28, 2026 at 9:07 AM
During her travels to strengthen her black magic, she met the Redbills. They sealed the Voidsent Diabolos away forever - or so the others thought. She channelled the enchantment from Cait Sith's rod after they left and linked it to her stone, making his strength hers to command.

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August 23, 2026 at 9:16 PM
In ARR, they had something developing between them. He gifted her a ribbon and they spent a lot of time together after Prae. Their relationship from there began to get more and more strained as they both dealt with their own problems, and she strayed more into black magic.

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August 7, 2026 at 9:20 PM
During Zenos' attack on Rhalgr's Reach, she was separated from her weapon. Zenos went to kill her so she was forced to use magic without a focus. He left her alive, impressed and starting his obsession with fighting her.

This fight caused her to lose her right eye.

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August 23, 2026 at 3:00 PM
During her journeys, she often dreamt of her childhood with her mother, her happiest moments as of that time. Whenever she had one of those dreams, her mood would be even more foul than normal for that day as she would be hurting.

Nowadays, those dreams leave her with a peaceful feeling.

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August 29, 2026 at 9:55 PM
Dawntrail improved her relationships with the Scions and going into Evercold they're trusting her more and more. Though she made a lot of big mistakes, they're her found family and they could never truly hate her for any of it. Most of the animosity was due to worry more than anything.

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August 7, 2026 at 9:20 PM
Thancred hated how she risked everyone with her black magic and, not that he'd admit it, hated how she risked herself everytime. They reconciled post-EW as he was the only one she allowed on her sanctuary at first. He was the only one she could open up to about everything leading up.

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August 7, 2026 at 9:20 PM
What began as a crush on her side in ARR, to something she thought she had buried during her darkest times, blossomed into romance after her healing and journey across Tural.

He is her safe place - a place to reset and rest, or to gain the harsh truth if she wanders astray again.

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August 25, 2026 at 9:11 PM
At first, it was her chasing him. He had defeated her, stolen her eye, and she wanted revenge. She finally got revenge and was plenty satisfied. Much to her dismay, he ended up living and now he had an obsession with her.

Mockingly, she referred to him as her little lost pet from then on.

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August 30, 2026 at 7:40 PM