Minaya

Minaya is a Legendary Force character in RAID: Shadow Legends. Minaya's role is Support. Faction: Banner Lords.

On the combined RAID: Shadow Legends tier list Minaya is A tier, 197th of the 1029 characters ranked, from where 3 community tier lists put Minaya.

Other Force characters in RAID: Shadow Legends: Abbess, Achak the Wendarin, Acolyte, Admonitor, Alaric the Hooded, Alaz the Sunbearer and 273 more.

A healer whose Beauty's Allure heals the whole team for 40% of each ally's MAX HP, gives Block Debuffs to anyone under Increase DEF and shields allies it tops off. Mending Ways heals Minaya and the weakest ally for a flat 10,000 HP and has a 75% chance to put 100% Heal Reduction on every enemy.

The aura adds 19% SPD in all battles.

Fiercely independent, famously beautiful, and known for her kind heart and bountiful spirit, Minaya is the archetype of the perfect noblewoman according to the romantic ideals of Banner Lord chivalric epics. But as with any historical figure, various facts are selectively brought to the fore or gently omitted as the tale is told, and a person quite different from the real Minaya emerges from the patchwork of legend.

Most tellers of the tale introduce Minaya after describing the fall and Skinwalker curse of Khoronar, and his entrapment within his forsaken forest castle. She is hurt, exhausted, and vulnerable, having escaped an attempt on her life. Few storytellers care to elaborate on what led her to such a fate but some speculate that it was courtly politics, chauvinism, or oppressive traditions that set her to flight. Lords of Kaerok had vied fervently for her hand in marriage, not for the sake of love but for power and influence, and to capture a prize desired by all. But she wished to be guided by love, not politics, and held at bay the countless suitors who came to her with guileful and grasping hearts. Her refusal to compromise turned her admirers' affections to jilted bitterness and for some, to burning hatred. A certain wicked baron dispatched assassins to end her, and Minaya was driven in desperation into Khoronar's demesne. Thwarted and enraged, the baron seized her lands, using her prolonged absence as pretext. Despite Minaya's story being their ideal of romantic love, the lords still pursue loveless political marriages to this day.

In Khoronar's castle the Skinwalker nurses her back to health, but does not permit her to leave. The lonely and tormented Khoronar, desperate for any Human contact, had the good fortune of coming across a person of exceptional empathy, kindness, and courage both moral and physical. She was not afraid of his monstrous form, and she endured confinement at his hands because she knew what it felt like to live in fear of murderous pursuit. Neither Minaya nor Khoronar wanted either of their respective enemies to endanger the other. In their isolation together they found amity and, sure enough, love, for Khoronar the Skinwalker was much changed in temperament from Khoronar as he was as a heartless Human lord. Minaya pitied him and saw the goodness within him, which bloomed with every passing day they spent together.

But when he became aware of their deepening bond, Khoronar drove Minaya away in fury. He was not yet ready to be redeemed and forgive himself. When she tried to make her way back to her lands and her people, where her duties beckoned, she was attacked again by the baron's assassins. Later seeing sense, Khoronar rushed to find Minaya and make amends, arriving in time to save her from the ambush. He was gravely wounded, so they retreated to his castle once more, and it was then that they finally confessed their love for each other.

Minaya would have stayed with her love in exile were it not for her loyalty to her subjects. Once Khoronar was healed, Minaya left to attend to her homeland and duties. There she discovered the baron who had tried to kill her had usurped her title, and began a quest to gather support and retake her seat. Khoronar, distraught at her long absence, had a vision of her death in battle. He raced to her ancestral keep and arrived just as Minaya and her loyalists were assaulting the court room she had once called her own. Khoronar was ripping apart the baron's elite troops when the man fired his crossbow upon him, and Minaya dove into the path of its enchanted bolt, slain by it in Khoronar's place. The eternal waltz that had weaved back and forth through the lives of Khoronar and Minaya had reached a bloody crescendo.

Every tale tells that this was not Minaya's end. When Khoronar had slain the evil baron and all his men and finally paused to weep, the Arbiter appeared before him once more, and revived Minaya. The official texts of the Banner Lords say that the Arbiter also restored Khoronar to Human form, and that the two lovers lived happily ever after. Others claim both Minaya and Khoronar live on in Shards, and their tale continues beyond its fabled end.

Minaya can be summoned from Ancient Shard, Sacred Shard and Primal Shard as a Legendary champion.