Hero
Zefai Stormcaller
Eye of the Gale
Mage- Ranged
AoE
Buff
Origin Wind reader of the Qorun steppes
Zefai read the squalls of the Qorun steppe, where the horse clans paid no one for the wind. Heaven raised towers to trap the tempests and sold fair winds to merchants. Zefai climbed a tower by night and came down with the storm in her staff. That storm hid Bukhai's stampede from the clouds, and the Herdlord lost his herds in the rain; Bukhai owes her every head that ran. Her lightning leaps between foes, and her gusts speed her friends. She holds the wind and Tolai rides it; they race to every ridge and argue over the winner. The Winds are her destined office, hoarded by the Four-Mouthed Bellows, which sells fair weather by the hour.
The wind needs no license from heaven, and neither do I.
Level 1 to 36
Attributes
Health (HP)- 530 3330
- 3330 at level 36 +2,800 from level 1
Mana- 480 2160
- 2160 at level 36 +1,680 from level 1
Attack (ATK)- 46 151
- 151 at level 36 +105 from level 1
Armor- 18 56.5
- 56.5 at level 36 +38.5 from level 1
Magic Resist- 30 65
- 65 at level 36 +35 from level 1
Attack Speed- 0.74 1.13
- 1.13 at level 36 +0.39 from level 1
Move Speed- 2.9 m/s 2.9 m/s
- Fixed Fixed
Attack Range- 5.5 m 5.5 m
- Fixed Fixed
6 skills
Skills
Skill I
Forked Spark
Active 
Single
- Cooldown
- 6s
- Cost
- 55 mana
- Cooldown
- 4.75s
- Cost
- 85 mana
Level 1
A spark hits the target and jumps to 3 more enemies: 75 magic damage, -12% per jump.
Next: level 2 at hero level 7
A spark hits the target and jumps to 3 more enemies: 112.5 magic damage, -12% per jump.
Level 6
A spark hits the target and jumps to 5 more enemies: 262.5 magic damage, -12% per jump.
Zefai learned to divide the gale while skimming the high storm towers above the Qorun steppes. She thrusts her birch staff forward, pointing the bronze cage toward the enemy vanguard. A jagged white-blue spark snaps from the churning miniature cloud, leaping from foe to foe in a rapid crackle of split lightning before grounding into the dirt.
Skill II
Static Buildup
Passive - AoE
Level 1
Passive: every 4th attack releases a spark for 50 magic damage that jumps to 2 more enemies.
Next: level 2 at hero level 8
Passive: every 4th attack releases a spark for 75 magic damage that jumps to 2 more enemies.
Level 6
Passive: every 4th attack releases a spark for 175 magic damage that jumps to 2 more enemies.
Steppe herders taught her that running squalls gather needles of fire in the wool of their coats. As she fights, friction hums through her sky-blue felt coat and charges the pale birch pole in her hands. Every fourth blow discharges this gathered hum, sending loose white-blue sparks leaping between nearby enemies with a sharp hiss.
Skill III
Skybreaker
Active - AoE
CC
- Cooldown
- 12s
- Cost
- 75 mana
- Cooldown
- 9.5s
- Cost
- 115 mana
Level 1
A thunderbolt strikes the target: 90 magic damage within 2.2m and a 1s stun.
Next: level 2 at hero level 9
A thunderbolt strikes the target: 135 magic damage within 2.2m and a 1.1s stun.
Level 6
A thunderbolt strikes the target: 315 magic damage within 2.2m and a 1.5s stun.
She wrested this art from the upper parapets of heaven's wind tower when overseers tried to chain her squalls. Zefai plants both felt boots, raising the birch staff high with both hands until the miniature storm boils dark. A blinding pillar of white-blue lightning crashes down from the sky, shaking the ground and leaving the stunned victim frozen under smoking sparks.
Skill IV
Galvanize
Active - Buff
- Cooldown
- 15s
- Cost
- 50 mana
- Cooldown
- 12.5s
- Cost
- 75 mana
Level 1
Supercharge herself or an ally within 6m (the skill rule picks) for 5s: +30% attack speed and +15% skill damage.
Next: level 2 at hero level 10
Supercharge herself or an ally within 6m (the skill rule picks) for 5s: +35% attack speed and +18% skill damage.
Level 6
Supercharge herself or an ally within 6m (the skill rule picks) for 5s: +55% attack speed and +30% skill damage.
She shared this wind-breath with Tolai during their desperate dashes across the red ridges of Qorun. Whispering an ancient steppe cantrip, Zefai sweeps the bronze cage of her birch staff in a swift circle, scattering white-blue sparks over her ally. The coursing draft quickens their limbs, setting their weapons aglow with crackling lightning that hastens every swing.
Skill V
Gale Rush
Active - Single
Mobility
- Cooldown
- 10s
- Cost
- 45 mana
- Cooldown
- 8s
- Cost
- 70 mana
Level 1
Ride a gust up to 5.5m, into the fight or out of danger; enemies in the way take 60 magic damage.
Next: level 2 at hero level 11
Ride a gust up to 5.5m, into the fight or out of danger; enemies in the way take 90 magic damage.
Level 6
Ride a gust up to 5.5m, into the fight or out of danger; enemies in the way take 210 magic damage.
She mastered this drift among the sheer mountain drops where the high steppes fall into mist. Leaning into the empty air, Zefai calls upon the tempest bottled in her birch staff and lets the bronze cage pull her bodily forward. She rides a surging gust of grey vapor across the field, trampling enemy ranks with scouring wind and trailing sparks.
Skill VI
Skyrend Storm
Ultimate - AoE
- CC
- Cooldown
- 60s
- Cost
- 230 mana
- Cooldown
- 45s
- Cost
- 430 mana
Level 1
Ultimate: for 5s, lightning strikes a random enemy within 9m every 0.4s for 60 magic damage.
Next: level 2 at hero level 12
Ultimate: for 5s, lightning strikes a random enemy within 9m every 0.4s for 108 magic damage.
Level 6
Ultimate: for 5s, lightning strikes a random enemy within 9m every 0.3s for 360 magic damage.
This tempest she stole whole from the vaults of the Four-Mouthed Bellows when she fled heaven's collectors. Zefai drives the butt of her pale birch staff into the earth and lifts both arms, letting the miniature cloud expand into a furious canopy overhead. White-blue thunderbolts rain down across the field, shaking the ground with deafening crashes and blasting foes with relentless stormfire.
Four views
Character sheet
Appearance
Zefai is a wiry, sun-browned woman in her early thirties with a wind-reddened face, grey eyes narrowed at the horizon, and long black hair in many thin braids threaded with blue beads that always stream sideways in a wind no one else feels. She dresses as a Qorun wind reader: a long sky-blue felt coat crossed over the chest and belted with a broad orange sash, felt boots with upturned toes and a fox-fur cap. Her focus is the staff she carried down from heaven's wind tower: a tall pole of pale steppe birch topped with an open cage of bent bronze bands holding a trapped storm cloud the size of a fist, grey and churning and laced with white-blue sparks, white horsehair tassels below. Lightning leaps from the cage when she points. Palette: sky blue, storm grey, sash orange. Silhouette hook: braids blowing sideways from a woman holding a staff with a thundercloud in its head.