The Lean of a Tree

“Would you name a flower from the shape of its seed? Know the lean of a tree before it is planted? The mystical nature of your sudden aging stunted your powers. The potential has not fully blossomed.”

The Lean of a Tree (also known as Fate Brought You Here[1]) is the second episode of the fourth season of Ninjago: Dragons Rising and the 62nd episode overall.

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In this full episode, Sora and Frak are drawn by the siren call of a mysterious land and find themselves stranded. Can Wyldfyre and Riyu save them? Meanwhile, Lloyd and Jay face big questions about who they are meant to be, and Jay must confront his forgotten past.[2]

Lloyd Loses His Destiny?![]

In this clip from LEGO Ninjago, Lloyd faces the Arc Dragon in a tense encounter! The dragon says he ignored his calling, the first Green Ninja ever to neglect his duties! How will Lloyd respond, and can he reclaim his destiny?[3]

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Lloyd begins to grasp his true purpose, while Kai, Nya and Jay desperately look for a way out when they discover they're trapped in a giant creature.[4]

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The young Ninja struggle to find a way out of paradise, while Lloyd and Jay separately grapple with who they are meant to be.[5]

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Jay finds himself taunted by his failures in a vision

Jay finds himself taunted by his failures in a vision

While meditating, Kai and Nya tell Jay that they are glad to see Jay again as the rest of the team appear to embrace Jay. However, the ninja start morphing into some of his enemies and tell him that he is a failure. Jay eventually awakens from his meditation to Nya and Kai sitting with him around a campfire. Jay vents his frustrations about not finding any answers in his meditation. They decide to move on from the monastery even though it is not yet light. However, once they leave the monastery, they realize that the ground is squishy for some reason and also that there are slug monsters in the air.

The Arc Dragon of Life confronts Lloyd

The Arc Dragon of Life confronts Lloyd

Meanwhile Lloyd, Arin, and Euphrasia are being confronted by the Arc Dragon of Life. It accuses Lloyd of abandoning the Whispering Wood. Lloyd tries to explain that he has never even heard of the Whispering Wood but the Arc Dragon then accuses him of lying. It also reveals that Lloyd is not the first Green Ninja. The Arc Dragon tells Lloyd that all of the previous Green Ninja felt the call to the Whispering Wood when they came of age. Lloyd then realizes that the reason he never felt the call is because of the incident with Tomorrow's Tea, which caused him to skip most of his childhood. The Arc Dragon of Life then apologizes because it had not realized what happened, and no one could blame Lloyd for not feeling the call to The Wood.

Wyldfyre tries to convince Sora and Frak to move on

Wyldfyre tries to convince Sora and Frak to move on

Elsewhere, Sora and Frak are sitting by the river in the Land of Eternal Dawn while Wyldfyre and Riyu are nearby. Wyldfyre tries to convince Sora and Frak to go back to the Monastery of Eternal Dawn; however, neither Sora nor Frak wants to leave. However, they realize they should probably go when they remember that the other ninja are out there somewhere. However, they hear a rustling sound in the tall grass. Riyu and Wyldfyre prepare to fight whoever it is, but it turns out to be several cats. This distracts Sora again, who loves cats, and although Frak at first is worried because of his allergy to cats, his allergies do not come, so he too is distracted by the cats.

The slug monsters soon start attacking Jay, Nya, and Kai. However, their elemental powers are still not working. One of the creatures starts carrying off Nya and Jay has to abandon his Dragon Mech to chase after the creature because a giant tentacle had grabbed onto the Dragon's foot. One of the tentacles ends up saving Nya in trying to catch her for itself. Jay reveals he doesn't think that this is a cave and tells everyone to hold on to something right before a giant gust of wind comes through. Jay tells them that they are in a Quealiches's stomach, giant creatures that burrow through the Land of Monsters. They then all hop on the Mech Dragon to start flying towards the mouth of the Quaealiche.

Back in the Whispering Wood, an Acona offers Euphrasia a flower before Euphrasia goes to sit next to Arin, who looks worried. Arin tells her that he is worried for Lloyd because of all of the new information Lloyd is hearing all of a sudden. Euphrasia tells Arin that he is the only one without Elemental Powers. Arin thinks she is rubbing it in, but Euphrasia tells him that now it is a good thing because Arin has never depended on an Elemental Power and so has not lost any skills. On another level of the tree house hideout, the Arc Dragon of Life describes the Ritual of Unrooting to Lloyd. It tells him that it is the cleansing of the pathways that Source Dragon energy flows through. It also tells Lloyd that it may help explain his powers, but that he is too old to perform the ritual. It then reveals to Lloyd that some of the Source Dragons have withdrawn their connection to the Merged Lands, causing Elemental Powers to be unreliable as their Source Energy no longer nourishes the land. And with one of them being the Source Dragon of Life, the decline of the Whispering Wood has hastened. Lloyd realized that the ninja summoning the Arc Dragon of Focus had contributed to this, angering the Source Dragons. The Arc Dragon of Life emphasizes that the Ritual of Unrooting can restore balance by overcoming the withdrawn Source Energy, thus fixing everything. Despite feeling overwhelmed by prophecies and destiny throughout his life, Lloyd resolved to perform the ritual to stabilize the Source Energy and save the Whispering Wood.

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  • Jay discovering he, Kai, and Nya are inside a Quealiche's stomach is similar to Han discovering he, Leia, Chewbacca, and C-3PO are inside an Exogorth's stomach in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, even including the flying monsters inside and the ground being soft and squishy.

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  • Lloyd says his element doesn't burn like fire or shock like lightning, however, it has shown these properties in "Game of Masks" when Lloyd makes a green fire and "The Message" where he used lightning-like energy to power the Titan Mech.
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The Lean of a Tree[]

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Chinese (Simplified) 树的倾斜角度
Czech Sklon stromu
Dutch Hoe een Boom Groeit
French Le rituel de déracinement
German Die Neigung eines Baumes
Japanese ささやきの森、グリーン・ニンジャの使命
Portuguese (Brazil) A Inclinação de uma Árvore
Spanish (Latin America) La Inclinación de un Árbol
Spanish (Spain) La Inclinación de un Árbol

Fate Brought You Here[]

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Chinese (Simplified) 命运将你带到这里
Czech Přivedl tě osud
Dutch Het lot heeft je hier gebracht
Spanish (Latin America) El Destino te Trajo Aquí
Spanish (Spain) El Destino te Trajo Aquí
Turkish Seni Buraya Kader Getirdi
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  1. ↑ https://youtu.be/dw-Cznf1gi4?feature=shared (title and description)
  2. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw-Cznf1gi4
  3. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SnDAa03CJc
  4. ↑ https://www.netflix.com/title/81519765
  5. ↑ https://www.itv.com/watch/ninjago-dragons-rising/10a4725/10a4725a0062
  6. ↑ https://bsky.app/profile/docwyattbeyond.bsky.social/post/3mkstaut3rs2l