Star Guardians

Star Guardians's History

In the beginning, the First Star gave birth to the universe and all life. To protect its creations and ensure the cycle of life would continue for eternity, the First Star entrusted individuals iron-willed and pure of heart with fragments of its essence—starlight—as protectors of the universe throughout the ages.

By day, they navigate the stress, drama, and emotional turbulence of being high school students. By night, they fight back the evil forces that threaten to cover the world in darkness. Together, they must find hope in the power of friendship and overcome their doubts or risk burning out and falling into darkness. They are Star Guardians!

Powerful and striking, these Star Guardians are living supernovas who vanquish the terrors of the galaxy with wondrous powers. However, their fantastic existence comes at a cost: they are bound to the First Star’s cause, and must fight until they perish or fall.

Lux, whose light first shined for a new generation, was inducted into the Star Guardians. Alone against the darkness—absent the friendship and close bonds the Guardians need—she began her journey to create a team to join her.

Lux recruited other Guardians to join her against the darkness—Jinx, Lulu, Janna, and Poppy. Lux struggled to balance her life as a teenager and her secret identity as a leader of the Star Guardians. Lux desperately tried to support her new team, but the stress of their fatal call of destiny proved too much for Jinx, and she leaves the team. In that moment of despair a monster struck.

The fractured team wasn’t strong enough to defeat the attack, and just when the light seemed dimmest, Jinx returned to her friends. Using their combined power of love and friendship, the Guardians defeated the forces of darkness and were once again united. Lux and Jinx’s relationship, and the team’s bonds, were stronger than ever.

Prior to Lux there were others. On a lonely moon far from the lights of Valoran City, a team consisting of Ahri, Miss Fortune, Xayah, Rakan, and Neeko attempted to defeat Zoe, a murderous former Guardian known as the Twilight Star. Though they fight bravely, their mission ended in disaster. Xayah and Rakan were killed—only to be resurrected later under Zoe’s power—with Neeko presumed destroyed alongside them.

Their losses great, and pain raw, the Star Guardians’ resolve was shaken. Ahri and Miss Fortune left this encounter deeply scarred, but they knew their fate: die in the defense of the light. One loss would not see their resolve defeated, so they set out to build another team of “orphaned” Guardians. This new team would guard the Outer Rim and add Syndra, Ezreal, and Soraka.

Ominous dreams and the promise of a meteor show brought both teams of Star Guardians to Camp Targon, where tensions began to rise. The Guardians were forced to put their disagreements aside to defeat an incursion of void-beasts. After finding victory, Lux looked to Ahri to lead the united Star Guardians against the darkness. But Ahri was resolute in her new focus: keep history from repeating itself. And so Lux was forced to step up and take on the role of leader of the Star Guardians.

In an attempt to bring the two teams together, Lux invited the Star Guardians to a slumber party. Though things quickly went awry when Miss Fortune, Ezreal, and Soraka assumed they were being invited to an official meeting... and an extra-dimensional summoning portal opened in the middle of the party. In the stressful aftermath, Miss Fortune and Lux found a close bond forming between them. The former haunted by the loss of her original team, and the latter struggling with the newfound duty of leadership. The slumber party, though disastrous at first glance, brought the Guardians closer together.

Meanwhile Zoe, an ancient threat to Guardians across the universe, found her way to Valoran City. The Star Guardians’ bonds of friendship and trust would be put to the limit in order to protect their home, its inhabitants, and each other from the Twilight Star.

While the main team fought the Twilight Star's influence, a lost guardian was struggling for her life. Far off in a deep corner of the galaxy, Neeko was being hunted by Xayah and Rakan, two former Guardians destroyed and resurrected under Zoe’s control.

Neeko managed to fend off and weaken Xayah. But after being healed by Rakan, the pair outmaneuvered Neeko, intent on turning her over to Zoe. Zoe, Xayah, and Rakan eventually cornered Neeko using Zoe’s chaotic magic, preying on her doubt and fear. But just before Neeko falls to the darkness, Ahri appeared, saving her former teammate. Star Guardians would always protect each other.