A/N: Ever since the release of the full set of Star Guardian skins, I've had an idea floating around in the back of my head. I've since decided to put it down and for the first time share what I've written with a much wider audience. So following is the prologue for my story and the lead up to what I hope will be something I can update semi-frequently. I thank you for reading and I hope you enjoy it and keep following.
Prologue
In the beginning, the First Star spread out is power giving life to the universe. Seeing what it created, he knew that eventually there would be those who would wish to destroy it. Being that its power was severely weakened by what it did, the First Star used its last strength for the time to create the Star Guardians. They were teams created and then destroyed to defend against the inevitable darkness that would threaten the universe. Originally the Star Guardians were meant to keep the balance between the light and the dark, but frequently they would be seen as taking sides in some petty argument on the planet where they were, and they quickly retreated into the background. Showing themselves when they needed to, and the rest of the time, hiding. While this wasn't the intention of the First Star, it seemed to be what the new reality was.
In creating the Universe, the First Star also created a place called the Void. A dark place were those who would seek chaos for the purpose of chaos would be banished. However, the First Star knew that if anyone would find out about the void and its vast power, it would eventually be breached. On the small planet of Runeterra, a mage did exactly that. He Found the void, and a link between the two. Eventually, he managed to find a way to get into the void, but it corrupted him. When he returned to Runeterra, the Star Guardians were there to meet him. The team of 5 quickly destroyed the threat and banished the mage back to the void. The creatures of the void decided to use his magic however to potentially breach the void permanently. This time however, they decided to bide their time to find someone to breach the void permanently and free them.
In just the few days that the Void was unleashed on Runeterra, a planet already scarred from decades of magical war, the event of opening a portal to the Void almost destroyed it. It was stopped by the nations of the planet banding together with powerful magics to stop and seal the rupture. The Guardians seemingly perished in the final fight, but while severely wounded, they all survived. The void magics almost destroyed the world and they put aside centuries of conflict to rebuild their shattered world. The various species throughout the world took decades, but eventually they managed it.
The First Star and the Runeterra Star Guardians worked for years to prevent that from happening, but even Star Guardians do not live forever. Eventually they have to pass on their powers to a new generation. That is what happened, and with the Guardians almost unneeded, they faded back into society, eventually passing on into the First Light.
In Runeterra, some minor conflicts had been fought over for years since the closing of the portal, but the practice of Void Magic, as it became known, was strictly forbidden with punishments being severe and quick. Not even mortal enemies would wish those horrors on their enemies again. There was one Void Member who did not make it back into the portal. Eternally seeking knowledge, the "Wandering Eye" as he became known, Vel'Koz sought to pierce the veil for the sole reason to seek more knowledge. He had little caring for the machinations of the voidlings. Originally cruel in his methods, he refined them over the years to be humane and only those willing undergo those old methods, were volunteers. Usually to try and cure disease or great suffering.
Vel'Koz also became very tempered by the experiences on Runeterra, actually coming to care for its inhabitants. The Void Eye as he was previously known, became a previous life. He sought to see the universe, even though it was bright and not what he knew, it was also beautiful it its own way. Eventually seeking out the Star Guardian chapter, they agreed to work together to stop the void from piercing the veil again and repair it. The built Guardian Tower, a secret tower where the Guardians could practice and work in secret while the public face of the Tower, the Vel'Koz International Library was constructed around it to hide this secret.
However, all of their planning was for nothing. Eventually the Void found a hole just big enough to get a message through, drawing two powerful mages to them. Working together, they erected a powerful portal to open a hole to the void. Vel'Koz scrambled to stop them with the Guardians help, but even with all their power, they were unable to stop the void portal from opening. Emerging from the portal was a massive monster that did so much damage that after pushing the two mages back into the Void, it kept the portal open just long enough for the most senior of the void members to escape and move beyond Runeterra. The Star Guardians were immediately activated and they fought against the void around the universe.
However, the team on Runeterra was devastated. Once again Void Magic spread across Runeterra and the Governments quickly reacted and set planning an expedition to survey the damage. What they found devastated them. They quickly managed to destroy the portal as there was no one defending it now with Summoner Magic. While this strengthened the incredibly fragile veil near Runeterra, it still remained thin compared to other places in the universe. After a period of time, the two Mages were identified, Malzahar, a powerful seer, and Kassadin, a warrior mage.
Over the next century, Vel'Koz spent his days readying for when the void would return. The Star Guardians were devastated in the final attack and their powers left those in which they inhabited. Usually once Guardian powers passed, they pulled in Guardians from other worlds, but given the nature of the universe at that point, that wasn't an option. There was also another larger issue that came up as the investigation continued.
It was also discovered that something unusual had happened once the powers had left those individuals. Because of the summoner magics that surrounded Runeterra to protect and heal it, the powers of the Guardians, which usually did leave the world, had instead been captured in them and as a result, couldn't leave to make new Guardians elsewhere. Eventually they would coalesce into new guardians, but it would take time. In that, time because a variable in which no one could determine how much they had.
A second consequence of the Summoner Magics is that it also cut Runeterra off from the rest of the universe. That left them unable to contact the First Star, or summon other Guardian Teams to help. This placed Vel'Koz in a predicament. With no Guardians on the planet, or at least that he could find, he alone was charged to find the new Guardians and help them rebuild.
Needing time and energy, after numerous battles that resulted in more losses than victories, the void eventually had to return to their original portal to try and get more from the void itself. Arriving at Runeterra, they found the portal destroyed. Angered, Malazhar, who was just a minor character before, had risen to lead the void forces across the universe, planned to reconstruct the portal and ensure it would remain open permanently. They had hoped for an easy fight, but what they found was a world that had been carefully fortified against void energy.
Another problem was that he did not have the energy to not rebuild the portal. He also didn't have the energy to unleash his ultimate monster to overcome the summoner magics surrounding the planet. He turned to his remaining legion and gave each a task, but their main task as a whole was to collect the energy they would need to unleash the monsters, and rebuild the portal. Because of his great power, they all obeyed him without question.
On Runeterra, Vel'Koz sensed the return of the Void and knew that time was up, but it couldn't have come at a worse time. For years he had tried to free the powers that had become trapped by the summoner magic on Runeterra but all his efforts had been for nothing. As a consequence, the Guardian powers still hadn't fully transferred and were still coalescing but they had at least settled into individuals. But they had no training, no knowledge of their powers, and no knowledge of the danger they faced.
It is here that our story begins.
A/N: I have edited this for clarity, better word choice, better grammar, and a more accurate telling of my vision.