If u want to understand, here's the list of characters and their stories. It will be a long and maybe with some mistakes (i'm french) but it may can help (Btw you were right, it is actually inspired by Sailor Moon) Star Guardians are normal people who receive their powers from the "first star" and they fight cosmic creatures, monsters etc. They usually fight by groups of 5 Guardians For the champions in it, its : 1st Video Pink Hairs : Lux, The leader, trying to learn how to lead a group of star guardians. She's a rookie Red Hairs : Jinx, She's Lux bestfriend, she is really explosive, and she pretends not to be interested by star guardians and missions, but do have a real bond with them Blue hairs : Poppy, she dont really like jinx temper Green hairs : Lulu, she's the youngest, she often says things who dont make sense to the others Purple hairs : Janna, she's the oldest, she's a quiet person, who have a mysterious past 2nd Video Blonde Girl : Ahri, she's the leader of her group, she's very experienced, she's one of the "protagonists" Redhead Girl : Miss Fortune, she's one of Ahri closest friend, but she suffer the loss of their old friends a lot Blonde Guy : Ezreal, he's a new member of Ahri squad, and he have a crush on Lux Green Girl : Soraka : she's a new member of ahri squad, she's a little bit like janna Purple Girl : Syndra, Also a new member of Ahri squad, she have a mysterious past, and the star guardians, except ahri, dont really trust her 3rd Video purple little girl : Zoe : She was once a Star guardian, but after one of her teammates turned into a monster, she lost control, and became a monster too. She corrupted Rakan and Xayah, after a fight against Ahri's old squad. Purple Girl : Xayah, She was in ahri old squad, alongside neeko and rakan. She's rakan girlfriend, and they both've been corrupted by Zoe. While corrupted, she hated MF and Ahri for letting them dying. She've been saved by Star guardians after a 2nd fight against Zoe, with all the SG groups, but rakan had to sacrifice himself to save her, she's now trying to save him Green Boy : Rakan, Xayah Boyfriend. While Xayah doesnt know they're being corrupted, he know and he's trying to sacrifice himself to save Xayah from corruption. He sacrifice himself at the end, so we dont actually know if he's still alive Tail Girl : Neeko, She was in Ahri old Squad alongside Miss Fortune, Xayah and Rakan. She faked her death to escape from zoe, but ended up captured in Zoe "QG", where she try to escape, unsucessfully. She's not mad at Ahri and Miss Fortune for what they did, And she also try to explain Xayah why they had to did so. She's saved by Ahri after fighting against the corrupted SG. 4th Video 1st group Pink hairs : Kai'Sa she's The leader of the newest group of SG. She's ready to sacrife everything to save people with her SG powers. She Think more about helping others than herself Blue Hairs : Akali, Co-Leading the group alongside Kai'sa, she's Kai'sa Best friend since they were young. Opposite to Kai'Sa, she think helping people its fine, but with some limits. She knows that being a SG means they all will end up dying. she became a SG only to follow Kai'Sa, for their friendship, but kai'sa is ready to sacrifice this friendship if it can save more people. She doubt a lot about all the Star Guardian Stuff. Green Hairs : Sona, part of Kai'sa group Orange Boy : Ekko, Part of Kai'sa Group The other Pink girl : Taliyah, Also part of Kai'sa group Black haired girl : Nilah, she the oldest of the group, she usually fight alone but she agreed to help new SG for this fight 2nd Group The 2 birds : Xayah And Rakan Bonde Girl : Seraphine, she's a star guardian since a lot of time, and agreed to join Xayah, to help her save Rakan Black haired girl : Senna, she's also SG since a lot of time, and she also agreed to join Xayah Orianna : She's a new SG. She was a robot before being a SG, but while while she was becoming SG she wished to be a human being, so she's now trying to learn how to feel emotions like joy, love, etc. She agreed to join Xayah group.
Jinx IS a starguardian in this AU, she still has similar interests, hence the rocket launcher and the scribbles on her seat in school. But yeah it's not something real jinx is aware of or anything
@@migatito1291 no, wings in general are a symbol of freedom and empowerment, it might be a slight reference but the reason she likes wings is completely different.
It's crazy how Riot just kills it with every creative endeavor.. they create incredible music videos, an incredible series with Arcane and oh yeah, no biggie, an entire anime-inspired universe for a line of alternate skins lol. I agree with you guys, I think we are seeing a future MCU in the making.
It would be awesome if you both watched all the "Tales of Runeterra" videos, each shows you what to expect in the different regions of Runeterra (League's world in the main universe) and shows you some of the characters who reside at those regions. Those are great to watch so you can know what to expect since those regions showcased in those videos might be covered in the next seasons of Arcane!
12:00 "what if they made a series out of this" - ye what the lol community asks for a decade now ... and let's hope Arcane was just the Beginning. Just so you might remember some names when you come across them in future videos: The first star guardian group includes Lux, Jinx, Lulu, Janna and Poppy. The second: Ahri, Miss Fortune, Syndra, Ezreal and Soraka. The third video is about Ahris former group, where some members got corrupted (Xayah and Rakan - the bird people) and Neeko went looking for them. The last video has 2 stories/groups (since they release inclussive skins for their mobile game version of LoL - Wild Rift). The LoL PC story is about Kai'sa (wie the floaty thingies above her shoulders) and Akali - naming those 2 cuz they are both part of K/DA (so is Ahri). Yes those skin lines are alternative universes aka "WHAT IF these champs didn't live in Runeterra (the LoL world)". So for when you watch K/DA, the pre-story is literally: Ahri being exploited by a former music producer and then going to found her own group. Would also recommend watching in release order: Popstars - More - then the 4 other songs which are solo songs from all the members of K/DA. You'll notice there is a big story to tell even in those alternative story lines. Also I'm following your twitch so ... I'm waiting for you to touch Riots single player RPG: The Ruined King :) I feel like with all the RPGs you play and after getting in touch with some more LoL champs you'll enjoy that (before you should probably react to some Ruination content - it was the big 2021 event just like this year is about the Void and Star Guardians). Pretty sure your mod will tell you what videos to watch if you ask about that cuz there are like 6 of them :) Btw you already watched Warriors, thats the season start cinematic for 2020. We get those every year for every new season start. So The Climb (2018) leads into Ruination, Awaken (2019) tells 3 stories, one being Noxus attacking another country (you'll remember Noxus from Arcane/Mels family), Warriors you watched, Ruination is 2021 and The Call is 2022. Last one starts the Void event from this year, which is about a big threat for whole Runeterra and also continues Kai'sas main lore story in Runeterra. I like that you read the descriptions of the videos you watched so you get some understanding of what's happening and you can discuss ... cuz we viewers can only help you after you posted it :D After all that there is still tons of content to react to like the World championships that include the season start song and a esports song (2014 used Warriors from Imagine Dragons and those esports videos are more about players that compete and less about the LoL lore - but all of them are top tier (workout) songs). All those songs except the one from Zedd and Imagine Dragons should be copyright free btw - Riots likes its reactors - the more the better. So after you listened to all of that - the biggest events are ~15mins long opening ceremonies right before the last 5v5 final of the 2 remaining teams. Starting with 2017 most ppl are mindblown what technics Riot uses to bring the LoL world to life ... and for ppl in the stadium and at home to experience more than just the singers. Ok that's it for now ... I'm hyped for months of LoL content to come. You 2 are too cute together :3
We might get more Star Guardian Cinematics in these couple of weeks as we are in the middle of the biggest star guardian event yet in league, and it's supposed to last for 2 or 3 weeks... Usually in events like these they drop several cinematics.
There is a 14 chapter story explaining a bit of what you're seeing in the last video. The event going on will bring the rest of the story out. Love the reaction!! There is a lot of lore when it comes to the Star Guardians. Necrit is a fellow youtuber who covers all the league lore if you wanna learn more without taking the plunge!
Hey, there's one new Star Guardian cinematic coming up soon around late July! (This month) Don't miss it! It's going to be real intense :D basically a continuation of what you saw from the latest SG video 2022 :) so stay tuned for that one!
12:03 A Star Guardians animated series is one of the most intensely demanded things from us League players. Riot was be actually useless if they could see the MASSIVE success of Arcane, yet leave this without a show.
To sum up things: League has champions, and because league is free to play they release skins to gain money, some skinlines are very popular and have special events whenever a new set of skins comes out. Skins are just what if, for example star guardians, what if these champions were in a sailor moon universe. Obviously they are not canon so don't try to overthink about how does it connect to the main story or to Arcane League of legends is a MOBA, multiplayer online battle arena, you queue up, choose your champion for the match and go in a 5v5 game. Wild rift is league for mobile Legends of Runeterra is the card game Obviously all 3 of them are in the same universe and share Lore and characters with each other.
To understand the lore (both from alternative universes like Star Guardians, KDA, etc. and the main League Universe) I suggest watching Necrit on youtube.
This universe is a surprisingly dark one which they only really started exploring in the last 2 seasons, half of the star guardians you see in the videos have lived for 100+ years as teenagers because when you take “the oath” you swear you’ll protect the light from the dark forever. You cant die you can only burn out becoming a chaos monster forced to wander the galaxies for eternity. The cycle doesn’t end it just becomes one line.
The music video of Porter Robinson and Madeon - Shelter will give you an idea of porters story telling and how he manages to write music to tell the story he is portraying and I would not be surprised if he wrote this story too not forgetting he makes beautiful sort of anime inspired dance music
If you want to read info about Star Guardian, there are short stories on the lore website. They even have a slumber party in one of them. The cinematics are really just the tip of the iceberg.
6:52 That's Soraka, she's a kind and loving person, willing to sacrifice herself for others! In the game she's a healer and sacrifices her own health to heal everyone, she also fights with falling stars since she's strongly related to the stars in the original lore of League of Legends (her being a celestial being/star spirit). In the Star Guardian universe she's one of the most powerful guardians because she's really close to the First Star, the entity that chooses every Star Guardian.
Okay so League has a website where you can look up the alternate universes (like the Star Guardian one) and see everything related. Most of the time the videos will release after o before a short story is dropped on the website so i recommend reading those or the recap they did on the website for the Star Guardian 2022 event.
Mid Year events are the biggest riot launches every year, this year is star guardian, every other event of this size used to have like one video with 3 min, and other with 10 minutes with dialogues, i think we will get the 10min videos in one or two weeks, if so please react
Star Guardians has the most fleshed out lore out of any skin line having more lore than some champions even. The lore of Star Guardians in written lore like not cinematics I’m not sure but it might be on the League universe website where they usually post stories for their champions theres also 2 visual novels and a comic series for the 2022 Star Guardians on League Pc and Wild Rift respectively
If you love the show and have been enjoying all the different lore, I’d totally suggest reacting to each League of Legends champions, checking out there skills and skins along with them. This would actually help make a rewatch of arcane seem fresh and exciting and you would learn so much of the basics. 😊 Great video guys! Keep it up 😊
These suggestions aren't related at all to Arcane, but I think you would enjoy The Path, an Ionian Myth/Kin of the Stained Blade, as well as As We Fall, The Curse of the Sad Mummy, and Awake.
There's one more cinematic posted as a youtube short's video. It's a daily vlog made by Seraphine (the blond one with long hair who hugs the one crying). Plus, there is a new novel with some chapters (I believe 15 or something). It tells about what happend after Ahri got there to save her friends. Answering u guys question, u don't have to actually play the game to understand the lore. League's official site have an seccion with all the comics and novels from the runeterra itself and the skins universes (like SG) enjoy it!
The last one is actually Legendary skin for Kaisa and Akali (green hair) The story' maybe Xayah, the one lost her boyfriend (green hair) in the Starguardian 3, and the one is Kaisa lost his friend Akali (the green hair from last reaction)
Probably a bit outside your usual content but if you enjoyed the last song that much i highly recommend listening to(and reacting :P) to the album Nurture by Porter Robinson. imo its one of the best albums released in the past few years and its lyrical content is very much in the same vein as Everything Goes On. Porter is a genius musician
Third comment (I know, it's a lot xD) At 12:55 you asked if this was all that we had for Star Guardian, and it's not!! The league of legends website has the lore of the game written in it but also the Star Guardian Lore, there's multiple stories explaining what happens and who did what! A week ago we even got a new story which takes place between Light and Shadow (the third cinematic) and Everything Goes On (Fourth cinematic)! There's also a lot of lore in the events but is less important. For Exemple in Wild Rift (League of Legends' mobile version) you can see a comic about how Xayah (the pink girl with wings) recruited her new team members to rescue Rakan, her loved one In League of Legends (PvP Game) it's a "visual novel" that tells the story of Kai'Sa, Akali and their team, which is a brand new team that replaced the older ones that are either busy or disappeared in the stars. In Legends of Runeterra (League of Legends' PvP card game) there's not a lot of lore but only skins that tell us that Soraka (Green hair in cinematic 2, Jinx (Red hair in cinematic 1) and Lulu (Little Girl with Green Hair in cinematic 1) are travelling through space to rescue old Star Guardians that were destroyed by Zoe (Little girl with purple hair in cinematic 3)!
Basically the first trailer introduces us to lux group, the second to ahri's. Ahri loses 3 of her friends that are fighting each other on light and shadow cinematic since 2 of them were corrupted by Zoe the short purple girl with diferent eyes. She was once a star guardian too. She fights them and the rest had to retreat, they thought they were dead but ahri came back to check afterwards, she saves neeko the lizard girl and eventually the purple winged girl named xayah is saved by her boyfriend rakan, who was not yet completely corrupted but this cost him as sacrifice in order to save her. Lux becomes the leader afterwards and eventually she defeats Zoe who is the twilight star. So basically the last trailer is the present days were a new danger will apear, but at the moment xayah is remembering her boyfriend and wants to still go after him and is seeking for other star guardians to help her, and the pink haired girl on the other side of the story is Kaisa a new star guardian best friend of the blue haired Akali she has a vision of lux that gaves her the power but gave away her bracelet of friendship and she gets distant to Akali with all the missions and training, Akali learns how to use dark matter which corrupts the guardians but seems to be controlling it, but eventually she will be distant just as Rakan.
In the third cinematic, with the star guardians fighting the little girl with 2 different eye colors, she was corrupting some of the star guardians. Xayah, the girl with the wings and feathers, was being corrupted by her. Rakan, her lover, he also had wings and feathers, was protecting her while preventing her from harming their ally, Neeko, the chameleon girl. The corrupting girl, Zoe, ended up dying because Rakan absorbed Xayah's corruption and threw himself at her, which also killed him. The final cinematic was basically Xayah with the old-er Guradians grieving over Rakan because she never fully forgave herself for his death. And, it is also the new Guardians because the co-captains of the new generation had a falling out, KaiSa and Akali. The girl crying and chasing the feather was Xayah in the last music video.
Welcome to the world of league of legends, all according to plan. Arcane was made as a gateway. league has always been a bucket of lore. Playing the game is a completely different experience, cause although its marketed like a MOBA (Multiplayer Online Battle Arena) is more akin to an RTS (Real Time Strategy). All the lore stuff is not on their game however, but on their official webpages. The most amazing part of it all is that since day one, story writers have come up with the most amazing lore back to back to back, from humble beginnings, to Star Guardians, the Project cyberization, as normal people like pop singers and rappers, space warriors, wild west, witches, all the way to Arcane itself and more. Arcane is default lore, things that happen in the regular universe of the game, but with "Skins", every character can be seen from a whole new perspective; of course, their writers having a field day each time. So once more, welcome to league lore, arcane fans, depending on how deep you wanna go, its gonna be a journey to remember.
The one you thought was Jinx in Light and Shadow is a character named Zoe. She is basically a trickster in the main LoL universe, but in Star Guardians, she's a corrupted Star Guardian who tries to corrupt others.
If you like porter robinson and haven't heard most of his songs, I would suggest you watch one of his videos, sheltered. You might enjoy his other songs as well, they're all beautiful...I do hate the fact that I still can't listen to his songs without tearing up.
So, for more lore, we can check the skins in the game which have their stories written in the introduction, and this year we have visual novel to tell us more about the stories of this year’s guardian
Okay i'm gonna write all watch orders for ceremony videos. U can think them as a huge concert with huge animations ofc. I recommend watch these music videos before 2019 ceremony. True damage- Giants Phoenix (ft. Cailin Russo ve Chrissy Costanza) And before 2021 ceremony. (It's arcane promo video, i know u will shock while watching this) Burn It All Down (ft. PVRIS) Before Opening Ceremony 2018 Kda- popstars RISE (ft. The Glitch Mob, Mako, and The Word Alive) Before Opening Ceremony 2017 Legends Never Die -- This is my fav. league song.
According to Porter Robinson, it's about a couple's last night together before one of them becomes a Star Guardian whose identity and existence will be forgotten by everyone, their lover included.
Theres a story on Riots LoL site called Twin Stars. It's the Story of The last battle between the Star Gaurdians against the twilight Star Gaurdian Zoe with Xayah & Rakan. It introduces Kai'sa & Akali into the Star Gaurdians lore. The battle is interspersed with Sarah Fortune trying to redeem Xayah & Rakan because she sees it as her failure to save them when they last faced Zoe whom killed resurrected and corrupted both Xayah & Rakan. It takes all the Star Gaurdians at the time to beat Zoe during which Xayah is Redeemed. All the Star Gaurdians leave to search for Rakan whilst a new Star Gaurdian team is created with Kai'sa & Akali leading it trained by and outer galactic Star Gaurdian in Nilah... although Kai'sa & Akali have from what I can tell the largest Star Gaurdian team yet numbering about 10 members.
Lore had a 3 way split LoL have the Kai-sa x Akali ship WR got the Xayah x Rakan redemption arc LoR took the Gwen revival story All get new first dibs of their own sg skin got fans into chaos
You don´t have to play the game to understand because all the lore is in the cinematics, so don´t be afraid and watch all of them! You will love them, even the World events!
Runeterra is the main universe and storyline, thats where Arcane takes place and all the champions in the game exist, including Jinx and Vi. Then there are alternete universes that have no connection to each other but just with the characters from runeterra. So when you see like Jinx in runeterra (arcane) shes that girl, but then in this universe shes more like a normal high school girl defeating monsters at night. Thats how riot can play with there characters and give them different themes without ruining the story of runeterra and the main story line.
the 2 birdpeople Xayah in Rakan where corrupted by Zoe the girl with the wormholes in the 3rd video. But Rakan managed with the help of the other star guradians to take the corruption from Xayah and kill Zoe but he sacrificed himself by doing so. There are many chapters of star guardian lore you can read and the last video you watched was the newest one that plays after Rakan is gone and Xayah still suffers but she found a new team that helps her to overcome her sorrow
And star guardians have different squads. The older ones were keep fighting that dark girl with two different color eyes. This year’s star guardians are new, and got their power after those old star guardians fighting the dark girl and destroy their home city.
Rakan the blue haired one with the blue wing sacrificed himself to save Xayah (red haired one with the other wing). So she’s been dealing with him gone
in the third Video Rakan and xayah is in the side of zoe as a dark star guardian and zoe rakan and xayah chasing nekko because they want to nekko to be part of them then ahri came to save them that's why ahri have those 3 stone because nekko rakam and xayah is her old members before the new member that's why she came to save them and to redeemed them from the Dark.(base on lore)
Wow! Really really really loved your reactions! That would be really interesting indeed to have an animated series about the Star Guardians lore. There are so many Sailor Moon/Madoka references in it it would be impossible for me not to like it.
TLDR for you, The (1 winged ones) are Xayah and Rakan, they are a couple, Rakan sacrificed himself to save Xayah from the darkness. So her scene in the latest video is remembering the life they had before and the sacrifice he made for her. The pink haired one Kai'sa is dealing with the loss of her friend (the light blue hair) Akali. They split apart due to a difference (that we don't yet know FOR SURE stay tuned for the upcoming releases) Glad you enjoyed the videos
I hope you watch more league videos they’re really well made Also the game for league isn’t cannon and has nothing to do with the lore aside from voice lines which can reveal things about the lore
If you go to the league websites you can find the whole lore about star guardians and read all the chapters! i do wish they make it aan anime one of this days tho!! i love the madoka magica / sailor moon anime vibes
basic tldr star guardians are individuals chosen to fight for the first light, and even die for it. Xayah, the girl with magenta hair and Rakan, the guy with teal hair died in battle and was later in resurrected and corrupted. Xayah, being too far gone while Rakan still have some of the light in him. Rakan eventually purified Xayah through his light and absorbed all of her corruption to save her. Neeko, the lizard girl, the redhead with two guns and Ahri the fox girl were once their teammates until they left them there to die. Akali, the girl with the blueish hair you saw standing behind Rakan in the last music video witnessed their confession about their deaths along with Xayah losing Rakan again and had some doubts about being a guardian and dying for the light, so far not much of her story is involved
I love your videos and really enjoyed watching you react to Arcane until you took a break! Glad you finished it and I can’t wait to watch what I missed. I consider myself a bit of a Star Guardian expert, so allow me to try and help explain. The videos aren’t actually chronological, so I will tell you the stories chronologically. At the beginning of the Universe, an entity called The First Star / The First Light created the world and all that was in it. However, as time passed, cosmic entities began to threaten this new world, so The First Star granted magical powers to those pure of heart and strong in mind. Among the first with these magical powers was Zoe, the girl with the laugh and differently colored eyes. She and her team of friends fought the darkness until one day, they all perished in battle, leaving Zoe alone. Zoe became mad with grief and pain and chose to not only get revenge on The First Star, but to kill off future generations of Star Guardians so they would feel the pain of loss she felt. Many years later, Ahri was given the powers of a Star Guardian. She was to choose her team, including Miss Fortune, her lieutenant, and the three others in the Light & Shadow video, Neeko the shapeshifting chameleon girl and Xayah and Rakan, the bird couple seen in the last two videos. Together, the five won many battles until they were found by Zoe. Unfortunately, Zoe killed Rakan and his lover, Xayah, was forced to watch him die. Ahri sensed Xayah’s heart was slowing and so to save herself and her lieutenant, she dragged her lieutenant away forcibly as she cried out in grief of being forced to abandoned her teammates. Neeko was also thought dead. Back home on earth, Ahri and lieutenant Miss Fortune were to recruit Star Guardians without teams. They recruited Soraka, Syndra and Ezreal. But Ahri never forgot the teammates she abandoned to die and both she and her lieutenant lived in constant grief and agony over their choice to save themselves. Around the same time, a young girl named Lux, the pink haired girl from the first video, was also given the powers of The First Star and made to recruit her own team. Along with her Star Guardian Mentor, Janna, Lux recruited Poppy, Lulu, and Jinx, though Jinx was reluctant to be a Star Guardian. Ahri’s new team and Lux and her team become close friends and begin to work together. Though far less experienced, Ahri gives Lux the title of leader over both the teams joined as she leaves secretly in pursuit of her own mission. She had received a distress signal that made her believe Neeko had actually survived. Leaving earth to find the planet her team were killed on, Zoe was tormenting and chasing Neeko. Zoe had also recruited her own team by resurrecting dead lovers Xayah and Rakan but corrupting them to be in service of Zoe’s evil. While Xayah was fully corrupted inside and out, Rakan, having not witnessed his lover die, held on to memories of his former life as a Star Guardian and was developing a plan to save his lover from darkness. Ahri saved Neeko and returned to earth, pursued by Zoe, Xayah and Rakan. A huge battle begins on earth with each character previously mentioned involved, along with young bystanders Akali and Kai’Sa, the two best friends from the latest video. Zoe begins to destroy earth, but during her “power up” she is unable to attack. Knowing this, Rakan creates a plan with the Star Guardians to sacrifice himself and save his lover, along with the entire earth. Once Xayah is fatally wounded and total darkness begins to take control of her, Rakan purifies his lover, casting the darkness onto himself and saving Xayah. Then, bleeding black from his eyes and slowly dying, he prepares to strike Zoe in a combined attack with all the Star Guardians. The sacrifice is successful and Rakan and Zoe are both missing. Xayah is once again a pure Star Guardian, but she is totally distraught over loss of her lover. She recruits her own team, (not shown), of Seraphine, Senna and Orianna, and together they fight to find and purify Rakan from total darkness. Meanwhile, because of their help in battle, Kai’Sa and Akali, (besties from the last video) are granted to become Star Guardians after an unknown tragedy kills Lux (and perhaps her entire team, Jinx included). Given Lux’s powers, Kai’Sa forms her own team as well, Sona, Ekko, Taliyah and Nilah (League’s newest champion!) and Akali, her best friend, is slowly becoming corrupted by evil. We don’t know what happened to Akali, why she’s corrupted, how Xayah saves Rakan, or what happened to Lux (and possibly her team). However, two new Star Nemesis skins were released, evil Star Guardians, Morgana and Fiddlesticks, so we can assume it has something to do with them. More new Star Guardian cinematics are set to release. I suggest you guys take a look at the Star Guardian website (search that, it’s the first link) and take a look at everything, especially the recap story and the new short story, “Twin Stars,” where most of this is explained. Thank you for making enjoyable content for us! I hope you liked the explanation
It's easiest to first view theses as in-game cosmetics lines. They are just costumes first and foremost. Any and all characters get different costumes you can wear. The game developers put a little effort in and made stories about these cotumes (as if they are alternate versions of the characters). But at the end of the day, these are just add-ons to existing characters and are not characters themselves.
To make this easy to understand, Arcane is part of the actual League of Legends story. Star Guardians is a comic/manga in the Arcane world. So like if you watch other cannon cinematics you will see them reading star guardian comics
Are you going to continue to react to KDA, runterra stuff, other season cinematics and maybe the worlds shows as Warming up for season two? I would at least recommend tales of runeterra cinematics as they give insights into all the different places in Runterra. Now Noxus are involved, but when watching Arcane you Can recognize ionians, yordles ect. And who knows what other areas might get mentioned or involved ;)
you're actually not wrong many ppl speculated lux (the og star guardian leader) died and she became a statue so she gave that position to kai'sa who's now the new member of SG. if you want to know more about the lore, and the detailed story go visit their website to read the novel. in short, rakan sacrificed himself to free xayah from being corrupted so he kinda died? about kai'sa and akali (the girl in the mirror reflection) they're like a platonic bffs, but since one of the writers claimed they are lovers I will say they are a couple. so kai'sa traded the bracelet to be a star guardian, she broke her promise with akali which is hard to explain (read the novel) so yeah she felt betrayed and she's now on the dark side along with rakan. I think lux knows that and that's why she went to kai'sa cause that girl would do anything to bring akali back.
yaaaaay! lets go! I loooooove star guardian but could you guys also react to KDA music videos?? edit: also, you missed to add the Warriors music react to the playlist? I missed that cos of it. Did you guys react to anything else? edit2: I loooooove Xayah and Rakan. The couple in the 3rd short, chasing after the lizard girl (who I also love! she's such a cutie :3) (edit3: also they are the couple implied in the last music video. The girl holding the feather is Xayah, and that feather belongs to Rakan) "who will protect us?" "I will" xD badass Ahri and also hell yea I would pay the hell out of pocket for a Star Guardian series! "Oh I can't....this might make me cry" on point as always xD I too cried The last music video is a love song (with yea friendship too). 2 love stories in parallel - Xayah and Rakan as mentioned previously, and also the girl touching the mirror. She has a relationship with another Star Guardian (Akali, she's near the end of the video, just before they pan to the right to Rakan) edit4: as mentioned you're just interested in the lore, Necrit is good. But yea there are comics out there too. But mostly the media that are still easily accessible are written short stories on League of Legends' website itself
star guardian is heavily inspired by the japanese consept of magical girls and especialy sailor moon basicaly school girls with super powers fight to save the world with cool transformation to a magical form
League of Legends is a PvP MOBA, No story here. League of Legends: Wild Rift is the phone version of League of Legends. Legends of Runeterra is the card game spin-off to League of Legends, and there is not RNG when it comes to unlocking cards. Legends of Runeterra includes some lore, but most of the lore is told in cinematics, short stories, comics and recently some of the recent lore is told in events inside of the League of Legends client. Those are the worst in my opinion, since they are bound to an event they aren't accessible after the event is done so you can only watch them on UA-cam. Another thing I dislike about how Riot goes about with their lore is that sometimes they make a new website for an event and release comics and other lore stuff there, but don't link it on the official lore website. Since the lore can be really confusing, I recomment the UA-cam channel Necrit. He is pretty much THE lore guy when it comes to League of Legends. Riot even named a character after him. But he does makes some mistakes, missunderstands things and Riot likes to retcon and change their stories sometimes so older videos are possibly outdated, so I say he is about 90% reliable. If you want a story that stands on it's own while still connected to the overall lore, there is "Ruined King: A League of Legends Story" and "Ruination: A League of Legends Novel". Arcane still takes place in Runeterra, but since the show changes the story of some characters does it take place in it's own timeline.
I don't know who told you league is an MMO, but they were wrong. League is a MOBA game,l. (look up the meaning) legends of runeterra is a card game, but runeterra is the name of the world league is based in.
Para seguir el lore de Star guardians, pueden buscar las historias en la página de universo de legue of Legends. Aparte como este año es evento de guardianas se creo otra página por esta ocasión donde muestra todo de este año. Es Star guardians 2022.
no there is only one universe for the original League of Legends which is the story you will find in main website of League the lores there is what is happening right now also is the only recorded events of runeterra there is no time shit travelling something, yet, happened (why, yet? because there is a character in League of Legends that has a chronos power or simply something to do with time, and in this dudes lore he uses his power in order to save the people of his country from the think or catastrophe they themselves have done, currently this said people is being put into eternal sleep until this character find other people in runeterra that is able to fight of this creatures from the catastrophe his country had made) oh and Arcane is actually in the same world or basically the same current lore of runeterra, its just that I think Rito has to overhaul some lores in order to fit everything in order Star Guardians, PsyOps, Odyssey, PROJECT are other universes but you could just think of them as, what if scenarios or something not other universe
that's what kind of reaction I won't look at this clip, so everyone has the same question "jinx vibe?" where did you even see the jinx, if this is Zoe's dream, a terrible dream.
League of Legends' universe and The Star Guardian universe are completely different things. The only similar thing is the characters but they are still not the same person, for example, Jinx is this Blue haired girl in Arcane/League of Legends that is unstable mentally and wants to blow up everything while Star Guardian Jinx is the Red haired girl in the first cinematic, she's explosive and kinda arrogant. Skins and alternative universes in League of Legends aren't in the same world but rather a "What if XXX was a Sailor Moon character?" or other themes! :)
If you wanted the lore to the star guardians I highly reccomend either reacting to or just checking out necrit on youtube. He just put 2 different videos covering the star guardian lore
well lol has series of skins and sinc first Star Guardian 2016 year by year we get mor now is another star guardian event, and they have so many amazing skins that they are adding to the next character not only star guardian
Burning Bright seems to be the story of the Star Guardians coming to Earth and adopting secret identities, but Jinx would have rather been a Star Guardian full time instead of pretending to be a schoolgirl.
the previous star guardians left the earth to find rakan ( the green with feather which is sacrifice himself to save xayah the pink with feather ) xayah and rakan were corrupted by zoe, the floating girl and rakan sacrifice himself to make xayah become good again. The other star guardians believe that rakan is still alive so they left and searh for it. The other main character the pink hair will be the new leader who will stays in earth to protect everyone from the new enemy and we still dont know why shes crying thinking akali, the blue hair girl from the start.
The girl with two colored hair wasnt Jynx. Jynx was actually the red headed girl with the rocket launcher when they fought the green worm
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@@AppleBaron I knew something was throwing me off about how I spelt it. Thanks
@@Bayleaf6399 the worm they fought is called "The Baron Nasher"
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@@jonavinthao thanks for the correction
If u want to understand, here's the list of characters and their stories. It will be a long and maybe with some mistakes (i'm french) but it may can help (Btw you were right, it is actually inspired by Sailor Moon)
Star Guardians are normal people who receive their powers from the "first star" and they fight cosmic creatures, monsters etc. They usually fight by groups of 5 Guardians
For the champions in it, its :
1st Video
Pink Hairs : Lux, The leader, trying to learn how to lead a group of star guardians. She's a rookie
Red Hairs : Jinx, She's Lux bestfriend, she is really explosive, and she pretends not to be interested by star guardians and missions, but do have a real bond with them
Blue hairs : Poppy, she dont really like jinx temper
Green hairs : Lulu, she's the youngest, she often says things who dont make sense to the others
Purple hairs : Janna, she's the oldest, she's a quiet person, who have a mysterious past
2nd Video
Blonde Girl : Ahri, she's the leader of her group, she's very experienced, she's one of the "protagonists"
Redhead Girl : Miss Fortune, she's one of Ahri closest friend, but she suffer the loss of their old friends a lot
Blonde Guy : Ezreal, he's a new member of Ahri squad, and he have a crush on Lux
Green Girl : Soraka : she's a new member of ahri squad, she's a little bit like janna
Purple Girl : Syndra, Also a new member of Ahri squad, she have a mysterious past, and the star guardians, except ahri, dont really trust her
3rd Video
purple little girl : Zoe : She was once a Star guardian, but after one of her teammates turned into a monster, she lost control, and became a monster too. She corrupted Rakan and Xayah, after a fight against Ahri's old squad.
Purple Girl : Xayah, She was in ahri old squad, alongside neeko and rakan. She's rakan girlfriend, and they both've been corrupted by Zoe. While corrupted, she hated MF and Ahri for letting them dying. She've been saved by Star guardians after a 2nd fight against Zoe, with all the SG groups, but rakan had to sacrifice himself to save her, she's now trying to save him
Green Boy : Rakan, Xayah Boyfriend. While Xayah doesnt know they're being corrupted, he know and he's trying to sacrifice himself to save Xayah from corruption. He sacrifice himself at the end, so we dont actually know if he's still alive
Tail Girl : Neeko, She was in Ahri old Squad alongside Miss Fortune, Xayah and Rakan. She faked her death to escape from zoe, but ended up captured in Zoe "QG", where she try to escape, unsucessfully. She's not mad at Ahri and Miss Fortune for what they did, And she also try to explain Xayah why they had to did so. She's saved by Ahri after fighting against the corrupted SG.
4th Video
1st group
Pink hairs : Kai'Sa she's The leader of the newest group of SG. She's ready to sacrife everything to save people with her SG powers. She Think more about helping others than herself
Blue Hairs : Akali, Co-Leading the group alongside Kai'sa, she's Kai'sa Best friend since they were young. Opposite to Kai'Sa, she think helping people its fine, but with some limits. She knows that being a SG means they all will end up dying. she became a SG only to follow Kai'Sa, for their friendship, but kai'sa is ready to sacrifice this friendship if it can save more people. She doubt a lot about all the Star Guardian Stuff.
Green Hairs : Sona, part of Kai'sa group
Orange Boy : Ekko, Part of Kai'sa Group
The other Pink girl : Taliyah, Also part of Kai'sa group
Black haired girl : Nilah, she the oldest of the group, she usually fight alone but she agreed to help new SG for this fight
2nd Group
The 2 birds : Xayah And Rakan
Bonde Girl : Seraphine, she's a star guardian since a lot of time, and agreed to join Xayah, to help her save Rakan
Black haired girl : Senna, she's also SG since a lot of time, and she also agreed to join Xayah
Orianna : She's a new SG. She was a robot before being a SG, but while while she was becoming SG she wished to be a human being, so she's now trying to learn how to feel emotions like joy, love, etc. She agreed to join Xayah group.
thank you for thanking your time to explain it ,it helped me a lot and don't worry ,your english is good
@@federicousman9587 Thx bro, appreciate it
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I thought Akali got corrupted? Plus Akali's not part of the group?
You can read all Star guardian stories online! Very emotional and well written
Tell me please where can I read the stories? I can't find a link :(
@@mizov. league of legends universe page probably
You should read the lore about Star Guardians it's really good, it's the biggest and the best league of legends alternative universe
Jinx IS a starguardian in this AU, she still has similar interests, hence the rocket launcher and the scribbles on her seat in school. But yeah it's not something real jinx is aware of or anything
In arcane she has a drawing of sg jinx wings
@@migatito1291 no, wings in general are a symbol of freedom and empowerment, it might be a slight reference but the reason she likes wings is completely different.
It's crazy how Riot just kills it with every creative endeavor.. they create incredible music videos, an incredible series with Arcane and oh yeah, no biggie, an entire anime-inspired universe for a line of alternate skins lol. I agree with you guys, I think we are seeing a future MCU in the making.
It would be awesome if you both watched all the "Tales of Runeterra" videos, each shows you what to expect in the different regions of Runeterra (League's world in the main universe) and shows you some of the characters who reside at those regions. Those are great to watch so you can know what to expect since those regions showcased in those videos might be covered in the next seasons of Arcane!
12:00 "what if they made a series out of this" - ye what the lol community asks for a decade now ... and let's hope Arcane was just the Beginning. Just so you might remember some names when you come across them in future videos: The first star guardian group includes Lux, Jinx, Lulu, Janna and Poppy. The second: Ahri, Miss Fortune, Syndra, Ezreal and Soraka. The third video is about Ahris former group, where some members got corrupted (Xayah and Rakan - the bird people) and Neeko went looking for them. The last video has 2 stories/groups (since they release inclussive skins for their mobile game version of LoL - Wild Rift). The LoL PC story is about Kai'sa (wie the floaty thingies above her shoulders) and Akali - naming those 2 cuz they are both part of K/DA (so is Ahri).
Yes those skin lines are alternative universes aka "WHAT IF these champs didn't live in Runeterra (the LoL world)". So for when you watch K/DA, the pre-story is literally: Ahri being exploited by a former music producer and then going to found her own group. Would also recommend watching in release order: Popstars - More - then the 4 other songs which are solo songs from all the members of K/DA. You'll notice there is a big story to tell even in those alternative story lines.
Also I'm following your twitch so ... I'm waiting for you to touch Riots single player RPG: The Ruined King :) I feel like with all the RPGs you play and after getting in touch with some more LoL champs you'll enjoy that (before you should probably react to some Ruination content - it was the big 2021 event just like this year is about the Void and Star Guardians). Pretty sure your mod will tell you what videos to watch if you ask about that cuz there are like 6 of them :)
Btw you already watched Warriors, thats the season start cinematic for 2020. We get those every year for every new season start. So The Climb (2018) leads into Ruination, Awaken (2019) tells 3 stories, one being Noxus attacking another country (you'll remember Noxus from Arcane/Mels family), Warriors you watched, Ruination is 2021 and The Call is 2022. Last one starts the Void event from this year, which is about a big threat for whole Runeterra and also continues Kai'sas main lore story in Runeterra. I like that you read the descriptions of the videos you watched so you get some understanding of what's happening and you can discuss ... cuz we viewers can only help you after you posted it :D
After all that there is still tons of content to react to like the World championships that include the season start song and a esports song (2014 used Warriors from Imagine Dragons and those esports videos are more about players that compete and less about the LoL lore - but all of them are top tier (workout) songs). All those songs except the one from Zedd and Imagine Dragons should be copyright free btw - Riots likes its reactors - the more the better. So after you listened to all of that - the biggest events are ~15mins long opening ceremonies right before the last 5v5 final of the 2 remaining teams. Starting with 2017 most ppl are mindblown what technics Riot uses to bring the LoL world to life ... and for ppl in the stadium and at home to experience more than just the singers.
Ok that's it for now ... I'm hyped for months of LoL content to come. You 2 are too cute together :3
We might get more Star Guardian Cinematics in these couple of weeks as we are in the middle of the biggest star guardian event yet in league, and it's supposed to last for 2 or 3 weeks... Usually in events like these they drop several cinematics.
I’m so happy I discovered this channel through this. Both of you give the most wholesome reactions
There is a 14 chapter story explaining a bit of what you're seeing in the last video. The event going on will bring the rest of the story out. Love the reaction!! There is a lot of lore when it comes to the Star Guardians. Necrit is a fellow youtuber who covers all the league lore if you wanna learn more without taking the plunge!
also there are 3 more stories before the 14 chapter one
Where can you find the 14 chapter story
Hey, there's one new Star Guardian cinematic coming up soon around late July! (This month) Don't miss it! It's going to be real intense :D basically a continuation of what you saw from the latest SG video 2022 :) so stay tuned for that one!
If you're interested in more Star Guardian lores or comics to get to learn more let me know and I'll try to find them again! :D
12:03 A Star Guardians animated series is one of the most intensely demanded things from us League players. Riot was be actually useless if they could see the MASSIVE success of Arcane, yet leave this without a show.
To sum up things: League has champions, and because league is free to play they release skins to gain money, some skinlines are very popular and have special events whenever a new set of skins comes out.
Skins are just what if, for example star guardians, what if these champions were in a sailor moon universe. Obviously they are not canon so don't try to overthink about how does it connect to the main story or to Arcane
League of legends is a MOBA, multiplayer online battle arena, you queue up, choose your champion for the match and go in a 5v5 game.
Wild rift is league for mobile
Legends of Runeterra is the card game
Obviously all 3 of them are in the same universe and share Lore and characters with each other.
To understand the lore (both from alternative universes like Star Guardians, KDA, etc. and the main League Universe) I suggest watching Necrit on youtube.
This universe is a surprisingly dark one which they only really started exploring in the last 2 seasons, half of the star guardians you see in the videos have lived for 100+ years as teenagers because when you take “the oath” you swear you’ll protect the light from the dark forever. You cant die you can only burn out becoming a chaos monster forced to wander the galaxies for eternity. The cycle doesn’t end it just becomes one line.
The music video of Porter Robinson and Madeon - Shelter will give you an idea of porters story telling and how he manages to write music to tell the story he is portraying and I would not be surprised if he wrote this story too not forgetting he makes beautiful sort of anime inspired dance music
Fun fact, Riot actually partnered with Marvel to make their own comic rendition of a few Runeterra stories
Wow 😳 thats new 🥰🥰
If you want to read info about Star Guardian, there are short stories on the lore website. They even have a slumber party in one of them. The cinematics are really just the tip of the iceberg.
Fun fuc(k)t : burning bright and a new horizon there is Japan version. The name is :
- endless starlight (burning bright)
- Fates Fall (a new horizon)
6:52 That's Soraka, she's a kind and loving person, willing to sacrifice herself for others!
In the game she's a healer and sacrifices her own health to heal everyone, she also fights with falling stars since she's strongly related to the stars in the original lore of League of Legends (her being a celestial being/star spirit). In the Star Guardian universe she's one of the most powerful guardians because she's really close to the First Star, the entity that chooses every Star Guardian.
Okay so League has a website where you can look up the alternate universes (like the Star Guardian one) and see everything related. Most of the time the videos will release after o before a short story is dropped on the website so i recommend reading those or the recap they did on the website for the Star Guardian 2022 event.
Omg I was so hoping you'd react to their new song everything goes on, it's so beautiful, so happy you guys liked it❤
Mid Year events are the biggest riot launches every year, this year is star guardian, every other event of this size used to have like one video with 3 min, and other with 10 minutes with dialogues, i think we will get the 10min videos in one or two weeks, if so please react
Star Guardians has the most fleshed out lore out of any skin line having more lore than some champions even. The lore of Star Guardians in written lore like not cinematics I’m not sure but it might be on the League universe website where they usually post stories for their champions theres also 2 visual novels and a comic series for the 2022 Star Guardians on League Pc and Wild Rift respectively
If you love the show and have been enjoying all the different lore, I’d totally suggest reacting to each League of Legends champions, checking out there skills and skins along with them. This would actually help make a rewatch of arcane seem fresh and exciting and you would learn so much of the basics. 😊 Great video guys! Keep it up 😊
These suggestions aren't related at all to Arcane, but I think you would enjoy The Path, an Ionian Myth/Kin of the Stained Blade, as well as As We Fall, The Curse of the Sad Mummy, and Awake.
19:00 yes! If u launch the League client rn, ull be met with a Visual Novel esque quest and gradually learn more about the story
There's one more cinematic posted as a youtube short's video. It's a daily vlog made by Seraphine (the blond one with long hair who hugs the one crying). Plus, there is a new novel with some chapters (I believe 15 or something). It tells about what happend after Ahri got there to save her friends. Answering u guys question, u don't have to actually play the game to understand the lore. League's official site have an seccion with all the comics and novels from the runeterra itself and the skins universes (like SG) enjoy it!
The last one is actually Legendary skin for Kaisa and Akali (green hair)
The story' maybe Xayah, the one lost her boyfriend (green hair) in the Starguardian 3, and the one is Kaisa lost his friend Akali (the green hair from last reaction)
Probably a bit outside your usual content but if you enjoyed the last song that much i highly recommend listening to(and reacting :P) to the album Nurture by Porter Robinson. imo its one of the best albums released in the past few years and its lyrical content is very much in the same vein as Everything Goes On. Porter is a genius musician
Third comment (I know, it's a lot xD)
At 12:55 you asked if this was all that we had for Star Guardian, and it's not!! The league of legends website has the lore of the game written in it but also the Star Guardian Lore, there's multiple stories explaining what happens and who did what! A week ago we even got a new story which takes place between Light and Shadow (the third cinematic) and Everything Goes On (Fourth cinematic)!
There's also a lot of lore in the events but is less important.
For Exemple in Wild Rift (League of Legends' mobile version) you can see a comic about how Xayah (the pink girl with wings) recruited her new team members to rescue Rakan, her loved one
In League of Legends (PvP Game) it's a "visual novel" that tells the story of Kai'Sa, Akali and their team, which is a brand new team that replaced the older ones that are either busy or disappeared in the stars.
In Legends of Runeterra (League of Legends' PvP card game) there's not a lot of lore but only skins that tell us that Soraka (Green hair in cinematic 2, Jinx (Red hair in cinematic 1) and Lulu (Little Girl with Green Hair in cinematic 1) are travelling through space to rescue old Star Guardians that were destroyed by Zoe (Little girl with purple hair in cinematic 3)!
Basically the first trailer introduces us to lux group, the second to ahri's. Ahri loses 3 of her friends that are fighting each other on light and shadow cinematic since 2 of them were corrupted by Zoe the short purple girl with diferent eyes. She was once a star guardian too.
She fights them and the rest had to retreat, they thought they were dead but ahri came back to check afterwards, she saves neeko the lizard girl and eventually the purple winged girl named xayah is saved by her boyfriend rakan, who was not yet completely corrupted but this cost him as sacrifice in order to save her.
Lux becomes the leader afterwards and eventually she defeats Zoe who is the twilight star.
So basically the last trailer is the present days were a new danger will apear, but at the moment xayah is remembering her boyfriend and wants to still go after him and is seeking for other star guardians to help her, and the pink haired girl on the other side of the story is Kaisa a new star guardian best friend of the blue haired Akali she has a vision of lux that gaves her the power but gave away her bracelet of friendship and she gets distant to Akali with all the missions and training, Akali learns how to use dark matter which corrupts the guardians but seems to be controlling it, but eventually she will be distant just as Rakan.
In the third cinematic, with the star guardians fighting the little girl with 2 different eye colors, she was corrupting some of the star guardians. Xayah, the girl with the wings and feathers, was being corrupted by her. Rakan, her lover, he also had wings and feathers, was protecting her while preventing her from harming their ally, Neeko, the chameleon girl. The corrupting girl, Zoe, ended up dying because Rakan absorbed Xayah's corruption and threw himself at her, which also killed him. The final cinematic was basically Xayah with the old-er Guradians grieving over Rakan because she never fully forgave herself for his death. And, it is also the new Guardians because the co-captains of the new generation had a falling out, KaiSa and Akali. The girl crying and chasing the feather was Xayah in the last music video.
Welcome to the world of league of legends, all according to plan. Arcane was made as a gateway. league has always been a bucket of lore. Playing the game is a completely different experience, cause although its marketed like a MOBA (Multiplayer Online Battle Arena) is more akin to an RTS (Real Time Strategy). All the lore stuff is not on their game however, but on their official webpages. The most amazing part of it all is that since day one, story writers have come up with the most amazing lore back to back to back, from humble beginnings, to Star Guardians, the Project cyberization, as normal people like pop singers and rappers, space warriors, wild west, witches, all the way to Arcane itself and more. Arcane is default lore, things that happen in the regular universe of the game, but with "Skins", every character can be seen from a whole new perspective; of course, their writers having a field day each time. So once more, welcome to league lore, arcane fans, depending on how deep you wanna go, its gonna be a journey to remember.
The one you thought was Jinx in Light and Shadow is a character named Zoe. She is basically a trickster in the main LoL universe, but in Star Guardians, she's a corrupted Star Guardian who tries to corrupt others.
1:16 my guy is buffed 🥺 and also if you guys wanna learn stuff you might have need to read the lore ☺️
3:58 The dude’s literal take on these kids protecting stars is pretty hilarious.
If you like porter robinson and haven't heard most of his songs, I would suggest you watch one of his videos, sheltered. You might enjoy his other songs as well, they're all beautiful...I do hate the fact that I still can't listen to his songs without tearing up.
So, for more lore, we can check the skins in the game which have their stories written in the introduction, and this year we have visual novel to tell us more about the stories of this year’s guardian
Okay i'm gonna write all watch orders for ceremony videos. U can think them as a huge concert with huge animations ofc.
I recommend watch these music videos before 2019 ceremony.
True damage- Giants
Phoenix (ft. Cailin Russo ve Chrissy Costanza)
And before 2021 ceremony. (It's arcane promo video, i know u will shock while watching this)
Burn It All Down (ft. PVRIS)
Before Opening Ceremony 2018
Kda- popstars
RISE (ft. The Glitch Mob, Mako, and The Word Alive)
Before Opening Ceremony 2017
Legends Never Die -- This is my fav. league song.
According to Porter Robinson, it's about a couple's last night together before one of them becomes a Star Guardian whose identity and existence will be forgotten by everyone, their lover included.
Theres a story on Riots LoL site called Twin Stars. It's the Story of The last battle between the Star Gaurdians against the twilight Star Gaurdian Zoe with Xayah & Rakan. It introduces Kai'sa & Akali into the Star Gaurdians lore. The battle is interspersed with Sarah Fortune trying to redeem Xayah & Rakan because she sees it as her failure to save them when they last faced Zoe whom killed resurrected and corrupted both Xayah & Rakan. It takes all the Star Gaurdians at the time to beat Zoe during which Xayah is Redeemed. All the Star Gaurdians leave to search for Rakan whilst a new Star Gaurdian team is created with Kai'sa & Akali leading it trained by and outer galactic Star Gaurdian in Nilah... although Kai'sa & Akali have from what I can tell the largest Star Gaurdian team yet numbering about 10 members.
Lore had a 3 way split
LoL have the Kai-sa x Akali ship
WR got the Xayah x Rakan redemption arc
LoR took the Gwen revival story
All get new first dibs of their own sg skin got fans into chaos
You don´t have to play the game to understand because all the lore is in the cinematics, so don´t be afraid and watch all of them! You will love them, even the World events!
Star Guardian song have a Japan version :
Burning bright (English) = Endless Starlight (Japan)
New horizon (English) = Fates Fall (Japan)
They have stories over on a website if you're interested in reading Star Guardian Lore. It's very good
Runeterra is the main universe and storyline, thats where Arcane takes place and all the champions in the game exist, including Jinx and Vi. Then there are alternete universes that have no connection to each other but just with the characters from runeterra. So when you see like Jinx in runeterra (arcane) shes that girl, but then in this universe shes more like a normal high school girl defeating monsters at night. Thats how riot can play with there characters and give them different themes without ruining the story of runeterra and the main story line.
Fun fact: League of Legends is actually made to just promote music videos by riot.
(source: trust me bro)
They said this a game company 🙂
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The latest star guardian video is different hit when you read the lore of the star guardian... And what happen why the girl cry over her lover rakan 😥
the 2 birdpeople Xayah in Rakan where corrupted by Zoe the girl with the wormholes in the 3rd video. But Rakan managed with the help of the other star guradians to take the corruption from Xayah and kill Zoe but he sacrificed himself by doing so. There are many chapters of star guardian lore you can read and the last video you watched was the newest one that plays after Rakan is gone and Xayah still suffers but she found a new team that helps her to overcome her sorrow
Really meet more league reactions from you guys 😊
And star guardians have different squads. The older ones were keep fighting that dark girl with two different color eyes. This year’s star guardians are new, and got their power after those old star guardians fighting the dark girl and destroy their home city.
Rakan the blue haired one with the blue wing sacrificed himself to save Xayah (red haired one with the other wing). So she’s been dealing with him gone
Rakan to Xayah in the story
"The prince has to save the princess. Those are the rules.”
in the third Video Rakan and xayah is in the side of zoe as a dark star guardian and zoe rakan and xayah chasing nekko because they want to nekko to be part of them then ahri came to save them that's why ahri have those 3 stone because nekko rakam and xayah is her old members before the new member that's why she came to save them and to redeemed them from the Dark.(base on lore)
I’m very late, but I’m a huge fan of the star guardian universe! There’s stories and comics as well on the website if you’re at all interested!
Wow! Really really really loved your reactions! That would be really interesting indeed to have an animated series about the Star Guardians lore. There are so many Sailor Moon/Madoka references in it it would be impossible for me not to like it.
TLDR for you, The (1 winged ones) are Xayah and Rakan, they are a couple, Rakan sacrificed himself to save Xayah from the darkness. So her scene in the latest video is remembering the life they had before and the sacrifice he made for her.
The pink haired one Kai'sa is dealing with the loss of her friend (the light blue hair) Akali. They split apart due to a difference (that we don't yet know FOR SURE stay tuned for the upcoming releases)
Glad you enjoyed the videos
I hope you watch more league videos they’re really well made
Also the game for league isn’t cannon and has nothing to do with the lore aside from voice lines which can reveal things about the lore
If you go to the league websites you can find the whole lore about star guardians and read all the chapters! i do wish they make it aan anime one of this days tho!! i love the madoka magica / sailor moon anime vibes
basic tldr
star guardians are individuals chosen to fight for the first light, and even die for it. Xayah, the girl with magenta hair and Rakan, the guy with teal hair died in battle and was later in resurrected and corrupted. Xayah, being too far gone while Rakan still have some of the light in him. Rakan eventually purified Xayah through his light and absorbed all of her corruption to save her. Neeko, the lizard girl, the redhead with two guns and Ahri the fox girl were once their teammates until they left them there to die.
Akali, the girl with the blueish hair you saw standing behind Rakan in the last music video witnessed their confession about their deaths along with Xayah losing Rakan again and had some doubts about being a guardian and dying for the light, so far not much of her story is involved
I love your videos and really enjoyed watching you react to Arcane until you took a break! Glad you finished it and I can’t wait to watch what I missed. I consider myself a bit of a Star Guardian expert, so allow me to try and help explain.
The videos aren’t actually chronological, so I will tell you the stories chronologically.
At the beginning of the Universe, an entity called The First Star / The First Light created the world and all that was in it. However, as time passed, cosmic entities began to threaten this new world, so The First Star granted magical powers to those pure of heart and strong in mind.
Among the first with these magical powers was Zoe, the girl with the laugh and differently colored eyes.
She and her team of friends fought the darkness until one day, they all perished in battle, leaving Zoe alone.
Zoe became mad with grief and pain and chose to not only get revenge on The First Star, but to kill off future generations of Star Guardians so they would feel the pain of loss she felt.
Many years later, Ahri was given the powers of a Star Guardian. She was to choose her team, including Miss Fortune, her lieutenant, and the three others in the Light & Shadow video, Neeko the shapeshifting chameleon girl and Xayah and Rakan, the bird couple seen in the last two videos.
Together, the five won many battles until they were found by Zoe.
Unfortunately, Zoe killed Rakan and his lover, Xayah, was forced to watch him die. Ahri sensed Xayah’s heart was slowing and so to save herself and her lieutenant, she dragged her lieutenant away forcibly as she cried out in grief of being forced to abandoned her teammates. Neeko was also thought dead.
Back home on earth, Ahri and lieutenant Miss Fortune were to recruit Star Guardians without teams. They recruited Soraka, Syndra and Ezreal.
But Ahri never forgot the teammates she abandoned to die and both she and her lieutenant lived in constant grief and agony over their choice to save themselves.
Around the same time, a young girl named Lux, the pink haired girl from the first video, was also given the powers of The First Star and made to recruit her own team. Along with her Star Guardian Mentor, Janna, Lux recruited Poppy, Lulu, and Jinx, though Jinx was reluctant to be a Star Guardian.
Ahri’s new team and Lux and her team become close friends and begin to work together. Though far less experienced, Ahri gives Lux the title of leader over both the teams joined as she leaves secretly in pursuit of her own mission. She had received a distress signal that made her believe Neeko had actually survived.
Leaving earth to find the planet her team were killed on, Zoe was tormenting and chasing Neeko. Zoe had also recruited her own team by resurrecting dead lovers Xayah and Rakan but corrupting them to be in service of Zoe’s evil.
While Xayah was fully corrupted inside and out, Rakan, having not witnessed his lover die, held on to memories of his former life as a Star Guardian and was developing a plan to save his lover from darkness.
Ahri saved Neeko and returned to earth, pursued by Zoe, Xayah and Rakan. A huge battle begins on earth with each character previously mentioned involved, along with young bystanders Akali and Kai’Sa, the two best friends from the latest video.
Zoe begins to destroy earth, but during her “power up” she is unable to attack. Knowing this, Rakan creates a plan with the Star Guardians to sacrifice himself and save his lover, along with the entire earth.
Once Xayah is fatally wounded and total darkness begins to take control of her, Rakan purifies his lover, casting the darkness onto himself and saving Xayah. Then, bleeding black from his eyes and slowly dying, he prepares to strike Zoe in a combined attack with all the Star Guardians. The sacrifice is successful and Rakan and Zoe are both missing.
Xayah is once again a pure Star Guardian, but she is totally distraught over loss of her lover. She recruits her own team, (not shown), of Seraphine, Senna and Orianna, and together they fight to find and purify Rakan from total darkness.
Meanwhile, because of their help in battle, Kai’Sa and Akali, (besties from the last video) are granted to become Star Guardians after an unknown tragedy kills Lux (and perhaps her entire team, Jinx included). Given Lux’s powers, Kai’Sa forms her own team as well, Sona, Ekko, Taliyah and Nilah (League’s newest champion!) and Akali, her best friend, is slowly becoming corrupted by evil.
We don’t know what happened to Akali, why she’s corrupted, how Xayah saves Rakan, or what happened to Lux (and possibly her team). However, two new Star Nemesis skins were released, evil Star Guardians, Morgana and Fiddlesticks, so we can assume it has something to do with them.
More new Star Guardian cinematics are set to release. I suggest you guys take a look at the Star Guardian website (search that, it’s the first link) and take a look at everything, especially the recap story and the new short story, “Twin Stars,” where most of this is explained.
Thank you for making enjoyable content for us! I hope you liked the explanation
did yall notice star guardian ekko? the new star guardian event made him a star guardian too.
You also need to watch the Redeemed Star Guardian animation from Wild Rift and Seraphine’s vlogs on how she became one!
It's easiest to first view theses as in-game cosmetics lines. They are just costumes first and foremost. Any and all characters get different costumes you can wear.
The game developers put a little effort in and made stories about these cotumes (as if they are alternate versions of the characters). But at the end of the day, these are just add-ons to existing characters and are not characters themselves.
11:00 Has Jinx ever been tiny? Lolz. Ya’ll saw Jinx in the first video, right?
To make this easy to understand, Arcane is part of the actual League of Legends story. Star Guardians is a comic/manga in the Arcane world. So like if you watch other cannon cinematics you will see them reading star guardian comics
More please, love you're reactions. Lol has much more to offer :D
Necrit he explain the lore really good.
Are you going to continue to react to KDA, runterra stuff, other season cinematics and maybe the worlds shows as Warming up for season two?
I would at least recommend tales of runeterra cinematics as they give insights into all the different places in Runterra. Now Noxus are involved, but when watching Arcane you Can recognize ionians, yordles ect. And who knows what other areas might get mentioned or involved ;)
you're actually not wrong many ppl speculated lux (the og star guardian leader) died and she became a statue so she gave that position to kai'sa who's now the new member of SG. if you want to know more about the lore, and the detailed story go visit their website to read the novel.
in short, rakan sacrificed himself to free xayah from being corrupted so he kinda died? about kai'sa and akali (the girl in the mirror reflection) they're like a platonic bffs, but since one of the writers claimed they are lovers I will say they are a couple. so kai'sa traded the bracelet to be a star guardian, she broke her promise with akali which is hard to explain (read the novel) so yeah she felt betrayed and she's now on the dark side along with rakan. I think lux knows that and that's why she went to kai'sa cause that girl would do anything to bring akali back.
Being a starguardian is actually pretty Dark, cause they burn bright but cause of that burn out really fast
yaaaaay! lets go!
I loooooove star guardian
but could you guys also react to KDA music videos??
edit: also, you missed to add the Warriors music react to the playlist? I missed that cos of it. Did you guys react to anything else?
edit2: I loooooove Xayah and Rakan. The couple in the 3rd short, chasing after the lizard girl (who I also love! she's such a cutie :3)
(edit3: also they are the couple implied in the last music video. The girl holding the feather is Xayah, and that feather belongs to Rakan)
"who will protect us?" "I will" xD badass Ahri
and also hell yea I would pay the hell out of pocket for a Star Guardian series!
"Oh I can't....this might make me cry" on point as always xD I too cried
The last music video is a love song (with yea friendship too). 2 love stories in parallel - Xayah and Rakan as mentioned previously, and also the girl touching the mirror. She has a relationship with another Star Guardian (Akali, she's near the end of the video, just before they pan to the right to Rakan)
edit4: as mentioned you're just interested in the lore, Necrit is good. But yea there are comics out there too. But mostly the media that are still easily accessible are written short stories on League of Legends' website itself
star guardian is heavily inspired by the japanese consept of magical girls and especialy sailor moon basicaly school girls with super powers fight to save the world with cool transformation to a magical form
I suggest if you want to know the lore of it all see Necrit's video explaining
League of Legends is a PvP MOBA, No story here.
League of Legends: Wild Rift is the phone version of League of Legends.
Legends of Runeterra is the card game spin-off to League of Legends, and there is not RNG when it comes to unlocking cards.
Legends of Runeterra includes some lore, but most of the lore is told in cinematics, short stories, comics and recently some of the recent lore is told in events inside of the League of Legends client.
Those are the worst in my opinion, since they are bound to an event they aren't accessible after the event is done so you can only watch them on UA-cam.
Another thing I dislike about how Riot goes about with their lore is that sometimes they make a new website for an event and release comics and other lore stuff there, but don't link it on the official lore website.
Since the lore can be really confusing, I recomment the UA-cam channel Necrit. He is pretty much THE lore guy when it comes to League of Legends.
Riot even named a character after him.
But he does makes some mistakes, missunderstands things and Riot likes to retcon and change their stories sometimes so older videos are possibly outdated, so I say he is about 90% reliable.
If you want a story that stands on it's own while still connected to the overall lore, there is "Ruined King: A League of Legends Story" and "Ruination: A League of Legends Novel".
Arcane still takes place in Runeterra, but since the show changes the story of some characters does it take place in it's own timeline.
The friends were more than friends 😮💨
Ekko is part of that last star guardian vid!
Where?
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@@AppleBaron yes you're right
I don't know who told you league is an MMO, but they were wrong. League is a MOBA game,l. (look up the meaning) legends of runeterra is a card game, but runeterra is the name of the world league is based in.
There are 6 short stories of the star guardian lore.
It could be cool if you guys saw the "league of legends worlds 2021 opening ceremony"
Para seguir el lore de Star guardians, pueden buscar las historias en la página de universo de legue of Legends. Aparte como este año es evento de guardianas se creo otra página por esta ocasión donde muestra todo de este año. Es Star guardians 2022.
18:49 MOBA- massive online battle area game.
no there is only one universe for the original League of Legends which is the story you will find in main website of League the lores there is what is happening right now also is the only recorded events of runeterra there is no time shit travelling something, yet, happened (why, yet? because there is a character in League of Legends that has a chronos power or simply something to do with time, and in this dudes lore he uses his power in order to save the people of his country from the think or catastrophe they themselves have done, currently this said people is being put into eternal sleep until this character find other people in runeterra that is able to fight of this creatures from the catastrophe his country had made)
oh and Arcane is actually in the same world or basically the same current lore of runeterra, its just that I think Rito has to overhaul some lores in order to fit everything in order
Star Guardians, PsyOps, Odyssey, PROJECT are other universes but you could just think of them as, what if scenarios or something not other universe
that's what kind of reaction I won't look at this clip, so everyone has the same question "jinx vibe?"
where did you even see the jinx, if this is Zoe's dream, a terrible dream.
im gonna sub, you two are too adorable ♥
League of Legends' universe and The Star Guardian universe are completely different things. The only similar thing is the characters but they are still not the same person, for example, Jinx is this Blue haired girl in Arcane/League of Legends that is unstable mentally and wants to blow up everything while Star Guardian Jinx is the Red haired girl in the first cinematic, she's explosive and kinda arrogant.
Skins and alternative universes in League of Legends aren't in the same world but rather a "What if XXX was a Sailor Moon character?" or other themes! :)
Would you say grief is love everlasting????
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They have a visual novel so you can read it
You have to watch more league cinematics please
If you red the star guardian lore, the last one will really hit you so so so so hard
You said the next one will be KDA so i'm waiting 🥺
If you wanted the lore to the star guardians I highly reccomend either reacting to or just checking out necrit on youtube. He just put 2 different videos covering the star guardian lore
well lol has series of skins and sinc first Star Guardian 2016 year by year we get mor now is another star guardian event, and they have so many amazing skins that they are adding to the next character not only star guardian
a youtuber called Necrit has good lore videos on star guardians ;P
Burning Bright seems to be the story of the Star Guardians coming to Earth and adopting secret identities, but Jinx would have rather been a Star Guardian full time instead of pretending to be a schoolgirl.
If u want know more read first story on League of legends page ( universe - Star Guardian) then comics.
the previous star guardians left the earth to find rakan ( the green with feather which is sacrifice himself to save xayah the pink with feather ) xayah and rakan were corrupted by zoe, the floating girl and rakan sacrifice himself to make xayah become good again. The other star guardians believe that rakan is still alive so they left and searh for it. The other main character the pink hair will be the new leader who will stays in earth to protect everyone from the new enemy and we still dont know why shes crying thinking akali, the blue hair girl from the start.
I feel like akali either went rogue or was corrupted