Category:Guardians

The Guardians are a race of people that have immense magical powers. They are meant to act as links between the worlds of the Living, the worlds of the Dead and the worlds of the Spirits. Not all Guardians follow this, however, much depending on their past. This has caused the race of the Guardians to be divided into two categories; the Born and the Unborn.

Unborn Guardians
Unborn Guardians are, as the name says, unborn﻿; their souls were never a part of the reincarnation-cycle. Because of this they do not think and act the same as Born Guardians do; they do not feel in the same way thanks to that they have never experienced life.

The Unborn Guardians were discovered by Dallandra and she later went to live with them to try and teach them some "humanity". This proved a difficult task but eventually all of the Unborn Guardians, save their leader Evandar and his wife Alshandra, were sent to be born. Evandar eventually chose to be born as well but only after he had changed Rhodry from a human to a dragon, draining all of his powers.

Unborn Guardians often use their powers for their own gain. They are often able to see parts of the future and change it by placing out items among the living. These items are often illusions that really only exist in the spiritual worlds. Unborn Guardians are also unable to get close to anything made of iron, as this drains their powers; just like iron is dangerous for a dweomer-master in trance.

The Unborn Guardians also called their own race the Seelie Court.

List of Known Unborn Guardians

 * Alshandra - Evandar's former wife, considered mad. Posed as a Goddess. Was killed by Jill of Cerrmor
 * Elessario - Evandar's daughter, one of the first Unborn Guardians to be born
 * Evandar - The leader of the Seelie Court. One of the few Unborn Guardians who showed some compassion and humanity. Died when he saved Rhodry by turning him into a dragon, was later born
 * Shaetano - Evandar's brother who constantly opposed him. Only briefly mentioned in the series

Born Guardians
The Born Guardians were once humans or other beings inhabiting the worlds of the Living. A lot of them had magical gifts that were enhanced when they became Guardians. These Guardians serve their purpose as a link between the Living, the Dead and the Spirits and also help the Gods with their business. A lot of the Gods, for example Aslan, have seats on the Guardians' Council.

The Born Guardians are chosen to become Guardians by the Council because of their deeds in their original world. As Born Guardians were once living beings, their enhanced powers make them immortal, which means that the Council is ever expanding. When a man or a woman is chosen to join the Council, one of the already existing Guardians go to wherever he or she is at the moment and ask him or her to join them. If the person declines, the Guardians do not dwell on the matter but allows the person to keep on with his or her life.

If the person accepts, however, he or she has to make a Sacrifice, a Request and take on a Quest before being accepted as real Guardians. Once the Quest is complete, the person is given full access to their enhanced powers and also a title to bear when on the Council. The titles reflect what the person was chosen to become a Guardian for; for example Sandra Roberts was given the title Guardian of the Dimension because of her bond with the whole Magical Dimension, while Lilith Roberts became Guardian of the Dragons because of her bond with them.

The Quests are often very hard to succeed in, though the Guardians never let anyone die during these Quests, unless they were offered a position on the Council when they were already dying.

A former Animagus who becomes a Guardian has the ability to shift to not one but two different animals. All Guardians are also given a pair of wings to mark their own status; an Animagus can show these wings as an animal as well as when in human form.

Guardians' Council in Candracar
The Guardians' Council has its own hall in Candracar. A majority of the Guardians stay in this mystical fortress the whole time, except for when they are sent out to help others. Each Guardian has their own individual quarters to live in, which they can model and shape out of their own mind. A lot of Guardians choose some place where they earlier lived, a place that brings up happy memories. It is mentioned that Lilith's quarters are a portal to her royal office back in the Crystal Fortress.

The Council is lead by the Councilor, who is seen as a constant link between the Gods and the Guardians. The Councilor is, however, not immortal like the other Guardians; they cannot age but if pierced by a blade they will die. This causes the Councilor to sometimes be replaced; when one Councilor dies the Gods, not the Guardians, are in charge of deciding who should be the next one. The current Councilor is Cortina, who is also known as Aslan's wife and mother of Freedom and Sandra.

The Council assembles when the Councilor has been given the task to find a new Guardian in a certain part of the universe. Thanks to the way Candracar is created the fortress itself will then provide the Guardians with information about possible candidates. Sometimes two candidates are picked, sometimes just one. When deciding upon one single candidate, the Council decides upon a Quest, and once that is done the Councilor goes to see the chosen one and give him the offer to become a Guardian, to hear his Request and his Sacrifice and then send him out on the Quest itself.

Guardians often do not accept their positions out of thirst for power, but because of that they see it as the only way to keep someone or something safe. Sandra accepted her place because of that the power of the Golden Flame was beginning to tear her apart; Freedom saw this as well in herself but believed that the Council wouldn't be a proper place to be in when she was needed in the different worlds instead.

List of Known Born Guardians
(coming)

Other Guardians

 * Aderyn, a dweomer-master from Deverry, was considered a Guardian for a while, but was later born again as the son of Valandario, his former apprentice. As he had been born before he could never have been called an Unborn Guardian, but a Born Guardian can never again enter the cycle of reincarnations. Therefore, Aderyn is a different type of Guardian that no-one knows how to categorize.


 * Before the creation of the Four Rings, the powers in them shaped Four Veils out at sea. Each of these veils had their own Guardian, but no-one knows if these Guardians were Born or Unborn, or some other magical being


 * During her Quest, Sandra Roberts was introduced to dhampirs who called themselves guardians because of their mission to protect the vampire-species Moroi. These guardians aren't gifted with magical powers; they merely carry the same title