Lux

Their story, step by step

1. Step 1

   A hidden gift

   Luxanna Crownguard was born into one of Demacia's most prestigious noble houses, in High Silvermere. Her older brother Garen went off to military life while she was prepared for a quiet domestic role. After wolves ambushed her on a trip beyond the walls, she unleashed light magic by instinct. In a kingdom that fears mages, and with an uncle who had died fighting a rogue mage, she came to think of herself as an abomination.

2. Step 2

   Galio and acceptance

   As her power became harder to suppress, Lux went to the Galio monument outside the Great City, hoping to learn control. Her magic woke the petricite colossus. After he rescued her from patrolmen who took her for an escaped mage, Galio told her that her gift was special. That night changed how she saw herself, and she turned down her mother's plan to have her treated to remove the magic.

3. Step 3

   Illuminator and relief work

   Lux kept practicing in secret while her aunt Tianna taught her strategy and history. She joined the Illuminators, a charitable order, helping the sick and poor while looking for ways to make Demacia kinder to mages. When an earthquake struck Terbisia, she joined the relief effort. There she let her hands glow so a dying blind man could see light one last time.

4. Step 4

   Fossbarrow

   Lux travelled north to her great-grandfather Fossian's tomb, and found the town of Fossbarrow gripped by nightmares and paranoia. Garen and Vanguard soldiers arrived, and after a man driven mad killed his family, Garen executed him. A fear-feeding demon was behind it, possessing the missing boy Luca. Lux freed him with compassion and light, and together they drove the demon off. At the funeral she argued for mercy while Garen argued Demacia could not afford it.

5. Step 5

   Sylas and the rebellion

   In the mageseeker archive Lux met the prisoner Sylas, who taught her to stop repressing her magic and use it instead. She visited him for weeks, then helped him by stealing the blueprints for petricite, which showed it absorbed magic rather than blocking it. At his public execution she pleaded for him, but he used her power to break free, destroyed the plaza and freed other prisoners. He spared Garen at her begging, though he told her not to waste kindness on people who loathed her.

6. Step 6

   Standing against Sylas

   After the riot Lux told the mageseekers about Sylas's abilities and petricite's true effect, without revealing that she was a mage. Fearing he would march on King Jarvan III, she drank a petricite potion so he could not absorb her magic, wounded him and rescued Prince Jarvan IV. When she met Sylas and mage refugees fleeing through the sewers she could not talk them out of following him, and she let them go. Afterwards she became Governor of Terbisia.

Turning points

• Galio tells her that her magic is special and she should keep it
• Freeing Luca from the demon at Fossbarrow
• Helping Sylas, then watching him turn the execution into a rebellion
• Drinking petricite to rescue Prince Jarvan IV from Sylas's followers

Where their story stands now

Lux is Governor of Terbisia and an officially recognized Illuminator, working to move Demacia toward tolerance. Her bond with Garen is strained after her public defiance, her role in Sylas's escape is still hidden, and Sylas remains at large with his followers.

Who they are tied to

• Garen →Garen is her protective older brother who defends Demacia's harsh treatment of mages, and he and Lux clash over mercy at Fossbarrow and again over Sylas, who spares Garen's life at her pleading.
• Sylas →Sylas teaches Lux to embrace her magic and she helps him, but he uses her power to escape and begins a rebellion, so she ends up opposing him while still refusing to harm his followers.
• Sona →A mute virtuoso of the etwahl who speaks through music.
• Galio →A colossal petricite golem built to defend Demacia against enemy mages.
• Lillia →A shy Fae Fawn who protects the Dreaming Tree and tends mortal dreams.
• Nocturne →A primordial demon of nightmares that feeds on fear in the waking world.

Games they appear in

• The Mageseeker: A League of Legends Story →Sylas escapes imprisonment and turns his anger at Demacia's Mageseekers into an organized rebellion.

Where this fits in the story

1. Demacia · step 1

   A refuge from the Rune Wars

   Demacia was founded as a refuge from the Rune Wars, when World Runes reshaped entire nations. It built its identity on order, law and keeping magic at arm's length.

2. Demacia · step 2

   Petricite and the fear of magic

   The Demacians discovered petricite, a magic-dampening stone, and made it central to their defense. Persecuting mages became state policy, carried out by the Mageseekers.

3. Demacia · step 3

   The long rivalry with Noxus

   Demacia and Noxus fought for generations. One of the best-known clashes ended with the Noxian Sion killing King Jarvan I.

4. Demacia · step 4

   Turmoil at home

   The assassination of King Jarvan III shook the kingdom, and Sylas rose against the persecution of mages. The cruelty of the Mageseekers is now openly questioned, and Jarvan IV rules a kingdom that is changing.

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