Guardians

A species of Wyverns that exist within the universe of U1-GA, They are beings of pure energy that have taken residence in physical bodies in order to protect life on different planets. A creation of the Ancients, They are beings of lesser power who control more specific elements. They can separate their energy from their body easily, traveling to kenos or through portals in their Vos form.

Appearances
They are Wyverns of various shapes and sizes, ranging from as small as 6 feet to as tall as 200 ft on average, being Wyverns, they lack any arms or the front legs a normal Dragon would have, only having the back hindlegs.

Guardians are either made of the element they represent, or a fake flesh. They can also be exchanged or replaced, but this is a difficult process and rarely undertaken. This process happens in kenos, though, as an ancient needs to create the body. Guardians could take any body they wished, but they choose a wyvern body to be recognized easily, as they interact with many single-body species all the time.

When the body is finished, the guardian possesses the body and the ancient sends the body to the planetthe guardian wishes to go to. They then break free from the element their body is made of, or the atoms form in the air.

Traits

 * Mind Reading

Every Guardian has various capability of reading the surface thoughts of another living creature


 * Biology

They are not normal living creatures, but energies called Vos inhabiting a body created of natural material. This is true for guardians, at least. Note that Ancients are similar, but they do not inhabit a body. They choose to stay in kenós, As guardians are made and not born, they don't need to eat, drink or sleep in the way living beings usually do. A guardian only needs to sleep if they have used a large amount of energy.

Their bodies are usually shaped from the material they represent, but some represent an idea rather than a physical element, such as. If this is the case, their body is made of fake flesh, which is the same colour as their scales, and they bleed liquid of a similar colour. Guardians like this contain no bones or organs to speak of.

One thing to note is if a guardian is physically weak after a battle, they can eat and heal faster The food adds matter and small amounts of soul energy when the guardian absorbs it.
 * Vos Mode

Guardians have the special ability to exit their physical bodies in what is known as, "Vos Mode", Vos being their very soul. They do this by entering a meditative state. Once they enter Vos mode, they can move freely, possess another body, or enter pocket universes known as kenos. They do this by locating a small rip in spacetime, which they can travel through to their destination. Guardians have the peculiar ability to know where the rip will take them as well. There are many kenos, ranging in the thousands, but only a few are well-traveled and visited. One of the most popular ones are populated planet cores, such as Alanoth and Aliv. These core kenos often house ancients too, for convenience's sake.


 * Tasma

One of a Guardians weakest forms, Guardians become tasmas when they loose a part of their energy, which causes them to be unable to inhabit a body. Then, they inhabit an evolved (intelligent) creature and help them on their journey.

A ghost of a guardian wyvern. They search objects to take residence in, and when they find a suitable creature, they inhabit them. When this happens, most of the time the creature becomes a hero on their planet, and sometimes they even travel the universe. The creature is granted with great power as well. The ghost itself is it’s Vos that was stripped from it’s body, caused by the body being destroyed. When it’s stripped from it’s body suddenly, it doesn’t have time to remove all of it’s Vos from the body, thus some of it’s Vos is destroyed as well. It’s weak when it isn’t inhabiting a body, which is why it strives to find a good creature to do so.

If a tasma's host dies of old age, the guardian can actually find another body without loss to their energy, But if the host dies a violent/young death, the tasma goes with them.

The Tasma can be locked in something with some intense magic, such as primal Vos/Sko magic.


 * Greek

Greek was created by guardians in order to interact with evolved species easily. They found that

speaking straight into a creature’s mind almost always ended in catastrophe, Before then,when they interacted, they would immediately know who the other was. But now that they needed language for interacting with complex life. Ancients also took

names, but more for novelty than for anything useful.


 * Creation

Guardians are created when two ancients do the Sympan Chorou, or the universal dance. The two ancient’s elements combine differently each time, creating a Vos energy. All guardians are made pure Vos, but through action, they can make their energy more Sko. This energy then learns basic Greek in the kenos it was created, and either creates its own body or goes to a kenos guardian school. If it creates a body, the guardian goes to a planetary guardian school. Before the guardian goes to school, they are either raised by adoptive parents in a kenos or on a planet.

Ancients cannot parent a guardian child, but neither the ancient or guardian feel a great loss at splitting up.


 * Travel

If guardians ever need to travel between planets, they can leave their body in their energy form and create their body wherever they end up. They cannot create a new form, as their body “imprints” itself on a guardian’s energy, so they must replicate their current one. They replicate their body either with their element or by morphing the molecules around themselves to make their body.


 * Dynami

Dynami mode is when a guardian taps into their ancient power, which grants them great strength in their element.

This translates to superpower, which is exactly what it is. This "super mode" allows guardians to gain an extra boost in their powers, such as making them stronger or quicker. Dýnami isn't an easy mode to reach, as it requires intense concentration and training, or immense dedication fueled by emotion.

Petra, Guardian of Stone, who was a hero in the Próto Pólemo, or First War, is the first Guardian to have entered this state. The war was a battle between skotádi, or creatures of pure darkness, and guardians. In one fateful battle, Petra had entered a rage so immense for the skotádi that she entered dýnami and decimated their whole army with pure heat.

This was the first time any guardian had experienced dýnami, and it changed the course of the war quickly. Dýnami was usually used in battles to clear the rest of an army, as the guardian who achieved it passed out afterwards from the drain to their energy. More experienced guardians can enter dýnami at will without draining their energy quickly, but this takes practice and time. Some Guardians experience permanant changes, notably Nera, who grew from 6 feet in size to 40.


 * Guardian Schools

The first one was created in the Kentros kenos, and it originally taught guardians how to inhabit their bodies, interact with beings, more general knowledge about the universe, and some fine arts. After the Proto Polemo, however, guardians schools became more battle-oriented. Now, they teach how to enter dynami mode, fighting skills, how to use their powers well, general knowledge, and some arts. A guardian typically starts school when they’re 10,000 years old, and stay in school for 750,000 years. Since the first one, many schools have opened on popular planets, and one on Alanoth existed once.


 * Kenos

Some guardians are dotted on different planets, choosing to remain on their home planet, but many have moved away to travel the universe, or dwell with ancients in kenós.

A kenós is a separate universe connected to ours via a gap in space-time, although how that works is still unknown to me. Trying to listen to a guardian describe it is a bad idea, Guardians enter a form of meditation that allows their Vos to exit their body. They see differently than most, both in their body and not,

What matters for now is that in this Vos-mode, they can enter the gaps and travel to the kenós the gap is attached to. Kenós can be similar to Earth in many ways, or just be a dark, empty void. Many popular kenós are populated by equally popular guardians, and sometimes ancients. But, you don't actually have to be a guardian to enter a kenós!

Kentros, a large planet, holds one of the largest guardian-created structures in the universe. It's a regal building that allows creatures of all types to enter any kenós, by opening up temporary gaps to them. Going there from a different planet requires a portal for non-guardians, one figure who was lucky to experience this was the engimatic adventurer known as Edgar Page.

Backstory
Ancients are the gods of the U1-GA universe, they are the creator of everything in their universe. They spawned from the Megali Erixi, the ancient massive explosion that sent molecular debris in every direction. This massive explosion had enough energy to create the ancients, who began their work cooling the universe and soon after, creating entire galaxies. After creating the planets, the ancients saw potential on their surfaces. For the billions of years, the ancient Zoi didn't know what to do with her life-creating powers.

But now, with planets to civilize, she went to work placing down the fundamental single celled creatures that would become complex life. As the ancients watch this simple life become evolved life, they saw evolution stagnate. Nothing was changing enough to warrant natural selection. So, the ancients created weaker, yet still powerful beings of Vos we now call guardians. These guardians found elements around them and formed bodies from these elements, discovering and experimenting with different materials. This was how early guardians discovered the element they were skilled in. These guardians then set to work, going down to planets and helping creatures with promise evolving, some examples being noctes and humans.

Millions of years later, something strange was discovered: Kenos. Discovered by a wandering guardian, these pocket universes were found to increase the ancient's power, almost back to their original strength at the beginning of the universe. So all ancients set up their new homes in kenos connected to suns, planets, and even black holes.

When guardians created Greek, they found that names were especially useful. Before then, when they interacted, they would immediately know who the other was. But now that they needed language for interacting with complex life, they also needed names. Ancients soon adapted names as well, finding them more a novelty than anything useful. These names often portray what element the ancients can control. Here are all of them listed for reference:

Matter- Yli

Antimatter- Tyvil

Liquid- Vepo

Solid- Stros

Gas- Syfo

Raw Material- Yiko

Life- Zoi

Death- Thanatos

Heat- Tita

Cold- Kryo

Light- Fos

Sound- Icos

Gravity- Travo

Magnet- Itikos

Electricity- Soki

Energy Transfer- Fora

Movement- Kini

Time- Chryno

Stone- Petra

Decay- Thora

Smoke- Kapnos

Cloud- Nera

Stars- Ilakos

Pain- Pali

Mud- Laspi

Ash- Tefra

Threat- Inos

Static Argo

Plasma- Ario

Iron- Idero