In troubled Ionia, the oldest myths of the Vastayashai'rei recall a seer who communed with the stars themselves, and called upon their light both to heal the wounded and scorch those who would do further harm to the First Lands.Ĭurrently, Soraka calls the westernmost peaks of Targon her home. In the depths beneath Zaun, rumors float of a lilac skinned medic who would purify weary lungs from the ravages of the alchemical Gray. Some tribes of the Freljord still speak of a far wanderer, a horned healer who soothed the icy bite of the most brutal winters. Over the millennia, legends of the Starchild have filtered through all the lands of Runeterra. Soraka sought now to inspire and guide rather than shepherd, to see what unblazed trails each mortal would discover for themselves in their brief, radiant moment. While a part of her craved the fixed, comforting destinies of the stars, she knew in her heart that static fates could not contain the unbridled, dynamic potential of mortality.Īnd so her work took on renewed vigor, driven to unlock the untapped possibilities of all she met. Soraka realized her place was not to repair or replicate the celestial pattern. Just as mortals had the deepest capacity for cruelty, so too did they possess infinite potential for kindness, and inspiration to rival anything among the stars. From the celestial realm above, it had seemed like pure chaos but with her new perspective, and blessed by the stars to stand against the erosion of time, Soraka now beheld an almost perfect beauty. Unintended and wild, the mortals were forging new and unknown futures for themselves. something incredible and wholly unforeseen happened.įrom the snarls and tangles and knots, the messy breaks in the great patterns, Soraka noticed a new, unintended design emerging-intertwined, and of a staggering complexity. They were simply unable to see the greater patterns, now lost.īut as Soraka lived among them, as one of them, trying to repair what little of the damage she could. Their lives were too short, she reasoned. She watched, helpless, as mortals ignorantly broke the threads of destiny they could have woven together. Whether on the battlefields of inescapable conflicts, in the seedy underbellies of sprawling cities, or on the frontiers of the untamed wilderness beyond them, there seemed to be no end to the fighting, betrayal, and suffering Soraka witnessed.
This child of the stars took on a form of flesh and blood, and though the powerful magic coursing through her veins burned this new body from the inside out, she knew her suffering meant little if she could help to heal all that was broken and incomplete.Īnd so Soraka came to be, and set upon her journey to soothe the mortals she encountered.Įven so, she quickly learned the capacity for cruelty that the peoples of Runeterra possessed. No longer able to merely watch, one celestial being chose to descend to the mortal realm, determined to untangle the knots in the tapestry of the world. The guidance and fates that had been woven into the night sky often went unseen-or worse, were misinterpreted by their simple mortal minds, leading to chaos, uncertainty, and suffering. These creatures deviated wildly, unpredictably, and dangerously from the great designs intended for them by those above. An age ago, when time itself was young, the inhabitants of the celestial realm regarded the fledgling races of Runeterra with growing concern.
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