Grimoire:Guardian

The following is a list of Guardian entries for the Grimoire:

Guardians
"Legends are carved into history by the brave."

- Card blurb

Guardians are warriors forged in the Traveler's Light, a final hope in a universe that is slowly falling into darkness.

Chosen from the dead by the Traveler's Ghosts, Guardians are those rare few able to wield the Light as a weapon. For centuries they have defended the City. But that defense cannot hold forever.

Now, with the Darkness rising again, the time has come to retake our lost worlds. The Guardians who lead the way will save humanity - and become legend.

Class: Hunter
"Our old worlds have grown feral&mdash;rabid beasts with teeth of rust and ruin. But such beasts are meant to be tamed. Or broken."

- Card blurb

Hunters stalk the wilderness beyond the City, harnessing the Light to reclaim the secrets of our lost worlds. They are daring scouts and stealthy killers, expert with knives and precision weapons. Hunters blaze their own trails and write their own laws.

Ghost Fragment: Hunter
[Redacted]

Class: Titan
"Stand. Not only to fight, but to strive. For honor. For hope. We bleed, we die, we defend."

- Card blurb

Titans are warriors&mdash;heroic defenders of the Light, channeling the gifts of the Traveler to wage war on the Darkness. Steadfast and sure, Titans face any challenge head-on, serving as living, blunt force instruments of the Traveler’s will.

Ghost Fragment: Titan
[Redacted]

Class: Warlock
"We have found new ways to weaponize curiosity. Pathways into the darkness."

- Card blurb

Warrior-scholars of the Light, Warlocks devote themselves to understanding the Traveler and its power. A Warlock mind is an arsenal of deadly secrets, balanced between godhood and madness. On the battlefield, those secrets can shatter reality itself.

Ghost Fragment: Warlock
[Redacted]

Awoken
"The others sing this song of Light and Dark. We, together, have transcended such unimaginative limitations."

- Card blurb

It is said the Awoken were born in the Collapse, descended from those who tried to flee its wrath. Something happened to them out on the edge of the deep Black, and they were forever changed. Today many Awoken live in the distant reef aloof and mysterious, but others returned to Earth, where their descendants now fight for the City. Earthborn Awoken sometimes venture out to the Reef, hoping to learn its secrets - but find no special welcome from the reclusive Queen.

Exo
"Ask yourself: what threatened your Golden Age ancestors so much that they constructed the Exos to defend themselves?"

- Card blurb

Built for a long forgotten war, the Exos are self-aware war machines so advanced that nothing short of a Ghost can understand their inner functions. They remain ciphers, even to themselves: their origins and purposes lost to time.

Whoever built the Exos fashioned them in humanity's image, gifting them with diversity of mind and body. Many of the City's Exo citizens live and work alongside their organic brethren. But others fight again, re-forged in the Light of the Traveler to serve as Guardians.

Human
"This was our world, our solar system. We were here first. And no matter what the darkness brings, we will be here at the dawn."

- Card blurb

Humans are survivors, tough and resilient, descended from those who built a Golden Age only to see it ripped away. Now, after an age of retreat and desperate struggle, they fight to take back their solar system and claim a new future. There are those who believe the Traveler chose Earth for a reason. Now it is humanity's obligation to prove itself worthy of the Traveler's faith.

Ghost Fragment: Human
[Redacted]

Ghosts
"In its dying breath, the Traveler created the Ghosts… To seek out those who can wield its Light as a weapon. Guardians, to protect us, and do what the Traveler itself no longer can."

- The Speaker

Built from machinery and the Traveler's Light, Ghosts guide their Guardian companions in the quest to reclaim our solar system.

Every Ghost seeks out its Guardian among the ancient dead. The Ghost serves as scout, librarian, and mechanic, waking ancient machinery and cracking alien codes. In the right situations, a Ghost can even save a Guardian from death.

But Ghosts are not immortal. Every loss is irreplaceable.

Dead Ghosts
[Redacted]

Ghost Fragment: Abilities
[Redacted]

Striker
[Redacted]

Defender
[Redacted]

Gunslinger
[Redacted]

Bladedancer
"Beautiful lethality, relentless style."

- Card blurb

There's something to be said for the blade. A knife won't jam. A knife won't run dry. A knife is very, very quiet.

Leave the noise and fire to others. There's work to be done, out there in the dark - monsters that deserve death, delivered quickly, sometimes silently, and without mercy.

Voidwalker
"Those who have stared into the Void are not bound by the laws of space and time."

- Card blurb

The Traveler came out of the void that surrounds all things. Thus we know that the void is full of power. Thus we enter the void without fear.

Small minds will call your abilities blasphemous. They will compare you to the abominable Wizards of the Hive.

But you will not be held back. Gifted with the Traveler's Light, armed with the secret physics of a lost age, you will tear reality asunder.

You fear nothing, and nothing will not fear you.

Sunsinger
"There are flames that even the Darkness cannot extinguish."

- Card blurb

These are dark times. Humanity stands on the brink of extinction. We will carry fire into that darkness - a beacon to guide the way, and a pyre to consume our great enemy.

The Light saved us from death and forged us into weapons. We seek to understand it, to embrace it, to consume and be consumed by it. We hope to become radiant.

Our fellow Guardians need our power. Our civilization needs our strength.

Punch
"The clenched fist of a Titan is a hammer capable of reshaping our lost worlds."

- Card blurb

The raw, brute strength of a Titan's melee offers a full-force response to immediate danger —- perfect for quick strikes when overrun or when taking the fight directly to the enemy.

Stab
"A Hunter's survival comes down to two essential ingredients: skill and preparation."

- Card blurb

With their finely tuned reflexes, Hunters are naturally gifted with knives. In the right situation, a sharpened blade can make quick work of any enemy.

Palm
"The Warlocks have long-mastered the forces surrounding the Light..."

- Card blurb

A Warlock's curiosity can often lead to interesting predicaments. To aid in their survival beyond, the Orders learned to harness the physical world into quick, focused bursts with deadly intent.

Flashbang Grenade
[Redacted]

Pulse Grenade
[Redacted]

Lightning Grenade
[Redacted]

Magnetic Grenade
[Redacted]

Spike Grenade
[Redacted]

Suppressor Grenade
[Redacted]

Skip Grenade
[Redacted]

Arcbolt Grenade
[Redacted]

Flux Grenade
[Redacted]

Incendiary Grenade
[Redacted]

Tripmine Grenade
[Redacted]

Swarm Grenade
[Redacted]

Solar Grenade
[Redacted]

Firebolt Grenade
[Redacted]

Fusion Grenade
[Redacted]

Vortex Grenade
[Redacted]

Scatter Grenade
[Redacted]

Axion Bolt
[Redacted]

Double Jump
Bend momentum to jump again in mid-air. Leap to even greater heights, or make a quick adjustment while airborne to disorient your foes.

Glide
Break the bonds of gravity and convert your jump into a long, smooth glide. Cross dangerous terrain and float from perch to perch to keep the high ground.

Lift
Leap into a powered jump. The long, slow arc makes you a target, but used carefully, it's a superb way to break contact, gain control of the high ground, or set up devastating ambushes.

Blink
Rip a hole in space and leap from point to point. Master the Blink, and you will be a fearsome killer - a spectral force, hard to evade and impossible to pin down. But beware: the technique takes time to recharge.

Fist of Havoc
[Redacted]

Ward of Dawn
[Redacted]

Golden Gun
[Redacted]

Arc Blade
[Redacted]

Nova Bomb
[Redacted]

Radiance
[Redacted]

Trivia
The phrase "pathways into the darkness" may be a reference to Pathways into Darkness, an early FPS created by Bungie.