Soraka the "Starchild". Maybe Bard, Mr. Celestial, is a "paternal" figure to her.

Solideus·Apr 26, 2015·3 votes·1,376 views

She supposedly has some connection to Bard.

I imagine little Soraka following him around like one of the Meeps before she settled in Ionia.

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Tesla EffectApr 26, 20152 votes

Both are called Celestial Beings, but they are different kinds of races.

Tesla EffectApr 26, 20152 votes

I would like clarification on what type of Celestial Beings we are dealing with here. Soraka is a Celestial yet her home the Astral Grove is connected only in Ionia, and she had a body before her fall. Bard seems to be a energy being that creates a vessel simply to interact with the physical world and can traverse through dimensions at will. To me they seem as very different beings despide both being called Celestial Beings. Its like saying Runeterran Beings to all the races that live there. Not all of them are the same so why should the Celestials be any different.

SharjoApr 26, 20153 votes

Perhaps the difference is where the celestials originate from. If we assume Soraka has always existed in the grove until her fall we can also make a decent assumption that she was born as a part of the physical world, of Runeterra itself. As a being born here she has a physical body that allows her to interact with the physical world naturally.

If we look at Bard there's a weird kind of similarity between him and Soraka even if his appearance is down to him actually creating that look to interact with the people of the world; he has a large horn coming out of his head, hair (or fur) coming from around his head, stilts for legs which, while not the same as Soraka's digitigrade legs do give him a similar kind of prancing walk.

I'd like to imagine that Bard tailored his appearance to be a sort of makeshift recreation as to what he would look like as a physical being; if he was born in the physical realm like Soraka. I mean if he wanted to interact with the people of Runeterra and seem like one of them why would he make a physical form that's very proportionally different from the vast majority of its native people? This is me spitballing, so it could be completely wrong, but now I'm imagining a Bard skin that shows him as he'd appear as if he was from the grove like Soraka was. He'd be very purple I'd say!

Tesla EffectApr 26, 20151 votes

So if Soraka was born in the physical plain, her connection to the powers of the universe are already severed in comparison to Bard. How is a being like Bard "born" when not in the physical plain. can we assume the differences between Bard and Soraka are because of the different dimensions they were born in (Bards birth universe may worked differently than what we see in our universe, different laws and such).

PS: Sharjo, make a lol wiki account so that we may chat privately about the lore. Me and my friend there would really like to hear your opinions about these things and something we have been working on. Have the same name there so its not hard to find me :)

SharjoApr 27, 20151 votes

If we think about stars and celestial bodies in real life, they're created under the force of their own gravity. Maybe Celestials aren't born in the traditional sense, so much as they just "come in to existence" when the circumstances are right.

On Soraka though, her title is "The Star Child". She is described as being "Gifted with the power of the stars" in her bio. She already seems to be seperate from the stars even before she was fallen, as it's said she lost favour with them. She called upon their blessings because, as a physical being, she had to have them cooperate with her rather than have that power right at her finger tips.

If we go further we can tie this in to gameplay (lore and game aren't connected I know but hey, I can still work things like this!) Where her healing costs her health. She has to sacrifice her own vitality, perhaps even a part of her very being in order to call upon the same kind of power Bard can. To kind of summarise what I mean by all of this; Soraka was born of the stars, she is the Star Child. Bard is one with the stars, he is the Great Caretaker. Already that paints a distinct picture for them. The implications are intriguing no? At least I'd like to imagine they are!

(I actually have an account for the wiki, I'm just more of a lurker! Might be good to get talking on there though. Could get some good discussion in.)

SydelleApr 27, 20152 votes

I genuinely think those meeps are the souls of those who worship or revere him, such as the villagers that died on the night Noxus raided to obtain the stone power. Raka turns to starlight upon death just as Bard does, so they are peers in my book (with the caveat that Bard has not lost his immortality <-- 'conditional' immortality by at least one Rioter's book). If you take that Rioter at his/her word, then Soraka (having been immortal) was borne into existence as SENIOR in celestial rank to Bard. I don't think the Rioter had everything figured out with respect to all other characters when he or she spoke because the world of Runeterra is currently beset by an ill fog of nothingness where confusion reigns.

If anyone left me with the task of shedding light into the darkness, I would say Bard and Soraka were both born into the immortal celestial plane. Soraka left that plane for a sojourn in the mortal plane. It's a 'sojourn' because she will die and become starlight again. At that point, we don't know what happens. Bard freely moves between both planes, as Soraka could before.

Mortality, in this sense, now gains a new definition. Instead of defining mortality as 'a being that will inevitably die', it means 'the inability to freely move between planes of existence for a period of time.'

Some mortals may be able to gain information from other planes of existence. Such mortals have, in the past, been referred to as mediums. The definition of a 'medium' is: the intervening substance through which impressions are conveyed to the senses or a_ force acts on objects at a distance_.

I would venture to say that Soraka, though mortal, retains a strong connection to her birth plane and that her mortal body is a medium to other planes of existence. On a related tangent, this would not be unlike Jesus at The Last Supper, speaking of his body and blood as.... 'mediums.' The spin of the particles that comprise our bodies are in constant communication with very far reaching areas of deep space. Different bodies may be linked to wildly differing quadrants of the universe, and Very Special Bodies may be linked to the Origin itself. Alpha and Omega.

ZeichiVosApr 29, 20152 votes

I find that Soraka's Celestine skin looks a lot more similar to Bard's aesthetic than base Soraka. Celestine Soraka is often compared to a priestly aesthetic, and the skin was originally called battle priestess. As such, perhaps we can infer if not some form of worship, at least an acknowledgement of deific power in the beings of the stars. Original Soraka comes from the Astral Grove, and her aesthetic is notably different. Could this indicate a distinction between astral and celestial, and perhaps Soraka's connection with the stars?

ModAcademy KaynApr 26, 20151 votes

I wish i could draw well since a little child Soraka following Bard sounds really cute.

Ironclad DragonApr 26, 20151 votes

Something I noticed: both Bard and Soraka have the single horn on their head.

NarasimhaApr 26, 20151 votes

Do note that Bard's body isn't actually his body, its something he made so that he could interact with Runeterra.

Ironclad DragonApr 26, 20151 votes

I am aware.

SharjoApr 26, 20151 votes

What did he base his body design upon though?

Hm...

NarasimhaApr 27, 20151 votes

Pillows. Also balloons.

SharjoApr 27, 20151 votes

Where'd he get the idea for his horn from then? I know very few horn shaped balloons or pillows.

Well I can imagine a horn shaped pillow. Not a balloon though.

NarasimhaApr 27, 20152 votes

Unicorns. Bard's greatest secret is that all his actions are to bring unicorns back to the land. The horn symbolizes his desire and motivation.

Tesla EffectApr 27, 20153 votes

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Unicorns. Bard's greatest secret is that all his actions are to bring unicorns back to the land. The horn symbolizes his desire and motivation.

"Ah Tryndamere, my greatest creation. This ones rage will shape the world." - Aatrox

"Beeep beeep broooum, braaummeah. Brooooamwawawaw. " ("Ah Soraka, my greatest creation. This ones horn will shape the world.") - Bard

James StoneApr 28, 20151 votes

Makes a lot of sense really

Soraka was banished from the "heavens" for interfering with mortal bussiness. Perhaps Bard took the Starchild as his protegee, and stripped her of her transdimensional powers when she decided to use them to save Warwick, probably a last straw after he told her (she probably spoke Didgeridoo before) she couldn't save lives and should only focus on preserving the land.

As for why she has roughly the same power level as Bard... maybe in her banishment she refined her healing abilities. Her "fall from the stars" might have ended up being nothing but a loss of portal funness