Luxanna Crownguard, better known simply as Lux, is a playable champion in League Of Legends, a competitive game in which two teams of five players are pitted against each other with one goal: To destroy the enemy team's nexus. In the game, Lux seems like a confident mage who wields light magic, obliterating her foes with spells that resemble rainbows.
Her voice lines can only give players a small glimpse into her personality, as she holds a single spot in a roster of over 150 champions. Fans of the game can learn much more about Lux through the new comic titled Lux, which was created in a collaboration with Marvel and is completely free to read online.
10 She Was Engaged To Jarvan IV
In Demacia, being revealed as a mage means that one's life is over. Mages are seen as the enemy and are largely discriminated against. Even Lux, despite being born in a high-ranking family, would be no exception. The only way she would be truly safe, according to her brother Garen and Aunt Tianna, is if she were to marry Jarvan IV.
Although Jarvan alludes to being in love with someone else— which fans speculate is the half-dragon Shyvana— he agrees to Garen's proposal to marry Lux because she was Jarvan's childhood friend, she is not interested in his position as the prince, and Garen is the one who made the suggestion. Unfortunately for Lux, she was not only blindsided by this arrangement, but she has no romantic interest in Jarvan.
9 She Had No Idea Mages Were Imprisoned
Lux assumes that all arrested mages are sent to the Hinterlands, a northern mountainous area of Demacia that borders the icy land of the Freljord. Garen does nothing to disprove Lux's assumption. People are not able to control whether they have magical abilities or not, yet are subject to harsh discrimination and punishment because of a war against mages that happened years ago.
Being forced out of one's own home is terrible enough, but being put behind bars for being a mage is even worse. Many of the people imprisoned had done nothing wrong, and according to Sylas, he had been there for years with almost nothing to eat.
8 She Can Use The Crownguard Name To Her Advantage
Lux learns from her brother that anyone from the Crownguard family can show any Demacian soldier their family crest and be granted access almost anywhere. Everyone in Demacia would recognize the highly regarded Crownguard name, as that is the name of the family who has closely served under the royal family for generations.
It grants Lux a privilege that allows her to even visit the highly guarded prison for mages. She also gains a hefty amount of respect from others, making the soldiers that disrespected her immediately regret their actions once they discover her identity.
7 She Can't Control Her Magic
In the game, Lux is a talented and confident light mage who flawlessly casts her spells. However, Lux does not have this mastery in Demacia. From a young age, Lux has not been able to control her magic. Her hands start glowing right in front of Garen, and even when she tries to cover it up, the light is poorly concealed.
Stating that her old tricks aren't working insinuates that her power is getting stronger and that she needs a proper teacher, or the light from her hands could become deadly.
6 The Confiscated Magic Books Are Not Destroyed
Despite the fact that mages are hated in Demacia, the magical books that the soldiers find from arrested mages are not destroyed. Instead, they are confiscated and stored in the Arcane Registry. Most people cannot go there, but Lux is one of the few exceptions.
However, instead of the answers she is looking for, she just finds books on history, potions, and curses. These books do not seem to teach Lux anything of value. However, the texts are not destroyed in case Mageseekers, the people who hunt and arrest mages, need any information from them.
5 She Already Met Galio
After retrieving Durand's texts from the Mageseeker's vault for Sylas, a magical prisoner that Lux had befriended, Sylas discovers that Galio is a weapon that absorbs magic from mages in order to move and even fight. When Lux sees the picture on the paper, she immediately recognizes the colossus to be Galio. Being able to instantly recognize him and stating that she knew him meant that Lux's encounter with Galio happened before she met Sylas.
Galio's ability to absorb magic had temporarily allowed him to move once Lux was close enough. Unlike Sylas, who plotted to use her for his own benefit, Galio had told Lux to stop coming to see him since he felt that he was robbing her of her gift.
4 She Had Feelings For Sylas
In Sylas, Lux finds someone that she can confide in. He is a mage like her, and keeps her secret. In exchange for his company and his teachings, she often brings him gifts such as books and food. Visiting his cell is something she shouldn't do, but she doesn't stop even when Garen tells her to.
She never tells him how she feels, but she's even willing to throw herself over him in an attempt to stop his execution. Unfortunately, he does not seem to feel the same way, having no qualms with using her. He absorbs her magic and starts a violent coup with the other mages who had been imprisoned.
3 There Is A Potion To Weaken Magic
In the prison for mages, mages were forced to drink liquid Petricite. Petricite is a material used in armor and in Galio, which absorbs magic and renders mages powerless.
Judging by the violent reactions of both a prisoner and Lux, Petricite was never meant to be consumed. It robs people of their magic from the inside, but despite knowing that consuming it would be painful, Lux forces herself to do it anyway. If she didn't, Sylas could steal her magic and use it against her and others.
2 She Has An Odd Way Of Controlling Her Magic
Without anyone else to turn to, Lux asks Sylas to teach her to control her magic. He tells her that she should stop being afraid of it, and that she needs to see it at its most destructive in order to master her abilities. This means that the reason why Lux struggled to control of her magic was because she was so scared of what it could do. Sylas told her to repeat this process every day in order to master it.
The image of her destructive capabilities is reminiscent of her ultimate ability in the game, Final Spark. This means that in order to use her spells efficiently, Lux may be picturing the kind of destruction she is capable of the entire time.
1 Garen Accepts Her As A Mage
When Lux first lost control of her powers, she and Garen were just children. Lux convinced herself that perhaps Garen had forgotten the incident, but he never did. She had begged him not to hate her, which is probably why he never addressed her glowing hand in the comic. However, remaining silent meant that he never really accepted the fact that she was a mage.
He felt that saying it out loud meant that he would have to arrest her, according to the law. It is not until the end, when Lux helps a group of mages escape from Demacia, that he finally accepts her as a mage. Her selfless eagerness to help the innocent made her a true Demacian in his eyes, and finally allowed the siblings to grow closer.