Starheart (DC)
The Starheart is a magical artifact that features in DC Comics.
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History
Origin
The Starheart
Long ago, the Guardians of the Universe set themselves on the task of creating order and had built their citadel to serve as their headquarters. During this time, they used techniques known to them to gather together all the mystic force loose in the starways as they decided that science could only prevail. They thus decided to imprison it within the heart of a star where the magic was to remain imprisoned forever with it eventually becoming known as the Starheart. (Green Lantern v2 #111)
Three and a half billion years ago a humanoid race from the world of Maltus sought to bring order to the stars. An offshoot of the race became known as the Guardians of the Universe. They sought to remove magic from the universe, and laid siege to the necromantic forces of the cosmos. The war was costly on both sides. The last to fall was the powerful Empire of Tears, finally subdued by the Guardians on the tombworld of Ysmault.
After the wars, all the stray mystical energies in the universe were gathered and bound in an orb called the Starheart. This collective force was hidden in the heart of a star and grew in power and eventually gained self-awareness as the Green Flame of Life. Though the Guardians were powerful, the force of magic was something that could not be contained forever. In preparation for this day, the Starheart willed a small portion of itself to travel through the universe to fulfill its destiny. As it traveled through space, the piece of the Starheart gathered debris over the centuries until it resembled a meteor.
Post-Flashpoint
Following the Flashpoint, a new version of reality was created with a different history of events.
Millenia ago, in an attempt to bring order to the universe, the Guardians of the Universe gathered all of the ancient, wild magic of the cosmos and bound it within the heart of a star. Though they believed it contained, within the star, this cosmic heart of magic grew and developed sentience- and loneliness. Its energies became aligned to willpower, to the emerald portion of the emotional electromagnetic spectrum Seeking to end its isolation, the Starheart willed a portion of itself out of its fiery prison. However, over time, the sentience of the Starheart had partially leached into the star's corona, where, seperated from the rest of itself, its isolation turned into bitterness and rage. When the Starheart's fragment escaped the star's gravity on its trajectory towards Earth- a portion of the corona followed, having become the Crimson Flame. (Alan Scott: The Green Lantern v1 #5)
Overview
Users
- Alan Scott :
Notes
- The Starheart was created by Dennis O'Neil and Alex Saviuk where it made its first appearance in Green Lantern v2 #111 (December, 1978).
- Originally, it appeared as the Green Flame of Life in All-American Comics v1 #16 (1940) where it was created by Bill Finger and Martin Nodell.
Appearances
- All-American Comics v1: (1978)
- Green Lantern
- Alan Scott: The Green Lantern v1:
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