Guidelight Voyagers
| Guidelight Voyagers | |
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| Founded on | Unknown, possibly the Edge |
| Active | Omenpath Era |
| Status | Active |
| Membership | |
| Members | Mendicant Core |
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| Species | Robots |
The Guidelight Voyagers are a racing team from an unknown plane that competed in the Ghirapur Grand Prix.[1]
Description
The Guidelight Voyagers are an uncanny collection of automatons captained and coordinated by a single mind: a machine that calls itself "Mendicant Core".[1] Mendicant Core and the Guidelight Voyagers have been an enigmatic, fan-favorite team after their appearance in the first multiplanar run of the Grand Prix. Rumors follow them, with the ignorant fretting they might be some new form of Phyrexian and the curious wishing to disassemble them in search of a maker's mark. The truth is far more mysterious and even more tragic: They are lost, with Mendicant the sole sapient being amongst the machines he attends. They race the Grand Prix searching for a way back home, each member of their racing team functioning as one of their limbs in a vast network of intelligence, lost in and alien to the Multiverse.[2]
The automatons of the Guidelight work like limbs of vast intelligence, united together in the singular purpose to transit the planes of the Multiverse in a repeatable method, varying their approach with rapidity to introduce new variables to their controllable baseline in the hopes of finding a way back to their homeworld. The Guidelight Voyagers can fuse with their racing vehicles to become greater than the sum of their parts.[3]
History
The Guidelight first appeared during the opening of the Omenpaths, emerging onto Avishkar shortly after the the New Phyrexian Invasion.[1] They found the plane acceptable but were disturbed by their arrival there. The Omenpath they transited through essentially opened around them and deposited them upon Avishkar before closing again.[4] After a period of wandering the plane, Mendicant encountered the Grand Prix.
Under Mendicant's guidance, they deemed the infrastructure of the race to be a perfect iterative field for them to attempt their audacious plan: transit as many Omenpaths as they could in hopes of recreating the conditions that brought them to Avishkar — only this time in reverse — and return home.[1][4] The Guidelight Voyagers were able to compete in the first Ghirapur Grand Prix, finishing as a solidly middle-pack team employing reliable, if predictable, strategies. In the second edition, though, the Guidelight revised their plans, attempting new and unpredictable methods of racecraft. Something about the race has changed. Though the other teams don't know what that is, they all understand that the Guidelight Voyagers are searching for something at the edges of the Grand Prix.
In the final stage of the race, Mendicant's vehicle was wrecked, and it was mind controlled by Jace Beleren, who was attempting to recover his adopted child Loot.[5]
Trivia
- In the Magic: The Gathering Arena Tooltips, the Guidelight Voyagers are referred to as the Tireless Wanderers, possibly implying this was their original name during design.
- Codecracker Hound shows a dog dismantling an identical robot to Guidelight Synergist. This suggests that the home of the Guidelight Voyagers may be the Edge.
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References
- ↑ a b c d December 10, 2024 (Miguel Lopez). "Planeswalker's Guide to Aetherdrift, Part 1". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Miguel Lopez (February 3, 2025). "The Legends of Aetherdrift". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Buckle Up for a Race Across the Multiverse - Aetherdrift Debut (Video). YouTube (January 21, 2025).
- ↑ a b Natalie Kreider, Harless Snyder, Miguel Lopez (January 10, 2025). "Racing into Aetherdrift with The Magic Story Podcast (Video)". Magic: The Gathering. YouTube.
- ↑ K. Arsenault Rivera (January 20, 2025). "Aetherdrift - Episode 6: The Bloodless Revolution". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.