Hunger: protection.
Prime power: resistance.
World: officially, none.
Guardians chanted the course of the First WarThe first war the world ever knew was so great, so horrific, that it literally destroyed everything. More, their attempts to create perfect safety—including the discernment for placement—eroded their minds. The first and last line of defense, they sacrificed themselves upon the pyre of preservation of Peoples, and so have lost themselves.
Those who remain are uniformly mad. Most are gone forever.
Rumors of a world called MeginnahAn unknown fifth parallel world, created for and by the Guardians who went mad after the First War. More surface in times of peace and pondering, but none have found it, and perhaps it has never truly been. The symbol of the Guardians is the four-winged herald, created to honor those who were the greatest among them, the SaqaluThe Saqalu were once among the noblest beings in our world. Now, they are the Broken. More, the BalanceSee the Saqalu and the Broken. More; now, they are the HashrituSee the Saqalu. More, the BrokenWhat remains of the Saqalu. They still wield the awesome power they always did, but they are no longer… stable. More, and are lost to all but memory.