As the third prophecy was completed, Alan Scott donned a costume as the mystery man 'the Green Lantern' and sought out the person responsible for sabotaging the bridge bringing him to justice before continuing to operate as a hero based from Gotham City. Saved by the power of the lantern, Scott was instructed by the voice to carve a ring from its metal to be used as a conduit for the lantern's magical power. As Scott picked up the lantern the train passed over a bridge that was sabotaged by explosives. Upon it's completion the flames burst from the lantern and Billings became sane, completing the second prophecy.Īfter many more years, in 1939, the lantern was eventually found on a train by a young railroad engineer named Alan Scott. Billings was fond of metalworking, and he remade the Chinese style lamp into an ornate railroad lantern. On the verge of the mystic's death, green flames blasted from the lamp and killed the men, saving the mystic and fulfilling the first prophecy.Īfter many years, the lamp was taken to America and given to Billings, an insane patient of Arkham Asylum. Taking the meteor for himself, the mystic carved it into a lamp, but other men in his village feared him and one night they gathered a mob and tried to murder him. After its discovery, a Chinese mystic heard a voice prophesy that the meteor would act three times, once to bring death, once to bring life, and once to bring power. As it traveled through space, the piece of the Starheart gathered debris over the centuries until in resembled a meteor.Ĭenturies later, the meteor fell to Earth in ancient China after merging with the essence of an ancient Green Lantern named Yalan Gur. In preparation for the day when it would be free, the Starheart willed a small portion of itself to travel through the universe to fulfill its destiny. This collective force was hidden in the heart of a star where it grew in power until it eventually gained self-awareness as the Green Flame of Life.

Laying siege to the necromantic forces of the cosmos, the Guardians gathered the stray mystical energies following the war and bound them in an orb called the Starheart. Eons ago, the Guardians of the Universe made a decision to rid the stars of magic in order to pave the way for science to prevail.

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