* In Hinduism, lokapāla refers to the Guardians of the Directions associated with the four cardinal directions.

* In Buddhism, lokapāla refers to the Four Heavenly Kings, and to other protector spirits, whereas the Guardians of the Directions are referred to as the ' dikpālas '

The following gate is the Gate of the Guardians of the Four Directions or Four Heavenly Kings, each of whom watches over one cardinal direction of the world.

Some examples of this are: R. A. Salvatore's Drizzt of " The Legend of Drizzt ", Kathryn Lasky's Soren of Guardians of Ga ' Hoole, David Eddings ' Belgarion in the Belgariad and Malloreon, Terry Brooks ' Shea and Wil Ohmsford of The Sword of Shannara and The Elfstones of Shannara, Terry Goodkind's Richard Cypher, Robert Jordan's Rand al ' Thor of The Wheel of Time, Pug and Arutha of Raymond Feist's Riftwar Saga, Philip Pullman's Lyra Belacqua of His Dark Materials, Ursula K. Le Guin's Ged, Aerial of the Darkangel Trilogy by Meredith Ann Pierce, and Christopher Paolini's Eragon of The Inheritance Cycleand Ashalind of the " Bitterbynd Trilogy ".

Using a modified engine of that used in Phantom Hourglass, the notably new feature in this game is that the Phantom Guardians seen in Phantom Hourglass are, through a series of events, periodically controllable.

Twelve Guardians are explained to guard the Twelve Portals.

The Guardians are revealed in several scenes: the first is revealed when Roland is explaining to Eddie and Susannah Dean what Shardik was and his understanding of the Beams ; another is revealed when Eddie and Susannah approach the Cradle of Lud ; and the last, Bird and Hare, are revealed in the poem Roland and his lover, Susan Delgado, recite to each other occasionally: " Bird and Bear and Hare and Fish ...." The only pairs identified are by Susannah and Eddie while at the Cradle of Lud.

If the Guardians are not satisfied by the explanation, they have a number of disciplinary options which include:

The small number of beings that are more powerful than the Time Lords include the ( now extinct ) Osirans and higher powers of the universe such as the Black and White Guardians, and possibly the Eternals.

The Guardians of the Universe are one of several races that originated on the planet Maltus and were among the first intelligent life forms in the universe.

Following the Sinestro Corps War, Ganthet and Sayd are banished from the Guardians.

During the Blackest Night, the Guardians finally realize the accuracy of the prophecy and are imprisoned by Scar ; a rogue Guardian who launches an attack on the Corps by reviving deceased members as Black Lanterns.

The Guardians currently consider the Green Lantern Corps a failure and are planning to replace it with a mysterious " Third Army ", which will be led by the equally unknown " First Lantern ".

The Third Army consists of beings with no free will that are made out of the Guardians ' bio-tissue, and the First Lantern was guarded by the older Guardians because he was deemed too dangerous.

Hal Jordan appears as a playable character and one of the game's major protagonists ; the Guardians appear in the game's Oa based stage, and the rest of the Corps members are mentioned to be trying to contain the universe wide crisis taking place during Story Mode.

The Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services ( formerly " Jewish Board of Guardians ") runs two residential schools in Hawthorne, the Hawthorne Cedar Knolls School and the Linden Hill High School ; both of these schools are on Linda Avenue.

The Guardians of the Universe, alternatively known as the Guardians or Oans are a fictional extraterrestrial race in the DC Comics universe.

Within the Green Lantern stories, the Guardians of the Universe are the immortal founders and leaders of the Green Lantern Corps, which they administer from their homeworld Oa at the center of the universe.

Unlike before however, the Guardians are male and female, rather than just male.

Instead the Guardians are as cold and manipulative as they were before the Emerald Twilight, with the exception of Ganthet and Sayd.

In the aftermath of the War, both Ganthet and Sayd have evolved into two new beings on a paradise-like planet Odym, where they are harnessing the blue energy spectrum of hope and creating blue power rings and batteries, planning to create another intergalactic police force in order to be able to aid the Guardians and the Green Lantern Corps against The Blackest Night.

The rank of the Guardians has weakened as well ; while there were originally twelve of them as Head Guardians, there are now six of them, after Ganthet and Sayd left Oa, and one Guardian died after a battle with Superman-Prime-this Guardian willfully " detonated " himself in an unsuccessful, last-ditch effort to destroy the insane Kryptonian ( who wished to destroy the Universe in his own right ).

In addition, he sealed his former friends, the Four Guardians in the masks of evil deities and sealed them in the temples located in the four compass directions.

The publishing rights to the Amber DRPG games were acquired in 2004 by Guardians of Order, who took over sales of the game and announced their intention to release a new edition of the game.

Examples would be: Tolkien's Gandalf of The Lord of the Rings, Dumbledore of Harry Potter series, Merlin of Arthurian Legends, Lasky's Ezylryb of Guardians of Ga ' Hoole, Brooks ' Allanon of The Sword of Shannara, Eddings ' Belgarath and Polgara of The Belgariad, Feist's Macros the Black of the Riftwar Saga, Jordan's Moiraine of The Wheel of Time ( who at least starts out as this kind of character ), Goodkind's Zeddicus Zu ' l Zorander of The Sword of Truth, Dart-Thornton's Thorn / Angaver, and Paolini's Brom and Oromis of The Inheritance Cycle.

They wanted the Xindi, who revered them as " the Guardians ," to destroy Earth in the hope that this would deter the formation and existence of the Federation.

After King Alexander III was buried at Dunfermline Abbey on 29 March 1286, the magnates and clerics of the realm assembled at Scone in parliament to select the Guardians of Scotland who would keep the kingdom for the right heir.

Negotiations from this time onwards were between Edward, who returned to England later in the year, and Eric, and excluded the Scots until Edward met with Robert Bruce and some of the Guardians at Salisbury in October 1289.

In 1290, the Guardians of Scotland signed the Treaty of Birgham agreeing to the marriage of the Maid of Norway and Edward of Caernarvon, the son of Edward I, who was Margaret's great-uncle.

Tiring of their deeply compromised king, the direction of affairs was allegedly taken out of his hands by the leading men of the kingdom, who appointed a council of twelve — in practice, a new panel of Guardians — at Stirling in July 1295.

One of the oldest planets in the universe, Oa serves as the home and headquarters for a race of blue-skinned powerful humanoids who have dubbed themselves the Guardians of the Universe.

It was later found by Cornelius Coot who gave the book to his son Clinton Coot who, in turn, was inspired to found The Junior Woodchucks as a continuation of the Guardians of the Library.

Chastened by the failure of the Manhunters, the Guardians decided that their newest force of soldiers for good would consist of living beings, ones who had free will and strong moral character.

Responsibility for imprisoning Superboy-Prime was undertaken by the Guardians who charged the Corps with its undertaking, incarcerating him inside a small red Sun-Eater with fifty Green Lanterns on constant guard duty.

When Krona along with the emotional entities launched his attack on Oa, attacking the six of the remaining Guardians ( Ganthet working in the Anti-Matter universe at the time ), by having them possessed by all the entities except for Parallax, who is placed inside the Central Power Battery.

The Guardians ( who were corrupted by is unknown ) arrive to the Chamber of Shadows to pull the First Lantern ; he is able to recognize the Guardians, demanding to be let out.

The Guardians of the Universe ( who were corrupted by is unknown ) were preparing to create the ' Third Army ' to replace the Green Lantern Corps.

The Guardians are freed from Krona's control emotions by Hal Jordan, who kills Krona using his ultimate power.

Later, when the Green Lantern Corps are in disagreement and attempt to kill Sinestro, the Corps break into the sciencells, but the Corps discover that the Guardians have in captivity with Sinestro, who are trying to remove Sinestro's green ring, but the ring will not be removed.

With Kyle Rayner having rebelled against the Guardians to join the ' New Guardians ' a makeshift team consisting of representatives from all seven Corps, Hal Jordan's recent expulsion, and based on the ' recommendations ' of the now-emotionless Ganthet, the Guardians are preparing to create the ' Third Army ' to replace the Green Lantern Corps, which involves them recovering the mysterious ' First Lantern ' for an undefined role, prompting Sinestro, who learned about this prophecy after touching the Book of the Black, to enlist Hal's aid in stopping this scheme.

Unlike many other text adventures, in Jinxter the player character almost never dies during the course of gameplay: even if he gets into otherwise lethal situations, one of the Guardians will appear in some absurd way, and save his life ( the only exception to this rule is an encounter with Jannedor ).