Digital World (Classic) · Ancient era

Ten Legendary Warriors

The warriors who saved the Ancient Digital World, each the master of one element and said to be among the first Mega Digimon. They belong to legendary history: a power of the distant past whose strength survives in the twenty Legendary Spirits, not an organization serving the present-day world.

The Ten

one warrior per element; their Human and Beast Spirits carry the same ten elements

Mega

AncientGreymon

★ Flame

Survived the ancient holy war with AncientGarurumon and is said to have sealed Lucemon.

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The Supreme Shining Beast; with AncientGreymon, said to have sealed Lucemon.

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Wore a near-indestructible shell; its legacy passed down to the Insectoid Digimon.

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Flew on golden wings and crossed earth and water over bridges of rainbow.

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Mega

AncientMegatheriummon

★ Ice

Its absolute-zero attacks could shatter giant icebergs.

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Guardian goddess ruling the whole Net Ocean, the birthplace of all Digimon.

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The opposite pole of AncientGarurumon, feared as a bringer of death.

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The largest of the ancient warriors, its body full of trick mechanisms.

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The strongest of the ancient warriors, powered by the magma inside its body.

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The wisest of beings, able to foresee the distant future.

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Lore notes

the stories behind the ancient war

Saviors of the Ancient World Legendary

Every one of the ten Japanese Reference Book profiles opens the same way: a Legendary Warrior who saved the Ancient Digital World, and the first Mega to exist, in the distant past.

Sealing Lucemon Legendary

AncientGreymon's and AncientGarurumon's profiles say the two survived the holy war to its end and are said to have sealed Lucemon; the other eight profiles do not mention Lucemon. In Frontier, all ten defeat Lucemon and seal it in the Dark Area (episode 38).

Twenty Spirits

Digimon Profile #014 describes the Spirits as items that seal the power of the Ten Legendary Warriors, two kinds for each element: a Human Spirit and a Beast Spirit, twenty in all.

History, Not Government

No official text ties the ten to King Drasil or the Royal Knights. They are a legend of the Ancient Digital World, not a present-day guardian order or anyone's subordinates.

Heirs in Frontier Continuity-Specific

In Frontier, Lucemon ended a war between Human and Beast Digimon, then ruled selfishly until the ten appeared (episode 34). They released their Spirits and entrusted them to the Celestial Digimon (episode 38), and the chosen children Spirit Evolve with them. The site's Frontier selection screen follows that inheritance.

Heirs Among the Types

Each profile passes the warrior's abilities on to Digimon types: AncientGreymon's to the Greymon species and other Dragon Digimon, AncientGarurumon's to Beast Digimon, AncientBeetlemon's to Insectoid Digimon. The site's Agumon, Gabumon and Tentomon trees draw ancestral links from these three.

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Names link to DigimonWiki/Fandom (CC BY-SA unless noted otherwise); artwork © Bandai, shown from the official Digimon Reference Book. Japanese material calls AncientKazemon and AncientVolcanomon AncientIrismon and AncientVolcamon; the official English Reference Book spells AncientMermaidmon and AncientTroiamon as AncientMermaimon and AncientTroymon.