The Unlit
Soldiers of Umbra: elves claimed by the gloom and remade into wooden-limbed drones that overran the Primeweald.
- Dark Times
Description
The Unlit are beings claimed by Umbra. Like Abigail herself they were once elves, but the gloom has remade them into tree-like creatures of animated wood, mindless drones in the service of the darkness. Aurelius, never short of an insult, called them logheads; others have called them grunts.
They share the weaknesses of wood. Dry heat suits them poorly and fire serves well against them, though in heavy rain they grow too sodden to burn.
Historical context
The Unlit appeared after the Gloaming as Umbra spread through the Primeweald, and by the time the stranger returned they held most of the forest. They barred every step of the road to Twilight Peak and made their last stand in the Rend below Sun's Cradle.
"The creature looked horribly familiar, under the corruption." — Aurelius
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