Umbra
A darkness from beyond the world that entered Meliora through Abigail, spreading as gloom and claiming all it touches.
- Between the Ages
- Dark Times
Description
Umbra is the darkness of the Umbral Plane, a power that was meant to stay forever separate from Meliora. It seeps into the land as gloom, tainting creatures and corrupting places, and those it claims become its drones and slaves. It speaks, too: through Abigail it promises that in Umbra all shall go dark.
"Umbra is nothing but an intrusion." — Aurelius
Historical context
Umbra entered the world through Abigail in the Gloaming and, by the Dark Times, had taken Twilight Peak and overrun the Primeweald. Aurelius noticed one weakness: Umbra was not yet strong enough to call down great destruction without paying for it, which gave the stranger time to strike while it was weakened.
Related entries
LocationThe Umbral Plane
The realm of Umbra: a hungering void beyond Meliora, long kept apart from the world and reached since the Gloaming through portals of gloom.Between · Dark Times
HistoryThe Gloaming
The ritual by which Abigail opened herself to Umbra to end the war of the dead, and let the darkness into Meliora.Between
CharacterAbigail
An elf of Sun's Cradle who opened herself to Umbra to end the war of the dead, and became the darkness that now threatens Meliora.Between · Dark Times
CreatureThe Unlit
Soldiers of Umbra: elves claimed by the gloom and remade into wooden-limbed drones that overran the Primeweald.Dark Times
FactionAcolytes of Umbra
Mages devoted to Umbra: powerful even as free mortals, and stronger still in the darkness's service.Between · Dark Times
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