Radiance
A new element born of Abigail's meddling: arcane energy honed against Umbra, first found in a core in the shadow of Twilight Peak.
- Dark Times
Description
Radiance is arcane energy honed against Umbra. Aurelius had never seen anything like it and concluded that Abigail, fumbling with the powers of the Umbral Plane, had created an entirely new element without meaning to.
Its light answers darkness directly. Crystals brought over from the Umbral Plane, Aurelius suggested, could be lit and overcome with radiant shards.
Historical context
The stranger found the core of this new element at the end of a railcart flight into the shadow of Twilight Peak, where umbral magic was almost tangible and yet less dark than Aurelius had feared. A whisper in the dark observed that the power obeyed the stranger, and they carried it all the way to the palace of Sun's Cradle.
"Arcane energy, but honed against Umbra..." — Aurelius
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HistoryThe Element Cores
Concentrated wells of elemental power scattered across the Primeweald, each granting new magic to the one who takes hold of it.Ancient days · Dark Times
HistoryUmbra
A darkness from beyond the world that entered Meliora through Abigail, spreading as gloom and claiming all it touches.Between · Dark Times
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
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