The World
The Lumen
It is not magic. It is not faith. It is what remained beneath the skin of the world when everything before it burned.
What it is
The Lumen is a living and toxic energy, released after the Fall. It altered the land, deformed creatures and forever changed the blood of some humans.
The people fear it. The clans exploit it. The Custodians regulate it. Nobody fully understands it.
Pure Lumen
White, ancient, lethal. Direct contact can kill, mutate or destroy the mind. It does not distinguish between enemies and the devout.
Regional Lumen
Each territory of the Wasteland retains its own form of the wound: Ice, Sun, Volcano, Shadow, Sea, Swamp. The same root, six different faces.
Black Lumen
Corrupt and unstable. It appears where the world never finished closing. Those who touch it do not return as the same person.
The Lumen awakens with fear.
Blood decides what burns, what mutates… and what survives.