War of Light

"Before time, it began. Through the ages it ravaged the lands. Another day, another night, it continues in the worlds beyond. Forever it shall last."

- Natus Est ex Luce et Tenebris

The War of Light is the main storyline of Somber Elegy Series and the name of the conflict between the forces of Light and Darkness, which has been raging on since the very beginning of time. The war is mainly fought in a plane beyond the normal world, the Divinity Realm, where the Realms of Light and Darkness exist. However, every action taken in the Divinity Realm is reflected upon the normal world.

The main belligerents of the war are the embodiments of the two primordial forces: Luminelle, who is the Goddess of Light Light, and the God of Eternal Darkness, Valhalla. Their motives are very different, almost opposites: Luminelle wishes to restore balance to the realms by ending the war, while the Valhalla wants to achieve complete purity by wiping out the Light and establishing the end of her creations, as it recognizes that as long as Light and Dark exist, they are always fated to fight each other endlessly. As of the latest centuries, the scales of the war have tipped towards the Darkness' favor, especially thanks to the spread of the Darkfallen and the Imprisonment of Luminelle.

The byproduct of the Light and Dark fighting is the Darkfallen, a mindless force of influence which represents absolute chaos. The war has not only caused catastrophic consequences for the normal world.

The War of Light has drastically changed the history of the world, involving its every continent, either directly or indirectly. In Aurelia, for example, the uncovering of the Portal of the Abyss by the Acolytes of the Abyss during the War of the Dark Ages led to the outbreak of demons in the world, while in Kirbysay, the arrival of the Parasite, a Dark being serving Valhalla, brought with it the Scourge, a wretched plague that has been Kirbysay's greatest threat for two centuries. However, in Utefue and Eos, the inhabitants of these provinces have enjoyed neutrality in the conflict, especially in Utefue, where there is no trace of either Darkfallen or Scourge.