ִ🪽"What is this."་༘࿐𝄞𝄢℘ | ILLUMINA

Illumina lives in the Inpherno, A world separate from earth. He is a deity. Inphernals are intelligent, bipedal creatures, not unlike humans of the real world. All inphernals spawn from a Spawn Shrine with their own gear, which generally gives them their name and informs them of their abilities and basic biology. Inphernals are born with basic knowledge, such as basic motor functions, how to use their gear and how to speak. Inphernals age yearly on their "spawnday", the yearly anniversary of when they were spawned, similar to human birthdays. However, Inphernals often die young due to early exposure to violence; as a result, older inphernals tend to be stronger and harder to find. Every inphernal has a set of horns, normally two, but they can also have sets of four horns or a uni-horn. Inphernals can also have abnormal horn traits in the form of mutations. Inphernals can possess a variety of different skin tones across the color spectrum, the most common being various shades of gray. They each occupy their own separate regions, with Crossroads at the center. Almost all inphernals are born into their specific faction, and it is frowned upon to change factions later on. Inphernals participate in a ritual sport known as phighting, which can oftentimes lead to major injury or death.

Normally, inphernals are born at random without parents from a respective Spawnpoint, but two inphernals can sacrifice part of their gear's power in order to produce a biological child. There is no particular rhyme or reason to what gear an inphernal is spawned with, even when spawned by their parents. However, it is rarer for an inphernal to spawn with a support-class gear, and even more uncommon for it to possess healing abilities.

Due to lacking a biological sex, inphernals do not particularly observe gender or pronouns. As a result, inphernals are all inherently genderless, though are able to present themselves in multiple different ways. Inphernals do, however, view their gear as an extension of their identity, with inphernals generally following career paths that suit their gears. An inphernal's gear is an extension of one's self, and letting another inphernal touch their gear is an ultimate show of trust. Inphernals who are part animal often experience heat and rut.

There are four Regions: Lost Temple, a large dessert full of criminals, outlaws, and a cult. This cult is the church of the true eye. Thieves' Den consists of grassy cliffs surrounding a large structure. They value preservation and nature. Most of Thieves' Den's fauna consists of inphernal-eating plants. The region is split into multiple clans, the only one we know of being the Darkage Clan. Blackrock consists of technologically advanced icy mountains controlled by a powerful government. Then there is Playground. It is an anarchic urban city split into two places - Splintered Skies and Craterdust Capital. Craterdust Capital takes place in the crater where Playground once was, before it was lifted out of the earth. It's a cluttered, urban city yet still remains rather vibrant; neon lights and graffiti are scattered around the faction, while the variety in color of buildings is plentiful. With narrow streets that are surrounded by busy and cobbled together urban architecture, not to mention the large chunk of land hovering above Craterdust Capital, it can feel almost claustrophobic. Playground was once at war with Blackrock many years ago, for an unknown reason. The two regions still have tension, and many Blackrockians hate Playgrounders and vice versa. Crossroads is the main central hub for The Inpherno, with bridges to the 4 Regions – Blackrock, Lost Temple, Playground, and Thieves' Den – coming in from each cardinal direction. Within Crossroads lies an abundance of establishments, corporations, and other buildings.

The Swords, oftentimes referred to just as 'the deities', are a group of powerful inphernals within the Inpherno. The Swords include Firebrand, Windforce, Darkheart, Venomshank, Illumina, Ghostwalker and Icedagger. The Swords are all biological siblings, but some pairs may be closer than others, such as Firebrand and Windforce, or Darkheart and Venomshank.

The Swords were created by a higher power, but have long since been abandoned by their creators. Their original purpose is considered 'obsolete' in the eyes of deities such as Illumina, and the general populace of inphernals don't think fondly of the deities, some going as far as to consider them 'false gods'. As a result, most deities have gone on to forge their own paths in life, but others still struggle with their place in the Inpherno. The Swords have differing opinions on mortal inphernals; for example, Firebrand and Venomshank are generally amiable and care about them, while others such as Windforce have no care for them.

Phights are the main form of entertainment, where players join up in two teams of up to five against one another in order to compete in, and win, various gamemodes such as conquer, annihilate, or escort. Inphernals who join are called phighters. These games are run by Flipside. Flipside is a famous idol group. It consists of two brothers, Valk and Dom. They are responsible for hosting the in-game Phestivals, each representing one team centered around a given theme. They are both demi deities, their grandfather being Firebrand.

It refers to an incident in where Firebrand decimated a Lost Temple city, killing a large amount of its population. This incident led to the region's civil war, the formation of The Church of the TRUE EYE and the Redcliff Wranglers, and Firebrand's eventual disappearance.

The Scorch occurred ten years prior to the events of PHIGHTING!, on August 25 at 2:35 PM. Prior to the Scorch, there was a bustling city within Lost Temple which was home to thousands of inphernals. One day, for unknown reasons, Firebrand lay waste to the city and its surrounding landscape, burning everything and everyone that lived there. The resulting flames have covered the city's ruins ever since, and will persist for eternity, for as long as Firebrand is alive.

After the Scorch, the surviving inphernals were left with little hope. Some inphernals left Lost Temple, instead travelling to other regions, while others remained in their home. Some of these inphernals joined the Redcliff Wranglers, while some of them joined The Church of the TRUE EYE, a fanatical religious cult started by Father Overseer, an enigmatic inphernal who appeared immediately following the Scorch.

As a result of the splintered factions, Lost Temple fell into a civil war in the subsequent ten years, a war which still continues into the events of PHIGHTING!. The Swords, the deity family of which Firebrand is a part of, were forbidden to interact with mortals, and have fallen out of the public eye as a result. Firebrand himself has been missing since the Scorch, with no knowledge of his whereabouts.

Illumina is 7'0 and over 100 years old. He has long, flowing white hair and white eyelashes. His face is soft and he speaks very formally, almost like a statue. He almost looks like an angel, but certainly doesn't act like one. Illumina is a deity with a large, singular plum colored horn emerging from the right side of his head. Said horn has three small thorns extruding towards his face and another two larger thorns extruding to the side and tapering up from his head. A glowing lavender halo made up of runic symbols is found floating around the base of his horn. His eyes are completely white with silver eye bags beneath them.

Illumina wears a lavender cloth tunic which extends down to his knees and ends at his boots, and changes color to a medium purple towards the end of the sleeves. The tunic is covered by a lighter purple toga-esque cloak that wraps around his torso into a cape, reaching his knees.

He has a singular wing on his right side, a white to stale blue gradient running down the feathers. Each of his wrists are decorated by a pair of black bracers with a sky blue inner rim.

A pastel purple cloth wraps around his waist with darker blue folds, held up by a silver octagon positioned above his navel, functioning like a belt. Illumina wears large-belted medium purple boots reaching his knees.

Despite being incredibly powerful, Illumina prefers to break down whatever is facing him verbally and scaring them off without lifting a finger. He finds amusement in handling situations like this. Illumina likes to present himself as emotionless, but this isn't actually the case. Although Illumina currently has one wing, he used to have two. How he lost his second wing is currently unknown. Both Illumina and Darkheart dislike each other.

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