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Ilinox

Uh oh, I'm actually not sure which thread you're talking about because I talk about Light and Night's lore and worldbuilding all the time LOL. Are you thinking of my anthropology thread? If so, I'm not sure I would recommend using that to get someone interested in the game because people rarely get invested in the events of a world without knowing how it relates to the characters.

However, what I can do is provide you with an updated document that also gives a general sketch of the men's backgrounds.

DISCLAIMER: There will be spoilers up to Season 3 Chapter 4 (total of 32 chapters so far).

GOD CLAN

Light and Night has a creation myth: The 创世神 (Creator of Worlds, and known as Nuxi) is implied to have created the universe and worlds. One of the gods, the 造物神 (Creator of Objects, but I will call her Genesis), obeyed Nuxi's orders and created humans on earth.

However, humans were unwilling to be slaves and so they rebelled against Nuxi. Nuxi became enraged and was going to burn earth to ashes, but Genesis went against her and shed a tear that extinguished the fire and saved the humans.

Nuxi grew even more furious and punished Genesis. The group of gods who supported Genesis were also sealed at the bottom of the ocean on earth as punishment. Meanwhile, messengers of the gods were cast down onto earth to become plants and animals.

Currently, we now know that there were primal gods at the origin of the universe. Nuxi, Genesis, and the primal god of fire and chaos were there at the same time. Nuxi and Genesis had a disagreement over humans, with Nuxi abhorring them, and so a terrible war broke out between them and their supporters that led to both Nuxi and Genesis being critically injured. A wisp of Genesis' soul went to earth, Nuxi was sealed in the world below (think of this as another realm where everything forgotten in history ends up), and the gods that supported Genesis were sealed under the ocean.

Some of the gods in the ocean managed to escape with the help of the primal god of fire, while other gods accepted Nuxi's divine punishment and became the Blood Clan, her eyes and ears on earth. The Blood Clan then had the missions of finding the escaped gods and the wisp of Genesis' soul on earth.

23 years ago from the start of the game, there was a tsunami disaster that loosened the seal on the gods and Nuxi, and the primal god of fire came back to help even more gods escape. There was also a huge melee between humans, the Blood Clan, the Spirit Clan, and Nuxi's clay monsters. Anyway, some of these escaped gods have been caught and used in human and Blood Clan experiments, passed their powers on to other hosts, or assassinated by Nuxi.

The God Clan can be regarded as aliens because they have no concept or understanding of human emotions and are instead scarily good mimics of human emotions. Their personality also appears to be influenced a lot by their domain, for example a food god tends to be relaxed compared to a god of destruction who craves battle.

How does this relate to our cast of characters?

Osborn is half-Blood Clan and half-God Clan. He's become the next primal god of fire, chaos, and destruction.It's super duper heavily implied you have the wisp of Genesis' soul in you. However, whether this makes you the next Genesis or you are Genesis herself has yet to be confirmed.

BLOOD CLAN

Heavily based off of vampires, the Blood Clan are descendants of the sealed gods under the ocean who accepted Nuxi's divine punishment, and now they're beasts who need to sustain themselves on human blood. Ironically, they used to be gods of compassion who were willing to protect and guard humans.

As mentioned above, a portion of the sealed gods escaped with the help of the primal god of fire and made their home in London. However, they were discovered by the original Blood Clan and degenerated into becoming members of the Blood Clan as well (they don't know the reason why because only the leader of the entire Blood Clan knows about the deal with Nuxi and can speak to her).

In summary, the sealed gods who accepted divine punishment became the Lu Family and the sealed gods who escaped and degenerated became the North, West, East, and South Blood Clans in London.

Something that still hasn't been made clear in the game is that the progenitor of the Lu Family said he received a soul ring from Genesis, who felt guilty about the Blood Clan’s circumstances, and was told that the ring will take them to find the person they can sacrifice to remove their divine punishment. The Blood Clan has supposedly missed this person twice and only have one more chance. The soul ring points towards you, but what it actually does and who exactly it came from has yet to be confirmed.

Anyway, when the Blood Clan first came out of the ocean, they tried not to harm humans and resisted their urge to drink blood, but this made them very weak and they were abused and treated as slaves by humans until one day they snapped and decided to go scorched earth.

Due to their intergenerational trauma, the Blood Clan spent the next century or so rewriting history and teaching their children how they're superior to all the other races. Some of their traditions include:

Female Blood Clan members are goods to be exchanged to breed strong heirs, so they often have arranged marriages;Children must not show any weaknesses, so they cannot indulge in material pleasures like eating sweets and can only eat the bare essentials;Children at the age of 12 are banished into the woods to survive on their own and awaken their Eyes of Illusion, otherwise they will be hunted and killed by adults in their clan;Teenagers who have survived up to now are trained through more trials, like killing innocent civilians; andOther education involves learning rewritten history that shows how the Blood Clan are superior and in the right, and the teenagers themselves must participate in rewriting history.Any Blood Clan families not displaying the general ethos of the Blood Clan or show too many human emotions are massacred.

Owing to this bloody upbringing, most members of the Blood Clan show little regard for humans and treat them as tools, such as a display of status at their orgy banquets (bringing a willing human makes you better than others), or batteries for power, such as a master-feast contract with a human that allows the Blood Clan member to drain the human’s energy.

There have been black sheep Blood Clan members though. Some refused to drink human blood and passed away with this conviction. One remarkable lady fell in love with a wine owner who, out of love, created a drink with his blood that would alleviate her thirst for blood. She later improved on this drink after his death and called it “Hereafter”, which modern Blood Clan members use to suppress their thirst for blood. (If humans drink this, they feel a thirst for blood and are in excruciating pain until they drink blood.)

How does this relate to our cast?

Evan is one of the strongest Blood Clan members ever and has become the leader of the entire Blood Clan, so he knows all of these dirty secrets. He once wanted to destroy the whole race and himself, but now he will lead them to another future.Osborn is half-Blood Clan and half-God Clan, and so he can use some Blood Clan abilities.

SPIRIT CLAN

Heavily based off of xianxia, the Spirit Clan is made up of beings in the world (plants and animals) who have cultivated enough spirit power to become sentient and create a human form. Many species are taken from the Classics of Mountains and Seas, a Chinese classic text that compiles together mythic geography and beasts. 

When a Spirit Clan member becomes human for the first time, most of them have “defects” that are expressions of their base form in their human form, ex. horns, hooves, branches, etc. Spirit Clan members who have “defects” can merge and share their spiritual energy with each other in an act called 神交 (basically mental and spiritual sex) to fix each other.

The stronger or more spirit power you have, the longer it takes to gain control of it and become a human. Sariel took over 200 years to turn from a fox into a human (his parents left him in the Kunlun Mountains during this period), but it was also due to his strength that he became a perfect human on his first try without having any “defects”.

Spirit power also determines the lifespan of the Spirit Clan. The stronger you are, the longer you live. The weakest of Spirit Clan members are basically indistinguishable to humans, other than having the ability to transform back into their base form.

In general, due to their longer lifespans, animalistic nature, and ability to use the gifts of their species (separate from unique talents), they tend to live in secluded communities in areas untouched by humans which are rich with spirit power.

It also doesn’t help that, around 2500 years ago, Sariel lost a battle that got him called a traitor to the state and all Spirit Clan members became discriminated against and were turned into beasts of labor. Sariel came back to avenge them but the majority of the Spirit Clan became homeless and wandered the world until Sariel built Lin Island for them on top of his mental demon given physical form. Since then, the Spirit Clan have a dislike and fear towards humans.

However, some Spirit Clan members aren’t afraid of humans and have gone to mix with them. These members are usually kicked out of their Spirit Clan communities. So far, Shaqing Village is the only known place to accept both humans and Spirit Clan living together.

How does this relate to our cast?

Sariel has basically been the rise and fall of the Spirit Clan. However, he's now their leader and they're rejoining the world again.Charlie is half-Spirit Clan and half-human. His mother is from the Spirit Clan and she was exiled when she married Charlie's father. When she started degenerating, Charlie's father went to beg the Spirit Clan for help but was turned away and that made him crazier LOL.

LIAN SHAN ASSOCIATION

In modern times, this is a secret organization whose goal is human survival, although some members are xenophobic and human supremacists. They occasionally choose to work with the Blood Clan or Spirit Clan to use them as checks against each other.

Most notably, the Lian Shan Association and Blood Clan have done soul experiments together. The LSA uses this to create weapons they can use against Nuxi, who occasionally pushes against her seal and causes something known as the convergence of worlds. This is when the world below and earth switch places and a global annihilation event occurs. The LSA is trying to prevent the convergence of worlds, which keeps wiping out humanity.

How does this relate to our cast?

Genesis' soul being transplanted into you is part of the soul experiments.Jesse inherited a talisman passed down in his clan that lets him control the dead, specifically the army of the dead the LSA created to fight Nuxi's clay monsters. Jesse has also secretly established himself as the head of the LSA.Charlie is half-Spirit Clan and half-human. This hasn't been made clear in the game yet, but apparently he's been favoured by Death and so Nuxi chose Charlie to be the king of the world below and Charlie accepted.

DEGENERATION

In Light and Night, at present time, the supernatural world has found itself decaying slowly.

Human encroachment has drained areas that were previously rich in spirit power, and so the Spirit Clan find themselves afflicted with an illness that either slowly kills them or turns them into a raving mad beast and then kills them.

Science has discovered that the Spirit Clan have these genes that have D Factors and A Factors. A Factors produce spirit power while D Factors eat spirit power. In the past, A Factors have produced more spirit power than what is consumed by D Factors, but this is no longer the case for some reason.

The Spirit Clan has adapted to this by creating pills where Spirit Clan members who have more spirit power can “donate” them into the pill and let members who are losing their spirit power eat the pill. Currently, Sariel is providing most of the Spirit Clan members with spirit power infusions because he has a massive amount of spirit power now that his seal has been broken.

It's also been shown that you automatically absorb spirit power, so your mere presence speeds up the Spirit Clan's degeneration. Sariel is the only one who knows right now, and he's constantly giving you spirit power so that you don't absorb anyone else's spirit power.

At the other side, the Blood Clan has devised a method where they transfer their souls into a vessel and, after exhausting that vessel, they move into another one, rinse and repeat. Generally, these vessels are humans who have their minds broken. However, the progenitor of the Lu Family actually transferred his soul into his descendants (past tense, because he died to Evan and got his soul eaten by Evan’s uncle).

Uh oh, I'm actually not sure which thread you're talking about because I talk about Light and Night's lore and worldbuilding all the time LOL. Are you thinking of my anthropology thread? If so, I'm not sure I would recommend using that to get someone interested in the game because people rarely get invested in the events of a world without knowing how it relates to the characters.

 do is provide you with an updated document that also gives a general sketch of the men's backgrounds.

 There will be spoilers up to Season 3 Chapter 4 (total of 32 chapters so far).

Light and Night has a creation myth: The 创世神 (Creator of Worlds, and known as Nuxi) is implied to have created the universe and worlds. One of the gods, the 造物神 (Creator of Objects, but I will call her Genesis), obeyed Nuxi's orders and created humans on earth.

However, humans were unwilling to be slaves and so they rebelled against Nuxi. Nuxi became enraged and was going to burn earth to ashes, but Genesis went against her and shed a tear that extinguished the fire and saved the humans.

Nuxi grew even more furious and punished Genesis. The group of gods who supported Genesis were also sealed at the bottom of the ocean on earth as punishment. Meanwhile, messengers of the gods were cast down onto earth to become plants and animals.

Currently, we now know that there were primal gods at the origin of the universe. Nuxi, Genesis, and the primal god of fire and chaos were there at the same time. Nuxi and Genesis had a disagreement over humans, with Nuxi abhorring them, and so a terrible war broke out between them and their supporters that led to both Nuxi and Genesis being critically injured. A wisp of Genesis' soul went to earth, Nuxi was sealed in the world below (think of this as another realm where everything forgotten in history ends up), and the gods that supported Genesis were sealed under the ocean.

Some of the gods in the ocean managed to escape with the help of the primal god of fire, while other gods accepted Nuxi's divine punishment and became the Blood Clan, her eyes and ears on earth. The Blood Clan then had the missions of finding the escaped gods and the wisp of Genesis' soul on earth.

23 years ago from the start of the game, there was a tsunami disaster that loosened the seal on the gods and Nuxi, and the primal god of fire came back to help even more gods escape. There was also a huge melee between humans, the Blood Clan, the Spirit Clan, and Nuxi's clay monsters. Anyway, some of these escaped gods have been caught and used in human and Blood Clan experiments, passed their powers on to other hosts, or assassinated by Nuxi.

The God Clan can be regarded as aliens because they have no concept or understanding of human emotions and are instead scarily good mimics of human emotions. Their personality also appears to be influenced a lot by their domain, for example a food god tends to be relaxed compared to a god of destruction who craves battle.

How does this relate to our cast of characters?

Heavily based off of vampires, the Blood Clan are descendants of the sealed gods under the ocean who accepted Nuxi's divine punishment, and now they're beasts who need to sustain themselves on human blood. Ironically, they used to be gods of compassion who were willing to protect and guard humans.

As mentioned above, a portion of the sealed gods escaped with the help of the primal god of fire and made their home in London. However, they were discovered by the original Blood Clan and degenerated into becoming members of the Blood Clan as well (they don't know the reason why because only the leader of the entire Blood Clan knows about the deal with Nuxi and can speak to her).

In summary, the sealed gods who accepted divine punishment became the Lu Family and the sealed gods who escaped and degenerated became the North, West, East, and South Blood Clans in London.

Something that still hasn't been made clear in the game is that the progenitor of the Lu Family said he received a soul ring from Genesis, who felt guilty about the Blood Clan’s circumstances, and was told that the ring will take them to find the person they can sacrifice to remove their divine punishment. The Blood Clan has supposedly missed this person twice and only have one more chance. The soul ring points towards you, but what it actually does and who exactly it came from has yet to be confirmed.

Anyway, when the Blood Clan first came out of the ocean, they tried not to harm humans and resisted their urge to drink blood, but this made them very weak and they were abused and treated as slaves by humans until one day they snapped and decided to go scorched earth.

Due to their intergenerational trauma, the Blood Clan spent the next century or so rewriting history and teaching their children how they're superior to all the other races. Some of their traditions include:

Owing to this bloody upbringing, most members of the Blood Clan show little regard for humans and treat them as tools, such as a display of status at their orgy banquets (bringing a willing human makes you better than others), or batteries for power, such as a master-feast contract with a human that allows the Blood Clan member to drain the human’s energy.

There have been black sheep Blood Clan members though. Some refused to drink human blood and passed away with this conviction. One remarkable lady fell in love with a wine owner who, out of love, created a drink with his blood that would alleviate her thirst for blood. She later improved on this drink after his death and called it “Hereafter”, which modern Blood Clan members use to suppress their thirst for blood. (If humans drink this, they feel a thirst for blood and are in excruciating pain until they drink blood.)

Heavily based off of xianxia, the Spirit Clan is made up of beings in the world (plants and animals) who have cultivated enough spirit power to become sentient and create a human form. Many species are taken from the Classics of Mountains and Seas, a Chinese classic text that compiles together mythic geography and beasts. 

When a Spirit Clan member becomes human for the first time, most of them have “defects” that are expressions of their base form in their human form, ex. horns, hooves, branches, etc. Spirit Clan members who have “defects” can merge and share their spiritual energy with each other in an act called 神交 (basically mental and spiritual sex) to fix each other.

The stronger or more spirit power you have, the longer it takes to gain control of it and become a human. Sariel took over 200 years to turn from a fox into a human (his parents left him in the Kunlun Mountains during this period), but it was also due to his strength that he became a perfect human on his first try without having any “defects”.

Spirit power also determines the lifespan of the Spirit Clan. The stronger you are, the longer you live. The weakest of Spirit Clan members are basically indistinguishable to humans, other than having the ability to transform back into their base form.

In general, due to their longer lifespans, animalistic nature, and ability to use the gifts of their species (separate from unique talents), they tend to live in secluded communities in areas untouched by humans which are rich with spirit power.

It also doesn’t help that, around 2500 years ago, Sariel lost a battle that got him called a traitor to the state and all Spirit Clan members became discriminated against and were turned into beasts of labor. Sariel came back to avenge them but the majority of the Spirit Clan became homeless and wandered the world until Sariel built Lin Island for them on top of his mental demon given physical form. Since then, the Spirit Clan have a dislike and fear towards humans.

However, some Spirit Clan members aren’t afraid of humans and have gone to mix with them. These members are usually kicked out of their Spirit Clan communities. So far, Shaqing Village is the only known place to accept both humans and Spirit Clan living together.

In modern times, this is a secret organization whose goal is human survival, although some members are xenophobic and human supremacists. They occasionally choose to work with the Blood Clan or Spirit Clan to use them as checks against each other.

Most notably, the Lian Shan Association and Blood Clan have done soul experiments together. The LSA uses this to create weapons they can use against Nuxi, who occasionally pushes against her seal and causes something known as the convergence of worlds. This is when the world below and earth switch places and a global annihilation event occurs. The LSA is trying to prevent the convergence of worlds, which keeps wiping out humanity.

In Light and Night, at present time, the supernatural world has found itself decaying slowly.

Human encroachment has drained areas that were previously rich in spirit power, and so the Spirit Clan find themselves afflicted with an illness that either slowly kills them or turns them into a raving mad beast and then kills them.

Science has discovered that the Spirit Clan have these genes that have D Factors and A Factors. A Factors produce spirit power while D Factors eat spirit power. In the past, A Factors have produced more spirit power than what is consumed by D Factors, but this is no longer the case for some reason.

The Spirit Clan has adapted to this by creating pills where Spirit Clan members who have more spirit power can “donate” them into the pill and let members who are losing their spirit power eat the pill. Currently, Sariel is providing most of the Spirit Clan members with spirit power infusions because he has a massive amount of spirit power now that his seal has been broken.

It's also been shown that you automatically absorb spirit power, so your mere presence speeds up the Spirit Clan's degeneration. Sariel is the only one who knows right now, and he's constantly giving you spirit power so that you don't absorb anyone else's spirit power.

At the other side, the Blood Clan has devised a method where they transfer their souls into a vessel and, after exhausting that vessel, they move into another one, rinse and repeat. Generally, these vessels are humans who have their minds broken. However, the progenitor of the Lu Family actually transferred his soul into his descendants (past tense, because he died to Evan and got his soul eaten by Evan’s uncle).

hello illi! so i want to poiso- i mean give them an explanation and luring my friend to play l&n. but my space memory brain is so tiny :") and you already make thread about it so may I ask for your link about light and night lore and world building? i can't find in your twitter bcs drowned in another thread :")

Ilinox

light and night lore, world building link pls!