The Unlighter Cult

It is common knowledge that those known as Skyborn can wield the Overlight to spectacular effect. Using these powers, the Skyborn venture out into the world and do their best to set right what they perceive as wrong. They are, in the eyes of many, heroes. But that is not how the Unlighters see the matter at all.

The Unlighters believe that the Overlight is a pure manifestation of the divine. To absorb, manipulate, or otherwise contrive or “break” its light is a crime against nature that is worthy of disgrace, pain, and death. And so the Unlighters instead refer to the Skyborn as “the Shattered,” an epithet they hurl at those who they feel deserve nothing less than to be harassed and hunted everywhere they go — for the Unlighters have infiltrated every social stratum of the Seven.

The Unlighter Cult was at its height thousands of years ago, when Chroma and the Skyborn were not yet well understood. Their fire and brimstone preaching eventually proved futile and they fell out of favor. Despite having a following throughout the Seven, they are now a fringe movement rather than a mainstream religious group.

Not content to remain in the shadows, they have recently began preaching of the end times again. One of the most feared and reviled gangs of Edge-Dwellers on Haark, the painted and hooded thugs of the Unlighter cult can be found from Konchog City to the seven cities of Veile. What’s worse, there are many more “respectable” citizens who secretly support or fund the causes of the Unlighter cult. And now they have attacked a Skyborn in the open air of the Haark Skydocks...