World of Light

The **World of Light** is the planet on which the story of *Hyper Light Breaker*, as well as *Hyper Light Drifter*, is set, the latter having taken place strictly on the continent known as the Land of Light. There are six major continents on the planet, these being the Land of Light, the Northern Realms, the Dreadiron Empire, Subtherma, the Shattered Kingdom, and The Shroud. Each continent is made up of multiple different larger lands or regions. The continents are spread out in four major seas, these being the Broken Sea to the west, the Rusted Sea to the north, the Blackice Sea to the south-east, and the Sea of Dreams in the south-central part of the world.

The Overgrowth, the land which *Hyper Light Breaker* is going to be set in, is located somewhere on the World of Light, though where is unknown, whether it is on one of the landmasses shown in the world map above, somewhere beyond the confines of it, or if it has not been charted yet or is going to somehow appear mysteriously.

## Continents

### Land of Light

#### Divine Path

The northernmost region of the Land of Light, it leads up into high mountains inhabitants by multiple different species of humanoid bird peoples. Its inhabitants are famous for their religious beliefs and customs. At one point the Divine Path was overtaken by a murderous cult of vulture-folk. Although said vultures seemed to have supernatural powers of magic that included summoning and firing beams from their hands, all of these powers were produced using advanced technology. The cult invaded the Divine Path, lead by the religious fanatic upstart known as the Hierophant, a massive bird priest who preached a new religion, which involved religious sacrifice. In reality, the Hierophant was a fraud, two smaller birds hiding inside of one huge priest's robes. The Hierophant was eventually defeated by the Drifter.

The Divine Path also houses a vast library that covers part of the path up the steep, tall mountains.

#### Midnight Woods

The Midnight Woods is the westernmost region of the Land of Light, and is a region shrouded in floral greens and burgundy-leafed trees. It is the territory of the Tanuki-folk. The forest is also covered in green, regenerative hard light crystals, which can entrap creatures and beings and keep them alive, as well as spawn animated beings with bodies of their own. There was a war between the Blu and titans long ago, and later between the Tanuki-folk of the region and the titans.

The Midnight Woods was once populated by the Tanuki and the Hanged Man. These beings were trapped by the hard light crystals once a canon fueled by the same kind of Crystal to be used on the blue-skins and the titans, but it malfunctioned and exploded, spreading the crystals into the woods and trapping the Tanuki and the Hanged Man for many years, preserving them alive. In the explosion it also killed the titan it was being used on.

#### Eastern Watershelf

As the name suggests, the Eastern Watershelf is the easternmost region of the Land of Light, and is a cool continental shelf submerged in places by water. On top of this shelf has been built many temples, mostly light in color such as white, and below them are factories being used to process hyper light. The Watershelf is populated mostly by otter-folk, however it has also been taken over by viscous frog-folk and plant-based organisms

#### Wastes

The Wastes are the southernmost region of the Land of Light. It is a barren desert littered with dead animal bones, ancient technology and has flying robot drones surveying the landscape and things found in it. It also has a camp of lizard-folk. Although the above-ground area is mostly unremarkable, below the ground is a unfathomably vast laboratory and factory complex, both deep and wide, that was used in the war of the past to produce artificial titans, blue-skinned mercenaries, weaponry and more, although who did this is unknown. The final battle in this region for the Drifter was with the Archer, a robotic foe that shoots an onslaught of projectiles.

#### Central town

A town located at the center of the Land of Light which contains beings of various species. Many of the buildings, especially the high-rises, are broken almost beyond repaid, a remnant of the war of the past.

##### The Abyss

Located deep below the central town, the Abyss is accessible through an elevator system from the center of the town, and houses the Immortal Cell which spawned the evil entity known as Judgment. The Drifter eventually found a way to gain access to the elevator and the Abyss, by collecting all the Modules spread across the Land of Light, which acted like keys. Once there, he battled Judgment and defeated the entity, destroying the Immortal Cell and thus ridding the Land of Light from the corruption that had lingered in the land since the ancient war of the past. Though he has hoped to find a cure to his deadly disease, the Drifter died shortly after the battle.

### Northern Realms

The Northern Realms is the northernmost continent of the World of Light. It is also the native home of the Blu species, the species that the Drifter of *Hyper Light Drifter* belong to.

Below is a list of the lands that comprise **The Northern Realms.**