Tenebris

* Current
* Past
* Nathan

### Affiliation

Grasscover Camp(former),Starry Forest League(former), Serenade Guild(annilhated), Firestream Battalion(current)

## Soulworker Abilities

### SoulForce

Justice

Tenebris is a legendary SoulWorker who was once affiliated with the Starry Forest League, one of Grasscover Camp's founders, and is now a major antagonist. He is considered to be history's strongest SoulWorker but became disillusioned with the SFL over their treatment of SoulForcers and SoulWorkers. He eventually betrayed humanity and sided with the Bashai; creating the Serenade Guild with other SoulWorkers who became tired of their treatment. Leading the rebellion against the SFL, Tenebris and the Serenade Guild almost captured Grace City but Lakasha intervened to wipe out the rebel SoulWorkers. This event would later be known as the Bitterly Wept the Stars and significantly weakened humanity as a majority of the SoulWorkers died in this event. Tenebris was believed to have perished from Lakasha's mysterious attack but secretly survived and hid himself as Nathan and plotted the SFL's demise while acting as one of its major sponsors. After his defeat, Tenebris changes his stance on justice and becomes obsessed with power; stating that the only true justice that exists is power.

## Background

### During the Great Void

Tenebris's background before the appearance of the Great Void is unknown. He was swallowed by the Great Void and founded the Grasscover survivor Camp together with Ladi also known as Grasscover Camp. At some point in time, he enters a relationship with Miriam and becomes her lover. Inspired by Ladi's sense of justice, Tenebris is able to awaken as a SoulWorker and worked to provide a stable life for the camp members. One day, he encounters Haru Estia attacking SoulDregs and other people in the vicinity of the camp and invites her to join them. He suspected that Haru was originally a SoulWorker due to her ability to wield a weapon but noticed that her aura was different to compared to him and Ladi. Believing that she was a special case, he decided to bring her along anyway. However, Haru does not peacefully get along with the other members and he places her under solitary confinement out of precaution. He eventually encounters Lupan and the camp members are aware of the existence of SinForce and SinWorkers. Tenebris is able to convert Lupan into a SoulWorker and Ladi decides to make it the camp's goal to rehabilitate the SinWorkers as victims of the Void. While the leaders agreed to help the SinWorkers, members of the Anti-SinWorker faction led by Iris Yuma were not satisfied with this outcome often attacking the SinWorkers and the camp's leadership.

Later on, Erwin Arclight joined the camp, provided insights for the group and wished to become a SoulWorker under Tenebris's tutelage. Despite Tenebris's attempts to get Erwin to change his mindset, he is unsuccessful and Erwin continually challenges Tenebris to fights. During of his survivor searches, he encounters Lilly Bloommerchen, a SinWorker, with Miriam and Kant. The three of them were able to defeat Lilly and decided to take her back to camp in order to rehabilitate her. He attempts to understand Lilly's desire but is confused why somebody who seeks a desire would pursue death. The next day, Lilly's Harbinger kills a guard and Tenebris fulfills Lilly's request to subdue her. After their fight, Tenebris realizes that Lilly is only seeking her death and is unable commit suicide by herself. He then tells Lilly that he would fulfill her wish if she would save the same number of lives that she has killed;stating that Tenebris would be the only person she could find that can suppress her. Lilly reluctantly accepts and joins the camp.

Sometime later, Erwin would continually pester Tenebris to tell him the secrets of becoming a SoulWorker but he continually scolds Erwin that his issue is his mindset. Erwin becomes interested with Haru and asks for his permission to talk her but Tenebris refuses. Erwin then challenges Tenebris to short duel if Erwin is able to touch Tenebris, he would be allowed to talk to Haru. After using a sneak attack with arm, Erwin is able to touch Tenebris's back and allows him to see Haru. Kant detects Erwin's suspicious behavior and led Tenebris to find Erwin and Haru. After realizing that Erwin planned to escape with Haru, he decides defeat Erwin but was duped by his clone. Erwin's betrayal causes the camp's leadership to lose face in front of the Anti-SinWorker faction and increased the tensions between the two groups. He leaves the issue of finding Erwin up to Kant's discretion and asked him to inform the other camps regarding Grasscover Camp's lost SinWorker. One day, they lost communications with Azland Camp but Tenebris did not suspect any else and Kant returned to the group.

At some point of time, Tenebris and Ladi discover Stella Unibell and tried to communicate with her. They originally suspected that she was a SinWorker due to the ghosts surrounding her and the task was left to Ladi to uncover. However, Ladi mysteriously vanishes from one of his excursions and the leadership role was placed solely onto Tenebris. Ladi's disappearance causes Tenebris to despair and weakens his SoulForce; fed up with the camp's leadership, the Anti-SinWorker faction splits off from the camp when about on their own ways but the group was hostile towards Grasscover Camp. He then receives reports that Stella Unibell has appeared in the vicinity and attempts to approach her. Tenebris notices Catherine besides Stella and attempts to ask questions but Stella refuses to answer. Based from their previous reports regarding Stella, he decides to leave them food and returned to the camp. Sometime later, he received a report from one of the search squads that they were attacked by Stella Unibell. Tenebris initially refuses to hunt Stella since their previous reports stated that Stella would never attacked someone and he wished to a trust a SinWorker per Ladi's wishes. However, Kant and Lupan managed to convince that he is the current leader of the camp and he should prioritize the safety of the camp members first. He asks Lilly to assist him with finding Stella but she refuses stating that she cannot trust Tenebris to fulfill his side of the bargain. Aware of Lilly's intentions, he sets off with Kant and Miriam instead. As he pursued Stella, Kant convinces Tenebris to abandon using reasoning against the SinWorkers and should focus on defeat them. Tenebris fights against the Old Man while Kant approached Stella, unaware of Kant's true intentions. After Stella's defeat, the Old Man retreats and the group returns to Grasscover Camp with Catherine who left the Void quickly.

At some point, he hears rumors that Iris Yuma has become a tyrant and turned into a SinWorker. After some unknown series of events, Tenebris uncovers Kant's secret and attempts to fight him but lost and was banished from the Great Void.

### The Strongest SoulWorker

As he was banished from the Great Void, a portion of his SoulForce was seperated from his body and lived on as a ghost while his actual body joined the Starry Forest League as a SoulWorker. He later became known as the strongest SoulWorker for his heroic deeds and his solo mission for sealing the Golden Citadel. At some point, he saves Miriam as she descended from the Great Void and became her lover once more but both were unware of their prior relationship. He became disillusioned with the SFL's treatment of SoulForcers and SoulWorkers and was convinced by Kant under the disguise of Amad to pursue his own justice over the SFL's. He then appears to gather information from the Bashai but was accused of siding with the Bashai and was sentenced to death by the SFL. Miriam was accused of assisting Tenebris's crimes but she denies Tenebris and punishment was not pursued. Tenebris then convinces a majority of the SoulWorkers to join his side;creating the Serenade Guild and launched a rebellion against the SFL. While the guild only consisted of about a hundred members, they able to push Grace City to blink of collapse and triggered the Grace Tower: the city's final defense mechanism. As the group was able to capture Grace City, a mysterious flash of light appears and the group was suddenly annihilated with Tenebris to have perished in the blast.

This event led to the loss of almost all of the Starry Forest League's SoulWorkers and would later be known as the Bitterly Wept the Stars. Members of the Starry League would refrain from speaking about Tenebris's name but the Western Cloudream forces would later treat SoulForcers with more respect. This event did not change the opinions of the Lords and Miriam would experience guilt for betraying Tenebris.

However, Tenebris survived the attack and became aware of Lakasha's existence. Due to her overwhelming power, Tenebris changes his views on justice and sees power as the solution to every problem. He then disguises himself as Nathan (Neb) and works alongside Kant disguised as Amad(Roy) to plot the Starry Forest League's demise.

### Main Story: Parallel Worlds

As Nathan, Tenebris is encountered as an injured man with bandages throughout his body and is one of the sponsors for the Starry Forest League. He lends the SoulWorker, Amad, to assist them in operation Flame Breaker and wishes the SoulWorker the best of luck at the end of the Grace City arc. Before the SoulWorker left, he tells the SoulWorker about his first experience about love and about a woman in golden clothing with overwhelming power who changed his world.

After Amad's mysterious appearance in the Great Void, the SoulWorker heads back to Grace City to investigate Amad but discovers that Nathan has disappeared as well. Using the surveillance system in Grace City, the two mysteriously vanishes together and were unable to determine their location. In a secret conversation, he is seen talking to Henryk that he did not expect the SoulWorker to come but they would be able to meet with the SoulDreg Queen as planned. Henryk accuses Nathan of not fulfilling his promise and would tell Starry Forest League that he was providing lauded money from NED Company. He then assists Henrky as his bodyguard to find the SoulDreg Queen in Dipluce Horizon. After being chased by the SoulWorker, Henrky is annoyed with their persistence and states that he would need the legendary SoulWorker, Tenebris, to stop them where Nathan gives a light laugh. Nathan then appears by himself to stop the SoulWorker from following Henryk and uses his massive bloodlust to stop them. The SoulWorker notices that Nathan's energy wavelength is not normal and asks why he seemed normal back in Grace City. He answers that it was likely Amad's role and states that Amad asked him not to kill the SoulWorker. Accepting they cannot win against Nathan, the SoulWorker returns to Dipluce Horizon to discuss countermeasures. The SoulWorker receives advice from Veneris to take a different route to Henryk and that he would come alongside them as backup against Nathan. The SoulWorker was able to find Henryk and he laments why Nathan has suddenly abandoned him.

After failing to capture the SoulDreg Queen, the SoulWorker accepts the task to clear the remaining SoulDregs in the Unholy Sanatorium's spires. Nathan then uses the hacking tools left by Henryk to talk to the SoulWorker. He ultimately questions the SoulWorker regarding the meaning of justice and states that in the end: only power matters. The SoulWorker attempts to clear the SoulDregs while ignoring Nathan but Luke III runs off and the SoulWorker is asked to chase after him before he encounters Nathan. Because Luke III felt an unusual energy force from the room next to him, he decided not to enter it. The SoulWorker then enters the room where Nathan is and he reveals that he is Tenebris and has abandoned his previous sense of justice; calling himself the SoulWorker of Justice who corrects humanity's false justice. Tenebris is unable to easily defeat the SoulWorker and attempts to take on the SoulWorker seriously but is stopped by Lakasha. She then uses all of her power to merge the parallel worlds into one.

### Main Story: Merged Worlds

Tenebris is aware of Lakasha's intervention but when the light settled, he saw the appearance of seven SoulWorkers and laughed at his situation;stating the Amad is in trouble. Deciding not to waste anymore energy, Tenebris decides to retreat. Afterwards, he asks Amad if they should kill Lakasha in her powerless form but Amad states that there is no reason to do so.

After Phlema's death, Tenebris questions Kant if his death would cause problems for their war effort ,but he replies that Phlema was just a broken toy and that everything is still going along as planned.