Quote Originally Posted by BillCipher View Post
I have a question, pertaining to lore.
There's more to it than that.


First you need to know what astral and umbral energies are. Astral energies are the powers of creation and change. Umbral is more about keeping things as they are.

It was always assumed that light was astral and darkness was umbral. The revelation from Urianger is that it's actually astral darkness and umbral light. This does work with everything we know so far too. Hydaelyn (light) wants to preserve things as they are. Zodiark(dark) wants to create new things, but has to destroy other things to do it.

You ultimately need a balance of both. It's highly implied the Amaurotines brought about their own destruction by creating the entities you fight. The creatures that pop in do so in exactly the same way ascians use their magic, which further solidifies darkness is the power of creation and that can be chaotic and lead to destruction. On the flip side, light is a stasis; a standstill where nothing changes and nothing has a real identity. We basically saw that with Vauthry and the sin eaters.

We're both the warrior of light and the warrior of darkness, because the shard and the source have different words for the same concept, but we also are starting to understand that you really do need both. One extreme is just as bad as the other.