


Reliving a similar moment of Rosa dying by Loptr, Balder learns of the deception created by Loptr and travels to the future and teams up with Bayonetta to defeat Loptr in the modern time frame. Aimed to kill Loki, the surviving witch Bayonetta battles the Laguna, Loptr, and eventually Balder until both of them are thrust into the same time frame. Simultaneously, a temporal event ensured in which Balder of the past traveled to the future due to Loptr and framed his good half, Loki, for killing the Umbra Witch, Rosa. Not wanting the Left Eye of Darkness to fall into the angels and Balder's hands, she seals away Bayonetta in a gem and hides her body in a casket under a lake. During the battle in Vigrid, witches Bayonetta and Jeanne are surrounded by humans and angelic beings alike converging onto them. Ī massive attack was launched by both angels and humans alike, resulting in massive extermination of Umbra Witches. While the residents of Paradiso yearn to awake Jubileus using the Eyes of the World, Loptr meant to use the force and remake himself into Aesir. As a result, they also manipulated the sole surviving member of the Lumen Sages, Balder, into helping them start what would be known as ' Witch Hunts' under the presumption of stopping a rebellion plotted by the Umbra Witches. Witch HuntsĪfter the Clan Wars, both Loptr and the Laguna launched another offensive campaign with the task of eliminating the weak Umbra Witches by rallying the human population into fear of the Witches' dark powers. Years after, the witches emerged victoriously. ĭespite the sages' best efforts with the help of the heavens themselves, the Witches' efficiency in assassination and the use of the dark arts assured their upper hand. Unknown to both forces, the conflict was also further instigated by Loptr, the evil half of the God of Chaos who sought the Eyes of the World. This broke the delicate balance between the two clans and sent them down a path of conflict, eventually sparking the Clan Wars by plunging all of Europe into a chaotic loop of battle, ambush, assassination, and casualty. This violated an age-old tenet that stated that " The intersection of light and dark would bring calamity to this earth". Clan Warsįive hundred years ago before the modern-day, a Sage named Balder and a Witch named Rosa fell in love and conceived Cereza. However, proving to be too powerful to be easily controlled, the Umbra and Lumen sealed it away in a different dimension. Taking inspiration from Aesir's Golems, the Umbra and Lumen built their own variant of the occult device. Īt some point in time, both the Umbra and the Lumen came together in an effort to come up with measures to protect their homeland from invasion. Throughout their existence prior to the Clan War and Witch Hunts, the Umbra Witches (and the Lumen Sages) were a feared clan, so much so that even other emperors and kings feared their power and made way for historical changes (though the exact changes remain unknown). The Umbra Witches became one-half of the two clans who worked hard to maintain the balance of the world's light and dark forces in order to ensure the just passage of time.

Pitying humans for their naivety, the god is known as Aesir would bestow one of the Eyes of the World to the clan that would become known as the Umbra Witches, granting them the " Left Eye of Darkness" while their counterpart, the Lumen Sages, were granted the Right Eye of Light. 4.2 Mentioned Witches in Costume Descriptions.4.1 Mentioned Witches in Accessory Descriptions.
