Rift of Parallels

The Rift of Parallels is a dimensional rift located in the mostly abandoned kingdom of Old Oricai, in the ruins of the once-great city of Diempaia. It is the origin of the Lumminai, the Dakrumi, and also of The Evil One.

The Great Calamity
The first time the Rift of Parallels opened in Oricai, known as The Great Calamity, it spat light across the sky and flooded the world with the Lumminai, who rampaged through Diempaia and caused its complete destruction. As the Rift continued to pour forth more and more Lumminai and those Lumminai proceeded to fight each other, their predecessors, and everything within sight, the land surrounding the Rift and the cities that had been built on it were destroyed one after another. The people were forced to evacuate, and what was once the center of the world became Old Oricai, a broken remnant of a quiet past.

Though attempts were made to contain the Rift, or to kill all Lumminai that came through, such attempts were unanimously unsuccessful. For a time it seemed that the Lumminai would surely overwhelm all other life in Oricai; however, as the Grand Lumminai came to power and the Lumminai's rage began to calm, the Rift began to slow its relentless summoning of the creatures, and eventually it fell quiescent.

This, however, would not last.