First appearance: S3E1 — Kill em with Kindness — Lumos the Spark v Ferndell Ironwind · watch it on YouTube
Lumos the Spark is a high elf champion who arrived in the Void with a grudge, a deep love of corgis and very little else on her mind. She was pulled into the arena to face Ferndell Ironwind, her rival from another dimension, in S3E1 — Kill em with Kindness — Lumos the Spark v Ferndell Ironwind. She fought with radiant light and fire, and she fell to a phantom of her opponent’s own mother. She was back on her feet in time for Dried Blood, where it turned out her will had already been sorted.
Story
A portal tore open in time and space, and two champions walked out to the announcement of “Ferndell Ironwind versus Lumos the Spark.” Lumos introduced herself as a high elf who was “pretty cool” and “questionably way too much into corgis.” She blamed the corgi habit on the long stretch she had spent among a folk who ride corgis. She cheerfully admitted that this was most of who she was: “I don’t know that there’s anything else really to my personality other than that.” Her stated reason for being there was simple. She had come “to get some revenge.”
The revenge had a history. In another dimension, Lumos was an office worker and a bounty hunter, and Ferndell’s rival. In the arena, Lumos mixed healing with heavy firepower. She called out words that mended her wounds, unleashed a burst of searing radiance, raised a wall of fire and hurled a fireball. She also dug deep at one point to patch herself up, and she cast a spell to make “fast friends.” When Ferndell tried to rob her of her sight and hearing, she shrugged it off so completely that she could not be blinded or deafened for the rest of the match. She credited this to “LASIK.”
Corrective eye surgery could not save her from what came next. Ferndell conjured a phantasmal killer, a nightmare drawn from her deepest fears, and it took the form of Ferndell’s mom. That was the end of Lumos in the arena. Her will was clear about who came first in her life: she left everything she owned, a fortune put at a “quadrillion” dollars, to her corgi Maximus. Like most fallen champions, she was revived afterwards and appeared again in Dried Blood.
Personality and Abilities
Lumos is breezy, self-aware and almost entirely corgi-focused. She owns Maximus, a corgi who can fly, and she clearly adores him. She is enormously wealthy and still has small, specific troubles. She is lactose intolerant, so her yogurt is a special-order strawberry Greek, high in protein. She has a pair of cute boots in her favorite color, although one heel is cracked.
In a fight she leans toward light and flame. She carries a mace, and her spells run from quick healing words to radiant bursts, walls of fire and fireballs. She can also call down daylight and heal a whole crowd of wounded allies at once, though she had no allies in a one-on-one Deathmatch. After shrugging off Ferndell’s attempt to blind and deafen her, she could no longer be blinded or deafened for the rest of the match.
Relationships
- Ferndell Ironwind: Her rival in another dimension. He was the target of her revenge and the champion who killed her.
- Maximus: Her flying corgi and the sole heir to her quadrillion-dollar fortune.
Memorable Quotes
- “questionably way too much into corgis” (S3E1)
- “I don’t know that there’s anything else really to my personality other than that.” (S3E1)
- “to get some revenge” (S3E1)