I like the idea of Tings being little fairies trapped inside magic spheres, detailed as such in the Rayman GBC game.
Now, as far as regular Lums go, I'm pretty sure nobody's waiting for me to explain myself again in a long-winded matter like
I did before, but I'll indulge in thinking of new Lums instead.
And while we do so, why not include what I will be putting in my game, whenever that comes out. Perhaps that interests you. Perhaps you're sick and tired of me talking about it. Either way:
Yelllow Lums form into Super Yellow Lums when they cluster together - big, energised beings of light that appear to become recognisably alive; they get faces and they turn to face Rayman smiling when they see him close by.
Considering that, actually (yes I'm going off on yet another tangent again), think of how the Yellow Lums sing when Rayman is near, or how some Red Lums start enthousiastically dance around their spot. Are Lums not already alive, then, maybe? Perhaps their focussed Energy alone is enough to create life in themselves. I don't know why I never even considered this before, considering they
do have wings already.
Anyway, back to Super Lums:
Similar to how many Yellow Lums form one Super Yellow Lum, many Red Lums may gather to form a Super Red Lum and similarly, many Blue ones will form a Super Blue Lum, etc.. Now I'm not comfortable disclosing what these curious beings would be doing yet, except that they will be performing an 'enhanced behaviour' of their smaller selves; so Red Lums will be chock-full of vital Energy and Super Blue Lums will give breath to more things than only life...
As another type of Lum, there is the Pink Lum. To quote myself here - 't is really the best way to describe them:
Pink Lums show what is unseen. They reveal secrets and expose hideouts.
Fairly simply said, they are basically there as a mechanic to have the player wander over somewhere and start investigating. A clue, if you will, to the fact that there may be more to the area than meets the eye.
Lore-wise, it gets more interesting when you find a Super Pink Lum:
Super Pink Lums are mysteries. They can create, remove or reshape things and alter events yet to come. Once encountered, they can change the world around you.
The Energy coagulated into Pink Lums can probably most accurately be compared to the force of entropy in the real world; they are random, chaotic, unpredictable, and have the ability to change everything simply by being there.
And then there's Spirit Lums:
Spirit Lums are the accumulation of dozens of Lums of the same kind. Together, they are the simplest form of conscience.
Basically, sentience is achieved into a pure body of Lums if they focus themselves together into groups of their own, rather than as groups of all other kinds as well to form a 'normal' lifeform.
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All this makes me wonder what makes up a body of something living in Rayman's universe - if it's purely Lums, which Lums and how many are needed where to form what parts of a body? How do creatures have such a wide variety of shapes and forms if the same amount of the same Lums make up all living things, if there is only one needed of each kind? If there are multiple Lums involved, how come then, you can have a species? Are bodies more than 'just Lums'? Is the physical world really a flow of Energy, trapped in solid form - do we walk on the bodies of trapped Lums when we traverse the plains beneath our feet? Or is there something... else?
PS
Obviously I'm basing my 'are Lums alive?' realisation on Rayman 2 experiences - I never even considered Origins basically turned Lums into creatures as opposed to mystical lights. But then again, I don't hold Origins very accurate for many things in Ray's universe, but that's just because I don't agree with most of its views.
