Leptys

The Leptys, or Night God Leptys, is a bird-like god whose known titles include ‘Bringer of Night’ and ‘Father of the Knaaren People’. The Leptys is worshipped by the Knaaren.However, it is not known if the Knaaren were created by the Leptys since they were probably created by the omnipotent Polokus but worship the Leptys anyway. Gumsi, the child king of the Knaaren, holds the Sceptre of the Leptys, an extremely powerful artifact which, when invoked, will grant the holder all of the Leptys's powers.

A statue of the Leptys, as seen in the tunnels beneath the Desert of the Knaaren

When Rayman defeats Gumsi's champion Knaaren warrior, Reflux, in the arena, Gumsi rewards Rayman by invoking the Leptys and giving Rayman a fraction of its power: the power to turn Black Lums back into Red Lums with a Grimace.

Andre, the leader of the Hoodlums, persuaded Reflux to steal the Sceptre of the Leptys from Gumsi, so that Reflux would be able to use the Leptys's power to destroy Rayman, and so that Andre would be able to use the Leptys's power to reproduce.

The Leptys itself never truly appears, but a huge statue of it it seen in the Desert of the Knaaren. The statue resembles an eagle-like bird. After Reflux invokes the Leptys and becomes the final boss of Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc, he takes on a somewhat bird-like appearance, even growing wings. It seems that merely possessing the Sceptre is not enough to access all of the Leptys's powers; Reflux embeds the Sceptre into the flesh of his own back in order to grow gigantic.

The Leptys is worshipped by the Knaaren in the Tower of the Leptys, which they seemingly built as a temple to him. When the Leptys is invoked at the top of the tower, a bizarre cloud formation appears in the sky over it. Rayman and Globox chase Reflux into this, and find themselves in an alien landscape, surrounded by strange clouds and eyes on stalks. It is implied that this area explodes once Leptys-Reflux is defeated.

Reflux the Knaaren, once he has absorbed the power of the Leptys