Officer Lumen

Officer Lumen is a sheriff that hails from one of the smallest counties of the steampunk desert plane of Kassova. He was known for his uses of unorthodox weapons juxtaposed with his otherwise stringent appeal to tradition.

Sparking
One day, Lumen received a case that takes him across Kassova and culminates in his near-death and sparking at the hand of a band of hardened criminals, clad in various modern pieces of gear. Lumen swore to never be left behind in the times again. His first planeswalk took him to the scrapyard plane of Demystria - rife with dead scarecrows and various other dead beings, Lumen found it difficult to remain in such a place of lawlessness. And yet, he observed and experimented with various pieces of metal, patching up the severe wounds he had, making them less severe bit by bit. By the time he was done, he had mostly repaired his wounds, but there still remained a scar on his face as a testament to the day he almost down. Subsequently, he covered it up and began trying to bring law to the otherwise lawless plane of Demystria. To his pleasant surprise, his techniques and detective skills were rusty but managed to carry him through against the criminals of Demystria, who were not used to being pursued by authority.

After this time in Demystria, he returned to Kassova and remained there briefly, redoing the hastily done repairs he did in Demystria. By the time he arrived, everyone thought he was probably dead, so he left as he had gone, no one knowing he was ever there. Somewhere along the way, he recalled questioning a renegade artificer spirit named Varyl Doltria about where he had obtained his skill in artifice. He answered that he had gone to a place called The Arena, where individuals challenged one another in combat, physical or otherwise. Lumen nodded and left for the Arena to sharpen his skills and wits, but not before luring Varyl into an urn and sealing it with gilded chains.

The Arena
On the Arena, Lumen was one of the few people suspicious of Okus, as its host, the ten-year-old Karina Oblay, would converse with Lumen about criminal behavior in a way far too wise beyond her years. After the attack by Base Zero, Lumen asked Karina if he could investigate her hat. Okus had already planned for this and managed to pass off a fake to Lumen in exchange for his own hat while he studied it. While Okus had the hat, it enchanted it, allowing it to deliver a sonic attack to Lumen at the start of the Battle at Arena Station, removing him as a potential backup from the fight and placing suspicion on Karina, who was no longer Okus's host. Not long after this, Lumen would leave the Arena to recover.