Lore Question

So, every few months I take a break from wynncraft and come back clueless to most aspects of the game, specially the lore.
And I've just done the realm of light questline (taproot, finding the light and realm of light)
And in taproot I saw a dern looking monster basically start the gavel decay, everything is fine here, I always thought that dern was associated with the decay. We are also told that darkness and light are rivals or smth like that, which I also associated with dern vs the realm of light.
But then on the actual realm of light quest everything is just weird, apparently the corruption is plaguing the realm of light isntead of the decay, so does this mean that the corruption is just a branch of the decay/dern "power"?
Anyways, further into the quest we find some seeds of corruption (that I assumed were what gave birth to the roots of corruption) and some guy tells us to go and find 2 of those seeds, we can find them by following a red path (corruption) or purple path (decay/dern power thing), the red path has a smooth ending, we just retrieve the seeds, but on the purple path the seeds hatch into a devourer of light.
What does this mean? Are there 2 different types of corruption seeds, one that hatches into the roots of corruption, and other one that is dern related and hatches into a devourer of light?
I'd also like to note that it seems the the corruption and decay are fused together, most of the times when I see a corrupted landscape there will be a "road to dern" looking spike on the middle, but when we go deeper into what's underneath of said landscape we see a mixture of red and purple, with red being more predominant the deeper we go.

Spoiler: "Dern spike" and corruption

Spoiler: Mixed corruption and decay

For some reason the image isn't working, just imagine a huge looking dern spike that has both purple and red. It is at -875 50 -7000

Spoiler: Purple particle I found on the ground after following the purple path, inside of the cave was also corruption, altough the particle is very clearly dern-like

Well, the actual question here is if the corruption is a branch of the decay/vice-versa, but I'd really appreciate if someone could explain wtf is going on here. I heard some people say that the questline was weird but I don't think it was for this reason.
My current headcanon is that for some reason dern tried to infect the realm of light, but it ended up not working/taking too long so they spreaded to wynn and gavel, splitting the dern power thing into corruption into decay, wynn is where the "experiment succeeded", and they managed to open a portal, so it was there that road to dern was created, though the magic there doesn't seem like it was made to spread.
Sorry for the shitty thread that probably got every aspect of the lore wrong, but I just want to know what's the deal with all the "magic forces" in wynncraft.

 

https://wynncraft.gamepedia.com/Corruption
https://wynncraft.gamepedia.com/Decay

Light clashes with Darkness -> Corruption (+ and - = x)
Dern infects Gavel -> Decay (- and 0 = -)
Dern invades RoL -> Darkness and Corruption

Corruption is force unaffiliated with anything. It has no leader, only chaos.
NOTE: Bak'al doesn't command the Corruption, he is only intelligent undead capable of leading zombies.

 

I think of it as corruption is spawned when pure light (RoTL) is hurt by pure darkness (Dern) but decay is spawned when physical or "impure" light (the light forest) is hurt by impure darkness (whatever that creature is). I guess that would make SE be the impure darkness area and the roots of corruption impure corruption (since it is in the physical realm and not a realm of influence, which would be the nether)

Again, just my theory, I think the only thing confirmed is that Light+Dark=Corruption.

 

Decay = pure Darkness
SE = pure Darkness

Nether used to be a world like Wynn, but was desolated by the Corruption. It is not the source of the Corruption!!!

 

Is there actually anything that says this, because I thought any area through a portal i.e. Light's Secret, The Nether Portal, and The Portal to Dern were considered Realms of Influence. I thought the Nether was created when Darkness and Light first clashed, but Dern sought control of it. When you fight the EO boss, the arena slowly becomes more and more corrupted, because the player has become a harbinger of light while the boss (not trying to spoil anything) is made of pure darkness. Also, how can the Decay be pure darkness if it isn't in Dern? Idk if what I'm saying is contradictory or correct , this lore seems so scuffed to me.

 

Exactly. Corruption isn't tied to the Nether, it can be created anywhere. Nether, RoL or EO. There is no "Beast" of the Corruption.

Imagine SE. It was completely overrun by Dern because (presumably) Light wasn't there. It used to be strong in Light Forest, but since the greed of villagers weakened it Darkness was capable of getting in, although only a little.

This is how (after my research) you are supposed to think about it.

@Blastbasher any thoughts?

 

Note: RoL Questline is being completely redone in 1.20.
Actually, the entire Gavel Lore may be completely changed in 1.20 (I don't have access to the Beta before you say anything about that).

 

There are many fixes outside Gavel too btw

 

*cough* ancients *cough*

 

Oh, that's cool!

 

Thx, I got all of my doubts cleared, but what does SE stand for in this context?

 

Silent Expanse

 

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as stated above, when light and dark clash, they cancel out leaving only their chaos and hatred for each other, the corruption. one random item lore that isnt a very good source mentions twilight, which could potentially be when light and darkness touch without aggression. this is speculative tho, so dont pound me on it

 

Shhhhhhhh

Actually, we had quite a long discussion about this item (iirc Bridge of Divide) on WynnTheory discord. I think it could be either just an oversight from CT side (like many other things) or something that contained both before splitting inti Light and Dark

 

When you go through the puzzle sections in Wynnexcavation Site D, the bits of gray text say when Darkness and Light touch it is Corruption that is created, not twilight.
This is the confirmation of what Corruption really is.

 

A rough recreation of the lore in 1.20

 

Interesting