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Lamina is home to three races of people. The Laminae, the Lumine and the Voices.

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The first people to enter Lamina are manufactured as software entities. They are aware of this, but they reject the idea of being soulless software.

These people are the Voices and there are only five of them. Their job is to go through the portal first, to see how it works and what needs to be fixed.

They have a similar appearance to the Laminae and blend in with those who don’t notice their speech patterns.

Their speech patterns are programmed into them. They don’t say the same things over and over but the structure of how they speak is programmed.

They serve an important purpose in Lamina, in the beginning, although they should not overstay that purpose. 

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Next we have the Lumine. Beings that live on the ultraviolet spectrum. Invisible to other entities for the most part as they figure out how to manifest. They take from the animals to create themselves, horns, hooves, feathers etc. Always symbolic and a representation of life.

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Finally there is the Laminae. Their design as a universal origin, as they also borrow from the animals but far more subtle.

The universal design is:

A face ghostly white, a body black as night. Large eyes with a red iris and a small yellow triangle in the middle of the pupils. Hooves with a heel that looks like a pair of high heels.

In the early days of Lamina the Opsin rings served as more than just a structure for the portal. They served as a prison for the Lumine and the Laminae. Trapped inside, fixed and rigid. They understandably never want to return to a state that is chaos while at the same time being stuck in a psychological loop.To shapeshift both physically and build on one’s character is seen as socially responsible while shielding someone from the opportunity to grow is seen as socially destructive.While they have matured from good vs evil there’s still a sense of right and wrong. This is one of them.

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What is interesting is that the birth of their sense of right and wrong stems originally from fear. The fear of the reality they once lived. “I can’t go back.”They say “We can’t go back” they plead. This is what fuels their culture to behave the way that it does. This fear of both chaos and being held under control. The inability for the state of their existence to change outside of a strict framework. The ability to change form, both external and internal is liberation and to hinder one’s ability to evolve is considered morally wrong and socially destructive.

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What makes the infrared ring terrifying is that in its constricted state there are two different realities being experienced simultaneously within a chaotic yet strict space. Overwhelming conditions for the Laminae.

The Lumine

Forced into uniform

Voices / Laminae

Their original form until they evolve. The exception being the Voices. They are locked into form.

The Voices? We do not know who sent them. Being neither alive nor dead, they see the Lumine’s pain. They are the first travellers, through the Opsin Portal. They do not fall, but gently float through the centre of the ultraviolet realm. They see how the Lumine live. They want to help, although they realize simply breaking them out would cause devastating shock. As they descend further down, they see Nuclumito sitting between two unfortunate realities. As they land gently in Ixchel, they get to work on what they were made to do, and that is to make the space habitable.