Are you able to discover the cause of why all hell broke loose? I wish I could too, but it's too difficult to give a start to the unknown. There could be a reason behind it, or maybe it just formed because it did. There are no theories that have enough proof, but what this place does have is history. And history is what can be brought to light.
Contents
Introduction
In the past, before the Major Explorer Group was what it is now before all these groups, colonies, and outposts were formed before many entities we know today were formed, The Backrooms were just labyrinths with no exits, few entities, and almost desolate. The Backrooms were in a primary stage, so to speak, or to say that they were still forming.
This canon focuses on how The Backrooms was transformed into what it is today, how many entities were created, how all these groups were born, trying to keep the mystery. But besides that, it also focuses on some entities called Lightlurkers, which were not your common entity. These Lightlurkers had immense power in those days, even becoming a kind of dominant entity in those times. So yes, this canon focuses on a "developmental stage" of The Backrooms and the history of the Lightlurkers.
You see, the Lightlurkers appeared spontaneously along with their level. These Lightlurkers were smart, strong, and very lucky. The Lightlurkers soon traveled from level to level and eventually terrorized every entity present in the Backrooms, making them as mentioned above a dominant entity. The luck of these Lightlurkers would have increased thanks to the first wanderers who were soon caught by them and brought to their level. The Lightlurkers, without knowing it, their level, their home had something special that would make these wanderers something more.
This thing is known as "Dark Influence", which caused it to transform things into hostile and eerie things, and these wanderers, for some reason, were affected by it, creating the first worshippers so to speak. These worshipers were known as "Their Retainers", and although they could not do anything against the entities, }they were supporting the Lightlurkers, being able to heal and even revive them. However, this time of domination would not last long, after all, new entities began to appear, and smarter wanderers.
All the pages of Let There Be Dark are connected so as not to lose the direction of the story and change the subject. Let There Be Dark Is a canon for The Backrooms, and follows the standard Unrestricted Canon from The Backrooms.
Now, a short list of some of the headcanons used in this canon:
- Time Travel: In this headcanon, The Backrooms have been around forever, just like noclip, it just wasn't as well known. There could also be people from other eras in one, so yes, you can find Terminator and a barbarian disemboweling Facelings.
- Always Been There: The Backrooms have always been around since the beginning of everything. No, there will be no monkeys in the Backrooms, but if the first wanderers could have been Greeks. And time goes by until we get to where we are now.
- Infinitely Expanding: The Backrooms in this canon are always expanding, so there is no "final" level, new levels and new entities are always being created. Although we are now in what could be considered the final stage of development, what if it is just the beginning?
- The Sentient Rooms: The Backrooms are conscious, sometimes. Most of the time they are in a dormant state, or as it is more common to say, deactivated, but when danger lurks, the Backrooms become conscious to solve it, as in the case of the Fillers. When the problem is solved, The Backrooms consciousness enters the dormant state again.
Pages
Book 1: Grande Dominante
Level Pages
- Level 2250: The ruins of the great city. The home of the Lightlurkers and their companions has now ruined thanks to violent and horrible battles that occurred in the place, even to the point of breaking the place creating holes to other levels. However, this won't stop the Lightlurkers from making the level their territory. After all, what is most precious has to be preserved.
Tales
- Coming Soon!
Entities
- Lightlurkers: All that remains of an entity with a promising past, an entity with the power to dominate the minds of other entities. But a battle to end the fear, the revolution against these entities ended with them almost on the verge of extinction but saved thanks to their worshippers. What will they do now without control? Only the future will tell.
- Their Retainers: Once humans with a future ahead of them, but who ended up in the Backrooms. The Lightlurkers, being what they are, took them, prisoner. What were once living, free bodies were made slaves to their thoughts, they were brutally corrupted into this. They were no longer them, and they were never to be again.
Book 2: The Awakening Of Now
Level Pages
- Coming Soon!
Tales
- Changing Faces: TBA
Entities
- Coming Soon!
Organizations
- M.E.G: Something obvious after all, it takes on an important role as you would expect, as the main source of information for the entire history of The Backrooms. Known as the "Explorer Group" before, it was not so big as to be the Major Explorer Group.
Note
This Canon is not finished yet, so don't expect it to be so complete right now, but maybe in a few days, there will be new entities, levels, etc. Thank you for your attention.

