Bayonetta: Who Are The Umbra Witches?
While playing Bayonetta, you will become acquainted with Umbra Witches. Bayonetta is considered an Umbra Witch, but what does this mean exactly? Here, we will look at who the Umbra Witches are and why it's important to the story of Bayonetta.
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Overall, this will include how the Witches came to be and their fate until the start of the first Bayonetta game. As this will be plot-heavy, there will be several spoilers here regarding the first and second Bayonetta games. If you have yet to complete these, proceed with caution! Now, let's look at who the Umbra Witches were before the existence of Bayonetta.
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The Umbra Witch Clan come from Europe and are regular practitioners of the Dark Arts. A main point of the clan is the contracts they form with Infernal Demons. For example, Bayonetta has a contract with Madama Butterfly and can summon her during battle. Jeanne, on the other hand, has a pact with Madama Styx and can summon her.
Umbra Witches symbolize darkness, which makes their counterpart the Lumen Sages. This is another European clan that symbolizes the light. Instead of Infernal Demons, the Lumen Sages worked together with the Laguna, angels that served as the primary enemy in the first two Bayonetta games.
The Umbra Witch Clan is all female, which opposes the Lumen Sages, who are all male. Umbra Witches typically wear tight black outfits covering their hair and the lower portion of their face. Like Bayonetta, other Umbra Witches can use their hair to create clothing.
In addition to summoning Infernal Demons, Umbra Witches carry guns with them, which are mounted on their heels. This can be seen with both Bayonetta and Jeanne. Rather than manually firing these guns, the
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