Bright

The Holy Soul Returns

Bright (formerly Etham) is the 106th Hero in Arena of Valor, and one of the few heroes with a localised name for example in German Hell. Bright was classified as an Assassin-Marksman on his official release, but is now an Assassin.

Profile

 * Date of Birth: October 23 (Age 17)
 * Place of Birth: Kingdom of Okka
 * Height: 186 cm

Lore
Bright was born in Okka.

In winter, at the age of 6, he met Veda's original god, Edras for the first time.

Edras walks the earth as a spirit, searching for the truth of the world.

After accepting Edras as his mentor, Bright asked him why he pursued this truth. If a god could not find it, how could someone else?

Edras told him that no matter who a person is, as long as he starts to pursue it, he will find his own answer.

And so the two began to travel the mainland, searching for the truth.

Edras showed him the entire history of Athanor since its creation, but all Bright saw was suffering.

Bright did his best to lend everyone a helping hand, but he couldn't make everyone happy.

He did find the answer though:

Perhaps it should be the world that is corrected.

He turned his head and said to the light behind Edras, "There is no need to pursue the truth. Rather, one should create the truth."

"Make the world what we want it to be."

Strategies
Bright is a strong jungler that needs an appropriate level to properly harness his strengths. In the early game, avoid close confrontations that could result in deaths for Bright. Bright is also able to be played in Slayer and Dragon Lane, but is best in the jungle as he is able to reach his limits early on and initiate ganks. Bright's abilities greatly synergize with his passive, allowing him to take down several enemies at once on his own. A recommended ability combo for Bright is to engage with Ability 1, whittle down your enemies' HP, and then secure the killing blow with Ability 2. When you are ganked by your enemies, trigger your ultimate to buy some time and to stall for 6 seconds to gain an edge in the fight. Ensure that you and your allies (or you on your own) are able to kill all of your enemies while you are in your ultimate to negate potentially fatal damage, but if it seems impossible to win, trigger your ultimate to be able to knock down at least one to trade for your death. Be careful around Assassins who can evade or cheese through Bright's damage and potentially kill Bright. When building a Marksman ADC Jungle build for Bright, maximize damage first as he can often stat overflow.

Skins

 * Bright: Rocky Sun, was available for 99 vouchers on the day of release. The current price is 699 vouchers. In Tencent servers, Rocky Sun is classified as an ordinary skin, while in Garena servers it is classified as Heroic.

Trivia

 * Bright was released on the Tencent servers on December 25, 2020, at 0:00 AM (UTC+0).
 * Bright is the second hero native to the Kingdom of Okka.
 * Bright, although having inherited Edras' abilities, is not directly affiliated with Veda. In fact, some of Bright's voicelines criticize Illumia, such as "Illumia, do you remember yourself?"
 * Bright has teamed up with Violet and the Lightchasers, as seen in the Light and Shadow comics. In fact, he has some voicelines directed towards Laville, Rouie, Zata, Butterfly, and Allain.
 * Bright is technically a pure human. He is unlike Edras because he did not develop his divine powers himself, he mostly got them from Edras.
 * Bright was mentored by Edras after the deceased god witnessed Bright's kindness as an orphaned child.
 * He and his counterpart Lorion are the main characters of the Light and Shadow Arc.
 * Other than Elsu, Bright is the only character to share the roles of marksman and assassin. However, he is no longer a Marksman as of the class changes introduced in Beta 30, which removed the secondary role.
 * Before release, Bright was speculated to be called Etham. However, it was disproven as upon the December 15 update, he was labeled as Bright in his skin files.
 * In the Light and Shadow Arc, a total of 9 heroes were introduced to Athanor. Those heroes are Laville, Zata, Rouie, Allain, Thorne, Sinistrea, Dextra, Lorion, and Bright. The new mage character, Iggy, was also teased in the comics but not revealed.
 * Bright is the final hero in the Light and Shadow Arc.
 * Although Bright has inherited Edras' powers, he is weaker than Volkath and Ilumia. At best, Bright can be compared to Lorion, who was bested by D'Arcy. Bright canonically is as strong as the three mages, Sephera, Dirak, and D'Arcy.
 * Bright was originally introduced as a Marksman-Warrior and his abilities acted differently, and he was also not a Jungler as his passive did not apply on them. In a later change to Bright, he became an Assassin-Marksman and lost his magic damage.
 * See also Heroes