Umbra Gear

The Umbra Gear is a set of equipment introduced in Golden Sun: Dark Dawn. It can only be worn by beastmen, making Sveta the only party member that can wield them. Stat-wise, the Umbra Gear is among the best equipment available, and each piece offers significant elemental resistance boosts. Sveta must equip the entire set for the player to be able to navigate Apollo Sanctum.

The set consists of the following items:

Umbra Knuckles
 * GSDD-UmbraKnuckles.png

Umbra Cloak
 * GSDD-UmbraCloak.png

Umbra Gauntlets
 * GSDD-UmbraGauntlets.png

Umbra Cowl
 * GSDD-UmbraCowl.png

Umbra Goggles
 * GSDD-UmbraGoogles.png

Story
Harsh light perpetually washes over Apollo Sanctum, so the Jenei built the Umbra Gear to protect the Exathi while they built the Apollo Lens. As a sign of mutual cooperation, the Umbra Gear can only be used by the Exathi Beastmen. During the Grave Eclipse, Matthew's group sets about trying to fire the Apollo Lens at the Eclipse Tower to end the catastrophe, but need to use the Umbra Gear to complete the ascent to the Lens's firing apparatus. To this end, they get the Umbra Map from Ryu Kou and use it to locate the gear, allowing them to complete their mission. In the game's finale, Sveta's Umbra Gear absorbs too much light, preventing her from completing their task, but in desperation she borrows Matthew's power to protect herself long enough to fire the Lens, despite knowing that doing this would likely kill them both.

Name Origin
Umbra (the Latin word for "shadow") refers to a shadow's darkest part, where light has been completely blocked out by another object, resulting in total eclipse. The term is usually applied to astronomy to describe shadows cast by celestial bodies.

Trivia

 * It is possible to remove the Umbra Gear while the "light gauge" is visible. If a player leaves the field menu without re-equipping all of the Umbra Gear, however, the entire party will faint in the same manner as when the light gauge is filled, even if they are taking shelter in a shadow. Fortunately, the party will be taken to a statue of the Wise One near the entrance of Apollo Sanctum, which will then restore the party's HP and PP to their maximum values, but half the party's money will be lost.