The Lament

"The Lament" (Chinese: 悲鸣, "lament" or "wail of sorrow") is a term used to describe a series of catastrophic mass-extinction phenomena that have affected the planet, Solaris-3, and is one of the primary driving narratives in Wuthering Waves. It serves as the general classification for all major disaster trends and Waveworn Phenomena observed on the planet. Over the past 10,000 years, five global Lament events and more than 300,000 regional instances have been recorded, indicating a recurring and persistent pattern of large-scale disruption. These events have led to the emergence of individuals known as Resonators—those who have adapted to, or been shaped by, the residual energy of the Lament.

The Black Shores is a covert organization responsible for safeguarding humanity and overseeing the surveillance and mitigation of the Lament through the Tethys System. They have developed a predictive system for Lament activity and have established cooperative partnerships with nations across Solaris-3. Resonance Beacons have been deployed to continuously monitor the Lament, enabling real-time data collection. Additionally, the organization utilizes monitoring registers positioned worldwide to track and analyze Sentinels - entities that serve as guardians of the remaining civilization.

The Fractsidus aims to accelerate the next instance of the Lament - dubbed as the "True Lament" - by resurrecting the Threnodians, formidable creatures born from the Laments, with the power to destroy the human spirit and feed off of their collapsed will.