Organic engines which turn light into power. The longer they work, the weaker the light in the area.
Friendly young guy who got stuck in the Dark Halls after almost being sacrificed by a cult
Cosplay, LARP, TTRPGs, Miniature painting, building model kits (book nooks, buildings and anime characters)
Cornetto Trilogy (especially World's End), Mad God, LoTR movies, Truman Show, Isle of Dogs, Klaus, Maboroshi, Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop
Blood Blockade Battlefront, Mob Psycho 100, Over the Garden Wall, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, My Dress-up Darling, Tengen Toppa Gurran Lagann, Dofus and Wakfu (have to yet watch anything beyond season 2), (not a TV series but) Visiteur du Futur
Glass Dragons by Sean McMullen
Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
Legend of Mana, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, Soul Nomad, Bastion, The Cat Lady, Dark Souls series, Elden Ring, and Sekiro, Dishonored, Dragon's Dogma, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat, Sunset Overdrive