I have a theory tho but I might not be the only one with it
What if the knight somehow had a vision of the future and saw Noelle and Susie together, and is now trying to commit genocide because of their homophobia
I think theres many things without a proper light world form, like the titans too, ralsei is probably one of them, I think the dark worlds arent actually entirely fake (not copium)
About the lighters being gods to darkners thing, I remember there being a whole thing in chapter 1 about lightners having some form of control over darkners but then they fell out of their relationship somehow