The Ancients of Darkness

The **Ancients of Darkness**, also known as **Descendants of Chaos** and **Dark Animals**, are abyssal and evil creatures that inhabit the World of Yaldabaoth, the Shadow of the Creator. They are versions/copies of animals created by God, being unintelligent beings that inhabit the darkness, devouring everything that exists in front of them.

## Overview

The Ancients of Darkness are copies of the God animals that the Demiurge, Yaldabaoth, created in his world known as Chaosverse. They are creatures made of darkness, flesh and other strange elements mixed in their genetics. Most remain in Chaoverse, eternally dwelling in that prison of darkness, far from the light of the true realm of Creator. Unlike the beasts of God that were originally created not to be fierce but were corrupted when Adam and Eve gained the knowledge of Good and Evil, the monsters of Yaldabaoth are simply creatures whose sole instinct is to devour whatever lies ahead.

They reproduce asexually and most of the time, puppies devour their parents with the intention of getting stronger. It can also happen that parents devour their young with the intention of strengthening themselves. Sabaoth explains that they are not exactly creatures, but flaws, comparing the monsters to a virus created by Yaldabaoth that goes on devouring everything that exists. There are countless of these creatures scattered across the Multiverse of the Child of Chaos, of different forms and appearances, with some even being similar to human beings, albeit in a chaotic and sinister way, with the same devouring instinct. These "humans" have no soul, being devoid of emotions and feelings, totally empty inside. Just beings made of flesh without conscience, soul or spirit.

## Description

It is difficult to describe such entities, as they are as bizarre as the Old Ones, with the obvious difference that they are much weaker. However, these creatures should not be underestimated, as Sabaoth claims that some of them are capable of devouring even Cherubim and Seraphim level Angels and Demons. They are chaotic beings, lacking in consciousness, driven only by an irrational instinct to devour and kill. It is not possible to interact or domesticate them, as they do not respect even the law of the fittest or even a food chain.

These creatures are ignorant like their creator, being poor in conscience, being as intelligent as a stone. The only thing that makes them move is an unknown energy source, possibly the hatred of Yaldabaoth, and an animalistic instinct to devour. They do, however, seem to harbor some kind of hatred and contempt for the Dragon Eater, perhaps because he created them only to suffer and feel pain and cause each other pain. Because they are creatures of darkness, having none of God's divine light, this makes it difficult to know if they are capable of actually having emotions.

## Appearances

The Ancient of Darkness are entities similar to land animals. However, their shapes are totally bizarre and nonsensical, with creatures that should have been a few centimeters tall being hundreds of meters tall. Some may appear as a mixture of races due to the fact that they keep devouring and merging with the creatures they devour to gain more power. Some species in particular are similar to humans, but having irregular sizes and, in the end, being the same thing as other Ancient of Darkness.

## Powers and Abilities

**Absolute Darkness:** The Ancients of Darkness are able to create a field of absolute impenetrable darkness that completely negates sight and may also dull or even completely negate the other senses. They are potentially able to generate darkness so intense it can erase from existence everything that stands in the way.

**Bio-Darkness Manipulation:** The Ancients of Darkness can manipulate biologically/bodily based or biofield-originated darkness and shadows and use for many things such as teleporting via darkened areas, use one's self as a living portal of darkness, turn invisible in shadowed areas, draw reserves of dark energy from obscure dimensions, to potentially blacking out a target's senses.

**Conceptual Darkness Manipulation:** The Ancients of Darkness can manipulate the abstracts (or concept) of darkness. This can have many feats, such as darkness that can prevent light from existing, darkness that makes things more visible rather then less, produce darkness/shadows that can exist without light, harm things that can absorb or are immune to darkness, produce shadows/darkness that can consume or negate other forms darkness/night/shadows, and much more.

**Cosmic Manipulation:** The Ancients of Darkness can create, shape, absorb and manipulate cosmic forces and energies to produce nearly any effect they desire, including the manipulation of matter and energy across space and time, the manipulation of the space-time continuum, altering the fabric of reality, the creation of force fields, the creation of inter-dimensional portals and vortexes, psionics, energy projection, and cosmic awareness.

**Dark Divinity:** The Ancients of Darkness possess a dark form of Divinity, the Ancients of Darkness have divinity and divine powers granting them an immense amount of raw power beyond the mundane; however, their divine source is darker in nature while still being considered "holy" beings.

**Dark Energy Manipulation:** The Ancients of Darkness can create, shape and manipulate dark energy, usually drawn from inter-dimensional or other similar sources. It can be channeled to a variety of effects as an absence of light, a solid, gaseous and/or liquid substance that can be shaped/manifested in various ways.

**Dark Force Manipulation:** The Ancients of Darkness with this power possess and is able to utilize strong dark force. Though it is not necessarily "evil" per se, dark power tends to focus on destruction, harming, cursing and otherwise complicating the lives of other people while advancing the Ancients of Darkness' state.

**Dark Power:** The Ancients of Darkness wield an extraordinary dark power; a primeval and essence of cosmic balance from which they derive a myriad of abilities rooted to the source of darkness. In all its power, this fundamental element is a wellspring of shadow, encompassing realms both mundane and esoteric natures, which inherently opposes all things light. Through their mastery of darkness, users command extraordinary capabilities associated with the obscurity of the unknown, channeling and harnessing these dark forces to their advantage.

**Dark World Manipulation:** The Ancients of Darkness can create, shape and manipulate the darkest areas of the mystical world and every aspects of the shadow world, from elements to mythical beasts, darkest areas that hold ancient secrets, mysterious creatures, and legendary powers that no one of the mortal planes can comprehend.

**Darkness Manipulation:** The Ancients of Darkness can create, shape and manipulate darkness and shadows. Darkness is mostly used to cloud everything into total darkness, but can also be channeled to a variety of effects, both as an absence of light and a solid substance: one can also control and manipulate the beings that exist there, create and dispel shields and areas of total darkness, create constructs and weapons, teleport one's self through massive distances via shadows, etc.

**Darkside View:** The Ancients of Darkness can force target to face their inner evil, either in a mental struggle or bring the victim's dark side into the world as a physical being. When a darkness is faced, it's arguably more powerful than the good half of the being. They're basically a physical manifestation of the being's past wrongdoing, or current doing. They know the being like they know themselves, and that's a frightening thought. Victims are either corrupted, driven insane, or outright killed by the sensation of this ability.

**Diabolic Darkness Manipulation:** The Ancients of Darkness can generate and manipulate the mystical darkness of hell, which can completely destroy anything. The color of the darkness varies, but may be green, black, blue, white, etc, Sometimes, the darkness isn't generated, but instead is summoned from the planes of hell itself.

**Esoteric Darkness Manipulation:** The Ancients of Darkness can manipulate the esoteric side of the darkness/shadow, with special properties and a mystical nature to it. With mastery, the wielder could use the esoteric element for a variety of magical effects.

**Individual Shadow Manipulation:** The Ancients of Darkness can manipulate the shadows of individuals.

**Light Absorption:** The Ancients of Darkness can absorb light or its partial wavelengths, while removing it from the source, into their body and use it in various ways, gaining some form of advantage, either by enhancing themselves, gaining the drained power, using it as power source etc., either temporarily or permanently.

**Night Manipulation:** The Ancients of Darkness are able to manipulate the nighttime, including how long a night lasts, cause nighttime regardless of if the sun is shining on those areas of the world or not. They have limited control over the moon and stars, darkness and the optical phenomena associated with the nighttime.

**Meta Immunity Bypassing:** The Ancients of Darkness can completely, perfectly and absolutely bypass any and all immunities in existence and beyond regardless of its type, status, or level of power, including but not limited too: omni and meta-level powers.

**Umbrakinetic Immunity:** The Ancients of Darkness are immune to all darkness/shadow, being completely invulnerable to direct and indirect effects. Very much like nocturnal animals, the Ancients of Darkness can adapt to the dark, where it normally would blind others. Darkness naturally fills one with a sense of fear and dread, all of which no longer hinder the Ancients of Darkness. Giving them a greater sense of confidence, when delving into places dimly-lit and obscure.

**Omnificence:** The Ancients of Darkness possess the unlimited ability to create absolutely anything imaginable, transcending boundaries to create concepts, existence, reality and even Totality itself. Their creative power knows no bounds: they can create out of nothing, transform one thing into another, conjure up comic-book images, bring a dead person to life, duplicate anything and manufacture essentially anything they desire on an infinite scale.

**Primordial Reality Manipulation:** The Ancients of Darkness can create, shape, and manipulate the primordial reality, the reality before reality or before the concept of reality. This allows them to control the original reality and blueprint/template/drawing board for what reality would become after the creation of existence, including the principles, concepts, laws and forces that would later come to define existence.

**Psychic Darkness Manipulation:** The Ancients of Darkness can create, shape and manipulate psychic darkness, which allows them to cloud minds and suppress the memories of their targets.

**Pure Darkness Manipulation:** The Ancients of Darkness can create, shape and manipulate darkness of beneficial nature; that which strengthens, enhances and causes anything/everything it comes across to flourish, representing the sustaining and preserving side of darkness, which in turn ignores most of the common limitations and weaknesses of its normal elemental variety. In essence, this is about solely controlling the positive powers of darkness.

**Sacred Darkness Manipulation:** The Ancients of Darkness can create, shape, and manipulate holy darkness that's highly effective against the supernatural, such as demons and/or angels. The effectiveness, in question, can range from trapping and/or immobilizing to outright banishing or killing supernatural threats. Furthermore, divine elements may have other properties and abilities, such as healing, Resurrection, summoning angels and/or spirits of the deceased from Heaven to the material plane.

**Spiritual Darkness Manipulation:** The Ancients of Darkness can create, shape and manipulate darkness/shadows formed from one's soul/spirit. Due to being comprised of spiritual power, the darkness/shadows aren't only stronger than usual darkness/shadows, but also have the power to affect one's soul in varying ways.

## History

After Yaldabaoth was abandoned by the Mother Goddess Sophia, the Blind God wandered through the emptiness of space until he decided to create its own World. Then Yaldabaoth said "Let there be light... And let there be darkness!", thus giving rise to its chaotic and evil multiverse, known as the Chaoverse. The World was inspired by the Multiverse of the One and Absolute, the Divine Spirit.

The Dark Being, however, was not satisfied, so he said to his archons "let us descend and create man and beast, according to our image and our likeness". However, what Yaldabaoth created was nothing more than defective and copied versions of beings created by God. While animals have a spirit that gives them life, while humans have spirit and soul, the creatures of Yaldabaoth are totally hollow inside, with no divine light in them. Just endless darkness.

## Quotes

*"They are the fruit of perdition. The personification of the most perverse and insane of creation. They are not God's creatures, they are abominations copied from any animal you have ever seen. They have no conscience and they also lack the spirit of God that sustains life. They are alive by other sources of energy...Perhaps their source of power comes directly from Yaldabaoth's hatred and ignorance, from its willingness to be the true creator and fail to do so." - Sabaoth to Satanael.*

*"I hear his voice... He despised us. He forgot us. He created us only for pain. Just to kill. Just to hurt each other. We are the abominations, creatures of darkness that dwell between the gaps left in the absence of light." - Many Ancients of Darkness.*

## Trivia

* They bear similarities to the Old Ones, with both being rulers of darkness and chaos and cosmic devourers that can consume the entire petri dish.