Lord of Darkness

The **Lord of Darkness**, also known as **Darkness** is the main-antagonist of the 1985 Ridley Scott fantasy film, *Legend*. The Lord of Darkness has served as a notable character in *Halloween Horror Nights*.

## History

### Background

#### Origins

Darkness is the ancient personification of darkness, who rules over the underworld and is weak to light. The Lord of Darkness has dominion over various monsters, including goblins and a pair of tall female minions who speak in rhyme and unison.

The Lord of Darkness and his pair of minions may have appeared in the *Festival of the Dead Parade*, a parade which served the role of luring in guests and victims to the mysterious *Midway of the Bizarre* which had occurred in 1951, 1956, 1965, 1973, 1984 and 2003, claiming at least one life each time it appeared.

#### Sweet 16

In the year 2006, the Lord of Darkness and his two minions celebrated the sixteenth cycle of "Halloween Horror Nights". During this ceremony, the Lord of Darkness and his minions summoned four of the past "Icons" of Halloween Horror Nights to determine which of the four's evil was best. They summoned the Storyteller from a large *Terra Cruentus* book before she ripped a man's tongue out, the "Director" Paulo Ravinski who filmed a woman being electrocuted in a bathtub, caused the Caretaker, Dr. Albert Caine to emerge from his coffin and murder a tied-up man with shears, then opened up the box of the undead "Jack the Clown" who pulverised someone inside of a giant blender.

After this, the Lord of Darkness disappeared and the four icons were unleashed. The Lord of Darkness and his power in this cycle may have also been tied to the "Horror Comes Home" incident in which various entities associated with past cycles of Halloween Horror Nights were summoned. Amongst these were: several clowns, Jack the Clown's murderous brother Eddie, succubus, skeletons from the Festival of the Dead parade, the Caretaker's fantasy disciple *Nightmare*, the Director's fantasy-film creation *the Ice Queen*, a corrupted and murderous version of Alice from Lewis Carroll's *Alice* stories, zombies, serial-killer Norman Bates, and inhabitants of Terra Cruentus such as the Terra Queen's Terra Ladies, her orator *Eelmouth*, and the realm's mysterious *Body Collectors*,

#### Later history

Darkness has been largely absent from Halloween Horror Nights cycles since the *Sweet Sixteen*. However, his minions have been spotted on multiple different occasions. In 2007, the pair were seen as members of the *Midway of the Bizarre* in Orlando while it was part of Jack the Clown's *Carnival of Carnage*.

## Appearances

### Halloween Horror Nights

#### Festival of the Dead Parade

The Lord of Darkness appeared in the Festival of the Dead Parade in 1996, 1997, and 1998.

#### Halloween Horror Nights: Sweet 16

##### The Arrival

Darkness was the central character of this show where he summoned four Halloween Horror Nights icons: the Storyteller, the Director, the Caretaker and Jack the Clown.

#### Halloween Horror Nights: Carnival of Carnage (HHN 17)

##### Midway of the Bizarre

Darkness' two minions appeared in the "Killer Carnies" section of the Midway of the Bizarre.

#### Halloween Horror Nights 22

Darkness was identified as a member of the Cerebins Legion.

#### Halloween Horror Nights 25

##### ICONS: HHN

Darkness' two minions appeared in this scarezone.

## Trivia

* It is unknown if the Lord of Darkness is of any relation to *Fear* and if so, how.
* During his opening narration for the Arrival, Fear mentioned the HHN V icon the Crypt Keeper as "The Keeper of the Crypts". Incidentally, the two characters have both appeared in the Midway of the Bizarre.
* A bloody note left by the Storyteller over a photograph of the Lord of Darkness at the Festival of the Dead Parade said "Of all creatures great and small this is my favourite".

## References

1. ↑ 2004 Midway of the Bizarre backstory