The Dark

**The Dark** is an Other. It is the representation of the fear of the dark & possible threats lurking within it. It also, like The Vast, can manifest as threats beyond comprehension or threats we can't or have a hard time to imagine.

Throughout all of Hell, The Dark primarily feeds in the Pride, Lust & Envy rings. The Pride for its overpopulation & so giant breeding ground of fear, the Lust for its famous all-daylong nighttime, and the Envy for its deep, dark oceans.

It manifests as…

* Dark/Darkness/Night
* Blindness
* Threats beyond view/comprehension/imagination
* The muddling of details
* Manipulation of the senses, primarily sight

The Dark is also referred to as…

* Dark (*name given by Lucifer Morningstar when first sketching out the Others*)
* Mr. Collary (*codename given by unnamed cult during 1300s*)
* Too Dark, I Cannot See (*line in a poem given by Entiro Almender*)

## Sections

### That Focus On The Dark

* Sister Twister (A1S6)
	+ Shella Locoa
* Maternal Dark (A1S20)
	+ Danya Makaub
	+ The Black Circle
* Look Before You Leap (A2S18)
	+ Sarmon Lutner
	+ The Black Circle

### Where The Dark Makes Minor Appearance

* Spiralling (A1S24)
	+ Listed by Entiro Almender during his breakdown

## People Aligned With The Dark

* Casmire Foiledt - Touched By
	+ Daughter of Mr. Foiledt & Ms. Pipola, kidnapped by The Black Circle in the early 2010s. Was their captive for subsequent years thereafter until months before The Mass Citation, in which she was abused by most members except for one Danya Makaub who nurtured her like a mother. The Darkness, at the time posing as Sarmon Lutner, then attempted a transference of possession to Casmire but strangely failed. The failure resulted in Casmire being very directly touched by The Dark & granted supernatural powers and the death of The Darkness. The cult incorrectly viewed Casmire's new powers as sign of success fo the transference & for the last 2 years in the cult, Casmire was treated as the messiah & being referred to as The Darkness. Casmire & Danya then fled & abandoned the cult when Hell Protection attacked it, killing every member. The two then stayed at an abandoned house in the Sloth ring for the next few months until The Mass Citation occurred, in which Casmire then took over the entire suburbia that surrounded the house, creating the domain Night Night Street.

## Relationships With Other Others

*Others not mentioned are neutral relationships by default*

### Positive Relationships

* The Buried
	+ The Dark & The Buried are usually very interlinked with one another and are said to complement each other very well. After all, most enclosed spaces usually lack light.
		- According to Wynona Bontick, a strange man who was blind, most likely Sarmon Lutner, once payed a visit to Lanty's Support Group For Troubled Demons, a cult dedicated to The Buried, & talked to Marrien Lanty & offered financial support for the support group.
* The Lonely
	+ Like with The Buried, The Dark & The Lonely can be able to complement each other very well. After all, the dark can sometimes feel isolating.
* The Web
	+ The Dark & The Web both like to work in secrecy, using their power & influence in the shadows rather than in the spotlight. They both share a common enemy, that being The Eye.

### Negative Relationships

* The Eye
	+ The Dark & The Eye directly oppose one another. According to Iris Gillman, The Dark can be said to be the invert of The Eye & vice versa. The reason for this is simply that The Eye likes to know, while The Dark prefers to not be known.
		- The symbol for The Dark is usually a closed eye, contrasting the symbol for The Eye that being an open one.
		- While travelling through New Hell with Jed, Iris is hesitant to traverse through & make reports on domains of The Dark because he is worried for his safety as he would be practically a walking self-insert of The Eye to citizens & rulers of the domains.
		- According to Poppy Enniter, an archivist for Hell Protection that is an organisation that primarily serves The Eye, The Dark has regularly the least number of reports that focus on it annually.
		- Hell Protection also is said to have no protectors that are aligned with The Dark, even in Unit 9.