Darkness

Shârae (Älorin: shâ and -rae, meaning "darkness") is the spirit and force of negativity, and with it death, suffering, absence, chaos, entropy and oblivion. Darkness is the absence of light and creation, with the ability to both corrupt creation thru entropy and to annihilate it, if making it surrender. Within Avon and places of creation, darkness is in all places devoid of light and therein broods and festers until it becomes venom and enshadows the world around it. Like all things, darkness seeks light, yet, does so with the will to possess it, rather than be part of it, for it is chaos and disharmony. That is why there will never be true peace, for the grace of light beckons all things. Even darkness.

Ever since the First Night the denizens of Avon have been enticed by the dark, for unlike the light that gives graceful power to those who can achieve glory of the self, the dark offers power over one's fellows to any who dare wield it. Every soul of Avon has its own darkness, for as does the world, and that darkness begs to be given divinity by its keeper and yearns for its keeper to aspire to nothing less than all that they can ever want, for both light and dark are devoted to the soul they inhabit.

Darkness stems from oblivion, which is the centre of the Void, and it manifests as shadows when touched by creation. The darkest manifestations of darkness are the Devils and their lesser Wraiths, who darken the living into becoming hollow wights who further the dark.