Great Darkness

History
Little is known about the Great Darkness, other than its unmistakable destructive power. While it is said by some to merely by a magical Sphere of Annihilation, former followers of the Great Darkness swear to historians that the sphere was intelligent, sentient, and all-knowing.

The first known appearance of the Great Darkness, as it is written, was around 0 ARD, the same time as the Return of the Dragons. Testimonies from crewmen who claimed to be survivors of the Viking's Funeral and Cunt Destroyer detail that there was indeed a Sphere of Annihilation aboard one of the ships, but that it was lost to the ages after both ships were destroyed at the Isle of the Featherhand.

How the Sphere of Annihilation was recovered from the bottom of the ocean, and how it was transported underground beneath the Scollay Keep, has yet to be determined.

Cult Following
The Sons of the Coast re-discovered the Great Darkness inside the catacombs beneath Scollay Keep around 61 ARD. They had been gathering information on the Great Darkness by dismantling groups of cultists that worshipped it, but never truly got an accurate description of who (or what) the Great Darkness was. It was not until they discovered the Great Darkness on a collision course with the Starkenstone did the Sons of the Coast understand the horrible destructive power that could have ensued.

Destruction
The destruction of the Great Darkness is credited to Salazar Slump, who managed to prevent the wife of Torban Rhys from forcing the sphere to collide with the Starkenstone. It was later believed that the Great Darkness itself was controlling the woman to do its bidding.