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Shadow Slave

True Darkness

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Article contents
  1. Description
  2. Encounters
  3. Differences between Shadow and True Darkness
  4. Origin
  5. Trivia
  6. References
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True darkness had its own elemental force, one that was both independent and opposed to light. It was different from light and shadows. Instead of a simple lack of light, pure darkness was a rival of light. Since light and shadows always went hand in hand, it was also the enemy of shadows.[1]

True darkness was the natural enemy of shadows[2] and of reflections[3].

Description

Sunny had always viewed darkness as a billowing cloud of nothingness, an impenetrable black barrier that was uniform and featureless obscuring the world from his senses. In Shadow Saint's perception, darkness was rich and full of nuanced. It flowed all around, its fluid torrents creating beautiful patterns in the air, moving and changing like a living creature.[4]

Encounters

Differences between Shadow and True Darkness

Shadows were made from the absence of light. They were manifestations of emptiness and shared more in common with light than they did with darkness. True Darkness, on the other hand, was its own entity.[7]

Origin

Reveal
Legends says that a terrible creature was slain by the gods once, at the dawn of time, whose blood seeped into the earth, forming true darkness. The dark creature must have been a being of the Void, greater than an Unholy Titan.[8]

The Hollow Mountains are a scar left by the creature's death, and most of true darkness remains below them. Nether made his home in this area, but it was not entirely empty during his rule. There were many others living in the darkness.[8]

Trivia

  • Sunny cannot detect anything that came from true darkness:
    • He did not detect Forsaken Knight when the latter stepped forward from the darkness and pierced him.[5]
    • He cannot see through the old tunnel in Antarctica due to it being drowned by true, pure elemental darkness.[6]
  • Awakened cannot sleep and be transported to Dream Realm while surrounded by True Darkness in the waking world. Same with a Master, they cannot sense their anchor in Dream Realm.[9]
  • The true darkness can consume the wild shadows, but it couldn't consume Sunny's own shadows, just like he couldn't command or manifest the shadows of living beings.[10]
  • Drowning in the sea of darkness feels eerie and unpleasant as if something was gnawing at their soul.[10]
  • Mordret did not dare venture into the hollow interior of the Hollow Mountains, where elemental darkness ruled, since utter darkness was the enemy of reflections, rendering his powers mostly useless there.[11]

References

  1. ↑ Chapter 931 Rival of Light
  2. ↑ Chapter 1886 Dark Dancer
  3. ↑ Chapter 3055 Gates of the Underworld
  4. ↑ Chapter 1890 Dark Tide
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Chapter 180 Break Point
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Chapter 930 Old Tunnel
  7. ↑ Chapter 61 Sea of Ash
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Chapter 1257 In the Darkness
  9. ↑ Chapter 935 Unmoored
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Chapter 1888 A Neat Trick
  11. ↑ Chapter 2875 The Company You Keep

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