History: Dark Fall
The history of Dark Fall is the history of the world. Long ago, the darkness was cast out of the universe by the first great Light. Long after that, another light shined - the dawn of the Silver Age, where Queen Serenity used the light of her Silver Crystal to banish the darkness, and bind the demon kings to heel.
And each time, the darkness came back, lurking at first in shadow before gathering the courage and strength to lash out at the hated light - tearing kingdoms from the sky and gods from their thrones in the pursuit of their ambition to master all of creation. A simple oversight allowed the demons to slip their bonds at the end of the Silver Millenium - and long years of peace allowed them to crush the Silver Age's defenders, who had never fought their like. Only Serenity's final miracles cast the darkness back out from Earth. Most of the Fallen were banished from Earth entirely - the doors through the Prism Flower sealed against their kind by Serenity's final decree. Others were too powerful to be uprooted...and still others were born on Earth long after that banishment was cast.
Those that were banished wandered the worlds, preying on stray fairy lands and retreating like dogs from the powerful spells of the militarized dimensions. Perhaps their most dire feats were enabled by the Belkans - in the madhouse desperation of the generations-long Belkan wars, both the defenders amid the many worlds and the Belkans themselves bound demon kings to service, treating them with samples of Pure Heart, captured Star Crystals, and other valued pieces of soul.
It served only to whet their appetites. In what Earth recounts as the early 20th century, the Belkan conflict finally ended, and the Demon Kings were found without master. They retreated, for a time; they could do little but scrabble against the power of the Time-Space Administration Bureau. But they had heard the siren song of Clow Reed's world-smashing wonder, and could smell the magic of Earth from all across the worlds.
To call Dark Fall a coalition before the modern day would be amiss. Although the Darkness has been spoken of as one unit since the dawn of creation, only in the years following Belka's defeat have the Fallen masters realized the power they gained by working in tandem. They lost so little to do so, after all; human souls are ripe with energy to steal.
But in the modern day, the strength of working together stopped being a novelty, and began being a necessity. Although the TSAB was hobbled in the aftermath of the Book of Darkness incident, there were still ace mages and powerful battleships amid their number; and besides which, Earth's wizard war and subsequent rise of both great mages and great magical girls meant that nobody could gain much of any purchase on the blue orb. The solution was obvious.
Work together, to spread the one power that could potentially defeat even Earth's many defenders: Despair. Absolute, final, and undying.
For more information, please see: History (all of it, really), Organization: Dark Fall, Theme Primer, Theme
