The Ancient War

"The battle between Light and Darkness doesn't pit God and Satan for supremacy... it has always been between three ancient creatures. We have to find a way to balance those sides".- Eden Ambrose

The Ancient War, also known as The War between Light and Darkness and The Battle of The Apocalypse, is a ferocious, centuries-old conflict between powerful ancient forces that look to reign surpeme over one and another, with humanity caught in the middle. It is a pivotal conflict in the ParaVerse.

Several hints about the mythical conflict were shown in Don't Let the Darkness Consume You and Curse of the Black Veil, before being acknowledged in Anastasia: Into the Fire, and finally shown in detail in The Key to Coexistence.

Ancient Times
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Raid in the Realm of Beyond
On July 28th, 1917, The Scourge Prowler awakes from its slumber, and alongside The New Blood, raided a settlement of The Circle of Eden, slaughtering almost the entire cult. During the raid, Meghan sacrificed herself to be dangerously left behind and desperately gave her powers to the infant Anastasia Wynter, who, alongside Roderick Montgomery, Talbot Fitzgerald, and Nancy LeBlanc, escaped the settlement without being noticed. After that, The Scourge Prowler spreaded his Dearcghest throughout the abandoned zone, effectively creating The Dark Side and its malevolent creatures.

Assault at The Ancient Carthage Outpost
On February 13th, 1945, the Reid Dynasty, a family tree born within the roots of The New Blood, had an outpost in what would be Ancient Carthage, in modern Tunisia. As Malakai Reid was dragging an elk after his night hunting, he suddenly found his family attempting to sacrifice a young, innocent girl, causing him to prevent the completion of the ritual. An altercation between Darius and Malakai is triggered, before being interrupted by a member of the New Blood saying that someone is slaughtering the guards. As they check on the dead bodies, suddenly, a Paranérgeia ray comes out of the fog and swiftly destroys the outpost base, knocking out Malakai, and killing Darius and the remnants of the outpost. Malakai then checks on Darius' dead body before hearing a shriek, which led him to follow the shriek's location.

A blood-splattered Anastasia Wynter is running throughout the freezing desert next to a cliff. She looks around the snowy terrain, before hearing a war horn, revealed to be Malakai. As they meet and circled, Malakai challenged Anastasia, who refused to back down and met the challenge. Malakai attempted to lunge at Anastasia, but she deflected the hit by bashing her elbow towards Malakai’s face and stunned it just long enough to seize Malakai by the throat. The two turned and thrashed about, with Anastasia nearly slipping off a cliff into the sea behind it, before regaining her footing and grip on her rival. Malakai stabbed Anastasia in the shoulder to take off her fangs off his neck, but she countered by slashing Malakai’s right eye with her claws, leaving Malakai vulnerable so that Anastasia could finish him off by suffocating him with her bite. After the battle, Anastasia leaves him behind and walks off, while Malakai’s body is frozen cold due to the extremely low temperatures.

79 years later...
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Attacks at Chiloé and Dallas
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World Divided
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War at Pensacola International Airport
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The Capture of Malakai
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Night Fight in Hong Kong
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Journey into The Forbidden Zone
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Final Battle at The Concrete Jungle
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United against a Common Enemy
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Aftermath
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