Chapter 1

History of the Dark Ones and Their

Apprentices

For as long as there have been dark ones there have been dark apprentices people trained in the dark powers of the dark ones sometimes from childhood the dark ones knew that someday there would be someone who would kill them in the name of light magic so instead of some light magic user trying to kill them they would train an apprentice to succeed them with Nimue she chose her son whom was born after she became the dark one his name was Ambrosius Emrys.

For close to twenty years Nimue trained her son in magic and after twenty years his training was complete and on the night he had completed his training he had taken his mother's dagger and stabbed her in the heart with it and absorbs his mother's power into his own being becoming the second dark one.

For years Ambrosius traveled using his power to instill fear into the populace till he discovered his own successor Ambrosius trained the apprentice he had and his apprentice killed him in his sleep, the new dark one started causing his own brand of darkness and the process continued for two or three centuries and we come to Gorgon the invincible.

Gorgon was a mage who found he had the ability to transform into a Bandersnatch a breed of creatures that resembled warthogs that could breathe fire, like all dark apprentices before him Gorgon killed his master and found himself an apprentice named Zoso, Gorgon trained Zoso and Zoso killed him.

Zoso became the dark one and had attempted to separate himself from the dagger like other dark ones before him he failed and eventually came under the control of a duke while under this Dukes control he found the one who would succeed him Rumplestiltskin after telling Rumple of the dagger that would control the dark one or kill him and create the dark one.

Rumple managed to steal the dagger and he used it to summon Zoso after being taunted by Zoso Rumple stabbed Zoso and became the new dark one to protect his son Baelfire.

Sometime after losing his son Rumpelstiltskin met the one whom would kill him and become the dark one his name is Corvo Marrok.