Army of Darkness

The Army of Darkness is the name used to describe the huge army, consisting mostly of Sulaim, that fought for Sulansis and Nelonia during the Wars of Strife. Reinforced by the terrible power of the Sulinast and allied with the great Orc armies that had been gathering secretly in the northlands since the end of the Dawn Wars, the Army of Darkness was easily the most powerful military force on Amethgare for much of the Seventh Age.

After the fall of Danton however, the alliance between Orcs and Sulaim began to dissolve and the army found its resources stretched increasingly thin as it continued its genocidal war against the remaining Amethyar lands in the South-East and South-West. Although it succeeded in ravaging much of Thalas and the New Kingdoms, the Amethyar refused to admit defeat and the great war ground to halt, becoming a series of bloody crusades broken by period of frantic rebuilding as both sides sought to claim and hold northern Thalas and the area that came to be known as the Fortress States.

The final straw was the appearance of the Gems of Magnas, the shards of the Solinast reforged into magical weapons that could counter the power of the Sulinast to some degree and allow the Amethyar to fight on equal terms. With this change in the balance of power, first evident at the Battle of the Stars at Heldmar, Sulansis's forces found themselves thrown back time and again and with the Orcs now actively harassing their supply lines north they were forced to fight their way home - and were effectively annihilated in the attempt.