“In their castle beyond nightGather the Gods in Darkness,With darkness to pattern man's fate.The colors of darkness are no monotonous hue - For the blackness of Evil knows various shades,Full many as Evil has names.Vengeance and Madness, inseparable twins,Born together and worshipped as one;Nor can the Gods tell one from his brother.In their castle beyond nightGather the Gods in DarknessAnd darkness weaves with many shades.”

“Honestly, for an evil god of darkness, he certainly can be dull.”

“Inability to get beyond the darkness will keep you from obtaining what God has for you.”

“Beyond the town, darker than dark, King Haggard's castle teetered like a lunatic on stilts...”

“The Gnostics (also called Manichees) postulated that there were two gods -- the Christian God of goodness and light, and an evil anti-God of darkness. This theory proved an easy explanation of why there was evil in the world. It was rejected by Catholic Christianity in favor of the monotheistic view that there was one God who created only goodness. Evil was sin, a rebellious falling-away from God, a perversion of His goodness. This was the foundation of the evolving Christian concept of Satan.”

“God is the light shining in the midst of darkness, not to deny that there is darkness in the world but to reassure us that we do not have to be afraid of the darkness because darkness will always yield to light. As theologian David Griffin puts in, God is all-powerful, His power enables people to deal with events beyond their control and He gives us the strength to do those things because He is with us.”