The Darkness

The Darkness is a primordial entity which has existed throughout eternity. After God came into being, He created the Archangels to fight a terrible war against it. Not even the combined power of God and the archangels could destroy it, so God succeeded only in sealing it away using the Mark of Cain as a lock and key. Whilst the Archangels battled it and thus knew of its existance, this force is so ancient and mysterious that the Demons and even the Angels didn't believe it existed. Both Heaven and Hell thought it to be a "myth" or "scary bedtime story", told to keep others in line.

When Rowena used a spell from the Book of the Damned in order to free Dean Winchester of the Mark, the Darkness was unleashed once again. While on earth, it has taken the form of a woman, and spread a disease of darkness through human beings. She is somehow bonded, or one with the girl Amara.

History
According to Death, before there was the Earth, before there was any light, and before there was even God Himself, there was only the Darkness. This being is credited as a powerful, amoral, horrible, destructive force that nearly obliterated anything in its path, causing nothing but chaos. Some time after God and Death came into being, God created the Leviathans, whom were the first beasts according to Death. However as they were too destructive, God soon banished them to Purgatory. He then created Archangels, beings of supreme light. With his newly created Archangels, God battled with The Darkness in a terrible war. Whilst even together they couldn't kill her, They managed to defeat the Darkness, God tricked her and eventually sealed it with a mark that would later be called the Mark of Cain. He then gave the mark to Lucifer, his favorite angel and most valued Lieutenant, to guard. The Mark however showed itself to be a curse; the dark effects of which corrupted Lucifer, leading to a chain of events that would see Lucifer cast out of Heaven. Lucifer then transferred the mark on to Cain who then, thousands of years later, passed it on to Dean Winchester.

Season 10
The Mark of Cain on the arm of Dean Winchester was eventually removed with the Mark of Cain Removal spell by the witch Rowena. As Dean was the only living host of the mark remaining, the Darkness was unleashed once more. Immediately after she broke out of her prison, she rained down destruction and made a move to consume everything in her path.

Season 11
"We’re bound, Dean. We’ll always be bound. You helped me, I helped you. No matter where I am, who I am, we will always help each other."

- Amara

Shortly after breaking out of her prison, she spared Sam and Dean's life and thanked Dean for freeing her. She mentioned that she already helped him and Dean helped her, bound for eternity, she said they will always help each other. Michael or Lucifer recognized her release and both of them tried to warn the outside world. She temporarily assumed the form of an adult female human, but has since became one with a human baby, going by the name of Amara.



Following the Darkness' release, Sam began searching for a cure for the people infected by her. His search led him to find that Holy Fire cures her victims, but as Amara the Darkness began displaying telekinesis, causing Jenna to call Dean back. Her grandmother called an exorcist who was actually Crowley and Dean finds the Mark of Cain on Amara's chest, causing him to realize she is the Darkness. Amara had consumed Jenna's soul and shortly afterwards grew into a little girl. Amara left and later encountered Crowley who offered her people to feed off of. Crowley took Amara to his base on Earth where he assigned her a demonic 'nanny' and began educating her about what has happened since she was locked away. He was essentially spoiling her with literally whatever she asked for so as to assure her allegiance. Amara for the most part proved complacent and calm, asking Crowley many questions about the world God created while she was learning but expressed a slight fear of Him. She even came to call Crowley "Uncle Crowley" despite the fact that she was aeons older than him. All the while however she began to plot with a reflection of herself in a mirror behind Crowley's back. "Good, Evil, Heaven, Hell, it all seems so unimportant"

- Amara

Meanwhile Amara was was constantly hungry for souls to consume, which Crowley (at first) happily (and later reluctantly) facilitated by feeding her random demons in deceased vessels. Amara's appetite however only grew to greater levels and eventually resulted in her consuming both of her demonic nannies and her taking on an older form, much to the concern of Crowley. When Crowley tried to dissuade her from consuming more demonic souls, she became angry and demanded to be fed.

Personality
Due to her long imprisonment, The Darkness has yet to learn many things about God's creations. She expressed confusion regarding the question why he created a world in which people suffer and die, she even thinks God "screwed up" by creating this world while claiming that he tricked and imprisoned her for the sake of his own ego.

Powers & Abilities

 * Immortality - The Darkness is in fact Amortal, the precursor to Immortality, and predates everything, including both God and even Death itself. It even claimed that it didn't know who Death was, and that Death didn't know her. It is an ageless and invulnerable force which cannot die because, essentially, it was never alive to begin with.
 * Nigh-Omnipotence - Castiel describes the darkness' power level as near infinite, she describes herself as mightier than God, in fact she is so unimaginably strong that even he couldn't defeat her without the archangels. Only the combined power of Him and His archangels were enough to eventually seal her away by tricking her first. Even Death was willing to make sure the Mark of Cain, the lock on the Darkness, wasn't broken. Considering the force it took just to fight it back and imprison it, the Darkness is the most powerful evil force in the Supernatural universe. She seems to have a distributed consciousness or at least some kind of local Omnipresence, while a part of her talked to Dean, the smoke form part of her was still expanding around them.
 * Cosmic Awareness - Being older than God himself, the Darkness knows many things, and is still learning about the universe God made while she was locked away. However, she was immediatly able to speak the english language.
 * Reality Warping - While she talked to Dean her smoke form was still expanding, causing immense winds, however they were completely unaffected by them, indicating that she has tremendous control over the physical universe.
 * Flight - The Darkness, while disembodied, can fly in a similar manner to demons and angels without a vessel.
 * Indestructibility - Being amortal, the Darkness is the only conscious thing that will exist forever.
 * Invulnerability - Considering its ability to stand against God and his archangels, the Darkness can be assumed to have an immense resilience to physical and supernatural attacks that likely constitutes invincibility.
 * Weather Manipulation - As The Darkness expanded on earth it caused strong winds.
 * Apporting - She was able to teleport Dean out of his car without merely a word.
 * Telekinesis - In the form of Amara, the Darkness displayed telekinesis.
 * Soul Consummation - In the form of Amara, the Darkness was able to eat Deputy Jenna Nickerson's soul which made her to grow into a little girl and later a teenage girl.
 * Corrupting Affect - The Darkness seems to be a corrupting force to whatever it comes into contact with. It corrupted the Mark of Cain to a curse that would make killing the host impossible, even for Death an entity that was immensely strong in his own right. It also corrupted anyone with the mark into a killer. When released, those who came in contact with the initial release of the Darkness turned into a meaningless killer. Reaper Billie told Sam that he was unclean in the biblical sense from being infected by a rabid aside from his actions like his part in killing Death.

Weaknesses
The Darkness is beyond destruction as it is amortal, not technically even a alive; however it has weaknesses, and is possible to seal away.
 * High-Tier Entities - The combined strength of God and the archangels was strong enough to bind the Darkness, and seal it with a lock.
 * The Mark of Cain - The Mark of Cain was the "lock" to the prison that held the Darkness back. As long as one person bore the Mark, the Darkness would remain sealed. With its removal, the Darkness was set free once more.

Appearances

 * Season 10
 * Brother's Keeper


 * Season 11
 * Out of the Darkness, Into the Fire
 * Form and Void
 * The Bad Seed
 * Baby (mentioned)

Trivia

 * The Darkness is similar to many terms and entities found in many creation myths.
 * Chaos/Nun in Greek/Egyptian mythology, which predated everything and created or from which the gods came from.
 * Erebus in Greco-Roman Mythology, who is the primordial embodiment of darkness.
 * Ginnungagap from the Norse Creation Myth. Was a primordial void.
 * The terrible battle between God and the Darkness seems to fit with the first day of creation in Genesis. "Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness." It is possible that the "light" he created was the archangels, and him he separating the "light" and "dark" was Him locking away the Darkness.
 * The name Amara occurs in many cultures and is ascribed a variety of meanings: "eternal" (German), "unfading" (Greek), "immortal" (Sanskrit) and "bitter" (Latin). In Bahasa Indonesia the word amara(h) means "anger" or "run amok". In Ethiopian legends, Amara is the name for paradise.
 * The Darkness's release was felt by both Michael and Lucifer from within the Cage, marking the first time since their imprisonment that both archangels have attempted to communicate with the outside world.
 * It is the true source of where Knights of Hell come from, channeled though The Mark of Cain.
 * The Darkness is the fourth entity either that was sealed away to be unleashed, the first being a huge number a demons, the second being Lucifer himself, and the third being the Leviathans.
 * The Darkness predates the Universe.
 * Releasing The Darkness is overall easier than freeing Lucifer, but the spell to release the Mark was not even known of until recently, previously making removing the Mark impossible. In contrast, it was known Lucifer could be freed, but very hard to do, where as the Darkness was believed to be eternally bound. However once the spell was revealed it was relatively easy to release.
 * It's release also set off alarms in Heaven and Hell that, according to angels and demons, hadn't gone off in 'Ever'.
 * As in Baby, Monsters are now becoming aware of the Darkness' existence, and that it is coming. Some are building armies to make a stand and buy more time to survive. Now Humans, Angels, Demons, and Monsters know of the Darkness' release and are very scared of it.