The Dark Court

The Dark Court is the Council of the Primordial Gods of Dok. They are headed by Arassai and represent all the evil and chaotic, physical and spiritual elements of life and all of Aelfspace. Some Gods of the Celestial Council or Hall of Worlds have turned to the Dark Court either during the Twilight Cataclysm or before, and were named the Renegade Gods.

The deities are often collectively known as the Dark Lords and almost all are known to be trapped in the Void after the Twilight Cataclysm, apart from the Law-Givers - an internal group of deities that take the lives of mortals at random by their own Laws.

They are thought to be formless shadowy beings in their basic state, just manifestations of pure evil in some cases.

There are two sets of Demi-Gods that have been birthed from the Dark Court; The 12 Guardians of Hela (the Demon lieutenants in the Undead Armies of the Dark Court in the Twilight Cataclysm), and the 8 Disciples of the Golden King.

Creationism
In the Creationist religion of the Fifth Era onwards, the religion fashioned by the victorious Golden King, it was believed that there was only one God, and one Deceiver - often called the Devil. Beneath the Gods were Saintly half-deities and these were re-imaginations of the surviving Gods of the Dark Court.