Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-24805584-20140416115708/@comment-76.186.128.107-20140416201917

Maybe the formless, non-denominational Darkness that was blighting the universe so much that the battle between Tsar Lunar's forces and this darkness is what made Kozmotis Pitchiner a hero back in the Golden Age, whatever remnants of this darkness being what made Pitch into what he is.

I'd like to think whatever is left of this darkness (roaming fearlings, basically) is what has been making some of the darker spirits in the Guardian's world. Pitch Black, the Krampus, Manifest Destiny, Stingy Jack, Jenny Greenteeth, etc. It would have revived Gothel, Mor'du and the Red Death as spirits in the same vein as Pitch for their darker influence on the world.