Darkling Lord

The Darkling Lords are a villainous faction from the planet Prysmos. They are enemies of the Spectral Knights.

Fiction

Animated cartoon continuity

Swindle thought the Darkling Lords would be good customers, and planned to use his experience with the Angry Archer as a primer to speaking their quasi-medieval lingo. AllSpark Almanac

Spacewarp's Log

On 31st century Earth, the Darkling Lords allied with the Inhumanoids in their campaign to conquer Earth. Darkling Lord Braxe, however, was foiled in his attempt to secure the Moon's allegiance when Galadria, Ramak, and Spacewarp rescued Lunarian Queen Mahina's twin infants from him. Spacewarp's Log (2), 2015/12/05

2005 IDW continuity

After the Trinary Re-Alignment, Merklynn selected a group of Prysmosians to become his "Visionaries", bequeathing great magical power onto them. However, Darkstorm's lust for power caused a schism in the group and his faction became known as the Darkling Lords. Schismatic It would later be revealed that this schism had been engineered by Merklynn himself, wanting to take advantage of the change that Darkstorm's charisma could bring. Good Men

When the Trinary De-Alignment destroyed Prysmos, Darkstorm failed to escape the planet in time and the remainder of the group fell under Virulina's command.

In 2018, the group came to inhabit the city of New Prysmos on Cybertron, where they advocated a complete Cybertronian genocide to claim the planet as their new home. As leader of the Lords, Virulina was selected as one of the two Prysmosian representatives when it came to dealing with the Cybertronians. Schismatic

After Virulina murdered Kup, she declared open war on the Cybertronians, instructing her followers to destroy the three Cybertronian pylons generating the forcefield around New Prysmos. The Spectral Knights had anticipated this goal however, and came to the defence of the forcefield, with Cindarr, Cravex, and Lexor each being soundly defeated. The intentions of the Darkling Lords had won over the people, who came to their defence, allowing for the destruction of the forcefield. Leoric's own attempt to destroy Virulina and Merklynn was equally short-lived and the Spectral Knights were forced out of New Prysmos.

With the city completely in the thrall of the Darkling Lords, Virulina was crowned as its chancellor. Cybertron No More

With Leoric out of the picture, Virulina recruited the Spectral Knights left in the city and had them don Darkling armor. Desperate Measures After Merklynn had managed to sway Arzon to his side, he had the man don Darkling armor, sending him to destroy the anti-Talisman bomb the Cybertronians had built. Good Men The combined forces of the Cybertronians and Spectral Knights managed to defeat the Darkling Lords, relegating them to a low position in society once again, though some of them still retained loyalty to Merklynn and worked towards freeing him. The Curtain

During Unicron's apocalyptic attack on Cybertron, the Spectral Knights channeled their magic to teleport away the planet's inhabitants, Road's End with the Prysmosian people being sent to the prehistoric past of their homeworld. A World and a Future

Notes

• The Darkling Lords come from Hasbro's Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light.