Eternal Night

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“The mere reason we locked Gunmar in Killahead was that he was trying to bring... the Eternal Night: the time where trolls would reclaim the surface from mankind.”

―Blinky to Jim about the Eternal Night in "Night Patroll"

Eternal Night
Type	Dark Ritual
Origin	Unknown Requirements: Dust of dead Gumm-Gumms Staff of Avalon Heartstone
User(s)	Morgana
Used for	Blocking the sun to preserve trolls from their weakness to the sunlight
Victims	Everyone
Status	Subsided
First appearance	"Skullcrusher" (mentioned)
Last appearance	"Race to Trollmarket" (mentioned)

The Eternal Night (also known as the Night Eternal) is a dark ritual that requires the dust of slain trolls, the Staff of Avalon, and the power of a Heartstone to create a haze to enshroud the world and forever block out the sun so trolls would never have to worry about being turned to stone.

It was one of the primary goals of the evil sorceress Morgana to enact in her bid to conquer the world.

History

Gunmar was promised by Morgana that he would usher in the Eternal Night. He used those very words to rally sympathetic trolls and fellow Gumm-Gumms into his army, proclaiming that the Eternal Night would see trollkind reclaim the surface from humans.

However, the rest of trollkind opposed his plan and Gunmar was imprisoned in the Darklands at the Battle of Killahead Bridge. At the same time, Merlin fought Morgana to stop her bringing about the Eternal Night and sacrificed most of his magic to imprison her in a secret chamber in the Heartstone underneath Arcadia Oaks, where no one knew she was. Merlin then went to sleep in his tomb, ready for the day they needed him again.

Hundreds of years later, when Morgana was freed with the Staff of Avalon, she used the Staff of Avalon and the ashes of several Gumm-Gumms to bring about the Eternal Night, enabling the Gumm-Gumms to invade Arcadia.

Eventually, just as her spell was about to reach full strength and cover the Earth in eternal darkness, the Trollhunters managed to banish her to the Shadow Realm, enabling Merlin to regain his magic and put an end to the Eternal Night.

Appearances

Trollhunters

• "Skullcrusher" (mentioned)
• "Night Patroll" (mentioned)
• "Bad Coffee" (mentioned)
• "So I'm Dating a Sorceress" (mentioned)
• "The Exorcism of Claire Nunez" (mentioned)
• "For the Glory of Merlin" (mentioned)
• "In Good Hands" (mentioned)
• "A House Divided" (mentioned)
• "Jimhunters" (manifestation)
• "The Eternal Knight: Part 1"
• "The Eternal Knight: Part 2"

3Below

• "Last Night on Earth"
• "Bad Omen"
• "Moving Day" (indirectly mentioned)
• "Race to Trollmarket" (mentioned)

Trivia

• In the 3Below Part One finale "Bad Omen", Krel refers to the Eternal Night as a "lunar anomaly".
• In "Race to Trollmarket", Toby tries to impress Aja, Krel, and Varvatos by introducing them to Heartstone Trollmarket, only to see it in ruins, and he mentions the Eternal Night incident to the Akiridions.