Ventriss

Ventriss is a malevolent being which existed within the Darkanium that forms Illiago.

History
Ventriss was formed when a strange black lightning struck Illiago, coinciding with Dameron's becoming of Shadowone.

Ventriss created and appeared to have total control over the Shadowclad. Ventriss also had control over all of Illago, having had infested and turned the whole mountain into darkanium.

Ventriss diverted most of its energy into controlling a large darkanium drill which drilled deep into the Earth at the centre of Illiago. Sardant saw this drill upon sneaking into Illiago. This led to Sardant's belief that Ventriss had seized control and become the whole of Illiago, and was searching for some ancient power deep underground.

Shortly after Soren's becoming of Shadowone, Ventriss struck The Source. It began to drain the power of the source and used it to empower itself and the Shadowclad. Ventriss was able to form into a dark energy construct in the form of a humanoid. A chaotic battle occured between The Dark Nation and Ventriss' army, but in the end, Soren stabbed the humanoid contruction of Ventriss. Ventriss laughed, leering at Soren that his efforts would do nothing. However, the strange warping power of his weapon had an unexpected reaction with the pure energy, and it drained it from Ventriss, along with Ventriss' life force.

Shortly afterwards, Soren used this energy to travel to Darvanim the Great, and meet with Kel.