He defended them well—the Fellow ship was acquitted of the charges against him. That’s when “Cruel Fate” intervened—”Cruel Fate” magazine, that is—which was preparing an exposé of the Fellowship, and which raised doubts in Blackwater's mind about the occult beliefs of the group.

These doubts led him to an unusual used-bookstore, with a precognitive sales clerk and a copy of the Aten De can, the philosophical underpinnings of the Fellowship. The macabre dogma of the Aten Decan, which encouraged the exploitation of humanity’s basest nature and the rejection of morality, led Blackwater to investigate the pornography and drug charges. He soon learned that the Fellowship were guilty of everything that they had been accused of—and more.

Blackwater agreed to aid Cruel Fate magazine’s exposé of the Fellowship, but when the Fellowship intervened, demanding that he turn over all of the files of his investigation to them. When Blackwater resisted, he was killed in a gruesome fashion—his throat was impaled, he was shot in the head, and knocked out of the window of a high-rise apartment. What more need someone do to kill someone?

But the Fellowship did not count on the intervention of the mysterious entity known as Omen. He saw in this dying man a weapon to use against the Fellowship, against the beast that the Fellowship planned to raise, and against the beast’s master, whom he had once served. He offered in delirious, dying dreams life to Charles Blackwater, if he would serve the night, if he would help terrorize those who committed their evil in the sunlight, those who feared nothing. Blackwater had little choice.

Once Omen had established a link in the physical world, he began to assemble his Legion of Night, mystically calling them together. The precognitive shadow-reader, Ariann, was Omen’s first recruit. The second recruit was Jennifer Kale, the sorceress who had once been a friend to the Man-Thing, and who had much experience in mystical matters. The third, Martin Gold, was a writer for “Cruel Fate” magazine. The fourth, Dr. Katherine Reynolds, was a professor of psychiatry from Gateway University in St. Louis, whose psychic powers had caused her to be committed to an asylum. The fifth, Chan Liuchow, had been a student who had awakened the dreaded Fin Fang Foom from slumber thirty years before to save China from Communism. It was Fin Fang Foom that the Legion of Night was worried about. The Fellowship planned to rouse the dragon from its slumber and allow it to transform the world into its dream, which it would then devour. The Fellowship successfully completed the ritual which caused the dragon to awaken, then Hildreth, the high priestess and comptroller of the Fellowship, offered herself as a sacrifice to Fin Fang Foom, dramatically increasing its powers.

Omen led the Legion of Night into the dreamworld of Fin Fang Foom, to slay the evil dreams it was preparing to unleash upon the world. Though they were opposed by hideous monsters, the Legion was nonetheless victorious, forcing the dragon to retreat, and breaking up the schemes of the Fellowship. At present, the Legion of Night has not appeared again, but Omen has prophesied that the awakening of Fin Fang Foom was but the first step in a larger series of occult tests by dark forces that would try to destroy it, that could only be opposed by—a Legion of Night.