The Golden Age

Once upon a time there was a man named Kozmotis Pitchiner and he was the High Lord General for the Constellation Army. He had a loving wife and a beautiful rebellious daughter, Emily Jane. Pitchiner was generally addressed as "Lord Pitch" by his men. Pitch was feared among his enemies the Nightmare Pirates. The Nightmare Pirates first just destroyed dreams but they learned that if they consumed the dreams they got much stronger.

They went on consuming and consuming. The Star Captains (and the rest of the universe) were doing their best but ultimately Lord Pitch was brought in and hunted them down. Pitch was amazing and the pirates feared him greatly. No matter what they did Pitch always stopped them. So they devised a rather devious plan, use his family against him!

The pirates hatched their plans and Pitch was called away from his family to hunt the pirates near Orion's Belt (I believe). But before he left his Emily gave him a locket and they promised he would come back. So the pirates made their way to Pitch's house. Lady Pitchiner was asleep while little Emily Jane was out sailing. For once her wild nature saved her. The lady was happy that Emily wasn't in the house as she could feel the Nightmare Pirates growing closer. She disguised a doll as her daughter and let the pirates see her before jumping out a window ad supposedly to her death. The pirates thought them dead and when Pitch realized it the pirates fooled him and were at his house he went back and captured them.

He asked where his family was and if they were harmed. But the pirates told him that they were dead and not by their doing. Pitch flew into a rage and killed the pirates one by one. His crew shocked and so were the pirates before they died. Pitch caught the rest and decided that death was too good for them and kept them under lock and key on a moon far way. He knew not that his daughter was alive and wishing for him to find her. Thinking he had nothing left he stood single guard over the nightmare pirates. Until one very unfortunate day...

Pitch took a locket out that kept Emily's portrait in it and gazed upon it. The Nightmare Pirates knew of Emily by listening to her dreams and were able to mimic her voice completely. "Daddy! Daddy! Help me, I'm scare." They called and Pitch tried to ignore. "Daddy! I'm trapped with these things! Help me, daddy!" they called. Pitch opened the door hoping to see his daughter but it was for not. The nightmare corrupted every part of Pitch that they could until he was at last the Nightmare King! His family was gone, he had nothing left or so he thought, he didn't fight them. The locket was dropped. And his hunger for dreams was much more than that of a lowly nightmare pirate.

He heard his daughter's dream which he though was a plague that turned him dark and went after them but when they confronted she knew it was better to flee than to reveal herself. They were seperated for about 11 years. Pitch tried desperately to get them for Emily was with Sandman. But it didn't work and they got away. Then Pitch turned his sights on Tsar Lunar's family. He decide to make Tsar Lunar's son a Nightmare Prince but that plan also didn't work as when Pitch attacked the Moon he was counterattacked by a light that sealed him for many years. A moonbeam dagger pierced his chest and there he sat with a small light in his chest, sleeping until one day he would be back.