
Put to work by Slototh, Narcisson's god of filth, he was soon identified and again brought before Perrikus, who manhandled him until Olsen regained Mjolnir, enabling him to become Thor and escape. Thor reverted to Olsen's mortal form and fled into Asgard's sewers, where he discovered more Dark Gods enslaving his fellow Asgardians. Thor indeed returned to Asgard and fought Perrikus until the latter damaged Thor's enchanted hammer Mjolnir. Adva remained unable to sense Thor due to his shared existence with mortal Jake Olsen, but Perrikus, using Adva's power, appeared over New York City, threatening Thor's beloved, the goddess Sif, if Thor did not rise to the Dark Gods' challenge. Only Thor, active on Earth, evaded Zelia's attention, until Tokkots, Narcisson's god of corruption, wandered into a dimensional vortex and appeared on Earth, where he fought Thor and Spider-Man (Peter Parker). The Dark Gods then invaded the neighboring Olympus, realm of the Greco-Roman Gods, with D'Chel, Narcisson's god of deceit, convincing the Olympians that the Asgardians were the true culprits. In conjunction with Adva, Narcisson's god of portals and knowledge, Perrikus smuggled weaponry into Asgard, and the Dark Gods conquered in anew, Zelia stealing Odin's power for herself. In recent years, Thor, lashing out in rage at Asgard's decimation by the Egyptian death god Seth, inadvertently freed Perrikus, who returned to Narcisson.

Perrikus remained confined for millennia, surviving countless threats to Asgard unnoticed.

So overwhelmed were the Asgardians by the experience that Odin erased memories of the war from his people. The Dark Gods were banished, save for Perrikus, who was imprisoned in Asgard, perhaps as a hostage against future invasion. Despite their peerless battle prowess, the Asgardians were defeated, but Odin's son, the thunder god Thor, refused to submit, and Odin rallied his people to renewed assault, finally overcoming the invaders. Lonkarr sped back to Asgard, but the Dark Gods followed, and a war ensued.

Attacked by the energy-projecting Tserron, Lonkarr was forced to slay her, earning the wrath of her husband Perrikus, son of Narcisson's ruler Majeston Zelia. A pantheon of deities worshiped by extraterrestrials, the Dark Gods came to attention millennia ago when Lonkarr, one of several Norse Gods sent by Asgard's ruler Odin to explore the universe, discovered their mystic city Narcisson.
