The Time of Atrocities was a period of the Age of Wrath when three of the Legions of the Fallen broke with Lucifer and pursued their own agendas. After the First Murder by Caine, a new darkness appeared in Creation. The Ebon Legion, lead by Abbadon, slaughtered the loyalist humans in the city of Sargun and laid the city to waste. Lucifer chastised Abbadon for such violence, but he countered that humans were not so perfect as the Fallen once believed, and thus were not worth of protection. The Silver Legion, lead by Asmodeus, and the Alabaster Legion lead by Azrael, joined Abbadon's side, and these three legions left Lucifer's leadership to pursue their own agendas.