Al-Thamen

"We are those that will continue to create darkness in this world, we, the community of the true nation, made by our father, as written in Al-Thamen’s agenda."

- Al-Thamen members speaking about themselves.

The Al-Thamen (アル・サーメン, Aru.Sāmen) is a mysterious shadowy organization whose goals is to cause chaos and darkness upon the world and its inhabitants. They are an organisation that originated in Alma Torran under the leadership of Arba.

About
Sinbad doesn't know their real name, so he simply refers to them as "The Organization". Al-Thamen is an evil organization, bent on putting fate on the path to chaos. They do whatever it takes to bring a country to hatred, typically by inciting the public to fall into depravity. They tend to choose a human vessel who they will turn into a Black Djinn, using a Dark Metal Vessel powered by Black Rukh.

Arba stated that in order to destroy Solomon's will, the members of Al-Thamen changed into beings formed only by thoughts and came into the world Solomon created.

History
The magicians of Al-Thamen were the members of Solomon's Resistance that sought to overthrow the Orthodox Government of David Jehoahaz Abraham. Though, after their family got killed by David and the Elders, and after Solomon replaced Ill Ilah, they all fell into disillusion. Then, one of the Magi, Arba, decided to assemble all the magicians who had strayed away from Solomon's will and together they formed the Eight-Pointed Star Fellowship, also known as Al-Thamen.

After the Kou Empire Civil War and a three year time skip, Arba engage Aladdin, Morgiana, and Hakuryuu in a battle over the Dark Continent. Arba summons Al-Thamen to attack Aladdin, but in the process, Aladdin has reflects every attack destroying all of Al-Thamen.

Goals
Al Thamen's goal is to free themselves from what they perceive as a curse, a prison - destiny. Al Thamen's belief is that their whole life is determined by destiny; as what they describe as a process that is decided and imposed by another, and all unfair circumstances are caused by it.

In order to achieve their goal, Al Thamen has created a way to 'escape' from destiny by going through the process “Falling into Depravity". Inflicting the process on themselves is not enough as it needs the assistance of a great quantity of black rukh which can be caused by negative emotions. In order to raise more black rukh, Al Thamen had been raising the 'Abnormalities of the World', which consists of generally making numerous numbers of people feel negative emotions through e.g. wars and poverty.

Aladdin said that they want to erase the world that King Solomon created (in which humans are now living) by essentially destroying it. To do that, they would use the power called "Dark Spot", a hole in the world created by a great quantity of black Magoi. From that hole, "the incarnation of evil" (presumed to be Ill Ilah) would appear and eat the Rukh of the world. It is believed by Al Thamen that this is the only way to really 'free' themselves from destiny.

Black Rukh
This organization is able to use Black Rukh in order to fight. They use Black Rukh to power their Dark Metal Vessels, something only they are able to make through unknown means. They have also discovered the ability to create a Black Djinn incorporation with Magnostadt in the past.

Members
Since the foundation of Al-Thamen goes back in Alma Torran, the majority of their prominent members are from that world, like Arba, Falan or Ithnan.

The members of Al-Thamen born into the world that Solomon created all seem to have some history with a particular country that they are from. The organization's influences run deep into all kinds of different countries. All top members seem have a sadistic side and use Dark Metal Vessels. Strong ones are able to do a Dark Djinn Weapon Equip. The Magi Judar was taken in by them after they destroyed and killed his entire village along with his parents.

Al-Thamen's members live all around the world. They are actually clones who turn into a after being defeated and will die only if their real body is killed. They exchange rukh with themselves to share information, making the majority of them spies.

Factions
Within Al-Thamen there seemed to have at leasst three seprate factions within the Organization itself each working their own projeccts to bring about their "Agenda".With each faction being lead by one of Solomon's former closest friends/advisers from Alma Torran; Arba, Ithnan and Falan.

Arba's Faction
Arba was known to personally lead the faction of Al-Thamen that mainly operated in her descendants home kingdom of the Kou Empire, having successfully entrenched themselves within its homeland & royalty as the "Royal Priesthood" and being the personal advisers to its royal family, as seen when they successfully created a powerful political hold over the kingdom as Gyokuen Ren's closest personal advisers, having the necessary political power to actively create large conspiracy such as the murder of former Emperor Hakutoku Ren and his two eldest sons in a large fire due to the remaining survivors of the Kai and Gou Kingdom's and later was seen actively assisting the Kou Empire in its vicious expansion by sowing further wars, despair and political unrest in the countries of the world,as seen during the actions of the "Banker" in the Balbadd Republic in pursuit of their "Agenda", having worked in tandem together with Ithnan's faction in order to further undermine Sinbad and now the recently discovered fourth Magi and fellow survivor of Alma Torran, Aladdin and his chosen king's vessel Alibaba.

Ithnan's Faction
Ithnan another former Leader of Solomon's Resistance was known to have lead his own faction within Al-Thamen, having been known to be the ones responsible for approaching the newly created Magnostadt country in magical research for the mutual benefit of both the newly created nation and the Origination. As seen where they conducted extensive study into the Black Rukh and Depravity and successfully created Dark Metal Vessel's together by studying the Metal Vessel's created by Sheba and Ugo and further adcanced each other's study into various other magical fields.

Ithnan was also known to have been the one to recruit the "Black Kings", Dunya Musta'sim, Apollonius, Zurmudd and Byoln and giving them the Dark Metal Vessel's for their own personal use. Ithnan in particular took a liking to Dunya and was said to favor her more than the rest. However upon learning of the Organization giving the Dark Metal Vessels to non-magicians and that one of them was the last surviving Musta'sim of the royal family of Mustam, Matal Mogamett cut all ties with the organization due to this "betrayal".

Ithnan was also the one who discovered the Wisdom of Solomon of Aladdin and was the main meddler in further affairs during his first few adventures with Alibaba Saluja, Morgiana and Hakuryuu Ren during the events of the Sindria Arc, the Invasion of the Sindria Kingdom by Al-Thamen and the conquering of Zagan Dungeon of Aladdin's party.

Eventually after Ithnan's permanent death at the hands of Sinbad, Aladdin and Alibaba Ithnan's faction was likely officially dismantled and the entirety of Al- Thamen was left under Arba's sole leadership.

Falan's Faction
Falan another one of Solomon's former closest friend and adviser, also lead her own faction within Al-Thamen. With her main target being the meddling of the Parthevia Empire and serving as a close adviser to its Royal Family and later to its usurper Barbarossa in his attempts to revolutionize the world, directly putting Falan against Sinbad during his early years as the first Dungeon Capturer of Baal.

She later continued to meddle in Sinbad's affairs and continued to provide the organizations support to the Parthevian nations underground groups such as Sham Lash, as seen when she assisted Ja'far, Vittel and Mahad in pursuing Sinbad and in navigating the Dungeon of Valefor. She also provided assistance in the Parthevian Magical Research into weaponizing Dungeon Monsters for Barbarossa's army and strengthening his Four Heavenly Generals abilities and powers with the same research by merging them with Dungeon Monsters.

Later Falan decided to also provide assistance to Serendine Dikumenowlz Du Parthevia after her gradual descent into Depravity and later even offered assistance to Sinbad himself by offering him a Dark Metal Vessel. Serendine was later seen having fully accepted this proposal and agreed to Falan altering her body with the same Dungeon Monster surgeries to give her more power to retake Parthevia from Barbarossa,But unknowingly to Serendine,Falan had also made changes to her in order to transform her into a Medium to further the advance their Agenda.

Later during the ends of the Massacre and destruction of the First Sindria Kingdom by the hands of Barbarossa and the Parthevia Empire, Falan succeeded in creating enough Black Ruhk to Summon Ill Ilah back into the world by using Serendine as the Medium after pushing so many of the Sindrian citizens into the depths of despair due to her manipulations and mechanism. However this attempted to call down Ilah ended in failure due to the Black Ruhk being instead absorbed into Sinbad along with the consciousness of David, who had merged with Ill Ilah in order to infiltrate the new world and usurp "God" in his millennia old plot.

This eventually lead to Falan's permanent death at the hands of David and the Organization unsure what exactly had occurred during the events of her operation in the Sindria Kingdom, leaving her faction within Al- Thamen to then be disbanded and their operation within the Parthevian Empire to end due to it no longer being a Superpower among the World's Nations. Falan's subordinates were then presumably split up between Arba and Ithnan's surviving faction in order to continue their Agenda.

Trivia

 * The name of this organization is either a corruption of the Arabic word الثامن Ath-Thāmin (or without proper elision: Al-Thāmin), meaning "The Eighth", or the related Arabic word ثَمانِية Thamāniya(t), meaning "Eight", perhaps referring to their symbol (the 8-pointed sun and octagram), which is the same symbol that appears on the Metal Vessals (likely representing the eight types of magic). This is further supported by the fact that, at one point, they have been called the "Eight-Pointed Star" (八芳星, Hachibōsei).
 * Ibn al-Thamen is the name of a poet from the One Thousand and One Nights, who cautioned that one should guard one's secrets.
 * Most members of Al-Thamen, except Arba, Judar and Isaac, have three red vertical dots on their foreheads. Arba and the other members of Al-Thamen in Alma Torran received the three dots (replacing their unopened third eyes) after beginning the attack on Solomon and Sheba's faction.