Bleakest Night

In the Aeon of the Champion story series, the Bleakest Night refers to the day (or...night) in which the Smurf Village was destroyed, the smurfling Champion kidnapped, and Papa Smurf killed, the first and third being the doing of the Nightstand Guard. The disaster took place in the year -86,

Event
Following the trail of magic left in the wake of Manius' demon consultations, the vigilantees stormed the village on a Night Raid, flattening the mushroom houses and destroying the Smurf River Dam, depriving the smurfs of their controlled water supply. In an attempt to save his life, the older smurfs tried to smuggle the Champion out of the Village, but he was kidnapped by a third faction in transit and did not make it out with the others. Lastly, while desperately trying to re-conjure the mystical barrier that kept the Smurf Village protected from outside interlopers for 16 years, Papa Smurf was cornered and cut down by Andarin Trueblade - a Dark Paladin of the Nightstand Guard - who had seen his spellcasting from afar and charged into him with the intent to kill. With the death of Papa Smurf and the destruction of the Village, the end of an era was signalled as Generation Squib became the only living generation of smurf, and with no parental figure to guide them, the Smurf Diaspora began.