at the beginning of the dark ages , despite his obsession with getting into coe pidaria , which had created the wastelands surrounding coe pidarias magical shield in the process , doombas forces had been massive , and had spread all across the continent , taking over nearly everything , including arria , but the human resistance had been strong enough that it had outlasted the invasion force , and the servants of doomba had eventually crept back into the wastelands about a thousand years later .