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I believe Iolaus accepted Dahak's offer after Loki's encounter, before Darkness Rising. The monster in the ice cave, and his "final form" in Iolaus' soul, is just a projection, or an incomplete manifestation. He was in Iolaus' body when he slaughtered the Druids; that's who the cloaked figure is running through Hercules' dreams. Dahak can travel quickly between countries where local gods cannot and zip out again.

Dahak is an abstract, the chaos that is in every human soul. The Knights of the round table called him the blind force behind every evil will, Zarathustra called him the natural destructive impulse. In other words, unlike the gods we regularly know, Dahak is sustained and empowered by human ambition, i.e., if you have no wicked thoughts, the Devil has no power. That's why possession is more favourable to him, and why he used Gabrielle's womanly abilities to create his avatar. Iolaus succumbed to his temptation, and Gabrielle succumbed to Khrafstar's temptation and did a wicked deed.

I watched Gabrielle's Hope again and I couldn't believe I didn't notice the symbolism they set up. She gives birth in a stable, during an eclipse of the sun, with animals barking and bleating frantically around her, and the only silent creature is that black ram. That's a frikkin fantastic move whoever thought it up.