![]() When you go there, it's filled with crypt lice and one of them has Naurim's battleaxe stuck in its carapace. The Cuckoolander Was Right: Naurim spends Chapter 1 claiming he fought a dragon in a cave.However, enemies can be killed without gaining these vital wounds, and rare enemies (like Golems) are immune to wounding. Critical Existence Failure: Mostly averted almost all characters and enemies can be vitally wounded, causing a mark to appear on the character's portrait and decreasing their physical stats based on the severity of the wounds.Comically Missing the Point: When approaching a group of bandits to determine the truth in an Evil Twin situation, the leader mentions a palace - Naurim becomes fixated on it, and it will even initiate combat if he keeps pressing the issue.She blamed Keidre for slowly turning her temple into a glorified bordello. Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: After a long questline investigating the assassination attempt on Keidre, the leader of the Courtesans' Guild, it's finally revealed that the person who ordered the hit was Clarizia, a priestess of Rahja in the small town of El'Halem.Blood Knight: Naurim is fierce and hot-tempered, as expected from a warrior dwarf.Barrier Warrior: The mage spell Gardianum Magic Shield conjures up a barrier against magical damage.Bag of Spilling: Justified even legendary items are heavy, and after they were done adventuring the party sold their gear or stuffed it in a vault somewhere, and spent years doing anything but fighting.If you played her as a sadistic psychopath, the people parade the severed head of of their short-lived tyrant. If you played her as a paragon of virtue, the people entomb her as the greatest queen in history. In the sequel, for better or worse, Cassia succumbs to her illness nine hours after claiming the throne.For better or worse, the setting returned to the status quo. Your companions later move on with their life, the world continuing to be crapsack with the events largely remaining unsung and ignored. This would mean that your character dies in the process, but the ending is unclear about your ultimate fate. Bittersweet Ending: After the final battle, your character walks to the crevice and utters the name of the nameless one.But I recommend that you at least parry your enemies' blows. Tulefa: Nobody can force you to, sweetheart. Bait-and-Switch Comment: When the group has to partake in arena battles:.Cassia has it worse: her husband is The Caligula, he is exactly as repulsive as the rumors say he is, and after he got tired of her he threw her in the catacombs underneath the city, laughing as the spiders and their venom slowly drove her insane.only to find herself hating him even more due to him being too perfect. Awful Wedded Life: Telemache's list of grievances with her husband is so long, she asks the party to retrieve a long-lost ritual book so that she can confer to him the blessings of all the gods, thus turning him into the perfect man who'll dote her at every turn. ![]() Armor-Piercing Attack: Warriors' Targeted Stab and Death Blow abilities ignore all armor.Downplayed in the sequel there are two special magic-based passive skills that negate the interference.Armor and Magic Don't Mix: As is true more broadly in the Dark Eye rule system, wearing metal armor interferes with casting spells.Anti-Grinding: There are no random encounters - the only repeatable fight is doing battle in the arena but it rewards no Adventure Points and very little money.A God Am I: In the sequel, Takate develops a god-complex from defeating the Nameless God, claiming to be the son of Kamaloq, the god of the hunt.All she has to do is break out, hire the Conquerors, rally an army behind them, rip and tear their way across half the country, overthrow King Marwan from the Shark Throne, and hold it for at least a full day before being torn apart by an angry mob. The Conquerors of the Nine Hordes, half the party of the previous game, are currently in a rut and shells of their former selves. Except she's broke, insane, and currently locked up in the worst prison in history. The main character is a madwoman named Cassia, who has a single obsession: to sit upon the Shark Throne and rule over an empire, even for a day. ![]() While the main character would like to clear their name, they're unfortunately suffering from some Laser-Guided Amnesia and unable to remember the events of what happened the night of the Princess' death, resulting in a quest to solve the murder.Ī sequel, Blackguards 2, was released in January 2015. You play as a human accused of murdering the daughter of a powerful Count, escaping from jail alongside a Dwarf named Naurim and lustful mage Zurbaran Florios, a southern grandee. Blackguards is a 2014 Turn-Based Tactics RPG developed by Daedalic Entertainment, set in The Dark Eye universe.
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