Doesn't fit with the Elemental Power titles: Dark Is Edgy

But that would be a ptitle. I personally would like to avoid those until Eddie's fix comes into play. But if others don't mind...

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True. Argh. Why is a good title so hard to come up with?

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>.> Creature Of The Night. Established concept, even.

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We don't have that phrase a trope already? Because it sounds like a variety of monster.

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This one is hard to think of a name.

Darkness Shail Be My Power , Darkness Shail Light My Way , By The Power Of Darkness ?

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Which is made of, or makes direct use of, darkness. Eh?

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No, more like nocturnal monsters. Vampires are traditionally referred to as "children/creatures of the night"

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Lord Of The Night works too, then, if you must get picky.

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A Creature Of The Night isn't a good one it can be easily confused with using the power of the Moon which is another trope.

Also "of the night" doesn't require darkness or shadow based skills.

edited 20th Oct '10 10:51:03 AM by Raso

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I'm not trying to be picky, and I'm sorry if I'm coming off that way (I understand how all the rejections I've given out in this thread must look), I just don't think it fits.

Of course, I'm just one guy, I may not have the right of it; it depends on what others think.

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The trope description specifically mentions that one of the permutations of darkness powers is using the powers of night. And the moon is only associated with the night directly by people who don't know how lunar cycles work.

Still, could go straight to Lord Of Darkness if we have to get to the bluntness of a shovel to the face.

(Eh, sorry if I come across as tetchy. It just seems rather odd of people to poke at an established phrase like that. Take this post with a grain of salt, but do note that I'm not a fan of "This Trope Explains Itself In Great Gory Detail With Its Own Title.")

edited 20th Oct '10 10:52:08 AM by GoggleFox

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Organizing Shadows perhaps? Evokes the phrase "shadow organization"

edit: Oh, no I don't want the trope name to be overly blunt. That's why I'm moving to find a name using an idiom, I just didn't think that particular one fit too well, since it could easily be mistaken for a reference to vampires, from what I know about the phrase.

edited 20th Oct '10 10:53:42 AM by Enlong

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Sounds neat. Organizing Shadows, Shadow Play...

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The Shadowy Arts?

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Shadow Puppeteer

...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.

Actually the term used in Harry Potter and other places would work for this.

The Dark Arts

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edited 20th Oct '10 1:08:02 PM by Raso

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^ That's already a trope and it's a bigger one than darkness as an element.

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Combat Shadows? Night Blades? Element Of Darkness if we want quick and dirty.

Just to be clear, there is actual misuse on this right? We're not renaming just because it doesn't fit the theme?

edited 20th Oct '10 12:27:28 PM by Deboss

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a good point, though given the existence of Darker and Edgier, which is about an entirely different type of dark, this could warrant a rename simply for being too similar in name while being about something entirely different.

So did I, at a glance.

If not Armory Of Darkness, what of Armored In Darkness? Shielded With Shadows? Wielder Of Shadows? Wielder Of Darkness?

edited 20th Oct '10 12:39:32 PM by Aoede

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Literally Dark Arts? Buring with Midnight Oil? Tenebrous Blade? Sunless Creep? Gloom 'n Doom? Dead Light?

I'd go with Wielding The Darkness. That makes it clear that dark is being used like a weapon. It's not a pun, but most of the puns suggested would be confused for Black Magic.

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I like Gloom And Doom.

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same.

Edit: Although inverted sounds better to me at least. Doom And Gloom

edited 20th Oct '10 1:48:03 PM by Raso

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I dislike Doom And Gloom because it sounds more like somebody is using sadness to kill people or something.

Wielding The Darkness seems the most straight forward.

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