History VideoGame / Blackguards

** [[spoiler:In-game lore reveals that Mirai was adopted by Cassia and given a fake identity as her IllGirl sister.]]

* [[MagnificentBastard Magnificent Bitch]]: In the sequel, Cassia starts out disfigured, insane, imprisoned below the gladiator arena where the monster kennels are kept, with nothing more than tattered rags, a few shoddy weapons, and a strange book [[spoiler:from another world, written by one of Earth's most ruthless strategists]]. She then goes on to conquer the country with three ex-gladiators and a small army of violently insane mercenaries, simply by following the teachings of the book. Also, she fights in every main battle on the front-lines. [[spoiler:If you play your cards right, she can claim victory against a giant EldritchAbomination with personification powers, a tyrant whose life is voodoo-connected to her sister, and her own backstabbing army, all at once, by ''poisoning the entire army with the same voodoo-connection ritual to herself'' and using the monster to petrify the tyrant for the rest of her sister's life.]]

** And in the sequel, the current party is made of half the party from the first game, a former princess turned into a madwoman by spider poison, and a mercenary company of insane zealots who worship spilled blood.

** And in the sequel, [[spoiler:How did a copy of Machiavelli find its way into the world of The Dark Eye, let alone survive in a giant crumbling labyrinth?]]

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:Cassia betrays her army by poisoning them with celebratory wine. If she was good, it's because they're all AxCrazy psychopaths [[RapePillageAndBurn who love pillaging already-conquered cities]] and killed a puppy that was just trying to play with her. If she was evil... well, why not?]]

* TraumaInn: You can restore health and magic points by resting at inns. This doesn't heal wounds, though.

A sequel, ''Blackguards 2'', was released in January 2015. 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. Except she's broke, insane, and currently locked up in the worst prison in history. But she has a plan. The Conquerors of the Nine Hordes, half the party of the previous game, are currently in a rut and shells of their former selves. All she has to do is break out, hire the Conquerors, rally an army behind them, rip and tear their way across half the continent, raze the city with the Shark Throne, and hold it for at least a full day before being torn apart. What could possibly go wrong?

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:After the final battle, your character walks to the crevace and utters the name of the nameless one. This would mean that your character dies in the process, but the ending is unclear about your ultimate fate. Your companions later move on with their life, the world continuing to be crapsack with the events largely remaining unsung and ignored. For better or worse, the setting returned to the status quo.]]

* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: Naurim spends Chapter 1 claiming he fought a dragon in a cave. When you go there, it's filled with crypt lice and one of them has Naurim's battleaxe stuck in its carapace. And then in Chapter 4, [[spoiler:you get to fight a Rock Dragon. Complete with an epic treasure - two dragon eggs and a magic crossbow]].

A sequel, ''Blackguards 2'', was released in January 2015. 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. Except she's broke, insane, and currently locked up in the worst prison in history. But she has a plan. The Conquerors of the Nine Hordes, half the party of the previous game, are currently locked up with her. All she has to do is break out, free the Conquerors, rally an army behind them, rip and tear their way across half the continent, raze the city with the Shark Throne, and hold it for at least a full day before being torn apart. What could possibly go wrong?

* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Your party, including the player character, mostly consists of convicted criminals.

A sequel, ''Blackguards 2'', was released in January 2015.

''Blackguards'' is a 2014 TurnBasedTactics [[WesternRPG RPG]] developed by Creator/DaedalicEntertainment, set in ''TabletopGame/TheDarkEye'' universe. You play as a human accused of having killed the daughter of a powerful Count, escaping from jail alongside a Dwarf named Naurim and [[DirtyOldMan lustful mage]] Zurbaran Florios, a southern grandee. While the main character would like to clear their, they're unfortunately suffering from some LaserGuidedAmnesia and unable to remember the events of what happened the night of the Princess' death, resulting in a quest to solve the murder.

* FauxAffablyEvil: Zurbaran acts like a cheerful, smart and careless noble. He is in fact, [[spoiler: an escaped slave who killed a noble and took his identity, using it to deceive people and trick women into sleeping with him, even poisoning the husbands of the women. He likewise makes several sexual advances towards both Aurelia and Niam, and even tries to sell Takate in the third act.]]

* ManaBurn: Certain poisons can drain mana in addition to health, making (the mercifully few) enemies which make use of them higly dangerous to your spellcasters.

* MushroomSamba: When Niam is drugged [[spoiler: on the third day of the Nine Hordes]], she sometimes shoots randomly into space instead of at enemies. According to the battle log, she's shooting at hallucinated unicorns, which always dodge her attacks successfully.

* SetBonus: Equipping a full set of a single type of armor gives you a bonus to armor and reduces its encumberance penalty.

''Blackguards'' is a 2014 TurnBasedTactics [[WesternRPG RPG]] developed by Creator/DaedalicEntertainment, set in ''TabletopGame/TheDarkEye'' universe. You play as a human accused of having killed the daughter of a powerful Count, escaping from jail alongside a Dwarf named Naurim and a [[DirtyOldMan lustful mage]] named Zurbaran Florios, a southern grandee. While the main character would like to clear their, they're unfortunately suffering from some LaserGuidedAmnesia and unable to remember the events of what happened the night of the Princess' death, resulting in a quest to solve the murder.

''Blackguards'' is a 2014 TurnBasedTactics game developed by Creator/DaedalicEntertainment, set in ''TabletopGame/TheDarkEye'' universe. You play as a human accused of having killed the daughter of a powerful Count, escaping from jail alongside a Dwarf named Naurim and a [[DirtyOldMan lustful mage]] named Zurbaran Florios, a southern grandee. While the main character would like to clear their, they're unfortunately suffering from some LaserGuidedAmnesia and unable to remember the events of what happened the night of the Princess' death, resulting in a quest to solve the murder.

* LowFantasy: The setting for the game itself.

* EvilFormerFriend: Lysander. Its made clear via flashbacks that he and the player were once very close, but Elanor's death has now driven him completely insane.
** [[spoiler:Aurelia turns out to be this, being a member of [[BigBad Count Urias']] Nameless One cult. Depending on how you treated her throughout the game, its possible for her to undergo a HeelFaceTurn.]]

* {{Fireballs}}: ''Ignisphaero Fireball'' is your classic fireball spell, though it only deals its full damage on the primary target while anyone hit by its splash take less.

* PlotlineDeath: There is one. [[spoiler: Namely, Niam is killed by the Louse Queen in the final gladiator battle.]]

''Blackguards'' is a 2014 TurnBasedTactics game developed by DaedalicEntertainment, set in ''TabletopGame/TheDarkEye'' universe. You play as a human accused of having killed the daughter of a powerful Count, escaping from jail alongside a Dwarf named Naurim and a [[DirtyOldMan lustful mage]] named Zurbaran Florios, a southern grandee. While the main character would like to clear their, they're unfortunately suffering from some LaserGuidedAmnesia and unable to remember the events of what happened the night of the Princess' death, resulting in a quest to solve the murder.

''Blackguards'' is a 2014 TurnBasedTactics game developed by DaedalicEntertainment, set in TabletopGame/TheDarkEye universe. You play as a human accused of having killed the daughter of a powerful Count, escaping from jail alongside a Dwarf named Naurim and a [[DirtyOldMan lustful mage]] named Zurbaran Florios, a southern grandee. While the main character would like to clear their, they're unfortunately suffering from some LaserGuidedAmnesia and unable to remember the events of what happened the night of the Princess' death, resulting in a quest to solve the murder.

''Blackguards'' is a 2014 [[TurnBasedCombat turn based]] TacticalRPG released by DaedalicEntertainment and set in TabletopGame/TheDarkEye universe. You play as a human accused of having killed the daughter of a powerful Count, escaping from jail alongside a Dwarf named Naurim and a [[DirtyOldMan lustful mage]] named Zurbaran Florios, a southern grandee. While the main character would like to ClearMyName, they're unfortunately suffering from some LaserGuidedAmnesia, and unable to remember the events of what happened the night of the Princess' death.

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* {{Curse}}: A merchant in the town of Benivilla is suffering from one that's causing him to slowly rot away, and tasks the party to find a way to stop it.

* PinkElephants: When Niam is drugged [[spoiler: on the third day of the Nine Hordes]], she sometimes shoots randomly into space instead of at enemies. According to the battle log, she's shooting at hallucinated unicorns, which always dodge her attacks successfully.