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  • Accidental Downer Ending: Where to begin? Well, first you have to fight your own king. Who afterwards promptly dies. Oops. And did we mention that he's actually the father of one of your party members? Then it turns out Qualna wasn't even trying to get you to kill the king, and this is exactly the example he was trying to create to show Rohoph that he's gone off the deep end, and to get him to rejoin the Governance de Magi peacefully. (Although most of the Magi have gone off that end too.) Rohoph promptly kills Qualna too and seals his soul so he can no longer escape after telling her that he wouldn't. Mardek and Elwyen go to a play afterwards to lighten the mood, until Rohoph forces her away, to Mardek's disdain and anger. So now King Gonoroth and probably the most friendly of the Governance de Magi are dead, and Rohoph wants Mardek to have no more friends to become attached to. Yeah. At least Lone Wolf (Deugan) finally talks to Mardek's face, although he doesn't reveal who he is. And the saddest part of this is that Chapter 3 is the very last game of the series before it was canceled, which means that MARDEK officially ends with none of the characters getting a happy ending.
  • Development Hell: Chapter 3 was stuck in development hell for 3 years until it was finally finished. Chapter 4 remained in development hell for several years until it was abandoned for the Continuity Reboot.
  • What Could Have Been: The game was originally planned to last 8 chapters, but only the first 3 were ever made. After finishing Chapter 3, Tobias was burnt out on the game and did not touch it for years (during which he made Clarence's Big Chance), after which he found himself unable to create Chapter 4 and decided instead to reboot the series. The Steam Re-Release Extras contain a .pdf file of all of Tobias' notes on how the series would progress. In Chapter 4, Steele would've been the main antagonist, Deugan and Emela would've rejoined the party alongside previous antagonists Muriance and the World's Saviours, and Belfan would get nuked by Gaspar at the end, and Chapter 5 onward would be a spacefaring adventure of liberating various worlds from Ansharian control, with Rohoph taking full control of Mardek after Anu and Zaephros were defeated, becoming the final boss.

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