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A flash game from [http://www.nobstudio.com/ Nob Studio], ''[[Book of Mages the Dark Times]]'' is the sequel to ''[[Book Of Mages The Chaotic Period|Book of Mages: The Chaotic Period]]''. Like its predecessor, The Dark Times casts the player in the role of a gifted young mage from one of six clans, each specializing in a different form of [[Playing Withwith Fire|Fire]] or [[Making a Splash|Water]] magic. The mage clans are bound together in a loosely-organized and rather turbulent society under the rule of the Great Mage, who won his position by being [[Asskicking Equals Authority|the strongest mage of all]]. However, the current Great Mage is an evil man, and he has created an organization known as the [[State Sec|Black Robes]] who go around murdering any mage who speaks against him. In response to this tyranny, several leading mages from the Great Sea and Burning Hill clans formed [[La Résistance|the White Robes]] to resist the Great Mage and protect mages from the Black Robes' tyranny.
 
A major subplot in the game revolves around the Book of Mages: a book that serves as a pecking order and ranks the strongest hundred mages in the world. As might be expected, this is [[Serious Business|seen as a big deal by most mages]], and many spend their lives challenging each other to duels so that they can move up in the ranks.
 
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=== Book of Mages: The Dark Times provides examples of: ===
* [[Always ChaoticExclusively Evil]]: Averted. While certain clans are iconically associated with the White or Black Robes, there are heroes and villains in all clans, and the main difference is in magic style, not morality.
 
* [[Always Chaotic Evil]]: Averted. While certain clans are iconically associated with the White or Black Robes, there are heroes and villains in all clans, and the main difference is in magic style, not morality.
* [[The Archmage]]: The Great Mage, or anyone who reaches the top of the Book of Mages. At the start of the game, these are the same person, but you can usurp either or both spots. {{spoiler|The Great Mage is actually not the most powerful mage in the world by a long shot.}}
** {{spoiler|The [[Bonus Boss|Mysterious Hermit]] really is the strongest mage in the world, being one of the Six who created the Book of Mages.}}
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* [[Bonus Boss]]: {{spoiler|The Mysterious Hermit.}}
* [[But Thou Must!]]: The game is usually pretty good about averting this, but {{spoiler|if you side with Battlebeard during the Black Robe internal dispute, you ''cannot'' let him retire; the game forces you to betray and kill him.}}
* [[Cast Fromfrom Hit Points]]: Most Dark Wood special magic. Also, Chaos Desert's Remove Effects ability.
* [[Cutscene Power to Thethe Max]]: Played with. You can [[Curb Stomp Battle|curb stomp]] most mages in the Great Sea War without actually fighting them if your mage rank is high enough, but if you're strong enough to do that, you're strong enough to hammer them in a fight anyway.
* [[Cutting Off the Branches]]: The canonical ending for ''The Chaotic Period'' is that Wilson, the protagonist of the first game, lost the Great Mage election and the evil head of Chaos Fire/Chaos Desert Clan became Great Mage.
* [[Deflector Shields]]: Defensive bolts, and Burning Hill's Mana Shield spell.
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* [[Retired Monster]]: {{spoiler|Battlebeard ''wants'' to become one, being an old man who's tired of being the Great Mage. Corpsedusk isn't interested in letting him retire, however.}}
* [[Screw the Rules, I Have Connections]]: {{spoiler|The Black Robes hold a Great Mage election but don't invite non-Black Robes.}}
** [[Screw the Rules, I Have Aa Nuke]]: {{spoiler|It's a rigged contest; Corpsedusk has control over the poison in all the Black Mages' bodies, and uses it to force the Black Robes to lose the election to him.}}
* [[Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right]]: {{spoiler|The White Robes elect their White Mage by a democratic vote instead of through challenges, because they don't want to see another Great Mage like Battlebeard.}}
* [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here]]: {{spoiler|If you deliver the antidote to Darkskin, he and several other mages abandon the Black Robes.}}
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