The Dark Times: Difference between revisions

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

* In the ''[[Continuum]]'' RPG, the time before 14,000 BC was/is ruled by the civilization of Antedesertium, whose narcissistic experiments and attacks on the timestream led to their Scorpion Kings becoming [[Eldritch Abomination]]s, before finally destroying their civilization, triggering more or less a millenium of temporal chaos that led to the creation of the Sahara Desert.

** In the default setting, [[Eldritch Abomination|the Aboleths, intelligent beings that look like crosses between great fish and cthonic monstrosities]], once ruled all the world. How do they know? They have photographic genetic memory. ''They remember.''

* The world of ''[[Exalted]]'' under Primordial rule may have been this. That's the official story, anyway, but the sourcebooks encourage readers to [[Alternate Character Interpretation|consider the possibility that]] [[Unreliable Narrator|the gods may be lying about that part.]]

** By most series' standards, Warhammer 40k is entirely made up of Dark Times.

** Arguably 40k subverts this trope by having the present be the Dark Times with the past for the Imperium and the Eldar being depicted as glorious golden ages undone by their own pride. Since then [[It Got Worse|it just keeps getting worse]].

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