
But I recommend that you at least parry your enemies' blows. Tulefa: Nobody can force you to, sweetheart. Bait-and-Switch Comment: When the group has to partake in arena battles:.Cassia has it worse: her husband is The Caligula, he is exactly as repulsive as the rumors say he is, and after he got tired of her he threw her in the catacombs underneath the city, laughing as the spiders and their venom slowly drove her insane.only to find herself hating him even more due to him being too perfect. Awful Wedded Life: Telemache's list of grievances with her husband is so long, she asks the party to retrieve a long-lost ritual book so that she can confer to him the blessings of all the gods, thus turning him into the perfect man who'll dote her at every turn.Armor-Piercing Attack: Warriors' Targeted Stab and Death Blow abilities ignore all armor.Downplayed in the sequel there are two special magic-based passive skills that negate the interference.Armor and Magic Don't Mix: As is true more broadly in the Dark Eye rule system, wearing metal armor interferes with casting spells.Anti-Grinding: There are no random encounters - the only repeatable fight is doing battle in the arena but it rewards no Adventure Points and very little money.A God Am I: In the sequel, Takate develops a god-complex from defeating the Nameless God, claiming to be the son of Kamaloq, the god of the hunt.All she has to do is break out, hire the Conquerors, rally an army behind them, rip and tear their way across half the country, overthrow King Marwan from the Shark Throne, and hold it for at least a full day before being torn apart by an angry mob.

The Conquerors of the Nine Hordes, half the party of the previous game, are currently in a rut and shells of their former selves. Except she's broke, insane, and currently locked up in the worst prison in history.


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. While the main character would like to clear their name, they're unfortunately suffering from some Laser-Guided Amnesia and unable to remember the events of what happened the night of the Princess' death, resulting in a quest to solve the murder.Ī sequel, Blackguards 2, was released in January 2015. You play as a human accused of murdering the daughter of a powerful Count, escaping from jail alongside a Dwarf named Naurim and lustful mage Zurbaran Florios, a southern grandee. Blackguards is a 2014 Turn-Based Tactics RPG developed by Daedalic Entertainment, set in The Dark Eye universe.
