Dark Lord (Adventure)

Dark Lord (also known as Shadow Knight in Japan) is the one of the two main antagonists in Final Fantasy Adventure. He is the ruler of the Glaive Empire who seeks to gain eternal power from touching the Tree of Mana.

Story
Dark Lord resides in Castle Glaive on Mount Illusia. He captures and enslaves numerous people from the world below, including the game’s hero, forcing them to serve as gladiators, fighting monsters for his entertainment.

Dark Lord enlists the aid of his advisor Julius, whom he raised from an orphaned infant. Julius tells him that the tree lies in a shrine atop the Mount Illusia waterfalls and that a mysterious girl can help him reach the shrine. Dark Lord has Julius capture the girl from the hero while his pet bird Garuda recovers her magic pendant.

Dark Lord is ultimately defeated in battle by the hero. However, he is revealed to have a fake pendant in his possession while Julius has the real one and proceeds to use it for his own quest to get the power of Mana. It is likely that Julius betrayed Dark Lord by switching the pendants to fulfill his own plans, but the precise details are never revealed.



Sword of Mana
In Sword of Mana, it is revealed that Dark Lord's real name is Stroud, and that he is still technically a prince. Like the other cast members, Dark Lord was given an entirely new look to separate himself from his Game Boy counterpart.

Friends of Mana
Dark Lord's design here has been based on loosely on his original concept art, with some major difference regarding the amount of detail.