Cool details I think are worth mentioning: 1. Zera the Mant is Zera's sword. 2. The Maiden seems to be based on Lilith. You can even see a female symbol in Condemned Maiden's eye-patch and in the chain in her dress. 3. While all Darklords need to fall to the graveyard to be summoned to the field, Nasten is the only Darklord that can be summoned directly from the Hand, because he plays both sides at once, as Contact and Sanctified shows. Also, it is implied Condemned Darklord summons Darklord Morningstar into heaven by Sacrificing Nasten, because in Forbidden Droplet we see various little shadows consuming Nasten as the Maiden pours the droplet onto him -- those shadows are from Tribute Burial, a card with the same effect as Condemned Darklord. The story seems to basically depict the combo of Condemned Darklord banishing Nasten from the GY to tribute summon Morningstar, thus tutoring Indulged from the deck and Caprious to the opponent, and using Uprising to fuse Condemned, Indulged and Morningstar into the First Darklord. 4. Nergal seems to be a corrupted Nasten made of Tribute Burial spirits.
This deck is in desperate need of support. The lore and design alone scream for more. Give them a field spell playing into their gimmick of copying effects amd help make it easier to summon them. Give them a counter trap card that has a good effect but has a heavy cost that again plays into their gimmick. Give them a new fusion or link monster that makes the opponent take effect damage when you pay life points. Alter forbidden droplet to either Darklord droplet or give us a card with that name given that it ties to the lore. I just love this archetype and it's a crime how darklords are a forgotten archetype. Despia help them out and have good synergy but it would be nice to get new support.
Since we have a Darklord link it’s possible these cards are still in the minds of Konami. It’ll just take some time before they decide to expand the story and lore to base new cards off of
@@theboy1625 I truly hope so. Im sure Solemn Guy has some unsettled beef with Condemned after that Witch's Strike. In addition, it looked like a war was brewing... This must unfold as I KNOW it will b epic!
The effect of ixchel plus her art makes it seem likes she’s a fusion of the two deities she’s inspired off. Her effect allows her to discard herself and another Darklord card which would play into the suicide mythos
This yt algorithm actually works sometimes... Darklords are my favorite archetype, Zerato being my favorite card in yugioh Great video. And that song in the background set the tone so well.
@@libertaliagamesupply762 Not really. Haven't tried dueling with or against anything current since 2015. These days I play mostly kitchen table yugioh with friends with our old collections. It's playable at that power level 😅
I now just wanna build a deck using all the cards in the story of condemed witch. It wouldn't be good perse, but having a deck that tells a story is such a beautiful thing
In the OCG, the First Darklord is called Lucifer, Fallen Angel of the Morning Star. The Dark Lords are called Fallen Angel. I was introduced to the Darklords by Master Duel
I've always found this archetype interesting and find it somewhat surprising that Konami was willing to go so far into theological territory for a children's card game - even with the localization changes and censoring. I also appreciate your fairhanded and direct approach to explaining the cards and their inspiration without bashing on Christianity as most people seem to do when discussing the Darklord cards.
Thanks for checking it out! I’m sure they’ll circle back to them eventually lol BUJINS are my favorite deck so I’m right there with you wishing for new support
I love the Darklord archetype. Probably my favorite in the entire game. The lore & inspirations are awesome and the artwork is wonderfull Its also kinda crazy that the story, so far, ends on the massive cliffhanger of Condemned being revealed to have taken over The Sanctuary In The Sky (basically Heaven) after presumably destroying Solemn's physical form Something I assume Morningstar wouldn't take lightly as he wants the Sanctuary for himself. Leading to a potential literal civil war among Fallen Angels for God's kingdom
It’s a crazy story line, I was amazed that they went with that. It would make for some awesome card art to have condemned and Morningstar war with each other. I also would expect Solemn to make a return at some point
It's about time we get some Darklord support. Also Archlord should become a thing, and the two decks should have some synergy. Maybe they would grant your opponent life points in order to pull orf powerful effects
This is the best detailed video on on the darklords and I like how you go into more depth on the more obscure darklords that aren't technically demons/ a.k.a fallen angels
I love Darklords and its lore. But based on what I have seen so far through various videos, I have always believed this lore is far from over. Ive also always felt there was something special about the fact there is a Darklord at every level except 1 & 2.
I would argue that Marie the fallen is the depiction of jonna darc as she becomes a saint after being forgiven (symbolised by fusing with Forgiving Maiden)
I could see that in the context of the archetype, but it doesn’t really line up with the real person. Unless her soul became evil after being killed so violently
But the Valuable Book lore doesn't agree with that interpretation. Lucifer is referred to as still intending on defeating God with intent to take over Heaven which puts him at odds with Condemned who just wants to enjoy the act of rebellion, throwing the entire set of Darklords into disarray and in-fighting and it also confirms that Witches' Strike, which shows God calm and with hands behind the back as the attack bounces off of a barrier, is not the Witch "winning" but being completely ineffective at the intended direct attack.
That’s interesting, I can’t seem to find that anywhere. It looks like you’re right about the first Darklord being at odds with Condemned but I don’t see any elaboration on the story. Would you have a link?
@@libertaliagamesupply762 It's in VBEX1, the "Witch's Strike" card doesn't have any description in it but is just used as a context card. However, the card set after Witch's Strike of Condemned Darklord is given the following lore description: "By then, rebellion itself had become the ultimate pleasure for her. Such madness had taken over other Darklords, increasing her influence." which shows her at odds with Lucifer. Indulged and Capricious are noted as having been tempted with words rather than direct power. In contrast, Lucifer's text in the Darklord story is, ""Morningstar" absorbed the Darklords that had lost their power because of the "Condemned Darklord", yet this was also within her calculations. Despite being aware of this, "Morningstar" will stop at nothing in order to take down God." So we know that First Darklord takes place lore-wise after Witch's Strike, and in the text is shows that Lucifer is still fighting Heaven. So in brief the order of events of the relevant cards is Witch's Strike -> Condemned Darklord -> First Darklord. First Darklord's lore is the last confirmed piece of info we have in VBEX (VBEX is also printed a little after Forbidden Droplet's release) and confirms that God was not defeated, at the very least we can confirm this statement about Lucifer shows that Witch's Strike was not a victory.
@@Zetact_ okay yeah that’s the same one I came across, I just must have missed that last little detail on the first. That’s a shame, I like my version better lol I appreciate the correction though
I didn’t even think to check the manga because I was thinking the card came out a lot more recently than the GX manga. Luckily that doesn’t ruin my theory too much lol
@@libertaliagamesupply762 desire, asmodeus, superbia,arae and ukoback all came first from the manga and were all played by Midori Hibiki. You can easily find this kind of infos on wikia yugi, y checking the section "appearences" which allow to know if the card appeared in the anime/manga first. Also, in the manga Asmodus doesn't have an effect but it's attack is named "hell parade" which is very fitting for the leader of an army of demon. Lastly, ironically, the character using them was actually on the protagonist side while the antagonist she dueled(who turned out to actually be secretly someone who also wanted to take down the main villain) used a light fairy/angel deck.
Yeah I just didn’t consider that there wouldn’t be a better explanation of what it was supposed to be considering that the rest of them all seemed to be based on something. I should consider that in the future though, it could save me some time lol That last part would have definitely been worth mentioning, that pretty much sums up the whole story in the cards as well. I’m thinking about doing monarchs next, do you have any interesting insight on them?
@@libertaliagamesupply762 Honestly about monarch, not so much to say. They did make appearences through animes and mangas and were always played by minor antagonists but didn't really have a lore. The only thing that stood out is that one of them used granmarg (rock), zaborg(thunder), thestalos(fire) and mobius(ice), which are reccuring elements in phantasy, as tribute to summon Demiurge Ema. Demiurge is supported by the spell card blue moon who itself can be activated thanks to the spell card shadow moon. Blue moon make spell and traps become homunculus tokens and demiurge increase its power the more token they re. You can look for the cards on wikia yugi since they re anime-only cards currently.
@@drearydoll6305 cool, I’ll check it out. I’m finding that the only “lore” from Konami is the little intro they have on master duel which more or less says nothing about what they are so it might just be all anime references lol
I love any kind of allusion towards a religion or mythology texts "Judaism and Christianity" being some of my favorites, is really cool and Darklords have always been my favorite archetype in yugioh for that reason! One of the decks I try running most in duel links, even if Konami tries everything in their power to make the deck unplayable lol
They do such a good job of just infusing the ideas into art and effects as a subtle reference. Darklords do such a good job telling a story unique to Yugioh while referencing theology. Surely they can’t stay bad forever lol
There has to be more aside from the agent cards, sanctuary cards (including those just depicting locations on it), the counter fairies, and the parshath cards.
As soon as I started reading about all of the Mayan stuff I knew I was gonna get something wrong lol I appreciate the correction. Would that make ixtab pronounced in the same way?
I’d have to imagine she only defeated him. It would be pretty insane to put killing god in a story line in this game lol hopefully the next Solemn card sorts all of that out. I’m thinking something like Solemn Fury and it negates extra deck summons or something. Maybe it can be used form hand like imperm?
My theory is that solemn (the Jesus like god) became Odin from the aesir archetype. That would explain why there is a random solemn card for the aesir that is not a negate.
Cool details I think are worth mentioning:
1. Zera the Mant is Zera's sword.
2. The Maiden seems to be based on Lilith. You can even see a female symbol in Condemned Maiden's eye-patch and in the chain in her dress.
3. While all Darklords need to fall to the graveyard to be summoned to the field, Nasten is the only Darklord that can be summoned directly from the Hand, because he plays both sides at once, as Contact and Sanctified shows. Also, it is implied Condemned Darklord summons Darklord Morningstar into heaven by Sacrificing Nasten, because in Forbidden Droplet we see various little shadows consuming Nasten as the Maiden pours the droplet onto him -- those shadows are from Tribute Burial, a card with the same effect as Condemned Darklord. The story seems to basically depict the combo of Condemned Darklord banishing Nasten from the GY to tribute summon Morningstar, thus tutoring Indulged from the deck and Caprious to the opponent, and using Uprising to fuse Condemned, Indulged and Morningstar into the First Darklord.
4. Nergal seems to be a corrupted Nasten made of Tribute Burial spirits.
This deck is in desperate need of support. The lore and design alone scream for more. Give them a field spell playing into their gimmick of copying effects amd help make it easier to summon them. Give them a counter trap card that has a good effect but has a heavy cost that again plays into their gimmick. Give them a new fusion or link monster that makes the opponent take effect damage when you pay life points. Alter forbidden droplet to either Darklord droplet or give us a card with that name given that it ties to the lore.
I just love this archetype and it's a crime how darklords are a forgotten archetype. Despia help them out and have good synergy but it would be nice to get new support.
Imagine them getting a field spell that depicts a Ruined Sanctuary.
Since we have a Darklord link it’s possible these cards are still in the minds of Konami. It’ll just take some time before they decide to expand the story and lore to base new cards off of
@@theboy1625 I truly hope so. Im sure Solemn Guy has some unsettled beef with Condemned after that Witch's Strike. In addition, it looked like a war was brewing...
This must unfold as I KNOW it will b epic!
The effect of ixchel plus her art makes it seem likes she’s a fusion of the two deities she’s inspired off. Her effect allows her to discard herself and another Darklord card which would play into the suicide mythos
This yt algorithm actually works sometimes...
Darklords are my favorite archetype, Zerato being my favorite card in yugioh
Great video. And that song in the background set the tone so well.
I’m glad it brought you here! I had a good time researching everything, there’s a lot to know it turns out. Which Zerato is your favorite?
@@libertaliagamesupply762 Thought it was implied. Darklord Zerato 100%
@@619Slipk I figured that’s what you meant, have you found a way to actually play it?
@@libertaliagamesupply762 Not really. Haven't tried dueling with or against anything current since 2015. These days I play mostly kitchen table yugioh with friends with our old collections.
It's playable at that power level 😅
I now just wanna build a deck using all the cards in the story of condemed witch. It wouldn't be good perse, but having a deck that tells a story is such a beautiful thing
In the OCG, the First Darklord is called Lucifer, Fallen Angel of the Morning Star. The Dark Lords are called Fallen Angel. I was introduced to the Darklords by Master Duel
I think showing Nasten's redemption and downfall arc is an indication of what may come in the future, there HAS to be more than that.
I've always found this archetype interesting and find it somewhat surprising that Konami was willing to go so far into theological territory for a children's card game - even with the localization changes and censoring.
I also appreciate your fairhanded and direct approach to explaining the cards and their inspiration without bashing on Christianity as most people seem to do when discussing the Darklord cards.
I love playing the dark lord archetype and still wishing for more support, but this is a really good and cool vid man!
Thanks for checking it out! I’m sure they’ll circle back to them eventually lol BUJINS are my favorite deck so I’m right there with you wishing for new support
They work best with the Despia/Branded cards.
@@JoeLikesBluemy deck is already mixed with the branded despia, but thanks dude, I just want to play like a absolute pure darklord archetype 😊
@@saruntonkarunalai297 That’ll be the day
@@JoeLikesBlue what does a list look like for this, that sounds super cool
I love the Darklord archetype. Probably my favorite in the entire game.
The lore & inspirations are awesome and the artwork is wonderfull
Its also kinda crazy that the story, so far, ends on the massive cliffhanger of Condemned being revealed to have taken over The Sanctuary In The Sky (basically Heaven) after presumably destroying Solemn's physical form
Something I assume Morningstar wouldn't take lightly as he wants the Sanctuary for himself. Leading to a potential literal civil war among Fallen Angels for God's kingdom
It’s a crazy story line, I was amazed that they went with that. It would make for some awesome card art to have condemned and Morningstar war with each other. I also would expect Solemn to make a return at some point
I know god is cool and all but the stare by Condemned Darklord does funny thing to me man
Everyone’s a sucker for those “damn you to hell” eyes lol
I do love playing darklords and always wanting more support. Actual underrated video
Why Konami don’t release support for such a cool and loved archetype is beyond me, darklords needs support for like yesterday
Konami fears what that power will do to us mere mortals.....also they are too busy sucking Blue Eyes and Red Eyes too care.
It's about time we get some Darklord support. Also Archlord should become a thing, and the two decks should have some synergy. Maybe they would grant your opponent life points in order to pull orf powerful effects
This is the best detailed video on on the darklords and I like how you go into more depth on the more obscure darklords that aren't technically demons/ a.k.a fallen angels
Those were the hard ones to actually get any info on lol
I honestly hope there will be a good ending. Maybe with one of the sanctuary in the sky decks?
What I find strangest is that God in Yu-Gi-Oh is literally just an old man, who has a library where he does paperwork upon a table
Why dont they just have an anime and manga based on the actual cards of the game!?
I’d pay for that if it was its own subscription service. They must just not think it works as well to sell product as the actual anime does
I love Darklords and its lore. But based on what I have seen so far through various videos, I have always believed this lore is far from over. Ive also always felt there was something special about the fact there is a Darklord at every level except 1 & 2.
I would argue that Marie the fallen is the depiction of jonna darc as she becomes a saint after being forgiven (symbolised by fusing with Forgiving Maiden)
I could see that in the context of the archetype, but it doesn’t really line up with the real person. Unless her soul became evil after being killed so violently
@@libertaliagamesupply762 In Life Jonna Darc was demonised and burned for being a witch, only to later be canonized
But the Valuable Book lore doesn't agree with that interpretation. Lucifer is referred to as still intending on defeating God with intent to take over Heaven which puts him at odds with Condemned who just wants to enjoy the act of rebellion, throwing the entire set of Darklords into disarray and in-fighting and it also confirms that Witches' Strike, which shows God calm and with hands behind the back as the attack bounces off of a barrier, is not the Witch "winning" but being completely ineffective at the intended direct attack.
That’s interesting, I can’t seem to find that anywhere. It looks like you’re right about the first Darklord being at odds with Condemned but I don’t see any elaboration on the story. Would you have a link?
@@libertaliagamesupply762 It's in VBEX1, the "Witch's Strike" card doesn't have any description in it but is just used as a context card.
However, the card set after Witch's Strike of Condemned Darklord is given the following lore description: "By then, rebellion itself had become the ultimate pleasure for her. Such madness had taken over other Darklords, increasing her influence." which shows her at odds with Lucifer. Indulged and Capricious are noted as having been tempted with words rather than direct power.
In contrast, Lucifer's text in the Darklord story is, ""Morningstar" absorbed the Darklords that had lost their power because of the "Condemned Darklord", yet this was also within her calculations. Despite being aware of this, "Morningstar" will stop at nothing in order to take down God." So we know that First Darklord takes place lore-wise after Witch's Strike, and in the text is shows that Lucifer is still fighting Heaven.
So in brief the order of events of the relevant cards is Witch's Strike -> Condemned Darklord -> First Darklord. First Darklord's lore is the last confirmed piece of info we have in VBEX (VBEX is also printed a little after Forbidden Droplet's release) and confirms that God was not defeated, at the very least we can confirm this statement about Lucifer shows that Witch's Strike was not a victory.
@@Zetact_ okay yeah that’s the same one I came across, I just must have missed that last little detail on the first. That’s a shame, I like my version better lol I appreciate the correction though
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Can't blame you for not seeing any reference since this card came from the yugioh GX manga
I didn’t even think to check the manga because I was thinking the card came out a lot more recently than the GX manga. Luckily that doesn’t ruin my theory too much lol
@@libertaliagamesupply762 desire, asmodeus, superbia,arae and ukoback all came first from the manga and were all played by Midori Hibiki.
You can easily find this kind of infos on wikia yugi, y checking the section "appearences" which allow to know if the card appeared in the anime/manga first.
Also, in the manga Asmodus doesn't have an effect but it's attack is named "hell parade" which is very fitting for the leader of an army of demon.
Lastly, ironically, the character using them was actually on the protagonist side while the antagonist she dueled(who turned out to actually be secretly someone who also wanted to take down the main villain) used a light fairy/angel deck.
Yeah I just didn’t consider that there wouldn’t be a better explanation of what it was supposed to be considering that the rest of them all seemed to be based on something. I should consider that in the future though, it could save me some time lol
That last part would have definitely been worth mentioning, that pretty much sums up the whole story in the cards as well.
I’m thinking about doing monarchs next, do you have any interesting insight on them?
@@libertaliagamesupply762 Honestly about monarch, not so much to say. They did make appearences through animes and mangas and were always played by minor antagonists but didn't really have a lore.
The only thing that stood out is that one of them used granmarg (rock), zaborg(thunder), thestalos(fire) and mobius(ice), which are reccuring elements in phantasy, as tribute to summon Demiurge Ema.
Demiurge is supported by the spell card blue moon who itself can be activated thanks to the spell card shadow moon.
Blue moon make spell and traps become homunculus tokens and demiurge increase its power the more token they re.
You can look for the cards on wikia yugi since they re anime-only cards currently.
@@drearydoll6305 cool, I’ll check it out. I’m finding that the only “lore” from Konami is the little intro they have on master duel which more or less says nothing about what they are so it might just be all anime references lol
6:35 "... Jag-wire Goddess..."
More lore vids I really really enjoyed this you got my sub
Thanks for checking it out! This is going to be the majority of what I make here so I hope the rest are enjoyable
i really hope we get more fallenangel cards. id love to see more forms for lucifer and even the great 7 headed dragon in revelation.
The first Link-7 perhaps? 🤔
@@libertaliagamesupply762 hope not, way to hard to summon. Hope we stay on fusions, maybe a version of lucifer wearing the forbidden itens
I have been looking for a channel like this
I’m happy you found this one then
@@libertaliagamesupply762 Can you do a video about the World Legacy.
I love any kind of allusion towards a religion or mythology texts "Judaism and Christianity" being some of my favorites, is really cool and Darklords have always been my favorite archetype in yugioh for that reason! One of the decks I try running most in duel links, even if Konami tries everything in their power to make the deck unplayable lol
They do such a good job of just infusing the ideas into art and effects as a subtle reference. Darklords do such a good job telling a story unique to Yugioh while referencing theology. Surely they can’t stay bad forever lol
I wish they were unlimited in duel links.
There has to be more aside from the agent cards, sanctuary cards (including those just depicting locations on it), the counter fairies, and the parshath cards.
I want to see the other side. I want to see the beings that didn't fall from grace, i think that would be really cool
Thanks ^-^
HELL YEAH!
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one small note, Ix Chel is pronounced "Eesh-chel"
great video though, well researched!!!
As soon as I started reading about all of the Mayan stuff I knew I was gonna get something wrong lol I appreciate the correction. Would that make ixtab pronounced in the same way?
What do you found the full card art?
I just use an AI generative fill to extend the artwork we already have
0:42 *phantom darkness
Yeah I did t realized I mixed them up until I was editing the video to the audio lol
So do you think she killed god or just defeated him? Maybe he will pull a jesus and return after 3 days?
I’d have to imagine she only defeated him. It would be pretty insane to put killing god in a story line in this game lol hopefully the next Solemn card sorts all of that out. I’m thinking something like Solemn Fury and it negates extra deck summons or something. Maybe it can be used form hand like imperm?
@@libertaliagamesupply762 Agreed, Yo an effect like that would be pretty cool!
@@libertaliagamesupply762 I think it'd be pretty funny if god is dead in the yugioh universe though
My theory is that solemn (the Jesus like god) became Odin from the aesir archetype. That would explain why there is a random solemn card for the aesir that is not a negate.
Bro the attack in Witches' Strike is literally bouncing off of of God as He's barely even paying attention.
Witch got humiliated and ran.
God forbid a woman do anything smh
I swear, always leading us to damnation