Dark Eras are historical settings for the various gamelines of the Chronicles of Darkness, similar to the Dark Medieval of the Classic World of Darkness.
Overview
For 2014, Onyx Path did not present a new game line- instead each of the previous nine game lines is expanded with an evocative and appropriate historical period. Each Dark Era is being created by a developer and writer; for example, Ethan Skemp takes his award-winning Changeling: The Lost to France during the Era of powdered wigs, treachery, and flashing blades. For the first time, Onyx Path used Kickstarter to construct this book using direct feedback from the fans during the process and increase some Eras’ word-count or add entirely new Eras as the community pushes for their favorites.
Known Dark Eras
- Eras included in the main book, Chronicles of Darkness: Dark Eras:
- VTR & CTL: "Requiem for Regina": Elizabethan England (1587-1593)
- WTF: "The Bowery Dogs": New York City in the 1970s (1969-1979)
- MTAw: "To the Strongest": Alexander's invasion of India (330-320 BCE)
- PTC: "A Handful of Dust": The Clutch Plague/Dustbowl (1933-1940)
- CTL: "Lily, Sabre and Thorn": Three Musketeers (1600s-early 1700s)
- HTV: "Doubting Souls": Colonial New England (1690-1695)
- GTS: "God's Own Country": 1950s New Zealand (1950s)
- MTC: "The Ruins of Empire": Collapse of the Ottoman/British Empires (1893–1924)
- DTD: "Into the Cold": Cold War Germany (1961)
- CTL: "A Grimm Dark Era": Eighteenth Century Germany (1812-1820)
- MTAw & WTF: "The Sundered World": Neolithic (5500 -5000 BCE)
- Skinchangers & DTD: "Beneath the Skin": Aztec Empire (1486-1502)
- DTD: "After the Fall": The Ottoman conquest of Constantinople (1453-1458)
- CTL & GTS: "Three Kingdoms of Darkness": Three Kingdoms China (220-280)
- WTF & GTS: "The Wolf and the Raven": Viking Era (700-1100)
- HTV: "Fallen Blossoms": Samurai Era Japan (1640-1660)
- Eras to be included in the Companion:
- DTD: in the Russian Revolution
- Second Sight: The age of Spiritualism
- MTC: the reign of Cleopatra
- PTC: Year Without A Summer (1816 Germany/Switzerland)
- GTS: The colony of Roanoke
- WTF: Rome 1st Century CE
- BTP: Reconstruction Era
- Mutapa Empire in sub-Saharan Africa (resurrected through backers)
- VTR & PTC: Europe's Black Death (resurrected through backers)
- PTC: 30 Years War (backer suggested era)
- Additional stretch goal eras that were proposed:
- VTR: 1893 World's Fair
- GTS: Wild West
- Innocents: The Blitz
- HTV: Middle East in the time of the Book of Judges
- MTAw & MTC: French Revolution
- The American Revolutionary War
- GTS: Golden Age of Piracy
- Wars of Scottish Independence
- HTV: in the Spanish Inquisition
- HTV: WWII in the Pacific
- VTR: On the Orient Express
- HTV: 1830s India
- GTS: Haiti in the 1970s-80s
- VTR: Jazz Age Requiem
Trivia
Being published before as 1st Edition supplements, following supplements could be regarded as prototypes to the Dark Eras
- VTR: Requiem for Rome (around 360)
- CTL: Victorian Lost (1837-1904)
- MTAw: Mage Noir (1940s)
- VTR: New Wave Requiem (1980s)
References