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| “ | I am Dark Falz, lord of death! Your ruin, hatred and pain are my strength! Look at my power and disdain for life, fools! I'll enjoy your painful deaths! | „ |
| ~ Dark Falz |
Dark Falz (also known as "Dark Force") is the main villain of the Phantasy Star series up to Plantasy Star IV, where it is learned that it is actually the avatar of the Profound Darkness.
Biography[]
Eons ago, two entities, the Great Light and the Profound Darkness, fought each other. The Great Light won, banishing the Profound Darkness into another dimension and creating the Algol System and its three planets (Palma, Motavia, and Dezoris) to seal it forever. However, every one thousand years, the seal weakens. During this time, the Profound Darkness' hatred and desire for vengeance would manifest the Dark Falz, a being of pure evil which sought nothing but the complete destruction of the Algol System, bringing chaos and destruction in its wake.
Phantasy Star[]
Making its first appearance in the Algol System, Dark Falz created an evil cult of worshippers and possessed the Algol King Lassic, transforming the once benevolent ruler into a ruthless tyrant. Under Dark Falz's influence, Lassic spread monsters all over the three planets of Algol and imprisoned or killed all who opposed his rule. When Nero, a resistance soldier, is killed by Lassic's soldiers, his sister Alis vows to avenge him.
Along with her three companions Myau, Odin, and Lutz, Alis finally kills Lassic, causing Dark Falz to leave his body and seek a new host. Sensing a grave danger, Alis travels to Motavia and seeks the planet's governor, only to find Dark Falz attempting to possess him. Dark Falz attacks Alis, but with her friends' help, she defeats the monster and saves Algol.
Phantasy Star II[]
One thousand years later, Dark Falz once again emerged. During this time, a spaceship with the last survivors from Earth reached Algol, so Dark Falz corrupted them, influencing them into creating the Mother Brain supercomputer with the intent of killing all native life of Algol and eventually destroy the three planets. Mother Brain was introduced to the planets Palma and Motavia, which were turned into technologically advanced utopias. However, the people of Algol grew too dependant on the supercomputer, becoming weak and defenseless as the Earthlings intended.
Rolf, a descendant of Alis, starts having constant nightmares of the final battle between his ancestor and Dark Falz, and, after waking up from one such dream, is called upon to investigate the ocurrence of biomonsters plaguing Motavia. Together with other warriors who join his quest, he discovers the biomonsters were being created by Neifirst, who hijacked the Climatrol weather control system. After Neifirst is defeated, Climatrol goes out of control and floods Motavia, so Rolf is blamed for the incident and hunted down by Mother Brain's robots, who eventually capture him and his friends and take them into the Gaira satellite, which is hijacked and set on a collision course with Palma.
Rolf and his friends are rescued, but Gaira falls down on Palma, destroying the planet. With the help of the sage Lutz, Rolf is taken into the Noah spaceship to destroy Mother Brain, but the Earthlings create a Pandora Box with which they capture Dark Falz to defend the computer. When Rolf opens the box, Dark Falz attacks him and his group, who are forced to defeat the monster once again to save Algol.
Phantasy Star III[]
Before Palma was destroyed, its inhabitants predicted that the planet would be destroyed, so they created a massive fleet of four hundred spaceships on which they escaped the planet's destruction. However, Dark Falz managed to enter one of the ships, destroying it and jumping from ship to ship destroying all of them until only two ships, Alisa III and Neo Palm, were left. Upon entering Alisa III, Dark Falz corrupted the people from the floating city of Lashute and incited the inhabitants of the ship to begin a civil war. The populace were divided between two warring factions: the ones led by Orakio and the ones led by Laya. During the war, Orakio and Laya realized the presence of Dark Falz and secretly worked together to stop his plans, imprisoning the monster in a underwater palace using Orakio's sword, but died in the proccess.
Almost one thousand years later, the people of Lashute start working to reignite the war and free their master, manipulating one of Orakio's descendants, Rhys, into realigning the satellites orbiting the ship so that the generals of Orakio and Laya trapped on them would resume the conflict. The heroes of the second generation would reach either of the satellites and defeat one of the generals, stopping the conflict until the third generation, when Lashute directly attacks the satellites. The hero of the third generation learns about the truth and retrieves Orakio's sword from the underwater temple, but in doing so, Dark Falz escapes from his prison and returns to Lashute from where it begins to plot the destruction of Alisa III. The heroes travel to Lashute and defeat Dark Falz, who promises to return again in 1000 years before vanishing.
Phantasy Star IV[]
Due to the destruction of Palma in the second game, the seal over the Profound Darkness weakened drastically, allowing it to send multiple forms of Dark Falz to invade Algol.
The first Dark Falz encounters the magician Zio, who contracted the creature through an unknown means, and turns him into his herald while giving him control over powerful dark magic. Once Zio is defeated by Chaz and the other heroes, however, Dark Falz abandons him and retreats, setting himself inside the Kuran satellite from where he hijacks the ambiental control systems of Motavia, causing them to malfunction. Once the heroes defeat him, the cyborg Wren fixes the systems within the satellite.
The second Dark Falz sets himself in Dezoris, where it takes over the Garuberk Tower, causing a huge blizzard to storm the planet and spreading its dark energy, which slowly kills those who lived in villages close to the tower and killing all inhabitants from Reshel, who get turned into zombies. Upon his defeat, both the blizzard and the plague stops.
The third and last Dark Falz attempts to invade the Soldiers Temple, where the Aero-Prism necessary to reveal the location of Rykros is kept. In order to trick the heroes into helping him, Dark Falz disguises himself as a human named Seth, pretending to be an archaeologist exploring the temple. Once the heroes retrieve the Aero-Prism and it reveals the location of Rykros, Dark Falz sheds away his disguise and attacks the heroes in order to prevent them from reaching Rykros, which is later revealed to be the secret fourth planet of the Algol System.
Other appearances[]
Despite having no direct relation with the original series, all subsequent spin-off series from Phantasy Star have featured Dark Falz, either as a major antagonist, final boss and in a few cases as a optional super-boss.
Phantasy Star Online[]
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Phantasy Star Online 2[]
Dark Falz is a manifestation of the Profound Darkness. However unlike the mainline counterpart where the Profound Darkness is behind a seal and sends out manifestations after a period of time, Dark Falz is more akin to a title to an individual infested with a exceptionally high amount of F-Factor, an energy released by the Profound Darkness, when one is infected they wind up becoming the ones in control of the Falspawn; which are weaker manifestations of the Profound Darkness come in varying types, acting as a puppet to fulfill the will of the Profound Darkness.
Phantasy Star Universe[]
Dark Falz appears as a super-boss, whom the players can find in the depths of Rykros. Here Dark Falz is a malevolent being which was sealed away within the Maximum Attack battle simulation program. The researchers and Guardians who initially found the program sought to learn of it's true nature and scoured the planet for more information, only to discover that they had inadvertently awakened it, so they use their powers to prevent it from materializing in the real world, sealing it within a monolith where it lays dormant.
Phantasy Star 0[]
Dark Falz appears as the final boss of the game, being revealed as the true mastermind behind Mother Trinity, the game's main antagonist, having possessed the organic super-computer and causing it to go haywire and turn on humans. This version of Dark falz seeks nothing but to spread chaos and destruction.
Phantasy Star Portable 2[]
Dark Falz once again appears as a super-boss. He is summoned by the main villain Kumhan for the players to fight, but he has no plot relevance.
Gallery[]
External Links[]
- Dark Falz on the Phantasy Star Wiki