What will happen after the black mage?

To many, the black mage is the ultimate boss. Supposedly he was some scientist in Magatia that learned how to become immortal and use dark magic. Soon he became the most evil copy-cat look alike of ergoth ever to have exsisted and blew up nations yadda yadda yadda.

But what happens after we defeat him? What will Nexon use as an after plot? Where did the original knowledge of the immortality & dark magic come from?

I'm just saying right now, that were probably gonna have to deal with an evil Overlord pretty soon after the dark mage.

When you think about it, the dark mage is basicly:



without the mind control. Eventualy were gonna have to deal with:



Metaphoricaly speaking.

Overall I'm interested in whats going to happen afterwards. How about you?

Sauron (Lord of the Rings) was also an apprentice of a prior evil, fled to Middle Earth, and used his knowledge to con some Elves and humans bla bla bla and became the Dark Lord.

Judging by the two hundred and three similarities to LOTR and other various stories, they'll go on to expanded mythos, or a successor to the Black Mage.

the dark mage is going to DESTROY EVERYTHING!
and he HATES HATES HATES HATES YOU!

or maybe ... he'll RETURN everything to the void.

or most likley.. this would explain the time travel related things well, no?

• He appears to be the son of a creature as evil as Kanye West during the VMA's.
  
• He seems to be a 'good guy', excuses himself and then continue with a story telling he was forced to do this. He was once actually someone who fought the 'bad guys'. An evil organisation is introduced.
  
• When you've almost beat the Blacke mage, he'll run away and come back later when he's stronger along with more Pink Bean-like bosses.
  

It could be like Zelda:LTTP... after defeating the mage in Castle Hyrule in the real world, you get sent to the Dark World. 8D

Somehow, I can't help but think it'll be an FFIX development...

Upon his defeat, the Black Magician uses whatever strength he has remaining to summon the ultimate lifeform...one that will bring about the apocalypse and destroy the Maple World.

Notice it yet?

Trance Kuja casts Ultima -> Necron is summoned -> Necron attempts to destroy the world

after black mage, maple story 2 ? :S

After Black Mage the real badboy, Grendel The Really Old comes out of his house.

I always though Grendel was the Black Mage but I guess Nexon didn't agree

And I think he will just escape like a noob when you defeat him. Remember pink bean?

Something to do with Black Magician's past, play as the Black Wings.

Or do a complete Digimon twist -

return to the alternate 'world', kill the boss who black magician is a slave of

After Black Mage the real badboy, Grendel The Really Old comes out of his house.

I always though Grendel was the Black Mage but I guess Nexon didn't agree

And I think he will just escape like a noob when you defeat him. Remember pink bean?

Aww...how cute. Pink Bean's throwing a temper tantrum.

It's not hard to introduce a "greater evil" into the mix. Look at WoW. At the end of W3, you had King Arthas fusing with the Ner'zhul as the Lich King and he became the strongest, evilest thing ever...and stayed that way for years as they released WoW and the first expansion, and wasn't defeated until the second expansion came out. But now with Cataclysm coming out, they're bringing back pineappleing Deathwing from W2, who has apparently gotten much stronger in the years while everyone forgot about him. And who knows? In a fourth expansion, they could bring back something else and call it the new greatest evil.

Was there even a mention of a Black Magician in the early days of MapleStory? I don't seem to recall hearing anything about such an entity until around when 4th job was coming out. I'm pretty sure there was a time when Zakum was THE ultimate boss...forever.

I doubt we'll ever see the black magician.

MMO's aren't like console games - You're not supposed to beat them. They don't have an end.

The black magician is just some infinitely powerful master of the other side figure who will continue to send threats against the world while never revealing himself or facing it directly, just to get around ever having to deal with facing him and quantifying him and dealing with what comes after him.

Nonsense. Of course the ending is a game over screen with credits of Nexon employee's names disguised so you can't track their real-life counterparts. That and after all the credits, a message appears with the amount of hours it took the level that character to 200 and defeat the final boss. It is then, and only then that everyone will realize how much time they could have saved. Really though, they just lowered Zakum's level in Big Bang, what's to say that the same won't happen to the others to make room for new bosses? We may never fight the Black Mage or have to wait at least another three years. There is a lot of background story that Nexon has developed, but not much released about the Black Mage. We know he exists, and that's really it. Cygnus know about it, but only fought minions. Aran was frozen in ice by the Black Mage (or something) and still just fights the minions. It's been a while since I've bothered with Evan, but I think it's the same. In fact, you don't even fight the Black Mage at Dragonrider PQ, it's a fake. Big Bang might bring at least the start of the Black Mage hunt to the Adventurer's story, and even though we're only 2-3 months off of KMS right now, you have to realize that Masteria, CWK, Singapore, and Malaysia aren't in KMS (at least not the same CWK). There's a lot of stuff on our end that Nexon needs to fix up and make sure works. We may even see Bigfoot die off as a viable source of exp if it gets revamped. If it doesn't, everyone will be at Bigfoot as the best source. The point is, there may not be an end, just like nearly every MMO. If you kill a god in an RPG, you just go to another galaxy and kill another.

After the black mage Nexon will come up with another story to keep us playing.

Darker Mage.

/thread.

Minerva decides that this world filled of greed, selfishness , rage and lust is not worth existing any longer, and decides to remake it all, killing every one, so you have to travel to outerspace to kill her.

After a long and epic battle with the Black Magician the people who defeated him get ready to celebrate when the great demon Naricain appears before them and laughs saying thanks to all the power that was released during their battle with the Black Magician he is back at full power again and if they wish to met him they have to come face in his homeworld of Versal before he wipes out the entire Maple world and then disappears.

While the brave Maplers are facing all the challenges in Versal The Alchemist collects the remains of the mighty Black Magician and starts reviving him and enhancing him with mechanical parts, the Black Magician awakens and kills The Alchemist and then teleports away.

Back in Versal the Maplers after going through 20 stages of pure hell have finally gotten Naricain on his knees and just as they get ready to deal the finishing blow are suddenly stopped by the new Mechanical Black Magician who sends all the Maplers who face Naricain out of Versal and seals the portal along with casting the entire Maple world into darkness.

Thus begins a month long event of the Maple world in chaos were all Maplers 120 and over are asked to help defeat Naricain and the Black Magician by taking various quests from the likes of Cody, the Maple Admin, Grendal, Dances with Balrogs, Dark Lord, Athena and Kyrin to forge great weapons and armors to be able to destroy the threat to the Maple world.

An epic fight the likes of which have never been seen then starts in which 100's and 100's and 100's of Maplers all across the channels begin the final battle against the Black Magician and Naricain. And after many many many hours the battle finally ends, the skies clear up, the Black Magician and Naricain are defeated for good, and the entire Maple world celebrates.

Then MapleStory 2 with new evil foes comes out.

It's not hard to introduce a "greater evil" into the mix. Look at WoW. At the end of W3, you had King Arthas fusing with the Ner'zhul as the Lich King and he became the strongest, evilest thing ever...and stayed that way for years as they released WoW and the first expansion, and wasn't defeated until the second expansion came out. But now with Cataclysm coming out, they're bringing back pineappleing Deathwing from W2, who has apparently gotten much stronger in the years while everyone forgot about him. And who knows? In a fourth expansion, they could bring back something else and call it the new greatest evil.

Was there even a mention of a Black Magician in the early days of MapleStory? I don't seem to recall hearing anything about such an entity until around when 4th job was coming out. I'm pretty sure there was a time when Zakum was THE ultimate boss...forever.

That depends. You can't compare Maplestory's lore to WoW's because the Warcraft universe already had a buttload of people capable of tearing the world asunder. Deathwing is one, but people in that game still have yet to properly fight Kil'jaeden (you only fight him when he was halfway summoned), Sargeras, the dragons in the Emerald Dream, the old gods, and then we have the Titans, who can even overpower gods. Deathwing is nothing compared to what is still available from the Warcraft universe.

The Black Magician has been emphasized for quite a while now; there were classes created because of the Black Magician and then there's the fact he not just tore the world apart but he changed monster levels and their power. I don't recall mentions of beings with similar calibers of power as the Black Magician, although it may be partly due to me not completing all the Maple quests there are.

When it comes to a Final boss in maple:

First remember tat zakum was supposed to be some kind of endboss? (even his theme is called the final battle)
Then HT came along to be the new evil menace bringing some kind of extra after 4th job.
PB came and basically said pineapple you all becoming the Fail of trying to summon the black mage for the first time.

Then we have the fact that some versions have their own "end bosses"

JMS has aufheven being the Cause of all the events in Neo city
MapleSea has krexel for the biggest evil in singapoore
GMS has...*sigh* CWK with the Grandmasters.

Of course some of these are in other versions too, but who cares?

The conclusion is that as mapelstory has so many diferent stories that they can just bring something else from a diferent story and resurect the black mage again.