History TabletopGame / Midnight2003

* LaResistance: The role of the player characters. It's not doing so well at the moment.
* LesCollaborateurs: There are quite a few humans who, through greed or fear, serve Izrador as puppet leaders.
* TheLostWoods: The Great Forest of Erethor is one, benevolent to the elves but a nightmarish deathtrap for the forces of evil.

** Arynix was once the chief of Izrador's dragons, and the one who delivered Zardrix to the dark god. Izrador promptly reassigned the hideously mauled dragon to lowly grunt work as living battering ram and refuses to even heal him.

** Arynix was once the chief of Izrador's dragons, and the one who delivered Zardrix to the dark god. Izrador promptly reassigned the hideously mauled dragon to lowly grunt work as living battering ram and refuses to even heal him.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: There's a small, secret group of orcs called the White Hand who believe Izrador is planning to do this to them once he's won all his wars. [[BadBoss They're right]].

* BigGood: Aradil, queen of the elves, and the most powerful fore yet resisting the darkness.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: There's a small, secret group of orcs called the White Hand who believe Izrador is planning to do this to them once he's won all his wars. [[BadBoss They're right]].

* {{Expy}}: Izrador and his forces bear more than a passing resemblance to [[LordOfTheRings Sauron]], with the whole setting being more or less "What if Sauron won?"

* TheKingdom: Eredene was one, a proud union of Dorn and Sarcosan bloodlines and traditions. It was systemically undermined throughout the Third Age by Shadow agents before eventually being conquered.

''Midnight'' is a {{tabletop RPG}} developed by FantasyFlightGames. Players take the role of brave resistance fighters in the occupied lands of Eredene, waging a furtive and desperate guerilla war against the forces of the Shadow in the North. Garrisons of orc soldiers, the undead scourge called the Fell, and the fearsome priests of the Order of the Shadow - all hunt for those who would yet defy the will of the dark god.

* OurOrcsAreDifferent: Descended from corrupted fey, tormented by Izrador-sent dreams at night, strictly matriarchal, fanatically religious, and quick to learn new languages.

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-> ''One hundred years ago, the Shadow fell.''
-->-- Midnight, First Edition

''Midnight'' is a tabletop RPG developed by FantasyFlightGames. Players take the role of brave resistance fighters in the occupied lands of Eredene, waging a furtive and desperate guerilla war against the forces of the Shadow in the North. Garrisons of orc soldiers, the undead scourge called the Fell, and the fearsome priests of the Order of the Shadow - all hunt for those who would yet defy the will of the dark god.

!!This game features examples of:

* BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: The Night King Ardheim was once the Demon Bane of Erethor before being LuredIntoATrap and captured by the Shadow. Years of captivity eventually broke him and he was remade into what he is now.

* TheHighQueen: Aradil the Witch Queen fills this role, having led the elves in their fight for over 8,000 years and being the only being apable of matching a Night King one on one.

* ObliviouslyEvil: Sunalael the Night King, head of Izrador's priesthood. He's totally at peace with himself and genuinely believes his work will make things ultimately better.

* SinisterMinister: All of Izrador's legates, obviously, though some are more subtle about it than others. Sunalael the Night King, as the head of the Order of the Shadow, is the ultimate example.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: There's a group of orcs called the White Hand who believe Izrador is planning to do this to them once he's won all his wars. [[BadBoss They're right]].

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulnes: There's a group of orcs called the White Hand who believe Izrador is planning to do this to them once he's won all his wars. [[BadBoss They're right]].

* EnemyCivilWar: Fortunately for the good guys, the forces of evil do not get along. Rivalries between the Night Kings, the schism between Devout and Cabal in the Order of the Shadow, and clashes between orc tribes serve to keep all that vast military might from focused on one spot.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulnes: There's a group of orcs called the White Hand who believe Izrador is planning to do this to them once he's won all his wars. [[BadBoss They're right]].

* OurOrcsAreDifferent: Descended from corrupted fey, tormented by Izrador-sent dreams at night, fanatically religious, and quick to learn new languages.

* WeakenedByTheLight: As servants of the Shadow in the North, many of the bad guys are irritated or pained by sunlight.

* TheBadGuyWins: More or less the whole point of the setting. Izrador has conquered the lands of men, and while the fey fight on their cause looks more and more doomed by the day.

* GodIsDead: Technically, Izrador's fall from heaven killed him. {{{Determinator He hasn't let it slow him down though}}}. More practically, the Lords of Light haven't answered prayers in millennia, but as far as we know they're just cut off from the world.

* SinisterMinister: All of Izrador's legates, obviously, though some are more subtle about it than others.

Three times the Dark God Izrador rose against the free peoples of Eredene. The first time, he was cast back into the frozen north by an alliance of men and fey. The second time, war raged for decades before [[BigDamnHeroes unexpected help]] sealed the Shadow's defeat. The third time, the fallen god sowed discord and weakness amongst men and fey. This time, [[TheBadGuyWins Izrador succeeded]].

* GodIsDead: Technically, Izrador's fall from heaven killed him. Determinator He hasn't let it slow him down though. More practically, the Lords of Light haven't answered prayers in millennia, but as far as we know they're just cut off from the world.

* OurOrcsAreDifferent: Descended from corrupted fey, tormented by Izrador-sent dreams at night, fanatically religious, and quick to learn new languages.