Dark Prognosticus

The Dark Prognosticus

One of the foretold events about Mr. L

“Though the man in red shall wield formidable powers, one shall stand against him. The man in green shall use the Chaos Heart's power to bring darkness to all.”

—Count Bleck, Super Paper Mario

The Dark Prognosticus is a book of prophecies that appeared in Super Paper Mario. The author of the book (or if there was such an author) and the source of their knowledge is never revealed in the game. At the beginning of this powerful object is a warning: anyone who has possessed the book has never found happiness. Although the book appears to portend a bleak and unpleasant future, it has many devotees. Given the ability the prophetic book demonstrates to manipulate or overtake the minds of its bearers in order to complete the prophecy, it can be inferred that the book possesses a will of some kind.

Over the course of history, many have fought over the Dark Prognosticus. Garson states during his story on the book that entire countries fell in war over possession of the book, though the fall of these countries was already predicted in the book itself.

Another one of Garson's stories states that the very first Pixl, who came to be known as the Pixl Queen, was created by a magician using knowledge obtained from the Dark Prognosticus. The Pixl Queen somehow came to possess the book by the time of the Pixl Uprising approximately 1000 years after her creation, although what she used it for and when she claimed it are unknown. After defeating the Pixl Queen, the last surviving inheritor of the 12 original Pixls took the Dark Prognosticus from her and hid it to prevent the book from causing further harm.

An unknown amount of time later, the Tribe of Ancients again came to possess the Dark Prognosticus, likely employing it in the creation of the Light Prognosticus to combat it around 1500 years prior to the game's events. However, a group of families known as the Tribe of Darkness stole the book and fled, supposedly to a castle in an unknown forest. Their motivations for doing so are disputed, and Nolrem's descent from members of the tribe suggests some of them remained in Flopside, leaving the exact nature of the theft uncertain.

The Tribe of Darkness guarded the book for centuries afterward, until Blumiere unsealed it and became corrupted by its power, upon which he assumed the identity of Count Bleck, the "chosen executor of the Dark Prognosticus". Bleck desired to use this book in order to "destroy all worlds" by fulfilling its prediction that the marriage of two beings fitting Bowser and Peach's description would summon the Chaos Heart and open The Void, the expansion of which would go on destroy the worlds. According to the book, Luigi (simply called the "man in green") is the ideal host for the Chaos Heart as stated by Dimentio before the final battle. The book also describes a figure similar to Dimentio, which led Count Bleck to taking him on as his minion after initially turning him away. However, the book also speaks of a hero that would rise up and attempt to stop the destruction of existence. The Light Prognosticus was written to counter this book, telling the prophecy from a more optimistic view.

After the events of Super Paper Mario, the Dark Prognosticus "faded back into history."

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Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	黒のヨゲン書[?] Kuro no Yogen-sho	Black Prophecy Book
German	Dunkles Prognosticon[?]	Dark Prognosticus
Italian	Profeticus Tenebrae[?]	Latin for Prophetic of Darkness
Korean	검정예언서[?] Geomjeongyeeonseo	Black Prophet
Russian	Тёмный прогностик[?] Tyomnyy prognostik	Dark prognostic
Spanish	Pronósticus Nigérum[?]	Black Prognosticus