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* The item's name refers to the [[w:Dark Ages (historiography)|Dark Ages]], an outdated historiographical term used for the Early Middle Ages (circa 500 - 1000 AD). Despite popular conception, the term is now largely discouraged as knowledge did not drop from Roman times to the extent commonly thought in later centuries.
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* The item's name alludes to the [[w:Dark Ages (historiography)|Dark Ages]], an outdated historiographical term applied to the Early Middle Ages (ca. 500–1000 AD). The term is now largely discouraged, as after [[w:Western Roman Empire|Roman times]], knowledge did not drop to the extent previously believed.
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** Furthermore, although this item is labeled "Dark Age", this type of plate armor is more akin to what would be developed in the [[w:|High Middle Ages]] (c. 1000 - 1250 AD). The item description referencing the 12th century seems to acknowledge this.
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** Although this item is labeled "Dark Age" and the description mentions the 12th century, this type of plate armor is more akin to developments of the [[w: Late Middle Ages|Late Middle Ages]] (ca. 1300–1500).
 
* The item description references [[w:Merlin|Merlin]], the famous wizard from [[w:Matter of Britain|Arthurian legend]].
 
* The item description references [[w:Merlin|Merlin]], the famous wizard from [[w:Matter of Britain|Arthurian legend]].
  

Revision as of 21:26, 29 August 2024

“
I need some help holding them off!
Click to listen
— The Demoman, defending
 ”

The Dark Age Defender is a community-created cosmetic item for the Demoman. It adds a wrought-iron breastplate, codpiece, and spiked pauldrons to the Demoman's default armour, in whole composing it into a set of medieval plate armour.

The Dark Age Defender was contributed to the Steam Workshop.

Update history

June 13, 2013 Patch (Second Workshop Content Pack)

  • The Dark Age Defender was added to the game.

June 17, 2013 [Item schema update]

June 20, 2013 Patch

  • [Undocumented] Fixed levels not showing up in-game.

August 20, 2013 [Item schema update]

  • Changed item type to Cosmetic Armor.

July 2, 2013 Patch

November 12, 2013 Patch

  • [Undocumented] Added Strange quality.

Trivia

  • The item's name alludes to the Dark Ages, an outdated historiographical term applied to the Early Middle Ages (ca. 500–1000 AD). The term is now largely discouraged, as after Roman times, knowledge did not drop to the extent previously believed.
    • Although this item is labeled "Dark Age" and the description mentions the 12th century, this type of plate armor is more akin to developments of the Late Middle Ages (ca. 1300–1500).
  • The item description references Merlin, the famous wizard from Arthurian legend.

Gallery

  • Steam Workshop thumbnail for the Dark Age Defender.

See also

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Workshop Gold Star.png Second Workshop Content Pack
Cosmetics
Tools
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