Editing MapleStory (section)

==Plot==
The plot of ''MapleStory'' takes place across several different worlds, such as Maple World, Arcane River, and Grandis. Created by these people with powers called the Overseers, they assigned each world with three guardians to look over both worlds: the Transcendent of Time, the Transcendent of Life and the Transcendent of Light.<ref>{{Cite web|title=What is MapleStory?|url=http://maplestory.nexon.net/game/explore|access-date=December 1, 2022|website=MapleStory|language=en|archive-date=November 30, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221130075633/https://maplestory.nexon.net/game/explore|url-status=live}}</ref> The first major arc revolves around the antagonist of Maple World, the Black Mage. The Black Mage was once the Transcendent of Light and was called the White Mage until an experiment went wrong and his pure light core was corrupted. The six heroes managed to seal the Black Mage for the next few centuries at the cost of being sealed away themselves.<ref name="Aran" /><ref name="Sealed">{{cite web|date=November 19, 2010|title=The Prophecy of the Black Mage|url=http://maplestory.nexon.net/News/News.aspx?boardNo=101&contentNo=00ABO&pageIndex=1|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110930133800/http://maplestory.nexon.net/News/News.aspx?boardNo=101&contentNo=00ABO&pageIndex=1|archive-date=September 30, 2011|access-date=June 23, 2011|publisher=[[Nexon America]]}}</ref> In the present day, the Black Mage's forces called the Black Wings, began resurfacing and attempted to revive him. Fearing his resurrection, Empress Cygnus created the Cygnus Knights in order to stop the Black Wings and the Black Mage's Commanders.<ref>{{cite web|date=July 30, 2009|title=Nexon America Releases New MapleStory Update Featuring the Cygnus Knights|url=http://pc.ign.com/articles/100/1009400p1.html?forwardform|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101211155128/http://pc.ign.com/articles/100/1009400p1.html?forwardform|archive-date=December 11, 2010|access-date=June 23, 2011|website=[[IGN]]}}</ref> As the seal on the Black Mage began weakening, the heroes of legend began returning as well. After the Black Mage broke free of his seal, Cygnus created the Maple Alliance, which banded together the free-spirited Explorers, the Cygnus Knights, the Resistance against the Black Wings, the six Heroes of Maple, and several brave adventurers from other worlds.

The Alliance continued fighting the Black Wings and won a decisive victory in the battle of Black Heaven, during which time, a hero of the Alliance awakened as the Adversary, a champion imbued with divine energy. Soon after, the Black Mage created a dimension called the Arcane River in an attempt to destroy the world and recreate it in his image. The Adversary journeyed through the Arcane River and battled the last of the Black Mage's Commanders before the Alliance launched a final offensive to stop the Black Mage from ending their world. The Adversary successfully killed the Black Mage and saved Maple World from annihilation.

With the Black Mage's death, the second major arc began in the realm of Grandis, which had slowly fused with Maple World due to the Black Mage's machinations. The antagonist of Grandis, Gerand Darmoor, believed that his race, the High Flora, was superior to all others, and so he sought to remake all life in his image. In order to stop him, several factions of Grandis had joined the Maple Alliance. After the Black Mage's death, the Alliance sent its forces to battle Darmoor and his Apostles.