Fable: The Lore Behind Jack of Blades Explained

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The reboot of Fable from Playground Games draws closer every day, but every passing day without official word on the game's contents leaves more room for fans to speculate. At this point, it's still entirely unclear what relationship Fable might have with its predecessors. Playground Games might want to put its own stamp on the series by reusing nothing from the original games, but the use of the Fable name implies that the reboot will have roots in the old games. That could very well mean that the new Fable game brings back a previous villain like the notorious Jack of Blades.

Fans of the original Fable trilogy likely remember Jack of Blades as the first Fable game's main antagonist. Jack of Blades was a mysterious extradimensional being determined to wreak havoc in Albion and reclaim the power that he held before his defeat at the hands of William Black. The Fable reboot's relationship with Albion, Jack of Blades, and other Fable lore isn't clear, but if it's meant to be a reboot of the first game, then fans could very well find themselves battling Jack of Blades once again. The first Fable game provides a wealth of lore that Playground Games could use to build its own version of Jack of Blades.

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Jack of Blades stems from a world called the Void and predates the humans of Albion by millennia. In his prime, Jack was part of the Court along with two other Void beings called the Queen of Blades and the Knight of Blades. Legend has it that, long before the events of Fable, the Court entered Albion and demanded fealty from the people of Albion, bringing tremendous disasters to the human world every time humanity refused. The Court's reign of terror lasted until William Black