The Dark Fantastic is the Renaissance era of the Classic World of Darkness, and is the setting of Mage: The Sorcerers Crusade. Like the Dark Medieval era of Vampire: The Dark Ages before it, the Dark Fantastic is an even more conspiratorial version of its historical era, haunted by the beasts of nightmares and demons from beyond human understanding. However, the Dark Fantastic is a more wondrous setting as well, as befits both the high-fantasy character of Mage: The Ascension and the spirit of the historical Renaissance itself.