You see the hero of the ancients, he saved his people an advanced civilization with powerful magic and technology called the Tribe of Ancients as well as tons of other people including, Toads, Yoshis and more from the Pixl Queen Shadoo, a powerful corrupted pixl made from the soul of the daughter of the man who created the Pixls to begin with, but recently this hero who defeated Shadoo's mind has been being corrupted by the Dark Prognosticus, a book of unknown origin that is older than the Pixls and contains Dark Magic, he has been thinking of betraying the ancients and taking those who side with his views to form their own group called the Tribe of Darkness that use the Dark Prognosticus' evil power for themselves