Ark

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Ark
Faction	Flora
Class	Pirate
Main Stat	STR
Secondary Stat	DEX
Primary weapon	Knuckle
Secondary weapon	Abyssal Path
Link Skill	Solus
Legion member effect	STR: +10/20/40/80/100

Gender	Male
Race	High Flora / Specter
Affiliations	Gerand Darmoor (formerly) Limbo (formerly) Albaire (formerly) Maple Alliance
Enemies	Gerand Darmoor Limbo Albaire His inner Specter
Status	Alive
Name (Other Servers)
KoreaMS	아크 (Ark)
JapanMS	アーク (Ark)
ChinaMS	影魂异人 (Specter Stranger) 亚克 (Ark)
TaiwanMS	亞克 (Ark)
Voice Actors
KoreaMS	Gyuhyeok Sim (Male) Jeongsin Woo (Female)
JapanMS	Jun Fukuyama (Male) Yuki Nagaku (Female)
ChinaMS	Bian Jiang (Male)

For the update, see MapleStory: ARK.

Ark class selection button

Ark is a Flora Pirate released during the MapleStory: ARK Update.

Centuries ago, Ark and his best friend, Albaire, became soldiers in the High Flora army in order to bring peace to Grandis. During his first campaign on the moon of Verdel, however, Ark realized that the war was little more than a massacre. After being caught while betraying the High Flora, Ark was transformed into a Specter, a mindless creature that attempted to overtake his body and mind. However, Albaire interrupted the ritual and saved Ark's life, resulting in a partial transformation. After awakening on the ruined surface of Verdel centuries later, Ark joins a caravan of desert nomads with only fragments of his memory. Together with the caravan, Ark escapes Verdel and struggles to keep control over the Specter that now seeks to take over his body completely.

Story

Main article: Ark/Story

During the Flora Civil War, Gerand Darmoor simultaneously began a war against the other races and recruited many young High Flora to enlist in the Central Army. Two boys named Ark and Albaire both joined military school and were deployed to the moon of Verdel upon graduation, where they served under Brigadier General Limbo. Soon after, Ark grew disillusioned by the war upon realizing that it was little more than a massacre, with the native species of Verdel being turned into Specters, creatures from the Abyss which could possess and take over a host body, allowing them to manifest in the world at the cost of the host body losing their body, mind, and identity. Ark also learned that Limbo was a partial Specter, capable of shifting between his Flora form and Specter form at will, rather than being taken over by a Specter completely.

Unable to carry out his mission as a soldier any longer, Ark chose to betray the High Flora and attempted to aid the enemy, though he was caught by Limbo first. For his treason, Limbo ordered Ark to be turned into a Specter, but Albaire interrupted the ritual in order to keep his promise to protect his best friend. The failed ritual created a large vortex that forced the High Flora to evacuate, leaving Ark unconscious for centuries until he was found by a group of desert nomads. Ark awoke to find that his memories had been lost, and that his left arm had turned into a Specter arm, with his left eye turned orange.

Ark worked together with the nomads to fend off the Specters attacking them, as well as to find a way off Verdel, learning that the nomads had crash-landed on the moon due to the large vortex created from the failed Specter ritual. Ark soon discovered an abandoned spaceship left behind by the High Flora centuries ago after their evacuation. Realizing that they could use it to escape, Ark and the nomads began to search for the crystals needed to power the ship. During their mission, Ark's foggy memories began to resurface as he recalled his memories of desertion, as well as Albaire interrupting the ritual in order to keep his promise to always protect Ark. He also realized that the Specters on Verdel had been created through a ritual which had transformed the native species of the moon.

While Ark attempted to reactivate the spaceship, his former superior, Brigadier General Limbo - now an Apostle of Darmoor - attended a meeting with Gerand Darmoor and the other Apostles in the capital city of Aboris. With the vortex from the failed ritual dissipating, Limbo reported that he had sent Albaire, now a colonel, to harvest the bioenergy from the moon. On Verdel, Ark and the nomads finished gathering the crystals to power the spaceship when Albaire and the High Flora army landed. Ark fought off the High Flora soldiers while the nomads evacuated, causing his inner Specter to awaken in response to the carnage and bloodlust. Ark then reunited with Albaire, who seemingly appeared to have changed completely, no longer caring about saving people and believing in High Flora superiority.

Though Ark used his Flora and Specter powers to fight, Albaire effortlessly defeated Ark, without even opening his wings to channel any more than minimal amounts of magic. After defeating Ark, Albaire walked away and allowed his former friend to live, warning him to stay clear of the High Flora and their mission. Ark and the nomads then escaped Verdel, which was drained of its energy by the High Flora, and arrived in Savage Terminal. There, he met with Cadena and Coney, from whom he learned that centuries had passed since the Flora Civil War, and that Darmoor had awakened as the Transcendent of Life.

Having learned the full story, Ark resolved to investigate the Interdimensional Portal, which had appeared when Darmoor had taken Chronica's powers, and traveled to Pantheon, where the Protective Shield that kept the Specter army out caused him to weaken and collapse. After he was found and interrogated by Kaiser and Fenelle, Ark was permitted to travel to Maple World. Meanwhile, Limbo attended another Apostle meeting, where the other Apostles noted that the Verdel campaign had been a disaster, with barely any energy to show for it. Nevertheless, Limbo was quite pleased to know that Ark had survived the Specter ritual.

As Ark grew stronger, he was consumed by his inner Specter, which explained that Specters dwelled in the Abyss, which contained all the knowledge of the world inside the Abyssal Source. As the price of seeing such forbidden knowledge, those who entered the Abyss were consumed by a Specter soul, causing them to lose their minds and bodies, which was why Ark had lost his memories. However, due to special circumstances, Ark had escaped the Abyss without being completely taken over by a Specter. The inner Specter explained that while full Specters merely returned to the Abyss and regenerated when injured, its partial fusion with Ark meant that it would die as soon as he did, for which it shared more of its power with him in order to ensure that he would stay alive while rushing into dangerous situations.

As Ark grew stronger, he was called back into the Abyss by the Specter, who revealed that there were two reason why Ark was a partial Specter. The first reason was that Albaire had interrupted the ritual, while the second was that Ark possessed a special soul, which the Specter described as an impurity that made Ark's soul impossible to process. Meanwhile, Ark continued to investigate the Interdimensional Portals and learned that when a Transcendent stole another Transcendent's powers, they were considerably weakened in the backlash. Realizing that Darmoor had known the risks when he had chosen to take Chronica's powers, Ark wondered what Darmoor had planned to do with the power of time. After Ark mastered his full power, the Specter brought him to the Abyss and attempted to seize control of his body. Though Ark managed to fight it off, the Specter promised that it would return the next time that Ark's will wavered. Following the battle, Ark felt a vague memory of the Abyss return to him, though he couldn't recall the details.

Job Advancements

Starting Quest	Level
[Ark] Creeping Abyss	10
[Ark] Crumbling Abyss	30
[Ark] From the Abyss	60
[Ark] Light in the Abyss	100
[5th Job] 5th Job: Call of the Erdas	200
[6th Job] Merged Dimension	260

Gallery

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  Previous Ark class selection button (pre-2025 UI revamp)
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  Ark Specter artwork
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  NPC Portrait of Ark (male)
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  NPC Portrait of Ark, past (male)
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  NPC Portrait of Ark, past (female)
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  Ark's representation on his map to the Ravaged Base Remnants
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  Collection Card of Ark (Rare)
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  Collection Card of Ark (Epic)

Videos

아크 티저 영상

MapleStory - Ark Teaser

잠식을 억누르고 부활, 아크의 반격

적으로 만난 두 친구, 아크의 각성

신규직업 아크 광고영상 (30초 버전)

신규직업 아크 광고영상 (풀 버전)

MapleStorySEA Ark 5th Job

Ark Class Spotlight

【メイプルストーリー】アーク　ティザーPV

【メイプルストーリー】アークPV（♪アメノセイ「Clock」）

【MapleStory】 Ark Music Video by AMENOSEI [JP Ver] (English Subtitles)

【メイプルストーリー】アークPV Short ver.（♪アメノセイ「Clock」）

【メイプルストーリー】アーク

【新楓之谷】ARK改版 亞克黑襲

【新楓之谷】壓制侵蝕，浴火重生，ARK的反擊

【新楓之谷】成為敵人的好友，ARK的覺醒

MapleStory ARK New Class

THMS

Trivia

• There is a minor inconsistency while playing Ark. Although his Specter claw and energy is canonically on his left arm, it can appear on his right arm when looking right, and vice versa. This was most likely intentional to prevent more sprite work involving the character.
• Completing Refuge Survival, which teleports the player near Savage Terminal, is required to gain EXP outside Verdel.
• Completing Contact Caravan is required to unlock Contact Caravan.

External Links

• https://www.grandislibrary.com/flora/ark
• https://namu.wiki/w/%EC%95%84%ED%81%AC(%EB%A9%94%EC%9D%B4%ED%94%8C%EC%8A%A4%ED%86%A0%EB%A6%AC)
• https://orangemushroom.net/2018/01/04/kms-ver-1-2-289-maplestory-ark-ark-the-boy-who-became-a-monster/

Availability

Availability of Ark
Korea	Japan	China	Global	SEA	Taiwan
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