建筑: 兵营
武器: 改进型弯刀
角色: 秘密潜入者
关键字：Dark Templar 黑暗圣堂武士
玩家期待以久的神族王者“Dark Templar黑暗圣堂武士”于官网正式发布了！详见：http://starcraft2.com/features/protoss/index.xml?tab=darktemplar
Dark Templar依然为隐形单位，与1代有较大区别。除了造型上的改变之外，手执武器也由剑改为“镰刀”，官方的名称为"Modified Warp Blade"即“经改进的弯刀”。仍是由兵营建造，其角色被定义为“秘密的潜入者”，此前官方曾公布制造DT所需要的“黑暗方尖塔”，一座大型的神族建筑，类似于防御塔。DT一向被誉为“基地杀手”，其隐形特性令很多玩家都感觉头痛，尤其是人族。配合运输机和少量地面部队，DT可以给对方发动很好的骚扰战术，甚至给对方致命一击。
DT的造型更酷了，也有点魔兽的味道。
“基地杀手”名不虚传，DT快攻也是众多战术之一。
利用运输机与相位棱镜空投DT
隐身的DT更难让人察觉了。
其它相关：
Drak Templar的Artwork原画
官方相关截图
官方介绍页面：
引用:
The dark templar are powerful psionic warriors whose forebears were exiled from the protoss homeworld of Aiur over a thousand years ago. The protoss who would eventually become the dark templar were banished for their refusal to join the emerging Khala, the communal mind link shared by all protoss, and the accompanying caste system enforced by the ruling Conclave of the protoss.
Some protoss rejected this movement, believing that their individual identities would be erased to further the suffocating rule of the Conclave. They even went so far as to sever the long nerve tendrils that characterize the protoss. This act symbolically and literally cut them off from the primal chord of their race. The Conclave saw these rogues as a threat to the new order and charged the Templar caste with hunting and destroying them.
The templar, led by the idealistic warrior Adun, could not bring themselves to slay fellow protoss and thus hid them. The Conclave's fears appeared justified when Aiur was lashed by a wave of violent psionic storms unleashed by the undisciplined minds of the rebels. The Conclave was not willing to punish the templar openly for their disobedience because doing so would reveal the existence of the rebels. Instead, the dissident protoss were loaded aboard an ancient but functional xel'naga vessel and launched into space.
The exiled protoss wandered far before eventually making a new home on the twilight world of Shakuras. They developed a solitary and independent culture, with individuals often widely scattered across space in their own ships, exploring and contemplating the mysteries of the universe. Over time these dark templar have learned to wield a very different kind of psionic strength than that of the Khala: the energies of the Void, the dark spaces between worlds.
The dark templar are most renowned for their ability to bend light around their bodies to become invisible at will, and a true master of the Void can achieve much greater feats than this. Armed with their potent warp blades, the dark templar are deadly and relentless foes, capable of crippling conventional forces with their devastating strikes.
Though severed from their homeworld and feared by their own brethren for many centuries, the dark templar never abandoned their love of Aiur. In recent times they were reunited with the protoss of their homeworld when the heroes Tassadar and Zeratul joined forces to fight the zerg Overmind. The Overmind was defeated, but the planet Aiur was ravaged in the process and so badly overrun by zerg that the survivors retreated to Shakuras. Now the protoss who were once exiled find themselves playing host to refugees from their old home.
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引用:
译文:一千多年前，强大心灵勇士们的祖先从Protoss的家园艾尔行星被流放。因为被新兴的Khala拒之门外，他们最终成为黑暗圣堂武士。Khala是Protoss共同的主神经中枢，与Protoss执行参议院生生相息。
部分protoss成员们拒绝这次运动,认为其特性被拭除以进一步巩固令人窒息参议院的统治。他们甚至与象征着protoss本征的神经卷须断绝。此举彻底的将他们与原始种族割离。于是他们被视为参议院新秩序的一大威胁。黑暗圣堂武士被派遣前往猎杀和摧毁他们。
由Adun勇士率领的黑暗圣堂武士不忍心将自己的同胞残忍屠杀，于是便将其藏匿起来。参议院从Adun所受的心灵煎熬中察觉此举，这让他们感觉到恐惧。然而他们却不敢公然惩罚黑暗圣堂武士，因为这将会揭露背叛的存在。于是，这些幸存的protoss异议者承着Xel'naga飞船逃离了他们的家园。
逃亡的protoss在经历漫长的游荡后最终在末日星球shakuras上建立了自己的新家。他们创建了一个全新的独立的文化。成员们经常独自驾驶着自己的飞船探索宇宙的奥秘，吸收其中的精华。随着时间的推移，,这些黑暗圣殿掌握了一种与Khala与众不同的能量：一种宇宙中的黑暗世界——空穴，所独有的能量。
黑暗圣堂武士最负盛名的能力是可以任意的将光线弯曲而将自己隐形，然而真正的空穴之力比之更为强大。武装着强而有力的弯刀，黑暗圣堂武士是无情致命的杀手，能够瞬时爆发造成毁灭性的打击。
几个世纪以来，尽管与曾经的家园隔断绝并为之所畏惧，黑暗圣堂武士从未放弃过自己对艾尔行星的热爱。最近，在Sassadar 与Zeratul联合抵抗Zerg的入侵时，黑暗圣堂武士再一次与protoss联手共同对抗虫族主宰（overmind），并最终将其击败。但艾尔行星在Zerg的入侵后遍地苍夷，幸存者只好退守shakuras 。现在曾遭受流放的黑暗圣堂武士成为自己老东家的主人。
