History DragaliaLost / TropesDToI

* Fanservice:

** When the Dragon Drive mechanic, which gives your Adventurer a massive boost in Strength instead of shapeshifting into a Dragon, was released during the Scars of the Syndicate Event, Aldred was made the Friendship Adventurer to highlight it.

** "Fire Emblem: Lost Heroes" concludes with all the ''Fire Emblem'' characters returning to their world. However, you can still use any ''Fire Emblem'' character you have without issue. The same thing happens after the ''Kindred Ties'' Event.
** Just like with the Fire Emblem characters above, the epilogue of "Mega Man: Chaos Protocol" details that Mega Man returns to his world with Dr. Wily in hand. Again though, if you managed to max out his Friendship before the end of the event, you can continue to use him regardless.

* DarkestHour: So far, the end of Chapter 5 and the first half of Chapter 6 deliver. [[spoiler:Zethia is possessed by The Other and almost kills Euden, but the now-free Alberius sacrifices himself to save his son. The now-possessed Zethia then ascends to the throne of Alberia and uses it to revive the Dyrenell Empire, declaring Euden and his crew enemies of the state.]]

* DarkestHour: So far, [[spoiler:the end of Chapter 5 and the first half of Chapter 6 deliver. Zethia is possessed by The Other and almost kills Euden, but the now-free Alberius sacrifices himself to save his son. The now-possessed Zethia then ascends to the throne of Alberia and uses it to revive the Dyrenell Empire, declaring Euden and his crew enemies of the state.]]
** [[spoiler:Nearly the entire ending of Chapter 10 is this, as Morsayati regains his full power and ALL of Euden's siblings side with the demon against Euden, even Chelle, who pledged her assistance to her brother the Chapter before. The only thing keeping it from being an outright DownerEnding is Alberius' HeroicSacrifice allowing the others to escape and giving Euden new powers.]]

* DarkestHour: So far, [[spoiler:the end of Chapter 5 and the first half of Chapter 6 deliver. See WhamEpisode below.]]
** [[spoiler:Nearly the entire ending of chapter 10 is this, as the only thing keeping it from being an outright DownerEnding is Alberius' HeroicSacrifice.]]

** Weapons and Wyrmprints can level up by using dedicated items[[note]](Whetstones for Weapons, Holy Water for Wyrmprints)[[/note]].
** Weapons can be upgraded up to eight times, giving new powers and, for Core and Void Weapons, unlocking new skins and abilities.

** Adventurer and dragon stories give focus to that particular character, detailing how they joined the Prince's group, shows a bit of their time at the castle, and may reveal some of their backstory.
** Events can bring some characters to the forefront, like the Halloween event "Trick or Treasure!" giving Althemia and Edward a starring role.

** Chapter 12's Interlude reveals the one that Elisanne found out in Chapter 11's interlude. [[spoiler: The actual Euden died 10 days after being born from Wyrmscale and King Aurelius and another person named Finlorda made a pact that led to him adopting the Euden we've been playing as.]]

* DevelopersForesight: Tier 4 Elemental Orbs of all flavors are available via a RareRandomDrop from certain Void Battles (such as Void Zephyr Strike.) This, despite the fact that initially the only adventurers to have the Mana Spiral are Flame or Shadow attuned.
* DialogDuringGameplay: Certain quests have characters converse about recent story events. During single-player, your party might make some general comments during certain events as well.

** The game gets progressively harder with each quest cleared. However, the last boss of Chapter 5 recommends an staggering 5200 might, 500 more than the previous quest and 150 more than the last boss of the next chapter.
** The Advanced Dragon Trials are significantly harder than the Imperial Onslaught and Dragon Trials on Master difficulty as the dragon bosses have much more HP and stronger attacks, some of which can kill your adventurer even if they have full health. To demonstrate how hard the Advanced Dragon Trial is, having a max unbonded ''5* elemental weapon'' is almost a requirement for your main damage dealer, and 5* weapons utilize materials that can only be obtained from events. Cygames introduced Void Battles to help fill the difficulty gap between Advanced Dragon Trials and Imperial Onslaught[=/=]Dragon Trials, with some weapons craftable that help newer players to easily transition into High Dragon Trials (such as 5* weapons that deals bonus damage to high dragons and a Flame facility to help players start off in High Midgardsormr).
** The "Dream Big Under the Big Top" facility event introduced a new difficulty level for challenge battles, Master difficulty. This is almost the same as other facility events' challenge battles where the player needs to face 5 waves of enemies, except the difficulty is jacked UpToEleven, as normal {{Mooks}} are capable of dealing ''200-300 damage per attack'' while all of the bosses' attacks can instantly kill your adventurer.

** There are two points when the Mercurial Gauntlet becomes much harder all at once. Starting from level 41, the time limit is doubled, and Fafnir Roy III gains a massive boost in HP to match. Then, starting from level 51, his attacks can no longer be blocked by using skills, so a healer must be brought along. This massively reduces DPS, all while Roy III continues to gain HP each level, even faster than he did between levels 41 and 50.
** The Agito Uprising boss fights are ''harder'' than Advanced Dragon Trials at ''Master'' difficulty, as the bosses can inflict ''two'' StandardStatusEffects, meaning a well balanced team able to resist both statuses or Gala adventurers are required for this fight.
* DifficultButAwesome: Soloing hard content and boss fights (especially timed ones) using ''[[SoloCharacterRun one]]'' adventurer, it requires the player to have some of the strongest wyrmprints, weapons, and dragon to do this effectively. But this requires precise timing on dodges, skill activation, and animation canceling in order to solo a boss while still maintaining DPS. For ranged characters, this is generally easy to do, but much harder to perform with melee-based characters. The awesome part is that soloing hard content is generally more viable than taking an AI team with you in some cases due to massive ArtificialStupidity of the AI. And keep in note that ANY adventurer with reasonable DPS can solo anything, even 3 star rarity ones.
* DiminishingReturnsForBalance: Only one copy of a co-ability can be active on a team. If multiple characters have the same co-ability, only the highest value will be used, while the others will do nothing.
* DoomedHometown: While the prince is off completing his task in the first chapter, the kingdom of Alberia falls and reforms as the Dyrenell Empire. Most of the soldiers protecting the kingdom have similarly converted.

** For leveling up your main Halidom, it involves your Facility Level, your cumulative upgraded buildings as well as having money and materials needed.
** The Core Weapons require a fully upgraded copy of the previous level (3-Star, 4-Star, 5-Star Non-Elemental, 5-Star Elemental) to be made and your Smithy to be at Level 4 (4-star), 5 (5-Star Non-elemental), and 6 (Elemental).

** The Chimeratech weapons are the same as for Void Weapons, but the Smithy needs to be Level 8 or above.
** To make a High Dragon weapon depending on class and element, the respective 5-Star Core Weapon has to be made, along with making the Void Weapon of its matching type and element. The Smithy must also be at Level 7 or higher.

* DrawSwordDrawBlood: The flavor text of the 5 star tier 3 shadow sword, Dáinsleif, tells that it's an evil weapon that it cannot be returned to its scabbard until it has tasted human blood.

** A March 2020 update changed the way co-abilities worked in co-op so that your party's co-abilities applied instead of the co-op party's, and added chain co-abilities to everyone, which usually gave more niche or conditional boosts. This added another layer of character building, as certain adventurers can greatly benefit from certain co-abilities, e.g. stacking buff time boosts on a buff-centric adventurer.
** A May 2020 update added shared skills. You can use certain skills from other adventurers in place of weapon and helper skills, provided the adventurer you're receiving skills from is either a story character or is level 80 with completed mana circles. With very few exceptions, adventurers can greatly benefit from shared skills that complement their build.
* TheEmperor: Part of the backstory told in wyrmprints and in Jupiter's backstory involves a formerly kind Prince Dane who, after being shown the sights of the world by Jupiter and told to forge his own path, took it to mean "create an empire." With that, he became a bloodthirsty emperor who went onto conquer the world until his death.
* TheEmpire: The backstory of the game has the Dyrenell Empire as its evil empire as it was infamous for crushing countless peoples underfoot. Alberia suddenly renaming itself after this empire and declaring war on the world is the first sign that something has gone seriously wrong with the status quo. [[spoiler:Chapter 10 reveals that the original Dyrenell Empire originally started as a ''religious retreat'' from the rest of the world with a currently unknown gap in-between the people who wished to isolate themselves from the world to followers of Morsayati who wished to TakeOverTheWorld.]]

** Weapons and Wyrmprints can level up by using dedicated items[[note]](whetstones for weapons, holy water for Wyrmprints)[[/note]].
** Weapons can be upgraded into a new form once they're fully unbound and reach their max level.

** As of the July 2019 update, Dragons, Adventurers, Weapons, and Wyrmprints can be upgraded using Augments earned from Astral Raids

* ExcusePlot: In homage to the older ''Mega Man'' games, the crossover plot can be pretty much summed up as "Dr. Wily crossed over to another dimension and brainwashed the Greatwyrms. Go beat them up with Mega Man who is also here now." There is no dialogue from any of the ''Mega Man'' characters or any significant interactions between them and the ''Dragalia Lost'' cast.
* ExpendableAlternateUniverse: Audric's adventurer story reveals that ''no one'' is safe in his BadFuture. [[spoiler:The worst case is even Notte, the innocent cute fairy companion, gets a death by angry mob along with Cassandra. By the time it's over, literally ''everyone'' shown on-screen that Zodiark and Audric have met is dead.]]

** The prince has an unlockable skill that increases Player experience received if he participated in the quest. This effect can trigger in co-op even if he isn't the lead character by having him in the same team as the chosen character.
** Some wyrmprints increase Player experience, but they don't stack with each other or the prince's skill.

* EyesDoNotBelongThere: The Dáinsleif and Mistilteinn, the Core Weapons for shadow sword and lance, respectively, have eyes on their bodies as well as dark backstories.

** Hinomoto is a fantasy version of feudal Japan. It's an island nation like Japan, it has a hierarchical structure reminiscent of its country of inspiration, samurai are everywhere, and if the Boar Clan is any indication, the Twelve Wyrmclans are based off the eastern zodiac.

** Svenitla, the country Victor, Noelle, Kirsty and Joachim come from is strongly evocative of [[MotherRussiaMakesYouStrong Russia]].

* FishingEpisode: The Castle Story "Anglers' Day Off" has three of the Halidom's best fishers in Musashi, Thaniel and Jiang Ziya in a contest. Musashi starts DualWielding fishing rods, Jiang Ziya uses Qilin artifacts to bring the fish into the bucket and Thaniel uses his maritime knowledge to fall into a spot where he just grabs them by the handful. By the time Ebisu gets there, they've caught every last fish.
* FlavorText: A lot of the world's lore is found in weapon and Wyrmprint descriptions or in unlockable Dragon Stories.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Characters like Noelle and Kirsty hailing from North Grastaea has been slow buildup for their homeland's entrance into the main story, as chapter 13 reveals that the Dyrenell Empire as led by Valyx will clash with encroaching troops from the north.

* FunnyBackgroundEvent: The refined vestige for the "Such High Spirits" wyrmprint has Ebisu pulled into the water by a Sunrise Snapper.

** Before the 2nd anniversary update, while you sell weapons and Wyrmprints, you part ways with dragons instead. Parting ways is functionally identical to selling, but it maintains the idea that the dragons are just lending you their power.
** Mym is the human form of Brunhilda. Therefore, it makes sense that she shapeshifts into Brunhilda regardless of what dragon she has equipped.

** Unlike other event welfare characters, Sharena in "Fire Emblem: Kindred Spirits" instantly joins your permanent roster, without having to max out a friendship meter. Fitting, given that she wants to be friends with everyone.

** Especially with regards to the gacha mechanics. For instance, gameplay-wise, you get most adventurers by summoning them. Story-wise, they join the Prince's group through a variety of other circumstances.
** "Fire Emblem: Lost Heroes" concludes with all the ''Fire Emblem'' characters returning to their world. However, you can still use any ''Fire Emblem'' character you have without issue.
** Just like with the Fire Emblem characters above, the epilogue of "Mega Man: Chaos Protocol" details that Mega Man returns to his world with Dr. Wily in hand. Again though, if you managed to max out his friendship before the end of the event, you can continue to use him regardless.
** Both Stribog and Vodyanoy are shown being killed in chapter 11 cutscenes. Despite this, they both remain attainable and usable even after their deaths. Then again it might be that the ones who were killed are just one of many of their species of dragon.
*** Confirmed, as multiple copies of Vodyanoy, Stirbog, Lindworm, and Juggernaut along with the Void Dragons and Zephyr, show up as {{Mooks}} in various Story Chapters and Events.

* GenreRoulette: While it's normally a HighFantasy game, the themes in each event are where the roulette comes in from holidays (Halloween and New Year for example), horror (The Accursed Archives) and on literature (Echoes of Antiquity).

** The antagonist of "The Accursed Archives" is taken out in a story sequence. The boss you fight in the repeatable quests at the end is one that doesn't show up anywhere in the event's story and has no explanation for its presence.

* GoldfishScoopingGame: The wyrmprint "Indelible Summer" has Cleo trying and failing to play this while her unknown companion, most likely Euden, has gotten seven of them.

* GuestStarPartyMember: Certain events introduce new Adventurers for the game's lore. They can be permanently added your roster if their friendship meter is filled before the end of event.

* HalloweenEpisode: The "Trick or Treasure" event is a Halloween event with Althemia, Edward and Elisanne getting dressed as vampires to get closer to the fiends attacking them.

** Patch 1.12 does this to the Advanced Dragon Trials which were already harsh enough even with the best teams possible adding in Expert and Master difficulties.
** The 2nd Anniversary Dragalia Digest confirmed that even harder bosses than the Agito will be showing up sometime in 2021, and that there will be an even [[UpToEleven HARDER]] version after Master Agito!
* HelloInsertNameHere: The main character, canon name Euden, is re-namable, though he is often referred to by his title of prince.

** The “Hallowed Mountains” wyrmprint show that the Qilin clan are heavily isolated and rarely make contact with humans.
** The Sylvans are very reclusive due to their lifestyle of living with nature. Due to the Dyrenell Empire attacking Luca and Sarisse's village, the siblings are aware of the danger of this isolation and try to warn other Sylvans of the potential threat as seen in "The Hunt for Harmony".

* HolyGround: The player's base of operations, the Halidom. Its name is even literally an archaic word for holygrounds.
* HolyWater: Holy water is a common material used to upgrade wyrmprints; each bottle grants 500 exp to a single wyrmprint.
* HornedHumanoid: Besides dragons that have a human appearance, there are two races that have horns.

* HowWeGotHere: The whole ''Flames of Reflection'' event is Ramona reminiscing on how she and her sisters joined the Halidom. It provides the in-universe explanation of how the Smithy facility is added to the Castle Grounds after completing Chapter 2 of the main story.

* IHaveManyNames: In Mistilteinn's flavor text, it's described as not the name of a single weapon. It's been a sword, a lance and the sprout of a plant.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: In Cupid's dragon story, he is approached by a lady who wants to fall in love with an amazing man. When Cupid learns that the lady wants to be with a gardener, he's about to object, but stops when he realizes that he was only going to mention himself, and knowing fully that the two were perfect for each other. He hooks the two up as promised and redoubled his efforts to spread love to others.

** The difficulty levels in Notte's Slumber Shot are Sweet, Sassy, and Molassy, named after a phrase Notte said back in Halloween.
** The difficulty levels in the "Lost Heroes" event are Normal, Hard, Lunatic, and Infernal, like ''VideoGame/FireEmblemHeroes''.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Invoked using weapon skins and some adventurers' built-in weapon overrides.
** For weapon skins, staff users can carry a Halloween lantern, sword users can carry a hanetsuki paddle or a golden fish, wand users can carry a lucky cat paw, and blade users can carry a komatsu.
** For specific adventurers, the following stand out: Nadine uses Clix and weaponizes {{selfie|Fiend}}s, Catherine orders around bodyguards instead of using a lance, and Meene summons butterflies from a lamp in place of a bow.
* IndyEscape: Discussed as a case of TemptingFate in the Castle Story, "Chalice Raiders" until it happens to Pietro and Marty.

** The Fólkvangr sword that you can get during the "Fire Emblem: Lost Heroes" event is outright stated to be just a replica of Alfonse's sword and is only slightly better than a fully unbound and leveled up 4-star sword. It does have the bonus of increasing strength once the wielder has their HP under 50% health. Though the Version 2.0 update turns it into a weapon skin instead of its own weapon.
** The 4-star Strength Dragons obtained by summoning (Ifrit, Vodyanoy, Roc, Lindworm, and Juggernaut) provide a 45% Strength boost when fully unbound, making them very effective for late game content while being fairly easy to obtain and power up.
** The Chimeratech weapons lack a weapon skill, but they're fairly easy to obtain since Chimera isn't a hard boss, and have more than double the Might of the 5-Star Core Weapons.
* InfinityPlusOneSword: While each weapon class and element has a 5* weapon, the highest weapon is currently those that can be obtained by fighting the Agito bosses which are stronger than the Void Chimera and High Dragon weapons, but are the only weapons that start at 6* and when fully unbound, their maximum level is 200, and then that becomes even stronger by unbinding once into their Master form.
* InnocuouslyImportantEpisode: The Interludes added to each episode one month after release may seem like world building fluff, but it sets things up that the main party doesn't find out until later on. [[spoiler: Harle reveals to Elisanne in Chapter 11's interludes documents that show the original Euden died as a baby from wyrmscale and this one we've played as is adopted. The main party doesn't learn this info from Nedrick, the original Euden, until Chapter 15.]]
* InterfaceSpoiler: All the Agito Uprising weapons require the respective Chimeratech weapon of the same element to be crafted beforehand. Therefore, when a new element of Chimera is introduced, you can be sure that a new Agito Uprising quest is on the way.
* InterspeciesRomance: It's not unheard of for dragons, even non-humanoid ones, to be attracted to or fall in love with humans or Sylvans, and several dragons you can summon will express attraction to or fall in love with the Prince.
* InvulnerableAttack: Special attacks, such as the Prince's Blazing Circlet, leave the user mostly invulnerable during the attack animation. This can be exploited to power right through most large area-effect attacks without harm. However, attacks marked with a ''Purple'' area indicator will bypass your invulnerability and must still be physically avoided. The only way to tank through those specific ones is timed dragon transformations.
* ItemCrafting: The game's stronger weapons can be created at the smithy by using materials and money.

** While you sell weapons and Wyrmprints, you part ways with dragons instead. Parting ways is functionally identical to selling, but it maintains the idea that the dragons are just lending you their power.

** The 2nd Anniversary Dragalia Digest confirmed that even harder bosses than the Agito will be showing up sometime in 2021.

* EyesDoNotBelongThere: The Dáinsleif and Mistilteinn, the {{Infinity Minus One Sword}}s for shadow sword and lance, respectively, have eyes on their bodies as well as dark backstories.

** Chapter 15 continues the tradition. [[spoiler: Euden finds out he was adopted as a replacement for the actual sixth scion's early death, that Elisanne knew it all along and didn't tell him, and that the leader of the Agito is the thought-dead original Euden, now going by Nedrick. To make matters worse, Zethia is once again kidnapped almost immediately after saving her from Morsayati, and the group is completely waylaid by the combined power of the Agito. The only reason Euden and the group weren't killed right then and there was due to Zena transporting everyone away.]]

* EqualOpportunityEvil: As of late, the known Agito include Volk (human), Kai Yan (Qilin), Ciella (Sylvan), Ayaha & Otoha (???), and Tartarus (dragon).

** The Agito Uprising boss fights are ''harder'' than Advanced Dragon Trials at ''Master'' difficulty, as the bosses can inflict ''two'' StandardStatusEffects, meaning Gala adventurers are almost required for this fight.

*** Confirmed, as multiple copies of Vodyanoy and Stirbog, along with the Void Dragons and Zephyr, show up as [[Mook Mooks]] in various Story Chapters and Events.

** For enhancing weapons to new tiers, it first involves having the previous one be fully Unbound to its tier 4, then having it maxed out in level as well as having materials needed to create it.
** To make a High Dragon weapon depending on class and element, the respective 5.3 (5 star tier 3) weapon has to be made, along with making the second tier of its void weapon from its opposite void dragon (e.g. water weapons needing parts from Void Agni).
** The 6 star weapons from the Agito Uprising first need the second tier of a Chimera weapon to be made before the Agito weapon can be crafted. The Chimera weapons themselves require a tier 3 Manticore weapon of the same element to be crafted first before they can be made.

** Weapons and Wyrmprints can level up by using dedicated items[[note]](whetstones for weapons, holy water for Wyrmprints)[[/note]] or different weapons or Wyrmprints on them respectively.

** The Fólkvangr sword that you can get during the "Fire Emblem: Lost Heroes" event is outright stated to be just a replica of Alfonse's sword and is only slightly better than a fully unbound and leveled up 4-star sword. It does have the bonus of increasing strength once the wielder has their HP under 50% health.
** The 4-star strength dragons obtained by summoning (Ifrit, Vodyanoy, Roc, Lindworm, and Juggernaut) provide a 45% strength boost when fully unbound, making them very effective for late game content while being fairly easy to obtain and power up.
** The Chimeratech weapons lack a weapon skill, but they're fairly easy to obtain since Chimera isn't a hard boss, and tier 2 Chimeratech weapons actually have higher stats than tier 1 High Dragon weapons, which are already stronger than tier 3 5-star weapons.
* InfinityPlusOneSword: While each weapon class and element has a 5* tier three weapon, the highest weapon is currently those that can be obtained by fighting the Agito bosses which are stronger than the Void Chimera and High Dragon weapons, but are the only weapons that start at 6* and when fully unbound, their maximum level is 200, and then that becomes even stronger by unbinding once into their Master form.

* InterfaceSpoiler: All the Agito Uprising weapons require the second tier of the Chimeratech weapon of the same element to be crafted beforehand. Therefore, when a new element of Chimera is introduced, you can be sure that a new Agito Uprising quest is on the way.

* EqualOpportunityEvil: As of late, the known Agito include Volk (human,) Kai Yan (Qilin,) and Ciella (Sylvan.)

* EqualOpportunityEvil: As of late, the known Agito include Volk (human,) Kai Yan (Rokkan,) and Ciella (Sylvan.)

* EyesDoNotBelongThere: The Dáinsleif and Mistilteinn, the {{Infinity Plus One Sword}}s for shadow sword and lance, respectively, have eyes on their bodies as well as dark backstories.

* InfinityPlusOneSword: While each weapon class and element has a 5* tier three weapon, the highest weapon is currently those that can be obtained by fighting the Agito bosses which are stronger than the Void Chimera and High Dragon weapons, but are the only weapons that start at 6* and when fully unbound, their maximum level is 200.

* ItemCrafting: The game's stronger weapons can be created at the smithy by using materials and money.