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* DamnYouMuscleMemory: Among the changes in the November 28, 2019 update is a change in the GUI. Home and Quests are separate buttons, while everything else moved over, with the menu moved to the top corner instead of the bottom corner. It takes a bit of an adjustment for veterans used to the original layout.

* TheEmperor: Part of the backstory told in Wyrmprints and 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.
** As of Chapter 14's Interlude, Emile of all people managed to slither his way into becoming the new Emperor of the Dyrenell Empire in the void left behind after The Other's defeat, Zethia's kidnapping and Euden going after her.

* DrawSwordDrawBlood: The flavor text of the 5-Star Shadow Sword, Dáinsleif, tells that it's an evil weapon that it cannot be returned to its scabbard until it has tasted human blood.

** Sylvans as a whole lean towards this due to all of them (sans Cleo) employing BareYourMidriff. Gala Luca goes even further with his open shirt and unzipped pants.

* DontTryThisAtHome: In "Elementary Escapades", Louise says this warning as the group goes to Sinoa's lab to age themselves down with an explosion, knowing it'll be dangerous.

*** Mym, Tiki, and Humanoid Midgardsormr are Dragons who shapeshift into humans. Thus, when transforming, they turn into their true selves.

** Certain characters will shapeshift into specific personal Dragon forms regardless of the actual Dragon they have equipped, if there's a story reason for it. These include Chelle and Leonidas, who have their own dragonpacts; Mym, Tiki, and Humanoid Midgardsormr, who are humanoid Dragons themselves; and Lathna, who could be either. Mega Man also calls on Rush instead of shapeshifting, the ''Persona 5'' characters summon their Personas, and Notte metamorphoses into her adult form. A few other characters (Aldred, Bellina, and Yurius) instead get "Dragondrive", where they get a stat boost but don't shapeshift.

** Once a character is playable, they will always be available even if, canonically, they wouldn't be around all too often. This is most clearly seen with event characters, who explicitly return to their homeworlds at the end of their events; while other characters (such as the Hinomoto clan leaders) are implied or stated to be up to their own things elsewhere and only visit the Halidom occasionally. Eventually, some events started devoting themselves to backstory and featured historical characters (like Ilia and Alberius) that ''never'' interacted with the main cast, yet they're still playable.

* 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).

* GodzillaThreshold: Faris's Adventurer Story reveals an Apostle's Sigil bound dragon can sever their link willingly, but it has to be something either mortally dire or their Apostle having crossed the MoralEventHorizon. Ramiel's story demonstrates that an Angel-class dragon will eventually perish without a Sigil-bound apostle, which is why they don't just trade off apostles at the first sign of disappointment.
* GodAndSatanAreBothJerks: [[spoiler:Elysium and Morsayati have this dynamic, as revealed in the ''Forgotten Truths'' and ''Dawn of Dragalia'' events. Though Elysium's status as "God" is left up to debate, especially with Bahamut's presence being confirmed in Chapter 18 of the main story]].

** March 2020 introduced the first boss of Lilith's Encroaching Shadow, who are fallen angel counterparts of the Northern Grastaea angels. Standard is doable so long as you have a decent enough party, but Expert and Standard are as hard as Legend Agito thanks to some nasty effects the bosses toss out. Master even requires you to compose two completely separate teams in order to defeat it!

* HolyGround: The player's base of operations, the Halidom. Its name is even literally an archaic word for holy grounds.

* IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace: An EvilEmpire named Dyrenell.

** 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 Core 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 equipable Weapon.

* EasterSpecial: “The Hunt for Harmony” is an Easter event involving not only a spring event, but also the Sylvans, a race of bunny people.

** Mym is the human form of Brunhilda. Therefore, it makes sense that she shapeshifts into Brunhilda regardless of what Dragon she has equipped.

** Chelle and Leonidas have pacts with Cat Sith and Mars respectively, so much like Mym, they will shapeshift into those Dragons regardless of which one you have equipped.

** "''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.
** Another crossover, "''Persona 5'': Caged Desire," has Joker, Panther, Sophie, and Mona leave at the end, but you can continue to still use them, as well as Arsene, after the Event ended.
** 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 Regular Zephyr, show up as {{Mooks}} in various Story Chapters and Events.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Characters hailing from North Grastaea, like Noelle and Kirsty, have been slowly building up towards 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.

* DarkestHour: So far, the end of Chapter 5 and the first half of Chapter 6 deliver. [[spoiler:The Other BodySurfs from Alberius to Zethia 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.]]

** 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. This trend repeats in Chapter 10, where quests requiring 8000-ish Might end with a boss requiring over 10,000. The subsequent Chapters get even higher spikes for boss encounters, except starting with Chapter 12, every one of them has Endeavors you must complete before the boss encounter unlocks; if you can't fulfill the Endeavors' requirements, you aren't ready for those bosses.

** In the "Fire Emblem: Lost Heroes" event, the normal and hard versions "The Alberian Front" are manageable, even if some errors occur. The Lunatic version, on the other hand, requires your team to be agile and coordinate well, as the enemies are far more hardy and strong. One wrong move and you'll find yourself failing the level in short order.

* 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, a top-tier Weapon, and a powerful 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, in some cases, soloing hard content is more viable than taking an AI team with you due to massive ArtificialStupidity of the AI. And keep in mind that ANY Adventurer, even 3-Star ones, with reasonable DPS can solo anything.

* DoubleUnlock: There's quite a lot that needs to be double unlocked in terms of building units in your Halidom and also in crafting weapons.

* EasterSpecial: “The Hunt for Harmony” is an Easter event involving not only a spring event, but also the Sylvans as a race of bunny people.

** 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.

* 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.

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

** Weapons can be upgraded up to eight times, giving new Skills and, for Core and Void Weapons, unlocking new skins and abilities.

** The July 2019 update introduced Augments. These give bonuses to the HP or Strength of whatever it's applied to. Adventurers are boosted using Fortifying (HP) and Amplifying (Strength) Crystals, while Wyrmprints are powered up using Gemstones of the same names. Dragons and Weapons were intended to have Augments of their own, but only 10 Augments for each have ever been released, and the Version 2.0 update got rid of Weapon Augments completely. Augments can also be taken back and reset, but it costs a lot of Rupies to do so.
* EvolvingCredits: Starting with Patch 1.12, the title screen changes depending on story progress. The first time, it has all the main cast along with Zethia. Clearing Chapter 1 has Zethia removed. Clearing Chapter 3 adds Mym to the title screen. Clearing Chapter 8 adds Alex. Clearing Chapter 10 changes Euden to his Gala form. Clearing Chapter 11 adds Laxi. Clearing Chapter 14 adds Zena. Clearing Chapter 16 adds [[spoiler:Chelle]]. Chapter 17 is now one big splash screen involving every main hero and enemy involved.
* 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 outside of the Wyrmprint sidestories.
* 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.]]
** Zena's backstory reveals that [[spoiler: her own world is likewise also decimated by Morsayati, and that there's really nothing left to save anymore. Upon finding the Dawnshard, she uses that to transport her soul to different timelines in order to prevent the same thing from happening again, eventually settling on the player's universe.]]
* ExplainExplainOhCrap: In "Chalice Raiders," Pietro and Marty do this after the former steps onto a trap.

** 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.

* FaceDoodling: The "Hanetsuki Rally" Wyrmprint has this happen between Luca and Euden doing it to each other as they trade victories against each other by marking one another with X's.

** Hinomoto is a fantasy version of feudal Japan. It's an island nation, 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.

* 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.
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Zethia's spirit is sent to the era of the First Binding War by The Other to learn about the Truths of the Ilian Church.

** Upon the release of the Manacaster Weapon in Version 2.0, everyone was given Sharpshooter Joe, a 3-Star Adventurer, automatically. He was then added to the Tutorial for any new players.

** Comedically, in ''Dragalia Life'' #129, when Mym tries to wait in the Prince's bed to make him sleep with her, she falls asleep first since she doesn't have a Sleep Res ability.

** 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.

** 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.

** From Chapter 10 of the main story onwards, there have been inexplicable giant cubes that can be found off the beaten path, all of which have bizarre attack patterns, come in different elements, and have names solely consisting of question marks. Their attack names appear to be utter gibberish, but using the Epithets for fully clearing their fights as a hint reveals that all of them are actually ciphers. They're all named after spacecraft and have vague ramblings about themselves, which muddle the mystery even further.

* 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.
* GuestFighter: ''Dragalia Lost'' occasionally runs collaborations with other series like ''Franchise/FireEmblem'' or ''VideoGame/{{Mega Man|Classic}}'', which can also bring characters from those series as playable adventurers.

** The "Trick or Treasure" event is a Halloween event with Althemia, Edward, Silkie, and Elisanne getting dressed as vampires to get closer to the fiends attacking them.
** "Postmortem Panic" is an Onslaught Event that has Akasha (dressed as a vampire) and Melsa (in a mummy/zombie costume) fighting off a zombie invasion that has beseiged the Halidom.

** The rerun of "Resplendent Refrain" introduces the Nightmare difficulty for the raid boss Sabnock, where he's even tougher than his EX version. This has now become a mechanic going forward as it was also used on Qitian Dasheng as well.

** The second run of Loyalty's Requiem added a second level to Omega difficulty.
** Forgotten Truths adds the Omega-3 difficulty, in case Omega-2 wasn't hard enough.
** The higher levels of Mercurial Gauntlet are this where you need to have a gameplan to beat the short amount of time given to beat Fafnir Roy III.

** 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 of the Agito after Master!

** 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".

* InMediasRes: "Persona 5: Caged Desire" opens with an ActionPrologue of Joker breaking into a Jail to rescue the prince. It then rewinds back to a few days before that to show how they got to that point.
* 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 Core 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 equipable Weapon.

* InterfaceSpoiler: All the Agito Weapons require the respective Chimeratech Weapon of the same type and 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.

* GodzillaThreshold: Faris's Adventurer Story reveals an Apostle's Sigil bound dragon can sever their link willingly, but it has to be something either mortally dire or their Apostle having crossed the MoralEventHorizon.

* EvolvingCredits: Starting with Patch 1.12, the login screen changes depending on story progress. The first time, it has all the main cast along with Zethia. The second screen has Zethia removed though adds in Mym and Alex. The third screen after Chapter 10 changes Euden to his Gala form. The fourth screen after Chapter 11 adds in Laxi. The fifth screen after Chapter 14 adds Zena to the login screen. The sixth after Chapter 16 adds [[spoiler:Chelle]] to the login screen. Chapter 17 is now one big splash screen involving every main hero and enemy involved.

** Morsayati Reckoning is added alongside the Legend Agito battles, and requires a whopping '''''40K Might''''' to even attempt it. To compare, the Omega Morsayati battle in the Event Compendium requires 25K Might. Those who expected to be able to jump in right away after completing ''Forgotten Truths'' in the Event Compendium are either going to be disappointed or destroyed.

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

** A future Legend difficulty will be added to the Agito bosses which makes the fight not only much more brutally insane than they already were, but now locks it to the element meant to oppose them to keep out [[GameBreaker off-element cheese]] parties.

** Ricardt's second skill, which provides HP replenishment and regenerative healing, is called Holy Water.

* 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.

** The difficulty levels in the "Lost Heroes" event are Normal, Hard, Lunatic, and Infernal, like ''VideoGame/FireEmblemHeroes''. ''Kindred Ties'' keeps the same naming scheme.

** 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 Core 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 equipable Weapon.

** When the Dragondrive 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.

* 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. When a character's event is added to the compendium however, that character can become permanent just from playing the event.

* 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.

* EvolvingCredits: Starting with Patch 1.12, the login screen changes depending on story progress. The first time, it has all the main cast along with Zethia. The second screen has Zethia removed though adds in Mym and Alex. The third screen after Chapter 10 changes Euden to his Gala form. The fourth screen after Chapter 11 adds in Laxi. The fifth screen after Chapter 14 adds Zena to the login screen. The sixth after Chapter 16 adds [[spoiler:Chelle]] to the login screen.

** Midgardsormr is, oddly enough, the only Dragon you're given with no strings attached, as he's received automatically at the end of Chapter 1. The other four Greatwyrms, as well as their High versions and the Fafnirs, can only be gotten via the Treasure Trade. Older Raid Events needed you to collect Emblems and Blazons to get their Dragons, and the rest are gotten through summoning. The Mini Greatwyrm Dragons are given to you if you're active during the various Anniversary celebrations, but otherwise must be gotten via Treasure Trade.

* EvolvingCredits: Starting with Patch 1.12, the login screen changes depending on story progress. The first time, it has all the main cast along with Zethia. The second screen has Zethia removed though adds in Mym and Alex. The third screen after Chapter 10 changes Euden to his Gala form. The fourth screen after Chapter 11 adds in Laxi. The fifth screen after Chapter 14 adds [[spoiler: Zena]] to the login screen.

** 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. This trend repeats in Chapter 10, where quests requiring 8000ish Might end with a boss requiring over 10K. The subsequent chapters get even higher spikes for boss encounters, except starting with Chapter 12, every one of them has Endeavors you must complete before the boss encounter unlocks; if you can't fulfill the Endeavors' requirements, you aren't ready for those bosses.

** 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.