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*** Chelle and Leonidas have their own dragonpacts with Cat Sith and Mars respectively.
*** Mym, Tiki, Humanoid Midgardsormr, Humanoid Mercury, and Humanoid Jupiter are Dragons who shapeshift into humans. Thus, when transforming, they turn into their true selves.
*** Lathna is the emissary of Nyarlathotep.
*** Mega Man rides on Rush in Jet Mode.
*** The ''Persona 5'' Adventurers summon their Personas, making them sort of a cross between standard shapeshifters and the Dragondrive Adventurers.
*** Notte metamorphoses into her adult form. While she is as big as the Dragons, she otherwise acts like a normal Adventurer, with recharging Skills and the like.
*** Aldred, Bellina, and Yurius instead get "Dragondrive," where they get a massive stat boost but don't shapeshift.
*** Zethia has part of Bahamut's mana inside her, so whenever she summons a Dragon, it's Bahamut.
*** Ayaha and Otoha transform into their beastial form.

*** [[spoiler: Ilia and Mordecai are exceptions, since they are alive and well in the present day due to otherworld shenanigans.]]
*** [[spoiler:Come the end of Chapter 22, Audric falls in this category as well with his becoming RetGone. Despite this moment having him KilledOffForReal in the story, he is still just as usable as he ever was.]]

** The only way to defeat Morsayati for good in his raid battle is to use Zethia's holy power. Normally, this requires you to break the final four statues to power up the holy sword. However, if you manage to drain all of Morsayati's HP using Zethia's Mana Strike side ability before then, it still counts as a KO just like any other boss battle.

** Gala Emile's Skills do not cause any damage whatsoever. Instead, they power up the rest of the team, which makes sense because, by his own admission, he had no talent for fighting or military warfare. Likewise, his skills at shapeshifting are basically nothing, so not only does he have a Dragondrive gauge instead, but he can't actually use it to stay in a SuperMode-like state, instead using it to summon Mercury in order to launch an attack before disappearing. He also has a special gauge called the Ego Gauge because, well, [[BoisterousWeakling he has a huge ego]]. Finally, Emile can only damage opponents using Shared Skills, essentially letting his subjects fight for him, and said attacks are powered up, inspired by his RousingSpeech abilities.

** Chapter 17 is now one big splash screen involving every main hero and enemy involved in the current storyline.

* ExpendableAlternateUniverse: Audric's Adventurer Story reveals that ''no one'' is safe in his BadFuture. [[spoiler:The worst case is Notte, the innocent cute fairy companion, who is killed 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.]]

* FantasticRaceWeaponAffinity: Bows and daggers appear to be the most favored weapons among Sylvan, as a majority of playable Sylvan wield either one of them (some of them are even capable of both). Even Ciella, the evil Sylvan member of Agito, wields a bow.

* FestivalEpisode: "Rhythmic Resolutions" takes place during the Bon Festival in Quinbell, which borders Hinomoto.

** Chapters 10-14 of the main story have 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.

* DevelopersForesight: Tier 4 Elemental Orbs of all flavors are available via a RareRandomDrop from Void Dragon and Chimera fights. This, despite the fact that initially the only Adventurers to have the Mana Spiral are Flame or Shadow attuned.

** 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 besieged the Halidom.

** March 2020 introduced Lilith's Encroaching Shadow, the first in the Rise of the Sinister Dominion quests, 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 Master 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!

* HitboxDissonance: Notte's hitbox in Notte's Slumber Shot is only the size of the dot centered in her. This is necessary because the higher difficulties are {{Bullet Hell}}s where the gaps in the enemies' attacks are smaller than Notte herself.
* HolyGround: The player's base of operations, the Halidom. Its name is even literally an archaic word for holy grounds. [[spoiler:Exploited in ''Cursed Connections'' where Doman sought it out explicitly for his own malevolent agenda.]]

* 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.

** 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.

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

** 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 Crossover Event Adventurers, who explicitly return to their homeworlds at the end of their Events. Other Event Adventurers (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 are long since dead, yet they're still playable.

** Some dragons are actually antagonistic to the party and thus not their allies at all. In spite of this, even the antagonistic dragons can be playable and used.

** The Sinister Dominion bosses don't have a Legend difficulty (yet), but the fights are still extremely difficult due to being able to negate any buffs your Adventurers have, buffing their own strength often, and inflicting a DamageOverTime effect far worse than regular Poison or Burn.

* FaceDeathWithDignity: Nidhogg's Dragon Story tells the tale of a noble who was cast out and exiled to Nidhogg's toxic swamp. Rather than despairing over his situation, he uses his last moments to ask the dragon about the afterlife. His last words before he passes away are of excitement as to what may come next.

** 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.

* 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 an Adventurer's event is added to the Event Compendium, however, that Adventurer can become permanent just from playing the event.

** Lilith's Encroaching Shadow doesn't have a Legend difficulty (yet), but the fights are still extremely difficult due to being able to negate any buffs your Adventurers have, buffing their own strength often, and inflicting a DamageOverTime effect far worse than regular Poison or Burn.

* EarFins: The abyssians have these.

** The amount of female Adventurers that DON'T employ fanservice in some fashion can be counted on one hand. Even the women who are otherwise fully covered up will often be posed in a very suggestive way. Elisanne is a very frequent target, as all of her outfits leave her shoulders bare, three of them emphasize her toned legs, and all of them are backless.

* FiveSecondForeshadowing: While doing pulls for characters or dragons, there's a visual cue to let you know if you got a bum pull (no cue), an okay pull (doves flying), a 5* character or dragon whether they’re new or a dupe, (two gold fafnirs), and one to show you got multiple 5*s (a rainbow).

* InvulnerableAttack: Attack Skills, 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.

** At the very start of the game, [[spoiler:Euden and Zethia run into a mysterious masked girl who stands in their way. Upon removing the mask, they notice she looks like Zethia.]] Come chapter 5, [[spoiler:it is revealed that this Zethia is from the future trying to prevent a calamity just as present Zethia [[DemonicPossession gets possessed]] by a being known as the Other, who blocks the future Zethia's ability to return to the time period up until Chapter 14.]]
** In the "Fracture Futures" raid event, [[spoiler:Euden meets a dragon named Chronos who offers to take him back to prevent the Other from possessing Zethia and Aurelius. However, during his efforts, he runs into a man calling himself Audric who makes sure things go as they are supposed to, eventually revealing it being because Chronos was using Euden to get an opportunity to kill Future Zethia.]] Come the end of the event, [[spoiler:as Euden and Audric part ways, Euden realizes Audric is Aurelius from an alternate future.]]

* FutureSelfReveal