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** Ilia gets another one in Chapter 24, Part 2, where she says "[[Film/{{Ghostbusters}} I love this plan! It's a great plan!]]"

*** A final BonusBoss challenge is included, where you must face one of the High Greatwyrms with a single Adventurer always transformed.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: When one gets a good look at ''Caged Desire'', it's clear to see where Emile's trauma came from. He lacks Valyx's strength, Leonidas' military prowess, Chelle's talent for espionage, Phares' wisdom, and Euden's charisma, and does not possess the kind of eldritch power that [[spoiler:got Beren locked up]]. While he would make for a fantastic artist or musician, the humanities oft have little place in the world of politics, which wouldn't be a problem if he wasn't a prince in a MedievalFantasy / MedievalStasis setting. This, and his abject lack of talent in the same fields the other scions cover, were going to annihilate his self-worth eventually; the lack of respect from his men (and, well, anyone not named [[AllLovingHero Euden]]) mixing in with this is a cocktail that always yields self-sustaining narcissistic mania. It's clear that he needs an intervention.
** Played more for laughs in the same event is that Sophia can't connect to the internet while the Phantom Thieves are in Alberia.

* TheSyndicate: There is one in the world called [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the Syndicate]]. They become the main focus of the "Scars of the Syndicate" event, their existence revealed to Euden.

** [[BladeOnAStick Lances]] possess the best range of the melee weapons, but most of their attacks only focus on one enemy, making it difficult for them to fight large groups.

** Edward's Halloween Outfit resembles a vampire, of all the beasts he could portray... Now wasn't there [[Literature/{{Twilight}} another popular vampire named Edward]]?

* SpiritualSuccessor: Is the successor to Cygames' now defunct game ''Knights Of Glory'', a precursor to this game with a similar premise. It even imports some of the old dragon and class designs from that game into ''Dragalia Lost''.

* SealedEvilInAnotherWorld: [[spoiler:Harle actually ends up being a heroic example as he is banished to an alternate dimension by [[EvilTwin an evil imposter]] named Loki. He manages to return to his own world with proper planning where he enacts revenge against Loki by doing the same to him. Said banishment doesn't last though as Loki is shortly brought back by the Progenitor.]]
* SerialEscalation: The main storyline goes from investigating the "Sacred Shard", Alberia's defense towards monsters to fighting an empire, to saving the protagonist's sister, to fighting [[spoiler: '''the true 7th Scion''']], then a deluded god, '''and finally, the creator of the world''' in that order.

* {{Satan}}: The BigBad of the various North Grastaea plots[[note]]"Agents of the Goddess," "Divine Deception," and "Faith Forsaken"[[/note]] as well as the master of the Sinister Dominion demons. As soon as he appears he absolutely demolishes Grams and almost kills all the Angels in one fell swoop.

* WeaponOfChoice: There are nine types of weapons:

** [[AnAxeToGrind Axes]] have slow attacks, but they have a wide reach that makes them perfect for fighting large groups of enemies.

** Chapter 21: [[spoiler: Zethia returns from her otherworldy trip... fused with Bahamut and going from the sweet but helpless Auspex into a super badass BlindWeaponMaster.]]

** Chapter 21: [[spoiler: Zethia returns from her otherworldy trip... fused with Bahamut and going from the sweet but helpless Auspex into a super badass BlindWeaponsmaster.]]

** UpToEleven with the Kaleidescape. The Void Ghosts, Golems, and Hermits show up as regular enemies, lower tier Event Bosses like Pumpking appear in many floors as super strong regular enemies, story bosses can appear on almost any floor (including multiple times in the same run), monster bosses guard several of the lower levels, and you'll get one of the High Dragons and one of the Agito (human and transformed forms in separate levels) during the final stretch of floors.

** [[KnifeNut Daggers]] are very swift weapons that propel the user forward, but have very limited range.

*** With the advent of the Event Compendium, all Facility Events from before 2022 are now always available. However, all Quests only have their Solo versions available amd the Nightmare Difficulty (and the resulting Grand Bounty reward) is removed.

*** Early Raid Events will give the player a free 4-Star Adventurer to counter the Raid Boss (e.g. a Water Raid giving the player a Wind Adventurer to fight) and the Adventurer will become permanent in the player's roster after raising enough "friendship" points. The Adventurer was usually paired with a free 5-Star Dragon that you can fully unbind using copies gotten through either the Emblem Rewards or Blazon Summoning.
*** After the "Timeworn Torrent" Event, the 4-Star Adventurer was upgraded to a 5-Star and the Dragon was jettisoned completely, instead replaced with a new currency called "Convictions," which allow you to max out your free Adventurer's Mana Circles without needing any extra items such as Eldwater or Testaments.

** Colosseum Events:

*** At the end of every difficulty, you will fight an Adventurer as a boss. Once you defeat them all, you can access the EX version, which pits you against them all in a BossRush.

* SwapFighter: Ayaha & Otoha were initially introduced into the game as a DualBoss where you fought both of them at the same time. Eventually, they were both added as a conjoined playable character, switching places whenever they use their "Nabe Nabe Sokonuke" skill.