History FanFic / WarriorsOfTheWorld

The rewrite can be found [[http://wotw-thefanfic.tumblr.com here]]. The originals can be found on FanfictionNet.

* RetCon:
** The rewrite incorporates the plot of the discarded fifth instalment into the plot of the third.
** Humans are now called Normans as of Chapter 18 of [=SoF=].

* OhMyGods: When characters are not swearing by the Catholic God they're busy swearing by [[NorseMythology Thor, Odin and Tyr]], including NayTheist Valkron. Khan has on one occasion exclaimed "For Ra's sake!" although he also refers to Tyr.

* A yet unnamed prequel that features the Battle of Al'Zahur and explains how things are the way they are in ''Soldiers of Fortune''.

Initially written in 2006, the trilogy went on hiatus in 2009. Four years later, the writer decided to rewrite the fanfic. The project is known as ''Warriors of the World 2.0'', often abbreviated to just ''[=WotW 2.0=]''.

* ''[[Fanfic/WarriorsOfTheWorldSoldiersOfFortune Soldiers of Fortune]]'' ([=SoF=]): Eight mercenaries unite over a common goal - to find out who is behind the "threat" affecting the kingdom and the source of brief, if intense, sessions of pain that only they are affected by. The truth is far more sinister than they expect it to be. This is the story that kicks off the trilogy.

** Payon is based on Korea like the game, but the language is based off Mandarin Chinese.
** Morroc is Middle Eastern with Egyptian touches (the Pyramids), and the language is said to be loosely based off Arabic in spoken and Egyptian in writing.
** Prontera and Geffen appear to be mostly medieval Britain.
** Aldebaran is structured after Venice, but described to be much like Holland.
** Schwarzwald has a touch of German.

* FantasyCounterpartCulture: While the fic remains mostly based on the game, there are some touches to the various "foreign" cities.

* ''[[Fanfic/WarriorsOfTheWorldSoldiersOfFortune Soldiers of Fortune]]'' ([=SoF=]): Eight mercenaries unite over a common goal - to find out who is behind the "threat" affecting the kingdom and the source of brief, if intense, sessions of pain that only they are affected by. By the time they find out the truth, they're the only ones left capable of neutralising it.
* ''Flight of the Phoenix'' ([=FotP=]): In the wake of a prophecy, the Kingdom of Rune-Midgard declares the War of Emperium - a friendly mercenary guild competition to determine who will defend the Kingdom from the enemies mentioned in the prophecy. It soon becomes an ugly affair of politics and backstabbing between several guilds, including the newly born Raulus guild.

* CompensatingForSomething:
** Valkron references this trope a few times, mostly because he belongs to an organisation where the men really do act like this sometimes, especially while carrying swords or spears.
** Nocturne says this about Aldev's hair out loud in a crowded area without shame.

* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: Valkron repeatedly does this to Emeth [[spoiler:whenever Argath tries to possess him]] in [=SoF=].

* NoJustNoReaction: If someone does something so stupid or wrong that Valkron can't even come up with a sarcastic response to, he replaces it with this. His variant of it is a usually very calm "No. No. No."

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness:
** Valkron usually doesn't use swear words worse than "hell", "arse", "damn" and "bloody", but when he starts using "shit" it usually means he's dangerously close to violence.
** Samaroh drops his pompous, bossy attitude when he's healing.

* PlayingWithFire: Emeth. It's his specialist element.
* PowerTrio: Valkron, Emeth and Iruna as a ThreeAmigos variant.

** The rewrite incorporates the plots of the discarded fifth instalment into the plot of the third.

* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Valkron is dangerously being on the verge of getting his knighthood stripped because he does this one too many times. He is well aware of this.

* SexyPriest: Samaroh is the posterboy in the fanfic. He and his friends are highly aware of this.

* ''[[FanFic/WarriorsOfTheWorldSoldiersOfFortune Soldiers of Fortune]]'' ([=SoF=]): Eight mercenaries unite over a common goal - to find out who is behind the "threat" affecting the kingdom and the source of brief, if intense, sessions of pain that only they are affected by. By the time they find out the truth, they're the only ones left capable of neutralising it.

** ''[[FanFic/WarriorsOfTheWorldSoldiersOfFortune Soldiers of Fortune]]'' ([=SoF=]): Eight mercenaries unite over a common goal - to find out who is behind the "threat" affecting the kingdom and the source of brief, if intense, sessions of pain that only they are affected by. By the time they find out the truth, they're the only ones left capable of neutralising it.

** ''Flight of the Phoenix'' ([=FotP=]): In the wake of a prophecy, the Kingdom of Rune-Midgard declares the War of Emperium - a friendly mercenary guild competition to determine who will defend the Kingdom from the enemies mentioned in the prophecy. It soon becomes an ugly affair of politics and backstabbing between several guilds, including the newly born Raulus guild.

** ''The Legend Reborn'' (TLR): Ten years after the events of the previous instalment, the prophecy begins to start coming true. With the Kingdom in trouble and despair running high among the civilians, a race of "superhumans" come to their aid - but their real motivation remains unknown, and so does the motivations of their enemies.

** A yet unnamed prequel that features the Battle of Al'Zahur and explains how things are the way they are in ''Soldiers of Fortune''.

''Soldiers of Fortune'' ([=SoF=]): Eight mercenaries unite over a common goal - to find out who is behind the "threat" affecting the kingdom and the source of brief, if intense, sessions of pain that only they are affected by. By the time they find out the truth, they're the only ones left capable of neutralising it.

''Flight of the Phoenix'' ([=FotP=]): In the wake of a prophecy, the Kingdom of Rune-Midgard declares the War of Emperium - a friendly mercenary guild competition to determine who will defend the Kingdom from the enemies mentioned in the prophecy. It soon becomes an ugly affair of politics and backstabbing between several guilds, including the newly born Raulus guild.

''The Legend Reborn'' (TLR): Ten years after the events of the previous instalment, the prophecy begins to start coming true. With the Kingdom in trouble and despair running high among the civilians, a race of "superhumans" come to their aid - but their real motivation remains unknown, and so does the motivations of their enemies.

The prequel ''Battle of Al'Zahur'' ([=BoAZ=]) features the titular battle and explains how things are the way they are in ''Soldiers of Fortune''.

!!Tropes featured in the trilogy:

* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Valkron, Iruna, Emeth. If you don't mind that Iruna's hair is blue and Valkron's hair is white.
* BluntYes: Emeth is fond of these.
--> '''Valkron:''' "Okay? ''Okay?'' That all you can ask?"
--> '''Emeth:''' "Uh, yeah."
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: There is a lot of this going on in [=SoF=] by way of the villain's MindControl powers. Apart from the occasional GetAHoldOfYourselfMan moments, most of the time the only way to knock someone out of it is to let them go crazy or the villain decides to release him.

* CerebusSyndrome: Wastes no time appearing at all, starting from Chapter ''10'' of ''Soldiers of Fortune''.

* CommanderContrarian: Notably, Aldev in the first instalment. He seems particularly dedicated to being one.

* FightingTheLancer: [[spoiler:Valkron and Emeth]] face off when they're both {{Mind Control}}led in one chapter of ''Soldiers of Fortune''.

* HoldYourHippogriffs:
** "Yoyoballs" is apparently the substitute word for "tricks", as in "playing tricks".
** "Where in the everloving fires of Muspelheim did you come up with that?"
** "Been there, done that, but never bought the [[labelnote:tunic]]shirt[[/labelnote]]."

* ItsPersonal: Valkron only gets really determined to solve the problem in [=SoF=] when Edell gets possessed, taking it as an insult.
* LightEmUp: Samaroh gets into the action in ''Soldiers of Fortune'' with Sanctuary, a holy spell that hurts undead and heals people at the same time.

* TheMedic: At any point in the series you can expect both priests and crusaders to act as one. Samaroh and Iruna are this in [=SoF=].

* OnlyAFleshWound: Averted throughout the story. When Valkron gets a sword in his left shoulder, his left arm is rendered completely useless and the only way he stays on his feet is adrenaline.

* OverlyLongName: The Prontera Royal Chivalry of the Honoured Knights of the Kingdom of Rune-Midgard.

* PrecisionFStrike: Valkron drops one in Chapter 19.
-->"Look here, you little ''shit''."

* TakeThat: There is a throwaway line in Chapter 22 of [=SoF=] mentioning Khan throwing stones, and then everyone else throwing stones. This is noted as a reference to the Throw Stone skill, a quest skill that only the Thief class can naturally learn and the only skill that [[YouHaveResearchedBreathing allows the player to throw stones]] - and a TakeThat at how stupid this would be in a realistic setting.

* ThereShouldBeALaw: PlayedForLaughs in Chapter 13, where Iruna lightheartedly notes, "You just inflicted Samaroh on the sages, there should be a law against that", after Valkron sends the InsufferableGenius SmugSnake priest to borrow a thaudolite.

* TheXOfY: ''Warriors of the World'', ''War of the Frontier'', ''Soldiers of Fortune'', ''Flight of the Phoenix''.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: It's not exactly clear as to why there are individuals with unnatural hair colours for a pseudo-realistic interpretation of ''VideoGame/RagnarokOnline'', but it's noted that these colours are not as common as natural hair colours are. Purple is still fairly common, followed by green, saturated red (in Emeth's case), blue and then white is the rarest colour of all.
* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Samaroh says a fairly deadpan one in Chapter 17 of [=SoF=] when [[spoiler:a monster Emeth just fried in the chest and sent flying into a house gets to its feet almost immediately.]]
-->'''Samaroh:''' "You're ''joking''."

''Warriors of the World'' is a ''VideoGame/RagnarokOnline'' fanfiction written by [[http://bergamot-dreams.deviantart.com bergamot-dreams]] focusing on the tale of [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits eight mercenaries who team up]] to deal with a problem their kingdom is facing. It very soon escalates into a gigantic issue of epic proportions that causes them to get involved with politics, war, magic, legends and monsters.

The installments:

* HorseOfADifferentColor: Peco Pecos in the Warriors of the World trilogy are more intelligent and empathetic than the game versions, but it takes a rider to know theirs very well before they can understand the honks. Horses are apparently completely extinct and only appear as monsters, ghosts or undead, as with the case of the Nightmares and the horses that Abysmal Knight and Lord of the Dead ride.

The instalments:

* HorseOfADifferentColour: Peco Pecos in the Warriors of the World trilogy are more intelligent and empathetic than the game versions, but it takes a rider to know theirs very well before they can understand the honks. Horses are apparently completely extinct and only appear as monsters, ghosts or undead, as with the case of the Nightmares and the horses that Abysmal Knight and Lord of the Dead ride.

The prequel ''War of the Frontier'' ([=WotF=]) features the Battle of Al'Zahur and explains how things are the way they are in ''Soldiers of Fortune''.

* OnlyAFleshWound: Averted hard throughout the story. When Valkron gets a sword in his left shoulder, his left arm is rendered completely useless and the only way he stays on his feet is adrenaline.

* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** Adiemus tells Valkron to loosen up and jokes, "The way I see it, you're going to be stuck with these people for the next few months!" Guess what happens.

* AerithAndBob: Ethnicity only bears some relevance to a name if it's within the Kingdom and even then it's still vaguely non-indicative of the character's origins, but names like Valkron and Iruna seem to mesh well with normal names like Lucius and Silas within the Kingdom's melting pot of cultures. This is a reference to the naming conventions of the NPCs within the game itself.

* ElsewhereFic: While there are plenty of references to in-game quests, NPCs, locations, mobs and equipment, the world of Midgard portrayed in the fic is drastically different from the Midgard in the game. The author has advised readers to think of the fic as an alternate interpretation.

''Warriors of the World'' is a RagnarokOnline fanfiction written by [[http://bergamot-dreams.deviantart.com bergamot-dreams]] focusing on the tale of [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits eight mercenaries who team up]] to deal with a problem their kingdom is facing. It very soon escalates into a gigantic issue of epic proportions that causes them to get involved with politics, war, magic, legends and monsters.

* AerithAndBob: Ethnicity only bears some relevance to a name if it's within the Kingdom and even then it's still vaguely non-indicative of the character's origins, but names like Valkron and Iruna seem to mesh well with normal names like Lucius and Silas within the Kingdom's melting pot of cultures.

* ElsewhereFic: The world of Midgard expanded in the fic is drastically different from the Midgard in the game to the point that the writer states the best way to think of the fic is as an alternate interpretation.

* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan:
** Valkron repeatedly does this to Emeth [[spoiler:whenever Argath tries to possess him]] in [=SoF=].

* LightEmUp: Samaroh gets into the action in ''Soldiers of Fortune''.

* PrecisionFStrike: Valkron drops one in Chapter 19. The party later learns that Valkron only really swears when he's struggling to not lose himself to anger.
-->"Look here, you little ''shit''," he growled.

** The rewrite incorporates the plots of the discarded fifth instalments into the plots of the second and third.

* SelfDeprecation:
** In ''Soldiers of Fortune'' Aldev tends to go completely unnoticed by other characters as if he's being repeatedly forgotten about. This culminates in Emeth asking him [[LampshadeHanging "Why are you such a forgettable person?!"]] The author confesses to repeatedly forgetting about Aldev in the footnotes because of his FlatCharacter status.
** ''Warriors of the World'' in the author's words:

** "Been there, done that, but never bought the [[hottip:tunic:shirt]]."