History Literature / Noob

* WeAreAsMayflies: The explosion of the Stone of Ages drained Lys and Ark'hen's powers and they have been recovering from the event ever since. The event in question is several millenia old.

* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: In the third novel, a series of DisasterDominoes makes the Empire disappearing as a faction entireley a versy real possibility. Someone speculates that ''Horizon'''s FactionCalculus would be maintained via the Coalition splitting between its "technology is bad" crowd and its "want to steal technology" crowd. While taking in all the bad thing that the Empire's disappearance would entail, one of Omega Zell's worries is the color that would be used for the cursors of the hypthetical "split Coalition".

* EnoughToGoAround: Played straight and lampshaded in the first book.

* DressingAsTheEnemy: Done at the end of the first novel with the signature black cloaks of the Soulless. The second hlf of the third novel has this also, but all the tranformation potion does is change the Noob guild's cursor's from yellow to red and give them a SdrawkcabName. Sparadrap and Gaea have Coalition players that would be able to spot them in a crowd by then.

* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: Sparadrap has "Flan", the French word for his [[TrademarkFavoriteFood Tademark Favorite Dessert]].

** Sin: "Hey, was freezing an entire continent in time for several millenia ''really'' necessary to cover up my existence? I get why it inhabitants are mad at you guys and I'll give them a hand." Also basically the Order's side of the conflict.

* RecognizableBySound: [[spoiler:When Fantöm first makes his second avatar but tries to play on his own, he runs into the Noob guild. One of its members asks him if he's the real Fantöm (since he could also have been someone copycating the Online Alias and appearance) and he aswers "No" in hope of getting rid of them. Unfortunately, most of the Noob guild knows him just well enough to recognize his voice]].

* SoftWater: Fantöm relies on this to survive jumping off a flying place.

* AdvancedAncientHumans: Considering they are supposed to be several millenia late on the Empire and Coalition, Syrianians seem to have quite decent {{Magitek}}. The royal palace elevator and the flying palace hint that they may have come up with some form of technology on their own long before Baron Lucans got his hand on the ImportedAlienPhlebotinum that eventually gave birth to the Empire's technology.

** While they follow the same MythArc as the series, the novels don't always mention the previous webseries season's events as they happened while the following season either ignores or changes details from the novels. In other words, both media have the same "checking points" and an internally consistent story, but the path for going form point A to point B can be different. For example, Season 2 gives the impression that the Noob guild is seeing Gologotha for the first time since Season 1 finale despite them spending time with her in the first novel. Conversely, in the second novel, Sparadrap mentions still having the crab he caught in the first novel despite Season 2 (that covers the time span between novels 1 and 2) forcing him to start a new avatar and a new pet collection, but regaining his previous equipment and level quite fast thanks to a little help.
** The first half of the third novel being a PragmaticAdaptation of Season 3 instead of an entirely new story (to avert ContinuityLockout) notably changes the order in which important information is discovered. The one that sticks out like a sore thumb is [[spoiler:Fantöm finding out the illegal enhancements started only after he started working as a tester]] before [[spoiler:creating his second avatar]] in the book while the information was only given both to him and viewers in the Season 3 finale in the series.
* CompensatingForSomething: Omega Zell's explanation for Shaadö's {{BFG}} in the second book.

** Lys and Ark'hen: "This world is ours and we will provide magic to it. Just don't go looking for magic in other Sources, okay?". The Coalition has a MyMasterRightOrWrong attitude when it comes to them.

** Sin: "Hey, was freezing an entire continent in time for several millenia ''really'' necessary to cover up my existence? I get why it inhabitant are mad at you guys and I'll give them a hand." Also basically the Order's side of the conflict.

* FantasyWorldMap: The books are the only media showing the Olydri map as a whole.

* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: While in Coalition prison, the protagonists run into a NonPlayerCharacter that can make everyone invisible without using magic (that can't be used in the prison in question). That's nice, but how does it actually help the players get out? Simple: wait for the guards to panic at all the prisoners suddenly vanishing, open the prison gates to let reinforcements inside and take advantage of that to escape without being seen. The worse part is that the guy with the invisibility powder actually expects this to happen.

* JackOfAllStats /JackOfAllTrades: Elementalists when they start out. They can stay like that forever if they never specialize according to the third book.

** The third book's cover shows the Noob guild with two extra members, which were intoduced as temporary teammates in the second book.
** The fourth book shows [[spoiler:Gaea with Coalition cursor over her head]].

* OddlyCommonRarity: The Sources. There is supposed to be only one Source per "world" (which seems to mean "planet" in the present case). Lys and Ark'hen are co-ruling Olydri, after basically taking it away from it previous owner, Dortös, who's sealed away somewhere [[spoiler:until the end of the first novel]]. Then Sin somehow comes into existence [[spoiler:via being generated by all three of them]]. Then a Soulless named Saralzar manages to make himself into a Source. Oh, and guess where the remanents of Fargöth have been hiding all this time, when he could have literally chosen to hide anywhere else in the universe. In case you've lost count, that's six of something that Olydri should normally have only one of.

* RageAgainstTheHeavens: This is basically the reason for which the Order becomes a thrid faction in the second novel. As both Sparadrap annd Ivy have put it "They weren't very happy to have been put on pause for thousands of years.".

* SoftWater: Fantöm relies on this to survive jumping of a flying place.

* NoOneGetLeftBehind: Arthéon has to make a point of enforcing this, as the standard attitude when one of the three other die while the others survive is someone expressing happiness at the deceased's temporary absence. It's also implied that Gaea and Omega Zell would have no problem letting each other die without this.

* AdvancedAncientHumans: Considering they are supposed to be several millenia late on the Empire and Coalition, Syrianians seem to have quite decent {{Magitek}}. The palace elevator alone hints that they may have come up with some form of technology on their own long before Baron Lucans got his hand on the ImportedAlienPhlebotinum that eventually gave birth to the Empire's technology.

* RecognizableBySound: [[spoiler:When Fantöm first makes his second avatar but trying to play on his own, he runs into the Noob guild. One of its members asks him if he's the real Fantöm (since he could also have been someone copycating the Online Alias and appearance) and he aswers "No" in hope of getting rid of them. Unfortunately, most of the Noob guild knows him just well enough to recognize his voice]].

** The third novel had a potion that disquised the Noob guild into Coalition plays by turning their cursors red. [[spoiler:Gaea's cursor turned red for real between the third and forth book]].

* ArcWelding: The first book was the intentional variation for [[spoiler:the apparently minor fetch quests done by the Noob guild members]] in Season 1 of the series.

* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: While in Coalition prison, the portagonists run into an NPC that can make everyone invisible without using magic (that can't be used in the prison in question). That's nice, but how does it actually help the players get out? Simple: wait for the guards to panic at all the prisoners suddenly vanishing, open the prison gates to let reinforcements inside and take advantage of that to escape without being seen. The worse part is that the guy with the invisibility powder actually expects this to happen.

* NoOneGetLeftBehind: Arthéon has to make a point of enforcing this as the standard attitude when one of the three other die while the other survive is someone expressing happiness at the deceased's temporary absence. It's also implied that Gaea and Omega Zell would have no problem letting each other die without this.
* OddlyCommonRarity: The Sources. There is supposed to be only one Source per "world" (which seems to mean "planet" in the present case). Lys and Ark'hen are co-ruling Olydri, after basically taking it away from it previous owner, Dortös, who's sealed away somewhere [[spoiler:until the end of the first novel]]. Then Sin somehow comes into existence [[spoiler:via being generated by all three of them]]. Then a Souless named Saralzar manages to make himself into a Source. Oh, and guess where the remanents of Fargöth have been hiding all this time, when he could have litterally chosen to hide anywhere else in the universe. In case you've lost count, that's six of something that Olydri should normally have only one of.

** In the second novel, it's repeated several times that Sin, at the time assumed to be some kind of ancient artifact, is supposed to be stronger than Lys and Ark'hen taken to together. [[spoiler:Not only are the two basically his parents, but the fourth novel reveals that Dortös pitched into his "conception" also.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: As early as the first novel, Arthéon considered the possibility of [[spoiler:the Soulless forming their own faction]]. It ended up actually happening a little before the fourth rolled in.

* HadToBeSharp: [[{{Precursors}} Keosamas]] in their time, according to Arthéon. Apprently, Olydir became ''less'' dangerous since then.

* DressingAsTheEnemy: Done at the end of the first novel with the signature black cloaks of the Soulless. The second hlf of the third novel has this also, but all the tranformation potion does is change the Noob guild's cursor's from yellow to red and give them a SdrwakcabName. Sparadrap and Gaea have Coalition players that would be able to spot them in a crowd by then.

* DemotedToExtra: Golgotha in the second and third books. Also, compared to both the comics and the series, Dark Avenger moves from being Sparadrap's recurring unlucky opponent to merely getting mentionned in a conversation about PlayerKilling and in the Empire vs Coalition war in the third novel (which puts him in ContinuityCameo territory).

* {{Precursors}}: In ''Horizon'', [[HumanByAnyOtherName Olydrians]] have this in the form of Keosamas.

* HadToBeSharp: [[Precursors Keosamas]] in their time, according to Arthéon. Apprently, Olydir became ''less'' dangerous since then.