History Literature / Noob

* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: In the third novel, a series of DisasterDominoes makes the Empire disappearing as a faction entireley a very 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 and combine it with magic" crowd. While taking in all the bads thing that the Empire's disappearance would entail, Omega Zell's two main worries are what would happen to Centralis once it was invaded and the colors that would be used for the cursors of the hypothetical "split Coalition".

** 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 novels while the information was only given both to him and viewers in the Season 3 finale in the webseries.

** Lys and Ark'hen: "This world is ours and we will provide magic to it. Just don't go looking for magic from other Sources, okay?". The Coalition has UndyingLoyalty towards them.

* MurderSimulators: Mid-way through the third novel, Stanislas (Arthéon's player) ends up missing his first class so he can take part in an extremly battleground in the {{MMORPG}} in which most of the story is set. His boarding school principal walks in on him and is understandably furious at him. She immediately assumes he's playing a war game, which is understandable given he ''was'' in the middle of a battle, but does'nt listen to him when he tries telling her that battles aren't the only aspect of the game. In the middle of chewing him out, she mentions the school shootings in which the perpetrators were (allegedly) video game players. She also makes clear that she considers {{Geek}} culture in general to be responsible for all sort of evils related to the younger generation, all while not giving Stanislas a chance to explain any of it (which he's clearly more than willing to do).

* DressingAsTheEnemy: Done at the end of the first novel with the signature black cloaks of the Soulless. The second half 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.

* MediumAwareness: The serum that "disguises" the Noob guild into Coalition members relies entirely on this. It changes the color of their cursors from yellow to red and gives them a SdrawkcabName. That's it. In adddition, a following scene shows that this intended to hide only from Coalition ''players'', as Sparadrap gets interrogated by a [=NPC=] solider that asks him his name.

* MurderSimulators: The principal of Arthéon's BoardingSchool has that view of video games.

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

* DoNotSpoilThisEnding: The fourth novel has a major twist ''and'' has a longer gap between its release and that of the following season of the series than previous ones. For that reason, Fabien Fournier asked people to not mention anything what happens in it on the internet before the episodes mentioning it got realeased (which happened in April and May 2013).

** The fourth novel shows [[spoiler:Gaea with Coalition cursor over her head]].

** In the third novel, Ystos, Saphhir and Heimdäl meet an NonPlayerCharacter that complains about the Coalition being full of magic fanactics... while making it quite clear the he himself considerss technology to be the only right way.
** The fourth has Lorth Kordigän experiment on Empire and Order prisoners. Gameplay-wise, this causes the Noob guild to get captured along with other Empire and Order players. They are then set free by an Empire NPC that has teleporting powers and get teleported to a place near Centralis, with the Order prisoners nowhere to be seen. The narration points out that the Empire has a thing for experimenting on enemy prisoners as well, so briging the Order player so close to Centralis would have been a dumb move coming from their liberator, who seeks peace between the factions.

** The third novel has Spectre call Tenshirock his old friend, long before Tenshirock's past was revealed in Season 5 of the webseries.
** The fourth novel has Mist hesitate to join Justice without Saphir's explict approval. [[spoiler:The webseries has revealed that they are sisters since the publication of the novel in question.]]

* GodzillaThreshold: Sin has a policy of meddling with the lives of Olydrians, but has to break that rule in the fourth novel [[spoiler:to help them take down a giant creature from Arturis]].

* DoubleMeaningTitle: The title of the first chapter of the third novel can be translated as "Facing Chaos alone". It gets a TitleDrop as the title of an old article about Fantöm's victory against the Source of Chaos, but is also quite appropriate for the reason for which that chapter is a DownerBeginning.

* RedundantRescue: [[spoiler:In the fourth novel, an event enabling the escape of the prisoners triggered right as Gaea was about to personaly free them]].

* RedundantRescue: [[spoiler:In the fourth novel, an event enabling the escape of the prisoner triggered right as Gaea was about to personaly free them]].

* WhodunnitToMe: In the third novel, a FrameUp puts Gaea in very real danger of losing her avatar. [[TheCracker Tenshirock]] buys her some time, but she knows it's not ulimited. She decides to spend the time she has left figuring out who's the real guilty party of the crime of which she's accused. Fortunately, the guilty party in question couldn't wait to boast about it to the Noob guild first chance it got and Gaea has a habit of recording things.

* AdaptationExpansion: The NonPlayerCharacter portion of the story. What is seen and heard of them in the webseries and comics is just a small chapter of their full story.

* ArmorPiercingQuestion: In the fourth novel, Sparadrap asks Gaea if she really considers the rest of the guild friends after she [[spoiler:proved to be pretty much a Fair Weather Friend, via joining the Coalition when thing went sour, then offering her archer as a founding member to the new Noob guild]]. While Gaea's answer is positive and considered sincere by Sparadrap, she was taken aback by the question when he asked it.

* BubblegloopSwamp: The Ashentäk swamp on Syrial.

* FeedTheMole: In the third novel, [[spoiler:Amaras told everyone that he planned to attack Centralis five days later than he really intended to for the benefit of Empire spies. He revealed the real date the evening before it]].

* WhodunnitToMe: In the third novel, a FrameUp puts Gaea in very real danger of loosing her avatar. [[TheCracker Tenshirock]] buys her some time, but she knows it's not ulimited. She decides to spend the time she has left figuring out who's the real guilty party of the crime of which she's accused. Fortunately, the guilty party in question couldn't wait to boast about it to the Noob guild first chance it got.

* A DeathInTheLimelight: The third novel has the reader find out a lot about [[spoiler:General Helkazard]], but also kills off the character.

* DoubleMeaningTitle: The title of the first chapter of the third novel can be translated as "Facing Chaos alone". It gets a TitleDrop as the title of an old article about Fantöm's victory against the Sourece of Chaos, but is also quite appropriate for the reason for which that chapter is a DownerBeginning.

** 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 novels 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 noveel.

* 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, Omega Zell's two main worries are what would happen to Centralis once it was invaded and the colors that would be used for the cursors of the hypthetical "split Coalition".

** In the third novel, [[spoiler:upon finding out that Master Zen started a new guild, Omega Zell sarcastically asks him if he called it "the new Noob guild", "Return of Noob guild" or "Noob guild two". The fourth novel starts with the Noob guild disbanded and getting restarted by Sparadrap. The chapter depicting the latter is titled "The new Noob guild"]].

* MediumAwareness: The serum that "disguises" the Noob guild into Coalition members relies entirely on this. It changes the color of their cursors from yellow to red and gives them a SdrawkcabName. That's it. In adddition, a following scene shows that this intended to hide only from Coalition ''players'', as they quickly get interrogated by [=NPC=] soliders that ask their name.

* 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 couple of conversations about PlayerKilling and in the Empire vs Coalition war in the third novel (which puts him in ContinuityCameo territory).

* DoNotSpoilThisEnding: The fourth novel has a major twist ''and'' has a longer gap between its release and that of the following season of the series than previous ones. For that reason, Fabien Fournier asked people to not mention anything what happens in it on the internet before the episodes mentionning it got realeased (which happened in April and May 2013).

** The Mokotz group mentionned to play in a Centralis tavern has the same name as the music group that played the TV series opening song, the Season 3 finale/Season 4 ending song and character songs for Sparadrap and Omega Zell.
** Omega Zell once mentionned that he wouldn't be suprised if Golgotha and Master Zen turned out to be related. The actors playing Golgotha and Master Zen in the series are siblings.