History Manga / HenkyouNoRoukishiBardLoen

* ImprobableWeaponUser: Gordon Zalcourse and his "wall sword", a sword so wide that it can be used as a shield. What really sells it is the way he uses it, which is to hold it straight upwards in front of him, seemingly blocking his view, before swinging it straight down on his opponent (flat side first). While it initially appears a bit goody, Gordon is actually quite effective with it, as the target has to either dodge backwards, in which case he gets back into position (almost effortlessly it should be noted), or they dodge to the side, in which case Gordon will simply swing the sword to the side to catch them with the actual blade. {{Played with}}, in that Gordon's specialty is actually in axes and hammers, and he is incredibly good with them to boot, but he uses swords because those are more "knightly" (the wall sword was simply something he had made to compensate for regular swords being too light for him).

* WholeEpisodeFlashback: Chapter 11 is an entire flashback chronicling how [[spoiler:Prince Windellan and Lady Aidra fell in love, Joulran was born, and then how the family was separated.]]

** Bard Loen's title is The People's Knight (Gal'Degash Guera), but he is also knows as The Undefeated Knight for an obvious reason.

* PragmaticHero: Bard isn't above sacrificing [[spoiler:Stablos]] to the beasts to distract them, despite the protests of younger knights and the decades of companionship. With the corpse being relatively unharmed, he cuts some parts of it for meat, taking some skin to me remade into a memento while leaving the rest for the forest.

* ChekvoksSkill: Loen is taught herbal medicine by the "Witch" rather early on in his travels. These skills he learned from her prove helpful when he comes across an ill Priest Vari and helps him recover. [[spoiler:Due to this favor, Vari is more than willing to hear Loen out for his plot to OutGambit Kaldus.]]

** Upon Yotish Pain's death, the mercenary Ven Uril decides he has no business against Bard and follows the contract to return his employer's corpse to Kaldus Coendera. Since Yotish technically joined the fight he wasn't supposed to which was why he got killed, Ven considers this a breach of the agreement and demands full payment. He hasn't considered that the Lord would not be happy with his nephew being killed right in front of his alleged bodyguard, and on top of that Gyenzera Pain, the father, sends assassins after him. This also applies to Kaldus and Gyenzera's side because Ven was their best shot to kill Bard, which Bard himself lampshades was quite foolish if they wanted him dead.

* EvilIsPetty: One other reason why Kaldus Coendera wanted to marry Aidra is because Bard has injured him in battle decades ago, and he's good friends with her, so Kaldus decides to rob Bard of everything he cherished along other plans.

* StealingFromTheTill: [[spoiler:King Windellan has been sending a lot of allowance money to Kaldus Coendera, to support Aidra Tersia who is the mother of his child, but nobody is allowed to know Kaldus isn't the father. Kaldus uses all that money for his own political gain without neither Aidra nor Joulran knowing about the money.]]

* SuccessionCrisis: [[spoiler:Windellan ended up in one with his legitimate half-brother that had him sent out to Kaldus' territory for his own safety. He decides to willingly go back to regain his rights as heir since despite his illegitimacy, he had the double-whirlpool fingerprint that makes eligible to be king, resulting in a fight that lasts for years before he ultimately ends up becoming the next king.]]]

* AmbitionIsEvil: Kaldus Coendera used to be a small lord of Dolba, but after warring with neighbours, as a self-proclaimed Great Lord of the Shigwentsa region, he tries to connect with the Palzam Kingdeom's royal family to secure his position, even if he has to trample the Tersia Family (who are meanwhile protecting the region from monsters) and innocent people between them.