History PlayingWith / VillainousBadlandHeroicArcadia

** The settting is a huge dry desert that isn't exactly a good place to be around no matter where you are, but Brightland is situated in a relatively lush floodplain of succulent cacti and does have it's own beauty to it, while Vileshade is in the middle of sand dunes that gets the worst heat.

* '''Inverted''': The BarbarianHero [[MiseryBuildsCharacter was shaped]] by cold, harsh wastelands where his [[ProudWarriorRace valorous]] [[BarbarianTribe tribesmen]] live, while the decadent EvilSorcerer lives in an tropical paradise that easily supports a sprawling ViceCity.

** The settting is a huge dry desert that isn't exactly a good place to be around no matter where you are, but Brightland is situated in a relatively lush floodplain of succulents and does have it's own beauty to it, while Vileshade is in the middle of sand dunes that gets the woest heat.

** The settting is a huge dry desert that isn't exactly a good place to be around no matter where you are, but Brightland is situated in a relatively lush floodplain of succulents.

* '''Downplayed''': Brightland is a typical temperate area with generally mild weather (cool summers and warm winters) while Vileshade tends to get a lot of rain and overly hot summers and cold winters, but is livable and occasionally has good weather.

* Played for Drama: ???

** Each land is ruled by a FisherKing. Brightland is sustained by TheGoodKing, while Vileshade has been ruined by [[TheEmperor an evil emperor]].

* '''Straight''': The [[TheKingdom peaceful kingdom]] of Brightland is a blooming pastoral {{Arcadia}} ruled by [[TheGoodKing Bob the Benevolent]]. They are invaded by the militaristic [[TheEmpire empire]] of Vileshade under [[TheCaligula Evulz the Cruel]], which is a [[GaiasLament polluted wasteland]] [[DeathWorld where few plants grow]] and [[{{Mordor}} landscapes are mostly]] [[SceneryGorn gloomy greys and browns]]. When the army of Vileshade takes over an area of Brightland, within a few years of their management it has turned just as bad as Vileshade.

* '''Conversed''' ???

* '''Downplayed''': Brightland is a typical temperate area with genuinely mild weather (cool summers and warm winters) while Vileshade tends to rain a lot and get overly hot summers and cold winters, but is livable and occasionally has good weather.

* '''Straight''': The [[TheKingdom peaceful kingdom]] of Brightland is a blooming pastoral {{Arcadia}} ruled by [[TheGoodKing Bob the Benevolent]]. They are invaded by the militaristic [[TheEmpire empire]] of Vileshade under [[TheCaligula Evulz the Cruel]], which is [[DeathWorld a polluted wasteland]] [[SceneryGorn where few plants grow and landscapes are mostly gloomy greys and browns]]. When the army of Vileshade takes over an area of Brightland, within a few years of their management it has turned just as bad as Vileshade.

** (2) Brightland is vivid, colorful, flower-covered and rife with fauna, while Vileshade is a depressing wasteland nearly devoid of life... except it became that way due to an invasion by the Brightland army ages ago that utterly devastated Vileshade. As a side effect, it motivated General Evulz, the highest-ranking officer of Vileshade military who survived Brightland's onslaught, to [[EmergencyAuthority declare himself Emperor]] and rule the country with an iron grip to build a military force that could return the favor to Brightland.

** (2) However, the Brightland's invasion actually was a counter-offensive to a conquest started by the previous king of Vileshade in an attempt to grab the most fertile territories of Brightland.

* '''Invoked''': The villains were former inhabitants of Brightland who were exiled to Vileshade as punishment for their villainy.

* '''Implied''': The story is set in neither Brightland nor Vileshade, but in a different area that hosts many adventurers from both lands. Two Brightlandian adventures reminisce about their beloved home, and a Vileshade spy looking in on them, who has earlier said that he has no interest in going back home, seems sad and angry at them when she hears their conversation.

* '''Reconstructed''': Vileshade is a hard, cruel land, but the volcanic soil regions are ''very'' fertile, the rest of the region [[HadToBeSharp raises tough people]], and there's a lot of mineral wealth to be had beneath the earth.

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* '''Straight''': The [[TheKingdom peaceful kingdom]] of Brightland is a blooming pastoral {{Arcadia}}. They are invaded by the cruel [[TheEmpire empire]] of Vileshade, which is a polluted wasteland where few plants grow. When Vileshade takes over an area of Brightland, within a few years of their management it has turned just as bad as Vileshade.
* '''Exaggerated''': Brightland is such a SugarBowl that every time you leave your house you are surrounded by adorable chirping birds and cute rabbits. There is never bad weather and the plants are magically blessed to never rot and die. Meanwhile Vileshade is nothing but desert interspersed with giant heaps of garbage, with no plants or animals in sight. As soon as a resident of Vileshade sets foot in any other land, it instantly turns into the same decrepit wasteland.

* '''Inverted''': The heroic BarbarianTribe was shaped by cold, harsh wastelands, while the decadent EvilSorcerer lives in an tropical paradise that easily supports a sprawling ViceCity.
* '''Subverted''': We are first introduced to Bob from Brightland, who lives in a house with a beautiful garden, and Violet from Vileshade, a soldier fighting in a barren wasteland. We later learn that Bob is very wealthy and most people in Brightland live in less pleasant parts of the area, and Violet was traveling through an area devastated by war but the rest of Vileshade is quite green and beautiful.
* '''Double Subverted''': This information is told to us by a propagandist for Vileshade, who is trying to make Brightland look bad by emphasizing their income inequality that is really far more mild, with everyone living in beautiful pastoral areas, and wants to hide that many in Vileshade are living in horrible conditions and starving.

* '''Double Subverted''': This information is told to us by a propagandist for Vileshade, who is trying to make Brightland look like the bad emphasizing their income inequality that is really far more mild, with everyone living in beautiful pastoral areas, and wants to hide that everyone in Vileshade is living in horrible conditions and starving.

* '''Justified''': The people of Vileshade would normally live peacefully just like the people of Brightland, and their acts of conquest that make them the villains of the story are all motivated by obtaining enough arable land so they don't starve. Brightland was chosen to take over ''because'' it was the most prosperous region.

* '''Inverted''': The peaceful kingdom of Brightland is a decrepit desert interspersed with polluted cities, while the evil empire of Vileshade is a flourishing {{Arcadia}}.