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* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: The librarian in the museum identifies the book title that Arizona brings to her: “Do the telluric alpaca hermeneutics transpose the peripatetic lautretics of Unicornian philosophy because of the factic iniquity of the non-dogmatic Amaryllian dialogues?”
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* ScalingTheSummit: Arizona has jump up to the top of the mountains at the beginning of Part III.

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* ScalingTheSummit: Arizona has jump to jump/climb up to the top of the mountains at the beginning of Part III.



* TimeLimitBoss: Oleander's third phase has to be beat in a certain amount of time, or it results in a KO. Not that it matters if Arizona wins or not.

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* TimeLimitBoss: Oleander's third phase has to be beat beaten in a certain amount of time, or it results in a KO. Not that it matters if Arizona wins or not.
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* PricelessMingVase: In one exhibit, Arizona's accidentally destroys a delicate ancient scroll by sneezing over it, she automatically heads for the exit before anyone see's her too close to the now-empty display stand.

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* PricelessMingVase: In one exhibit, Arizona's accidentally destroys a delicate ancient scroll by sneezing over it, she automatically heads for the exit before anyone see's sees her too close to the now-empty display stand.
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* NotSoAboveItAll: There is exactly one painting in Reine's meuseum that Arizona finds "beautiful".

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* NotSoAboveItAll: There is exactly one painting in Reine's meuseum museum that Arizona finds "beautiful".
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* TheGhost: The Elite 7 are mentioned throughout Reine, but we don't see any of them appear. Tianhuo also might be responsible for the lake drying out.

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* TheGhost: The Elite 7 are mentioned throughout Reine, but we don't see any of them appear. Tianhuo also might be responsible for the icy lake drying out.having been melted.
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* DoNotTouchTheFunnelCloud: Unusually for a giant cyclone, Velvet's is an aversion as it pushes Arizona ''away'' from her and she has to run against the wind ''towards it'' to hit her.]]

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* DoNotTouchTheFunnelCloud: Unusually for a giant cyclone, Velvet's is an aversion as it pushes Arizona ''away'' from her and she has to run against the wind ''towards it'' to hit her.]]
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* BreakingTheFourthWall: During one of the Predator fights, Arizona will say "Cue the music!".

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* BreakingTheFourthWall: During Right before one of the Predator fights, fights (Part I mini-boss), Arizona will say "Cue the music!".
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* BossTease: Arizona is warned of a "monster" that appears within the mountains. Of course, he's talking about Paprika, who technically does serve as the boss for the end of Part III.

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* BossTease: Adobo warns Arizona is warned of a "monster" that appears within the mountains. Of course, he's talking about Paprika, who technically does serve as the boss for the end of Part III.
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* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: After beating everyone she comes across, Arizona manages to lose against Oleander or Fred (depending if Ari wins against the former or not.)

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* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: After beating everyone she comes across, Arizona manages to lose against Oleander or Fred (depending if Ari wins against the former Oleander or not.)
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* BreatherLevel: Compared to the harsh Prairie and mountains, Reine is a cozy, snowy city with very little enemies and most of the part is walking through the areas talking to NPCS.
** After the mountain climb at the beginning of part III, Arizona doesn't fight or encounter any enemies through her trek through the High Plains until Paprika's boss fight.
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A young calf named Arizona bravely volunteers to be The Prairie's Champion when no one else in the herd would. He parents tell her to head north to Reine City, where she might find clues relating to the Prophet's Key.
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* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: After beating everyone she comes across, Arizona manages to lose against Oleander or Fred (depending if Ari wins against the former or not.)
* AndTheAdventureContinues: At the end of the chapter, Arizona sets out of the temple, having hit a roadblock but refusing to give up on her quest.
* AsYouKnow: The beginning of Arizona's chapter has Texas recapping the story about the Predators, the Prophet's Key, and [[BreakingTheFellowship what happened to the ungulates of Fœnum]], all of which stories Arizona already are aware of.
* BackgroundBoss: For most of the fight, the Cuddles boss stays in and attacks from the background.
* BeastInTheBuilding: Arizona can find a sleeping bear at the end of a secret bookcase passage in a museum library. She can optionally fight it to get the [=MiniVelvet=] cosmetic, but there's no word of how and why a bear even got inside Reine's museum.
* BlackoutBasement: It's really dark when in one reindeer's basement.
* BondOneLiner: Upon beating a giant snake, Arizona says "And that's a wrap!".
* BookcasePassage: There is one of these in Reine's museum, which opens up if Arizona puts away a certain book.
* BossCorridor: There's a small healing section right before the two Multi-Mook Melee fights and Oleander.
* BossTease: Arizona is warned of a "monster" that appears within the mountains. Of course, he's talking about Paprika, who technically does serve as the boss for the end of Part III.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: During one of the Predator fights, Arizona will say "Cue the music!".
* BreakTheHaughty: Arizona shows Velvet she's not perfect or invincible by beating her to her senses, in her home town. Velvet [[ThisCannotBe can only ask how "a simple country bumpkin" manage to beat the Champion of the Tundra]] before fainting.
* BreatherLevel: Compared to the harsh Prairie and mountains, Reine is a cozy, snowy city with very little enemies and most of the part is walking through the areas talking to NPCS.
** After the mountain climb at the beginning of part III, Arizona doesn't fight or encounter any enemies through her trek through the High Plains until Paprika's boss fight.
* BrickJoke: Fred and Oleander comment on most of the cosmetics Arizona obtained, such as the loaf of bread she licked in the beginning.
* TheCameo: Pom makes a short nameless appearance in Reine [[EarlyBirdCameo before she has any relevance to the story.]]
* CassandraTruth: There is a nearby cave near the Alpake camp that one alpaca tells Arizona is a dead end (like life). She can go in it to find that it's empty, just like the alpaca said.
-->"See, What did I tell you?"
* TheCatCameBack: When Arizona thought she got rid of Paprika by stomping near her, she showed up again right behind her. (She came from the bottom of the screen even though she left from the ''top''.)
* TheCity: The second act takes place in the snowing city of Reine.
* DavidVersusGoliath: Arizona is a small calf but managed to beat a giant cobra by herself.
* ADayInTheLimeLight: This chapter focuses on Arizona's side of the story, if a small part of it.
* DeathFromAbove: Arizona unknowingly crushes two different wolves with two heavy stone blocks while they were asleep.
* DeathMountain: The Huacaya Mountains, the setting of Part III, are foggy and very dangerous.
* DesertSkull: Arizona comes across one with the rest of the skeleton near the beginning of her adventure. She doesn't give it too much thought despite the fact that all ungulates in this world are sapient.
* DoNotTouchTheFunnelCloud: Unusually for a giant cyclone, Velvet's is an aversion as it pushes Arizona ''away'' from her and she has to run against the wind ''towards it'' to hit her.]]
* DownerEnding: Arizona gets her hind handed to her whether she beats Oleander's final phase or not and her bag looted. She herself also can't make sense of any of the writing on the pillar in the Temple of Gloom, putting her journey at a dead end.
* DramaticIrony: Oleander doesn't know that Fred was actually the one to knock out Arizona, or that he's using her for something.
* DuelingPlayerCharacters: Arizona at different points fights against Velvet, Paprika, and Oleander. In that order.
* TheGhost: The Elite 7 are mentioned throughout Reine, but we don't see any of them appear. Tianhuo also might be responsible for the lake drying out.
* FantasticRacism: A lot of reindeer don't think too highly of Arizona because of her species. In this chapter, Arizona can speak to one particular reindeer who makes disparaging remarks about sheep, horses, and cows, only to notice too late that she's talking to a cow.
* TheFarmerAndTheViper: Played for laughs, but Arizona can lick (and steal) Madison's loaf of bread after she offered Arizona a spot to sleep by her camp.
* FishEyes: A few of the eyes on some of the deerfolk sprites are a little... off and/or bug-eyed.
* FoodAsBribe: Arizona convinces the guards to let her into Reine with a bottle of milk. (From another cow.)
* FreeFloorFighting: In some segments, Arizona has to fight Flappies while also platforming and trying not to get knocked off.
* GravityScrew: If Arizona keeps stomping near a KO'd Paprika, she goes up into the air and never comes back down.
* TheGreatSerpent: A large Cuddles (cobra) serves as the first true boss of the game.
* GroundPunch: Arizona can stomp in the game's overworld.
* HeadsIWinTailsYouLose: Arizona will get knocked out anyway even if she beats Oleander's third phase or not, making Oleander victorious either way.
* ICanSeeMyHouseFromHere: While close to the secret trail's highest edge Arizona exclaims that she's so high everything looks like ants. Subverted since they were ants.
* IDrankWhat: One reindeer is more than surprised when Arizona tells him where milk actually comes from and doesn't move or speak afterwords.
* InfoDump: A reindeer fangirl explains to Arizona a lot of information about the Elite 7 when she reaches their headquarters. Granted, none of it is relevant to Arizona in particular, and half of the doe's dialogue consist of gushing, but at least the player gets a cosmetic.
* JumpedAtTheCall: When none of the other Cattlekind had the courage to volunteer as the Prairie's Champion, Arizona triumphantly claimed to do so.
* JustAKid: The only part of Arizona's beginning journey from the Book of Lore which remained the same is her father telling her she was too young and it was too dangerous for her to be Champion.
* LoonyFan: The reindeer FanGirl in front of the Elite 7 HQ gets distracted a lot thinking about how cool the group is.
* MiniMe: The Minizona and [=MiniVelvet=] cosmetics (Small plushies of Arizona and Velvet) are obtained within this chapter.
* MistakenForProstitute: [[https://youtu.be/EO-XDw-BrMw?t=2939 No, really.]] Though at the very least it's an awkward moment made to parody this trope, since it's ambiguous what the reindeer wanted Arizona to do with those mentioned condiments and toppings. [[ScrewThisImOutOfHere She runs right out of there when he suggests starting on the table.]]
* MultiMookMelee: There are two parts of the chapter where Arizona has to fight a series of Predators.
* MuseumOfBoredom: To Arizona at least; she doesn't find most of the exhibits in Reine's museum interesting. [[NotSoAboveItAll Except one.]]
* MuseumOfTheStrangeAndUnusual: Arizona has a point about some of the exhibits being a little odd. (A giant banana peel and a [[VideoGame/GarrysMod purple-and-black checkerboard painting]]?)
* MustacheVandalism: The exhibits for Velvet and Vixen are closed off because they vandalized each other's exhibits like this trope with added stink lines.
* MythPrologue: Though touched on before in the actual prologue, we're given some more detail in the chapter's beginning about how the ungulates banished the Predators, and how they all distanced themselves ever since.
* NonIndicativeName: The Eternal Caves of Neverending Length is actually very short; it's just a single cavern with one river cross, without even any enemies.
* NonLethalKO: Fred knocks out Arizona in a single attack if she manages to win instead of Ollie.
* NotHisSled: Ignoring the coincidental irony relating to Santa's reindeer and the trope name, Cupid is apparently ''not'' one of the Elites chosen by the Winter Sprites. At least not yet, as it's implied he might be chosen as the eighth member later.
* NotSoAboveItAll: There is exactly one painting in Reine's meuseum that Arizona finds "beautiful".
* NPCRoadblock: In Reine, there would be a few deerfolk blocking paths keeping Arizona from exploring the rest of the city or more of certain buildings.
* PlayerCharacter: Arizona is the protagonist during this game's first chapter.
* PostVictoryCollapse: Arizona collapses from exhaustion after climbing to the top of the Highland Mountains.
* PowerFloats: When activating her full power (and her third phase) Oleander's eyes glow white and she floats through the air. Arizona has to lasso her down or the fight ends very quickly.
* PricelessMingVase: In one exhibit, Arizona's accidentally destroys a delicate ancient scroll by sneezing over it, she automatically heads for the exit before anyone see's her too close to the now-empty display stand.
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: Minnesota when sending off her daughter.
-->"I dub thee... Champ'een of Cattlekind! Now go, and... SAVE... THE...WORLD!"
* QuirkyTown: For the highest level of society in Fœnum, a large chunk of the reindeer Arizona encounters seem rather off, but at least in a cute and funny way.
* {{Retcon}}: In the original Book of Lore, many of the Cattlekind were eager to become Champion, and the winner had to be chosen out of a ballot (Arizona snuck in her name at night). In the game proper, all of the other Cattlekind [[RefusalOfTheCall ran away in fear at the proposed job,]] and Arizona was the only one brave enough to do so. She didn't even have to fight her father to prove herself this time.
* RuinsForRuinsSake: An old temple ruins is encountered at the end of Part III, with the next and final part of the chapter taking place inside of it.
* ScalingTheSummit: Arizona has jump up to the top of the mountains at the beginning of Part III.
* SecretPath: Arizona can find an alternate route if she takes a different direction at the beginning of her journey.
* SequentialBoss: The giant Cuddles, Velvet, Paprika and Oleander all have 3 phases that must be beat.
* ShiftingSandLand: The first act of the chapter takes place in the desert-like Prairie.
* SickeningSweethearts: One pair of {{NPC}}s are a reindeer couple arguing who "wuvs" the other more. Arizona decides to best leave them alone.
* SinisterSilhouettes: Paprika appears through the fog in a silhouette at the top of the mountains.
* ShipTeasing:
** When discovering the tinfoil hat, Fred asks Olander if she'd like to keep it because it smells like that reindeer (Cashmere) Oleander "likes so much". Oleander states that she just said she liked her glasses.
** The Elite 7 fangirl wonders if Vixen might be in a relationship with Comet or Velvet.
* SNKBoss: Velvet doesn't have a stationary twister in her normal moveset, and Oleander doesn't do... whatever the heck she activates in her third phase.
* SpitTake: Velvet spits out her latte after tasting that it was pumpkin spice. Directly in Arizona's face.
* SuddenlyShouting: Arizona sure YELLS A LOT during the course of the chapter, usually when she's excited. She even startles a bunch of reindeer at one point.
* TakingTheFightOutside: A curator suggests to Velvet to take her fight with Arizona outside the museum (away from the priceless artifacts) before they start.
* TemptingFate: Near the beginning, Arizona doesn't find adventuring too hard at first and claims to have the heroing business in the bag. Her journey is going to get much harder.
* TimeLimitBoss: Oleander's third phase has to be beat in a certain amount of time, or it results in a KO. Not that it matters if Arizona wins or not.
* TinfoilHat: Cashmere sells Arizona one, claiming that it will [[SnakeOilSalesman “cloak [her] presence from the sight of cosmic entities residing just beyond the veil”]].
* ToBeContinued: Chapter One ends with this; into Velvet's chapter.
* TrespassingHero: Two reindeer lampshade the fact Arizona can just barge right into people's homes when in Reine.
* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: InUniverse, Arizona has a hard time trying to make sense of most of the art and paintings in Reine. A lot of other times, [[TrueArtIsBoring she's bored or unimpressed by them.]]
* UndergroundLevel: Most of The Prairie's chapter takes place underground in the Salt Mines.
* WakeUpCallBoss: The snake boss at the end of the Salt Mines is a lot more challenging than the Predator mooks that came before it, and has new moves that forces the player to fight creatively.
* WarriorVersusSorcerer: At the end of the chapter, the brawn-focused BadassNormal Arizona fights against the dark magic-using sorceress, Oleander.
* WhamLine: If Arizona knocks out Oleander, Fred reveals his true colors:
--> "YOU MISERABLE WRETCHED PILE OF BEEF...! YOU ARE RUINING MY PLANS. I'VE WORKED FOR DECADES. LONGER THAN YOU HAVE BEEN ALIVE HUNDREDS OF TIMES OVER. YOU WILL NOT STAND IN MY WAY, NOT WHEN I'M SO CLOSE TO ACHIEVING MY GOALS. YOU KNOW NOTHING. YOU ARE NOTHING. NOW... DIE!" [[note]]Arizona doesn't actually die, thankfully.[[/note]]
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