History VideoGame / ClashArtifactsOfChaos

The game was released for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation5, UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, UsefulNotes/XboxOne, PC and UsefulNotes/XboxSeriesXAndS.

* TheDragon: ''Dragons,'' Gemini protects herself with three extremely strong Zenos, [[TheBrute the hulking]], elephant-like Wrehgg, the [[LightningBruiser lightning-fast]] Claw, and the [[DropTheHammer hammer-wielding]] Moon-Sun, all of which are fought at different points.

* ArtifactOfHope: The bulk of Psuedo and the Boy's quest is finding four [[PlotCouponThatDoesSomething Great Shield Artifacts,]] which can counteract the powerful artifacts held by Gemini and her palace guards.

--> [[spoiler:'''Psuedo:''' "While there is no justice... There will be no Law."]]

* {{Determinator}}: Psuedo goes to great lengths to keep the Boy safe, but somehow even more determined are the band of Zenos attempting to steal him in the hopes of a reward from Gemini. You fight the same dozen or so mercenaries multiple times in different combinations throughout the world. No matter how badly beaten by Psuedo they all become by the end, even the weakest of them never, ever stop trying.
* DegradedBoss: Every major enemy can be refought in Pseudo's dreams where they each take on a wooden form like the standard enemies do. [[spoiler:Typically these fights are much easier than the initial ones, though the Director and the Outcast both come in a trio. They generally only appear after you've taken on the original, the possible exceptions being Nightmare Wrehgg, Nightmare Claw, Nightmare Moon-Sun and Nightmare Gemini, the latter three granting Psuedo pieces of the Northern Armor set.]]

* TheExile: On the coastline lives a former partner of Gemini's, who gathered artifacts alongside her but was banished when she rose to power, forbidding anyone to even speak his name. [[spoiler:Even when Psuedo and the Boy catch up with him he's only referred to as [[TheNameless The Outcast,]] his real name is never revealed.]]

* MrExposition: Once he's awakened, Word the historian proceeds to fill Psuedo and the Boy in on how [[spoiler:Zenozoik is a preserve to hold the chimeras and mutated creatures that populate it,]] whether or not they fully understand it.

* SilentAntagonist: Claw, one of Gemini's guards, never says a word before any of Psuedo's three encounters with him. [[spoiler: After he's defeated at Gemini's palace he starts to go into a monologue about why he works for Gemini, Psuedo promptly kicks him unconscious to make him shut up.]]

* WalkingSpoiler: Psuedo's rarely-mentioned master is [[spoiler:Kax-Teh, not yet the North Golem, but pulling strings for the world outside Zenozoik. The [[WordOfGod Artbook]] even mentions that lengths were nearly taken to disguise his identity, but his voice is so distinctive they simply couldn't hide his inclusion.]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:By the end of the game Pseudo manages to defeat Gemini and claim her artefact, becoming the de-facto ruler of Zenozoik. After their journey, Pseudo accepts the Boy as his son and the Boy accepts Pseudo as his father. But then, in the middle of the night, Kax-Teh decides to take the Boy across the ocean to humanity. Although Pseudo tries to fight Kax-Teh for the return of his Son, the Boy stops him before Pseudo kills himself with the Golem's link. In the end the Boy agrees to go with Kax-Teh despite knowing he'll be experimented on for the rest of his life. The next morning Pseudo preforms his first and last act as ruler of Zenozoik. Abolishing the One Law and dooming Zenozoik to lawless anarchy.]]

* ConjoinedTwins: Gemini is an exaggeration version, being six people fused together at the torso, with elements of MindHive. By the time of the game, four heads have gone silent and are essentially dead, and she’s largely motivated by trying to save her remaining two heads.

* DueToTheDead: According to WordOfGod and the artbook, Gemini continues to style and groom her deceased heads in the style they preferred when they were still alive as a way to honor their memory.

* MindHive: PlayedWith. Gemini does not consider herself six different people conjoined at the torso, but rather one person with six different personalities and heads. Other Zenos refer to her in the singular, so they have this opinion as well.

* RuleOfSymbolism: Pseudo’s very unique upbringing has him feel as though he’s a defective, empty person with no soul. In his dreams, his self image is that of a wooden puppet.

* KnightInSourArmor: Pseudo may complain and come off as cynical, but he broke his isolation to get The Boy to safety, and is willing to go against Gemini and her mercenaries for no other reason than because it’s the right thing to do. Eo offers him a ''lot'' of barter value (Zenozoik is pre-currency) for the Boy and Pseudo doesn’t even remotely consider it.

* MeaningfulName: According to WordOfGod, Pseudo is so named as he is almost a human in shape, but in none of the ways that truly count such as facial structure.

* VomitIndescretionShot: Both the Corwid Axylon and the historian Word vomit on screen, one in gameplay, one in a cutscene. One is stunned by it during his fight, the other [[spoiler:regurgitates the Great Shield Artifact that the Outcast threw into his mouth.]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:By the end of the game Pseudo manages to defeat Gemini and claim her artefact, becoming the de-facto ruler of Zenozoik. After their journey, Pseudo accepts the Boy as his son and the Boy accepts Pseudo as his father. But then, in the middle of the night, Kax-Teh decides to take the Boy across the ocean to humanity. Although Pseudo tries to fight Kax-Teh for the return of his Son, the Boy stops him before Pseudo kills himself with the Golem's link. In the end the Boy agrees to go with Kax-Teh despite knowing he'll be experimented on for the rest of his life. The next morning Pseudo preforms his first and last act as ruler of Zenozoik. Abolishing the One Law.]]

* [[spoiler:{{Prequel}}: This game is set long before the events of the first two games.]]

* CrapsackWorld: [[spoiler: It was revealed by Word and Kax-Teh that the world outside of Zenozoik is dying.]]

--> [[spoiler:'''Psuedo:'''"While there is no justice... There will be no Law."]]

->[[spoiler:"While there is no justice... There will be no Law."]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:By the end of the game Pseudo manages to defeat Gemini and claim her artefact, becoming the de-facto ruler of Zenozoik. After their journey, Pseudo accepts the Boy as his son and the Boy accepts Pseudo as his father. But then, in the middle of the night, Kax-Teh decides to take the Boy across the ocean to humanity. Although Pseudo tries to fight to fight Kax-Teh for the return of his Son, the Boy stops him before Pseudo kills himself with the Golem's link. In the end the Boy agrees to go with Kax-Teh despite knowing he'll be experimented on for the rest of his life. The next morning Pseudo preforms his first and last act as ruler of Zenozoik. Abolishing the One Law.]]

* [[spoiler:{{Prequel}}: [[spoiler:This game is set long before the events of the first two games.]]

* {{Prequel}}: [[spoiler:This game is set long before the events of the first two games.]]

* ((Prequel)): [[spoiler:This game is set long before the events of the first two games.]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:By the end of the game Pseudo manages to defeat Gemini and claim her artefact, becoming the de-facto ruler of Zenozoik. After their journey, Pseudo accepts the Boy as his son and the Boy accepts Pseudo as his father. But then, in the middle of the night Kax-Teh decides to take the Boy across the ocean to humanity. Although Pseudo tries to fight to fight Kax-Teh for the return of his Son, the Boy stops him before Pseudo kills himself with the Golem's link. In the end, the Boy agrees to go with Kax-Teh despite knowing he'll be experimented on for the rest of his life. The next morning, Pseudo preforms his first and last act as ruler of Zenozoik. Abolishing the One Law.]]