History VideoGame / Deepwoken

** In the Ethironal Shrine Outpost, if you have Summon Cauldron learned, [[https://youtu.be/PrKm7YKAaZg you can use the Galewax as a potion ingredient]], even though there exists no way to bring Galewax outside of it as it's voided out once you exit the Ethironal Shrine Outpost.

* GuideDangIt: Mantra modifiers. Unless you look up the wiki, expect to take a long time to figure out which mantra modifier works or not. Sometimes it may work anyway... Only for it to be a PowerUpLetdown.

* GatlingGood: Mechalodaunts are Megalodaunts with a {{BFG}} attached to their shoulder.

* GatlingGood: Mechalodaunts are Megalodaunts with a BFG attached to their should.

* EvilCounterpart: Eylis is this to Klaris.

* TheBlank: The Angels and cult leader Samael have a blank pale face obscured by feathers.

* ArmorIsUseless: [[DownplayedTrope Not exactly]]. There exists various armors in the game, with Master Armors being considered the best of them all. This is played straight on a character slot that has the Crestfallen echo modifier active, as armor is permanently broken, making them only useful for their talents alone and nothing else.
** Played straight with the [=NPCs=]. Their armor provides no benefits whatsoever, and have to rely on their skill, [=HP=] and baked in resistances.

* TheBlank: Deep Angels and cult leader Samael have a blank pale face obscured by feathers.

** The Blazing Enchant sets your opponent on fire. Not exactly exciting, but when you consider that downed opponents automatically die after a set amount of period on fire, this is useful for dealing with multiple groups at once and if you don't invest in Flamecharm or don't have Lethal Precision or Finishing Touch.

* OffWithHisHead: The Lethal Precision talent proccing with Swords can result in a player beheading an NPC enemy upon reducing their HP to 0.

* LudicrousGibs: While this is generally averted for the most part, some executions, such as Lethal Precision play it straight, with the executioner hitting the opponent so hard that they ''dismember everything from their victim''.

* HardModePerks: The Deepbound origin essentially makes your first spawn point the Depths, meaning that if you die even once, your character is wiped unless you pay for a Drowned Favor. To make up for this, you'll always have access to Castle Light regardless whether you arrive at the Depths through a whirlpool or dying, which decreases your insanity when you stay in it, have access to both an normally unavailable Antiquarian and heater to cook your food, and gain boosted exp while killing enemies in the Depths.

* GunsAreWorthless: While they can and are used as a powerful weapon, they can't mow down large hordes with efficiency and most people can take several shots to the stomach before falling down, and even then they can cover relatively quickly given the time. Lampshaded by the guns being reverse engineered from lost old blueprints, thus being far from their original efficient design, to the point of bullets being square cubes.

** Primordial Lotuses come in different varieties, but are able to crafted into a flask that increases' a non-Attunement attribute by one.

** Ironsing is the only Attunement that requires starting a unique questline to even unlock the Attunement - to get it, after getting a Pluripotent Alloy, you must make your way to Adar, then finding Iron, Gold, Erisore, Irithine, Astruline, and Umbrite ores for him to create a potion that allows you to learn Ironsing. Doing so unlocks Ironsing as a starting attunement for new characters. The reason behind this is that Ironsing was recently rediscovered in the lore, which is why not too many character in-game use them.

* SecretArt: Shadowcast is the only Attunement that cannot be learned from the start — to get it, you must first go to the Depths and approach Nostor with 5 Umbral Obsidian to get a potion that allows you to learn Shadowcast. Doing so unlocks Shadowcast as a starting attunement for all new characters. [[spoiler: The reasoning for this will become clear if you notice that [[ApocalypseCult the Ministry]] is the only faction to employ Shadowcasters. Read one of the lore books, and you'll soon find that Shadowcasting is actually very taboo, likely due to its unique effect of draining Ether.]]

** As potent as a fully-charged Wind-Up bell can be, enough to punt a player into the atmosphere not unlike Primadon's Kick while also dealing massive damage, it takes a long time to charge up. You're better off using the bell when it has at least one charge, which still deals a good amount of knockback and damage. A later update buffed Wind-Up by having it autogrip after three charges, making it somewhat more viable, but Blood Scourge (assuming you get lucky) has a wider AOE and instant usage, and Dagger users have Finishing Touch which allows them to autogrip with their Dagger critical attacks. As such, it only sees serious use with Heavy Weapon users.