History VideoGame / DivinityDragonCommander

-->'''Trinculo''': O dear, o dear! A ravishing Imp princess was on her way to the Raven, Commander, but she and her chambermaids [[TooDumbToLive were playing hide-and-seek-the-lit-fuse aboard her transport ship and...]] well... they didn't find it in time. Poor girl. Died a true Imp's death, though - blasted to smithereens, fireworks in the sky. [[BlueAndOrangeMorality I'm happy for her really!]]

* BreakTheHaughty: The events of the Harrowridge genocide on both Yorrick and Edmond's parts, Yorrick noticeably less so: his initial horror at the deed is quickly subsumed by the '[[KickTheDog realization]]' that the [[VictimBlaming elves must have done something truly]] dreadful to earn such a fate. Edmond is a much straighter example to come out of the affair: the last you see of him before the investigation is him contemptuously spitting that he'll 'hop to it'. [[HeroicBSOD He comes back in shock at what he's seen.]]

** [[UpperClassTwit Edmond,]] to everyone's abject shock, considering his tendency to [[FantasticRacism look down on other races]]. Given the right dialogue choices, he ends up smitten with an elven girl.

* NotSoAboveItAll: If you convince Henry to bond with the other generals over poker, Edmond denounces it afterwards as a ruffian or con-artist's game, and no self-respecting individual would partake in so much as a single round of it. He then proceeds to almost blatantly hint that Henry cleaned him out.

* ChivalrousPervert: Henry all the way. Think so highly of himself that when Scarlet turns him down he thinks it's because she is a lesbian. (She is but that's besides the point). However, he's quite understanding in regards to the aforementioned revelation, and he agrees with Catherine that any soldier caught raping a woman should have his [[GroinAttack instrument cut off.]]

-->'''Trinculo''': O dear, o dear! A ravishing Imp princess was on her way to the Raven, Commander, but she and her chambermaids [[TooDumbToLive were playing hide-and-seek-the-lit-fuse aboard her transport ship and...]] well... they didn't find it in time. Poor girl. [[OutInABlazeOfGlory Died a true Imp's death, though]] - blasted to smithereens, fireworks in the sky. [[BlueAndOrangeMorality I'm happy for her really!]]

-->'''Trinculo''': O dear, o dear! A ravishing Imp princess was on her way to the Raven, Commander, but she and her chambermaids [[TooDumbToLive were playing hide-and-seek-the-lit-fuse aboard her transport ship and...]] well... they didn't find it in time. Poor girl. [[BlazeOfGlory Died a true Imp's death, though]] - blasted to smithereens, fireworks in the sky. [[BlueAndOrangeMorality I'm happy for her really!]]

-->'''Trinculo''': O dear, o dear! A ravishing Imp princess was on her way to the Raven, Commander, but she and her chambermaids [[TooDumbToLive were playing hide-and-seek-the-lit-fuse aboard her transport ship and...]] well... they didn't find it in time. Poor girl. Died a true Imp's death, though - blasted to smithereens, fireworks in the sky. [[BlueAndOrangeMorality I'm happy for her really!]]

** Trinculo can be found in the Engineering Bay immediately after, and speaks of it.

** Then revealed in the following day's newspaper - [[spoiler: "Imp Princess dies during Hide-and-seek-the-lit-fuse game! Ministry of Education demands Nationwide ban!"]]
* NotSoDifferent: Let's be perfectly honest: the only one on the ship as sexist as Catherine is Yorick; she's just misandrist rather than misogynist.

* WarIsGlorious: A really, ''really'' dark example in Corvus: to him, war is glorious not for anything so mawkish as patriotism. He loves war because it's fun to watch.

* ForTheEvulz: Corvus may want the dragon's soul at the end of the day, but he basically kicked off the plot and plunged the world into war for the funzies.

* ChivalrousPervert: Henry all the way. Think so highly of himself that when Scarlet turns him down he thinks it's because she is a lesbian. (She is but that's besides the point). However he agrees with Catherine that any soldier caught raping a woman should have his [[GroinAttack instrument cut off.]]

* OurElvesAreBetter: Subverted somewhat. The elf councilperson is very enthusiastic and bombastic in defending his typical environmentalist and civil rights agenda, but is merely disappointed when you don't listen to him.

* ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld: Shamans are small, ground hugging airships, while full blown zeppelins are also in play in the form of... well, Zeppelins.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Edmund can get some CharacterDevelopment along these lines if [[spoiler: the player sends him out to deal with rumors of a genocide in Harrowidge, finding them to be true.]] He muses that he might pay for the library there to be rebuilt.

* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: Contained in the dialogue of a ''lot'' of characters, particularly Edmund.

* {{Fetish}}: If you choose the undead princess, the newspapers will report some people think it's because you have a skeleton fetish. Edmund is the only one on-board to state that [[ILoveTheDead you're basically practicing necrophilia]].

* SteamPunk: Mixed with a few dashes of ClockPunk and MagiTech for flavor, Rivellon unabashedly parades this aesthetic for all it's worth. And damned if it's not ''cool''.

** The next day's newspaper clarifies it - the airship she was taking to meet your character exploded because [[TooDumbToLive she was playing "hide-and-seek-the-lit-fuse" and lost]].

** It's actually flat-out stated. The airship she was taking to meet your character exploded because [[TooDumbToLive she was playing "hide-and-seek-the-lit-fuse" and lost]].

*** WordOfGod is that they did plan for an imp princess but didn't have the budget for her story arc. So they came up with a in-character reason for not having her.

* {{Fetish}}: If you choose the undead princess, the newspapers will report some people think it's because you have a skeleton fetish.

The game has two primary phases with two genres. The strategy map is where the player determines army movements, building placement, research, and the use of strategic cards in typical TurnBasedStrategy fashion, reminiscent of a ''{{Risk}}'' map. When opposing armies occupy the same territory, the player can let the computer auto-resolve the battle, or opt to take command personally in a RealTimeStrategy engine.

* LizardFolk: Contrary to the usual depiction, the lizards in your entourage are classy and logical-minded. Your lizard councilperson is by far the most willing to weigh all points of any issue and take the most pragmatic approach, without letting bias get in the way.

** Dwarves: Conservative, support traditional "family values" and often back the military. They also have something of a Libertarian streak, as they oppose most business regulation and have a noted dislike of the taxman.

** Lizards: Liberal, strongly back the ideals of personal liberty and freedom, to the point of actually having a fairly democratic society. Their councilor even tells this straight to the Emperor, and actively bemoans his ilk's tendency to curtail the rights of his people for the sake of his own ego.
** Elves: Radical, have views everyone else considers "out there" and tend to propose highly irregular legislation.

* AnythingThatMoves: Scarlett, much to [[ChivalrousPervert Henry's]] delight, Catherine's bemusement and Edmund's disgust.

** Elves: Radical, have views everyone else considers "out there" and tend to propose highly irregular legislation, but occasionally end up in fascist territory.