History VideoGame / Dragonfable

** Sepulchure's Flying Dracolich Fortress crashes for different reasons in the games. In [=DragonFable=] it crashes due to sabotage by Grams, while in Adventure Quest Worlds it crashes due to Drakath blasting it out of the sky. Also, in [=DragonFable=] it happened when Gravelyn was still a toddler, while in AQW Gravelyn is fully grown.

** In [=DragonFable=], Riadne says that the Hero cannot become an Arachnomancer without having ancestral heritage, but in AQW it's an available class.
** In [=AdventureQuestWorlds=], Queen Safiria dies, while in [=DragonFable=] she is still alive.
** Some of the differences between [=DragonFable=] and AdventureQuestWorlds are explored in the [=DragonFable=] 2014 Frostval story, where Artix partially merges the two worlds together.

** The history of AdventureQuestWorlds is essentially the same as Dragonfable's Book 1, albeit with a few minor differences. For example, there is no Fluffy, [[spoiler:Priestess Celestia]] is never killed, and Robina plays a stronger role. AdventureQuestWorlds actually has its own equivalent to the Dragonfable Hero, though said Dragonlord has a much smaller role and is actually ''defeated'' by Drakath.

** King Alteon has a much larger role, and actually [[RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething directly participates in combat]].

** Unlike [=DragonFable=], Noxus does not survive the attack on the Necropolis in Adventure Quest Worlds, and ends up being resurrected by Sally as a lich. In addition, during Adventure Quest Worlds, Vordred corrupts Artix's axe into the Shadow Reaper of Doom after the Doomwood saga, when that had occurred ages before in [=DragonFable=].
** Both [[spoiler:Serenity and Lady Celestia are still alive in [=AdventureQuestWorlds=], long after their deaths in the timeline of [=DragonFable=]]].

* VomitDiscretionShot: In ''Yuglar's First Date'' part 2 where TheHero [[spoiler:throws up the Time-Cake, and shortly afterwards Cysero [[IAteWhat stores the cake for the future]].]]

* VomitDiscrectionShot: In ''Yuglar's First Date'' part 2 where TheHero [[spoiler:throws up the Time-Cake, and shortly afterwards Cysero [[IAteWhat stores the cake for the future]].]]

* VomitDescrectionShot: In ''Yuglar's First Date'' part 2 where TheHero [[spoiler:throws up the Time-Cake, and shortly afterwards Cysero [[IAteWhat stores the cake for the future]].]]

* BanOnMagic: [[spoiler:As of the TimeSkip, one is imposed by [[AntimagicalFaction The Rose]] over most of Lore with King Alteon's support. Falconreach is one of the few places left that welcomes magic.]]

* MirrorMatch: [[CaptainObvious You fight yourself]] in one of the more {{Mind Screw}}y quests in the ''Water Orb'' saga, [[BrainwashedAndCrazy while being hypnotised]] by [[spoiler: the squid-like BossMonster...]]

** In Book 1 Oaklore Keep, first released in October 2006, the Hero gets introduced to the Knights of the Pactagonal Table, and the idea of a "basic shape" resembling PacMan. Kind of funny as it is, worth maybe a chuckle or two. In Book 3, in the immediate aftermath of a war released nine years later in real time, The Rose and the Knights garrisoned in Oaklore [[spoiler:have to stop a boulder launched from their side via catapult from reaching Falconreach, somehow.]] Their solution is creative:

** Sepulchure isn't really an EldritchAbomination so much as a [[VillainSue Villainous]] GodModeSue, but seeing [[spoiler:Drakath impale him with his own sword]] definitely evokes this trope.

** When you first meet Twilly, you're given the option to kick him. If you ''do'' kick him, then you are promptly told that you're "the meanest player ever".

--> '''Galanoth''': [[CrowningMomentOfFunny I thought it was a horribly deformed dog or something! I thought it might hurt your feelings if I said "man, what happened to that dog?!"]]

* NintendoHard: Rolith's challenges in the Lymcrest Labyrinth are patently impossible without cooperating with other players (which was the point). [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome The fans solved all of them within days of their release]].

* ABoyAndHisX: A hero and his/her dragon.

* PaperTiger: Drakath. Sure, he looks like an archetypal rival, with the stylish cape and constant boasting, but he's actually fairly easy to defeat, [[FightingDirty even when he brings help.]] Add that into how regularly he's humiliated, terrified, and screwed with by his boss, and Drakath almost becomes sympathetic, if he wasn't such a jackass. [[spoiler: Inverted ''harshly'' after he [[TheStarscream literally stabs Sepulchure in the back]] and uses the Ultimate Orb to become a giant darkness dragon.]]

* DarkerAndEdgier: The Chapter 1 finale.
** Chapter 3 is shaping up to be this as well. See ShooOutTheClowns.
** ''[=DragonFable=]'' itself is this to other Artix games, with the most liberal application of GreyAndGrayMorality to date.
* DarkIsNotEvil: While DarkIsEvil and LightIsGood is very much the case in the continent the Hero lives on, on the other side of the world, the moral alignments of light and darkness associated beings are the opposite.

* VomitDesrectionShot: In ''Yuglar's First Date'' part 2 where TheHero [[spoiler:throws up the Time-Cake, and shortly afterwards Cysero [[IAteWhat stores the cake for the future]].]]

* VomitDescretionShot: In ''Yuglar's First Date'' part 2 where TheHero [[spoiler:throws up the Time-Cake, and shortly afterwards Cysero [[IAteWhat stores the cake for the future]].]]

* CerebusSyndrome: Book 3 takes a much darker for the game, with many of the towns you visited destroyed or sealed off, and many of the characters you got to know ending up KilledOffForReal. That is all.

* ElementalEmbodiment: Elementals are fully sentient creatures made entirely of one of the Elements. The most common ones are the main ones from ''VideoGame/AdventureQuest'' (Fire, Ice, Water, Energy, Earth, Air, Light, and Darkness) which have a corresponding Elemental Avatar, but there are a few more out there ones like Metal or Silver with no patron Avatar. In Book 3, Theano uses the magical equivalent of PlayingWithSyringes to create Disease Elementals.

* SpeedBlitz: The SoulWeaver class's Retribution skill.