History VideoGame / DungeonSiege

* IncendiaryExponent[=/=]KillItWithFire[=/=]WomanOnFire[=/=]WreathedInFlames: Anjali and most archons.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfRoles: Voice acting power couple Creator/YuriLowenthal and Creator/TaraPlatt make up the ''entire'' cast of the original game.

* TheLostWoods: The Kingdom of Ehb and Utreaean Peninsula each have 3 distinct stages of coniferous forest levels, [[EnchantedForest increasingly enchanted with each subsequent one.]]

An ActionRPG series created by Chris Taylor and developed by Creator/GasPoweredGames. What sets it apart from the others is its unique ability to let you the player specialize in whichever class you want rather than choosing preselected classes and going with them. The four classes are: Fighter, Ranger (archer,) Nature Mage (mostly defensive magic and some offensive magic) and Combat Mage (the reverse of Nature Mage.) The ExpansionPack to ''Dungeon Siege II'', ''Broken World'', adds two more: Fist of Stone (combination of Fighter and Nature Mage) and Blood Assassin (combination of Ranger and Combat Mage.) You can also create a party of eight hireable [=NPCs=] (six in ''DS II'',) offering more flexibility, plus a pack mule to carry all your extra stuff. Unusually, you do not control your characters directly in combat; you instruct them ahead of time, and set formations as they travel, and when enemies appear, they act according to their instructions, casting spells, fighting close in, healing allies, or whatever you've instructed, autonomously.

* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:Celia in ''Broken World''. Given how the Dryads lost their hometown and their place to the world, she and her fellow people have no choice but to ally themselves with the BiggerBad.]]

** Taar and Finala, being the default mages of the party. Befitting to her calm and gentle temperament, Taar is a [[WhiteMagic Nature Mage)]], and the temperamental and no-nonsense Finala is a [[LadyOfBlackMagic Combat Mage]].

** Taar and Finala, being the default mages of the party. Befitting to her calm and gentle temperament, Taar is a [[WhiteMagic Nature Mage), and the temperamental and no-nonsense Finala is a [[LadyOfBlackMagic Combat Mage]].

* BloodKnight: When the normally passive Taar says she fights the Morden because she must, Finala gives the near psychopathic response that she fights them because she can. Given how the Morden indirectly destroys her friendship with two of her childhood friends and being allied to the person who nearly destroyed their hometown, her hatred towards them is justified.

* BloodKnight: When the normally passive Taar says she fights the Morden because she must, Finala gives the near psychopathic response that she fights them because she can.

* TheEeyore: Amren in ''Broken World''. Heck, ''every'' elf you can talk to in the expansion is morbidly depressed, except for Finala.

** Finala the Elven machine expert also shows shades of this in her conversations with the player character. She is not entirely faultless however, given how the main character and Drevin worked with the Morden knowing that they were up to no good, so her hatred and mistrust towards them is justified. Thankfully, she does start to loosen up just before offering to join your party.

* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: The first act consists of the protagonist trying to return home, and happening to help various parts of LaResistance against Valdis. The second act begins with [[spoiler:Valdis and the Archmage destroying said home]], prompting the protagonist to continue adventuring.

** On the other hand, the main game had some dashes of CrapsaccharineWorld. You may think the Dryads are sweet and lovely plant girls, right? Not in this game; a lot of them are a stern and no-nonsense AmazonBrigade. For example, Warden Celia equips prisoners with "Rings of Submission", which can sense your intentions before you've even thought of them and then do painful and even deadly stuff to you accordingly. When did this turn into ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour''?

* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:Celia]] in ''Broken World'', to the surprise of absolutely no one.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Valdis, full stop. He can't seem to stop himself from doing stuff to piss you off [[spoiler:starting by killing Drevin and not even paying you]]. In the immortal words of [[Series/{{Leverage}} Nathan Ford, "Yeah, you should've just paid us!"]]

* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Drevin]].

* WhatTheHellHero: Much of the first few parts of act 1 are spent having characters chew you out for being Valdis' stooge. Oddly enough, once you get back to your hometown, the only one who antagonizes you over it is the resident JerkAss.

* RedOniBlueOni: Taar and Deru are two dryads in II who can join your party. Taar's a softspoken, [[FriendToAllLivingThings kindhearted]] nature mage, and Deru's a HotBlooded, abrasive archer.

* JerkAss: Warden Celia, who has no qualms about using the [[ExplosiveLeash Rings of Submission]] on her prisoners and takes considerable persuasion from Amren to even consider giving the player character a chance to prove their good nature. The events leading up to ''Broken World'' only serve to increase her cynical side. Finala the Elven machine expert also shows shades of this in her conversations with the player character, although she does start to loosen up just before offering to join your party.

* BrutalHonesty: Deru after your initial meeting with [[JerkAss Finala]].

* EenieMeenieMinyMoai: There are moai statues present on the Eastern Island, with no clues as to who built them.

* HubLevel: The Utraean Peninsula has one quite literally, in the form of the [[FunWithAcronyms Helios Utraean Basilicus]], which can be used by the player to fast-travel to towns which they are high enough level to start at.

* SwampsAreEvil: All the game's swamps are overrun by any combination of the following: hostile wildlife, vicious monsters, witches, and undead.

* StatSticks: The different classes each can benefit from an off-class weapon even if they never use it, so long as the off-class item provides magic buffs which aid their build; for example, a melee fighter equipped with a strength-boosting spell book, a mage with an intelligence-boosting bow, or an archer with a dexterity-boosting sword. It is prudent in a singleplayer campaign to shop for these items early on, lest the requirements of such items in later shops outpace the advancement of characters' secondary stats.

** This XP-farming exploit is removed in the Legends of Aranna world, where summoned enemies does not grant XP when killed.

** The Legends of Aranna campaign expands on their story; the Utraeans had a whole network of displacer pads which linked their empire, centered at the CentralTransportationCenter in their capital city of Jherkal's Crown. By the time the player's party reaches it, all but one pad there has been shut down in order to prevent hostile forces who had sacked the city from using the displacers to quickly ravage the rest of the island.

** EenieMeenieMinyMoai: There are moai statues present on the Eastern Island, with no clues as to who built them.