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* SignatureHeadgear: Most of the male characters have distinctive hats, particularly Karl and his spoon-hat.
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* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Members of the same family tend to wear the same colors e.g. the Albans primarily wear yellow and the Gertners wear beige, teal and brown.
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* StorybookOpening: The whole game is framed within an Early Modern manuscript, complete with Latin text and marginalia that can be viewed at any time.

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* StorybookOpening: The whole game is framed within an Early Modern early modern manuscript, complete with Latin text and marginalia that can be viewed at any time.
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* NarratorAllAlong: The author of the manuscript the book purportedly takes place in is revealed to be [[spoiler: Sister Amalie.]]

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* NarratorAllAlong: The author of the manuscript the book purportedly that the game takes place in is revealed to be [[spoiler: Sister Amalie.]]



* StorybookOpening: The whole game is literally framed within a manuscript, complete with Latin text and marginalia that can be viewed at any time.

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* StorybookOpening: The whole game is literally framed within a an Early Modern manuscript, complete with Latin text and marginalia that can be viewed at any time.
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* Narrator All Along: The author of the manuscript the book purportedly takes place in is revealed to be [[spoiler: Sister Amalie.]]

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* Narrator All Along: NarratorAllAlong: The author of the manuscript the book purportedly takes place in is revealed to be [[spoiler: Sister Amalie.]]
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* Narrator All Along: The author of the manuscript the book purportedly takes place in is revealed to be [[spoiler: Sister Amalie.]]


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* StorybookOpening: The whole game is literally framed within a manuscript, complete with Latin text and marginalia that can be viewed at any time.
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* BonfireDance: A major part of the St John's Eve festival.
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* BookBurning: One of the books Illuminata asks Andreas to retrieve is destined for this, but he can intervene. [[spoiler:Later, Peter destroys the whole library this way in a last-ditch effort to strike out against the abbey's power.]]
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* AStormIsComing: Big Jorg tells Andreas he can smell an incoming storm when the latter first steps out of the Gertner home. It arrives right in time for the Baron's murder.

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* AStormIsComing: Big Jorg tells invokes this when Andreas he can smell an incoming storm when the latter first steps out of the Gertner home. It The storm arrives right in time for the Baron's murder.
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* AStormIsComing: Big Jorg tells Andreas he can smell an incoming storm the first time the latter steps out of the Gertner home. It arrives right in time for the Baron's murder.

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* AStormIsComing: Big Jorg tells Andreas he can smell an incoming storm the first time when the latter first steps out of the Gertner home. It arrives right in time for the Baron's murder.
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* AStormIsComing: Big Jorg tells Andreas he can smell an incoming storm the first time the latter steps out of the Gertner home. It arrives right in time for the murder of the Baron.

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* AStormIsComing: Big Jorg tells Andreas he can smell an incoming storm the first time the latter steps out of the Gertner home. It arrives right in time for the murder of the Baron.Baron's murder.
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* AStormIsComing: Big Jorg tells Andreas he can smell an incoming storm the first time the latter steps out of the Gertner home. It arrives right in time for the murder of the Baron.
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* BirthDeathJuxtaposition: Esther Sommerfeld is born the same night as Act II's violent climax.
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** [[spoiler: Telling Else that she can have a life outside her family responsibilities results in her being more social in later life, with her even running a book club.]]

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** [[spoiler: Telling Else that she can have a life outside her family responsibilities results in her being more social in later life, with her even running a book club.reading circle.]]
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* CurbStompBattle: Martin and rapscallion Andreas both have brawling experience, but Samuel the Landsknecht can knock them out effortlessly.

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* CurbStompBattle: Martin and rapscallion Andreas both have brawling experience, but Samuel the Landsknecht can knock knocks them out effortlessly.
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* CurbStompBattle: Martin and rapscallion Andreas both have brawling experience, but Samuel the Landsknecht can knock them out effortlessly.
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** [[spoiler: Reminding Else that she is allowed to participate in life outside her family results in her being more social in later life, even running a book club.]]

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** [[spoiler: Reminding Telling Else that she is allowed to participate in can have a life outside her family responsibilities results in her being more social in later life, with her even running a book club.]]
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** [[spoiler: Reminding Else that she is allowed to participate in life outside her family results in her being more social in later life, even running a book club.]]
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* ArtisticLicenseArt: While most of the art is highly accurate to one 16th century style or another, the young children of Tassing are drawn with a distinctly modern (and much more adorable) cartoon look.

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* ArtisticLicenseArt: While most of the art is highly very accurate to one 16th century style or another, the young children of Tassing are drawn with a distinctly modern (and much more highly adorable) cartoon look.
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* ArtisticLicenseArt: While most of the art is highly accurate to one 16th century style or another, the young children of Tassing are drawn with a distinctly modern (and much more adorable) cartoon look.
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* GossipEvolution: When Niko first meets Andreas, he'll tell an exaggerated story about whoever was executed in Act I. Andreas can either directly call this out or coldly excuse himself.
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* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: All of the Gertner children have bright red hair... except for Eva. Johan specifies this as something townsfolk "don't talk about".

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* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: All of the Gertner children have bright red hair... except for Eva. Johan specifies this as states that it is something townsfolk "don't talk about".
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* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: All of the Gertner children have bright red hair... except for Eva. Johan specifies this as something townsfolk "don't talk about".
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* InterclassFriendship: Andreas is a highly educated middle class man living with farmers and working with the clergy. As such, he is on friendly terms with people on every part of the scale between peasantry and nobility. Navigating these social divides is not always straightforward, especially in Act II where the gaps have widened.

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* InterclassFriendship: Andreas is a highly educated highly-educated middle class man living with farmers and working with the clergy. As such, he is on friendly terms with people on every part members of the scale between peasantry peasantry, the nobility, and nobility. everything in between. Navigating these social divides is not always straightforward, especially in with the rising tensions of Act II where the gaps have widened.II.
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* CollectiveDeathGlare: The monks' reaction to the Baron praising Martin Luther.
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* Interclass Friendship: Andreas is a highly educated middle class man living with farmers and working with the clergy, and as such is on friendly terms with people on every part of the scale between peasantry and nobility. Navigating these social divides is not always straightforward, especially in Act II where the gaps have widened.

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* Interclass Friendship: InterclassFriendship: Andreas is a highly educated middle class man living with farmers and working with the clergy, and as such clergy. As such, he is on friendly terms with people on every part of the scale between peasantry and nobility. Navigating these social divides is not always straightforward, especially in Act II where the gaps have widened.
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* Interclass Friendship: Andreas is a highly educated middle class man living with farmers and working with the clergy, and as such is on friendly terms with people on every part of the scale between peasantry and nobility. Navigating these social divides is not always straightforward, especially in Act II where the gaps have widened.
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* ItaliansTalkWithHands: An Bolognese scholar takes a punch to the face after Martin Bauer mistakes his gesturing for a [[BringIt Bring It]] taunt.

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* ItaliansTalkWithHands: An A Bolognese scholar takes a punch to the face after Martin Bauer mistakes his gesturing for a [[BringIt Bring It]] taunt.
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* ItaliansTalkWithHands: An Bolognese scholar takes a punch to the face after Martin Bauer mistakes his gesturing as a [[BringIt Bring It]] taunt.

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* ItaliansTalkWithHands: An Bolognese scholar takes a punch to the face after Martin Bauer mistakes his gesturing as for a [[BringIt Bring It]] taunt.

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* ItaliansTalkWithHands: An Italian scholar takes a punch to the face after Martin Bauer mistakes his gesturing as a [[BringIt Bring It]] taunt.

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* ItaliansTalkWithHands: An Italian Bolognese scholar takes a punch to the face after Martin Bauer mistakes his gesturing as a [[BringIt Bring It]] taunt.taunt.
** The game has a credited Italian Hand Gesture Consultant.

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