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* DeityOfHumanOrigin: [[spoiler:At the end of the game, the fox ascends to become a second Guardian of the Northern Lights. It's implied the original one may have once been mortal as well.]]
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* AstralProjection:AstralProjection: The guardian of the Northern Lights is reduced to a little ball of light after lending the fox her powers. She keeps guiding the fox in that form.
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* BeautifulVoid: Aside from the fox and its companion, the game is completely devoid of all other animal life, and all the humans are long dead.
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* BallOfLightTransformation: The guardian of the Northern Lights is reduced to a little ball of light after lending the fox her powers. She keeps guiding the fox in that form.
* BeautifulVoid: Aside from the fox and its companion, the game is completely devoid of all other animal life, and all the humans are long dead. Even the landscape lacks any plants taller than the fox itself.
* BeautifulVoid: Aside from the fox and its companion, the game is completely devoid of all other animal life, and all the humans are long dead. Even the landscape lacks any plants taller than the fox itself.
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* SparkFairy: The guardian of the Northern Lights is reduced to a little ball of light after lending the fox her powers. She keeps guiding the fox in that form.
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* UnlockableContent: You get five alternate pelt colors for the fox for returning all staves to their owners in a chapter.[[note]]Arctic for chapter 1, gray for chapter 2, silver for chapter 4, kitsune for chapter 5, and corrupted for chapter 6.[[/note]]
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* UnlockableContent: You get five alternate pelt colors for the fox for returning all staves to their owners in a chapter.[[note]]Arctic [[note]]Arctic/white for chapter 1, gray cross for chapter 2, silver silver/black for chapter 4, kitsune for chapter 5, and corrupted black for chapter 6.[[/note]]
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* FantasticFoxes: The fox can commune with the souls of the deceased and the guardian of the Northern Lights (itself a fox), whose powers the fox becomes imbued with. Nordic folklore associates the aurora with the fox, who creates it by brushing its tail against the sky.
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* FantasticFoxes: The fox can commune with the souls of the deceased and the guardian of the Northern Lights (itself a fox), whose powers the fox becomes imbued with. Nordic Scandinavian folklore associates the aurora with the fox, who creates it by brushing its tail against the sky.sky.
* FesteringFungus: The plague manifests as white and red bulbs and black muck spotted with orchids, spewing red spores everywhere. [[spoiler:When the fox dies in chapter 6, fungus and orchids rapidly grow out of its body.]]
* FesteringFungus: The plague manifests as white and red bulbs and black muck spotted with orchids, spewing red spores everywhere. [[spoiler:When the fox dies in chapter 6, fungus and orchids rapidly grow out of its body.]]
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''Spirit of the North'' is a 2019 adventure video game created by Infuse Studio.
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''Spirit of the North'' is a 2019 adventure video game created by Infuse Studio.
Studio for UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, UsefulNotes/XboxOne, PC, and UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch.
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* UnlockableContent: You get five alternate pelt colors for the fox for returning all staves to their owners in a chapter.[[note]]Arctic for chapter 1, gray for chapter 2, silver for chapter 4, kitsune for chapter 5, and corrupted for chapter 6.[[/note]]
* VersionExclusiveContent: The [[UpdatedRerelease enhanced edition]] includes two exclusive pelt colors each for UsefulNotes/PlayStation5 (champagne and black marble) and Xbox (white marble and auburn), in addition to the vixen skin for both versions and PC.
* VersionExclusiveContent: The [[UpdatedRerelease enhanced edition]] includes two exclusive pelt colors each for UsefulNotes/PlayStation5 (champagne and black marble) and Xbox (white marble and auburn), in addition to the vixen skin for both versions and PC.
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* MasculineLinesFeminineCurves: While the gender of the player fox is unknown, the female guardian fox has thicker, curving markings compared to the player's thinner lines with sharper corners.
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* WalkOnWater: The spirit fox is capable of walking on water and on air. The player fox can also do so in Spirit Form.
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* WalkOnWater: The spirit fox is capable of walking on water and on air. The player fox can also do so in Spirit Form.
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Compare with ''VideoGame/LostEmber'', also featuring a canine guided through the ruins of a lost civilization by a point of light, except that one also includes possessing various animals to use their abilities and dialogue.
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* HumanCannonball: Vulpine cannonball to be precise, but there are rings than when powered by auroral energy, launch the fox through the air.
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* HumanCannonball: Vulpine cannonball to be precise, but precise; there are rings than that when powered by auroral energy, launch the fox through the air.
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* HumanCannonball: Vulpine cannonball to be precise, but there are rings than when powered by auroral energy, launch the fox through the air.
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* RuinsForRuinsSake: The game world is littered with ruins of a lost human civilization. While most are functional and could be identified as houses, temples, towers and cisterns, they are also filled with standing stones, buttons, revolving glyphs, jump gates and rolling boulders only operable by the guardian's aurora.
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* AfterTheEnd: Without the guardian of the Northern Lights, a plague killed off the civilization whose remains you travel through. While the corruption sickens ordinary wildlife and snakes across the sky, the landscape is still able to support plant life and many areas are still breathable for the fox.
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* ApocalypseHow: Class 0, regional societal collapse. Without the guardian of the Northern Lights, a plague killed off the civilization whose remains you travel through. While the corruption sickens ordinary wildlife and snakes across the sky, the landscape is still able to support plant life and many areas are still breathable for the fox.
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* PowerGlows: Auroral energy glows neon blue, the corruption glows red.
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* SealedGoodInACan: The guardian of the Northern Lights has been sleeping in an ice cave until awoken by an ordinary fox.
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the guardian is female
** The guardian is only revealed to be female in store descriptions.
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** The end of the game reveals that [[spoiler:the guardian of the Northern Lights used to be a normal fox like the player character. Its physical body rests at the top of the mountain as one of the seals containing the plague, while its spirit wanders the land in search of another fox to be the other seal and rid the world of the plague.]]
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** The end of the game reveals that [[spoiler:the guardian of the Northern Lights used to be a normal fox like the player character. Its Her physical body rests at the top of the mountain as one of the seals containing the plague, while its her spirit wanders the land in search of another fox to be the other seal and rid the world of the plague.]]
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* GoodColorsEvilColors: Blue is the color of the guardian of the Northern Lights and its powers, therefore good. Red is the color of the plague, therefore bad. This can also be seen in the murals, with the ones depicting favorable moments in the setting's history being blue, while those depicting catastrophes are red.
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* GoodColorsEvilColors: Blue is the color of the guardian of the Northern Lights and its her powers, therefore good. Red is the color of the plague, therefore bad. This can also be seen in the murals, with the ones depicting favorable moments in the setting's history being blue, while those depicting catastrophes are red.
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* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: [[spoiler: In chapter 6, the guardian becomes corrupted by a trap in the Spirit Keep, turning it red and bouncing erratically. The fox has to follow it through the keep and eventually heal it in the spirit world.]]
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* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: [[spoiler: In chapter 6, the guardian becomes corrupted by a trap in the Spirit Keep, turning it her red and bouncing erratically. The fox has to follow it her through the keep and eventually heal it her in the spirit world.]]]]
* KingInTheMountain: Some murals depict the guardian of the Northern Lights sleeping in a mountain as the civilization falls to the plague. When the guardian does emerge, her worshipers are long dead.
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* ThePlague: When the Guardian of the Northern Lights isn't present at the top of its mountain, a red mist spews from it and covers the city in a red ash, causing its inhabitants to get sick and die. It also causes the growth of a [[RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver red and black]] fungus over the ruins.
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* ThePlague: When the Guardian of the Northern Lights isn't present at the top of its her mountain, a red mist spews from it and covers the city in a red ash, causing its inhabitants to get sick and die. It also causes the growth of a [[RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver red and black]] fungus over the ruins.
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* SparkFairy: The guardian of the Northern Lights is reduced to a little ball of light after lending the fox its powers. It keeps guiding the fox in that form.
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* ApocalypseHow: Class 0, regional societal collapse. Without the guardian of the Northern Lights, a plague killed off the civilization whose remains you travel through. While the corruption sickens ordinary wildlife and snakes across the sky, the landscape is still able to support plant life and many areas are still breathable for the fox.
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* BeautifulVoid: Aside from the fox and its companion, the game is completely devoid of all other animal life, and all the humans are long dead.
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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: The fox barks and pants like a dog. WordOfGod states that they didn't have the budget to record an actual fox.
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* FantasticFoxes: The fox can commune with the souls of the deceased and the guardian of the Northern Lights (itself a fox), whose powers the fox becomes imbued with.
* FlashStep: One of the fox's powers is Spirit Dash, allowing it to teleport forward in the direction of the camera. Some puzzles require the use of it to get through timed doors and the like.
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* FantasticFoxes: The fox can commune with the souls of the deceased and the guardian of the Northern Lights (itself a fox), whose powers the fox becomes imbued with.
with. Nordic folklore associates the aurora with the fox, who creates it by brushing its tail against the sky.
* FlashStep:One Another one of the fox's powers is Spirit Dash, allowing it to teleport forward in the direction of the camera. Some puzzles require the use of it to get through timed doors and the like.
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* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: [[spoiler: In chapter 6, the guardian becomes corrupted by a trap in the Spirit Keep, turning it red and bouncing erratically. The fox has to follow it through the keep and eventually heal it in the spirit world.]]
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* SpiritWorld: The fox enters the spirit world [[spoiler:after seemingly dying to the corruption]] late in the game. It is a ghostly blue and incredibly lush valley not unlike UsefulNotes/TheOtherRainforest, filled with trees in contrast to the barren landscape of the real world. The spirits the fox saved can be found throughout it.
* UnlockableContent: You get five alternate pelt colors for the foxthe more for returning all staves you return to their owners.owners in a chapter.
* UnlockableContent: You get five alternate pelt colors for the fox
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** One of the powers acquired by the fox is Spirit Form, allowing the fox to leave its physical body to reach places not otherwise accessible.
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* ContextSensitiveButton: In the [=PlayStation=] 4, the O button is alternately used to pick up things (the staves) or to bark at blue flower beds to charge the fox with power that can then be used to manipulate the environment to solve puzzles.
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* ContextSensitiveButton: In the [=PlayStation=] 4, the O button is alternately used to pick up things (the staves) or to bark at blue flower beds to charge the fox with power that can then be used to manipulate the environment to solve puzzles.puzzles, or can be held down to Spirit Bark. On PC, this is fulfilled by the left mouse button.
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* ThePlague: When the Guardian of the Northern Lights isn't present at the top of its mountain, a red mist spews from it and covers the city in a red ash, causing its inhabitants to get sick and die. It also causes the growth of a [[RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver red and black]] fungus over the ruins.
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* AstralProjection: One of the powers acquired by the fox is Spirit Form, allowing the fox to leave its physical body to reach places not otherwise accessible.
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* AstralProjection: AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler:The fox becomes one of the seals containing the plague, thereby becoming another guardian of the Northern Lights, alongside the original one. They both run across the night sky, with their trails forming the aurora.]]
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** The end of the game reveals that [[spoiler:the guardian of the Northern Lights used to be a normal fox like the player character. Its physical body rests at the top of the mountain as one of the seals containing the plague, while its spirit wanders the land in search of another fox to be the other seal and rid the world of the plague.]]
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* GoodColorsEvilColors: Blue is the color of the guardian of the Northern Lights and its powers, therefore good. Red is the color of the plague, therefore bad. This can also be seen in the murals, with the ones depicting favorable moments in the setting's history being blue, while those depicting catastrophes are red.
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* SparkFairy: The guardian of the Northern Lights is reduced to a little ball of light after lending the fox its powers. It keeps guiding the fox in that form.
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* DueToTheDead: The fox can return misplaced staves to their long-dead owners. Upon doing so, the soul of the deceased manifests to express gratitude to the fox.
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* UnlockableContent: You get five alternate pelt colors for the fox the more staves you return to their owners.
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* SilenceIsGolden: There's no talking in this game. Even control tutorials are done through images. Justified as all the characters are animals or spirit animals.
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* AllThereInTheManual: The game really insists on telling its story solely through images, so you will not learn what the name of anything is (for instance, the fox's abilities, but that's just one example) unless you do something like look at the trophy list.
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* MakeMeWannaShout: At the end of chapter 2, the fox gains the Spirit Bark, a super-powerful bark that allows it to destroy the Plague Tethers.
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* ContextSensitiveButton: In the [=PlayStation=] 4, the O button is alternately used to pick up things (the staves) or to bark at blue flower beds to charge the fox with power that can then be used to manipulate the environment to solve puzzles.
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* IdleAnimation: If left alone, the fox will sit down and eventually curl up to sleep.
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* WintryAuroralSky: Auroras are prominent throughout the game, with the guardian of the Northern Lights being something like an embodiment of auroras.
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''Spirit of the North'' is a 2019 adventure video game created by Infuse Studio.
In this game that lacks dialogue or a conventional narrative, the player takes on the role of a (non-anthropomorphic) fox journeying through landscapes inspired by Iceland. The fox is occasionally accompanied by the translucent guardian of the Northern Lights, which also takes on the shape of a fox. The two travel through the remains of a lost civilization, putting lost souls to rest and ridding the world of a corrupting force that threatens to overwhelm everything.
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* FantasticFoxes: The fox can commune with the souls of the deceased and the guardian of the Northern Lights (itself a fox), whose powers the fox becomes imbued with.
* SceneryPorn: The world of the game is based on Iceland. The beauty and detail of the various areas is one of the main appeals of the game.
* SlippySlideyIceWorld: The first area is a frigid mountain totally covered in snow, with the fox able to slide down sections of it thanks to the generous amounts of ice.
* WaterGeyserVolley: One area requires the fox to make use of geysers to reach high platforms so it can proceed with the adventure.
* WintryAuroralSky: Auroras are prominent throughout the game, with the guardian of the Northern Lights being something like an embodiment of auroras.
In this game that lacks dialogue or a conventional narrative, the player takes on the role of a (non-anthropomorphic) fox journeying through landscapes inspired by Iceland. The fox is occasionally accompanied by the translucent guardian of the Northern Lights, which also takes on the shape of a fox. The two travel through the remains of a lost civilization, putting lost souls to rest and ridding the world of a corrupting force that threatens to overwhelm everything.
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* FantasticFoxes: The fox can commune with the souls of the deceased and the guardian of the Northern Lights (itself a fox), whose powers the fox becomes imbued with.
* SceneryPorn: The world of the game is based on Iceland. The beauty and detail of the various areas is one of the main appeals of the game.
* SlippySlideyIceWorld: The first area is a frigid mountain totally covered in snow, with the fox able to slide down sections of it thanks to the generous amounts of ice.
* WaterGeyserVolley: One area requires the fox to make use of geysers to reach high platforms so it can proceed with the adventure.
* WintryAuroralSky: Auroras are prominent throughout the game, with the guardian of the Northern Lights being something like an embodiment of auroras.
