History Videogame / SolidAndShade

* OffModel: Since using the ''Mount & Blade'' engine to create a setting with necromancy, horror stuff, and weird monsters isn't its intended use, occasionnal graphical weirdness is unsurprising.
** The Bloodfountain is supposed to be... well, a fountain squirting blood, but said liquid actually looks like a inert part of the structure itself.
** The Raven is an inert prop which moves as a single block, without flapping its wings or moving the head and talons when attacking.
** Stheno's model is a normal unit wearing a special leg armour shaped like a snake's body. When she moves, she is isn't crawling in the ground but she looks like she was walking with both legs in a bag.
** The Artificers' car is just a horse with a custom appearance, and the wheels don't turn.
** Cerberus is a mount. It is noticeably wider than the other horses, and the player character's leg can be seen clipping through its body. Also, its three heads are animated aa a single one.

* AnAxeToGrind: Choosing to be a former murderer makes the player character begin the game while carrying the Axe of the Black Cat, a two-handed axe which inflicts ''60'' damage points per hit.

* DemonSlaying: Parties of "Slayers" (part of the Manhunters faction) start to appear around Old Zendar in later parts of the campaign. They wear [[NiceHat a large hat]], an [[EyepatchOfPower eyepatch]], and a [[BadassLongcoat leather longcoat]]. They are equipped with blunt weapons and small one-handed crossbows.

* BattleCouple: Once the player character is high enough in the necromancy's mastery, it's possible to summon a demonic lover (Respite for a male player characters, Nepenthe for a female player character), who then gives some stat buffs as long as he[=/=]she is inside the party. Ebery two days, the spouse makes requests (special items, sacrifices, etc.); not fulfilling them can have bad consequences, failing them too much times results in the spouse definitively leaving the party. Technically, Respite and Nepenthe are a normal unit (although a unique one) instead of a companion, which means that they can be permanently killed in battle (which gives a permanent debuff). It's impossible to summon them again after losing them.

* ApocalypseHow: [[ApocalypseHow/{{Class5}} Planetary Extinction]]. According to the Great Artificer, the destruction of the [[CosmicKeystone Infinity Stone]] could cause the end of the world. If the player speaks to the Bloodfountain while carrying the Infinity Stone, the player is forced to give it the Infinity Stone. Then a message appears to tell that all life on the planet has been wiped out and the player is redirected in ''Mount & Blade'' main menu.

* GuideDangIt: Most of the mod content related to the new companions and quests suffer from this. Cf LostForever.

* LostForever: Several of the hirable companions (Dupin, Oak, Thorn, and Ash) disappear from the game if they were not hired when the player character meets the Great Artificer.

** The palyer character can radomly be ''victim'' of this when entering in a settlement. Being the child of a thief halves the amount of lost money.

* GuideDangIt: Most of the mod content related to the new companions and quests suffer from this. For example, half of the hirable companions disappear from the game if they were not hired when the player character meets the Great Artificer.

->''Consider a world where Christianity does not exist, in a late dark ages setting, where the gods are actually active forces in the world. Throw in all of Poe's stuff, and european folklore - and you have a more well-informed society, even at the lower levels who don't just believe in higher powers - many have seen them. Not to mention the dark powers of the Necromancers beginning to spread their plague across the world...''

* CursedWithAwesome: Choosing "madness" as the justification for starting the adventure gives more intelligence to he player character. And constant auditive hallucinations, as well as occasional nightmares sequences.

** Flavour text when crafting the Miasmic Artillery[[note]]an item giving +1 in Engineering; it's supposed to be a kind of bacteriological siege weapon[[/note]] mentions the use of a dead rabid horse. While a horse corpse is one of the required ingredient, any horse corpse works, be it a dead horse found during the aftermath of a battle or a healthy horse bought from a horse merchant in the nearest town, then freshly sacrified.

* ManOnFire: Not actually shown on-screen, but a way to upgrade the basic zombies is to set them on fire (with the Philosopher's Stone and an oil jar). Each basic zombie-type troop as a burned equivalent, which is faster.

** Cerberus is a mount. It is noticeably wider than the other horses, and the player character's leg can be seen clipping through its body. Also, its three heads are animated a single one.

* AdaptationalBadass: The mod turns into fighters some fictional characters who weren't famous for being action heroes. The most blatant example is Dupin: the original character is a very cerebral amateur detective (think Franchise/SherlockHolmes, but several decades earlier), while this version is TheGunslinger.

** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._Auguste_Dupin Dupin.]]

** The modders are especially fond of Creator/EdgarAllanPoe, who is quoted as one of the inspirations for the game. His work provided the basis for hirable heroes (Dupin, Fortunato, the Raven, and Poe himself), a few quests, as well as the title of the mod itself which is derived from his sonnet ''Silence''. Also, there are Poe's quotes are used as hints on the {{Loading Screen}}s.