History Videogame / SolidAndShade

* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: [[spoiler:A sidequest involves descending in the Underwold to fight Hades.]]

* SteamPunk: The mod has minor elements of this. For example, one of the top-tier evolutions of the Acolyte is the Artificer, a man riding a kind of primitive car. There is also the Wolfbane Alpha SniperRifle (a musket with a spyglass), and [[spoiler:Dupin]] who happens to be a ClockworkCreature built by the Great Artificer.

* DisproportionateRetribution: Lamia was a mistress of Zeus. She suffereds from a punishment by Hera, who turned Lamia into a creature who suffered from constant pulsion forcing her to eat human flesh. Her first victims were ''the children she had from Zeus''.

** The Behemoth Worm looks like a giant bald human head, with empty eye sockets dripping of blood, several eyes protruding from its forehead, and a worm-like body extending from the base of its neck. It is a monster incubated from [[spoiler:Rasputin's]] wombs, with the same OmnicidalManiac goal.

* EldritchAbomination: The Bloodfountain is a sentient chalice-shaped fountain squirting blood, with an OmnicidalManiac goal..

* ArcNumber: [[ThirteenIsUnlucky 13]]. Any time there is a golden colored 13 engraved somewhere on the scenery, there are probably quest items very near.

* NumberOfTheBeast: Some of the new shields have 666 hitpoints. Their low quality version has 333 hitpoints.

* RaceLift: Nizar, Deshavi, and Rolf are inexplicably turned Caucasian in the mod. Also, not an actual RaceLift, but Klethi turns blonde instead of being a readhead like in the unmodded game.

** Choosing "The Life" instead of accepting to serve the Bloodfountain.

** The Hellraiser (one of the top-tier unit from the Acolyte troops tree) is a knight in red armour riding a red horse whoch head is replaced by a giant eyeball.

* KilledOffForReal: It happens to the player when he choose a NonStandardGameOver branch in a dialog or if he falls in battle. Altough definitive death can be avoided by carrying a Philosopher's Stone (which is then destroyed) or the Infinity Stone.

* ShoutOut: A lot. 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) and a few quests. Also, there are Poe's quotes in some of the literature quotes used as hints on the {{Loading Screen}}s.

* VillainProtagonist: The core of the mod is to be a Necromancer warlord obeying an evil being who wants the player character to rampage through Calradia at the head of an undead and demonic army. The choice to be an actual VillainProtagonist or just a mere AntiHero is up to the player roleplay, not joining the Bloodfountain is even an official SelfImposedChallenge.

** ShovelStrike: As a polearm. Choosing to be a former graverobber makes the player begins the game with a shovel in its inventory.

* VillainProtagonist: The core of the mod is to be a Necromancer warlord obeying an evil being who wants the player character to rampage through Calradia at the head of an undead and demonic army. The choice to be an actual VillainProtagonist or just a mere AntiHero is up to the player roleplay. Also, the character creation options allow the player character to be a former murderer.
** It is possible to choose to not join the evil and to roleplay a non-evil guy, but the game will only be a mostly regular ''Mount & Blade'' campaign deprived of the ''Solid & Shade'' features (except the hostile necromancer parties wandering in Calradia and the hirable party member Dupin, who will join any player).

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Lamia, the Mother of Vampires, is a former mistress of Zeus cursed by Hera. She is bald, blind, and is part spider. She can create vampire troops by combining vampire blood with corpses.

* SkeletonsInTheCoatCloset: The mounted units evolved from the Acolytes wear bone armours.

* BlackKnight: Several pieces of equipment allow the player to look like one.

* HellishHorse: There are mere classical black horses, but also skeletal horses which head looks like a human skull, or even zombie horses. The horsemen evolved from Acolytes usually mount the latter, the horrors are zombie mêlée fighter on a zombie horse.

* RaceLift: Nizar, Deshavi, and Rolf are inexplicably turned Caucasian in the mod. Also, not an actual RaceLift, but Klethi turns blonde instead of being a readhead.

* CoolShades: They serve as a helmet for Dupin.

* EyesDoNotBelongThere: Rasputin has two always closed eyes in the normal places and an open eye in the middle of his forehead.

* HellishHorse: There are mere classical black horses, but also skeletal horses which head looks like a human skull. The horsemen evolved from Acolytes usually mount the latter, the Abominations (zombie horsemen) ride the former.
* HumanResources: Corpses can be used as food and as one of the main source for the crafting system: an intact corpse is an ingredient by itself (''i.e.'' to raise zombies), dismembering a corpse creates thirteen ingredients (the player can choose to acquire only one of them and throw the others away): Blood, Eyes, Brain, Heart, Liver, Entrails, Skin, Bones, Flesh, Death Hands, Death Feet, Death Body, and Death Head. Most of them are also food, the four latter can be use as amours (glove, boots, chest armour, and helmet), which is useful early in the game.

* RaceLift: Nizar, Deshavi, and Rolf are inexplicably turned Caucasian in the mod.

* VillainProtagonist: The core of the mod is to be a Necromancer warlord obeying an evil being who wants the player character to rampage through Calradia at the head of an undead and demonic army. The choice to be an actual VillainProtagonist or just a mere AntiHero is up to the player roleplay.

ZombieApocalypse: Sort of, though it isn't an infection. The main character is a necromancer and just animates the bodies himself. Though it feels a lot like an infection or apocalypse, since a good way to get corpses is killing them with your zombie army and then reanimating them. It is not uncommon to loose your entire army in a fight, and then get them back with the corpses of your foes. The zombies are semi-intelligent, as they can use weapons, but not sentient. They can be killed by anything that can kill a human, but are much more difficult to kill. They don't appear to require food, although not having food will lower the morale of the party overall (most likely because you still need it) and, due to game mechanics, zombies will abandon you if they have a low morale.

** The PhilosopherSStone: Gives a bonus to the Surgery skill and prevent the player character from being KilledOffForReal. It is also a tool to convert iron into gold.

* ZergRush: Patchworks are weak units but their creation is free (no other resource than the Necronomicon) their wages are low. Their building last several hours, however.

* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: The Infinity Stone is protected by a half-flayed Leonardo da Vinci (using the nickname "Great Artificer") who is linking to life-preserving machines.

* DarkFantasy: The worldmap’s colours and textures have been altered (brown seas and rivers, sickly dark green grass, etc), giving the impression that the earth is dying. Necromancers wander in Calradia and the player is allowed to become one of them.

* KilledOffForReal: It happens to the player when he choose a NonStandardGameOver branch in a dialog or if he falls in battle. Altough definitive death can be avoided by carrying a Philosopher Stone.

* {{Necromancer}}: The game is made to play one: loot tombs and create an Undead army. "Neophyte Necromancer" is [[MultipleChoicePast one of the possible choices]] of background during the character’s creation.

** Talking to the Bloodfountain while carrying the Infinity Stone (an unlimited Philosopher Stone).

** The Philosopher Stone: Gives a bonus to the Surgery skill and prevent the player character from being KilledOffForReal.

** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Raven The Raven]].

* VillainProtagonist: The core of the mod is to be a Necromancer warlord obeying an evil being who wants the player character to rampage through Calradia at the head of an undead and demonic army. It is possible to choose to not join the evil and roleplay as a non-evil guy, but the game will only be a mostly regular ''Mount & Blade'' campaign deprived of the ''Solid & Shade'' features (except the hostile necromancer parties wandering in Calradia and the hirable party member Dupin, who will join any player).

* ClassicalMythology: One of the inspiration for the mod (the others being occulism and Creator/EdgarAllanPoe).
* EasyLogistics: Averted as in the original ''Mount & Blade'', especially because the zombies and undead troops still need to be fed and paid.
* FleshGolem: The weakest undead unit is the Patchwork, a zombie created with flesh and bone bits scavenged in the area.

** Talking to Lamia without being able to feed her.

* ShoutOut: A lot. 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) and a few quests.

* VoodooZombie: The zombies troops (mêlée, ranged, cavalry) belong to this kind of zombies, although they are resurrected by an unspecified kind of BlackMagic instead of Voodoo.