Line #57 VideoGame/MagnaCarta


1	A South Korean RPG series by Softmax which began life on PC. There are three games in the series, with the latest, ''VideoGame/MagnaCarta2'', available on the Platform/Xbox360. The series is mainly known for its sharp (and {{Stripperiffic}}) character design, provided by Hyung-Tae Kim.
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3	The three games in the series are:
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5	* ''Magna Carta: The Phantom of Avalanche'' (PC)
6	* ''Magna Carta: Tears of Blood/Crimson Stigmata'' (Platform/PlayStation2)
7	* ''VideoGame/MagnaCarta2'' (Platform/Xbox360)
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9	See also ''VideoGame/BladeAndSoul'', a South Korean MMORPG with Hyung-Tae Kim as its character illustrator.
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11	Not to be confused with the document signed in 13th century England ceding certain rights from the monarchy to the nobility.
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14	!!Tropes:
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17	[[folder:Common]]
18	* AmnesiacDissonance / AmnesiacsAreInnocent: [[spoiler:Reith]] in ''Tears of Blood'' and [[spoiler:Juto]] in ''2''.
19	* KillItWithFire: Crocell, Eonis.
20	* ParentalAbandonment: Permeates the series, especially with the player characters.
21	* PimpedOutDress: Everyone.
22	* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: ''Tears of Blood'' has [[spoiler:Reith/Queen Amila (albeit unknowingly by the others) and Serina]]; while ''2'' features Princess Rzephillda, a.k.a. Zephie.
23	* {{Stripperiffic}}: Nearly every female character, but Eonis most of all in ''Tears of Blood''.
24	* ThematicSeries: None of the three games share a setting, with the term "[[MacGuffin Magna Carta]]" applying to something different in each world. [[spoiler:The Magna Carta of ''Tears of Blood'' is an object]], while [[spoiler:the Magna Carta of ''2'' is a person]].
25	* TraumaInducedAmnesia: Characters who suffer from this appear throughout the series. Prime examples include [[spoiler:Calintz]] from ''Phantom'' and [[spoiler:Juto]] from ''2''.
26	* WarIsHell: The theme of the series.
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30	[[folder:''The Phantom of Avalanche'']]
31	* DeadPersonImpersonation: [[spoiler:It turns out that Princess Juclecia had died, with Adora being used to pose as her.]]
32	* GenkiGirl: Adora.
33	* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:Ladrinne is Calintz's mother, making him royalty by blood.]]
34	* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Calintz (being adopted by King Helios), and Princess Juclecia.
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38	[[folder:''Tears of Blood''/''Crimson Stigmata'']]
39	* AffectionateGestureToTheHead: Calintz gives one to Reith after saving her from a Blast Worm prisoner and the Yason soldiers sent to receive him.
40	* AllLovingHeroine: Reith is a naïve yet compassionate person with the ability to heal. Unfortunately, she exists during a war where those qualities can put other at risk, given the mutual hatred and distrust that both sides have for each other.
41	* AllThereInTheManual: Several character back-stories for the cast are described in the manual, rather than in the game itself.
42	* AnArmAndALeg: Haren's fianceé, a preistess named Felicia, was attacked by Roxy's familiar, a giant armored wolf-creature named Steelheart. All that was left behind was one of Felicia's arms.
43	* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: To Orha from [[spoiler:Roxy right before her HeroicSacrifice]], and to Calintz from [[spoiler:Serina before she's TakenForGranite. She gets better, though]].
44	* AmnesiacsAreInnocent: Reith is probably the sweetest, sunniest young woman that Calintz has encountered in all of Efferia, even to the point of naïvete. [[spoiler:It's a stark contrast to her original, more aloof self.]]
45	* AntiClimax: Caltinz and [[spoiler:Astal]], the man he'd been seeking for revenge up to that point in the game, are in the middle of an epic sword fight, but it suddenly ends when [[spoiler:Rianna stabs her own husband in the back]].
46	* ApologisesALot: Reith.
47	* BigBad: [[TheChessmaster Neikan]], better known to the player as [[spoiler:Agreian]].
48	* BigDamnHeroes: Justina parrying Calintz's strike when he attacked Reith for defending two Yason-disguised spies. See RevengeBeforeReason below.
49	* ABirthdayNotABreak: What makes [[spoiler:Lehas' death in the Headquarters attack]] sting more is that it happened on Calintz's birthday, which she worked extra-hard on.
50	* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Calintz, Serina, and the Tears bring the war to a close, saving the Yason from Rheuma and allowing peace to take hold, as Amila had wished. However, many characters have died to see it realized; Calintz fought and defeated his former childhood friend, and almost loses Serina to Rheuma.]]
51	* TheChessmaster: Neikan, who had been working out and executing his plan since 10 years before the beginning of the game. [[spoiler:It later turns out that [[EvilAllAlong Agreian/Hugo]] is the mysterious Neikan.]]
52	* TheConspiracy: The Turibo, a secret society of Dark Yason led by [[TheChessmaster Neikan, also known as "The Third Man"]]. They plan on using the Magna Carta. [[spoiler:Astal had obtained information on the Turibo, leading to him betraying them and leaving said information to Rianna after his death.]]
53	* CoolOldGuy: Zekart, [[spoiler:the Hero of Wind]] and Calintz's mentor; and Rostin, Chris's father and a skilled airship engineer.
54	* CuteMute: Maya.
55	* TheCutie: Reith. She's idealistic to a fault, and sees no reason to fight the Yason as Calintz and the others do.
56	* DisneyDeath: Both [[spoiler:Orha and Raul, though Orha comes back from his]]. [[spoiler:The post-credits shows that Raul is still alive as well.]]
57	* DoomedHometown: ''Tears of Blood'' begins with Calintz's home of Fuget having been destroyed 10 years prior.
58	* DueToTheDead: [[spoiler:The DistantEpilogue sees a few characters paying their respects to lost loved ones, such as Haren visiting [[TheLostLenore Felicia]]'s grave, and Rianna casting a bouquet out for Astal.]]
59	* DuelBoss: Calintz gets several in ''Tears of Blood'', including the first form of the final boss.
60	* EmergencyImpersonation: [[spoiler:When Queen Amila went missing, Serina was forced to pose as her sister to prevent internal conflict among the Yason.]]
61	* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler:It turns out that Astal is Rianna's missing husband, and that despite everything he's done, his love for her is very real.]]
62	* EveryoneHasStandards: At one point, an assassin from Yason-Roven attacks Reith, ostensibly on Queen Amila's orders. [[spoiler:After regaining her memory, the real Amila quickly deduces that Carian and Azhadi of the Four Warriors were responsible for that; her sister Serina would never stoop so low.]]
63	* EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler: General Agreian of the Alliance is also Neikan, TheChessmaster.]]
64	* EvilSoundsDeep: Not necessarily ''evil'', ''per se'', but [[spoiler:Queen Amila's voice sounds more grown-up and deeper-sounding than that of her innocent "Reith" persona.]]
65	* FantasticRacism: The humans and Yason hate each other, but both of them despise [[HalfBreedDiscrimination half-Yason]] with a passion. [[spoiler:This is why Queen Amila wears a mask in public, and why she kept her sister locked away.]]
66	* FirstGirlWins + LastGirlWins: [[spoiler:Serina, the last player character to be formally introduced and the first to fall in love with him, ends up together with Calintz in the end.]]
67	* ForgottenFirstMeeting:
68	** As a Fuget youth, Calintz went by the name Mano, and had a friend named Hugo. The two had traded their most treasured items with each other. [[spoiler:It turns out that Agreian is Hugo, and the revelation brings Agreian and Calintz back from a rough patch in the present.]] [[spoiler:More to the point, Hugo had planned to obtain Mano's treasure for his plan as "Neikan"...]]
69	** Calintz does remember making a friend from outside Fuget who taught him some fighting, but he had no idea that friend was in fact [[spoiler:a young Amila. Naturally, "Reith" had no recollection of this, but Queen Amila does.]]
70	* {{Foreshadowing}}: ''Tears of Blood'' does a good job in leaving clues throughout the game that [[spoiler:the mysterious "[[TheChessmaster Neikan]]" is Agreian, and that Reith is Queen Amila]] before TheReveal.
71	* FriendToAllLivingThings: Reith. She goes so far as to heal an injured Yason prisoner, though this incident gets her in trouble. [[spoiler:When her memory returns, it still remains in regards to her familiar.]]
72	* FugitiveArc: [[spoiler:Following Queen Amila's death in stopping the Magna Carta, Serina is charged with impersonating the queen and is sent to be executed. Orha and (to a lesser extent) Roxy help her escape the treacherous Yason, [[EnemyMine entrusting her safety to Calintz]].]]
73	* GadgeteerGenius: {{Subverted}} with Chris. His late brother had all of the natural talent for building machines. Chris himself had to endure failure after failure before getting one right and, even then, most of the machine work is left to his father Rostin.
74	* GoodAllAlong: [[spoiler:Queen Amila's actions have been in finding a way to create peace between the humans and the Yason.]]
75	* GuestStarPartyMember: [[spoiler:To help Serina escape, Orha]] briefly fights alongside Calintz against the treasonous Yason.
76	* HalfBreedDiscrimination: Half-Yasons. Both humans ''and'' Yason despise them, since they are more identical to humans. [[spoiler:It's the main reason why Queen Amila wears a mask among her own people.]]
77	* HalfIdenticalTwins: It's eventually revealed that [[spoiler:the girl shown in Calintz's flashbacks was a younger Amila/Reith. At one point, her twin Serina had appeared instead, leading to Calintz mistaking her for Amila]]. {{Subverted}} in the flashbacks, where they do indeed appear identical, but PlayedStraight in the present.
78	* HeroicBSOD:
79	** Reith is arrested for helping a Yason soldier escape prison. When Calintz kills the soldier and subsequently has her freed, Reith remains sitting, devastated by what Calintz had done. In fact, she remains in her cell until Eonis visits her.
80	** Rianna suffers one when [[spoiler:her husband Astal hits her with an attack aimed for Calintz. It leads her to stab him in the back.]]
81	** Calintz gets hit ''hard'' with this after [[spoiler:Reith's/Queen Amila's HeroicSacrifice, protecting him and Ladrinne from the Magna Carta]].
82	* HeroicSacrifice: Several, but only [[spoiler:Reith/Amila and Roxy]] stay dead.
83	* HotBlooded: Haren and Rianna, who are both [[BareFistedMonk hand-to-hand combatants as well]].
84	* IOweYouMyLife: Why Azel is so loyal to Calintz.
85	** Calintz's reason for always protecting Reith is because she saved his life after he fell into a ravine.
86	* InterspeciesRomance:
87	** [[spoiler:Rianna and her husband Astal, a half-Yason]].
88	** [[spoiler:Calintz unknowingly enters one with Reith, and later Serina]].
89	* KingIncognito: [[spoiler:Reith is the ''real'' Queen Amila of the Yason. The present "Queen Amila" we've been seeing after the beginning was her sister Serina, posing as Amila while she was missing. Amila's goal was to learn more about Efferia and its inhabitants in order to end the war and save her people.]]
90	* LoadsAndLoadsOfLoading: This game has many long loading screens between areas.
91	* LoveTriangle: It turns out both [[spoiler:Amila and Serina]] fell in love with Calintz when they were kids.
92	* LukeIAmYourFather: It turns out that Calintz is really [[spoiler:the long-lost son of Great Priestess Ladrinne, but the BigBad knew this and tricked Calintz into giving him his family heirloom to steal his identity. Ladrinne herself is horrified by this deception]].
93	* MacGuffin: The Eight Shards, which are used to activate "the Magna Carta". In ''Tears of Blood'', the Magna Carta (also named "the Light of Salvation") is a powerful magic spell that can potentially wipe out entire races.
94	* MacGuffinDeliveryService: [[spoiler:The Tears of Blood are tasked with collecting and delivering the Eight Shards to General Agreian. Except...he's the BigBad. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Uhh, whoops?]]]]
95	* {{Miko}}: The Great Priestess Ladrinne and Justina are a Korean variant, with their uniforms sharing similarities to the ''hanbok''.
96	* MistakenForMurderer: Justina arrests Calintz for the murder of Elaine Crane, the Hero of Water, after finding him next to her dead body with Astal's poison dagger in his hand. Though it's cleared up, this incident leaves Alliance trust in the Tears of Blood shattered.
97	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: When Calintz sees just how badly the Rheuma disease devastates the Yason population, his asks himself if this is what he really wants.
98	* MyGreatestFailure: Calintz keeps out-doing himself with these, but ultimately it comes down to [[spoiler:being unable to protect first Lehas, then Reith]].
99	* NeverMyFault: Calintz has a habit of putting the blame on the Yason and the war against them when things look really bleak. He drops it late in the game.
100	* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: As a kid, Calintz helped a dying traveler out by bringing him medicine. [[spoiler:The traveler, a half-Yason later identified as Astal, repayed him with warnings, and eventually with burning Fuget to the ground.]]
101	* OhCrap:
102	** In Yason-Roven, Calintz comes across Queen Amila's garden, when the Queen herself enters upon sensing that someone has intruded. [[spoiler:Upon that intruder revealing himself to be Calintz, "Amila" is hit with this, her façade falling as she panics, telling Calintz that she doesn't want to fight.]] [[spoiler:Orha's intervention keeps this meeting from ending in Serina's accidental death.]]
103	* OneWingedAngel: Neikan's boss form during the final battle.
104	* OurElvesAreDifferent: The Yason have ears with lengthened protrusions, and they have command over familiars. They are also the original occupants of the game's setting; the humans who live in Efferia are descended from those who were forced to leave their old lands behind.
105	* ParentalAbandonment: {{Justified}}. The Tears of Blood, a band of mercenaries, are fighting the Yason because they've all lost family and friends during the war with the Yason.
106	* ThePowerOfLove: [[spoiler:Apparently how Calintz cures Serina of her Rheuma affliction after the final battle.]]
107	* ProperTightsWithASkirt: Reith.
108	* RedOniBlueOni: A strange example regarding Reith, [[spoiler:or Queen Amila, and her sister Serina, the latter of whom joins the party in the final stages of the game. Naturally, Serina is the Blue Oni to Amila/Reith's Red Oni; one is more withdrawn, and the other is more assertive. Amila's Reith persona is more outgoing and bubbly, while the Yason Queen herself is more aloof and commanding.]]
109	* {{Retool}}: ''Tears of Blood'' shares more than a few plot details with ''The Phantom of Avalanche''. Most notably, the main character is a young mercenary [[OneSteveLimit named]] [[AvertedTrope Calintz]] [[spoiler:who is in truth the son of a character named Ladrinne]]. There is also a character who poses as a major figure of royalty, only to be found out.
110	* TheReveal: Twice for when Reith gets her memory back and [[spoiler:is revealed to be the real Queen Amila]]--once for the player, and once for the party.
111	** [[spoiler:To a lesser degree, the truth that Rianna's husband is the half-Yason Astal...the same man who razed Fuget, and the one who slew all of Lehas' comrades.]]
112	** Raul, a traveling swordsman, [[spoiler:is actually the Celestial Hero, one of the Eight Heroes from 50 years ago.]]
113	** Calintz is actually [[spoiler:Ladrinne's true son; "Agreian" stole his identity by convincing the young Calintz that they should trade their most treasured belongings]].
114	** [[spoiler:The true nature of the Tree of Light; leading to the player learning Queen Amila's final request to Calintz: "Do it for me… Destroy…the Tree of Light…"]]
115	* {{Revenge}}: The driving force behind Calintz and much of his fellow Tears of Blood: revenge against the Yason for everything they've taken and everyone they killed. It even goes as far as…
116	* RevengeBeforeReason: Calintz nearly kills Reith when she stands between him and two temple spies disguised as Yason, but only she can see through the illusion. It's thanks to [[BigDamnHeroes Justina]] that Calintz is stopped before it is too late.
117	* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Calintz spends a good deal of ''Tears of Blood'' searching for the man responsible for destroying his village.
118	* ShellShockedVeteran: Lehas. Her diary, [[spoiler:discovered after her death,]] reveals that she'd been plagued by nightmares since the "Butcher of Hagran" had slain her captain and comrades, and left her incapacitated.
119	* UndyingLoyalty:
120	** Azel to Calintz for [[IOweYouMyLife saving his life]].
121	** Near the end, [[spoiler:Orha]] is the only one of the Four Warriors who is still alive and still loyal to Queen Amila and Serina.
122	* TakenForGranite: What happens to the Yason who contract Rheuma. [[spoiler:This is because the Tree of Light feeds on the Yason people's Chi through their Vindies (their tattoo-like marks that allow them to absorb Chi). Serina's the last known Yason to suffer this, but she gets better almost immediately]].
123	* TimeSkip: The WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue takes a look at the characters one year after the Tree of Light's destruction.
124	* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:Agreian]] has one as he enters his OneWingedAngel form for the final battle.
125	* VoiceOfTheLegion: [[spoiler:Agreian]] as he enters his OneWingedAngel form for the final battle.
126	* WhamLine: Delivered in the form of a secure military communication to Calintz that [[spoiler:the Yason are [[AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs attacking the Alliance Headquarters]]]].
127	* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: The ending of ''Tears of Blood'' is a silent version.
128	* WoundedHeroWeakerHelper: After getting separated from his fellow Tears of Blood, Calintz winds up at the bottom of a ravine, injured and unconscious. His survival is only assured thanks to Reith, who heals him despite not quite knowing how to.
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Context VideoGame / MagnaCarta