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| 3 | ''[=DragonFable=]'' is a single-player {{RPG}} taking place in [[WorldOfWeirdness the fantastic world of Lore]]. The player has to fight to protect the world from the forces of evil and solve the strangely confused prophecy of the White and Black Dragon Boxes. He/she battles the strangest creatures ever to spawn in Lore, including [[OurGoblinsAreDifferent Sneevils]], [[MixAndMatchCritters Chickencows]] and the dreaded [[BigBad Sepulchure]], a FallenHero who succumbed to TheCorruption! |
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| 5 | It also chronicles the life of a noob knight called Ash Dragonblade as he journeys to save his DamselInDistress. |
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| 7 | See also ''VideoGame/AdventureQuest'', to which it is a {{prequel}} AlternateContinuity, and the other games by Creator/ArtixEntertainment: ''VideoGame/MechQuest'', ''VideoGame/AdventureQuestWorlds'', ''VideoGame/WarpForce'', ''VideoGame/EpicDuel'' and ''VideoGame/HeroSmash''. |
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| 9 | Located [[http://www.dragonfable.com/ HERE]]. |
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| 12 | !!This RPG provides examples of: |
| 13 | * AbortedArc: Lust appears at the end of Book 1 Ravenloss, but she's instead dealt with offscreen and the ArcVillain for the Book 3 Tomix Saga is Envy [[spoiler:AKA Aspar]]. Justified because of [[spoiler:the Hero being frozen at the end of Book 2.]] |
| 14 | * AboveTheGods: Through most of Dragonfable, eight elemental deities known as the Avatars are revered as creator-gods. However, it is implied that [[spoiler:the Avatars are subservient to two God-dragons, Drahr'Hatir and Drahr'Dolaas]]. |
| 15 | * AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: Ravenloss has one. Giant skeletons float in its water. |
| 16 | * AchillesInHisTent: [[spoiler:Warlic in Book 3, out of shame that his actions helped lead to the formation of the Rose]] |
| 17 | * ActionGirl: Female player characters are this by default. Along with Robina, Valencia, Vayle, female pirates and ninjas...there's a lot. |
| 18 | * ActuallyFourMooks: This happens all the time, mostly with Bandits. |
| 19 | * AerithAndBob: All over the place. |
| 20 | * AffectionateParody: Just as with ''[=AdventureQuest=]'', the staff like these. But, being themselves, they once felt obliged to lampshade/parody ''the fact that they were doing a parody''. |
| 21 | * AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:Poor Sepulchure, ending up victim to the Mysterious Stranger's YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness. As he fainted, he was saying something about Lynaria, his lost love that he was trying to bring back with his Doom Weapons]]. |
| 22 | * AllAnimalsAreDogs: Parodied by this HandWave from the end of the Dragesvard quest chain: |
| 23 | -->'''Your character''': Well, I suppose this is the best time to tell you. Galanoth... I am a dragonlord!\ |
| 24 | '''Galanoth''': WHAT?! YOU?! WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN?!\ |
| 25 | '''Your character''': [[FridgeLogic How could you NOT have noticed? Didn't you see my pet dragon fighting beside us?]]\ |
| 26 | '''Galanoth''': [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments I thought it was a horribly deformed dog or something! I thought it might hurt your feelings if I said "man, what happened to that dog?!"]] |
| 27 | * AllPowerfulBystander: Warlic, and to a lesser extent, Nythera. They cannot aid too much without unleashing their full power... which is difficult to control. Even when they succeed at controlling it, it upsets the very balance of Lore. |
| 28 | * AllThereInTheManual: The [[http://www.dragonfable.com/gamedesignnotes design notes]], which are updated almost every week and are full of stuff you'd never know about if you didn't read them, as well as previews for upcoming quests and wars. |
| 29 | * AllegedlyFreeGame: Sure the game's free. Unless you want to do anything useful with your dragon, go on Titan missions, have the other half of your class skills, equip any of the purple (read: decent) weapons you find, purchase anything requiring Dragon Coins, enter half the dungeons, have your character not be stuck with only class armor and a default weapon in the [=PvP=] option... this can go on quite a while. |
| 30 | * AlternateUniverse: [=DragonFable=] is initially implied to be in a different time period to its sister games and in {{VideoGame/AdventureQuest}}'s past, where the origins of a lot of events and characters are explained. It may have originally intended as a prequel, as several hints such as throughout the game such as "Titans of Battleon!", an infobox in the first Frostval event, and "The Crystal Shard" quest all indicate ''VideoGame/AdventureQuest'' is the future. However it has now been confirmed by VideoGame/AdventureQuestWorlds, [=DragonFable=] is actually an AlternateUniverse from VideoGame/AdventureQuest, which may have been due to the timeline splitting. In fact, VideoGame/MechQuest, VideoGame/AdventureQuest, [=DragonFable=], and VideoGame/AdventureQuestWorlds are actually just different versions of Lore throughout the Multiverse (with VideoGame/AdventureQuestWorlds being its own timeline magically mixed in with the properties of all the other three). As a result: |
| 31 | ** The Great Fire War started before Battleon was founded. |
| 32 | ** As well, The'Galin is never mentioned in [=DragonFable=], and likewise [=AdventureQuest=] never mentions Sepulchure. |
| 33 | ** Oh, and did we forget to mention that [=AdventureQuest=] has a completely different map? AQ's map is more generic fantasy style, but [=DragonFable=] has a map shaped like a dragon. |
| 34 | ** The history of VideoGame/AdventureQuestWorlds is essentially the same as Dragonfable's Book 1, albeit with a few minor differences. For example, there is no Fluffy, [[spoiler:Priestess Celestia]] is never killed, and Robina plays a stronger role. VideoGame/AdventureQuestWorlds actually has its own equivalent to the Dragonfable Hero, though said Dragonlord has a much smaller role and is actually ''defeated'' by Drakath. |
| 35 | ** In [=DragonFable=] Book 1, Ash Dragonblade, Aria, and Princess Tara (Alteon's youngest daughter) are all children, while Gravelyn is a toddler. In [=AdventureQuestWorlds=], all of the children are the same age, except Gravelyn who is a young adult, perhaps she [[RapidAging ages faster]] than normal people. |
| 36 | ** King Alteon has a much larger role and he [[RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething directly participates in combat]]. |
| 37 | ** In [=DragonFable=], Zorbak was responsible for creating the Moglinsters in the first Mogloween, while in [=AdventureQuestWorlds=] Dr. Voltabolt is the culprit. |
| 38 | ** Unlike [=DragonFable=], Noxus does not survive the attack on the Necropolis in VideoGame/AdventureQuestWorlds, and ends up being resurrected by Sally as a lich. In addition, during Adventure Quest Worlds, Vordred corrupts Artix's axe into the Shadow Reaper of Doom after the Doomwood saga, when that had occurred ages before in [=DragonFable=]. |
| 39 | ** Both [[spoiler:Serenity and Lady Celestia are still alive in VideoGame/AdventureQuestWorlds, long after their deaths in the timeline of [=DragonFable=]]]. |
| 40 | ** Sepulchure's Flying Dracolich Fortress crashes for different reasons in both games. In [=DragonFable=] it crashes due to sabotage by Grams, while in VideoGame/AdventureQuestWorlds it crashes due to Drakath blasting it out of the sky. Also, in [=DragonFable=] it happened when Gravelyn was still a toddler, while in AQW Gravelyn is fully grown. |
| 41 | ** In [=DragonFable=], Sepulchure never had a chance to train Gravelyn, as she was still a toddler when he was depowered. However AQW Gravelyn, who is a teenager/young adult, has had her fair share of lessons in darkness and evil. |
| 42 | ** In [=DragonFable=], Riadne says that the Hero cannot become an Arachnomancer without having ancestral heritage, but in VideoGame/AdventureQuestWorlds, it's an available class. |
| 43 | ** In VideoGame/AdventureQuestWorlds, Queen Safiria dies, while in [=DragonFable=] she is still alive. |
| 44 | ** Some of the differences between [=DragonFable=] and VideoGame/AdventureQuestWorlds are explored in the [=DragonFable=] 2014 Frostval story, where Artix partially merges the two worlds together. |
| 45 | ** And it turns out that both [=AdventureQuests=] and [=DragonFable=] take place after Mechquest's universe experienced a disaster that made it necessary to [[ResetButton reset reality]]. |
| 46 | * AnIcePerson: Xan, when he gets the Eggnogonomicon during a Frostval. |
| 47 | ** Aegis, the elemental spirit of ice and valor. |
| 48 | * AnimalMotifs: |
| 49 | ** The Chickencow Lord has the motif of a [[MixAndMatchCritters Chickencow]]. |
| 50 | ** Fae and Bubble have cat motifs. |
| 51 | ** Galanoth, Frostscythe, the [=DragonLords=], and Sepulchure have a dragon motif. |
| 52 | ** Arachnomancers and Chaos Weavers, half-spider-half-human hybrids, have a spider motif. [[spoiler:The Chaos Weavers, though, suffered from a disease triggered by the misuse of the Judgement Wheel and got turned into spider humanoids. Ones like Vaal are human.]] |
| 53 | %%* {{Animesque}} |
| 54 | * AntiPoopSocking: There's a limit to how much EXP you can earn in one day. As Verlyrus says: Be healthy! Play responsibly! |
| 55 | * AnnoyingArrows: Can be part of your attire. |
| 56 | * AntimagicalFaction: [[spoiler:A secretive organization and cult named The Rose is this and the main threat in chapter 3.]] |
| 57 | * AntiVillain: The Necromantress (a.k.a. [[spoiler:Lady Vayle]]) seeks to [[spoiler:truly revive her brother Edgar -- who died during the destruction of Artix's hometown and subsequently spent many years trapped within her magic gemstone -- through necromancy]]. The Necropolis Arc's main villain, Noxus, has other plans for her as [[spoiler:she effectively ''became'' the Darkness Orb, which he had wanted to use to strengthen Sepulchure's army]]. |
| 58 | * AprilFoolsDay: During one of the earlier years, the towns along with their [=NPCs=] swapped with their models from other games in the franchise. The tradition became rather inconsistent over the years before 2021, where it released a quest known as Togsday. |
| 59 | ** In 2022, the annual event comes in the form of a flaming meteor that slowly approaches Falconreach over the previous week where none of the [=NPCs=] even notice the fire. On the day itself, the town is destroyed by the impact and the meteor is revealed to be actually a giant Chickencow egg, in where there is an optional boss fight. |
| 60 | * ArmCannon: This is the Technomancer default attack. |
| 61 | * ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: The traveling button to Lady Celestia states that "she is an expert on dragons, dragon magic, and tea." |
| 62 | * ArtEvolution: Book 3's art style features much finer detail in character designs and backgrounds. |
| 63 | * ArtifactOfDoom: |
| 64 | ** The Doom weapons, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin of course]]. They are actually elemental darkness spirits that have taken the form of weapons to survive the light of the material world. They are said to offer great power, but whisper to their masters, driving them insane. [[spoiler:The Necrotic Blade of Doom is one of the artifacts that corrupted Sir Valen into Sepulchure]]. The Mysterious Stranger tries to tempt you with them, though thanks to GameplayAndStorySegregation, nothing bad ever comes of it if you own one. |
| 65 | ** A fragment of the Mysterious Stranger's robe becomes this in a quest. [[spoiler:Baron Valtrith seeks it to complete his collection of artifacts from major antagonists. The Hero beats him to it, thanks to a mysterious letter hinted to have been sent by Sepulchure. The artifact animates an undead monstrosity, but The Hero defeats it and takes the artifact. The Hero considers destroying it, but is ultimately tempted by its power. The quest ends showing an ominous release of dark magic]]. |
| 66 | *** [[spoiler:Valtrith eventually manages to retrieve the cloth piece (either by the hero bringing it or finding it himself) and uses it in the ritual to create Caitiff.]] |
| 67 | * AsHimself: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lowe George Lowe]] in [[Series/AmericanIdol Falconreach Idle]]. |
| 68 | * AscendedFanboy: |
| 69 | ** Nythera's main goal is to replace Warlic as his assistant [[spoiler:by poisoning him. She winds up stealing his powers and challenging the Elemental Avatars, which quickly proved to be a ''really'' bad idea. Warlic had to be resurrected to save her sorry ass.]] |
| 70 | ** A lot of the game's staff are ascended ''[=AdventureQuest=]'' fans. |
| 71 | ** The Great Cysero Rebellion. That is all. |
| 72 | * AsideComment: You can't even keep track of how often this happens. |
| 73 | * AudienceShift: It seems to do this a lot. Though most of the game is cheery and meant for the younger audiences, the orb sagas are more mature and serious. Then there's Chapter 1's climactic war where [[spoiler:Grams is supposedly killed by Sepulchure, the Dracolich fortress slams through the Guardian Tower, killing many Guardians, Sepulchure kills Lady Celestia to take Akriloth's son, and Sepulchure gives The Hero a [[CurbStompBattle grand beatdown]], [[DespairEventHorizon demoralising]] many players]]. And that's just the ''beginning'' of said war! Book 3 gets a lot darker in general, with less jokes and more serious storylines. Book 3 Tomix saga is also fairly dark, including the slaughter of two children in order to reach Envy, and [[spoiler:Tomix's emotional sacrifice to detroy Envy once and for all during the finale]]. Dark themes are also omnipresent in the Calamity Saga, which features the [[spoiler:brutal murder of Serenity the innkeeper and subsequent use of her body as a puppet for the being Caitiff]]. |
| 74 | * AuthorAvatar: As with ''[=AdventureQuest=]'', most of the major {{NPC}}s are based on staff members. This includes Artix, Cysero, Alina, Reens, Galanoth, Warlic, Nythera, Zhoom, Lim, Rolith, Tomix, Geopetal, Ghost, Verylus, San Robin, and Kara [=SuLema=] just for starters. |
| 75 | * AxCrazy: |
| 76 | ** Xan. Well, ''fire''-crazy, really. |
| 77 | ** Artix becomes this when he gets anywhere near the undead. |
| 78 | ** The Necrotic Sword of Doom |
| 79 | * BadassAdorable: Lots and lots. Baby dragons and the Doomkitten, for example. |
| 80 | * BadassLongcoat: Tomix wears one. He wove it himself using his headmaster's spirtlooms. |
| 81 | ** Technomancers get something similar as well. |
| 82 | ** So do the Atealan base class upgrades. |
| 83 | ** Master [=SoulWeaver=] definitely counts. |
| 84 | * {{Badbutt}}: Trey Surehunter. Justified in that he's a CaptainErsatz of Franchise/IndianaJones. |
| 85 | * BagOfHolding: The Hero's backpack, lampshaded. |
| 86 | * BanditMook: Whenever you exited a wave in one of the Lucky Week Wars, the Sneevils would steal some of your Gold. |
| 87 | * BanOnMagic: [[spoiler:As of the TimeSkip, one is imposed by [[AntimagicalFaction The Rose]] over Greenguard with King Alteon's support. Falconreach is one of the few places left that welcomes magic.]] |
| 88 | * BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: Subverted; The Hero is concerned about how he/she'll breathe when facing a battle in space. The Gnomes then give him/her a re-breathealator. |
| 89 | * BavarianFireDrill: The Hero nearly pulls this off in the Necropolis arc, by combining Zorbak's Student ID (which has expired... and says he's expelled... and has a picture of a moglin on it) with AWizardDidIt. Only reason why it didn't work is because [[IdiotHero Artix]] couldn't keep it together for five minutes without slaying some undead. |
| 90 | * BeamSpam: The Technomancer's Bow, Soul Weaver's Banishment skills, and most of the Ascendant's attack skills. If you use an artifact called Baltael's Aventail while you're a Soul Weaver, you gain a new skill called Baltael Synch, which involves you [[FusionDance synchronizing]] with your Soul Ally, Aegis, and firing three gigantic lasers at your opponent. |
| 91 | * BearsAreBadNews: Subverted with the Ursice Savages, which you befriend. Played straight with the bear that Zorbak sets on you on your way to Falconreach. |
| 92 | * BeehiveBarrier: The Soul Weaver's defend skill takes the form of a shield and this. |
| 93 | * BetterThanABareBulb: Provides the page quote. |
| 94 | * {{BFG}}: The Pirate Armor pulls one out in one of its skills. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by the skill description. |
| 95 | * {{BFS}}: So many of these. |
| 96 | * BigBad: In chapter 1 it's Sepulchure [[spoiler:though he's [[DemotedToDragon really]] being controlled by the [[TheManBehindTheMan Mysterious Stranger]].]] |
| 97 | ** In chapter 2 it's Wargoth. |
| 98 | ** In chapter 3 it's a BigBadEnsemble of the Rose and Braon Valtrith, but later shifts over to [[spoiler:the Magisterium]]. |
| 99 | * BigNo: |
| 100 | ** Drakath lets one out while being carried away by the Wind Orb. |
| 101 | ** The Hero [[spoiler:when Sepulchure's fortress crashes into the Guardian Tower]]. |
| 102 | ** The Hero again when [[spoiler:Sepulchure collects every Orb in a rapidly spinning ring to create the Ultimate Orb]]. |
| 103 | ** Sepulchure as well [[spoiler:when Fluffy merges with Drakath]]. |
| 104 | * BigWhat: Artix and Zhoom when they find out they didn't have to cram into the phone booth to travel. |
| 105 | * BilingualBonus: |
| 106 | ** Some items -- like the Belts in the Time-Travel shop -- have Latin names. |
| 107 | ** "Dragesvard" is Danish for Dragonblade. |
| 108 | ** The "hunting" quests on the board in Book 3 Swordhaven have Welsh names. |
| 109 | * BishonenLine: [[spoiler:Greed. He goes from being a yellow blobby thing with a wicked evil smile to a kid with a wicked evil smile]]. |
| 110 | * BizarroElements: Only Bacon can truly be called bizarre, given its thematic focus on food and that few enemies have a resistance to it; even in-universe, characters consider it strange and unusual. [[spoiler:the Bacon Orb proves to be crucial in the Book 1 finale]]. |
| 111 | * BlackCloak: The Mysterious Stranger, among others. The Necromantress has the same general look as well, though hers is purple. |
| 112 | * BlackMagic: |
| 113 | ** The Seal of Ativa, which, according to Izaac, is "one of the few legendary and forbidden magics." It connects the very existence of someone to seal something and the only way to open it is [[SadisticChoice by killing that someone]]. |
| 114 | ** Tanislav's Last Will. A ritual found in suspicious scroll belonging to a "mysterious stranger", which was performed by a man called Tanislav to save his terminally-ill young son, Roirr, as a last resort. It involved [[ImMelting liquidifying]] [[HumanSacrifice people]] and [[PoweredByAForsakenChild turning]] an [[WhereIWasBornAndRazed entire]] [[DoomedHometown village's]] [[LifeEnergy life essence]] into medicine for Roirr. (Though it's not necessarily just for getting medicine, since it can be used to make a key to open a sealed door, if taking Vaal's ramblings into account.) |
| 115 | * BlobMonster: Lots and lots of them. |
| 116 | * BondCreatures: Dragons and Dragonlords. |
| 117 | * BoringButPractical: The Bulwark variant of the Dragonlord class is this for the inn challenges. It's an incredibly tanky class that can outlast many fights with its defensive abilities, but is extremely slow to do so with its relatively average base damage output. While its passive skill gives +5% total damage every turn (Allowing for it to eventually do heavy damage), it takes a long while for this effect to be truly significant. |
| 118 | * BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler:Artix]], by Drakonnan. |
| 119 | ** [[spoiler:And ''you'', after Kathool Achoo haunts your nightmares, in the Water Orb Saga]] |
| 120 | * BreakingTheFourthWall: Like AsideComment, there are countless examples of this. |
| 121 | * BreatherEpisode: Amidst the much DarkerAndEdgier Book 3, the holiday events like Frostval, Hero's Hearts Day, and Mogloween serve as light-hearted breathers to the darker main story arcs. |
| 122 | * BribingYourWayToVictory: Although a lot of the game is free, you need to pay a one-time fee to get full access to all the best equipment and quite a few quests. The "Dragon Coin" items in Cysero's shop also qualify. |
| 123 | * BrickJoke: You know how during the pirate quest chain, The Hero blows up a ship full of water-breathing potions? Yeah, they make passing references to that throughout the game. And in ''VideoGame/AdventureQuest'' as well. |
| 124 | ** In Book 1 Oaklore Keep, first released in October 2006, the Hero gets introduced to the Knights of the Pactagonal Table, and the idea of a "basic shape" resembling VideoGame/PacMan. Kind of funny as it is, worth maybe a chuckle or two. In Book 3, in the immediate aftermath of a war released nine years later in real time, The Rose and the Knights garrisoned in Oaklore [[spoiler:have to stop a boulder launched from their side via catapult from reaching Falconreach, somehow.]] Their solution is creative: |
| 125 | -->'''Safrano:''' How are we supposed to stop that? We'll never reach it!\ |
| 126 | '''Lindee:''' Don't panic, soldier!\ |
| 127 | '''Lindee:''' [[spoiler:Ready the table!]] |
| 128 | * BridgeLogic: One of the first playable quests lampshades and double-subverts this. Your character sees a chasm in a cave and thinks to knock over a conveniently-placed stalagmite to cross it: |
| 129 | -->'''[[HelloInsertNameHere Your character]]''': This is my best idea ever!\ |
| 130 | * Stalagmite leans toward you*\ |
| 131 | '''[[HelloInsertNameHere Your character]]''': This is my ''worst'' idea ever!\ |
| 132 | * Stalagmite leans the other way, falls, and bridges the chasm*\ |
| 133 | '''[[HelloInsertNameHere Your character]]''': BEST. IDEA. EVER! |
| 134 | * BrutalBonusLevel: The Inn at the Edge of Time. It contains the hardest boss fights in the game and the longest and most difficult dungeons. The best equipment in the game (better than even [[BribingYourWayToVictory Dragon Coin equipment]]) requires beating these challenges. |
| 135 | * BroughtDownToNormal: [[spoiler:Xan lost his powers when Sepulchure used the Ice Orb on him]]. |
| 136 | * BrownBagMask: Can be part of your attire. Galanoth also dons one when the guard took his helmet in the quest "Not So Great Escape". |
| 137 | * BunnyEarsLawyer: Cysero. A good smith, but ''very'' weird. He's not called the ''Mad'' Weaponsmith for nothing. |
| 138 | * ButThouMust: You're sometimes given the option of joining or aiding a villain, rather than fighting them. Of course, since you're the player character and the Hero of Falconreach, you can't actually help a villain win, so choosing this option always gives you a NonStandardGameOver that describes how your choice backfires, before making you make the choice again. |
| 139 | * TheCameo: Artix pops up at the end of the first Hero's Heart Day quest from 2011. Lampshaded in the ending blurb. |
| 140 | * CaptainErsatz: |
| 141 | ** Kathool Achoo is a Captain Ersatz of [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Cthulhu]]. |
| 142 | ** Lust looks somewhat similar to the character of the same name from ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist''. Though WordOfGod says she's not ''supposed'' to be a Captain Ersatz. Greed's resemblance to his namesake from the same series however... |
| 143 | ** Trey Surehunter is a Captain Ersatz of Franchise/IndianaJones. |
| 144 | ** A few of the shopkeepers in the Shadow of the Wind Village; Ayane is a Captain Ersatz of Ayane from ''VideoGame/DeadOrAlive'', and Snake Ears is a Captain Ersatz of Snake Eyes from ''Franchise/GIJoe''. Ayane even [[LampshadeHanging mentions]] ''Dead or Alive'' in one of her dialogues. |
| 145 | ** Doctor When is a Captain Ersatz of [[Series/DoctorWho The Doctor]]. |
| 146 | ** Sir Stephan is a Captain Ersatz of Creator/StephenColbert. |
| 147 | ** The Zard Hunter is a Captain Ersatz of [[Series/CrocodileHunter Steve Irwin]]. |
| 148 | ** The Savage Outworlder (aka Guffer) is pretty much a dead ringer for Sam Sheepdog, of the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' ''WesternAnimation/RalphWolfAndSamSheepdog'' shorts. |
| 149 | ** Falwynn looks and acts suspiciously like [[VideoGame/HyruleWarriors Linkle]]. She even uses crossbows, too. |
| 150 | * CatGirl: Fae. |
| 151 | * CatchPhrase: Lim's is rather simplistic, yet tells you pretty much everything you need to know about him. |
| 152 | --> '''Lim''': [[ForScience SCIENCE]]! |
| 153 | * CaveBehindTheFalls |
| 154 | * CerebusRollercoaster: Compare the orb sagas and the Book 1 finale to almost everything that ''isn't'' part of the main storyline. The Ravenloss saga is also fairly dark. |
| 155 | ** Summed up well in the Blood and Roses quest chain. Your friend is being consumed by lycanthropy and is desperately searching for a cure, with all the angst such a plot entails. You help them research one by going on a FantasticVoyagePlot inside them with the help of penguin shrink ray technology. |
| 156 | * CerebusSyndrome: Book 3 takes a ''much'' darker route for the game, with many of the towns you visited destroyed or sealed off, and many of the characters you got to know ending up KilledOffForReal. [[NightmareFuel That is all.]] |
| 157 | ** One could say the Fire Orb Saga already marked a much darker turn for the game, where characters dying became a real possibility. |
| 158 | * CharacterDevelopment: Nythera's second quest chain is basically about her becoming less of a {{jerkass}} while learning to be more responsible with her powers. [[spoiler:Also, she's TheChosenOne]]. |
| 159 | * ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:The Bacon Orb]]. |
| 160 | * ChekhovsGunman: |
| 161 | ** The Necromantress appeared considerably before she had any impact on the plot. |
| 162 | ** [[spoiler:The Falconreach spy, a.k.a. Sabrina, the original owner of the Falconreach inn. Disappeared years ago when the Mysterious Stranger appeared, only to resurface (and be dealt with) as Grams in disguise]]. |
| 163 | * ChessWithDeath: Ash takes Death on with TabletopGame/TicTacToe. |
| 164 | * TheChewToy: Twilly -- literally, since the first thing your newly hatched [[spoiler:Chaos]] dragon does is to try and eat him. |
| 165 | * TheChosenOne: The game has quite a few of these. |
| 166 | ** The Hero is the chosen one for becoming a Dragon Lord and raising a dragon which will either save or destroy the world. |
| 167 | ** Thursday is the chosen one for bringing peace to Darkovia and finding a cure for lycannthropy. |
| 168 | ** Nythera is a chosen one as well. |
| 169 | * ChronicHeroSyndrome: Pretty much par for the course. |
| 170 | * CirclingBirdies: The Hero gets circling stars in "Pachelbel's Cannon" after he/she lands in Sepulchure's castle after getting shot out of the eponymous cannon. It's combined with Non Sequitor Thud, below. |
| 171 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Cysero. He tends to say the absolute silliest things and makes really weird inventions. He also wanted to destroy a force field with a sponge soaked in nitroglycerin. [[note]]The nitroglycerin sponges are later used as catapult ammo.[[/note]] In one quest, The Hero winds up saying something along the lines of "Perhaps an infarction in the green color matrix"? (in response to why the ground was losing its color). Robina immediately replied "Have you been talking to Cysero?" The PC briefly discusses this with Lim during ''The Clashening'' quest series, as well. |
| 172 | --> '''You''': The point is, [Cysero] doesn't think the way you do. Try to predict what he'll do and you'll be in for a surprise. |
| 173 | * TheCuckoolanderWasRight: Crazy or not, he clearly knows what he's doing more often than anyone else, if only by virtue of his unique brand of intuition. Some of the silly things he says or does earlier on [[ChekhovsGun will be important later on]]. [[spoiler:Like the time booth, or turning the Falconreach Guardian tower into a fish; the Hamtons from ''The Clashening'' also get a brief CallBack.]] |
| 174 | * ColonyDrop: "Sire, your fortress is going to crash!" "Then let it crash." |
| 175 | * ContinuityCavalcade: There's a quest in which you can get into Zorbak's attic, which includes all the items he has owned during the game. |
| 176 | * ContinuityNod: Many of them, usually in regard to ''VideoGame/MechQuest'' and ''VideoGame/AdventureQuest''. |
| 177 | * CosmeticAward: The Souvenir Tee, a rare drop from the second Boss Fight of the Friday the 13th War of 2011. |
| 178 | * CreepyChild: Sally and Thursday. In Thursday's case it's [[JustifiedTrope justified]], seeing as she is [[spoiler:[[HalfHumanHybrid part vampire]]]]. |
| 179 | * CuteKitten: Subverted by the aptly named [[DoomyDoomsOfDoom Doomkitten]]. Sure, it ''looks'' cute, but if you don't have a good water weapon you're screwed. |
| 180 | * CuteWitch: The Cauldron Sisters from Mogloween (most especially Bubble... the ''human'' Bubble). The ArtShift in year 5 was an exception. |
| 181 | * CutenessProximity: |
| 182 | ** At the end of the Dragongrasp quest chain [[spoiler:Vilmor]] gushes over [[spoiler:Cryozen's newborn hatchling which immediately imprinted on her]] even after it [[spoiler:sneezes frost snot all over her face]]. |
| 183 | ** You need reminders from Warlic to get a hold of yourself when facing the incredibly cute Doomkitten. |
| 184 | ** In Mogloween year 6, Andy causes this towards two girls he meets, who want to kiss him. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, Andy is infected with the Z-Virus, causing anything that he kisses or bites (or that kisses ''him'') to become a savage undead Zardbie]]. |
| 185 | ** The player character tends to get a bit [[MamaBear overpro]][[PapaWolf tective]] of anything he/she considers cute, including baby dracoliches, two-headed hellhound puppies, and [[MixAndMatchCritters chickcalves]]. |
| 186 | %%* DarkerAndEdgier: |
| 187 | %%** The Chapter 1 finale. [[spoiler:And then Bacon gets involved.]] |
| 188 | %%** Chapter 3 is as well.%%How? |
| 189 | %%** ''[=DragonFable=]'' itself is this to other Artix games, with the most liberal application of GreyAndGrayMorality to date. |
| 190 | * DarkIsNotEvil: |
| 191 | ** While DarkIsEvil and LightIsGood is very much the case in the continent the Hero lives on, on the other side of the world, the moral alignments of light and darkness associated beings are the opposite. |
| 192 | ** At the end of the Dragon Egg quest chain, ''TheHero'' ends up with the [[ChaosIsEvil Dragon of Chaos]] destined to ''destroy'' the world, while the ''BigBad'' ends up with the Dragon of Order [[OrderVersusChaos destined to save it.]] [[spoiler:Despite all this, the prophecy is fulfilled anyway, when the Hero's dragon destroys the planet-sized [[OverlyLongName Super-Mega-Ultra-Darkness]] Dracolich, while Sepulchure's Fluffy sacrifices itself to save the world in the GrandFinale.]] |
| 193 | ** There is also a race of Dark Humanoids with horns. |
| 194 | ** If you check Tomix's stats when you have him as a guest, he actually does ''Evil-elemental'' damage. He's still a pretty nice guy. |
| 195 | ** You can play as a necromancer, a follower of a C'thulu expy, or an embodiment of entropy with no effect on plot or dialogue. Additionally, there's nothing stopping you from fighting evil with Darkness-charged weapons. You're still the Hero, no matter what. |
| 196 | * DavyJones: In the "Water Orb" Saga, Captain Davey is a GhostPirate and, alongside his crew, haunts a location called the Locker, a settlement of sunken ships that have been repurposed into a town after the water was made breathable. Davey himself is not quite the lord of the ocean, with that honor going to Cthulhu expy Kathool Atchoo, whom Davey serves. |
| 197 | * DayOfTheWeekName: Thursday and [[spoiler:her great great great great great great great great grandfather]], Lord [[IncrediblyLamePun Frydae XIII]]. Also, the host of the Amityvale meeting is named Wednesday. |
| 198 | * DeusExitMachina: We finally get an explanation for why [[TheArchmage Warlic]] doesn't swoop in and solve everyone's problems: [[spoiler:his magic essentially works in ''reverse'', so if he casts too many spells he could overload on mana and even destroy the world. He's proved this in Book 2, when his magic got out of control - he destroyed a whole planet of aliens and almost destroyed Lore as well before the hero was able to stop him.]]. |
| 199 | * DismantledMacGuffin: All the elemental Orbs in Chapter 1 combine into [[spoiler:the ''Ultimate Orb'']] which is absorbed by [[spoiler:''both'' Drakath and Fluffy... resulting in a FusionDance]]. Before that, [[spoiler:the Earth Orb was split into the Stone and Nature orbs]]. |
| 200 | * DemBones: Lots of undead {{mook}}s... and, of course, [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter the dracolich babies]]. |
| 201 | ** Fluffy! |
| 202 | ** Captain Davey. |
| 203 | ** The Necromancer Brothers. |
| 204 | * DepravedDentist: Dr. Voltabolt, who is also a MadScientist. An InformedAbility of sorts, since he ''claims'' to be a dentist but is never actually seen doing anything related to dentistry. |
| 205 | * DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: |
| 206 | ** You can kill the three headed hydra near the beginning '''with a dagger'''. |
| 207 | ** In the Chapter 1 finale [[spoiler:The Hero and his/her dragon destroy a dragon made of pure darkness that ''ate the sun'']]. |
| 208 | ** BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu: The entire Orb Saga, once Sepulchure and his Master [[spoiler:the Mysterious Stranger]] get serious about halfway through. Yeah, the Hero beats Sepulchure to five of the Orbs and puts several villains out of commission in the process, but that's rendered entirely moot by Sepulchure's plans and his massive spy network, and the Hero is so out of their league in comparison and so focused on finding the Orbs one-by-one that Sepulchure manages to make them look completely ineffectual for a moment. None of this holds a candle to [[spoiler:the Mysterious Stranger]], who was able to play the Hero and Sepulchure against each other so perfectly that [[spoiler:he ends up receiving a very powerful weapon he deems worthy of binding himself to in the form of Drakath's slain body, which is what he really wanted all along]]. |
| 209 | * DisneyDeath: Despite seeming to be brutally killed during Final 13th, [[spoiler:Drakath and Sepulchure both end up surviving the final battle. Drakath is shown seeing [[CallForward an Eye]] [[VideoGame/AdventureQuestWorlds of Chaos]], and Sepulchure is shown on top of a cliff [[{{Foreshadowing}} holding the Mysterious Stranger's cloak]]]]. |
| 210 | * DivineIntervention: Pretty much the whole plot of the Maleurous Saga, where the Avatars directly task the hero and Uaanta Fayt to fight the Maleurous. |
| 211 | * DivineParentage: It's implied that [[spoiler:the Hero's dragon was created by the destroyer God-dragon Drahr'Dolaas, one of the twin dragons that originally shaped the universe]]. |
| 212 | * TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler:Frostscythe blasts Circe for failing him. When she protests that she improvised and demands payment, he refuses, claiming he "doesn't pay for improvising". Circe later ditches Frostscythe when he asks her to help him fight against The Hero and Vilmor because that's [[IronicEcho "improvising"]]]]. |
| 213 | * DoomedHometown: All the residents of Artix's hometown except him and [[spoiler:Vayle]] were killed and zombified. |
| 214 | * DoomyDoomsOfDoom: The DOOM blades, the DOOM axe, and the DOOM staff. The Mysterious Stranger tries to sell them to you... for a price (namely, [[MoneySink 28000 gold]]). The creators are obviously aware of the trope, since the description of one of these is simply "DOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMM!!!" and another is "So much DOOM it hurts!" |
| 215 | ** The [[BribingYourWayToVictory Necrotic Sword]] [[InfinityPlusOneSword of Doom]]. |
| 216 | * DragonsAreDivine: Certain dragons are considered sacred in the world of Lore, including hints that [[spoiler:hints the whole universe was initially created by two divine dragons, whom the Avatars are subservient to.]]. |
| 217 | * DragonRider: Those who own a Dragon Amulet, which allows customisation. |
| 218 | * DungeonCrawling: There are a couple of hundred-room-plus megadungeons, just for the hell of it. |
| 219 | * EggMcguffin: The Dragon-Egg boxes at the beginning of the main plot. |
| 220 | * EldritchAbomination: |
| 221 | ** The [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Cthulhu]] CaptainErsatz "Kathool Achoo". |
| 222 | ** The Yaga Sisters were ''trying'' to summon one, and while they did get a monster that would destroy the world, it turned out to be an AffablyEvil, PunchclockVillain, sheepdog-haired critter named Guffer. |
| 223 | ** The "god" of the Shapeless Empire, the beast known as The Shapeless. |
| 224 | * ElegantGothicLolita: [[http://dfwiki.com/index.php/File:Thursday.PNG Thursday]] and [[http://www.dfwiki.com/index.php/File:Nythera.PNG Nythera]]. |
| 225 | * ElementalEmbodiment: Elementals are fully sentient creatures made entirely of one of the Elements. The most common ones are the main ones from ''VideoGame/AdventureQuest'' (Fire, Ice, Water, Energy, Earth, Air, Light, and Darkness) which have a corresponding Elemental Avatar, but there are a few more out there ones like Metal or Silver with no patron Avatar. In Book 3, Theano uses the magical equivalent of PlayingWithSyringes to create Disease Elementals. There's also the calendar class Avatar Of Time, which has the player embody the element of time itself. [[spoiler:However, a purchasable "spoiler" in the Inn At The Edge Of Time states that "The true Avatar Of Time is always watching.]] |
| 226 | * ElementalPowers: On top of the main 8 from ''VideoGame/AdventureQuest'', they added several more: Metal, Nature, Wood, Silver, [[OddNameOut Bacon]], Disease, Poison, Fear, Evil, and Good. |
| 227 | * ElementalRockPaperScissors: Elemental creatures tend to have weaknesses to certain other elements, such as fire elementals being weak to water. Attacking with the creature's own element, though, may [[ElementalAbsorption heal it]] - and if all you have against that big mean fire spirit is a fire-damage staff, [[FeedItWithFire heaven help you.]] |
| 228 | * ElementalShapeshifter: Siofra is considered to be one. |
| 229 | * EleventhHourSuperpower: In the FinalBattle of Chapter 1 [[spoiler:the Elemental Bacon Orb grants The Hero's Dragon its power, which comes with a Primal special that doubles the Dragon's attack power for 99 turns]]. |
| 230 | * EmbarrassingNickname: Sepulchure, of all people. A few file names and items jokingly refer to the Doom Knight as "Seppy". Anyone who says that in his presence probably won't live long afterwards. Overlaps with AffectionateNickname, since it's the staff using it. |
| 231 | ** Zorbak dubs the Hero "Nana" when taking care of the baby Dracoliches. It's not all bad, though; he/she eventually gets promoted to ''Lieutenant'' Nana. |
| 232 | * EnemyMine: |
| 233 | ** Zorbak is on your side almost as often as not, in part because he's generally a HarmlessVillain. |
| 234 | ** [[spoiler:The Necromantress helps The Hero take down Noxus]]. |
| 235 | ** The Hero forms an alliance with [[spoiler:Sepulchure to take down Drakath]]. |
| 236 | ** The Hero and the Vind are forced to form an alliance with [[spoiler:the Rose to fight off the Magisterium]]. |
| 237 | ** [[spoiler:The Magisterium also become unlikely allies when their Proclamation Rifts go out of control, and help the hero through the Golden Hand]]. |
| 238 | * EmergentGameplay: Players figured out that that weapon specials activate based on displayed weapon rather than equiped weapon, meaning that players could equip powerful weapons with no specials and then display a weapon with a powerful special. Eventually, the developers started making weapons specifically meant to be displayed for the weapon special before making it so that you could "slot" a weapon to activate its special without having to display it. |
| 239 | * EpisodeOfTheDead: The game has featured two ZombieApocalypse Halloween events. |
| 240 | ** The first one titled "Resident Sneevil" parodies ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' where an infectious mutant virus strain known as the Zardbie Virus breaks out of a secret laboratory. Though the Player and other heroes manage to contain this one by killing or curing the infected. |
| 241 | ** The second event titled "28 Weeks Later" parodying ''Film/TwentyEightDaysLater'' deals with the full-out of the first epidemic. The player gets to first play as a SoleSurvivor in one town that got overtaken by zardbies and must flee after their safehouse is compromised. After a TimeSkip the regular Player discovers one boy still carrying the zardbie virus but is [[TheImmune immune]] to its effects. Though as a carrier he accidentally infects several humans and monsters, so the Player must sneak him out of the camp and through the forest while fighting off this second zardbie epidemic. |
| 242 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: After Sepulchure turns Fluffy into a Dracolich, Drakath pulls his sword, looking angry, and says "M... Master? What have you done?!" |
| 243 | ** Actually, judging from the shaking in his boots, he was more scared then angry. |
| 244 | * EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Subverted with the Professor's Apprentice, who while he always goes by apprentice is rather obviously [[spoiler:Konnan]]. |
| 245 | * EverythingsBetterWithRainbows: The Lucky Week War had a rainbow as a central plot device. |
| 246 | * EvilCostumeSwitch: [[spoiler:Artix as the Shadowfire Knight during his BrainwashedAndCrazy stint]]. |
| 247 | * EvilCounterpart: |
| 248 | ** Sepulchure and Fluffy to The Hero and His/Her Dragon. |
| 249 | ** Xan to Warlic. But not exactly how you might think. |
| 250 | * EvilLaugh: |
| 251 | ** Captain Davey indulges in this. It's even one of his attacks. |
| 252 | ** Xan is constantly laughing. |
| 253 | ** The Doom Weapons laugh evilly whenever their special is activated. Bizarrely enough, their purified counterparts, the Destiny Weapons, used to do this too. |
| 254 | ** Vaal gives an actual audible one in the Void Ship quests. When you battle as him later on it's also one of his attacks. |
| 255 | * EvilStoleMyFaith: Part of the reason for [[spoiler:Notha's desire to destroy the Avatars]] is that the gods are incapable of keeping balance in the world. |
| 256 | * EvilWeapon: The Doom Weapons. Including Sepulchure's Necrotic Blade of Doom, which is [[spoiler:a manifestation of the Mysterious Stranger's a.k.a. the Master's will]]. |
| 257 | * ExactWords: The Hero's Dragon is destined to destroy a planet. [[spoiler:Fortunately for Lore, that probably means you can get away with destroying a planet-sized Super Mega Ultra Darkness Dragon]]. |
| 258 | * FailureToSaveMurder: Konnan has a deep personal grudge against [[spoiler:The Hero for [[HopelessBossFight getting pwned by Akriloth]] and not saving his family]]. |
| 259 | * FantasticVoyagePlot: You need to retrieve some [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter Trobbles]] a whale swallowed for Captain Rhubarb... [[spoiler:Later on in Book 3, you have to shrink into Raven's bloodstream to find a cure for Amytville's Lycanthropy.]] |
| 260 | * FantasyKitchenSink |
| 261 | * FauxtivationalPoster: There have been two forum contests to design these, and the Mayor of Falconreach has one in his office. |
| 262 | * FighterMageThief: Your default classes. |
| 263 | * FightingYourGod: [[spoiler:The culmination of the Maleurous Saga, where Notha assaults the Avatars themselves]]. |
| 264 | * FishingMinigame |
| 265 | * FishingForSole: In the Fishing Minigame. Your character also pulls out a boot during the RummageFail (see below). |
| 266 | * FixedFloorFighting |
| 267 | * FlashStep: The Soul Weaver has an abundance of skills involving this, being the fastest class in the game hands down. The Chronomancer also does this when using Blink. |
| 268 | * {{Flashback}}: Artix, Nythera and Vilmor have flashbacks as part of their quest chains. |
| 269 | * FlashForward: The entirety of the First Weaver saga took place some time in the future when it was initially released, with the main story taking a few years to catch up. |
| 270 | * FloatingContinent: Popsprocket, Aeris Battle-Spire, The Anomaly and Dragonsgrasp. |
| 271 | * FluffyCloudHeaven: Mootopolis looks like this crossed with AncientGrome. |
| 272 | * FluffyTamer: Aria. In the quest where you have to rescue her from a cave full of BigCreepyCrawlies, the BossFight is a GiantSpider that she wants to keep as a pet. |
| 273 | * FluffyTheTerrible: [[BigBad Sepulchure's]] Dracolich, which he names "Fluffy". |
| 274 | * FlunkyBoss: Most of them. |
| 275 | * ForcedTransformation: |
| 276 | ** All sneevils were once human children. They were converted into their current goblin state by Nythera, who wanted to gather boxes to build a box fort. Her parents managed to change some of them back, but they were not able to completely reverse the effects and they never managed to recover most of them. Lately, The Rose, being the {{Well Intentioned Extremist}}s that they are, have decided to take this matter into their own hands, and the sneevils that haven't been enslaved to fight for them are being treated. |
| 277 | ** Originally one, but later two of the Cauldron Sisters are afflicted with this. One of the Bubble twins was accidentally transformed into a cat. Every time the Cauldron sisters try to reverse her condition, something goes wrong, it is only partially reversed, and what is reversed in one twin is inflicted on the other. The twin originally transformed grows very bitter and transforms a band of adventurers called the M.O.P with the same curse. The good Bubble twin's condition is eventually reversed, but their sisters continue to prove completely unable to cure the other one. It is ultimately ([[CatGirl mostly]]) cured by TrueLovesKiss. She proceeds to become TheAtoner and has the M.O.P. restored as well. |
| 278 | ** During one of the Mogloween quests, Zorbak tampers with the candy, resulting in any moglin who eats it turning into a ferocious monster called a Moglinster. Sally later makes this a permanent curse, ensuring any moglin on Mogloween who sees anyone not wearing a mask will turn into a monster until defeated. The cursed Bubble twin eventually cleanses Myx to stop afflicting any more moglins and starts spreading candy cures for the moglins already affected. |
| 279 | ** During the Sho-Nuff Inn Saga War, monkey sages caused any human visiting the island to turn into monkeys. |
| 280 | ** Another Mogloween, Sally and Bubble cause a M.O.P. squadron to turn into cats. They try to tell the Hero what happened, but the Hero couldn't speak cat. The cats make it back to the Cauldron Sisters only to discover the spell can only be cast at a certain time each year so they're stuck as cats. But it's later revealed they got stuck as cats for 2 years, as none of them thought to go look for the Hero and were hanging out at the Moonridge Inn. The Hero has to personally go and find them and change them back. |
| 281 | ** On yet another Mogloween, Sally curses the candy to turn everyone who eats it into identical [[CreepyChild creepy little girls]] to be her friends. Since about half of the victims were men, this partially overlaps with GenderBender. When the cursed Bubble twin resolves to fix all of her and her sisters' screw ups, they finally get treated. |
| 282 | * ForScience: Lim (and Cysero, in a MadScientist {{Magitek}} sort of way). |
| 283 | * ForegoneConclusion: |
| 284 | ** For those familiar with ''VideoGame/AdventureQuest'', it was blindingly obvious that Konnan would eventually become Drakonnan. |
| 285 | ** And playing Alexander's Diary, which takes place in the past of Lore. Even without WordOfGod, it became obvious when the supporting cast showed up that [[spoiler:Alexander becomes Xan]]. |
| 286 | * FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler:Frostscythe claims that he was driven to evil because no Ice Dragon would bond with him supposedly due to him being half Ice Elf]]. The Hero [[ShutUpHannibal blows this excuse out of the water]] by saying that [[spoiler:the problem isn't his blood, it's his ''personality,'' since he wants to ''control'' dragons rather than cooperate with them]]. |
| 287 | * FriendlyPirate: Osprey Cove is a town full of pirates and most of them operate just like any other towns folk while setting up shops just like any other merchants. Aside from sometimes being callous and gruff, pirates are otherwise mostly allies to the player and have been called upon to assist in wars. The only time pirates ever become hostile is when you are [[PiratesVersusNinjas sided with the ninjas]]. This trope is lampshaded by one store that has a sign stating the Pirate's Warrant: |
| 288 | --> "''If you are unsatisfied with your pirate purchase for any reason... tough luck, pal! WE'RE PIRATES! You're lucky that we didn't just rob you blind in the first place!''" |
| 289 | %% * FrothyMugsOfWater: Lampshaded hilariously. - ZCE |
| 290 | * FurAgainstFang: A vampire-werewolf war is very evident in Amityvale Book 3. |
| 291 | * FusionDance: Tomix does this with [[TheAtoner Pandora]], [[OmnicidalManiac Aspar/Envy]] forces this onto Tomix, and The Hero can potentially do this with [[AnIcePerson Aegis.]] |
| 292 | * GadgeteerGenius: The gnomes. All of them. |
| 293 | * GameplayAndStoryIntegration: The last fights in the Dragongrasp questline are both [[AntiClimaxBoss Anti-Climax Bosses]]. The ease of the first fight [[spoiler:against Frostscythe while he's riding Cryozen]] compared to most Titan fights [[spoiler:since Cryozen does pitiful damage]] illustrates that [[spoiler:a) Cryozen is already at death's door thanks to Frostscythe's torture and b) Frostscythe is an incompetent Dragon Master]]. The second fight is also pretty easy [[spoiler:since you have Vilmor on your side and Frostscythe "only" has two ice dragons]] since it's meant to show [[spoiler:just how much The Hero and Vilmor outclass Frostscythe in every way]]. |
| 294 | * GenderBlenderName: Thomas, the female spider Aria was training. |
| 295 | * GenreSavvy: The Hero and the [=NPCs=] certainly have their moments. |
| 296 | --> '''Dragon''': I really should just eat this adventurer, it will save me a lot of trouble in 30 levels or so. |
| 297 | %% * GiantSpider: Thomas and other spiders. - ZCE |
| 298 | * GoodCopBadCop: Ash and The Hero in the "Dying Light" quest. |
| 299 | * GottaCatchEmAll: Part of the plan to resist Sepulchure is to collect all the elemental orbs before he can. |
| 300 | * GratuitousForeignLanguage: The Chinese characters 赎罪 (atonement) can be found tattooed on Konnan's upper arm in his later appearances. Unfortunately due to the AmbidextrousSprite nature of Dragonfable, these characters don't always display correctly. |
| 301 | %% * GratuitousFrench: The Verteroche villagers. |
| 302 | * GratuitousGerman: Cysero says "Tchuss" in "Cyseredux". |
| 303 | %% * GratuitousJapanese: The Nekonomicon. |
| 304 | * GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler:The Mysterious Stranger in Book 1, and the Magisterium in Book 3]]. |
| 305 | * GreenEyedMonster: [[spoiler:Frostscythe framed Vilmor for his crimes because he was jealous of her talent as a Dragonlord and her bond with the mightiest of the Ice Dragons]]. |
| 306 | * GreyAndGrayMorality: For Book 3, The End of Magic. You're still working towards the greater good, and the Rose definitely can't have their way in eliminating magic, but now your gung-ho nature when it comes to your heroics is being questioned, and it's explicitly said that towns under Rose protection are the safest places to be. Summed up very well by Guardian Kain [[spoiler:when he leaves the Guardians to join the Rose]]. |
| 307 | --> '''Kain/[[spoiler:Adam]]:''' There are no sides! The world isn't black and white! |
| 308 | * HalfHumanHybrid: |
| 309 | ** Nythera is half dragon (HotSkittyOnWailordAction seems to have been [[AvertedTrope averted]], since her mother can [[{{Shapeshifter}} turn into a more human-ish form]]). |
| 310 | ** [[spoiler:Frostscythe is half Ice Elf]]. |
| 311 | ** Zhoom is half sand-elf, and has pointy ears. |
| 312 | ** [[spoiler:Warlic is confirmed by WordOfGod to be half-infernal]]. |
| 313 | * HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Dave gets sliced in half vertically by Sepulchure. |
| 314 | * {{Hammerspace}}: The Hero's backpack. Lampshaded in the [[AllThereInTheManual design notes]] [[http://www.dragonfable.com/gamedesignnotes/dragongraspclash-252]]: |
| 315 | --> "Your backpack inventories are VERY spacious. Your pets are not at all crowded due to the compartmentalized nature of the backpack. A space for weapons, a drawer for trinkets, and a large fenced-in grassy area in the side pocket for your pets to frolic in. Gotta love Hammerspace!" |
| 316 | ** Also mentioned by your character during a quest. You are trying to help someone escape, so you offer to carry him in your backpack. It works fine. |
| 317 | * HaveWeMetYet: |
| 318 | ** Zhoom asks whether the character knows him in "Titans of Battleon!" |
| 319 | ** Ashendal also engages in a similar conversation in Frostval 2014. |
| 320 | * HeelFaceTurn: |
| 321 | ** Circe, who begrudgingly helps the Hero and serves the Queen in Book 3. |
| 322 | ** [[spoiler:Sepulchure in Book 3, who, while disguised as Amadeus, heals the Hero's dragon from its corruption, and in general focuses more on keeping his daughter safe]]. |
| 323 | * HelloInsertNameHere: Everyone addresses you as this. Even Doom-Knight Sepulchure. |
| 324 | * HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Sha'Rae throws herself into a hole to destroy the Orb of Light, [[SenselessSacrifice but Sepulchure captures the orb anyway]]]]. |
| 325 | * HiddenInPlainSight: The Stone Orb, [[spoiler:until it was merged with the Nature Orb and fused into the Blade of Awe]]. |
| 326 | * HighFantasy: The main overarching storyline has the Hero going on a lot of epic adventures and going up against villains. Most notably resisting Sepulchure the resident EvilOverlord and racing him to each Elemental Orb. |
| 327 | * HighlyVisibleNinja: None of the ninjas seem to bother with stealth in any way, shape, or form (except for the ones in Shadow of the Wind village that appear only as text bubbles when you stand near them). |
| 328 | * HomemadeSweaterFromHell: Can be obtained during Frostval. Lampshaded by its description. |
| 329 | * AHomeownerIsYou / AnInteriorDesignerIsYou: Yes, you can get a House in this game for a small price, when you're a DA, but the good decorations cost Dragon Coins, and the lesser costs Gold. |
| 330 | * HopelessBossFight: You can't beat Sepulchure, or, on a couple of occasions, Drakath, Xan, Akriloth, Wargoth, and Lord Frydae. [[note]]It ''is'' possible to beat some of them (thanks to time travel fairies and a now-higher level cap), but the cutscene afterwards still assumes you lost.[[/note]] |
| 331 | * HurricaneOfPuns: So many... Just for starters, all the names in Oaklore, the names of most quests, Artix's commentary about undead slaying in Amityvale, and -- [[IncrediblyLamePun dear god]] -- the quest featuring the Sand Witch. Special mention goes to the time in ''[=ArchKnight=]'' when Ash manages to [[LampshadeHanging really, really irritate]] a necromancer with one of these. |
| 332 | * HybridMonster: The appropriately-named "Spare Parts" monsters randomly select parts from about five models to give them a different appearance every time. WordOfGod says that it's made up of 16 different parts from 6 different monsters. That makes 2821109907456 possible forms for this one monster. |
| 333 | * TheHyena: Xan. |
| 334 | * IdiotBall: Instead of ''using'' the various {{Amplifier Artifact}}s you're racing against the BigBad to find, you just hide them. [[spoiler:The only one where this accomplished anything was the Blade of Awe]]. |
| 335 | * IdiotHero: The Hero is often a complete moron for the sake of the RuleOfFunny. Artix von Krieger and Ash Dragonblade aren't exactly Mensa candidates either (this leads to a few instances of StrangeMindsThinkAlike in Artix's quest chain). |
| 336 | * ImmortalBreaker: The [[spoiler:massive cannon created by the Exalted was intended to kill gods,]] but ultimately failed. |
| 337 | * ImprobableWeaponUser: There are weapons that look like screwdrivers, hockey sticks, candy canes, turkey legs, etc. The most memorable examples are definitely the bacon weapons, which are shaped like pigs and have an entire quest chain dedicated to explaining their origin. Then there is Cysero, who managed to slice a bar of steel in half... with a staff. |
| 338 | * InTheBack: [[spoiler:Sepulchure was stabbed in the back by Drakath, with his own sword, to boot]]. |
| 339 | * IncrediblyLamePun: Many of the Pactogonal Knight's names (Sir Vivor, Sir Prise, Sir Cull, Sir Pent, Sir Mise, etc.), Artix's constant puns on slaying the Undead, many of the monster names, and the list goes on... [[HurricaneOfPuns and on]]. |
| 340 | * IncrediblyObviousBug: The gnomes design a spy-camera to attach to one of Sepulchure's flying eyeballs... which is about the size of a dog. He only fails to notice it due to the RuleOfFunny. |
| 341 | * InnSecurity: A quest in the Locker is all about type 2 of this. |
| 342 | * InterspeciesRomance: Nythera's father is a human wizard and her mother is a dragon. While her mother can take on human form, she seems to prefer eating in her natural dragon form. The only one who seems perturbed by the sight of a full-sized dragon crouching at a dinner table with her human husband is the soon-to-be-eaten Chickencow, for obvious reasons. Also, Zhoom's parents, presumably. [[spoiler:And Frostscythe]]'s. |
| 343 | * InvoluntaryShapeshifting: [[spoiler:Fae]], whenever she sneezes. |
| 344 | * ItemCrafting: In the requirements for a certain class, such as Death Knight. |
| 345 | * JustIgnoreIt: In the "Choose Your Own Adventure Quest", if you fail to ignore Zorbak, something WILL be destroyed. Doesn't stop you from getting rewards if the thing being destroyed is only Amityvale. |
| 346 | * KatanasAreJustBetter: The Frozen Claymore is an extremely powerful ice weapon and it was reforged with added ice crystals later on to increase its killing potential. It takes the form of a katana in its improved state. |
| 347 | * {{Keet}}: Twig, when fed candy. |
| 348 | * KickTheSonOfABitch: On one hand, [[spoiler:the entirety of the Shapeless Empire was decapicated, the Magisterium was slaughtered to a man, and the key to their power was destroyed, all by a soul-eating maniac in a bid of immortality.]] On the other, it ''really'' is hard to argue they don't have it coming. |
| 349 | * KidsPreferBoxes: One of the enemies are a species of [[OurGoblinsAreDifferent goblins]] called Sneevils, who make a point of stealing boxes and discarding any of their contents. [[spoiler:[[CerebusRetcon Sneevils were actually kids once; Nythera created them]]]]. |
| 350 | * KillItWithFire: |
| 351 | --> '''Xan''': No, that is too boring. I need to kill him... creatively. Like, [[WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer with fire]]. [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill A LOT]] of fire. HAHAHAHAHA! Wargoth as well. |
| 352 | * KilledOffForReal: |
| 353 | ** [[spoiler:Demento is killed by Drakonnan in the Fire Orb Saga]] |
| 354 | ** [[spoiler:Lady Celestia is killed by Sepulchure in the 2011 Friday the 13th war. Later on in the Chapter 1 finale, Sha'Rae dies attempting a HeroicSacrifice and The Mysterious Stranger is killed by The Hero and The Hero's Dragon.]]. |
| 355 | ** Also [[spoiler:[[HeroicSacrifice Tomix at the end of his saga in Book 3]]]]. |
| 356 | ** [[spoiler:Serenity in Book 3. [[FateWorseThanDeath Oh god, Serenity.]]]]. |
| 357 | * KillerRabbit: A lot of monsters in the game. |
| 358 | ** It's possible to be killed by a wall. Yes, a ''wall''. |
| 359 | ** Zorbak. When you first meet him, he tries to maul you with a bear. [[OhCrap Did we mention he knows Necromancy?]] |
| 360 | ** Moglins, when they [[GRatedDrug eat candy]] on Mogloween. They go from being small, cute little creatures to ravenous beasts bigger than the player character. |
| 361 | ** The Doomkitten. |
| 362 | * KillTheGod: [[spoiler:Notha]] does just this when [[spoiler:she destroys the Avatars at the end of the Maleurous Saga]]. |
| 363 | * KingMook: The Sneevil Box-Lord. |
| 364 | * KnightOfCerebus: |
| 365 | ** Whenever Sepulchure shows up, you ''know'' things are about to get bad. Also [[spoiler:Envy/Aspar.]] as of late events. Big time. |
| 366 | ** Drakonnan as well, one of the most tragic and relentless villains in the game. |
| 367 | ** Kathool Achoo might be scarier than Sepulchure, as his [[MindScrew corrupting nightmares]] very nearly [[FallenHero turn the hero over to darkness]]. |
| 368 | * KnightTemplar: [[spoiler:The Rose seeks to destroy ''all'' magical beings, even purely innocent ones like moglins.]] |
| 369 | * LampshadeHanging: Oh yeah. |
| 370 | * LastOfHisKind: Zhoom and Aquella. [[spoiler:At least until it's discovered that [[MindRape the rest of Aquella's people]] [[BodyHorror were just corrupted]] by [[EldritchAbomination Kathool]]]]. |
| 371 | * LaughingMad: Xan, Captain Davey, and the Necrotic Blade of Doom. |
| 372 | * LawOfChromaticSuperiority: The Doom Knights. |
| 373 | * LawyerFriendlyCameo: WordOfGod says this is why the ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' parody was called "Nooby Nooby Noob". |
| 374 | * LethalJokeCharacter: The Chickencow Armor. It has 9 skills (most classes have 14), 4 of which are run away, 1 of which is simply an attack which does regular damage but in nature (a useless element). Among the other 4, there is a basic shield, which nearly all classes have, and a few high damage moves. It seems useless, until you see that one of those moves has 12 hits. Add a weapon which has a fairly low chance on a hit of doing insane damage, and you go around killing everything in one attack. There are also weapons which heal on hit, and you can switch weapons in the middle of a battle. The end result is that you deal enough damage to kill most bosses in one attack, and can heal yourself whenever you want. Unsurprisingly, [[RandomlyDrops these are not easy to get]]. |
| 375 | * LethalJokeWeapon: [[spoiler:The Bacon Orb saves the world from the Super Mega Ultra Darkness Dracolich in the Chapter 1 finale, and now the Bacon element has its own primal special]]. |
| 376 | * LetsYouAndHimFight: Xan makes you fight [[spoiler:Warlic, who inexplicably decides that though he was holding back against the bad guys, he can make his best effort to beat the crap out of ''you'']]. Then there's the Blue Mage Rage from the Storm War. He was probably still holding back. Just not as much. |
| 377 | * Letters2Numbers: In "Bombs Away", Zank said "Chickencow Scan 50UP, Emergency Protocol [=Or4ng3 Ju1c3=]..." |
| 378 | * LevelAte: The Necropolis cafeteria is full of undead food {including Bread Zombies that say "[[IncrediblyLamePun GRAIIIIIINSSS... GRAIIIIIINSSS...]]") . The Hero [[LampshadeHanging wonders why the necromancers thought this was a good idea]]. |
| 379 | * LevelScaling: With only a handful of exceptions, all enemies are scaled to your level. |
| 380 | * LeyLine: All the {{Mana}} in Lore is tapped from the giant crystal at the planet's core, which in turn siphons mana from AnotherDimension made of it. This mana is dispersed throughout the world by ley lines. Nexuses form where the leylines intersect, allowing mages to draw lots of extra magic. However, drawing too much risks a SuperpowerMeltdown, killing said mage. Drawing directly from the planet's core is believed to be impossible for anyone except possibly Warlic and Cysero. |
| 381 | * LightDarknessJuxtaposition: |
| 382 | ** The [[PlayerCharacter Hero]] and [[BigBad Sepulchure]] are both in possession of a legendary dragon, the dragons from the White Dragon Box (a dragon of light prophesied to save the world) and the Black Dragon Box (a dragon of darkness prophesied to destroy a world). However the irony is the Hero acquired the dragon from the Black Dragon Box, while Sepulchure ended up with the dragon from the White Dragon Box. NatureVersusNurture comes into play on whether the dragons would act out the prophesy. |
| 383 | ** A class of {{Legendary Weapon}}s in the game are the dark elemental [[DoomyDoomsOfDoom Doom Weapons]] and the light elemental Destiny Weapons. The player can purchase a Doom Weapon and either choose to keep it or purify it into a Destiny Weapon, with three from each side. Sepulchure is also in possession of his own Doom Weapon which is unavailable to the player. |
| 384 | * LightIsNotGood: |
| 385 | ** Fluffy ''was'' an elemental Light dragon... [[spoiler:Until Sepulchure turned him into an evil Dracolich]] |
| 386 | ** Sek-Duat XV, [[spoiler:who is later revealed to be Sek-Duat I]], the lizard creatures from the [=SandSea=], and those dang [[GoddamnBats Minx fairies]]... although, they may just be defending their homes from the invaders that we are. |
| 387 | ** During the Chapter 1 Epilogue, [[spoiler:the depowered Xan]] laughs with glee when he realizes that focused Light can bring [[spoiler:fiery destruction]]. |
| 388 | * LiquidAssets: The first Soulweaver was created in this way. His father, desperate to save his dying son by any means, liquified all of his fellow villagers to create a cure from their life force. The slaughtered villagers became the first elemental spirits who provide the spirit strands that Soulweavers use to perform their craft. |
| 389 | * LittleMissBadass: Aria. She trains giant spiders, commands beetles, and kicks Sneevil butt. |
| 390 | ** As a kid, Nythera managed to get herself grounded for using her dad's alchemy equipment to summon horrible monsters when her parents were out of the house. Even with her magic sealed off, she manages to punch some fairly powerful elementals to death. |
| 391 | * LittleNo: Aquella, when [[spoiler:she learns the fate of the Water Elves]]. |
| 392 | * LivingDollCollector: Snou the giant collects her own Pen-Pals. |
| 393 | * LivingMacGuffin: [[spoiler:Vayle and Aquella, both for their association with an Elemental Orb]]. |
| 394 | * LivingMemory: The quests of the Atgasedd series pit you against strange monsters and people that appear to be living manifestations of despair. |
| 395 | * LoadsAndLoadsOfSidequests |
| 396 | * LockpickingMinigame: A fair few of these. The most common one is simply finding the right combination to pick a lock. Others include a door sealed by a memory game, or clicking the correct sequence of tiles. |
| 397 | * LoneWolfBoss: Quite a few of the holiday and arc villains have nothing to do with the main villains of their respective Books, or are only tangentially involved, with their own agendas running on the side in places of prominence. For an example of the former, we have the corrupted elemental spirit Greed, who wants to wish upon the Judgement Wheel to become an immortal human with the power to extend his influence all over Lore; for an example of the latter, we have Xan, a LaughingMad pyromancer who nominally serves Sepulchure for much of Book 1, but is really only interested in furthering his vendetta against Warlic. |
| 398 | * LovecraftLite: The Water Orb saga is a [[MindScrew very true-to-form]] Lovecraft homage, and only manages to sneak into this category by having a mostly-happy ending. |
| 399 | * LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: The Hero uses a nice one if he/she is wearing the Dragonlord armor. Very appropriate for one of the most defense-oriented armors. |
| 400 | * LukeIAmYourFather: Parodied in the ''[=ArchKnight=]'' finale. A necromancer tries to pull this on Ash, who responds by telling him that his father works on a farm west of Falconreach. |
| 401 | * MacGuffinDeliveryService: [[spoiler:Sepulchure essentially lets the Hero take all of the Elemental Orbs, making it look like he's just OrcusOnHisThrone, but it's only because taking them is easier when they're all together in one place and not guarded behind giant monsters and a literal EldritchAbomination. Judging by [[CurbStompBattle how embarrassingly one-sided the fight against the Hero and Sepulchure was]], he could have done this at any time with little effort.]] |
| 402 | * MacGuffinTurnedHuman: [[spoiler:Vayle ''is'' the Darkness Orb]]. |
| 403 | * MadScientist: Dr. Voltabolt and Lim. Cysero has shades of this, but is a more benevolent version. |
| 404 | * TheMagicGoesAway: [[spoiler:The main theme of chapter 3 and Jaania's end goal.]] |
| 405 | * TheMagocracy: The Magisterium is the government of another continent that is ruled by mages. |
| 406 | * ManaBurn: There are a number of class skills that have this effect, though since Fairies are the only creatures that actually ''use'' their ManaMeter, it is almost useless. There are a handful of enemies that can use this ability against you, such as Sepulchure. |
| 407 | * TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:The Mysterious Stranger]]. |
| 408 | * TheManInTheMoon: The moon in Croft has a face on it. |
| 409 | * MascotMook: Sneevils and Togs. |
| 410 | * MasterOfNone: A bandit who makes a clumsy attempt to impersonate The Hero tries to use a [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot custom and excessively hybrid]] class and is shocked that he fails to win a battle with it. The real Hero points out that piecing bits of everything together doesn't always work out and can even makes things worse. |
| 411 | * MeaningfulFuneral: [[spoiler:Warlic gets one in the Storm War. Of course he recovers]]. |
| 412 | ** [[spoiler:Tomix also gets one at the end of the Void Ship quest arc]]. |
| 413 | * MeaningfulName: Sepulchure, which when spelled differently is a holy tomb (talk about ironic). And in ''VideoGame/AdventureQuestWorlds'', as well as later in the plot of Dragonfable, you meet his [[spoiler:daughter, Gravelyn]]. See the connection? |
| 414 | * MedievalStasis: Due to [[NoodleIncident "The Reset"]]. |
| 415 | * MeleeATrois: |
| 416 | ** In the "Light Orb" Saga, the Hero plays DoubleAgent and works with both Zhoom and the rebels, while Zhoom is employed by Sek-Duat XV to capture the rebels. Sek-Duat XV not knowing whether it was Zhoom or the Hero that was allied with the rebels, sends both of them to fight each other under the pretence that the other was TheMole. For this brief moment the three of them are put into a three-way battle with the Hero vs. Zhoom vs. Sek-Duat XV. Eventually, the Hero manages to convince Zhoom to join forces, so it becomes both of them up against Sek-Duat XV. |
| 417 | ** In the "Final 13th", Drakath betrays Sepulchure and merges with the Ultimate Orb and Fluffy. This puts him in opposition to both the Hero and Sepulchure, but with both the Hero and Sepulchure still fighting each other. Eventually, the latter two realize that they both have [[EnemyMine an enemy of my enemy]] situation going and team-up to take down Drakath together. |
| 418 | ** Halfway through the "Calamity" Saga, Baron Valtrith betrays Caitiff and tries to kill his servant, with the Hero joining them just as the fight starts. This leads to ''Dragonfable'''s first ever three-way battle, where both enemy [=NPCs=] attack you and each other. |
| 419 | * MindScrew: The Water Orb quest chain, since a lot of it is an extended Franchise/CthulhuMythos {{homage}}. [[spoiler:And ''you're'' one of the people getting a full dose of MindRape]]... |
| 420 | * {{Minigame}}: Fishing, weapon crafting, cooking, and the ship-avoidance game in the ninja quest chain, to mention a few. |
| 421 | * MirrorMatch: You fight yourself in one of the more {{Mind Screw}}y quests in the ''Water Orb'' saga, [[BrainwashedAndCrazy while being hypnotised]] by [[spoiler:the squid-like BossMonster...]] |
| 422 | ** You can also can fight yourself in a few more quests, [[RunningGag it seems to be a common theme in-game...]] |
| 423 | * MixAndMatchCritters: Chickencows. |
| 424 | * MoneySpider: Justified, since Robina the Hood stuns the forest monsters and leaves money on them. |
| 425 | * MoodWhiplash: The game slingshots back and forth between extreme silliness most of the time and sudden bouts of seriousness during some of the storyline quests, particularly in Book One. Perhaps most memorably, towards the end of Book One, [[spoiler:the world is being shrouded in darkness after a hellish undead dragon the size of a planet ate the sun! Everyone is dying! The solution? Time shenanigans, bacon, and ''Series/DoctorWho'' parodies!]] |
| 426 | * MST3KMantra: InUniverse example -- Rolith asks us to use this in the Code Monkey Challenge. The Hero then [[LampshadeHanging notes that the show has been off the air since most players birth]]. Which isn't true, as the legal age to play ''[=DragonFable=]'' is 13, and the show ended in 1999. [[RuleOfFunny Then again...]] |
| 427 | * MundaneUtility: [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Cysero]] used a black hole generator to... stretch spaghetti. |
| 428 | * MultipleEndings: Seen in the finale of [[spoiler:the Maleurous Saga, where the Hero can decide to either side with or against the Avatars]]. |
| 429 | * MyGrandsonMyself: [[spoiler:Sek-Duat XV]]. |
| 430 | * NameTron: Vend-Tron 3000, a special shop in the Kordana quest. |
| 431 | * NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: |
| 432 | ** It's worth noting that Sepulchure's name means "grave" or "tomb." |
| 433 | ** Vaal's name is similar to a demon named Baal. |
| 434 | * {{Necromantic}}: Appropriately enough, the Necromantress. [[spoiler:Also Xan, to a degree]]. |
| 435 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: |
| 436 | ** The Hero [[spoiler:accidentally helps Nythera kill Warlic]]. |
| 437 | ** Subverted in the Amityvillain quest chain. The villagers blame The Hero for the "invading" baby dracoliches, but no one gets hurt and the villagers adopt the "[[RidiculouslyCuteCritter monsters]]". |
| 438 | ** In the Deathknight quest the hero discovers Sir Malifact, who claims he was once a paladin but can't remember his past. He asks the hero to find and return his items as they may lead to the answer. [[spoiler:This was all a ruse however as the journal's last entry reveals that not only was Sir Malifact corrupted by an evil ring, he became an insane Deathknight. One of Sir Malifact's friends says that they hid his items to keep him bound in spirit form. And if they were returned he'd come back in his Death Knight form. The journal ends with a "Whoops!". Indicating hero now realizes they were tricked.]] |
| 439 | ** [[spoiler:Shattering the Ultimate Orb in the FinalBattle]] saved the world from eternal darkness, but it also throws the Elements into disarray. Chapter 2 is even titled "Elemental Dissonance". |
| 440 | ** The Hero is sent out to find and destroy [[ArtifactOfDoom a fragment of the Mysterious Stranger's cloak]] in one quest. [[spoiler:He/She finds it, but is ultimately tempted by its power and can't bring him/herself to destroy it. Baron Valtrith takes the cloak scrap from the Hero later on and uses it to create Caitiff, making him/her responsible for both creating that monster and [[DeaderThanDead dooming Serenity]]]]. |
| 441 | * NightmareFetishist: Sally, ''[[CreepyChild a ten-year-old girl]]'' who thinks TheUndead are awesome playmates. |
| 442 | ** [[spoiler:Lynn, Sepulchure's young daughter,]] who is obsessed with skeletons. |
| 443 | * NintendoHard: Rolith's challenges in the Lymcrest Labyrinth are patently impossible without cooperating with other players (which was the point). [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome The fans solved all of them within days of their release]]. |
| 444 | * NoFourthWall: While the game does BreakingTheFourthWall from time-to-time, usually the characters aren't self aware. Though there are exceptions. One of the most prominent examples is in "Nooby Nooby Noob", a fullblown parody of ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'', which has the characters shattering the fourth wall at every turn. |
| 445 | * NoIndoorVoice: Ghost of Frostval Past, because his volume knob is broken. |
| 446 | * NoNameGiven: The Necromancer working with Klatu, Verata, and Nicto. |
| 447 | * NoSell: Most bosses (and a few {{mook}}s) have an annoying habit of being immune to stun and shrink abilities. |
| 448 | * NonSequiturThud: "Blatharg lithmpule moffub foop..." |
| 449 | * NonStandardGameOver: Some quests allow you to make an alternative choice instead of presenting just one option, e.g. agreeing to join or in some way aid a villain. In every case, clicking on the alternative choice instead of the intended one causes a text box to come up describing the negative consequences of your action. Of course, these endings aren't actually canon, and the text boxes can be closed with a button that tells you to try again, so all it amounts to is a none-too-subtle bit of {{Railroading}} that forces the player to take the only real choice. |
| 450 | * NotSoHarmlessVillain: Konnan, although those who remembered a major plot arc of ''VideoGame/AdventureQuest'' saw this coming as soon as he was introduced. Later on in the game, [[spoiler:Drakath]]. |
| 451 | * {{Oculothorax}}: Jimmy the Eye. |
| 452 | * OnlySaneMan: Your character is either this or an IdiotHero, [[IdiotBall depending on what the plot calls for]]. Reens, Alina and Warlic also seem relatively sane ([[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation but that last one is up for debate]]). |
| 453 | * OrphanedEtymology: In-game book ''The Shaking Kings'' has several passages in Latin. |
| 454 | * OurDemonsAreDifferent: They are called infernals. And while nasty and extremely powerful, they are a type of fire elemental as opposed to divine beings or spirits of evil. |
| 455 | * OurGoblinsAreDifferent: Sneevils. They used to be human children, but were converted via ForcedTransformation by Nythera to build her a box fortress. |
| 456 | * OurZombiesAreDifferent: While genuine zombies exist. Mogloween 2010 and 2011 features a new kind of zombie closer to the modern zombie. It's actually a mutant strain of Zard DNA that imitates bee infection. Infected Sneevils look like actual Zards, while infected humans and other creatures resemble decaying versions of themselves. |
| 457 | * OverlyNarrowSuperlative: Rosemary says that her Inn is Amityvale's best (and only) Inn. |
| 458 | --> '''The Hero:''' That has GOT to be the biggest mechanical gerbil powered by a real gerbil that I have ever seen! |
| 459 | * OverturnedOuthouse: One quest has you tip over an outhouse that Sir Kuss is using. You don't get any experience for it. |
| 460 | * PanickyExpectantFather: The Hero freaks out upon learning that the Dragon Egg is about to hatch. |
| 461 | * ParasolOfPain: The Hero is able to obtain this in the boss fight of the ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' parody. |
| 462 | * PaperTiger: Drakath. Sure, he looks like an archetypal rival, with the stylish cape and constant boasting, but he's actually fairly easy to defeat, [[CombatPragmatist even when he brings help.]] Add that into how regularly he's humiliated, terrified, and screwed with by his boss, and Drakath almost becomes sympathetic, if he wasn't such a jackass. [[spoiler:Inverted ''harshly'' after he [[TheStarscream literally stabs Sepulchure in the back]] and uses the Ultimate Orb to become a giant darkness dragon.]] |
| 463 | * PassThePopcorn: The Hero asks if there's any popcorn while watching Drakath's chase in "Sitcom". |
| 464 | * PiratesVersusNinjas: The town of Osprey Cove ''versus'' Shadow-Of-The Wind Village. |
| 465 | * PlayingSick: You can be captured by the Rose in a military checkpoint between Swordhaven and Falconreach. To get out of jail, one of your options is to pretend you're dying and need medical attention. The guards [[ComedicSociopath celebrate your "death" because they don't have to take care of you anymore]]. |
| 466 | * PlayingWithFire: Xan. Does not mix well with his AxCrazy-ness. |
| 467 | * PoirotSpeak: The Verteroche villagers, apparently. |
| 468 | * ThePowerOfBlood: The Amityvale Book 3 questchain heavily explores this. Giving explanations to the origins of Vampirism and Lycanthropy, and just how it infects/curses an individual through the blood. Thursday's blood is also deemed to be immensely powerful, and made Frydae overpowered to ridiculous levels after he consumed it. It also gave him the power to [[BodyHorror telepathically control within others]], including that of the Hero's. |
| 469 | * PreAsskickingOneLiner: |
| 470 | ** The Hero to Drakath before the fight for the Wind Orb. |
| 471 | --->"You can either give me the orb and run away... or I can take it back, and you can CRAWL away." |
| 472 | ** Also: |
| 473 | --->'''Dragon''': We can do this. We were ''meant'' for this.\ |
| 474 | '''Hero''': To save Lore?\ |
| 475 | '''Dragon''': [[spoiler:To destroy a planet]]. |
| 476 | ** And: |
| 477 | --->'''Hero''': When I'm through with you, not even the Darkness will reclaim what's left. |
| 478 | * {{Precursors}}: The original dominant race of Lore were the Infernals and Celestials, who [[spoiler:banded together to form the Exalted Alliance to avoid destruction by the creator God-dragons, Drahr'Hatir and Drahr'Dolaas. They were wiped out, but not before they used a God-slaying cannon to wound the God-dragons and send them into a long slumber.]] |
| 479 | * ProphecyTwist: [[spoiler:The world that The Hero's Dragon is destined to destroy isn't Lore; it's the planet-sized Super Mega Ultra Darkness Dracolich]]. |
| 480 | * PungeonMaster: Artix. |
| 481 | * PunnyName: |
| 482 | ** A punny name is required to be a Pactogonal Knight, apparently. |
| 483 | ** A somewhat subtle example (well, subtler than the puns ''usually'' are anyway); the witch who runs the bakery is named [[Literature/HanselAndGretel Gretel]]. |
| 484 | * QuirkyMinibossSquad: Drakath is one all by himself. |
| 485 | * RageAgainstTheMentor: |
| 486 | ** [[spoiler:Vayle was not pleased when she found out that Noxus wasn't actually planning to help her revive her brother]]. |
| 487 | ** [[spoiler:Drakonnan does this to Xan when he feels that Xan isn't allowing him to get his revenge on the player, and just wants to use him as a tool for his revenge against Warlic]]. |
| 488 | ** Nythera against Warlic. She gets mad that Warlic won't unlock her dragon powers and [[spoiler:temporarily "[[FakingTheDead kills]]" him, then enrages the Elemental Avatars, resulting in the Storm War]]. |
| 489 | * ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: |
| 490 | ** Warlic survived the Reset, a catastrophe that changed ''VideoGame/MechQuest'' into ''[=DragonFable=]'' 4995 years ago. |
| 491 | ** Also [[spoiler:Fae]]. Justified because of the [[spoiler:Nature Orb]]. |
| 492 | ** And [[spoiler:Sek-Duat XV]]. |
| 493 | * RealMenWearPink: [[spoiler:Noxus]] in Hero Hearts Day. |
| 494 | * RedEyesTakeWarning: Neatly summed up by one of the FauxtivationalPoster [[http://www.dragonfable.com/special/Motivational/apr2010/default.asp?num=6 contest winners]]. |
| 495 | * ReferenceOverdosed |
| 496 | * RedHerring: Many of the players assumed the empty storage closet in Oaklore Keep would become important later on and kept bugging the developers about what was behind it. The devs eventually made it possible to pick the lock and gave it a ridiculously complicated combination - only for the players to discover there really wasn't anything of consequence in there at all. You still have to pick the lock if you want to earn the [[AchievementSystem Locksmith badge]], though. |
| 497 | * RidiculouslyCuteCritter: |
| 498 | ** Moglins, mostly. Lampshaded by a Falconreach Guardian. |
| 499 | ** Trobbles. |
| 500 | ** The baby dragons. |
| 501 | ** Zorbak's baby ''dracoliches''; [[spoiler:the quest chain ends with his plans for world domination being ruined because the Amityvale townsfolk decide they're adorable and adopt them]]. |
| 502 | ** The Bubble twin cursed as a cat. |
| 503 | ** M.O.P. cats. |
| 504 | * TheHeretic: [[spoiler:The Hero throughout the Maleurous Saga as they question if the Avatars truly know best, and ultimately if they decide to side with Notha in the finale]]. |
| 505 | * TheRival: Drakath to The Hero. |
| 506 | * RoarBeforeBeating: [[spoiler:Dragon-Drakath]]. |
| 507 | * RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Safira when [[spoiler:Thursday]] is taken. Reasonable, since she is the daughter of Safiria's best friend, who hung the moon in Doomwood, but surprising to see from the reserved vampire queen. |
| 508 | * RuleOfFun / RuleOfFunny: Don't expect a lot of logic in this game. |
| 509 | * RummageFail: When The Hero tries to find the Schnozzberries for the Queen of Tarts, he/she digs up a boot, an axe, a book collection, and his/her Dragon. The queen fell asleep during this because it took too long. |
| 510 | * RunningGag: Cysero and his love of left socks, Rolith's togs, Artix's painfully bad puns and tendency to smite first and ask questions later, Celestia's tea, Sneevils, Friday the 13th undead invasions, etc. |
| 511 | * SamusIsAGirl: [[spoiler:Vilmor]]. |
| 512 | * ScaledUp: [[spoiler:Aisha, Queen of the Ice Dragons]] does this when you break into her castle to steal her [[spoiler:Ice Orb]]. Unfortunately for her, [[spoiler:Galanoth expected it and rubbed powdered [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Dragonsbane ore]] into his armor, so [[HoistByHisOwnPetard when she tries to eat him she actually poisons herself]]]]. |
| 513 | * SceneryPorn: Some of the quests and cutscenes have very detailed backgrounds. |
| 514 | * SchizoTech: The technology levels are mostly medieval, but there are plenty of advanced machines, {{Magitek}}, and even magical computers with holographic displays scattered here and there. |
| 515 | * ScoobyDoobyDoors: Played straight in "Mysterious LCC" quest (which was a ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' parody, appropriately enough). |
| 516 | * ScrewDestiny: This was the main reason for Sepulchure turning Fluffy into a Dracolich. He was giving the prophecy a big middle finger. [[spoiler:Which in turn Destiny gave him one since Fluffy actually gave the weakpoint to The Hero in order to defeat the Super Mega Ultra Darkness Dracolich]]. |
| 517 | * SelfMadeOrphan: Xan is implied to have killed his parents in a fire. [[spoiler:A flashback in an [[FutureShadowing Alexander's Diary]] quest none-too-subtly implies it was entirely accidental]]. |
| 518 | * SenselessSacrifice: In the "Dying Light" quest, [[spoiler:when Sha'Rae throws herself into a hole to destroy the Orb of Light to stop Sepulchure getting it, Drakath just grabs it from her as she falls and gives it to Sepulchure]]. |
| 519 | * SevenDeadlySins: In the Tomix saga, there is a spirit for each of the SevenDeadlySins, accidentally relased by him and created from Pandroa.. |
| 520 | * ShamuFu: Several weapons, probably inspired by an IncrediblyLamePun on "swordfish." |
| 521 | * {{Shark Man}}: Several appear in the Water Orb saga |
| 522 | * ShooOutTheClowns: In Book 3 [[spoiler:there's been a timeskip, and now the playful young Ash and Aria are battle-ready adults.]] Several of the funnier Pactgonal Knights (notably Sir Baumbard and Sir Ano) are now missing as well. Even Twilly looks depressed when you're not talking to him! |
| 523 | * ShoutOut: So many... for starters, Myth/RobinHood, ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'', ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', ''Manga/InuYasha'', ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', ''Franchise/{{Amityville}}'', ''VideoGame/PacMan'', ''Film/TheRing'', ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'', ''Series/DoctorWho'', ''Franchise/{{Dune}}'', [[Myth/ClassicalMythology The Labors of Heracles]], ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'', ''Literature/{{Pinocchio}}'', Creator/HPLovecraft, ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'', ''Franchise/StarWars'', ''Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}}'', ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'', ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'', ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'', ''Film/ThePrincessBride'', etc. Odds are, if it's not referenced in ''[=DragonFable=]'', a quick look at another Artix Entertainment game should fix that. Especially if it's {{shonen}} {{anime}} or something else similarly {{geek}}y. A more comprehensive list of Shout-Outs in ''[=DragonFable=]'' can be found [[ShoutOut/DragonFable here]]. |
| 524 | * TheSiege: Even though [[AntimagicalFaction The Rose]] was supposedly created to help the victims of magic, such as the Atreans, they launch a siege against their city, since they refuse to give up their own highly advanced brand of magic. |
| 525 | * SinisterScythe: |
| 526 | ** You can claim [[TheGrimReaper Death's]] scythe as a weapon. |
| 527 | ** There was a scythe that was considered the most powerful ice weapon ever forged. [[spoiler:It got smashed to pieces, but was reforged into the Frozen Claymore]]. |
| 528 | ** [[MeaningfulName Frostscythe's]] weapon [[spoiler:which players finally get for their own at the end of the Dragongrasp quest chain]]. |
| 529 | ** Verraad, a scythe which players can get after a random battle challenge at the Inn at the Edge of Time, which happens to be one of the most powerful offensive weapons in the game. |
| 530 | * SitcomArchNemesis: Lim does not like Cysero. |
| 531 | * SkullForAHead: Xan, after his transformation that turned his head into a flaming skull. |
| 532 | * SlidingScaleOfSillinessVersusSeriousness: For the most part, the game is pretty far on the silly end of the scale. In book 3, it suddenly slides on the serious scale before returning back to its usual silliness. |
| 533 | * SoulEating: Roirr consumes the souls of his host bodies. [[spoiler:This bites him back big time when they are all expelled from him, leaving him a charred skeleton.]] |
| 534 | * SpinOff: Of ''[=AdventureQuest=]''. |
| 535 | * SpyCatsuit: The basic rogue armor, particularly the female version. |
| 536 | * TheStarscream: Okuchi no Okami and [[spoiler:Drakath]]. |
| 537 | * StartOfDarkness: The Fire War, for Drakonnan. |
| 538 | * SteamPunk: Popsprocket. |
| 539 | * StealTheSurroundings: Done in the Popsprocket quest chain to the storage facility containing the MacGuffin. |
| 540 | * SpeedBlitz: The [=SoulWeaver=] class's Retribution skill. |
| 541 | * StableTimeLoop: The "Yuglar's First Date" quest, where the Hero uses MentalTimeTravel to try and help Yulgar have a perfect date and find the harp he lost, only to be the one who caused all of the disasters to happen. |
| 542 | ** Happens again at the finale of the Roirr saga. |
| 543 | * StopCopyingMe: In one quest, The Hero and Artix keep repeating each other's sentences until it culminates in "SNICKERDOODLE!" |
| 544 | * {{Stripperific}}: Female pirate and ninja classes. |
| 545 | ** Actually is now averted with the revamped female pirate design. But you can still use the old one if you have the armor closet. |
| 546 | * StunnedSilence: Following the [[spoiler:destruction of the Falconreach Guardian Tower]] and The Hero's BigNo, even the music stops. |
| 547 | * StuffBlowingUp: Nitroglycerin-soaked sponges launched out of a catapult. 'Nuff said. |
| 548 | * SuperPoweredRobotMeterMaids: Many of the machines in Popsprocket are repurposed [[ShoutOut Cyklons]]. |
| 549 | --> '''Yix''': Occasionally, they short out and attack people. We really need to fix that. |
| 550 | * SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: In the quest Escort to Verteroche the Guardian leader asks The Hero to leave the horse with them, justifying it with: "It's for its own safety, <Class>, definitely not to use it for bait for anything." |
| 551 | * SwampMonster: The ironically named "Crystal Clear Lake" is a murky swamp with mobs there including a Man-Thing-esque monster called the Swamp Shambler, as well as a Gillm Man-type creature called the Lagoon Goon. The latter is also capable of summoning a monstrous fish to attack the player. |
| 552 | * SweetAndSourGrapes: Near the end of ''Arcknight'', the girl that Ash has been trying to help through the entire story [[spoiler:has died]] and he's left with the choice of either helping his friend or bringing the nearby princesses back to King Alteon to fulfill his dream of becoming a knight. He chooses to help his friend. However, [[spoiler:the girl turns out to be a princess from the Realm of Light, meaning that he saved a princess and can become a knight. Just in time to save the world from an evil necromancer.]] |
| 553 | * SwissArmyWeapon: The Cordemi Codex, it can turn into any weapon the player likes. |
| 554 | * TalkLikeAPirate: Every Pirate NPC in the game. Also, Artix Entertainment celebrates a yearly 'Talk Like A Pirate Day.' |
| 555 | * TalkingWeapon: The Necrotic Blade of Doom. Justified, as it got corrupted along with Sepulchure. |
| 556 | * TapOnTheHead: Subverted; Gary the Ice Elf is ''really'' bad at this, and the character ends up doing it himself. |
| 557 | * TeaIsClassy: The refined and noble Lady Celestia's TrademarkFavouriteFood is tea. |
| 558 | * TeleportingKeycardSquad: Any time you have to go to the end of a dungeon and turn around, this will happen. |
| 559 | * TemptingFate: |
| 560 | --> "'What's the worst thing that could happen?' Seriously? That's like saying 'What dragon?' [[GenreSavvy ASKING for trouble]]." |
| 561 | * TerminatorImpersonator: Dave is from a line of robots known as Cyklons, however he's a later model who was reprogrammed sent back from the future. His mission, to warn the PlayerCharacter that eventually Cyklons would overrun the world in a RobotWar and prevent it from happening by completely wiping out the Cyklon infestation in one go. |
| 562 | * ThatLiarLies: Vayle responded to the character and Artix trying to explain with "''You lie''!" |
| 563 | * ThatManIsDead: During chapter 2, [[spoiler:Konnan refuses to be referred to by name or as Drakonnan]] and The Professor insists you just refer to him as his apprentice. Even the party-member captions just call him "Apprentice". |
| 564 | * ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: A [=DoomKnight=] vs. a [[{{Mook}} Sneevil]]. |
| 565 | * TimeSkip: [[spoiler:Quite a few years pass between chapter 2 and chapter 3]]. |
| 566 | * TimePolice: [[Series/DoctorWho Doctor When]] intervenes when you and Cysero exploit TimeTravel to gather eight copies of [[spoiler:the Elemental Bacon Orb]] to save Lore. This isn't the first time Doctor When has run into Cysero either -- turns out Cysero stole the phonebooth time machine from him and he's still holding a grudge. |
| 567 | * TimeStandsStill: The Chronomancer. |
| 568 | * TimeTravelTenseTrouble: |
| 569 | --> '''Cysero''': See ya later. Or earlier. You know what I mean. |
| 570 | * TimeyWimeyBall: The game has utilized time travel on several occasions, but doesn't seem to stick with a single rule of time travel. Sometimes it's a StableTimeLoop, sometimes it will result in {{Alternate Timeline}}s (like other Creator/ArtixEntertainment games), and sometimes it involves MentalTimeTravel. |
| 571 | * TimmyInAWell: Parodied in Amityvale Book 3, when the Hero talks to Verlyrus the cat and misinterprets his Miaos as telling him to rescue Timmy who fell down the well. The boss is even a skeleton called "Not-Timmy". |
| 572 | * ToiletHumour: |
| 573 | ** A couple of Guardians in the Dented Shield Inn took turns farting in another's helmet. |
| 574 | ** Sir Prize's quest, especially the line "Oh my... oh man... it's everywhere." |
| 575 | * TrademarkFavoriteFood: Lady Celestia likes tea. Twig eats fish and ice cream. ''Lots'' of fish and ice cream. |
| 576 | * TragicKeepsake: |
| 577 | ** The Necromantress's crystal. |
| 578 | ** The Stone of Falconreach Tower item that the player can obtain, in memory of the [[spoiler:destruction of the Falconreach Guardian Tower by Sepulchure. You can reforge both this and a Shard of the Ultimate Orb to make the first Good elemental weapons in the game]]. |
| 579 | * TraitorShot: |
| 580 | ** [[spoiler:Aspar. Constantly]]. |
| 581 | ** Circe, though she was revealed to be a villain before the hero met her. |
| 582 | * TraumaInn: Every Inn serves as this. |
| 583 | * TransformingMecha: [[spoiler:The town of Popsprocket]]. |
| 584 | * {{Troperiffic}} |
| 585 | * TroubledBackStoryFlashBack: There are a few examples of this, the most memorable one belonging to [[spoiler:Artix]] in the Necropolis/Dark Orb |
| 586 | * TwentyFourHourArmor: Your character is always in his/her Armor, though he/she can change it. |
| 587 | * TheUndead: Has pretty much all of the examples of the list, with measures of LampshadeHanging toward them. A mentioned example of a Lich was instead called 'Liche' by Warlic, to which a character asks he really meant 'Lich' instead. Warlic merely noted that he was the powerful wizard and they weren't. |
| 588 | * UndergroundMonkey: Togs and Sneevils. |
| 589 | * UnderwaterRuins: The city of Tethys, which was destroyed by [[spoiler:Captain Davey]]. |
| 590 | * UnholyNuke: Caitiff has one of these. The skull on the [[ArtifactOfDoom axe]] at it's chest opens it's mouth, lets out a bone-chilling scream, and then one explosion later you're standing in a wasteland. |
| 591 | * UnexplainedRecovery: The phrase "He got better" is actually used word-for-word in-game as a LampshadeHanging. |
| 592 | * TheUnreveal: Galanoth briefly loses his helmet... offscreen. He spends the rest of the quest wearing a paper bag over his head rather than let anyone see his face. |
| 593 | * UnskippableCutscene: The game has an annoyingly lot of these. To make matters worse, often they occur at the start of a quest, so if you die you have to go through the cutscene again before you can leave with the experience you got. |
| 594 | * VillainousRescue: When Circe buries you in an avalanche, Vilmor shows up and pulls you out of the snow. [[spoiler:You later find out that Vilmor isn't actually evil]]. |
| 595 | * VileVillainSaccharineShow: Sepulchure is a ''very'' dark villain in a [[SlidingScaleOfSillinessVersusSeriousness silly]], [[SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism light-hearted]] game. This trope also applies to Kathool, Captain Davey, Noxus, Drakonnan, Xan, Sek-Duat XV, and [[spoiler:the Mysterious Stranger]]. |
| 596 | * VillainousBreakdown: Sepulchure suffers this [[spoiler:when Drakath becomes TheStarscream to him and starts absorbing the Ultimate Orb's power and calls Fluffy to him]]. |
| 597 | * VillainsActHeroesReact: Pretty much everything is initiated by the villains. The Hero is never proactive, which is why Sepulchure does not regard the Hero as a threat. Even when the Hero had most of the elemental orbs under his/her control, he/she never bothered to exploit their potential or come up with a strategy to defeat Sepulchure. |
| 598 | * VomitDiscretionShot: In ''Yulgar's First Date'' part 2 where TheHero [[spoiler:throws up the Time-Cake, and shortly afterwards Cysero stores the cake for the future.]] |
| 599 | * WalkDontSwim: Early in the game the Hero accidentally blows up a pirate ship containing a large amount of water-breather potions, which mixes with the ocean. For the rest of the story this allows the sea to become breathable to land dwellers. Several quests then involve the Hero journeying underwater, where they always walk along the sea floor. |
| 600 | * WelcomeToCorneria: Lampshaded in the Clashening quest "Dimension Cat". |
| 601 | * WhamEpisode: The "Flying Fortress" cutscene. It starts out with the Guardians and heroes holding the line, [[spoiler:but when Sepulchure's giant Dracolich-castle crashes into the Guardian Tower in Falconreach]] the music just stops and the characters stare in shock. The Boss Fight [[spoiler:ended with Lady Celestia dying, Akriloth Jr. appearing, and Sepulchure sending in a bunch of Undeads ''just to show how evil he can be'']]. |
| 602 | * WhatTheHellPlayer: |
| 603 | ** You get this if you answer "Yes", when offered to join or aid the bad guy. One of them being "Excuse us, while we go rewrite ''VideoGame/AdventureQuest''." |
| 604 | ** When you first meet Twilly, you're given the option to "punt it back"[[https://photos.google.com/photo/AF1QipPAXbiJTnO_zD8rqdKjMd9D1qogZsIA_qT8frKW ]]. If you ''do'' kick him, then you are promptly told that you're "the meanest player ever". |
| 605 | ** If you let Cysero [[spoiler:destroy Battleon with an "anti-magnet"]], you get a broken version of the weapons Yulgar sells that calls you out. |
| 606 | --->'''Destruction Dagger/Blade/Staff:''' You... you really did it. [[spoiler:You destroyed it!]] How COULD you?! |
| 607 | ** And then there's "[[VideoGameCrueltyPotential The]] [[NauseaFuel Worst]] [[{{Squick}} Prank]] [[ToiletHumour Ever]]". |
| 608 | --->'''Sir Kuss''': WHY... [[WhatTheHellHero why would you DO this?]] [[LampshadeHanging You're not even getting any experience for this!]] You... you're just... [[{{Jerkass}} you're MEAN]]. That's what you are. |
| 609 | * {{Whatevermancy}}: It all started with [[{{Necromancer}} Nercomancy]] and [[PlayingWithFire Pyromancy]], but then the list grew and became endless. |
| 610 | ** So far there's: Irismancer, [[AnIcePerson Cryomancer]], [[{{Technopath}} Technomancer]], [[TimeMaster Chronomancer]], and Dracomancer. |
| 611 | * WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: At one point in the Fire War, you get to control Xan. His attacks are "Fire", "More Fire", "Even More Fire", "Lots of Fire", and "OMGBBQ!!" |
| 612 | * WhereItAllBegan: Sepulchure's fortress in the "Badlands" where the war with the "darkness" took place a thousand years ago, and where the Orbs were first created. |
| 613 | * WildcardExcuse: Apparently, saying the word ''magic'' can explain anything in the world of Lore, ''including'' things that are completely absurd even by the standards of the setting. See AWizardDidIt below for a couple of examples. |
| 614 | * WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Xan, Drakonnan, the Kathool Adepts, [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation possibly]] Sepulchure, ''definitely'' the [[TalkingWeapon Necrotic Blade of Doom]], pretty much every other villain in the game, [[AndZoidberg and Cysero]]. |
| 615 | * AWizardDidIt: Artix says all the bugs and plot holes are {{Handwave}}d in the game by saying "''magic''." You immediately use this in a BavarianFireDrill to get past the Necropolis Gatekeeper... which would have worked if [[KnightTemplar Artix]] had resisted the urge to smite. Anyone that's been on other quests with Artix would have seen it coming though. |
| 616 | ** And again in the Pyronomicon quest chain. |
| 617 | --->'''The Hero:''' Hey, how did you beat me here?\ |
| 618 | '''Warlic:''' Magic. |
| 619 | * WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: |
| 620 | ** Drakonnan, despite being astonishingly dark compared to quite a few AE Games villains, is still genuinely sympathetic for his troubles: [[spoiler:his family is killed in a fire by Akriloth]], prompting a WhatTheHellHero moment because of your character's FailureToSaveMurder. Followed by plotting pretty vengeance, [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope which leads to...]] |
| 621 | ** The Necromantress/[[spoiler:Lady Vayle]] is an even better example. While she has sent several minions to kill your character, she has also [[spoiler:witnessed the town where she lived as a child destroyed by a green mist that turned everyone (except her and Artix) into zombies, been tricked by Noxus into believing she could revive her brother with necromancy, seen Artix destroy Edgar and the crystal where she kept his soul, and then discovered Noxus had just been manipulating Vayle to create entire armies of undead and was planning to kill her to get the Darkness orb]]. |
| 622 | ** Depending on how sympathetic you are, [[spoiler:Sepulchure qualifies, too. He willingly became an undead Doom Knight just to save the woman he loved, Lynaria. No matter how unrepentantly evil he is and how much death and destruction he causes, he does it all to gain the power to bring Lynaria back to life. Even at his absolute lowest, when Drakath and the Mysterious Stranger robbed him of power and left him for dead, he's last seen whispering Lynaria's name out loud before he vanishes for good]]. |
| 623 | * YouDidntAsk: |
| 624 | ** During Frostval, Cysero doesn't tell The Hero that he could change the Coal Moglins back because The Hero never asked. The quest is even called "You Never Asked". |
| 625 | ** [[spoiler:In the Chapter 1 finale, after The Hero has a near aneurysm and yells at Cysero about not telling them that there's in fact nine orbs earlier. He just plainly states "You didn't ask..."]] |
| 626 | * YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:[[BigBad Sepulchure]] gets a particularly nasty case of this ''twice'' during the Book 1 finale. [[TheStarscream Drakath]] decides he's done pretending to be loyal to Sepulchure and stabs him in the back, taking the Ultimate Orb for himself. Sepulchure, only weakened by being impaled, fights off and kills Drakath's OneWingedAngel with the Hero's help. All's well that ends well, right? Not even close. The [[GreaterScopeVillain Mysterious Stranger]] arrives and fuses himself with Drakath's corpse, creating the Super Mega Ultra Darkness Dracolich. Once the Stranger decides he doesn't need Sepulchure anymore, he takes back all the power he gave him and leaves him for dead. AlasPoorVillain indeed.]] |
| 627 | * YouKillItYouBoughtIt: Sir Alteon killed the tyrant Slugwrath, and while reluctant at first, the people chose him to become the new King. |
| 628 | * YouKilledMyFather & ThisIsUnforgivable: After The Hero and Artix destroy her Spirit Orb containing her brother Edgar's soul, Vayle both declares that she will never forgive them for destroying her only chance to supposedly bring back her brother by following Noxus' orders and vows vengeance against them out of belief that they killed him. |
| 629 | * YouMeanXmas: As in ''[=AdventureQuest=]'', Frostval. |
| 630 | * ZombieApocalypse: In the Mogloween 2011 and 2012 event, there is a virus outbreak which infects many heroes and turns them into [[OurZombiesAreDifferent zardbies]]. |
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