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5	''Torment: Tides of Numenera'' is a SpiritualSuccessor to ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment'' developed by Creator/InXileEntertainment. It is one of the many games-crowd funded via Website/{{Kickstarter}}, released after a lengthy development on February 28, 2017. Unlike its predecessor, which used the {{Multiverse}} setting of ''TabletopGame/{{Planescape}}'', ''Tides of Numenera'' takes place in the futuristic ScienceFantasy universe of ''TabletopGame/{{Numenera}}'', itself originally a Kickstarter project developed by ''Planescape'' supplement writer Monte Cook. At the time, it was the most funded game on Kickstarter with over $4.1 million raised, for a grand total of around $4.5 million, counting donations from other sources.
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7	The game puts you in the shoes of the Last Castoff, the final link in a chain of lives abandoned by a being called the Changing God. The God was once a man who discovered a way to cheat death for centuries by transferring his consciousness into a succession of bodies, only to seemingly disappear after leaving yours. Now, as you are hunted by the Sorrow[[note]]Renamed from the Angel of Entropy to avoid religious implications[[/note]], enemy of the Changing God, for reasons you can't even remember, you must find the Changing God again and with him the key to uncovering your past.
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9	Not to be confused with Creator/ObsidianEntertainment's own ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment'' spiritual successor, ''VideoGame/PillarsOfEternity'', which was also crowdfunded and innovated the gaming engine which inXile licensed.
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11	!!The game provides examples of:
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13	* AbusiveParents: The Changing God straddles the line between that and NeglectfulPrecursors. He left behind many wonders and has given life to extraordinary people, and he didn't seem to feel the slightest obligation, responsibility or compassion for any of them.
14	* AdaptationExpansion: While the underpinnings of the game are faithful to the tabletop game, Sagus Cliffs, the Changing God, castoffs, the Endless Battle, the Bloom, Ghibra, the Oasis of M'ra Jolios, the Dendra O'hur, the Children of the Endless Gate, the Valley of Dead Heroes, and more were all created for this game, enough to earn the game a tabletop sourcebook unto itself.
15	* AfterTheEnd: The game takes place on Earth after the rise and fall of eight "great civilizations," in the historical era known as the Ninth World. The setting is filled to the brink with mysterious artifacts and ruins from most of human history, and knowledge of the past is all but forgotten. One character suspects that there might be ''many'' more than eight "worlds" preceding the present one.
16	* AllThereInTheManual: The ''From the Depths'' novella series made available to Kickstarter backers fills in some of the backstory to the game, to varying degrees:
17	** ''Blue - The Last Days of Archopalasia'' explains the backstory of the cloning machine from the lost city of Archopalasia that the Changing God repurposed to create the levies in Sagus Cliffs.
18	** ''Gold - To the Abyss'' fills in some of the backstory of the battle between the Changing God and Luthiya that Zerian Daywalker comes across the aftermath of in Zerian's mere.
19	** ''Indigo - For the Common Good'' explores the backstory of the Oasis of M'ra Jolios, which was originally intended as a major hub for the game but became [[WhatCouldHaveBeen cut content]].
20	** ''Red - The Red Hand'' is the novella with the least direct connection to the game, but does fill in a bit of detail about how the various mutant/abhuman races of the Ninth World originated from ''Homo sapiens'' stock.
21	** ''Silver - The Four Lessons of the Great Chila'' is the story most integrated with the game itself, and tells the same story you can hear from the Observant Speck about Chila the Great in much more detail. [[spoiler:It also confirms the player character's suspicions that the Observant Speck is literally the same person as Chila's best friend Speck from centuries ago, given CompleteImmortality by the numenera.]]
22	** There's a few tidbits from the ''Numenera'' tabletop RPG that flesh out the setting a bit, like explaining the nature of the "Jagged Dream" that the Changing God brought to the Sagus Protectorate in Aadiris' body (a {{cult}} worshiping war and conflict that seeks to start trouble wherever they go). The later-released ''Torment'' supplement for the tabletop game reveals that the [=NPCs=] Jernaugh (the chiurgeon in Cliff's Edge) and Clairon (the military recruiter in the Fifth Eye) were members of the Jagged Dream, going some way to explaining their actions.
23	** WordOfGod from Creator/PatrickRothfuss is that Rhin's homeworld is in fact Temerant, the setting of Literature/TheKingkillerChronicle, and that she specifically comes from the little-explored country of Modeg. Reading the Kickstarter-backer-only comic "So Long As You Can See the Moon" not only gives some backstory on Rhin's relationship with Otero but also some info on the nature of her world and [[CanonWelding by extension]] of the KKC world.
24	* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Most humans view the murdens, crow-like abhuman scavengers, as this. The murdens you meet in-game hardly challenge the stereotype.
25	* AmazonBrigade: By the end of the first act, a female Castoff can travel with Callistege, Rhin and Matkina.
26	* AmbiguouslyBrown: All the "normal" human characters look this way, as a result of it being the far future where all current ethnicities have mixed with each other to the point of unrecognizability.
27	* AntiVillain: It turns out that the Sorrow is [[spoiler:a construct of a world destroyed by the Tides, designed to prevent the Tides from being used to destroy more worlds]].
28	* AlreadyUndoneForYou: Lampshaded in a conversation with Quijano del Toboso if you have him help you fight the Endless Gate cult. He appears just before the final encounter of that mission (which he couldn't possibly have reached without clearing a path for you); if you ask him how he got in, he says he slaughtered his way through the cultists. One of your dialog options points out that the cultists you fought on your way in were, inexplicably, very much alive.
29	* ArbitraryHeadcountLimit: Out of seven available companions, with Oom added in the ''Servant of the Tides'' update, only three can join the Last Castoff at a time. No explanation is ever given for this.
30	* ArbitrarySkepticism: Rhin's ability to speak to gods is treated as an obvious childish delusion by absolutely everyone, even though this is a setting jam-packed with bizarre inexplicable things and even though ''their own weird powers are demonstrably real''.
31	* ArcWords:
32	** An ArmorPiercingQuestion, and one to which you'll eventually need to find your own answer.
33	--->''"What does one life matter?"''
34	** The castoffs, Oom, and various others are also compared more than once to "fallen leaves to be crunched underfoot".
35	* ArmorPiercingAttack: Relativistic damage ignores the target’s Armor and Resistance stats.
36	* ArmorPiercingQuestion: "[[ArcWords What does one life matter?]]" as well as a great many others, often the [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath deadliest weapon]] in your arsenal.
37	* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: While in the Bloom, you can set indentured slave Coty free and help him find a job. If you have him get hired by the Bloom cultists, their leader has this to say about his performance.
38	-->'''The Observant Speck:''' The whispers like him. A faint aroma of murder, suffused with a decade's worth of shame and a dash of innocence. They find him a pleasant melange, a perfume too precious to devour. (''Her mischievous smile returns'') He's also good with the laundry.
39	* AxCrazy: The nychthemeron during daytime. So much so that you can only speak to it during nighttime. It'll try to rip your head off during the day if you bother it.
40	* BadassBureaucrat: The Council Clerk of Sagus cliffs, a supercilious four-eyed mutant given no other name, is preternaturally gifted in the arts of paperwork and filing. [[spoiler:He was chosen and modified by the Changing God to be that way -- the Clerk is not a castoff, but the product of the same techniques, it would seem.]]
41	-->'''Council Clerk:''' I am neither a tourist attraction nor a docent. I am the Council Clerk, and unto me falls the responsibility of directing the fate of every official document in Sagus Cliffs. I am the mind that channels the blind, nervous impulses of this city and turns it into muscular action.
42	* BestServedCold: Dracogen -- the first person you meet in the Bloom -- will sometimes take this route on those that wronged him, as exemplified [[spoiler:by what his "favor" from Tybir is -- "I want you to recall the many ways you could have saved [Auvigne]. To think of how he might have died. To reflect on [[UndyingLoyalty the depths of his devotion to you]]... and shallowness of yours to him."]]
43	* BigBadEnsemble: While the Sorrow serves as the most direct threat to the Last Castoff, [[spoiler:the Changing God and the First Castoff prove to be equal if not greater threats to the world as a whole.]]
44	* BizarreAlienReproduction: Sn'erf is an alien studying these. He goes on to describe several cases to you. That includes human reproduction, although he strongly suspects the people who described that were {{troll}}ing him -- which, judging from [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments his description]], was most certainly the case. His own race reproduces by [[spoiler:detaching their limbs -- and even heads -- and growing them into complete beings. He, himself, is an exile from his planet after stumbling across a machine that replaced his limbs -- a great disgrace among his people, which he couldn't prove was accidental.]] You can later enlist his aid to help a machine intelligence have children of its own.
45	* BodySurf: The Changing God obtained pseudo-immortality by constantly moving his consciousness into new bodies as necessary over many aeons.
46	* CallAHumanAMeatbag: You meet a drone, Peerless, that calls you "Fleshwalker". It's visibly disgusted at you.
47	* CameFromTheSky: The player. The Last Castoff enters the game by waking to life and consciousness... in complete freefall, hurtling towards the Earth. You have just enough time before impact to remember being attacked and falling out of something in orbit, and to realize that wasn't you in that memory. [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere Appears to be standard procedure for the Changing God.]] It's actually possible to die at the very beginning of the game if you don't take steps to ensure your fall isn't fatal. The console version of the game even give you a trophy for it!
48	* CardCarryingVillain: Narve the Blessed. He says, "I'm an explorer and a villain. The worst villain you'll ever meet! ...And by that I mean that no matter what I try to pull, [[MinionWithAnFInEVil it somehow ends up]] ''[[MinionWithAnFInEVil helping]].''"
49	* ClarkesThirdLaw: All the "magical relics" -- the eponymous numenera -- in the ''Numenera'' setting are simply advanced technology from previous long-dead civilizations. People are generally aware of this, but the numenera are so advanced that religious significance is attached to them regardless.
50	* CharacterCustomization: The game offers ways to customize the Last Castoff and a choice of gender. That you cannot customize the Last Castoff's appearance beyond gender is actually a plot point, as the game intentionally thrusts you into a situation where you have to wear someone else's face and past while trying to work out what ''you'' are and how you want to be remembered.
51	* ColorCodedElements: The various damage types are color-coded for easy visual reference. Physical damage is white, Energy damage is blue, Chemical damage is green, Transdimensional damage is yellow, Mental damage is pink, and Relativistic damage is purple.
52	* {{Cult}}: The game features a number of cults with unique beliefs. They may act as a source of information, attempt to use the player character as a pawn and cast them aside when finished, or become hostile to the Last Castoff. In loose order of appearance, the most notable are
53	** The Order of Truth, a faction of {{Adventurer Archaeologist}}s who study the [[MagicFromtechnology numenera]] using [[DoingInTheWizard hard science]], yet organize themselves along similar lines to the [[CrystalDragonJesus medieval Catholic church]].
54	** [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Cult of the Changing God]], who occupy a small tent city in Sagus Cliffs' market district, Circus Minor.
55	** Not one but three (not unrelated) death cults in the form of the Sagus Cliffs' [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalistic undertakers]] the [[CannibalismSuperpower Dendra]] [[EatBrainForMemories O'hur]], their [[BloodKnight murderous]] [[RenegadeSplinterFaction offshoot]] the [[ReligionOfEvil Children of]] [[DeathSeeker the Endless Gate]], and the comparatively benign Memorialists, caretakers of the great Necropolis in the Valley of Dead Heroes who believe this life is a false one [[{{Reincarnation}} along the road to]] [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence the true afterlife]]. All three make up a [[DecompositeCharacter Decomposite]] {{Expy}} of the Dustmen and Collectors from ''TabletopGame/{{Planescape}}''.
56	** The Extremities of the Great Devourer, or, more informatively, Bloom Cultists, who live inside the city-sized [[PortalCrossroadWorld living interdimensional nexus]] of [[EldritchAbomination the Bloom]], worshipping it and feeding its countless maws what they need to open their gates to other worlds.
57	* DamageOverTime: Any attack that inflicts Chemical damage will inflict Burn on the target, damaging them for several turns.
58	* DeadAllAlong: An entire philosophical debate near the very end of the game hinges on the possibility that a character may have been this, for a given value of dead. You witness a memory that reveals that [[spoiler:the Changing God's consciousness wasn't actually able to escape when you fell from the sky and crashed into the dome. The Specter that claims to be him is actually just an ArtificialIntelligence based on a backup copy of his memories, updated just before the Sorrow invaded]]. The result is an argument on whether or not direct continuity of consciousness is necessary for one being to be considered a continuation of another, identical one. [[spoiler:The Last Castoff can cow the Specter into getting out of the way by arguing they're distinct entities and the Changing God truly is dead, but the Sorrow suggests it's not entirely clear cut, and the Last Castoff can even agree that they just said what they said as a convenient lie to get the Specter out of the way.]]
59	* DeathAsGameMechanic: When the [[PlayerCharacter Last Castoff]] dies, they travel to the Castoff's Labyrinth--a strange extradimensional space where they can interact with fragments of their own psyche and with previous Castoffs, before finding their way back out, and coming back to life in the real world.
60	* DialogueTree: Being a roleplaying game, and a successor to ''Planescape: Torment'', multiple choice dialogue options are used to interact with other characters in the game.
61	* TheDreaded:
62	** The Iron Wind carries over its reputation from the tabletop game. Messing around with a jar of it is one of the few ways to get a permanent NonStandardGameOver.
63	** The Sorrow, for the Changing God and his castoffs, although it ignores everyone not connected to the Tides to the degree that they're hilariously oblivious to it.
64	** To a lesser degree, the Changing God and the castoffs themselves, for everyone else in the world, who tend to have an OhCrap response to the news that any of them are involved in current events. Also many of the things he and his castoffs created and foisted on the world, such as the Children of the Endless Gate.
65	** The Tabaht were this in the backstory, being TheHorde and TheEmpire that felled countless civilizations; the Changing God's StartOfDarkness involved being the lone hero who somehow stopped them against all odds.
66	* DysfunctionJunction: From the moment you wake up in the Reef of Fallen Worlds, Callistege and Aligern will be sniping at each other. [[spoiler:Justified, in that the burst of Tidal energies released by your rebirth has brought the latent frustrations of their relationship to the surface.]] Downplayed compared to the original ''Torment'' and its {{Spiritual Successor}}s, however, in that while Aligern and Callistege refuse to be in the party at the same time, and Matkina's DarkAndTroubledPast has her keeping everyone at arm's length, most of the other companions are fully capable of getting along with each other, even being quite friendly and sympathetic when it comes to, for example, Rhin, Erritis, Tybir, and Oom. That doesn't mean they don't have their own problems for the Last Castoff to solve, but never gets to ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords'' levels of having the whole crew hate each other.
67	* EverythingTryingToKillYou: A conversation with Rhin can lampshade just how dangerous the Ninth World is and how many bizarre hazards that can instantly end your life or impose a FateWorseThanDeath on you are just lying around that everyone blithely accepts, especially once you make it into the Bloom (where it genuinely strains suspension of disbelief that anyone would voluntarily choose to live there).
68	* ExactWords: One of the stories the Clerk can tell you is about a prize being offered to one who can complete a marvelous painting, the prize being a life-extending numenera. No one dared, but then some guy simply splashed a bucket of paint on the incomplete parts. The painting was technically complete, but ruined. The ruler who offered the prize returned the favor, and the guy had his life extended... to be spent in torture chambers.
69	* {{Expy}}: Despite not being an [[Creator/ObsidianEntertainment Obsidian]] game, as the SpiritualSuccessor to ''Planescape Torment'' and a roundup of many of the same people who worked on that game, the game runs on this, with many of the earmarks of Black Isle and Obsidian's games -- including a noticeable tendency to riff on ideas which have appeared in their previous games.
70	** The Changing God and the Last Castoff are both Expies of different aspects of the Nameless One, not the least of which being their healing factor, the long history of misery left in their wake, and devotion to journaling. In particular, the Changing God's indifference to the suffering or deaths he causes, his brilliant intellect, his easy superficial charm, and his absolute indifference to anyone outside his personal goals -- all these things make him an Expy of the Nameless One's long-dead Practical Incarnation, while the the Last Castoff is likewise the player avatar left to piece together the fragments left in his wake.
71	** The Ghostly Woman is one for Deionarra, both being the source of much of their respective games' exposition, right down to [[spoiler:the Ghostly Woman being someone's daughter who tragically died young -- in this case, the Changing God's daughter, with seeking a cure for the disease that killed her being the impetus behind his original quest for immortality. And like Deionarra, Miika is also a pivotal figure in the game's VeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon.]]
72	** The Sorrow and its fragments are similar both to the shadows which the Nameless One's many deaths left across the planes, as well as the Sith assassins who hunted the Jedi nearly to extinction in ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords''. The Sorrow's appearance as an extremely tall, robed figure also recalls Sigil's Lady of Pain from their predecessor's [[TabletopGame/{{Planescape}} source material]] -- with jagged tentacles rather than blades, dark fire rather than a shadow that rends people to pieces, an implacable demeanor, and an inscrutable purpose. The background is similar to [[spoiler:the Catalyst from Franchise/MassEffect.]]
73	** The Dendra O'hur, the Children of the Endless Gate, and the Memorialists, for various aspects of the Collectors and Dustmen. Each is obsessed with death, one way or another: the Dendra O'hur collect the bodies of the dead in Sagus, and speak with the dead (by eating them and absorbing their memories); the Children believe their bodies are prisons and the physical world is one of pain, and seek a release from them both by murdering people and seeking to unleashing {{Eldritch Abomination}}s to remake the world as their ultimate purpose); and the Memorialists live among the vast ruins of the Necropolis and believe that this life is a false one, but that a better existence awaits them beyond death. The Dendra O'hur, as scholars and information brokers of a sort, are also expies of Planescape's Lothar, the Master of Bones, who collected the skulls of the dead in order to mine their secrets and sell them, albeit at a steep price.
74	** The Fifth Eye is a dead ringer for ''Planescape: Torment''[='=]s Smoldering Corpse Bar, with its factory-like interior, unusual clientèle (including war veterans and ExpositionDump [=NPCs=]), and another cameo by the [[AnthropomorphicPersonification enigmatic vowel]] O.
75	** Sagus Cliffs even ''sounds'' like Sigil. Its guards dress in purple instead of red and there's only one man in bladed armor who came to the city as an invader, but there are bite-sized versions of the Foundry and the Mortuary, and even another alien race whose language the Last Castoff can either learn or [[RepressedMemories remember]].
76	** The Bloom is a very dark Expy for the Hive as a whole, the Trash Warrens and Buried Village in particular, with the murden standing in for the cranium rats as psychic scavengers, and the body of the Bloom for the mazes you find there. As a gang leader who sends you into the catacombs before she'll part with certain information, the Memovira closely resembles Pharod. [[spoiler:Like Pharod, as the First, she's more familiar with Castoffs, Matkina in particular, than she first lets on; like Ravel with her 'avatars' outside the Black-Brambled Maze she's hiding behind a false face; and like Trias, she's a liar and betrayer responsible for a death and war on a massive scale.]]
77	** While the Nameless One's entire body was tattooed with notes, reminders, strange symbols, and magical runes, the Castoff only has one tattoo of note -- but it's the same one as all the other Castoffs, a pentagon marked on their skull and a psychic imprint by which the Changing God entered and leaves their bodies, in a sense learning new skills and abilities through their tattoos. Meanwhile, Aligern's animate tattoos serve as a reminder of his tragic past and are somewhat closer to the Nameless One's tattoos in terms of their significance [[spoiler:as they are in actual fact Aligern's long-lost ''family'', his wife, daughter, and the rest of his village, transformed into living ink by the numenera]]. They can slither right off his skin and attack his enemies, in a way that closely resembles Planescape's Tattoo of Bloodletting.
78	** The Endless Battle is basically the Blood War, which, in [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons D&D's]] Great Wheel cosmology, is a war between [[EvilVersusEvil the devils of the Nine Hells and the demons of the infinite Abyss]], which has spilled across the whole multiverse spreading misery in its wake. The fiendish armies also [[SchmuckBait employ their share of mercenaries.]]
79	** Tybir's effortless charm and slightly callous personality resembles both Morte, the flirtatious floating skull and best friend of the Nameless One, and [[NeverwinterNights2/MaskOfTheBetrayer Gannayev-of-Dreams]], plus a few years and minus a few gender restrictions. Like Morte and Gann, he's done questionable things with his persuasive abilities and must face that his actions have affected people other than himself, including those that he loves.
80	* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: It's a shocking reveal when it turns out that the Last Castoff can use merecasters to change history rather than just observing it, but there are still scenarios in the meres that won't let you succeed no matter what you do. [[spoiler:The biggest one is that there's no way to force the Changing God to save his daughter rather than himself when the Sorrow first attacked him.]]
81	** In the Battle of Miel Avest, even if you carefully optimize your actions to {{Sequence Break\|ing}} and activate the feretory before the Sorrow kills Aadiris, the game proceeds as though she died anyway. Similarly, after a beta tester proved TheLordBritishPostulate by successfully killing the Sorrow in this sequence (by specializing in evasion and relativistic damage) the possibility to do so was patched out simply by giving the Sorrow a ridiculously high amount of per-turn HP regeneration.
82	** [[spoiler:Subverted by the final ending -- the Sorrow ''can'' be killed once it's inside the resonance chamber and vulnerable. However, the negative consequences for the human race of doing so it warns you about cannot be avoided.]]
83	* FantasyGunControl: Sort of. While slugthrowers can be ''found'' and used, they're numenera in of themselves, or cobbled together from numenera fit to lob small bullets at high velocities. It's explicitly mentioned the Ninth World's humans are well below the level of technology needed to build even primitive firearms from scratch.
84	* FeelNoPain: The Last Castoff can transmit their suffering to others nearby. Alternatively, they can take on the burden of their pain. In the game's final build this translates to a pair of rings that share beneficial and detrimental status effects across characters and some party members getting to the point where this applies with or without the rings.
85	* FighterMageThief: The three base character classes are Glaives, Nanos and Jacks. Glaives are warriors, Nanos are techno-sorcerers and Jacks are jack-of-all-trades generalists.
86	* ForeverWar: The Endless Battle, fought between castoffs: those who support the Changing God, and those who despise him. In theory, anyway -- in practice, it's a battleground for old grudges between immortals and a breeding ground for new ones, as well as a cottage industry paying an endless tide of mercenaries across the centuries. It's also spread across multiple dimensions and scattered across time, multiplying the horror exponentially.
87	* FutureSlang:
88	** Everything but slang and [[PardonMyKlingon far-future curses]] is translated. Among the ones that see the most use:
89	--->''carked -'' crazy, cracked\
90	''carker -'' a crazy person\
91	''skist -'' shit\
92	''tulk -'' crap or garbage\
93	''draff -'' something worthless\
94	''drit'' - dirt
95	*** Drit isn't ''precisely'' slang. It's a term for the Ninth World's soil, which is mostly relics of the previous worlds that have been ground to a fine consistency over time.
96	** Jherem, the young boy who can be found playing in the market in Circus Minor offers some lesser-heard examples: ''mard'' and ''siro'' mean mother and father, while a ''shuva'' is a grown up (as in "shover").
97	** Manth Pa, a guide/small-time hood who can be found in the Underbelly, uses a whole range of unique slang you won't hear elsewhere -- but only until he realizes you're not a local and have no idea what he's talking about.
98	--->'''Manth Pa:''' Keep it high, cit.
99	* GameplayAndStoryIntegration: Anyone killed by the Sorrow is permanently dead. This extends to any fight where it appears, and ''will'' cause you to permanently lose party members if you let it get an attack off on them.
100	* GeniusLoci: The Bloom, an enormous carnivorous organism with an entire city inside it, apparently has some sort of rudimentary sentience.
101	* GuideDangIt: It is possible, albeit extremely difficult, to turn many of the Memovira's inner circle against her [[spoiler:once it's revealed that she's actually the First. Being castoffs, you'll have interacted with (and possibly controlled) several of them through [[MentalTimeTravel the meres]], where the choices you made and the details you learned can open up dialogue options which can help you persuade them that the First's plan is just as insane as the Changing God's and needs to be stopped.]] The Memovira notably cannot be conversed with during the crisis. [[spoiler:Although you ''can'' opt to let her start the process and sabotage it ''after'' the Sorrow begins its assault on the Memovira's fortress.]]
102	* HereThereBeDragons: The setting of this game -- the "Sagus Protectorate" -- takes place off the edge of the map from the core ''Numenera'' setting ("beyond the Beyond"). This was a necessity during game development, since ''Torment'' and the ''Numenera'' tabletop game were being developed at the same time by separate teams; the later ''Torment'' sourcebook for the tabletop RPG lampshades that the Sagus Protectorate region is one most people from the Steadfast and Beyond are terrified to even approach, thanks to distorted legends of the Bloom (not that the reality is all that much more reassuring).
103	* HeroOfAnotherStory: The game is absolutely full of them, but to name a few:
104	** The duo in Circus Minor who have an EldritchAbomination trapped in a cage on display will recount their lengthy adventures together if you ask them. It turns out that they intend to eventually leave the city, return home, and use the technology they're showing off to [[spoiler:trap a god]].
105	--->'''El-Jinto:''' The priests of the million gods of Lhauric wandered the streets seeking sacrifices, you see, and opposing them was -- is -- a sin.
106	** An adventuring party in the Fifth Eye are FireForgedFriends and join you in a battle against an entity called The Adversary.
107	** Utwag Los, a self-proclaimed do-gooder who had his luck stolen; Narve the Blessed, a CardCarryingVillain whose misdeeds inevitably go wrong, to the benefit of everyone around him; and Jenkins the Jinxed, another would-be do-gooder, except his help inevitably turns out to be a curse on anyone who asks for it. They were searching for an artifact called the World String, a line of gossamer thread so strong it could supposedly cut through the world like cheese if you could somehow pull it tight enough. You find the three of them in Necropolis, where they tried to help the Memorialists, and are now on the verge of being executed by [[ReligionOfEvil the Children of the Endless Gate]].
108	** Sundermun the Elder found love and had countless adventures after tumbling into one of the Bloom's interdimensional maws... and has since been sent back in time by a TemporalParadox, where he's taken on his younger self as an apprentice, preparing Sundermun the Younger for the day when he falls through that maw, but never telling him exactly when it's going to happen, [[StableTimeLoop because that's how it happened to him]].
109	* HiddenElfVillage: Miel Avest, a sanctuary for castoffs, cloaked and shielded from the Sorrow. It's also [[TruceZone neutral ground]] in the Endless Battle, meaning castoffs on opposite sides of the war mingle peacefully (not that they're necessarily friendly, mind you) within its bounds. [[spoiler:It's almost immediately set upon by the Sorrow as soon as you arrive.]]
110	* HopelessBossFight: The Sorrow is invincible and can kill anyone in one hit. Whenever a crisis involves the Sorrow, your only real option is to find a way to escape.
111	* IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace: Often subverted, however, as many of the places in the Ninth World were named so long ago that their previous meanings no longer apply, or are otherwise misleading.
112	** The Reef of Fallen Worlds -- the last part of the game's NoobCave, it's at most slightly melancholy. Dangers exist, but are easily avoided.
113	** The Valley of Dead Heroes -- before the coming of the Endless Gate, it was a somber cemetery, no worse than the other ruins of the Ninth World.
114	--->'''Erritis:''' Heroes are here... [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Dead ones.]]
115	* IdentityAmnesia:
116	** Your character doesn't have any memories of their life before the Changing God left. Unlike most examples of the trope, though, this is mainly because your character, quite literally, did not ''have'' a life before the Changing God's departure -- the Last Castoff is born the moment the Changing God departs his body. The Last Castoff is not recalling their own life, but fragments of the Changing God's life. [[spoiler:Complicated further by TheReveal that the Changing God was not able to escape your body before the Sorrow burned out his memories. It's possible that you actually ''are'' the amnesiac Changing God.]]
117	** Both Erritis and Rhin are missing significant chunks of their memories when you first encounter them, although they at least had memories to lose.
118	* InterfaceSpoiler: Of a sort. Normally, any time you have the option to lie in a DialogueTree, it's explicitly marked as one -- ''except'' [[spoiler:when claiming to be the Changing God. That's because it may ''not'' be a lie: depending on your choices, the Specter may offer the possibility that you are not in fact a castoff, but an amnesiac Changing God who lost his memories when the Sorrow struck the moon base.]] However, the truth is still left ambiguous, and ultimately up to the player's own interpretation. See DeadAllAlong, above.
119	* IsometricProjection: The game is rendered partially in 3D against a hand-painted background, and uses the birdseye view of old 2D games trying to imitate 3D environments.
120	* JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind: The Last Castoff enters a representation of their own mind called the Castoff's Labyrinth when they die.
121	* KarmaMeter: Rather than a typical binary good/evil meter, the game uses a "Tides" system. A Tide represents your character's path in life, with all its motivations, desires and actions, and waxing (or waning) into a Tide will affect the gameplay and story. There are five Tides in all, none of them exclusive or in strict opposition to the others.
122	** The Gold Tide represents charity, compassion, empathy, sacrifice, and other socially-oriented traits.
123	** The Indigo Tide encompasses justice, equity, compromise, the greater good, and other communally-oriented traits.
124	** The Silver Tide involves admiration, power, fame, and other ambition-related traits.
125	** The Red Tide includes passion, emotion, action, pathos, zeal, and other emotional traits.
126	** The Blue Tide maps to reason, insight, wisdom, and other intellectual traits.
127	* {{Knockback}}: Any attack that inflicts Energy damage will push its target away from the attacker. The target will take extra damage if this pushes them into a wall or other obstacle.
128	* LethalLavaLand: The Ruins of Ossiphagan has a number of pools of glowing orange liquid. Subverted in that it's seemingly a kind of luminescent HollywoodAcid instead -- still lethal, just not quite as instantaneously so.
129	* LicensedGame: Uses the setting of ''TabletopGame/{{Planescape}}'' designer Monte Cook's Kickstarter-funded tabletop game, ''TabletopGame/{{Numenera}}''. (The two settings do not share any internal continuity.)
130	* TheLoad: Rhin is just a child and out of her depth when you first recruit her. She's next to useless in combat and has almost no hit points, making her a waste of a companion slot for a long time. Unlike other companions, you can't temporarily dismiss her from your party when you need someone with different talents, which can make some early combats much more difficult. She makes up for it by eventually becoming very good at using cyphers, turning her into one of the most useful companions in the later stages.
131	* LovingAShadow: In Sagus Cliffs, you meet a man named Omahdon who's pursuing a purple-haired woman, Perseia, claiming that her madness causes her to not recognize him. The truth is that [[spoiler:he came upon her in a ''tomb'' and fell in love with her beauty, using a device he held to resurrect her. She ran instead, so now he intends to use another device to MindRape her into "loving" him back unless the Last Castoff can convince him, throw him off her trail, or otherwise get rid of him.]]
132	* TheMainCharactersDoEverything: Deconstructed. The reason the Last Castoff stumbles into conflicts only they can solve wherever they go is because the Tides provoke those conflicts in everyone whose path they cross. The pentagonal tattoo branded on each castoff's skull -- like the Sigil of Torment from ''Planescape: Torment'' -- draws out suffering everywhere they go.
133	-->'''[[spoiler:The Sorrow]]:''' ''[regarding [[spoiler:Aadiriis]]]'' Her passage left lovers squabbling, children crying, and conflicts escalated that might have been avoided. Though she suspected this truth and sought [[spoiler:the shelter of [[HiddenElfVillage Miel Avest]]]], even she has been the author of invisible miseries. Every one of you is the same.
134	* AMillionIsAStatistic: The ForeverWar of [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the Endless Battle]] pretty much runs on this trope.
135	-->'''Thalana:''' [[NothingPersonal But it's not personal]]. It's not someone who wants ''your'' destruction in particular. You're just... inconvenient to them. Your death is another number, a way to measure their success. [[WarIsHell It's... hell]]. A business-like hell. And ''you'' did it. Castoffs. You could stop if you wanted. But you don't. Or maybe you don't care. I mean, when you've made statistics of your enemies, [[FacelessMooks faceless foes whose existence you can erase without a qualm]]... you're not just hurting them. You're hurting yourself, the way you see the world. Soon everything is conflict and pain. [[TheSocialDarwinist All that matters is your success]]. And you've killed yourself, and you don't even know it. (''She wipes a tear away'') It ruins everything -- everyone it touches.
136	* MeaningfulName: The Sorrow is awakened from the suffering the Changing God has caused.
137	* MentalTimeTravel: The merecasters allow you to go back in time by possessing the bodies of people in the past, ala ''Series/QuantumLeap''.
138	* MindHive: The Bloom's consciousness is tens of millions of smaller minds.
139	* MythologyGag:
140	** Apparently, while the Changing God wore your body, he was known as [[VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment Adahn]].
141	** You can pull a [[VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment bronze sphere]] from within yourself in the Changing God's sanctuary. Unlike that one, it's immediately useful.
142	** A black frame forms a major part of Aligern's personal quest.
143	** You can meet the letter O in a bar. [[VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment Again.]]
144	** There is a woman who has three orbs orbiting her head. Each orb contains a rodent. Their names are [[VideoGame/BaldursGate Bei, Bu and Bao]]. You can obtain one of them as a pet; it makes you tougher, stronger, stupider... and you can blind enemies.
145	* TheNeedsOfTheMany: Discussed, in part through the game's ArcWords: which many? Which few? ''What does one life matter?'' The Indigo Tide in particular maps to putting society and the greater good first, but it's up to the player to decide whether that's more important than the safety and happiness of the individual, the freedom of others to choose for themselves, or future knowledge and progress, history, art, or some other abstract ideal. Where the latter fall among the other four Tides can vary based on your intent.
146	* NoHeroDiscount: An actual aversion for once -- in TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon, reluctant IntrepidMerchant Lady Anshe gives you multiple healing items and weapons at no charge, and even provides a full TraumaInn. Granted, she doesn't have access to her full stock, but it's something. [[spoiler:It's possible because, you, she, and all the other castoffs have been drawn into the Labyrinth by the resonance chamber.]]
147	* NonStandardGameOver: ''Do not open the jar of Iron Wind.'' You won't come back from that one.
148	* OhMyGods: "By the Black Three!" seems to be Greater Garravia's oath of choice, or indeed anyone from around Sagus Cliffs. It refers to the Tabaht who invaded long ago.
149	* OurElvesAreDifferent: Castoffs differ in a fundamental way from most settings' elves, in that they're a series of custom-designed bodies (some of which aren't even human) rather than a naturally-evolved people, but they fill the niche surprisingly well, with even a few elements of TheFairFolk.
150	** Their bodies generally don't age and can survive staggering physical punishment.
151	** Despite their longevity, they are very few in number compared to all the other sapient species of the setting: a new castoff is born only when the Changing God abandons a body, and it's not clear if they have any means of reproducing on their own, or if a castoff's child would inherit the traits that make Castoffs so "elvish."
152	** They tend to be extremely intelligent, as a side effect of inheriting some of the Changing God's knowledge after the consciousness transfer.
153	** While they have no universally-present skills, each of them was engineered to be superhumanly good at something, be it combat, diplomacy, or scholarship.
154	** They have their own society apart from human ones, with its own territory (Miel Avest), a ruler (Aadariis, though she sincerely sees herself as JustTheFirstCitizen), and even its own civil war (the Endless Battle). They often involve themselves in human affairs and drag humans into their own, but they view themselves apart from the rest of humanity.
155	** Their view of mortals is paternalistic at best, seeing them as tools to use and discard at worst. Even [[spoiler:Matkina]], who shuns her fellow Castoffs because of this, is callous to the suffering of most non-Castoffs. Even mere physical proximity to a castoff is dangerous for mortals. Indeed, the only way for the Last Castoff to [[spoiler:ensure that their people get to have a free future is to sacrifice thousands of mortal residents of Sagus Cliffs in order to kill the Sorrow]].
156	* PlayerParty: There are a total of seven companions who can join the Last Castoff on their travels.
157	* PressStartToGameOver: If you choose to dive for the ground during the initial fall, the damage will be too much for your HealingFactor. You do leave a nice crater behind... The achievement is called "Terminal Velocity".
158	-->''"Slow" is a relative term. You knife through the air, piercing its veils and... you have no time for the poetry of falling. [...] As your skin explodes and your organs liquefy on impact, a brief thought flashes through your mind: [[TooDumbToLive your life]] was [[WhatTheHellPlayer utterly and completely meaningless]].''
159	* PurpleProse: The prose style of the whole game is extremely stylized, with sentences often littered with the most complex and arcane language possible. Be prepared for casual usage of words like "stentorian," "internecine," "anodyne," "autochthon" and "saccade." The game also uses exotic terms of foreign cultures in place of standard English words, calling a sailor a "lascar," a soldier a "jemadar," a mercenary captain a "condottiere" and a village an "aldeia."
160	* RedBaron: You can find an unassuming humanoid creature on a street corner with the peculiar name "[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast The Genocide]]". Once a ruthless warlord who conquered all he met, his current name is likely more of a mockery than a title, as he is actually the pacified sole survivor of the genocide of ''his own'' kind. Still, in his prime he was known by his enemies as "Orphan-maker", "Hopesmasher" and "Death's Child".
161	* RemoteBody: Varrenoth, Champion of the Barren Wastes, turns out to be one of these being piloted by a small child (in a LeaningOnTheFourthWall reference to the idea of having an avatar in a video game). She seems to have been built by her user's species as a SpyBot to observe the outside world, although her user finds to her frustration that every time she tries to explain where she actually comes from and who she actually is she gets interrupted by an automatic censor filter that maintains the {{Kayfabe}} of Varrenoth being a stereotypical BarbarianHero.
162	* RetGone:
163	** Two minor characters running a shop in the Bloom are revealed to be the same person, the elder having been sent through an adventure that had him ending up traveling back in time. Upon learning this, the Last Castoff has an option to [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential murder the younger version]], causing the elder -- and the entire shop itself -- to disappear with the narration stating that you do not even remember ''why'' you murdered the young man. [[spoiler:In a case of DevelopersForesight, one sidequest that can end with a slave being made a second apprentice of the elder shopkeeper can go from "Completed" to "In Progress" due to his new job being erased from history]].
164	** [[spoiler:In the Necropolis the Last Castoff can use Inifere's Merecaster to convince him to face the Sorrow in the past instead of retreating into the Endless Gate. This ends up retroactively killing him and undoing most of the harm his cult did, leaving everyone in the Necropolis with the distinct impression that ''something'' terrible happened but they're not entirely sure what.]]
165	** You can even do this to [[spoiler:''yourself'', as a very late-game Merecaster experience gives you the opportunity to let the Sorrow destroy your body before the events of the game begin, thus undoing everything that you did in the game]].
166	* TheReveal: The ghostly woman you can help in Sagus Cliffs? In the final act, she's [[spoiler:revealed to be the daughter of the Changing God himself -- and is, in fact, the driving reason for his research into immortality, in an effort to save her life]].
167	* RippleEffectProofMemory: Everyone who's directly affected by a TimeTravel event that changes history seems to have ''some'' degree of this, although how much of it you retain seems to vary. The ShellShockedVeteran survivors of the Endless Battle claim that the worst thing about it is the unique form of PTSD you get from having experienced hundreds or thousands of your own deaths that still feel real to you even though in the current timeline they never occurred.
168	* RuinsForRuinsSake: The premise of the ''Numenera'' setting is that the Ninth World is built on the detritus left behind by ''a billion years'' of past civilizations on Earth. Every settlement is built on some kind of ancient ruin -- the entire world is a kind of neverending DungeonCrawl. That being said, the most obvious cases of this are the mini-dungeon of the Anechoic Lazaret, the Necropolis and surrounding Ruins of Ossiphagan, and the [[WombLevel deepest depths of the Bloom]].
169	* SchmuckBait: There's a lot of them. There's a person inside the Bloom who has a sealed vessel containing part of the Iron Wind. A member of your party can accidentally break it, mutating your entire party, and resulting in a NonStandardGameOver. You can opt to give [[spoiler:the Changing God control of your body, giving you a non-standard game over]]. You can also drink what is obviously acid from a puddle of acid.
170	* ScienceFantasy: Takes place in the deep future of Earth, relatively recently after the recreation of formerly extinct humanity. Humans live in small quasi-medieval states.
171	* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Some enemies can do this and leave the area when the battle turn badly for them.
172	* SequelHook: Of the spinoff variety, as the epilogue [[spoiler:mentions that adult Rhin is "a story for another time".]]
173	* ShoutOut:
174	** Quijano del Toboso is a very obvious {{Expy}} of ''Literature/DonQuixote''
175	** Early in the game you can recruit a gang of [[Music/BlueOysterCult psychic war veterans.]]
176	** One of those veterans is a woman named Leto, wears what is implied to be a stillsuit, and has the power of seeing possible realities and pasts -- a clear reference to the (male) hero of Dune.
177	** In the Necropolis, you meet the decidedly eccentric Oddwald the Sane -- compare and contrast ''[[Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Hitchhiker's Guide]]''[='s=] Wonko the Sane.
178	** The way the Necropolis works, with its ridiculously huge three-dimensional array of identical hexagonal rooms, is a reference to Creator/JorgeLuisBorges' "Literature/TheLibraryOfBabel". The frustration of wandering endlessly through it searching for something meaningful among the endless list of tombs and epitaphs is pretty much the same thing the characters in that story go through.
179	** The effect when you teleport into Miel Avest (where you're temporarily elongated) is the same one used in the ending of ''Planescape: Torment'' when the Nameless One is sent to the Blood War.
180	** The [[ExcaliburInTheRust Outworn Buckler]] also appears in both ''VideoGame/PillarsOfEternity'' games, a ratty, decrepit shield with a powerful enchantment, which grows even more potent in the hands of a paladin of the Darcozzi order.
181	* SomeCallMeTim: Honorary Aeon Priest Sn'erf, a being from another dimension. His real name is very long and largely unpronounceable (or beyond human hearing range). He prefers the name humans gave him. His true one is way too common.
182	* SpiritualSuccessor: Though the two games share no continuity, ''Tides of Numenera'' builds upon the themes and ideas presented in ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment''.
183	* ThatThingIsNotMyChild: The Changing God doesn't even consider the castoffs to be people, much less his children. [[spoiler:He also refuses to believe that Miika is anything more than a reflection of his daughter, since she's just a copy of his daughter's consciousness. Which is pretty rich coming from [[BrainUploading the Specter]].]]
184	* ThreeStatSystem: The game, like the tabletop system it's based on, has Might, Speed, and Intellect as core stats.
185	* TimeTravel: No less common in the Ninth World than space travel or dimensional travel. No one set of time travel rules seems to apply.
186	** The Changing God traveled in time, though the Sorrow followed him whenever he went.
187	** Both the First Militia and the Changing God's supporters have access to temporal {{Reset Button}}s in the form of the Reconciler of Truth and Heaven's Rejoinder, respectively. Neither device is seen during the game, though the fact that each side can simply undo the other's victories is a significant part of what makes the Endless Battle a ForeverWar.
188	** The merecasters allow the Last Castoff to utilize a form of MentalTimeTravel, seemingly a byproduct of being specially tailored to make use of the resonance chamber. Doing so can change history, yet [[RippleEffectProofMemory castoffs remember both timelines]].
189	** A simple tanner (granted the leather he works with is the flesh of the Bloom), Sundermun the Elder fell through a Bloom maw and ended up going back in time, having to return home via TheSlowPath -- and taking on his younger self as an apprentice. Upon finding this out, the Last Castoff has the option of killing Sundermun the Younger just to see what will happen. Rather than a TemporalParadox ripping apart the universe, however, Sundermun the Elder simply blinks out of existence.
190	** Zwherezimian exists outside of normal spacetime as a kind of phantom, able to speak and be seen and heard, but unable to affect the world around him. He's trying to get back to his own time, one of the fallen civilizations that pre-dates the Ninth World, and he keeps running into the Last Castoff -- and each time, he teaches you the second level of Tidal Affinity. He's been trapped in the same StableTimeLoop for ''[[AndIMustScream millions of years]]'' when you meet him in the Bloom. He doesn't seem to mind.
191	* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: A random "Child" NPC in Circus Minor has some... interesting dialogue if you keep clicking:
192	-->'''Child:''' [[MostDefinitelyNotAVillain I am a normal human child enjoying the sights.]] [[DeceptivelyHumanRobots Please move out of the way of my forward sensors.]]\
193	'''Child:''' Subvocalized message -- one of the humans is attempting to speak with me. Advise.\
194	'''Child:''' I do not wish to play with you. You are too old.\
195	'''Child:''' Candy is a delightful treat for children.
196	* TurnBasedCombat: ''Tides of Numenera'' uses a turn-based approach to combat, unlike its spiritual predecessor, which used RealTimeWithPause. The combat system is not strictly about fighting; rather, combat is part of an overarching system called "Crises", which encompasses any dramatic, time-sensitive event. When a Crisis occurs, gameplay switches to turn-based mode and context-sensitive actions similar to attacks become available. Such an action might be a regular attack, an attempt to hack a security system, tinkering with something in the environment, or an attempt to reason with someone.
197	* UnconventionalAlignment: There are five "tides" that the character's actions and words can take them toward, as described under KarmaMeter.
198	* UnderwaterCity: The Oasis of Mra Jolios is a giant dome of water in the middle of a desert.
199	* UnexpectedGameplayChange: The merecaster scenarios are presented in a VisualNovel format where all you do is read and make choices.
200	* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: A minor case, but you need to delay finishing one quest long enough for two people to lose their houses if you want [[spoiler:to have an Expy of Boo as a pet.]]
201	* VideoGameCrueltyPunishment: Downplayed, but trying to behave in an evil manner ''will'' cause your companions to call you out on it and the game then prompts you to make your decision again.
202	* ViolationOfCommonSense: A few cases:
203	** Taking Rhin, a ''child'' with no combat ablities and no magic beyond being quite stealthy, along on an adventure through the worst insanity the Ninth World has to offer. Oh, sure, it makes sense to keep her around in Sagus Cliffs, but when you're [[spoiler:literally dragging her ToHellAndBack]], your companion's [[EveryoneHasStandards incredulous comments]] make sense. [[spoiler:But keeping her in the party is the only way to eventually get her back home, solve all her problems, and help her become [[KidHeroAllGrownUp awe-inspiring]].]]
204	** Dying is the quickest way to get into [[MentalWorld the Labyrinth]], which can lead to the player committing suicide in all sort of creative and sometimes [[SuicideAsComedy entertaining]] ways.
205	** It's only possible to talk to the Nychthemeron at night. How do you reach it at night, you ask? By sleeping in the inn or the camp that allows you to sleep all you want for free? Of course not! You can only access the city at night by intentionally breaking the time-manipulating clock in the center of town, which warps the fabric of ''time itself'' to allow you to reach the difficult-to-access state of "nighttime".
206	* TheWatcher: The philethis. It (or they) is obviously aware of everything you've been through on your adventure whenever it shows up, based on the extremely specific questions it asks you, but never reveals how it knows what it knows or what the hell its agenda is. Even using a Tidal Surge to try to force this information out of it doesn't really work. (The core ''Numenera'' rulebook for the tabletop RPG admonishes the GM to never allow the philethis as a species to reveal any useful information about themselves or anything else.)
207	* WellIntentionedExtremist: The Sorrow sees the torment caused by the Changing God and wishes to hunt him for a long-awaited judgement, but it's also eradicating his Castoffs, who are more victims than enemies.
208	* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: A major part of the game's [[ArcWords arc question]]: ''What does one life matter?''
209	** The question is whether the castoffs are living, independent people in their own right, or if they're simply amnesiac clones of the Changing God, who wouldn't object to being killed off [[spoiler:or reincorporated into him]] if they could simply remember what they knew when they were a part of him. [[spoiler:During the endgame, you're forced to create a series of clones -- at least one -- in order to reach the final confrontation in the Labyrinth. The clone has no objections whatsoever, and it's implied they wouldn't live long no matter what you did -- but what responsibility do you bear for having created them in the first place?]]
210	** Many other elements of the game allude to this central conflict -- the levies of Sagus Cliffs, for example, are ArtificialHuman CityGuards created to obey orders, die after one year of service, and do this while [[StepfordSmiler seemingly outwardly entirely content]].
211	* YouWakeUpInARoom: Right before it breaks apart and you fall down from low orbit.
212	* YoureNotMyFather: At the end of the game, [[spoiler:the Changing God's daughter Miika]] confronts the being who claims to be her father, [[spoiler:the Specter]]... and doesn't recognize him at all. [[spoiler:This is because he's an ArtificialIntelligence based on a backup copy of the Changing God's memories. You can point out to the Specter that he can't possibly be the real Changing God since if even his own daughter doesn't recognize him, but if your persuasive skills aren't up to the task, this can also [[ThatThingIsNotMyChild backfire]].]]
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