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1* AccidentalInnuendo: The text makes a point of describing Lone Wolf's [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything O-face]] any time the Magi-magic spell Power Word is used.
2* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The part in ''Fire on the Water'' with the Noodnics, a {{Funetik Aksent}}ed race of [[TalkingAnimal talking rodents]] who appear briefly to help you out and steal your gold, never to be referenced again.[[note]]"Nudnik" is Yiddish for "Bothersome Person". Many words in the various dark tongues in the books are also Hebrew words, although they're usually rather random ("Naar" is "Young Man"). And the "-im" suffix being used to describe a plurality of entities is also from Hebrew.[[/note]]
3* ComplacentGamingSyndrome: Better take "Weaponskill: Sword" to get the most out of the Sommerswerd.
4* CompleteMonster: See [[Monster/{{Gamebooks}} here]].
5* EnsembleDarkHorse:
6** Alyss, the CanonImmigrant demigoddess with the attitude and appearance of a rebellious punk teenage girl. She originally appeared in the novel series, wherein many [[BreakingTheFourthWall fourth walls were broken]], but was then seen near the end of the Grand Master series, saving Lone Wolf at least once and then setting up the plot for the final book by snatching the Moonstone from under Naar's nose.
7** Firestone. Despite being given maybe three mentions throughout the Grand Master books, he is implied to be NumberTwo to Lone Wolf himself, in charge of leading the Monastery and keeping things running while Lone Wolf is on his adventures. Many fans like to think that he is the Grandmaster having his own missions in the New Order series [[note]] ''Storms of Chai'' disproves this. [[/note]]
8* EvilIsCool: Most of the good guy nations are your standard high fantasy kingdoms, while a lot more imagination was put into the evil hordes and nasty places.
9* FauxSymbolism: For no immediately apparent reason, the Plane of Darkness in the final book of the Grand Master series contains multiple references to Myth/NorseMythology, and not only the "evil" parts of it. You cross a rainbow bridge at one point, encounter a demoness with a hideously scarred face but beautiful body (Hel, [[spoiler:indirectly your fault]]), and another who rides a chariot pulled by felines (Freyja).
10* GameBreaker: In the ''World of Lone Wolf'' series, Grey Star can spend willpower to increase his damage in combat, dealing arbitrarily large amounts if he's able to spare enough willpower. There are also fairly common consumables that can be spent to avoid one instance of having to pay willpower... however large that payment would have been. One of those consumables allows you to instantly defeat any enemy, provided you don't die in the first round.
11* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff:
12** The series is almost universally popular among Italian tabletop gamers, where the Kai Lords have been redubbed "Ramas Knights" and a few other names have been changed around to emphasize the "medieval fantasy" feel of the setting.
13** The French very much enjoy the series as well, as it's never been out of print in that language for the past 30+ years, and by 2016 had sold more than 2.8 million copies.
14* HilariousInHindsight: The aforementioned Power Word. Come the release of ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'', tossing people and things around with a spoken word is extremely popular.
15* HoYayShipping: Lone Wolf and Banedon. It was so blatant that, in the novelizations, two female characters, Qinefer and Alyss, were introduced in no small part to be potential love interests for the two of them.
16* MagnificentBastard: Darklord Gnaag is the most cunning and politically savvy of the Darklords. Gnaag carefully cultivates a harmless appearance while subtly manipulating the struggle for the coveted title of Archlord in the cutthroat environment of Helgedad. When Darklord Haakon captures hero Lone Wolf, Gnaag secretly arranges for Haakon's rival Slutar to discover where the Kai Knight is being held; and when Slutar breaks Lone Wolf out in order to embarrass Haakon, Gnaag denounces Slutar's actions to Haakon, causing Slutar to be shamed out of the competition for Archlord and give Haakon -- who is the more advantageous to Gnaag -- the win. After Haakon's downfall, Gnaag manipulates two Darklords into warring with each other, only to destroy both of them at their weakest and obtain the surviving Darklords' approval. As Archlord, Gnaag wears down Sommerlund with both open warfare and insidious internal strife, with only Lone Wolf capable of keeping him in check. Gnaag finally lures Lone Wolf into a carefully crafted trap by using the Lorestones as bait, and tosses the Kai Master into a Shadow Gate, from where Lone Wolf only emerges eight years later -- by which time, Gnaag has almost conquered the entirety of ''Magnamund'' and has to be removed with a desperate decapitation strike in Helgedad itself.
17* ThatOneBoss:
18** Zakhan Kimah and his Orb of Death (though [[spoiler:he's a skippable fight if you successfully throw the Dagger of Vashna at him, but you don't get the option to do so if you have the Sommerswerd]]).
19** Far from the only example; as mentioned in the main article, this is the trade-off if Lone Wolf brings the Sommerswerd with him on his quests. There is at least one enemy that's nigh impossible to beat ''without'' the Sommerswerd that can't be avoided though: the [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Deathlord Ixiataaga]].
20** The Chaos-Master in book 11 is another infamous example where the Sommerswerd makes life much, much more difficult for you.
21** The Kleasa from the ''World of Lone Wolf'' series. It is by far the most powerful enemy Grey Star ever actually fights in the series and boasts High Combat Skill, Endurance, and the ability to drain Grey Star's Endurance and Willpower even if Grey Star magically shielded himself right before the fight. It's also one of the few enemies Grey Star can't avoid fighting no matter what. And it appears in the ''first book''. Because of this, if you roll low on your starting scores ''it is extremely difficult to finish the book'' without rules abuse -- that you can use the magic seed to do X9001 damage. Humorously, using the seed causes an instance of ScriptBreaking. Project Aon suggests "fixing" this bug, leaving you a bit screwed.
22* ThatOnePuzzle: One puzzle in ''The Legacy of Vashna'' (a logic puzzle that doesn't give you enough information to work out the answer) is literally [[GuideDangIt unsolvable]] without extreme [[MoonLogicPuzzle out of the box thinking]] or [[TrialAndErrorGameplay flipping to random sections]] in hopes it will be right. Fortunately, you don't have to know the answer to progress, but knowing the answer does evade a combat. WordOfGod is that the riddle wasn't supposed to be unsolvable, but a part of the question was missed out.
23* VillainDecay: Book 15's BigBad, Drakkar Warlord Magnaarn, almost ''literally'' goes through Villain Decay. From a cunning badass warrior general who [[spoiler:buries Lone Wolf alive in a trap]] to [[spoiler:a shriveled and mummy-like puppet of his own ArtifactOfDoom on the brink of undeath.]] Perhaps to emphasize the point, when Magnaarn issues a BattleCry at Lone Wolf before their final battle, Dever doesn't bother to even ''reveal the words Magnaarn said''.
24* TheWoobie: Tavig, a character Lone Wolf may encounter in Book 7. He's just some poor guy who took on the mission of invading Castle Death to pay for his sister's ransom. After being thrown into TheMaze twice, all he wants is to escape. Why is he a woobie? Let's just say that if the hero meets him, he'll only get a quick death if [[spoiler:''Lone Wolf kills him''. Otherwise he'll either be torn apart by dog men or slowly crushed to death by a giant fist]]. Yeah, [[EverythingTryingToKillYou Castle Death's a fun place]]. It gets worse in the UpdatedRerelease, which features a [[ADayInTheLimelight bonus adventure]] where you take control of Tavig early in his jaunt into Kazan-Oud. He kills some nasty bad guys, thwarts a plot by Zahda to escape the island, and saves a damsel in distress, and as they reach their escape, he sets her loose and ''goes back into the castle'' to his inevitable fate. Poor guy.

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