Age of Fire
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Ubaan
Tropes for the faction as a whole
- All Cavemen Were Neanderthals: The ubaan are stereotypical slouching muslebound cavemen who look like they steped out of Primal (2019) with the lore even pointing out that their tribe is the result of the the hairless Uba and ape-like Ghaan interbreeding, mirroring real life interbreeding of Homo sapiens and Homo neanderthalensis. They avert the stupidity aspect of this trope however, being the most advanced faction technologically.
- Gadgeteer Genius: The ubaan are the most technologically advanced faction in the game, being able to craft anything from axes, to spears, to bows and arrows, to ladders. In contrast the dryll, the only other faction to have progressed beyond Natural Weapon, are stuck with Primitive Clubs.
- Low-Tech Spears: Inverted as their spears are amongst the most advanced weapons in the setting
Tropes applying to legends
The Swordhorn
- Temper-Ceratops: Downplayed as the Swordhorn's abilities are primarily defensive in nature, however it's still able to charge at opponents to damage them and it's roar boost it's charge's damage making it one off the most offensive ubaan unit still.
The Mammoth
- Mammoths Mean Ice Age: It's active special ability invoque this trope, summoning a violent snowstorm which damages and slows the oppponent.
The Pterodactyl
- Terror-dactyl: An unholy fusion of various pterosaurs, such as rhamphorhynchus, pteranodon, and quetzalcoatlus with the grasping talons of a bird of prey to boot. That beeing said it is accurately covered in pycnofibers and get to keep them in almost all it's skins, which makes it surprisingly accurate for a Prehistoric Monster.
The Raptor
- Feathered Fiend: Some of it's skins depict it as feathered and it is a fearsome predador.
- Raptor Attack: Of course. The Raptor is depicted as scally asside from a single crest of feathers along the spine with some fully scally skins (though other skins are properly feathered), with pronated hands, pack hunting behaviour, and great inteligence and speed. Some of it's skins also lack the iconic sickle claw (although they are implied to be megaraptors rather than dromeosaurs)
The Plowhead
Dryll
Tropes for the faction as a whole
- Blow Gun: The dryll's ranged weapon, does little actual damage but paralyse their opponent.
- Frazetta Man: Their role in the overall setting: despite being anthropomorphic mandrills they fit the role of subhuman, violence-prone, primitive primates in contrast to the ubaan.
- Primitive Clubs: As befitting their status as the more primitive primate to the ubaan's cavemen they can only make clubs as mele weapons, though they can steal the ubaan's more advanced weapons to use them.
Tropes applying to legends
The Sabertooth
The Rotknuckles
The Spitter
- Feathered Fiend: Some of it's skins depict it as feathered with peacock-like feathers as it's crest and it is a highly venomous ambush predator.
- Hollywood Chameleons: Can change color for camouflage purpose
- Malicious Monitor Lizard: In addition to being based on dilophosaurus the Spitter is also partially based on the giga monitor lizard megalania, sporting a forked tongue and dropping on all four when prowling.
- Mix-and-Match Critters: It has the bipedal body, the neck frill and the venomous spit of Jurassic Park's dilophosaurus along with the forked tongue and quadruped gait when prowling of the ice age monitor lizard megalania, along with Hollywood Chameleons's camouflage.
- Slurpasaur: Downplayed as the Spitter is based on an actual dinosaur (or at least the pop culture version of one) but is also simultaneously based on a prehistoric giant monitor lizard. This, in addition to the fact the dilophosaurus aspects are mostly inaccurate and better suited for a lizard than a dinosaur makes it this trope.
- Toxic Dinosaur: Downplayed as it is also based on a venomous non dinosaur reptile but it still reflect pop culture views of dilophosaurus as a venom spitting dinosaur.
The Sawback
- Beware My Stinger Tail: As expected of a thyreophoran dinosaur.
- Tough Armored Dinosaur: A resilient and powerfull stegosaur able to shoot spikes at opponents.
The Earthshaker
- Gentle Giant Sauropod: Averted, the Earthshaker is a living bulldozer whose special abilities are aimed at destroying enemy bases.
Makilek
Tropes for the faction as a whole
Tropes applying to legends
The Thundercrown
- Feathered Fiend: Some of it's skins depict it as feathered and it is a extremely agressive Xenophobic Herbivore.
- Headbutting Pachy: Exagerated, the Thundercrown act like a charge-fueled dynamo engine thanks to it's passive special "momentum" which allows it to increase the potency of it's charge the longer it maintain it. At full strength the Thundercrown's charge is more powerfull than the Swordhorn's and, since it must charge constantly to keep it's charge meter up, the player is encouraged to charge every enemy they come across making it a very agressive legend.
The Goregouge
- Slurpasaur: Two of it's skins depict it as a giant iguana.
- Social Ornithopod: Conpletely inverted, being a battle scarred, short tempered and extremely vindictive ornithopod constantly looking for a fight.
- Xenophobic Herbivore: All herbivorous legends bar the Warhorn qualifies for this trope but the Goregouge takes it to the extreme, being not only powerfull and agressive but also prone to hold a grudge against anyone who have hurt it.
The Hammertail
- Beware My Stinger Tail: As expected of a thyreophoran dinosaur.
- Tough Armored Dinosaur: One of the tankiest legend on the roster, capable of delivering guard-breaking blows.
The Mimic Bird
- Evil Egg Eater: As is to be expected from the resident oviraptor the Mimic Bird eat eggs whith it's active special ability allowing it to summon an egg that serves as a food item. Then again it isn't evil if you're playing the Makilek.
- Goofy Feathered Dinosaur: Zigzagged, the Mimic Bird is the only legend to have feathers in it's default skin (an has the most feathered skins of any dinosaur overall) and it is one off the least threatening legends in direct combat, on the other hand it is an Evil Egg Eater and it's speed and ability to deceive others makes it very dangerous to underestimate as it can easily infiltrate the enemy teritories and steal control points while sending the other player on a wild goose chase via false alert, ultimately making it looks more like a cunning Sissy Villain than a harmless goofball.
- Mix-and-Match Critters: A mix of an oviraptor and an ostritch dinosaur.
The Tyrant
- Mix-and-Match Critters: While primarily based on tyranosaurus it also has carnotaurus horns and can be considered a mix of various megatheropods.
- Notzilla: Suffice to say the Age series is a love letter to the Kaiju genre and that the Tyrant is prety clearly a homage to the king of monsters it even has a Godzilla skin set.
- Terrifying Tyrannosaur: A gluttonous monstrosity whose Mighty Roar Freezes enemies and resets their cooldowns, while its savage Crush attack allows it to pin and damage enemies while recovering health while it's passive special (turning every opponent it kills into food items) encourage the player to play it very offensively.
Rith
Tropes for the faction as a whole
Tropes applying to legends
The Shadeschemer
- Feathered Fiend: Some of it's skins depict it as feathered and it is a fearsome predador.
- Mix-and-Match Critters: A mix of traits from troodon (huge glowing eyes, great inteligence, and venom) coelophisis (general body shape, especially the whip-like tail) and Jurassic Park's compsognatus (pack hunting and also venom in the novel).
- Raptor Attack: Despite not being not being a dromeosaur it is based on troodon, amongst others, and thus is given traditional "raptor" traits such as being scally (though some skins have feathers), highly inteligent and pack hunting (while pack hunting is speculative for dromeosaurs it's almost certainly inacurate for troodontids)
- Toxic Dinosaur: A straighter exemple than the Spitter as while a Mix-and-Match Critters it is still purely a dinosaur and a violently venomous one at that.
The Warhorn
- Aquatic Hadrosaurs: Downplayed as it lacks the amphibious passive special that most other rith legends have and thus does not get any benefit from aquatic terrain, still it is a rith legend (wich Dino Hunter 2 define as prehistoric animals that stereotypicaly live in swamps) and so is associated with water.
- Social Ornithopod: An ornithopod and the only dedicated suport legend of the Age as well as the least agressive.
The Sunfin
- Amphibian at Large: One of the Sunfin's skin set turns it into a platyhystrix (a sail-backed amphibian) and it is stil gigantic.
- Mix-and-Match Critters: An intresting take as it has two "stances" it can alternate between: a quadrupedal dimetrodon stance and a bipedal spinosaurus stance.
- Never Smile at a Crocodile: Besides the rather crocodile-like appearence of spinosaurus the Sunfin also has a kaprosuchus inspired skin and it's nature as a semi aquatic predatory legend call crocodiles to mind.
- Savage Spinosaurs: Downplayed somewhat: albeit a powerfull predadory legend the Sunfin is less physically powerfull and agressive than the Tyrant and it's nature as a semiaquatic animal is acknowledged in game. Nonetheless it is still a fearsome opponent and the most offensive rith legend on dry land.
The Urserpent
- Mix-and-Match Critters: A summary of all mezozoic sea reptiles from it's name, sinuous body and forked tongue (based on mosasaurs), to it's long neck (based on plesiosaurs), to it's legs and ability to walk on land (based on early sea reptiles from the triassic like nothosaurus), to it's active special "torrent" (based on old reconstructions of ichtyosaurs that showed them expelling water from a blowhole like a whale).
- Sea Monster: The most aquatic legend in the game who can even bring the sea with it.
The Shalestinger
- Mix-and-Match Critters: Exibit the general body shape of an anomalocaris as well as a scorpion stinger (based on the concept of a "sea scorpion").
