A young calf named Arizona bravely volunteers to be The Prairie's Champion when no one else in the herd would. He parents tell her to head north to Reine City, where she might find clues relating to the Prophet's Key.
Tropes:
- Always Someone Better: After beating everyone she comes across, Arizona manages to lose against Oleander or Fred (depending if Ari wins against Oleander or not.)
- And the Adventure Continues: At the end of the chapter, Arizona sets out of the temple, having hit a roadblock but refusing to give up on her quest.
- As You Know: The beginning of Arizona's chapter has Texas recapping the story about the Predators, the Prophet's Key, and what happened to the ungulates of Fœnum, all of which stories Arizona already are aware of.
- Background Boss: For most of the fight, the Cuddles boss stays in and attacks from the background.
- Beast in the Building: Arizona can find a sleeping bear at the end of a secret bookcase passage in a museum library. She can optionally fight it to get the MiniVelvet cosmetic, but there's no word of how and why a bear even got inside Reine's museum.
- Blackout Basement: It's really dark when in one reindeer's basement.
- Bond One-Liner: Upon beating a giant snake, Arizona says "And that's a wrap!".
- Bookcase Passage: There is one of these in Reine's museum, which opens up if Arizona puts away a certain book.
- Boss Corridor: There's a small healing section right before the two Multi-Mook Melee fights and Oleander.
- Boss Tease: Adobo warns Arizona of a "monster" that appears within the mountains. Of course, he's talking about Paprika, who technically does serve as the boss for the end of Part III.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: Right before one of the Predator fights (Part I mini-boss), Arizona will say "Cue the music!".
- Break the Haughty: Arizona shows Velvet she's not perfect or invincible by beating her to her senses, in her home town. Velvet can only ask how "a simple country bumpkin" manage to beat the Champion of the Tundra before fainting.
- Brick Joke: Fred and Oleander comment on most of the cosmetics Arizona obtained, such as the loaf of bread she licked in the beginning.
- The Cameo: Pom makes a short nameless appearance in Reine before she has any relevance to the story.
- Cassandra Truth: There is a nearby cave near the Alpake camp that one alpaca tells Arizona is a dead end (like life). She can go in it to find that it's empty, just like the alpaca said."See, What did I tell you?"
- The Cat Came Back: When Arizona thought she got rid of Paprika by stomping near her, she showed up again right behind her. (She came from the bottom of the screen even though she left from the top.)
- The City: The second act takes place in the snowing city of Reine.
- David Versus Goliath: Arizona is a small calf but managed to beat a giant cobra by herself.
- A Day In The Lime Light: This chapter focuses on Arizona's side of the story, if a small part of it.
- Death from Above: Arizona unknowingly crushes two different wolves with two heavy stone blocks while they were asleep.
- Death Mountain: The Huacaya Mountains, the setting of Part III, are foggy and very dangerous.
- Desert Skull: Arizona comes across one with the rest of the skeleton near the beginning of her adventure. She doesn't give it too much thought despite the fact that all ungulates in this world are sapient.
- Do Not Touch the Funnel Cloud: Unusually for a giant cyclone, Velvet's is an aversion as it pushes Arizona away from her and she has to run against the wind towards it to hit her.
- Downer Ending: Arizona gets her hind handed to her whether she beats Oleander's final phase or not and her bag looted. She herself also can't make sense of any of the writing on the pillar in the Temple of Gloom, putting her journey at a dead end.
- Dramatic Irony: Oleander doesn't know that Fred was actually the one to knock out Arizona, or that he's using her for something.
- Dueling Player Characters: Arizona at different points fights against Velvet, Paprika, and Oleander. In that order.
- The Ghost: The Elite 7 are mentioned throughout Reine, but we don't see any of them appear. Tianhuo also might be responsible for the icy lake having been melted.
- Fantastic Racism: A lot of reindeer don't think too highly of Arizona because of her species. In this chapter, Arizona can speak to one particular reindeer who makes disparaging remarks about sheep, horses, and cows, only to notice too late that she's talking to a cow.
- The Farmer and the Viper: Played for laughs, but Arizona can lick (and steal) Madison's loaf of bread after she offered Arizona a spot to sleep by her camp.
- Fish Eyes: A few of the eyes on some of the deerfolk sprites are a little... off and/or bug-eyed.
- Food as Bribe: Arizona convinces the guards to let her into Reine with a bottle of milk. (From another cow.)
- Free-Floor Fighting: In some segments, Arizona has to fight Flappies while also platforming and trying not to get knocked off.
- Gravity Screw: If Arizona keeps stomping near a KO'd Paprika, she goes up into the air and never comes back down.
- The Great Serpent: A large Cuddles (cobra) serves as the first true boss of the game.
- Ground Punch: Arizona can stomp in the game's overworld.
- Heads I Win, Tails You Lose: Arizona will get knocked out anyway even if she beats Oleander's third phase or not, making Oleander victorious either way.
- I Can See My House from Here: While close to the secret trail's highest edge Arizona exclaims that she's so high everything looks like ants. Subverted since they were ants.
- I Drank WHAT?!: One reindeer is more than surprised when Arizona tells him where milk actually comes from and doesn't move or speak afterwords.
- Info Dump: A reindeer fangirl explains to Arizona a lot of information about the Elite 7 when she reaches their headquarters. Granted, none of it is relevant to Arizona in particular, and half of the doe's dialogue consist of gushing, but at least the player gets a cosmetic.
- Jumped at the Call: When none of the other Cattlekind had the courage to volunteer as the Prairie's Champion, Arizona triumphantly claimed to do so.
- Just a Kid: The only part of Arizona's beginning journey from the Book of Lore which remained the same is her father telling her she was too young and it was too dangerous for her to be Champion.
- Loony Fan: The reindeer Fangirl in front of the Elite 7 HQ gets distracted a lot thinking about how cool the group is.
- Mini-Me: The Minizona and MiniVelvet cosmetics (Small plushies of Arizona and Velvet) are obtained within this chapter.
- Mistaken for Prostitute: No, really.
Though at the very least it's an awkward moment made to parody this trope, since it's ambiguous what the reindeer wanted Arizona to do with those mentioned condiments and toppings. She runs right out of there when he suggests starting on the table. - Multi-Mook Melee: There are two parts of the chapter where Arizona has to fight a series of Predators.
- Museum of Boredom: To Arizona at least; she doesn't find most of the exhibits in Reine's museum interesting. Except one.
- Museum of the Strange and Unusual: Arizona has a point about some of the exhibits being a little odd. (A giant banana peel and a purple-and-black checkerboard painting?)
- Mustache Vandalism: The exhibits for Velvet and Vixen are closed off because they vandalized each other's exhibits like this trope with added stink lines.
- Myth Prologue: Though touched on before in the actual prologue, we're given some more detail in the chapter's beginning about how the ungulates banished the Predators, and how they all distanced themselves ever since.
- Non-Indicative Name: The Eternal Caves of Neverending Length is actually very short; it's just a single cavern with one river cross, without even any enemies.
- Non-Lethal K.O.: Fred knocks out Arizona in a single attack if she manages to win instead of Ollie.
- Not His Sled: Ignoring the coincidental irony relating to Santa's reindeer and the trope name, Cupid is apparently not one of the Elites chosen by the Winter Sprites. At least not yet, as it's implied he might be chosen as the eighth member later.
- Not So Above It All: There is exactly one painting in Reine's museum that Arizona finds "beautiful".
- NPC Roadblock: In Reine, there would be a few deerfolk blocking paths keeping Arizona from exploring the rest of the city or more of certain buildings.
- Player Character: Arizona is the protagonist during this game's first chapter.
- Post-Victory Collapse: Arizona collapses from exhaustion after climbing to the top of the Highland Mountains.
- Power Floats: When activating her full power (and her third phase) Oleander's eyes glow white and she floats through the air. Arizona has to lasso her down or the fight ends very quickly.
- Priceless Ming Vase: In one exhibit, Arizona's accidentally destroys a delicate ancient scroll by sneezing over it, she automatically heads for the exit before anyone sees her too close to the now-empty display stand.
- Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: Minnesota when sending off her daughter."I dub thee... Champ'een of Cattlekind! Now go, and... SAVE... THE...WORLD!"
- Quirky Town: For the highest level of society in Fœnum, a large chunk of the reindeer Arizona encounters seem rather off, but at least in a cute and funny way.
- Retcon: In the original Book of Lore, many of the Cattlekind were eager to become Champion, and the winner had to be chosen out of a ballot (Arizona snuck in her name at night). In the game proper, all of the other Cattlekind ran away in fear at the proposed job, and Arizona was the only one brave enough to do so. She didn't even have to fight her father to prove herself this time.
- Ruins for Ruins' Sake: An old temple ruins is encountered at the end of Part III, with the next and final part of the chapter taking place inside of it.
- Scaling the Summit: Arizona has to jump/climb up to the top of the mountains at the beginning of Part III.
- Secret Path: Arizona can find an alternate route if she takes a different direction at the beginning of her journey.
- Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: The librarian in the museum identifies the book title that Arizona brings to her: “Do the telluric alpaca hermeneutics transpose the peripatetic lautretics of Unicornian philosophy because of the factic iniquity of the non-dogmatic Amaryllian dialogues?”
- Sequential Boss: The giant Cuddles, Velvet, Paprika and Oleander all have 3 phases that must be beat.
- Shifting Sand Land: The first act of the chapter takes place in the desert-like Prairie.
- Sickening Sweethearts: One pair of NPCs are a reindeer couple arguing who "wuvs" the other more. Arizona decides to best leave them alone.
- Sinister Silhouettes: Paprika appears through the fog in a silhouette at the top of the mountains.
- Ship Teasing:
- When discovering the tinfoil hat, Fred asks Olander if she'd like to keep it because it smells like that reindeer (Cashmere) Oleander "likes so much". Oleander states that she just said she liked her glasses.
- The Elite 7 fangirl wonders if Vixen might be in a relationship with Comet or Velvet.
- SNK Boss: Velvet doesn't have a stationary twister in her normal moveset, and Oleander doesn't do... whatever the heck she activates in her third phase.
- Spit Take: Velvet spits out her latte after tasting that it was pumpkin spice. Directly in Arizona's face.
- Suddenly Shouting: Arizona sure YELLS A LOT during the course of the chapter, usually when she's excited. She even startles a bunch of reindeer at one point.
- Taking the Fight Outside: A curator suggests to Velvet to take her fight with Arizona outside the museum (away from the priceless artifacts) before they start.
- Tempting Fate: Near the beginning, Arizona doesn't find adventuring too hard at first and claims to have the heroing business in the bag. Her journey is going to get much harder.
- Time-Limit Boss: Oleander's third phase has to be beaten in a certain amount of time, or it results in a KO. Not that it matters if Arizona wins or not.
- Tinfoil Hat: Cashmere sells Arizona one, claiming that it will “cloak [her] presence from the sight of cosmic entities residing just beyond the veil”.
- To Be Continued: Chapter One ends with this; into Velvet's chapter.
- Trespassing Hero: Two reindeer lampshade the fact Arizona can just barge right into people's homes when in Reine.
- True Art Is Incomprehensible: In-Universe, Arizona has a hard time trying to make sense of most of the art and paintings in Reine. A lot of other times, she's bored or unimpressed by them.
- Underground Level: Most of The Prairie's chapter takes place underground in the Salt Mines.
- Wake-Up Call Boss: The snake boss at the end of the Salt Mines is a lot more challenging than the Predator mooks that came before it, and has new moves that forces the player to fight creatively.
- Warrior vs. Sorcerer: At the end of the chapter, the brawn-focused Badass Normal Arizona fights against the dark magic-using sorceress, Oleander.
- Wham Line: If Arizona knocks out Oleander, Fred reveals his true colors:"YOU MISERABLE WRETCHED PILE OF BEEF...! YOU ARE RUINING MY PLANS. I'VE WORKED FOR DECADES. LONGER THAN YOU HAVE BEEN ALIVE HUNDREDS OF TIMES OVER. YOU WILL NOT STAND IN MY WAY, NOT WHEN I'M SO CLOSE TO ACHIEVING MY GOALS. YOU KNOW NOTHING. YOU ARE NOTHING. NOW... DIE!" note
