The Chronicles of Inotia: Children of Carnia is a South Korean RPG for Android and iOS created by COM2US, and it's the third installment in the series. It narrates the story of Lucio as he becomes the Hero of Light against the Order of Darkness in their attempt to resurrect the God of Darkness. The sequel is Chronicles Of Inotia Assassin Of Berkel
This game provides examples of:
- Adam Smith Hates Your Guts: If you find a random vendor in the middle of a map, be sure that he's going to charge a higher price.
- As Long as There Is Evil: The explanation the Big Bad gives for his eventual revival
- Blue Oni, Red Oni: Lydia and Candace. But when they agree,
funny things happen. - Book Ends: After losing his memories, Lucio returns to Carnia, to the point where his adventure started.
- "Blind Idiot" Translation: Subverted. It's clear that the translators put most of their efforts towards the first half of the game compared to the latter, as later on you'll begin to notice blatant spelling mistakes and such, including "Laciel" suddenly being referred to as "Lasiel".
- Brainwashed and Crazy: The King of De Lauren, who is also Candace's father.
- Breaking Speech: During the flashbacks, Juder is fond of these.
- Bribing Your Way to Victory: You have the option to use online shopping.
- Cannot Spit It Out: Lucio simply can't confess his obvious crush on Ameli.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Subverted. The Dark Elves are indeed evil, but are far from the worst enemy in the game. Lucio manages to befriend them by sympathizing with them and defeating their dragon oppressor Eijenhar, and thus they aid him later on.
- Determinator: Lucio. He looks like to have jumped out of a Shōnen anime.
- Disc-One Final Boss: Actually, the God of Darkness.
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: Ameli being referred to as Laciel's sword sheath.
- Doomed Hometown: After a raid orchestrated by the Order of Darkness, Carnia is destroyed. But the town gets better.
- Dual Wielding: The standard option for Candace, Judeka, and the Rogue mercenary.
- Eldritch Abomination: The God of Darkness. He can be even uglier than Cthulhu. Some darkness troops are also this, and it is implied that they were once human.
- 11th-Hour Superpower: Right before the final battle, we discover that there are two Laciel's swords/bows/staffs, and the second is Ameli.
- Elite Mooks: Everytime you see one of a different color, this is going to be tougher. There is even a series of Quests where you must hunt down these mooks for tangible rewards.
- Expy: Candace is a red-haired Yuffie, complete with Rebellious Princess status, though more obvious. Lydia seems to be too familiar with Rei Ayanami.
- Fish People: The Carp Hermit, arguably the most annoying character in the entire franchise, seems to appear once a game and asking the player to run a bunch of simple yet irritatingly long errands before he is finally willing to help. He's literally a person with a goldfish for a head and a three second memory. He nearly drove both Candace and the usually meek Lydia insane.
- Friend to All Living Things: Ameli sees goodness even in orcs. And this act of kindness changes their history.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Kundin, Charmer Shuiga, and Lydia.
- Hidden Elf Village: Selendrya.
- Humans Are Bastards: That's what Judeka thinks initially. But he is so impressed with the incredible amount of concern that Lucio has for Lydia and how far he goes to save her, that he decides to change his mind.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Juan is a colossal dick with a huge ego, but he inspires loyalty to his men and is absolutely loyal to Candace.
- Journey to the Center of the Mind: After using a weird type of magic to cure Ameli from a petrification spell, Lydia falls into a coma and then Lucio goes on a sidequest to recover an artifact to cure her that allows this journey. It turns out Lucio is journeying into the memories of Laciel.
- MacGuffin Delivery Service: The plan of the Order of Darkness is to let Lucio and his party to find Laciel's artifacts and steal them. It has to have some Deus ex Machina to avoid have them killed.
- Mad Scientist: Crazy Heig. Whatever he is doing with the things Lucio delivers to him nobody knows for sure.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: You defeated the God of Darkness? Congratulations! However, there is now an excess of light in the world, creating mutant animals and driving the Spirit Kings insane.
- Nominal Hero:
- Cardis. He joined the Order of Darkness to gain their trust and take revenge on them for the death of his lover. However, he is anything but heroic, only looks out for himself, kills anyone (innocent or otherwise) who gets in his way without a second thought, and refuses to trust anyone.
- Ada is somewhat a Morality Pet to him (being his lover's sister) as he spares her life twice and even promises her once he's destroyed the Order of Darkness, his life will be hers to take.
- Path of Inspiration: The Order of Darkness. The name itself should be an indication.
- Rebellious Princess: Candace. She ran away from her kingdom because she wanted to find a way to undo the brainwashing of her father and to dismantle the Order of Darkness from behind the scenes.
- Refusal of the Call: At first, Lucio actually questions the arbitrariness of being the chosen one, to what the Wind Spirit King answers that he can't fight fate.
- So Long, and Thanks for All the Gear: Candace does exactly this in Lucio's first encounter with her.
- 20 Bear Asses: Pray to God you love these types of quests, because you'll be seeing them a lot.
- The Man Behind the Man: High Priest Verat to the Order of Darkness, and then the God of Darkness.
- Ungrateful Bastard: Eijenhar. He thinks that he's doing you a favor letting you leaving alive. But then you rightfully kick his ass.
- Kilgern is worse. Ameli pleads Kuntu for sparing his life even though he was about to kill them a second ago. Kuntu complies. Kilgern uses his last strength to turn Ameli to stone and kills himself in the process. So, he basically sacrifices himself to try and kill the girl who saved his life. This also leads to his superior's orders ending up in the good guys' hands, so not only was it a dick move, it was also very counterproductive.
- Victory-Guided Amnesia: Happens after you defeat the God of Darkness. But you'll get better.
- You Killed My Sister: Ada's primary motivation against the Order of Darkness and against Cardis for joining them.
- "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: After you defeated the God of Darkness, it's shown and then it's subverted.
