Video Game / Octopath Traveler: Champions of the Continent

The Champions of the Continent.^note L - R: Herminia, Tytos, and Auguste.

"Wealth——
Power——
Fame——
Even should one lay claim to all three… The covetous heart will never know contentment…
For man's desire is a bottomless abyss…"

— Master of All Chapter 1 Intro

Octopath Traveler: Champions of the Continent is a mobile game Spin-Off of the highly-successful Octopath Traveler released for iOS and Android on the Japanese App Store on October 28th, 2020 by Square Enix. A worldwide English version was released on July 27, 2022.

The game's events starts three years before the events of Octopath Traveler and revolve around a single-player Gacha RPG experience concerning three main influences: wealth, power, and fame. Each summonable character (and major plotline) is associated with one of the main influences and one of the starting eight classes from the original game. While the original "break and boost" mechanics return, battles now allow for eight playable characters to fight at once with combatants alternating between fighting and resting states. "Path Actions" also return and can be used similarly on NPCs as in the base game. Likewise, the land of Orsterra is available to travel and new settlements have been added in addition to the previous settlements explored in the original game.

Differing from the original game, Champions of the Continent follows the adventure of The Chosen One; a random traveler who is exploring the land of Orsterra for personal reasons. As they continue along on their journey, they eventually come across an enigmatic entity who bequeaths them the Cleric God Ring and tasks the Chosen One with locating and retrieving the other God Rings across the land which have been stolen by mysterious forces. As it happens, three of the rings have landed themselves in the presence of three evil entities said to be the Champions of the Continent. Each conqueror being a master over one of their respective influences, the Chosen One sets out on their new quest to retrieve the remaining rings and put a stop to the Champions' ambitions before the power of the rings are forever lost to evil.

The game also draws inspiration from Another Eden, borrowing that game's gacha mechanics, minimap design, Skill Scores and Perks system and focus on a single-player J/RPG experience for mobile devices.

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Provides examples of:

• Actually Four Mooks: Some NPCs, when you use a Power path action on them, will have your battle be against multiple people even though you only ever Contend/Impress one person at a time.
• Adaptation Expansion: This game elaborates on plot points briefly mentioned in the official guide.
  • Orsa was established as the creator of world and the thirteen gods, as well as the namesake of Orsterra. This game reveals the existence of another god Finis who was her husband, as well as her ultimate fate.
  • The war that orphaned Ophilia was the one waged between the kingdoms of Edoras and Riven 12 years before the start of this game that ended in the non aggression pact being signed. This game establishes the war was started from Pardis's ambitions, making him responsible for her village's destruction.
  • Erhardt's village Grynd was destroyed by the invading southern clans, the same ones that Tytos would beat back as his claim to fame.
  • The imperial conference to settle international disputes and arbitrated by the Church of the Sacred Flame makes its first appearance in the "Master of All" arc.
• Antagonist Title: The titular Champions of the Continent are the 8 evil Ringbearers who each bear a Divine Ring and serve as the Arc Villain for a chapter.
• Anti-Frustration Features:
  • Rolling the 4 or 5 star version of a 3.5 or 4.5 character automatically upgrades any already obtained versions to that rarity. So if the player gets Sofia as a 4.5, then a 5 star, her 4.5 automatically becomes a 5 star, helping save the player any resources they may have been needing.
  • On a related note, any time a character is upgraded via this process, any invested Guidestones are simply added on top of the existing level increase. So if you increase a 4.5's level by 3, they won't lose any investment.
• Anti-Grinding: Zig-zagged. Most enemies give minimal amounts of EXP, so leveling up your characters by fighting them isn't practical. However, Caits give larger amounts of EXP, provided they don't run away, but the rate at which a player can encounter them is low (thankfully, Caits from advertisements or in Hunts will never flee). Additionally, the game doesn't do much to stop a player from grinding for materials to make weapons and armor.
• Anti Poop-Socking: Elite enemies, refreshing Path Actions, daily tasks, and daily advertisements take a long time to refresh (i.e. 10 or 20 hours), and are designed to encourage the player to only invest a few minutes a day in playing the game unless they're really serious about grinding materials and levels.
• Appeal to Inherent Nature: Before Auguste was a Serial Killer sociopath, he was a failed playwright whose plays never sold. This all changed when he began sleeping with his boss's wife and was found out soon after. During this time, he witnessed his master stab his wife to death before committing suicide and felt the urges for his "stimulation" for the first time. Afterward, he began to sell plays by murdering and torturing others to appeal to this newfound urge.
• Arbitrary Headcount Limit: Regardless of how many travelers the player collects, they may only use eight in battle at a time (not including any NPC allies brought into combat). Furthermore, only four travelers at maximum can be dishing out attacks on any given turn.
• Arc Number: Once again, eight.
  • In the first version of the game, there were sixty-four summonable party members with each of the eight regions being home to eight independent travelers. Additionally, each traveler would have a random job from the original eight jobs (Warrior, Cleric, Thief, etc.).
  • There are eight known ringbearers that each have a ring housing the power from one of the gods of Orsterra in them. These rings also correspond to the base eight jobs.
  • Like in the original Octopath Traveler, there are eight regions to explore around Orsterra.
  • The villains of each arc have their first initials almost spell out "Octopath"; The first "O" ends up being Or-Sazantos.
• Arc Words: "Man's desire/greed is a bottomless abyss."
• Artifact of Power: The God Rings are a collection of rings that house a portion of the thirteen gods' powers inside of them. Each ring's power gives the wearer of said ring immense strength and slight magical capabilities to the point of being able to easily outmatch skilled warriors. The main plot revolves around recovering said rings after they were stolen from the Conquerors. The Chosen One also has one of these rings and is able to fight against the other ringbearers. The rings also have the power to transform the wearer into their "true form" (typically that of a grotesque monster) as shown by the ring-forms of the ringbearers. While in these forms, the wearer of the ring becomes significantly more powerful and deadly. Such a wearer can even give up their soul to the ring in order to gain even more power at the cost of their free will.
• Avengers Assemble:
  • In the Bestower of All storyline, eight characters from all storylines join together after receiving a letter to come seal away the God Rings. These characters are the Chosen One, Bargello, Alaune, Solon, Richard, Eltrix, Sazantos, and Rinyuu.
  • After the Bestower of All is revealed, Sazantos is then replaced by Rondo as a part of the eight central characters.
  • During the events of Bestower Of All, Tatloch joins the heroes in stopping Sazantos, with her abilities proving useful in navigating the realm of the dead.
• Background Music Override: The battles you get into as part of the Bravely Default collaboration event play the battle themes from those games instead of the regular battle music.
• Bag of Sharing: The materials you sell are accessible from smithies in every town, including from Kota in the Nameless Town the moment he moves in.
• The Bartender: At every tavern in the game, there is always a solitary bartender who can restore your reputation in the city, begin a new main storyline, or help swap out your active party members. It also helps that there is a tavern in each city with a bartender inhabiting it.
• Battle Butler: In the first fight against Herminia, her personal maid is a combatant with a custom battle sprite. In addition to her master, she is able to hold her own against a full party of eight player characters (despite being significantly weaker than Herminia).
• Big Bad Ensemble: The Champions of the Continent, who can be further split into two groups; the Masters and the Bestowers. The Ringbearer Chosen is tasked with taking back the Divine Rings possessed by the Champions.
• Big Fancy Castle: The Chosen One infiltrates Edoras' castle during the siege on Edoras to take back the God Rings from Pardis. This castle is one of the biggest dungeons in the game and is swarmed with enemies in addition to optional mini-bosses.
• Big Fancy House: Herminia lives in one which overlooks the rest of Valore. The Chosen One is first "invited" ^note  In actuality, Tiziano stole the invitation off of gang members the Chosen One fought. into it along with the rest of Bargello's gang, but then must infiltrate the manse later on in the Master of Wealth story.
• Bittersweet Ending: Most of the main story chapters end on a somewhat bittersweet note. In most cases, the Arc Villain is defeated before they can achieve their plans, but it comes at the cost of a lot of people dying, with the heroes having to find a way to restore things when the fighting ends. The "Master of All" story for example ends with Pardis defeated, and war between the major nations stopped, but many people have died, and the land is recovering from the damage brought by Pardis' ambitions.
• Blue Is Heroic: Aelfric's Ring, which the Ringbearer wields, glows blue as Finis and the maidens gather the rings together. The rest of the God Rings glow red.
• Bodyguard Betrayal:
  • Sonia ends up murdering Lord Taviani and several of his other bodyguards under orders from Herminia. She even attempts to assassinate Bargello and the rest of his gang before being killed by the Chosen One and Bargello.
  • Inverted Trope. Pardis ends up stabbing General Mahrez and blames the murder on the Chosen One. In fact, Mahrez was loyal to a fault for Pardis and Princess Elrica and would gladly give up his life for either of them. It just so happened that he would do so in a way he didn't expect...
• Bookends: Richard's Traveler Story starts and ends with him offering people river beans.
• Boss Remix: Each ringbearer's boss theme is a remix of their main theme. ^note  Their "Against..." themes also remix the ringbearer's main themes, but serve as short transitional songs into their main boss theme.
• Bragging Rights Reward: The arena champion units the player gets for defeating them are essentially this, since if the player is capable of beating them to begin with, chances are the player already has a solid enough collection of units that they don't outright need the character in question. The units in question also range in quality, with some being fairly unique for their class, and others being weaker than options the player may already have.
• But Thou Must!: Dialogue windows with Yes or No options occasionally pop up in story chapters, but the game will not continue until the correct answer is selected.
• The Cameo:
  • Several characters from the original game make cameo appearances in this game. In no particular order: Primrose, Simeon, Zeph, Yvon, Lucia, Archbishop Josef, Miles, Heathcote, Ashlan, Noelle, Therese and Helgenish appear canonically within the game's story.
  • You can also summon Edea and Agnès from Bravely Default and Bravely Second alongside Elvis and Adelle from Bravely Default II.
    • Some monsters from the Bravely series, notably the Chomper line and Rusalka, are fought as part of that event story.
    • The second Bravely Default collab made Ringabel, Gloria, and Magnolia into playable units as well.
  • Additionally, 2B, A2, and 9S from NieR: Automata can be summoned as travelers.
  • Serenoa, Frederica, and Roland from Triangle Strategy appeared as summonable characters during a collaboration event.
  • Oersted and Streibough from Live A Live are also present and can be summoned as travelers.
  • Nier, Kainé, and Emil from Nier can be summoned as travelers, and Grimoire Weiss was added as a keeper.
• Carrying the Antidote:
  • When Auguste poisons his own son and himself, he secretly has another antidote on his person that he uses so that he won't succumb to the very same poison.
  • Inverted in that the heroes do this to Tytos. While the Scarlet Elixir is dispersed over Emberglow, Velnorte distributes the antidote to the Chosen One and the rest of their party. He even taunts Tytos over his absence of an antidote when they square off.
• Category Traitor: El is a swordsman from Edoras who actively takes a stand against Edoras by fighting its military. He even is one of the primary combatants in defending Altinia from Edoras' invasion. Despite this, he still believes that what he's doing is right since it weakens Pardis III's strength. In reality, El is really Princess Elrica of Edoras who's been fighting her own soldiers to stop her father from ruling Orsterra.
• The Chessmaster:
  • Auguste is a Manipulative Bastard who toys with many of his victims in order to gain inspiration to write his plays. He's so good at this that he often acts several steps ahead of his intended victims and predicts their next likely move. This is shown in great detail when he's able to deceive the Chosen One under the persona of Schwartz and guide them along his concocted plot of drama to emotionally debilitate them. While gaslighting them for several days, Auguste also planned out several murders and scapegoats to take the fall over the Chosen One's adventures in Theatropolis. At the same time, he foresaw the Chosen One's every action and planned to eventually kill them in a final act of betrayal. Even further, Auguste is possibly out-manipulated by his repressed personality who wanted The Chosen One to kill him and set up the opportunity to do so.
  • Empress Tatloch planted several of her own agents to monitor and supervise the actions of politicians across Orsterra and manipulate them into creating war and unrest across the land so that her army could easily infiltrate and conquer it. She also played a role in stealing the original God Rings and made plans to invade Orsterra ever since her spy Gonska convinced Pardis to go through his plans of world domination. She also treats her soldiers largely as pawns or sacrifices and cares very little for any of their well-being.
• Central Theme: The desires of humanity, and how they can bring fortune and misfortune to the world. The heroes desire a better world while the villains trample over everything for the sake of their selfish desires.
• Clueless Mystery: In the Bestower of Fame storyline, the Chosen One is forced to "solve" one of these to find out who in the Church of the Sacred Flame has a connection to the Black Scarlet. While it is theoretically able to solve upon first playthrough, the Chosen One is given a wide pool of suspects to choose from and few (if any) major clues or motives to deduce who is the true culprit. It turns out that multiple people are associated with the Black Scarlet, so there is more than one possible suspect that is correct to choose from.
• Color-Coded for Your Convenience: The three paths — Wealth is yellow, Power is red, and Fame is blue. This applies to player characters and NPCs alike.
• Combat Hand Fan: The dancer's job can only equip fans as a weapon. How such travelers survive using them against monsters is anybody's question.^note One character quest explains that they are used to distract enemies.
• Companion-Specific Sidequest: Each traveler has their own traveler story which is an optional Side Quest they task to the Chosen One. In order to access such stories, you must first have summoned the associated traveler. Each story unearths more of the related character's backstory or furthers their personality.
• The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard: The player is unable to use healing items in battle, but there are several times where enemies can use healing items from the original game to restore themselves.
• Conspicuous Consumption: Herminia's manse is decked out with random objects signifying her abundance of wealth. She even has an entire room filled with a random assortment of things made out of gold and shiny metals.
• Continuity Snarl: In the original Octopath, minor NPC Joshua Frostblade mentions his love Angela when interacting with him. When added as a playable character here, he mentions Angela as well, but Angela is now stated to be his sister, conflicting with what was established in the original game.
• Couldn't Find a Pen: The Have-not leaves a message on the wall in blood after killing Delcado and his men. He later does the same after killing Leopardi.
• Creation Myth: In the beginning, there was only the primordial goddess Orsa who created the world. This is why the world is called Orsterra, as in Orsa's terra. However, she was terribly lonely so she created another god, Finis, and together they begot 13 children, the gods of Orsterra. However, Orsa suffered Death by Childbirth after giving birth to their 13th child and Finis disappeared to parts unknown, forever mourning her death. As told in the main game, the 13 gods finished the creation of the world, Galdera rebelled against his siblings, and the rest is history.
• Creepy Cathedral: The Tytos Cathedral is this. It's even more creepy given the current inhabitants of the cathedral when you explore it.
• Creepy Jazz Music: Oskha's theme is this. For added effect, the first time this theme is played is done when in a darkened mansion littered with corpses.
• Crutch Character:
  • The eight launch 5 stars are generally really good units for when they came out, but tend to fall behind as newer units come out with either more unique abilities, marginally better stats, or have better skills by comparison. For example: Scarecrow is a really strong Hunter, but later Hunters tend to be more outright powerful due to better skills, or unique gameplay quirks.
  • The .5 versions of 4 and 5 star units are this compared to their normal, full rarity version. They get access to most of their skill line, and at worst are stronger than the lower rarity units due to having their base level cap be the maximum level cap for the lower rarity. The downside is that they don't get access to their final skill tree, and their level is capped, meaning they Can't Catch Up. Unless the player rolls a full version of the unit, or gets the Sacred Seals needed to upgrade them, they'll eventually fall off due to being unable to get their full skills and stats.
• Cyanide Pill: In the first encounter the Chosen One has with the Black Scarlet, the assassin that was captured by Sazantos for questioning commits suicide by biting his tongue off.
• Damsel in Distress: When Princess Elrica is imprisoned by Pardis III and scheduled for execution, The Chosen One rushes to their aid to save them. Unfortunately, The Chosen One is unable to save her in time and she gets executed as planned.
• Darker and Edgier: Despite Octopath Traveler's take on tone and mood, this game has quite a bit more dark and complex themes. From Herminia torturing Tiziano by drugging him to the point where he can't even speak out of trauma, to Auguste poisoning his child to mentally manipulate his ex-lover into going insane, this game has its share of dark moments.
• Darkest Hour: The final part of Bestower of All has Sazantos obtain both the Sacred and Accurst Flames to revive Orsa and use her power to erase the world's memory of the Chosen One, leaving them with near-to-none allies.
• Dark Reprise: The Bestower of Fame Ceraphina reveals herself to an imposing organ and choir, but its melody had been used frequently in a gentle violin piece during scenes featuring 'Phina'.
• Deadly Hug: Pardis gives one to Mahrez and ends it by blaming the Chosen One for stabbing the general.
• Dead Person Impersonation: Gonska impersonates both Prime Minister Raum and King Riven. The former is done to dupe the real King Riven into believing he had enough military power to conquer Orsterra (which proves to be his undoing as he's unable to defend his castle from an Edoras siege). The latter is done to deceive the Sovereign Assembly into both believing King Riven is alive and tipping the balance of their votes in favor of Pardis III's innocence of invading Riven and Altinia.
• Death by Origin Story: A lot of travelers' backstories contain dead parents, lovers, friends, or children.
• Defeated and Trophified: Herminia casts her sisters in gold after she kills them.
• Developer's Foresight: Anytime during the main story or a Travelers Story the player interacts with a character from the original Octopath Traveler, if your first unit happens to one of the playable units from said game, and they are interacting with someone they know but otherwise shouldn't be meeting due to the story events of the first game, the game will instead select your second unit to maintain continuity. For example: If you have Primrose as your first unit during the "Master of Fame" story section where you run into Simeon, it will swap her out because she mentions having not seen him in years in the original game, and similarly if you do Lars' Traveler Story with Olberic as your first unit, it swaps him out, because a big part of Olberic's story is searching for Erhardt, who Lars' true identity.
• Disposable Woman: At the beginning of the Master of Fame plotline, a woman asks the Chosen One to deliver her love letter to Auguste. Before the letter is given away, Auguste kills an unnamed actress who failed to properly execute her lines. He then proceeds to murder this besotted woman under the guise of going on a date with her. Even later in the plotline, Auguste poisons his unnamed maid to death before meeting with the Chosen One.
• The Dog Bites Back:
  • Velnorte attempts to stop Tytos twice while working for him. First, he gives the Chosen One a letter to give to the Knights Ardante only for that plan to go up in flames. The second time, Velnorte successfully tricks Tytos and the Scarlet Wings into ingesting the impure Scarlet Elixir. This causes Tytos to go around murdering the Scarlet Wings as they transform under its effects alongside weakening Tytos enough into falling at the hands of the Chosen One.
  • Jurgen also attempts to betray Tytos in a suicidal fit of rage, though he's unable to even get a hit in against him before being slain.
• Domino Mask: Herminia wears one, although it's worn as a status of wealth.
• The Don: While Lord Taviani is referred to as a don, he's actually second-in-command to Herminia. Although, before Herminia rose to prominence, Lord Taviani was the leader of the Valore mafia and was bequeathed such a title.
• Dramatic Irony: The Unruly Hornburgian Knight NPC in Hell: Hornburg Castle expresses hopes that his master is doing well when you inquire further with him, and his description updates to say that he trained under the blademaster Gundahar. Those who have played Sigrid's Traveler Story will know that Gundahar was killed several years ago.
• Driven by Envy: Pardis' entire reason for wanting to Take Over the World take over the world is because he's envious of not having the most wealth, power, and fame all at once. He even has to justify to himself that his cause is a good one because it'll put aside his doubts of envy.
• Dub-Induced Plot Hole: The localization refers to the afterlife as Hell like in the original game. However, the Japanese version called it Limbo, which explains why deceased characters appeared in the Bestower of All story to be used by Sazantos. Changing it to Hell ends up opening up a plothole about why heroic characters like Elrica were sent to Hell instead of being in Limbo.
• Duel Boss: In the Master of All plotline, the player controls Elrica as she fights her father, Pardis. This is the only battle in the game where a one-on-one fight is mandatory.
• Dump Stat: P. Def and E. Def are the usual negative attributes given to Fortune Weapons, due to how badly defensive stats scale in this game.
• Evil Laugh: Almost all of the ringbearers have one.
• Evolving Title Screen: The blue flame in the title screen drastically shrinks after the completion of the Master of All arc. After the start of Bestower of All, the title screen turns black and the sacred flame is replaced with purple accurst flame. During Bestower of All Chapter VII, the title screen goes completely white, and the flame is absent.
• Experience Booster: You can obtain equipment that can boost EXP earned. Some units can also boost EXP gain for themself and their row partner.
• Eyepatch of Power: Incidentally, Krauser wears an eyepatch and became the second-in-command of Edoras' army through his own merits.
• Famed In-Story: Tytos is regularly referred to as a hero by the people of Emberglow and is cherished by its townspeople for his past deeds to an almost fanatical extent. Of course, such legends of him are actually being enforced by the Scarlet Wings, although a great amount of these legends are being told out of the townspeople's volitions. Even more, after Tytos dies, the Church of the Sacred Flame concocts and spreads the story that Tytos sacrificed his life in his final moments in order to kill the evil Velnorte, even though he was killed by the Chosen One and their party. Of course, the Church's reputation would be ruined had the truth been spread, so history had been intentionally rewritten to prevent such an occurrence.
• Fate Worse than Death: After dying tragic deaths, Mahrez, Sonia, and Elrica's spirits are revived and each become forced to fight their closest friends and family in writhing pain. What's worse is that each of their battle sprites has the animated corpses screaming in agony. Even when felled, their spirits are banished by Galdera's flame indicating where they've been sent.
• Forced to Watch:
  • After finding Rinyuu in the mountains and stopping Jurgen from killing her, Jurgen rushes at Velnorte in a fit of rage in an attempt to shove him off of the nearby cliff face. While Velnorte is able to stand ground, the resulting struggle incidentally pushes Rinyuu off of the cliff. While in the struggle, Velnorte is forced to watch as the love of his life plummets to her death. In actuality, Rinyuu managed to survive the fall and was nursed back to health by a passing hunter, although Velnorte wouldn't come to know this for quite some time.
  • Almost immediately after the above event, Jurgen reports back to Tytos and notices that his mother had been called into Tytos' manse. Jurgen begins to question why she's there and shouts in confusion at Tytos. Ignoring the questioning, Tytos asks whether Rinyuu's death had been confirmed to which Jurgen is unable to answer due to assuming she couldn't have survived the fall and not verifying her death. As a result, Tytos is displeased and asks whether Jurgen would like another chance to please him. Jurgen then responds that he would like another chance out of fear. In turn, Tytos declares that Jurgen's mistake to confirm a death shall be substituted. Of course, Tytos then issues the command to execute Jurgen's mother with Jurgen being Title Drop forced to watch in order to confirm her death.
• Foreshadowing:
  • When you visit Auguste's villa, you learn about the Jennish Gallows, used by a cruel king who would set up two of a criminal's loved ones to hang and force them to choose which one to save. This foreshadows what Auguste will put Francesca through at the end of the chapter, with himself and their son Mikhail as the loved ones.
  • In one of his letters, Isla mentions that he once stacked so many books that they fell over and almost crushed him, noting that he needs to organize the archives. In another letter two months later, Isla does end up getting crushed by fallen books, necessitating Feintz and Kilns to save him.
• Former Regime Personnel: The majority of the Black Scarlet is made up from the remnants of Tytos' Scarlet Wings who have sworn allegiance to Ceraphina.
• Four-Temperament Ensemble: The New Mafia's crew members represent this.
  • Pierro is Sanguine.
  • Tiziano is Choleric.
  • Bargello is Melancholic.
  • Fra is Phlegmatic.
• Full-Body Disguise: Auguste disguises himself as Schwartz by completely masquerading his appearance. This disguise is so effective that it is able to fool every single person Schwartz encounters, including Francesca, Mikhail, the Chosen One, and every theater-goer in attendance for the fight between the Auguste imposter and the Chosen One.
• Fun with Acronyms: Each of the antagonists forms out the word Octopath when ordered correctly. Working backwards from H also reveals what order they're fought in.
  • O - Orsazantos
  • C - Ceraphina
  • T - Tatloch
  • O - Oskha
  • P - Pardis III
  • A - Auguste
  • T - Tytos
  • H - Herminia
• Gameplay and Story Segregation: Despite the fact that Herminia's Manse burns down at the end of the Master of Wealth arc, it still remains an explorable location afterwards. Finally averted as of "Bestower of Wealth" Chapter II, which retools the location as Herminia's Former Manse.
• Gladiator Games: The slaves born or brought into Leopardi's arena are forced to fight each other to the death as rich patrons watch over them and bet which ones will survive.
• Glory Seeker:
  • As Fame is one of the main three influences of the game, a plethora of travelers set out on their quests in order to further their own fame.
  • The Chosen One also can choose to set out on a quest of pursuing fame (and thereby also pursuing Auguste for his ring). Of course, Auguste himself is also the main antagonist of the Fame storyline and is thus also actively searching for glory.
  • Pardis similarly searches for fame and glory among his subjects and subordinates. This is echoed by him being the antagonist of the Master of All storyline which revolves around Pardis being a master over all three main influences (including Fame).
• Gold Digger: Herminia is a prostitute who feigns interest in her clients to drain them of their finances. She also gives drugs to such clients in the form of "Powder" to debilitate their senses so they get addicted to her services. As they continue to come back for her services, she continues to drain them of their money. She even tries to be overtly seductive to any she encounters to maximize her possible wealth.
• Groin Attack: Levina threatens to do this to Delvecchio if he doesn't tell Bargello's gang who employed him. Subverted in that she's able to extract the information from him without attacking him^note  Even though Bargello and his gang presumably watch the "extraction of information" while it's happening. .
• Guide Dang It!:
  • Completing story chapters can cause some NPCs to have more items via Path Actions that the player can get by doing Inquire Further. However, the game never indicates this is a thing, or what NPCs have new stuff from a look at the town on the map. If you've talked and interacted with every single person in a town, the game will still mark them as done even if they have items, so the new Path Actions can potentially go unnoticed because of that. A player would need to talk to every single NPC to check if they have anything new to even guess that something was changed.
  • Related to the above, the Notice This items the player can find in towns will sometimes change to reflect the story progress, so the player can get a few gear materials from the newest dungeon over the previous one. The issue is that the game doesn't tell the player that at all, or which cities do so. For instance: The items found in Sufrataljah are for the dungeon located in the city, but after beating the "Bestower of Wealth" story, the items update to items from the Golden Palace instead, something not told to the player.
• Hellfire:
  • Galdera's Accurst Flame, which glows a dark purple in contrast to the bright blue Sacred Flames.
  • Ceraphina steals Aelfric's Lanthorn and captures the First Flame in it, intending to smother the flame and replace it with Galdera's Accurst Flame.
  • Later, Sazantos and Signa use Accurst Flames to prevent the other Guardians of Light from interfering with the murders of the other Divine Maidens and Finis.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Multiple side characters end up pulling this at various points in the story, including Mendoza, King Dudek, Lebrandt, and Gimel.
• Hopeless Boss Fight:
  • Elrica's Duel Boss against King Pardis, despite her best efforts, is unable to be won. After breaking Pardis' Shield, he restores it to an unbreakable amount, and then promptly defeats Elrica.
  • The battle against the horde of Edoras soldiers at Elrica's execution is unwinnable. While the player can win the first round, they are forced into fight after fight until getting enemies likely way higher than your party's current level, which usually results in the soldiers wiping your party out. If that doesn't happen, the battle automatically ends after a set number of turns.
  • The battles against Empress Tatloch and the G'rohan soldiers in the prologue of Bestower of Power are unwinnable due to her constantly sacrificing her own soldiers to heal herself.
• Humanoid Abomination:
  • Those who ingest the Scarlet Elixir turn into these. While a person can delay the effects of turning into one through Heroic Willpower, they cannot avoid turning into one unless they die before the drug takes effect.
    • The Black Scarlet also has an enhanced version of the Scarlet Elixir that turns an ingester into a stronger version of a version they would turn into with the normal drug, although the improved version allows the consumer to regain much more of their consciousness. A person's proportions change much more drastically when under the effects of this drug in contrast to the normal version. Such transformed beings are regularly used in the Black Scarlet's military.
  • Some ringbearers' ring-forms cause them to turn into this.
• The Hyena: Gonska is this through and through. Regardless of what seems to be happening, he always finds a way to fit in a laugh.
• Implied Rape: Once becoming the head of her mafia's family, Herminia went back to her original home and had her subordinates "abuse" her sisters as revenge. After "abusing" them, the sisters were then killed and Herminia became the sole heir to her father's inheritance.
  • This is also implied to be the case for Sazantos's mother, Farame, as the Church wanted her to bear a child capable of wielding the Sacred Flame.
• Infinity -1 Sword: The Battle-Tested weapons (which were the most powerful weapons in the original game) are very strong, but they can be outperformed by various reforged weapons. In fact, to upgrade said weapons to their strongest state, one must sacrifice a Battle-Tested weapon to reforge it.
• In the Hood: The Bestower of Fame is primarily depicted wearing a purple full-bodied cloak that hides their identity until it's revealed.
• Item Crafting: Most of the weapons and armor can be crafted via blacksmiths instead of purchased from stores like in the base game.
• Jury and Witness Tampering: In the Sovereign Assembly for determining Pardis III's guilt, both King Solon and Pardis III are witnesses and jurors to the vote. Considering how both are kings with diplomatic ties to the rest of the jurying monarchs, clear bias is established before the vote even begins. On top of that, Pardis III threatens Lord Governor Kanshas into voting for his innocence. To make things even worse, Gonska shows up disguised as King Riven and offers his own form of falsified testimony to sway the jurors' opinions. At the end of the judgment, Pardis III's tampering secures his state of innocence even though the actual vote (without any tampering) would have been four vs two in favor of Pardis III's guilt.
• Kill and Replace: Gonska presumably kills Prime Minister Raum and disguises himself as the dead man to manipulate King Riven on Pardis III's behalf. Then he does the same with King Riven himself.
• Killed Offscreen: Leopardi in the Bestower of Wealth storyline. In the time it takes the party to defeat Mandarino and Remone and follow Leopardi to his mansion, Oskha breaks into the mansion and kills him.
• Kill It with Fire:
  • What Sazantos does to a Black Scarlet assassin.
  • Herminia stays in her mansion while it's on fire and burns to death in her room full of gold since she can't leave it behind to get destroyed.
• The Kingslayer:
  • Pardis III murdered his brother who was supposed to be the new king of Edoras after their father (the previous king) died.
  • The Chosen One also brings about Pardis III's death at the end of the Master of All storyline.
  • Gonska killed King Riven to help manipulate Riven and the Council of Kings.
  • It's implied that Tatloch killed Lord Governor Kanshas and King Dudek and sent their body parts to the other rulers of Orsterra to threaten them.
• La Résistance: One forms in the town of Sufrataljah to overthrow the monarchy forcing them into slave-like conditions. Spearheading its charge is Oskha, who employs some violent methods to overthrow the leadership of the town. Tired of being treated like slaves in the middle of a desert, the people of the town seem all too eager to join.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: Sazantos combines the power of the Accurst Flame with Rondo's Sacred Flame to burn away everyone's memories of the Chosen One.
• Late-Arrival Spoiler: The collaborations with Bravely Default and Live A Live assume the player is familiar with the plots of both games and massively spoils them.
• Lazy Backup: Even if you have more than 8 travelers, if your active party dies, it's game over.
• Level-Locked Loot: Characters can only equip weapons and armor if they are at or above that equipment's level.
• Level-Up Fill-Up: Leveling up completely restores a character's HP and SP.
• Living Legend: Many of the ringbearers are living legends of their own rights in their specific fields of influence and thus inspire many tales and conversations about them.
  • Herminia is purported as the richest person in all of Orsterra and is practically the ruler of the town of Valore. She also happens to be the leader of her own mafia empire and commands great fear and respect among her subordinates. On top of that, she is heavily lusted after by many of the richest and most influential people across the land adding to her layers of fame.
  • Tytos was once a legendary soldier in the Knights Ardante whose battle prowess made him renowned as a hero across the land of Orsterra. In particular, his efforts in rebuking the invading Southern Tribesmen were so effective that the Church of the Sacred Flame awarded Tytos with the leadership position over the fledgling town of Emberglow. His remarkable methods in converting convicted criminals into soldiers under his command was also viewed as revolutionary. Furthermore, his legend only continued to grow under his leadership of Emberglow as the townspeople "praised" Tytos for his every action. Even the Church of the Sacred Flame aided in spreading these legends as they used Tytos as a prime example for other members in the Knights Ardante to emulate.
  • Auguste is a playwright whose scripts are adored and used around Orsterra. In addition to that, he's also a beloved actor that many women fall for. As he is also referred to as the "Master of Fame", it stands to reason that he is one of, if not the most popular person in all of Orsterra. Many conversations have Auguste as the center topic, especially in his hometown of Theatropolis.
• Loves Only Gold: Herminia has a particular affinity towards collecting anything made of gold no matter how impractical it is. She even has an entire room filled with her collection of various gold objects that don't happen to be displayed in her manse.
• The Mafia: Herminia's entire plotline revolves around joining the mafia and taking down her organization from the inside out.
  • In addition to Herminia being called the Godmother by her family and surrounding ones, the Chosen One joins the Bargello family (headed by the titular Bargello), who is, in turn, a subordinate group of Lord Taviani. Fittingly, Lord Taviani is directly under the command of Herminia.
• Malicious Slander:
  • After Tytos is killed, the people of Emberglow treat Tytos as the mighty hero who slew the villainous Velnorte and sacrificed his life so that everyone could live. Velnorte is then noted as the person who created the Scarlet Elixir and spread it over the town in an attempt to kill everyone. Because of this, Velnorte is misremembered as the sole villain of the events in Emberglow.
  • When Pardis kills Mahrez, he blames the crime on The Chosen One and labels them as a criminal. The people of Edoras are quick to believe this and demand for their execution even though the two were quick friends.
• The Man Behind the Man: The Bestower of stories are focused around this trope, hence the name. Each of them focus on revealing who was behind the Master of villains and how they became able to achieve results. The only one not to have a follow-up is Master of Fame. For specifics:
  • While Tytos is a formidable combatant in his own regards, he was being closely monitored on by Ceraphina the entire time since obtaining the Warrior God Rin]. This is because the Bestower of Fame gave Tytos the ring and was secretly using him to further their goal of reducing the Church of Sacred Flames' power to become a new god.
  • Empress Tatloch was secretly using Pardis III and his empire to weaken the continent of Orsterra so that she could easily invade and conquer it for her own people.
  • Oskha is the one who gave Herminia her God Ring as part of his plan to have her accumulate wealth then steal it afterwards to fund his revolution.
• Master of Illusion: Gonska and Pelagia both are experts in this field of illusionary magic. Fitting how they're also siblings.
• Meaningful Funeral: When Sonia is killed, the New Mafia throws a funeral for her atop the cliff where she and Bargello planned out their grape heists when they were children. The New Mafia also throws a funeral for Tiziano in the same location to an even bigger crowd of people when he passes away.
• Metal Slime: The cait species are rare enemies that can be fought to give much better rewards than their enemy companions. That said, they are quick to flee combat, are incredibly bulky, and rarely stay around long enough to be killed. On top of that, there are several different rarities within the Cait species with rareness being proportionate to how good the rewards are for defeating them. Fortunately, the Caits that are fought after watching advertisements or are found as Elite enemies never flee, ensuring the player can always defeat at least some that they encounter.
• Mirror Character: In the Conviction Gameboard of the Triangle Strategy collab, each of the Triangle Strategy characters (sans Serenoa) has a counterpart in the Master of All cast: Benedict notes that he'd like to receive a few tactical pointers from Solon, Frederica admires Elrica for being a princess who fought for what she believed in, and Roland relates to Richard's newfound responsibilities as king.
• Mood Whiplash:
  • The Master of Fame storyline begins with this. At first, the Chosen One happens to go to Theatropolis' theater and meets a lovestruck woman who's too nervous to deliver a love letter to Auguste. After agreeing to deliver it on her behalf, the Chosen One accidentally witnesses Auguste choking an actress to death in front of his Cult of Personality.
  • Some of the endings in the Conviction's Gameboard are tragic and depressing, but they are always followed by the fireworks and victory jingle you get from completing a board.
• Multiple Endings: The Conviction's Gameboard has six different endings, with completing the first five necessary to get the last "true" ending.
• No Name Given: The king of Riven is never given a name and is simply referred to as King Riven (granted, "Riven" is at least his last name).
• No-Nonsense Nemesis: As soon as Tytos realizes he's dealing with a fellow ringbearer he immediately invokes his transformation, as opposed to the other bearers who either ignore or attempt to manipulate the Chosen One.
• Off with His Head!: When Elrica is executed by her father, this is how she dies.
• Ominous Latin Chanting: Several ringbearer themes have this in them.
• Ominous Opera Cape: As a playwright and actor, Auguste wears one everywhere he goes.
• One-Word Vocabulary: Fra is extremely quiet and rarely ever utters anything. The few times he does speak, he really only says one thing:
  Fra: It's go time.
• Opening the Sandbox: Before the player can explore the rest of Orsterra, they must complete the first chapter of their selected Master of... storyline.
• Painful Transformation: When under the effects of the Scarlet Elixir, the ingester's body contorts into a Humanoid Abomination. Said transformation is incredibly painful and induces great agony on the transformer. This is made even worse by the fact that such a person also becomes insane when under the effects of the Scarlet Elixir and attacks anything while being semi-conscious of what they're doing.
• Parental Abandonment: Both Auguste and Francesca leave Mikhail to die of poison and effectively state that they've never truly loved him. Mikhail is partially conscious when all of this happens, so he experienced the abandonment in full force.
• Permanently Missable Content:
  • Castle Edoras is only explorable during the finale of Master of All. Should the player miss clearing out the enemies and getting all the chests/items, it is impossible to get them again. At the very least, later events allow the player to complete the quests relating to killing enemies.
  • Some NPCs can only be interacted with after Master of All but before the Bestower arcs.
• Pimped-Out Dress: Herminia purposely wears one to symbolize her presence of wealthiness.
• Posthumous Character: Helga's old master, the founder of the Rock Firm whose death and legacy play an important role in her Traveler Story, appears as an interactable NPC in Hell: Cragspear, where he is given a name and more backstory.
• Pre-Asskicking One-Liner: Eltrix gives a pretty good one before fighting the Souls Sazantos summoned in the Bestower of All prologue.
  Eltrix: They seem to be lost. Shall we show them the exit?
• Previous Player-Character Cameo: Despite this being a prequel, Primrose suddenly appears for a brief cameo in Master of All when the Chosen One and company head to Sunshade's tavern for the secret meeting.
• Psycho Serum: The Scarlet Elixir and its improved strain are this.
• Public Execution: Pardis III executes his own daughter, Princess Elrica, in front of the people of Edoras, the Chosen One, his other daughter (Princess Alaune), and a grand portion of his army, just to try and break the Chosen One and corrupt Aelfric's Ring.
• Punny Name: Marta Morrow^note more tomorrow, who has items that can be purchased every 20 hours. This is also the case with his dead twin brother, Morta Morrow.
• The Queenpin: Herminia is dubbed the Godmother and is the sole leader of her underworld syndicate. She also is so rich that she became the leader of Valore on top of her family.
• Rebel Leader:
  • Bargello is the leader of the New Mafia, a gang (later family) concerned with dismantling Herminia's reign over Valore and her network of drug selling.
  • Oskha is the de facto leader of the Sufrataljah rebellion and has great contempt for the monarchy, much like the other townspeople.
• Retraux: Like the base game, this game's graphics are heavily based on the graphics of older generations of video games (in glorified 2D-HD).
• The Reveal:
  • In the Master of Fame storyline, Schwartz reveals that he's actually Auguste and has been manipulating the Chosen One from the very beginning as an elaborate plot to kill them. While posing as Schwartz, Auguste had his most devout follower pose as himself in order to not arouse suspicion for his would-be disappearance. This works so well that the Chosen One ends up killing the follower before Schwartz even reveals himself as the real Auguste and transforms into his ring form. However, at the end, it's revealed that Auguste actually wanted The Chosen One to kill him.
  • In the Master of All plotline, three separate King Incognito moments happen in varying succession from one another. Trompeur turns out to be King Solon in disguise, El is secretly Princess Elrica, and Charles is actually Prince (later King) Richard.
  • In the Bestower of Fame plotline, the leader of the Black Scarlet is none other than Phina, whose real name is Ceraphina. Furthermore, she is a cult leader who worships Galdera and has been trying to dismantle the Church of Sacred Flame from the inside out.
• Ring of Power: Quite literally, the God Rings exemplify this trope.
• Rousing Speech: King Solon delivers one to his troops as they prepare to advance upon the invading Edoras soldiers.
• Sacred Flames:
  • The Church of the Sacred Flame has many ties to sacred fires and holy flames. Even their primary deity of worship, Aelfric the Flamebringer, is represented by a bright, blue flame. Things of worship such as Aelfric's Lanthorn and the First Flame also point towards the presence of divine fire.
  • Sazantos can cause the Sacred Flame to materialize from him or around his weapons as a testament to his faith in Aelfric and as his position of Flameguard of the God Rings. As demonstrated on a Black Scarlet assassin, this flame is deadly.
  • The God Ring the Chosen One wears glints with a strong blue flame whenever a fellow God Ring is nearby or whenever summoning another traveler.
• Sadist: Auguste regularly tortures and kills in order to gain "stimulation" for writing his plays. As a result, he's obtained a violent attraction to other's sufferings to the point where begins to critique them on how to better show their suffering.
• Save the Princess: In the Master of All storyline, The Chosen One rushes to Princess Elrica's aid when she is captured by her father and sentenced to execution. Unfortunately, the Chosen One is unable to save her and she ends up a victim of execution.
• Say My Name: Right before blowing up the G'rohan ship, Gimel screams Richard's name.
• Secret Police: The Scarlet Wings function as the primary military force of Emberglow but also have a tendency to enforce espionage tactics in order to disguise themselves among the populace. By doing so, they are able to report on anybody who seems to be discontent or resistant with how Tytos is ruling the land. These people tend to disappear or wind up dead due to the Scarlet Wings, although the populace of Emberglow seems none the wiser.
• Shout-Out:
  • Delan Poe, the poet you first meet in Theatropolis, is named in reference to Edgar Allan Poe.
  • King Solon rallies the combined force of the Altinian army and Edoran citizens by saying "Countrymen! Trusted friends! Lend me your ears!" referring to the opening lines of Mark Antony's famous speech in Julius Caesar.
  • The twin archers competing in the Ri'tu Cup are given the epithet "Fujin and Raijin," referencing the brother gods of wind and thunder from Japanese Mythology. Appropriately, they attack with wind and lightning skills.
• Siamese Twin Songs: Each of the ringbearers has an "Against..." theme and a battle theme. The "Against..." song is relatively short and perfectly loops into the ringbearer's battle theme.
• Sprite/Polygon Mix: As per the HD-2D series, this game features a variety of sprites interacting within a 3D environment.
• State Sec: The Scarlet Wings function as the military force of Emberglow, the personal guard of Tytos, and Tytos' agents to send after those who dissent against him. After Tytos is killed alongside most of the Scarlet Wings, the remnants of those remaining in the Scarlet Wings rebrand themselves as the Black Scarlet and serve a mysterious entity much to similar regard as they did to Tytos. As the Black Scarlet, they begin a string of murders against the clergy of the Church of the Sacred Flame in order to enforce the religious doctrine of their master. They also attempt to murder the Chosen One due to their knowledge of who Tytos really was, but are unable to do so.
• Storming the Castle: The final chapter of the Master of All storyline involves the Chosen One and their allies doing this to the castle of Edoras.
• Suicide Attack:
  • Jurgen attempts to carry one out against Tytos, although he's unable to take down his target.
  • Pelagia attempts one to take out Alaune and the Chosen One, only to be stopped by Lebrandt.
  • Gimel blows up one of the ships in Tatloch's fleet while he's on it to help turn the battle in favor of Orsterra.
• The Syndicate: Herminia's criminal underworld expands across the continent and is helmed in Valore where she resides. Due to her vast riches, she is able to assume control over the entire city of Valore and becomes its leader. While in charge of Valore, Herminia continues to grow her sphere of influence as she and her family become the richest people on Orsterra. Once she is killed, several key members of the family vie to be in charge of the entire syndicate by claiming how they're the new kingpins. This in turn causes the richest family members to assassinate one another to end up as the sole leader. It turns out that most of these assassinations were actually carried out by Oskha in an attempt to end Herminia's syndicate once and for all.
• Take Over the World: Both Pardis III and Empress Tatloch's end goals are this.
• Taking the Fight Outside:
  • When Cero reveals he's been sent to kill King Solon, the king requests that they take the fighting outside the tavern they're currently in. Bizarrely, Cero accepts this proposal and travels into the deserts of the Sunlands to fight with the king's entourage. Even more strangely, King Solon & his appointed guards don't make any attempts to run away or call out for help while they exit the tavern and march into the desert, but instead follow alongside the assassin sent to kill them. Albeit, this is somewhat justified in that King Solon was attempting a Scheherezade Gambit to get the Chosen One an opportunity to fight Cero whilst distracting Cero from his attention on the king. This ends up working as the Chosen One kills Cero before he's able to even attack the king as he planned to.
  • Implied; When Bargello's gang fights Rosso, the background for the fight is that of the Woodlands even though the fight is taking place indoors. When the fight is over, everyone's still indoors and no mention of ever going outside is brought up. As such, it's presumed that they went outside for the fight and somehow made their way back indoors before it finished.
• Tampering with Food and Drink: Aschim reveals in his defeat dialogue that he had the food in the Arena waiting room poisoned in an attempt to hinder his competitors.
• Theme Song Reveal: Ceraphina's battle theme actually has the same drum line and other minor similarities to Tytos' theme while being heavily distorted by the vocals of the song. Fitting considering Ceraphina gave Tytos the Warrior God Ring, monitored Tytos' works in undermining the Church of Sacred Flames, assumed leadership regarding the Scarlet Wings after Tytos died, and was a member of the Church of Sacred Flames despite pursuing ulterior motives (much like Tytos was).
• Timeskip: One year passes between the Master and Bestower storylines.
• Trading Bars for Stripes: Tytos prefers to use this method for recruiting his soldiers and subordinates. In addition to the Scarlet Wings (the personal military unit of Emberglow composed entirely of reformed criminals) Velnorte also is initially recruited onto Tytos' side through this method.
• Trauma Inn: The various inns around Orsterra can completely heal a character's HP and SP regardless of what previous crises they've faced.
• Throne Room Throwdown: Pardis III's final battle takes place in the throne room of Edoras Castle.
• Throw the Book at Them: Scholars hit enemies with tomes in combat, unlike how the class used Staves in the original game.
• Twin Banter: Interestingly averted. Mandalino and Ramone are twin slaves who had survived the longest in Leopardi's slave arena. As a result of being enslaved and fighting others to the death for so long, they are incapable of speaking or reading. Thus, no twin banter is possible between the two.
• Variable Mix:
  • The ringbearers each have multiple themes that transition into one another before battling them. The general pattern for the occurrence of these themes go: ringbearer's main theme, against ringbearer theme, and ringbearer's battle theme ^note  However, only the against ringbearer theme and their battle theme have a direct transition into one another while their main theme is played before both.
  • The ringbearer's main themes on occasion also change depending on the cutscene they're used in. If used in such a way, the audio will repeat the beginning of their song until a certain line of dialogue is displayed. Once the dialogue is displayed, the melody will progress further into the song and become more complex. In turn, the song then repeats in different sections depending on the current line of dialogue in the cutscenes.
• Video Game Cruelty Potential: You can use Path Actions to take NPCs valuables, but one instance stands out.
  Mikhail (after the Memorial Pendant is Entreated): Everything that's important to me... gets taken away.
• Villain with Good Publicity: Almost all of the ringbearers have glorious publicities due to their large amount of influence. For example, Tytos is considered a hero by the people of Emberglow, Auguste is a beloved playwright whose tales are feats of storytelling, and Oskha is the leader of the Sufrataljah rebellion whose subordinates are willing to die for their superior.
• Wake-Up Call Boss: Tytos, Auguste and Herminia's monstrous forms all qualify as being capable of curb-stomping an unprepared player who, so far, may have had ease with prior bosses. Each one has their own gimmick that can cripple an unprepared party, and each one can do a lot of damage in the meantime.
  • Tytos the Thunderblade drains the BP of those in the front row and he can inflict Terror on your party, significantly reducing your ability to use Boosts. Breaking him will remove his BP drain from the front row, but he'll still inflict Terror with some of his attacks.
  • Auguste the Prince of Thieves inflicts a death timer on characters in the front row, which will instantly kill them if it reaches zero and can only be slowed down by swapping rows. He also has a load of Status Effects he can hit your party with, and some of these effects prevent you from swapping rows (i.e. Sleep). He'll also shift his weaknesses every time he recovers from a Break. Breaking him will remove the death timer.
  • Herminia the Huntress drains the SP of those in the front row. This is particularly nasty because SP recovery is slow and, at such an early point in the game, some abilities may cost up to a third of a character's maximum SP. Breaking her will remove the SP drain from the front row, but some of her attacks will still drain SP.
• Weaponized Ball: Gonzales wields a singular iron ball attached to a chain ^note  More accurately, an iron wrecking ball. in combat. Somehow, he's risen up in the Edoras army to be considered as General Krauser's right-hand man despite his interesting choice of weaponry.
• Weapon-Based Characterization: Each of the eight jobs have a specific weapon that they equip. A traveler of a certain job cannot equip a weapon of a different job, so each job has its own unique combat device.
  • Clerics use staves.
  • Scholars use tomes.
  • Merchants use lances.
  • Warriors use swords.
  • Dancers use fans.
  • Thieves use daggers.
  • Apothecaries use axes.
  • Hunters use bows.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Pathos and Apatheia are introduced as being a part of the tribe that protected the God Rings for centuries. They also are some of the only humans capable of sealing away the God Rings and their powers. As such, one would think they would have amazing combat abilities. Of course, you'd be wrong since they die almost immediately after you meet them by being murdered by Gonska. Though they are later revealed to be alive and are eventually joined by three other members of their tribe.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: While Tytos pursues overwhelming power and not only uses drugs that make people monsters, his ultimate goal is to amass enough power to eliminate the Southern Tribes once and for all to protect Orsterra, who had previously attacked and caused a lot of chaos in the land.
• Wistful Amnesia: The Guardians of Light have the vague sense that they're forgetting someone important after Sazantos wipes their memories of the Chosen One.
• Would Hurt a Child:
  • A partygoer in Herminia's manse outright says that Herminia would do this to further her wealth.
  • Auguste asks Francesca if he can kill their child in order to gain "stimuli" for his play script. Immediately after that, he states that he was just joking, although it still terrifies both of them. Auguste does end up trying to sate his urge for "stimuli" by poisoning Mikhail and himself regardless.
    • Francesca also applies to this due to her choice of giving the antidote to said poison to Auguste instead of her child, Mikhail. This is made even worse when Mikhail begins crying out for his mother to help him and she chooses not to listen. Not even Schwartz pointing out the Logical Fallacies of her actions convince her to aid her child. Moreover, the poison inflicted on Mikhail is described as incredibly painful and can kill within minutes. Francesca does nothing upon learning this.
• Yank the Dog's Chain: After everything they went through in Master of All, Alaune, Richard, and Solon are right about to sign the long-awaited peace treaty between their nations in Bestower of Power—and then Tatloch's emissaries interrupt them with a declaration of war.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: When Tytos' butler accidentally spills his master's dinner on the floor, Tytos eventually says this as he spreads the Scarlet Elixir in his butler's face. In fact, Tytos leads the conversation by reassuring the butler that everything's fine before Tytos says that the butler was never useful in the first place.