History Characters / GemsOfWar

* BellyDancer: The Divine Ishbaala is dressed in revealing, red belly dancer garbs and her magic is themed after dance.

* ArcherArchetype: Carries a bow, and her special attack is called RainOfArrows.

* PirateGirl: It turns out that she is one, before being shipwrecked in Divinion Fields, or rather [[InsistentTerminology a corsair]]. She doesn't look particularly piratical now, though.
** She does appear as a boss in Little John Bronze's storyline in Blackhawk, and guides the hero through the Sunken Fleet.

* [[TownWithADarkSecret Kingdom With a Dark Secret]]: While Sword's Edge is a kingdom of righteous knights and paladins, the story of Tau reveals that apparently the Knights Coronet come from the aura created by the eldritch Shadow Dragon. The Crypt Keepers storyline also reveals that one of their kings betrayed Lady Moranna, one of their best knights, despite the fact that she saved them from Ghulvania.

* SuicideMission: [[spoiler:When you're attacked by the Knights Coronet, Brian realizes, much to his dismay, that he wasn't sent into Zaejin to prove his worth, but to get him ''killed.'' This [[{{Foreshadowing}} foreshadows]] the true, malevolent nature of the Knights Coronet.]]

* TheExile: Luther, the quest-giver for Broken Spire, is an exiled knight out to redeem himself by completing his original job.

* KillItWithFire: After seeing that the Ettins have reanimated his companions as mindless undead, he decides to [[DueToTheDead burn down the keep to destroy their desacreted spoils and honor their memory.]]

* OurDragonsAreDifferent: The boss of the island is a gigantic dragon made of stone and magma called Shekka.

* BreakTheHaughty: Her entire motivation for fighting Garuda, humiliating him, and defiling the Stryx's temple? She thinks that he's overly arrogant and that it is her duty to put an end to that. She also mentions that she'll be following the player in case he too becomes too full of himself.

* MortonsFork: You put Garuda into one to defuse the notion that he knows everything by asking him "What is the only thing Garuda won't say". The only possible answer apparently is "I don't know", which Tezca takes as a confession.

* TastesLikePurple: He can feel premonitions in the surrounding enviroment... through unusually employed senses... such as "tasting the wind" or "smelling the stones" and so on.

* UriahGambit: [[spoiler:The Knights Coronet sent Sir Brian off to Zaejin in the hopes that he would get killed off.

* CatGirl: The [[JustForPun Copycat enemy]].

* BonusBoss: Each level has a powerful boss related to it, but they're not part of the "main" storyline, which you get by completing the surface. You also must complete the Sins of Maraj to access the Underworld.

* ShoutOut: Tink's special ability summons a storm at the beginning of his turn and is called [[Film/BackToTheFuture Flux Capacitator]].

* BladeOnAStick: She wields a spear and a shield as her weapons.

* BladeOnAStick: Torben wields a primitive spear with a flint head.

* WhipItGood: Dark Master's magic allows them to strike an enemy with their whips for massive damage, summoning a Thrall if successful and increasing the attack of all allies.

* WhipItGood: Matron Velenne wields a multi-headed scourge tipped with live serpent heads.

* BareYourMidriff: Her outfit, ExposedToTheElements, bares her bellybutton.

* BareYourMidriff: The Djinn unit, as shown in the picture.

* AnAxeToGrind: Wields one which deals more damage to monsters.

* AnAxeToGrind: His weapon of choice is a massive, burning axe.

* AnAxeToGrind: His weapon, of course.

* AnAxeToGrind: Lady Moranna wields a battleaxe with a bone motif.

* HornyDevils: One of the troops from the Blighted Lands is the Succubus, who has a Kiss of Death ability which drains a target's mana and leaves it vulnerable.

* HornyDevils: Lust not only is one but can potentially transform enemies in one.

* AlmightyBystander: To the Sky Elves. As the quest goes on he clarifes he stopped trying to help the elves because they refused to listen to what he had to say..

** It's eventually revealed that the Sky Elves' issue is twofold: The danger from the demons and their own arrogance, which not only increases their vulnerability to the demon threat, but increases the chances ascencion will turn them into creatures like Yao Guai. Penglong thinks having a human (the player) defeat the corruption will give them humility needed to avoid the corruption themselves, going forward.