History Literature / KnightsOfDoom

* BladeOnAStick: Just like in ''Literature/LegendOfTheShadowWarriors'' or ''Literature/TheKeepOfTheLichLord'', a magical spear provides the game's InfinityPlusOneSword required to end the game successfully.

* {{Fireball}}: If you have a Flame Shield and through it, received Khrizat's Gift, you get a single use fireball.

* KnightlyLance: One of the possible WeaponOfChoice you can get in addition to the sword, though it's only useful for a mandatory fight on horseback on your way to Caer-Skaal.

* LimitedLoadout: You can only carry one weapon on your person, though you can store an extra weapon on your horse Firemane and swap out when you're with him.

* ArmorOfInvincibility: Your templar can choose or purchase a breastplate which stops 1 point of damage and you can also be given a magical chainmail armor by Torrin Silverblade which stops another. With these items together, only a few opponents in the book can cause any damage to you and with these there's always the option of using Luck in battle to deal with that.

* {{Anti Frustration Features}}: If you don't have the ''Banish Spirit'' skill, you will be killed at some point by the Assassin's Dagger. Fortunately, it's possible to obtain a magic potion that has the same effect (albeit with limited uses

* {{Anti Frustration Features}}: If you don't have the ''Banish Spirit'' skill, you will be killed at some point by the Assassin's Dagger. Fortunately, it's possible to obtain a magic potion that has the same effect (albeit with limited uses).

* UnwinnableByMistake: In order to win the book, you need Aelfgar. To find Aelfgar, you need to find three verses of a song. One of those verses appears in an illustration, written in runes. To decode those runes without applying cryptographic frequency analysis, you need to find a statue with an engraving. That's all very well, but you can only find the statue by failing a skill roll. Oh, and if you choose the ''Ride'' skill, that roll is an automatic pass.

* TheNecromancer: One revived from the dead, aptly named Cadaver, is summoning living dead to attack a village, though he's called "Necromage".

* UnwinnableByMistake: In order to win the book, you need Aelfgar. To find Aelfgar, you need to find three verses of a song. One of those verses appears in an illustration, written in runes. To decode those runes, you need to find a statue with an engraving. That's all very well, but you can only find the statue by failing a skill roll. Oh, and if you choose the Ride skill, that roll is an automatic pass.

* SNKBoss: Belgaroth himself is a nightmare to fight, second only to Razaak from ''Crypt of the Sorcerer'' for the title of hardest FinalBoss of the entire franchise. As soon as you enter his throne room, you need many special items and win difficult tests just to reach him alive. He has max stats with 12 in [[AC:skill]] and 17 in [[AC:stamina]], DamageReduction, deals 3 point of damage and drains your KarmaMeter when striking you, which can cause a NonStandardGameOver in which you become his slave... And when weakened enough, he runs away like the DirtyCoward he is, forcing you to survive yet another series of ordeals to fly after him when he escapes, and to successfully throw the [[InfinityPlusOneSword Infinity+1 Spear]] at him... Suffice to say it is REALLY satisfying to finally take him down.

* ThatOneBoss: The gamebook is full of many battles against unforgivingly tough foes. Most notably the [[GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere Knight of the Flame]] and the Beast Man champion, with 12 in [[AC:skill]], 12+ in [[AC:stamina]], who deal 3 points of damage instead of 2; the Chaos Champion with 12 in [[AC:skill]] and 12 in [[AC:stamina]], who cause a malus if not fought on horseback and with a spear, and can unhorse you to weaken you further; the Knights of Doom with 10 in [[AC:skill]] and 12 in [[AC:stamina]], who kill you outright if faced head on, can deal greater damage and get DamageReduction. And last but not least, Belgaroth himself, who makes them all look like jokes.

* UnwinnableByMistake: In order to win the book, you need Aelfgar. To find Aelfgar, you need to find three verses of a song. One of those verses appears in an illustration, written in runes. To decode those runes, you need to find a statue with an engraving. That's all very well, but you can only find the statue by failing a [[AC:skill]] roll. Oh, and if you choose the Ride skill, that roll is an automatic pass.

* TheDragon: The Chaos Champion is sent directly by Belgaroth to face you, he is a very powerful Chaos Knight, likely linked to the titular Knights of Doom serving as a PraetorianGuard to the BigBad, and is arguably the hardest BossFight of the gamebook after Belgaroth himself.

* GetBackHereBoss: [[spoiler: Belgaroth, after losing too much [[AC:stamina]], will sic his Raven at you and run away like a coward on his Night-Mare.]]

* HopelessBossFight: At one point, you can face the Iron Golem of the forces of Chaos besieging a town. While at first it looks manageable ([[AC:skill]] of 10 and [[AC:stamina]] of 26), you soon find out that a series of factors (heavy armor reducing damage to 1, heavy fists dealing 3 damage per hit, heavy [[AC:skill]] malus) makes this battle unwinnable or at least tediously long if you lack a certain item that you may need later in the endgame.

* RecycledScript: The overall plot, progression, encounters and settings are nearly identical to Green's previous work ''Literature/{{Spellbreaker}}'', though now with an even more linear path. They both start with the hero, in the starting location, facing a monster sent by the BigBad.