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* NotDrawnToScale or WritersCannotDoMath: The village of Shoal is four miles away from Covenant ("[[http://myth.bungie.org/legends/journal/j1-05_flight_covenant.html Flight from Covenant]]"), and Silvermines is a hundred miles from Bagrada ("[[http://myth.bungie.org/legends/journal/j1-11_silvermines.html Silvermines]]"); but on [[ http://www.soulblighter.net/mythworldmap.htm this map]], the distance between Silvermines and Bagrada is much less than twenty-five times the distance between Shoal and Covenant.

* MapsNotDrawnToScale or WritersCannotDoMath: The village of Shoal is four miles away from Covenant ("[[http://myth.bungie.org/legends/journal/j1-05_flight_covenant.html Flight from Covenant]]"), and Silvermines is a hundred miles from Bagrada ("[[http://myth.bungie.org/legends/journal/j1-11_silvermines.html Silvermines]]"); but on [[ http://www.soulblighter.net/mythworldmap.htm this map]], the distance between Silvermines and Bagrada is much less than twenty-five times the distance between Shoal and Covenant.

* MagicKnight: All Avatara are archmages. However, as a condition for joining [[TheOrder that Order]], they are also required to display competence with the sword. This is meant to show their willingness to lead in battle, and to remind them not to neglect the mundane while studying the arcane. Some only payed lip service to this requirement, others took to it with relish, but regardless each Avatara is deadly in melee combat in addition to their ability to cast army-shattering spells.

** Several avatara also sacrifice themselves to save the lives of troops, like Sardonac's suicide mission.

Heavily inspired by the ''BlackCompany'' novels and battle scenes from ''{{Braveheart}}'', the games tell the story of an epic war between the living and TheUndead, led by the eponymous Fallen Lords. They represent one of the first attempts to create a strategy game with no base building, instead giving each side a fixed number of units per level.
What also sets this game apart from many others is it's highly realistic and revolutionary for it's time physics engine. Almost everything is potentially a projectile and everything is affected by it's surroundings. This creates a certain unpredictability on the battlefield and can lead to horrible/funny outcomes.

The series boasted of a vibrant modding community that lasted well into the next decade. This included entire, full-length fan-made campaigns with new factions. Some of these rivaled the original in quality, and a few were even included in the ''Total Codex'' re-release.

* TheAlliance: The survivors of the Cath Bruig Empire, the Dwarves of Myrgard, the Free Cities of the North, and the [[OurElvesAreBetter fir'Bolg]]. There would have been a fifth, the [[SnakePeople Skrael]], however time and budget constraints prevented this.

* EverybodysDeadDave: The Legion get completely slaughtered in the final battle in both ''The Fallen Lords'' and ''Soulblighter''.[[hottip:*:This can be averted in the second game on the lover difficulties if you charge ahead with [[OneManArmy Alric]].]] In the first game even the narrator is implied to have been killed and Alric is pretty much the SoleSurvivor only because he wasn't present for the last level.

* HerdHittingAttack: Quite a few. You've got the Dispersal Dream, The Watcher's Volcano Dream, Moagim's Vortex Dream, Alric's chain lightning attack with Balmung, the Trow iron warrior's basic hammer attack, the ghol priest's tornado attack, the myrkridia giant's exploding skulls, the dwarven mortars and the canon blasts, the dwarf smith's flamethrower, Ravanna's spining attack, the warlock's fireballs and of course Mjarin's insta-kill ginormous firewalls.

* PraetorianGuard: The Heron Guard are a collection of immortal warrior-monks who guard the Emperor of Cath Bruig with their lives. When the emperor was killed, the survivors threw down their weapons and discarded their armor, doning simple fur cloaks and pulling down several golden tiles from the imperial palace which they then wear around their neck as penance for their failure, becoming Journeymen.

** Everyone present when Ballor's head was thrown in [[BottomlessPit the Great Devoid]] died in the resulting blast, including the narrator.

* WorldHalfFull: The world of ''Myth'' is a pretty horrible place, full of bloodthirsty monsters and evil sorcerers, its known history is one huge ViciousCycle of war and slaughter, and its prehistory is, allegedly, another. But looks like this time its inhabitants managed to ScrewDestiny. [[OrIsIt Hopefully.]]

* SchmuckBait: As pointed out in the first level of the first game, Undead don't need to breath. So going near water is a very [[UnderStatement bad idea]]. In any level with water it is a safe bet that Undead are waiting to pounce on you when crossing water.

* ObviousTrap: As pointed out in the first level of the first game, Undead don't need to breath. So going near water is a very [[UnderStatement bad idea]]. In any level with water it is a safe bet that Undead are waiting to pounce on you when crossing water.

* RPGElements: Nearly non-existent in the original game, though units do improve a bit when they gain kills, but some mods have put more emphasis on this element. Particularly the "Mazzarins Demise" expansions, where your units will level up after a certain amount of kills and get significantly stronger.
* SealedEvilInACan: The myrkridia in ''Myth''. [[spoiler:Not so much in the second one.]]

A prequel, ''Myth III: The Wolf Age'' was produced by GOD games and developed by Mumbo Jumbo. It was rushed through development and released with no play testing, resulting in a game that was borderline unplayable until a much later fan-made patch fixed some bugs. Even then its overall unfinished feel, coupled with some odd design choices led to it being widely considered [[FanonDiscontinuity non-canon]] by fans.

* OurLichesAreDifferent: The shades. Magic-users who have "traded a lifetime of hording power for an unlifetime of abusing it". They move with their feet hovering a few inches above the ground, are unable to cross running water, and cast a perpetual shadow around themselves in all directions, regardless of light sources, hence their name. Each is magically quite powerful, having access to the rightly-feared Dispersal Dream. However, becoming one seems to require the assistance of another wizard to complete their transformation, and thus they tend to be loyal to a more powerful magic-user such as the Fallen Lords.

* SealedEvilInACan: The myrkridia in ''Myth''. [[spoiler:Not so much in the second one]].

** That is actually how the Great Devoid came to be. The last of the Callieach chose to blow themselves up along with the perusing force of Trow. Now that is how you [[AWorldwidePunomenon leave a mark]] on the world.

* AncientArtifact: Plenty. The Ibis Crown, Balmung, The Tain, The Total Codex, The Rod of the Callieach, the fragments of [[{{God}} the Wyrd]], which are the source of all the Dream magic in the world.
* AncientEvil: The Watcher, who is also a {{Chessmaster}}.

--> Although the hero of every age of light is different, every dark age is ushered in by the same beast - a transient divinity that seeks only conflict - The Leveler. And so Tireces returned as Moagim, to end the Age of Reason - and Connacht, the great hero of the Wind Age, returned as Balor, to lay waste to the greatest empire the world had ever known.
The Leveler was never killed. He was immobilized by sorcery, beheaded and burned at the stake in the Second Era. A thousand years later, he was drawn and quartered on the plains before Ileum, the tireless horses dragging the pieces of his lifeless body to the four corners of the world. Again in the Fourth Era, his body was destroyed by fire, his ashes mixed with salt and buried under the Mountains of Kor. Balor, Moagim and all those before them wore the Mantle of The Leveler.

-->Although the hero of every age of light is different, every dark age is ushered in by the same beast - a transient divinity that seeks only conflict - The Leveler. And so Tireces returned as Moagim, to end the Age of Reason - and Connacht, the great hero of the Wind Age, returned as Balor, to lay waste to the greatest empire the world had ever known.

-->Back when I joined up with the Legion there was a mad Journeyman who regaled anyone too tired to move away with his theory about the Edge of All - that line between the land and nothingness out beyond the kingdom of Gower, where Connacht arose. He claimed the world is double-sided and constantly spinning, like a coin tossed in the air, and the living and the dead are held to its surface by sorceries too powerful for humans to master.

* GameMod: Countless, especially after ''Myth II'' and its bundled editing tools. While most are "simply" new maps or sets of units (Civil War, Wild West, WWII and the like), a few easily rival the original game.

* ObviousTrap: As pointed out in the first level of the first game, Undead don't need to breath. So going near water is a very [[UnderStatement bad idea]].