History VideoGame / Disciples

* BigBad: [[spoiler:Uther and Demon Uther]] for the [[spoiler:Legions of the Damned and Empire]] respectively, as well as [[spoiler:Niddhogg]] for the [[spoiler:Mountain Clans]] and [[spoiler:pretty much the elves]] for [[spoiler:The Undead Hordes]] and [[spoiler:vice versa]]

* ExpansionPack: Three. Two of them, Servants of the Dark and Guardians of the Light, add campaigns for half the original four races (the evil and good races respectively), some units, and some missions, while the third, Rise of the Elves, adds a fifth race ([[spoiler:[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin elves]]]])
** The first two are actually one expansion, Gallean's Return, which was released in two seperate packs at first.

* BoringButPractical: The Legion's melee line, which lacks the awesome potential of the Empire and Undead lines, but has a nice 50% daily regeneration effect on their best fighters. Also, the Legion's Counselor leader; he's nothing special, but he's the only traditional archer the Legions have got, since their Archery line consists of sturdier, but slower and large-sized Gargoyles.

* DemonicPossession: The basic front-line infantry for the [[TheLegionsOfHell Legions of the Damned]] is a human possessed by a demon.

* ElementalRockPaperScissors: Very usual in the 2nd and 3rd of the game. All 5 faction has its align element as well. In using highly advance spells, the player requires 2 to 3 elements other than the element his faction based.
** The Empire is align with the wind element or light.
** The Legion is align with the fire element.
** The Elven Alliance is alliance primary align with the earth element but can be either in fire or wind.
** The Mountain Clans is align with the water or ice element.
** And lastly the Undead Hordes is align with the Death element.
* EvilVersusEvil: Almost everywhere. The Demons and Undead regularly fight each other, the campaigns sometimes give them civil wars, and many neutral or evil factions of the "Good Races" will fight eachother of the Demons/Undead constantly.

* GiantSpider: There's one monster like this in the first and second games, and two monsters in the second.
* GrimDark: This series does a very good job of bringing the mood of a dark world. The soundtrack (and the sound effect in general) is especially ''awesome'' in this regard.

* TheHorde: Undead Hordes plus neutral factions Greenskins and Barbarians.
* InfinityPlusOneElement: Life source, due to the fact no unit in the game can have any form of immunity to it. For player-controlled units, Life source tends to come in the form of healing or buffing, but capitol guardians and super-bosses will also use it as an attacking source.

* LethalJokeCharacter: The Undead Horde's Nosferatu, who at first seems like a joke since his attack deals a mere 10 damage. Level him up enough, however, and he turns out to be a mage who can easily stand in the front row and is nearly impossible to kill, since his attacks also drain life. If only he had the overflow version like Elder Vampires...

* LightningBruiser: The Capital Guardians are universally NighInvulnerable and hit for ''hard'' damage, though they can never leave the Capital. It takes a lot of effort to kill them.

* LordBritishPostulate: With lots of LevelGrinding and serious abuse of stacked buffs, it's possible to kill the Guardian units that are left in capitals to keep them from being conquered.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: Mortis' RoaringRampageOfRevenge against Wotan for his attack on Gallean.

* TheMedic: Imperial healer units.

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Both vampires and elder vampires have very pale skin, the elder vampire also possessing glowing red eyes. Vampires can, however, be exposed to sunlight with no ill effects. They can drain life.

* NoCanonForTheWicked: Although, seeing as the ending of the Legions [[spoiler:has Bethrezen breaking free [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt and all non-demons being made into slaves or corpses]]]], you can sort of see why the sequels didn't canonize it. ''Dark Prophecy'' instead used a mixture of the Empire (which is basically the exact opposite) and Legions endings; the demons DID succeed in allowing Bethrezen to possess the imperial heir, but the Empire and Mountain Clans sealed Bethrezen in the mines where the ritual was performed. The Undead ending involves the death of the Mountain Clans High King, and is completely canon; the event is even mentioned halfway through the Mountain Clan campaign and causes major issues for them even ten years later.

* AggressiveNegotiations: In the Rise of the Elves expansion, this has a tendency to happen whenever [[spoiler:the elves and humans try to sit across the table from eachother and make peace]].
* BadassGrandpa: The higher-form human and dwarf units tend to be old men. It does nothing to stop them from being several times more powerful than their younger forms.

* NoCanonForTheWicked: Although, seeing as the ending of the Legions [[spoiler:has Bethrezen breaking free [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt and all non-demons being made into slaves or corpses]]]], you can sort of see why the sequels didn't canonize it.

* GameBreakingBug: Even despite being released six months later outside Russia, it came with some nasty bugs, including one that would have you spontaneously start playing the bad guys in ''singleplayer.''
* LavaAddsAwesome: Seems to be the entire design philosophy behind the reworked Demons, the omnious latin and gothic feel having been entirely replaced with lava effects and spikes.

* GameBreakingBug: Even despite six months later outside Russia, it came with some nasty bugs, including one that would have you spontaneously start playing the bad guys in ''singleplayer.''

* GameBreaker: The Death unit, which is immune to physical damage yet boasts high damage and archer-speed, almost ensuring an enemy mage will never live long enough to kill them. They were nerfed for the expansion, dropping their speed down to mage-level.

* MagnificentBastard: Arguably, [[spoiler: Uther]].

Disciples III: Renaissance was developed by an altogether different company than the original and released almost a decade after its predecessor. It increased the number of RPGElements, changed the battle system to a hex-based grid [[GeoEffects where some tiles can't be passed through and others convey bonuses]], and whether it's good or not divides the fanbase. There was a campaign for the three races featured that made it into the game; the Empire, the Damned, and the Elves. The campaign centers around Inoel, an angel sent on an important mission by the Highfather. An expansion pack bringing back the Undead called "Resurrection" was recently released. Another release was announce called "Rebirth" which said to combine both the Renaissance and the Resurrection into one package, aside with the return of the Mountain Clans.

* JerkassWoobie: Bethrezen, really. He was imprisoned for something that was entirely not his fault.
** Mortis as well; sacrifices herself to try and save her lover's remains, [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge ploughs her way through practically every other race in the world to take her revenge]], [[SerialEscalation fights a second world war in order to bring him back]], and when she finally succeeds, he decides he doesn't like what she's become and ''rejects her'' (causing her to go on ''another'' RoaringRampageOfRevenge, this time against the elves).

* BaseBreaker: Veterans of first and second part became angry when the third part appeared, what with all the similarities to a [[HeroesOfMightAndMagic certain rivaling game...]]

** Mortis as well; sacrifices herself to try and save her lover's remains, [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge plows her way through practically every other race in the world to take her revenge]], [[SerialEscalation fights a second world war in order to bring him back]], and when she finally succeeds, he decides he doesn't like what she's become and ''rejects her.''

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: In the final mission of the Empire's campaign in the ''Gallean's Return'' expansion, the demon Nebiros taunts the heroes by claiming that as long as Bethrezen's Well is standing, the Infernal Plague will ravage the land. The heroes then exclaim that destroying the Well is the key to saving the world. Nebiros has a moment of VisibleSilence when he [[OhCrap realizes]] that he just told the heroes what they needed to do to stop the evil plan.

* JackOfAllStats: The Empire, which is the most straight-forward race. They possess the strongest melee line, a solid archery line and an average mage line, but most of all have Healers. The Elven Alliance arguably also qualify, but switch the melee and archery line around in terms of strength.

* BaseBreaker: Arguable, but, to put it lightly, veterans of first and second part were [[{{Understatement}} displeased]] when the third part appeared, what with all the similarities to a [[HeroesOfMightAndMagic certain rivaling game...]]

* EverythingsCoolerWithLava: Seems to be the entire design philosophy behind the reworked Demons, the omnious latin and gothic feel having been entirely replaced with lava effects and spikes.

Disciples III: Renaissance was developed by an altogether different company than the original and released almost a decade after its predecessor. It increased the number of RPGElements, changed the battle system to a hex-based grid [[GeoEffects where some tiles can't be passed through and others convey bonuses]], and whether it's good or not divides the fanbase. There was a campaign for the three races featured that made it into the game; the Empire, the Damned, and the Elves. The campaign centers around Inoel, an angel sent on an important mission by the Highfather. An expansion pack bringing back the Undead called "Resurrection" was recently released.

* NightmareFace: High-level demons qualify. Also, the Wight. Oh, [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel the Wight...]]