History VideoGame / Drakan

* ShoutOut: There's a pure black sword called Mournbringer in the first game, which howls with distant screams of many, and it gives you health back every time you hurt something with it. [[TheElricSaga Stormbringer + Mournblade = Mournbringer?]] Man, I love that weapon. It also exists in ''The Ancients' Gates'' [[spoiler:though if you miss picking up even one of the Swords of the Order of the Flame, Brekk will not have it in stock]]. There's also [[AnneRice Lestat's Blade]] if you know where to look.

* Bareyourmidriff: Rynn's outfit does that, really well as a matter of fact.

* SharedLifeMeter: The PlayerCharacter Rynn and her Bound dragon Arokh share a single life meter, though this seems to only work one way (if Arokh dies, so does Rynn, but if Rynn dies, Arokh seems to survive). This is justified in-story by the nature of their Bond, which magically links the lives of the dragon and his rider, and [[spoiler:Arokh has already survived the death of his previous rider in the backstory]].

* BridgeLogic: In Arokh's "tomb".
** Later in the Spider-infested mines as well.
* CantLiveWithoutYou: Once the Bond is established, if the dragon dies so does the rider, but not vice-versa. In fact, Arokh has already outlived at least one rider (Heron).
** To clarify, if the rider dies, the dragon turns to stone (Arokh escaped that fate with Heron's death because the latter was in a dimensional rift when he died, but then later Arokh went to stone-sleep voluntarily after Heron's burial), whereas if the dragon dies, the rider becomes a Soul Shadow who [[AFateWorseThanDeath wanders for eternity]]. Both cases can be remedied by finding the dragon's [[MacGuffin Soul Crystal]].
*** The second game seems to show this as "if one dies, so does the other".

* DeadpanSnarker: Both Rynn and Arokh takes turns at this, although Arokh is probably more so.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: During the final boss in the second game:
** [[spoiler:After Jasaad is knocked off the hand of the Pain Golem (his main weapon) by Rynn and Arokh's attacks, he is too weak to get away on time when he hits the ground, and it falls on him, crushing him.]]

* InstantExpert: Rynn is immediately proficient with all weapons she finds, from daggers, through maces, to [[{{BFS}} claymores]].

* InvisibleWall: The second game, although one is technically visible . . . even though it's supposed to be over after a certain point. [[spoiler:The storms over the Andrellian Isles.]]

* OnlyAFleshWound: Some enemies... really take their time to die.
** Though this does not stop you from, say, hacking an arm off an enemy in the first game, which causes them to bleed to death even if you do nothing else.

* TheDragon: ...[[CaptainObvious But not in a literal sense]]. In the second game:
** [[spoiler:Zola Dane, Myschala's royal seer, is revealed to be one for the BigBad Jasaad Duthane.]]

* BreathWeapon: Arokh starts off with the classic fire breathing and goes on to acquire ice breathing, acid breathing, lightning breathing, and so on, and so on.
** Incidentally. The strongest breath weapon in the first game? Short-range fire, alternate mode for the very first attack. It can literally fry any dragon boss without needing recharge. But be prepared to get some hits. Notable for defeating the ice dragon within 5 seconds of the start of the boss battle.

* LegendaryWeapon: The Runeblade from ''Drakan: Order of the Flame]]'' belonged to Heron, the last great dragonrider, and is also the [[InfinityPlusOneSword best weapon in the game]].

* LegendaryWeapon: The Runeblade from ''Drakan: Order of the Flame]]'' belonged to Heron, the last great dragonrider and is also the [[InfinityPlusOneSword best weapon in the game]].

* AnticlimaxBoss: In the second game, we have the second battle with [[spoiler:[[TheDragon Zola Dane]]]]. It's relatively late in the game, and you'd probably expect a pretty hard boss by now, but no. He actually turns out to be pretty weak compared to most of the other bosses in the game.

* WhatTheHellPlayer: If you hit Arokh in the second game with one of your weapons, he'll fly into the air and yell, "watch where you stick that!"

* PointOfNoReturn: In the second game- Depending on who you are, the flavour of P.O.N.R. in this game can be either merciful or tough. After the first battle with [[spoiler: [[TheDragon Zola Dane]]]], Lady Myschala advises you to be sure you have everything you need before heading into the Desert, implying that there is a P.O.N.R. ahead. However, if you also speak to Dehrimon afterwards, like she suggested as well, he will further imply that the Desert is the P.O.N.R. He will also tell you that you should avoid Stratos, the land of the Desert Lords. HOWEVER, once you hit the Desert, there is another Gate that you open that allows you to travel back to Surdana. As it turns out, the actual P.O.N.R. comes right after the second battle with [[spoiler: [[AnticlimaxBoss Zola Dane]]]]. After the battle, you let Arokh into the cave by opening a nearby entrance. This triggers the cutscene where Rynn and Arokh head into Stratos. At this point, there really is no going back.

* AnticlimaxBoss: In the second game, we have the battle with [[spoiler:[[TheDragon Zola Dane]]]]. It's relatively late in the game, and you'd probably expect a pretty hard boss by now, but no. He actually turns out to be pretty weak compared to most of the other bosses in the game.

* BottomlessPits: Lots of them.
** The second game generally replaces these with mile-high drops.

* ShoutOut: There's a pure black sword called Mournbringer in the first game, which howls with distant screams of many, and it gives you health back every time you hurt something with it. [[TheElricSaga Stormbringer + Mournblade = Mournbringer?]] Man, I love that weapon.
** There is a way to get a weapon with the same name in the second game, [[spoiler:though if you miss picking up even one of the Swords of the Order of the Flame, Brekk will not have it in stock]]. Oh, and there are a few more vampiric blades as well . . . if you know where to look.

* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: The original game is ''very'' gory, with things like dismemberment, decapitation, and reducing the humanoid monsters into halves being very common.
** In the second game you can slaughter chickens or other animals with Rynn's weapons, magic, or of course Arokh's breath. Though there is one character who deserves to have her livestock slaughtered. '''Hint''': she's in the first town.

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[[caption-width:500:Meet Rynn and Arokh]]

* HotChickWithASword: Rynn, especially at the later stages where {{BFS}}s become the only effective means to advance the plot.

** Zeggoro: The Half-Men are wretched creatures, and I like them less with each century.

* BigBad: Navaros in the first game, Jassad in the second.

* [=~Can't Live Without You~=]: Once the Bond is established, if the dragon dies so does the rider, but not vice-versa. In fact, Arokh has already outlived at least one rider (Heron).

* KaizoTrap: Stand too close when landing the finishing blow against a giant opponent and you will die from its corpse falling on top of you. Ouch.

* TheTimeOfMyths: Back when the original Order of the Flame existed.