History VideoGame / EmbricOfWulfhammersCastle

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: At one point, Duchess calls some bundles of sticks "fags" ([[SocietyMarchesOn which is what the word orignally meant, and while it can also refer to cigarettes, it is typically meant as a nasty anti-homosexual slur nowadays]]).

''[[http://www.wulfhammer.org Embric of Wulfhammer's Castle]]'' is a fantasy RolePlayingGame done with VideoGame/RPGMaker 2003. If the official website is down, it can be downloaded at the [[http://aeresland.net/ mirror]]

* SorcerousOverlord: Defied. The Duchess states at several points that a noble who learns magic fotefits their title immediately.

* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: Subverted. The Duchess is just that, a Duchess, and very few things are improved with the presence of Princess Arugula.

Primarily a comedic and heavily {{Yuri}}/ShoujoAi story (having originally been released to the /u/ board of 4chan), the object of the game is not to fight monsters with a band of heroes to save the world from some cataclysm, but to explore the stories of the people of Castle Wulfhammer. There is almost no traditional combat and the game is ''packed'' with scenes and endings, [[Characters/EmbricOfWulfhammersCastle and lots and lots of characters.]]

* SpoiledSweet: Princess Arugula. She may not be pretty, and she may be dumber than a box of remedial hammers, but The Duchess is her best friend and she'll face down an angry mob to protect her.
** The Duchess herself his a more low-key version (not that a childhood in Greyghast's castle is anyone's idea of being spoiled). She may not know how to "make chore upon a cow", but she's certainly willing to learn.

A sequel is in the works entitled "A Marquess of Notoriety" which involves the next generation.

* HotForStudent: Raine has the hots for the Duchess. The Duchess has to make it clear that [[{{Lolicon}} Grettel is hands-off!]]

* BrokenBridge: At one point; the Duchess finds a boulder in the path of the LostWoods. She's absolutely delighted at finding such a cliche and calls Alice over and [[GenreSavvy they make fun of it.]]

Primarily a comedic and heavily {{Yuri}}/ShoujoAi story (having originally been released to the /u/ board of 4chan), the object of the game is not to fight monsters with a band of heroes to save the world from some cataclysm, but to explore the stories of the people of Castle Wulfhammer. There is almost no traditional combat and the game is ''packed'' with scenes and endings, [[Characters/EmbricOfWulfhammersCastle and lots, and lots, of characters.]]

* FisherKing: Sovreign Oaks only grow leaves when a good ruler sits on the Throne. They're all dormant...

* HiddenDepths: Countess Knockersdale, of all people, [[spoiler:saves Cathrine from revealing her seer capabilities and councils her on using them in one of the final endings.]]

* LostForever: Annoyingly, some scenarios are no longer available after a certain point.

* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: [[{{Deconstruction}} Deconstructed, the dwarves are so identical that the Awesome Fellowship did not realize that their dwarf was eventually replaced by ''seven different dwarves'' playing the original one, even when they all have different hair colours and one of them isn't even a guy.]]

* ShoutOut:
** Quite a few to ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''.
** One of the insults that the elves and dark elves have for humans is [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer40k}} "Mon]][[TabletopGame/KnownSpace -Keigh."]]
** The Dwarves in this game are the [[VideoGame/DwarfFortress fortress]] type, complete with interrupt messages, incidents involving killer carp, and allusions to fey moods. On the other hand, one of them cheers "[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV Lali-ho!]]" once. He is ignored.
** Duchess' vocal warm-ups are the same as Daisy Adair's in ''Series/DeadLikeMe''.
** Examine a barrel and the Duchess will shout "Barrel!" just in the {{Atelier}} series.
** The Blue Smith notes that [[Literature/{{Discworld}} dwarf bread is very hard to cut.]]
** One of the peasants' WelcomeToCorneria lines is [[RPGWorld "Times are tough."]]
** [[spoiler:Ecinacea]]'s laugh? [[VideoGame/EarthBound GYORK GYORK GYORK]].
** Reading one of the Everbrook tombstones quotes "Carry On My Wayward Son" near-verbatim.
** Another of the Everbrook graves is for [[VideoGame/DragonQuest Erdrick]]. This in itself is a reference to similar gravestone in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyI''. The Duchess thinks it gives him too little credit.
** [[spoiler: Young Grettel]] starts training as TheStrategist by reading [[ASongOfIceAndFire A Game of Crowns]].
** Elza comments that if the Duchess dies, the game's going to become [[AtelierSeries Atelier Elza]].
** In the kitchen, Duchess and Chef have an argument over [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus woks and the silliness thereof. She is told to take her silly wok elsewhere.]]
** Duchess finds a tombstone with the legend [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings "Speak Friend and Enter" on it. She spends a minute shouting "Friend" at it.]]
** The Villiage Elder has [[WebComic/EightBitTheater brittle old-man hips.]]
** [[Disney/AliceInWonderland The God of Tardiness is a white rabbit]].

* BlackComedyRape

* BossSubtitles: Parodied with ''The Cow.''

* [[CantHoldHisLiquor Can't Hold Her Liquor]]: Duchess.

* CastFullOfGay
* ChainmailBikini: Elven Chainmail Bikinis are even better. (RPG joke. Elven Chainmail is traditionally much better than normal chainmail.)

* ChildProdigy: Grettel
* ComplacentGamingSyndrome: Discussed in the [[spoiler: D&D Ending. Duchess is played by a guy who always plays a Fighter named Embric and wanted to [[PlayingAgainstType Play Against Type]].]]

* CuteBruiser: Alice doesn't have levels in Barbarian for nothin'.
* {{Descriptiveville}}: The Duchess comes from the land of Elstwhere. Where is Esltwhere, and what is it like? Who cares? It's just somewhere away from the story.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu Early in the game, climb the cliffs and look at the castle. The Lich Vecnatrix walks up and makes conversation. If one immediately selects "Shove", the Duchess pushes him off the cliff and gains "disproportionate experience" for "defeating" him. "I have heroic exploits to talk about at parties! How thrilling!" (No, it didn't destroy him.) Other choices result in running away or getting temporarily captured.

* {{Emoticon}}: All of the guards "speak" using these... which the Duchess is somehow able to understand.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes

* FantasticRacism

** [[spoiler:A man mentions how Alice looks just like a female Embric when your traveling with her in Everbrook.]]
* FisherKing: Sovreign Oaks only grow leaves when a good ruler sits on the Throne. They're all dormant...

* GagBoobs: Countess Knockersdale. Lady Backmoore has a Gag Butt.
* GainaxEnding

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: at one point, Duchess calls some bundles of sticks "fags" ([[CultureMarchesOn which is what the word orignally meant, but is a nasty thing to say nowadays]]).

* HotForStudent: Raine.

* NinjaMaid: Or rather, barbarian maid.
* NobleDemon: The leader of the anti-paladins is this taken to almost ridiculous extremes, especially compared to the utterly amoral Awesome Fellowship
* NotIfTheyEnjoyedItRationalization: The Duchess is only temporarily miffed at Carmina; she even wrote the entire thing in her dream diary for Alice to...enjoy.
* OddJobGods: Everything has a deity associated with it.
* OnlyMostlyDead: The plot goes into quite detail what it's like in a world where anyone can get resurrected for a price. Only one person really dies permanently not including the endings; mostly due to him being a ButtMonkey and getting eaten by a spider. It's implied even then that if anyone cared; they could do a full Resurrection. As it is, you have the option of shelling out money to [[{{Reincarnation}} reincarnate him into a dog.]]
* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: [[{{Deconstruction}} Deconstructed.]]
* PamphletShelf: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] when the Duchess picks up the "Manual of Brevity" in one of the libraries.
* PragmaticVillainy: WordOfGod is that Carmina is really, really unrepentantly evil. She's also more than intelligent enough to know it's not in her best interest to push it. And she does love the Duchess.
* PunnyName: Lady Backmoore and Countess Knockersdale are named for their respective, um, assets and vast tracts of land.

* RPGsEqualCombat: Almost not at all. Physical combat opportunities aren't available for much of the game and are rather incidental, so much of the Duchess's EXP gain actually comes from her attempts to interact with and integrate into the Marque of Wulfhammer and the Awesome Fellowship (and perhaps also shoving a lich off a cliff once). What few battles there are are introduced by the message, "Negotiations have failed!" In this respect, it's rather more like a tabletop RPG than a videogame RPG - [[FridgeBrilliance which makes sense when you consider how familiar the game's creator appears to be with the latter.]]
* RoyallyScrewedUp: Duchess is ever quick to correct people when they call her a princess. She states:

* ShoutOut

* SpoiledSweet: Princess Arugula. She may not be pretty, and she may be dumber than a box of remedial hammers, but Duchess is her best friend and she'll face down an angry mob to protect her.

* TheFogOfAges: Vecnathrax is rather senile.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Most of the pairings that the duchess can end up in.

** Also [[spoiler: Tsograleeg/Ecinacea. She may never be fought, though, since she promises not to obliterate any part of the universe the Duchess will miss.]]
* VerbalTic: Wilhelm. Mmhm, quite.

* VillainShoes: Fal at Duke Thermin's party; we get to see how she perceives social events with humans. It's not flattering for either party, but it is hilarious.

* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Carmina is sealed inside a magic prison cell, kept naked, chained up, and starved to prevent her escape, and any of the Fellowship could just kill her whenever they felt like it. Considering how much EXP she's probably worth, why didn't they just do that...?
** Embric wanted to spare her, Fal wanted to kill her, and imprisonment was a forced compromise.
* YuriGenre
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** The Villiage Elder has [[WebComic/8BitTheater brittle old-man hips.]]

* TheDulcinaEffect: Lord Embric and the Duchess are to be wed despite never having met. [[GenderFlipped we play as the female party in this arrangement...]]

* TheDulcenaEffect: Lord Embric and the Duchess are to be wed despite never having met. [[GenderFlipped we play as the female party in this arrangement...]]

* FischerKingdom: Sovreign Oaks only grow leaves when a good ruler sits on the Throne. They're all dormant...

* InsurmountableWaistHighFence: [[ParodiedTrope Given a thourough lampooning]] in the forest with a small boulder that blocks the path. Duchess even calls out to [[LampshadeHanging Waysthi]], Goddess of Contrivance upon discovering it.

* OddJobsGod: Everything has a deity associated with it.