History VideoGame / QuestForGloryIV

* MoralDissonance: Parodied if the player is a Paladin with a high enough Honor score (above 310 or so). He'll refuse to smash open a cabinet containing healing potions because it's wrong to destroy other people's property. Thing is the cabinet's in a monastery formerly used by a cult worshiping an EldritchAbomination, and the narrator hints your character will happily torch the place if he gets the chance, which is [[RewardingVandalism considered a good thing by everyone once you do it.]] Capped off with a line like, "Nice consistency of belief there, eh?"

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: The Rusalka's hair is green.

* WhatTheHellHero: Punny Bones scolds the hero for being indirectly responsible for the loss of his humor, and Katrina chews him out for kidnapping Tanya and killing Toby.

** When Igor, the hunch-backed gravedigger, goes missing, the townspeople worry about him and are prepared to lay the death sentence on a captured gypsy they think is responsible. Finding Igor and saving him is the first act that gets them to start warming up to you.

* RedHerring: Conversations with Boris and Katrina make it easy to infer that Katrina is the Master's daughter, whom Boris has never met but whom the Master is quite proud of, and indeed, Katrina speaks of her parents living in the castle. [[spoiler:But Katrina is actually the Master herself; the daughter (or "the kid," as the goon guards call her) is Tanya.]]

** While arguably one of the best games in the series, ''Shadows of Darkness'' suffered from numerous bugs that would crash the game at important points. This wasn't fixed when rereleased in an anthology, even.

* AlwaysNight: The Dark Master's ultimate goal [[spoiler:in attempting to complete the summoning of the Dark One. Unfortunately for her, the "Shadows of Darkness" were figurative as well as literal, and the Hero ultimately averts this trope.]]

* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Bella had one years before the start of the game: her daughter Tanya being taken away. This worried her, so she and Yuri started to overprotect her, never letting her out of their house. Things got worse when Tanya got a mysterious doll. Her doll was confiscated and Tanya would angrily argue with her parents. Then one night, she disappeared without a trace, never to be seen ever again.

* ContinuityNod: [[spoiler:Erana's staff turns into a spear for fighters during the confrontation with Ad Avis - Fighters had to learn and master the art of spear throwing last game]].

** [[spoiler:FanDisservice: Once the Paladin defeats her murderer's Wraith. Yuck. Oh, and he has to kiss her to free her.]]

** Early in the game you have to save Igor after he falls into an open grave and the headstone falls over it and traps him. When you remove it, he crawls out of a spot at the bottom the headstone wasn't even close to covering.

The land is called Mordavia, (this time the setting is inspired by Eastern European and Russian folk myths and Gothic imagery) and it was scarred by an old conflict long ago between good and evil. Once a group of deranged cultists who worshiped an EldritchAbomination called [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast The Dark One]] attempted to summon it from its natural dimension and into the world. A group led by the paladin Pioytr and the famous sorceress Erana fought against them, and managed to interrupt the ritual. Erana disappeared in the fight, and most but not all of the cult was killed. Shortly afterward, Piotyr also vanished, which caused many to think he had abandoned the land and his responsibilities.

* UnwinnableByDesign: If you free Davy from jail but fail to rescue Igor within a reasonable timeframe, then [[RealityEnsues Igor will die of exposure]] and the Burgomeister will arrest you the next time he sees you. If you know exactly what you're doing, you can just avoid seeing the Burgomeister again for that playthrough, but it's a delayed game over for anyone not expecting it.

* ComedyAsAWeapon: The Ultimate Joke of the gnomes, while not lethal by itself, can be used to incapacitate anyone who hasn't heard it before.

* TheGhost:[[spoiler: At end ceremony of the game, Dmitri has been promoted as the new boyar by the king. The king was never seen anywhere in the game.]]

* DudeWheresMyRespect: The villagers, since they don't know you from Adam. You have to earn their respect. It certainly doesn't help that you tell them that you walked out of the cursed cave that has been the bane of their existence for three generations. A cave that has been closed for at least that long. A cave that quite literally bodes no good.

* TheGhost:[[spoiler:At end ceremony of the game, Dmitri has been promoted as the new boyar by the king. The king was never seen anywhere in the game.]]

* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Bella had one years before the start of the game: her daughter Tanya being taken away. This worried her, so she and Yuri started to overprotect her, never letting her out of their house. Things that worse when Tanya got a mysterious doll. Her doll was confiscated and Tanya would angrily argue with her parents. Then one night, she disappeared without a trace, never to be seen ever again.

* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Bella had one years before the start of the game: her daughter Tanya being was taken away. This worried her, so she and Yuri started to overprotect her, never letting her out of their house. Things that worse when Tanya got a mysterious doll. Her doll was confiscated and Tanya would angrily argue with her parents. Then one night, she disappeared without a trace, never to be seen ever again.

--> '''Gypsy''': Gypsies are not werewolves! But we ''are''... ''shapeshifters!''