History VideoGame / SabresOfInfinity

-->'''Montez:'''
"Cornet, what you did this morning was a display of initiative and quick-thinking far above the call of duty. It was an action which places you among the ranks of the finest of men. Don't do it again."

* KlingonPromotion: What the Lord of Khorobirit does to [[KillEmAll essentially the entire Congress of Antar.]]

* KnowWhenToFoldEm: The Chapter 3 Estate storyline involves the barony being besieged by highwaymen. They don't appear if you are squiring Lord Renard. One can surmise that they decided to find easier prey than lands currently hosting a Duke's son with a squadron of dragoons under his command.

* SuperOCD: Sergeant Hernandes seems to be quite neurotic about rigidly following all the rules at all times, and appears to have an obsession with insignificant details, such as correcting minuscule imperfections in your men's uniforms.

* BagOfSpilling: Deconstructed. The constant stress during the war had, ironically, being a critical factor why you managed to maintain your stats at high values. Now that the country is no longer at war, it is easy for you to become idle and letting your talent wasted away. Also, the negatives of aging comes in for older character build, making the effort to regain these abilities much harder. The stats of the army you lead are also suffering during peacetime, as most of the common soldiers are retired from the service, and those who aren't are struggling to settle in their home.

* TheEmperor: Mikhail of Khorobirit has ascended from "merely" being a powerful, despotic feudal warlord in Antar to becoming its High King, [[TheMagnificent "The White King."]] He essentailly rules it as a totalitarian dictator,

* StealthBasedGameplay: You die in a handful of shots, have points knocked off your score if detected, and deal with how only the secret, unlockable character has the ability to kill guards. This becomes a necessity.

* TheEmperor: Mikhail of Khorobirit has ascended from "merely" being a powerful, despotic feudal warlord in Antar to becoming its totalitarian dictator, [[TheMagnificent "The White King."]]

* GreyAndGrayMorality: While the totalitarian government led by Khorobirit is bad, the incompetence of League of Congress is what cause Khorobirit losing his wife as well as the war. Furthermore, if the foundation of the League of Congress in canonical history can be applied here, House of Khorobirit is getting LaserGuidedKarma, while the rest of the Congress got the deserving end, since most, if not all of them, are responsible for rebelling against the [[TheGoodKing Stanislaus IV]] and purging the entire royal family.

* DarkerAndEdgier: Arguably a retroactive example. No part of the Infinite Sea lore is charming, and Lords has taken a particularly dark turn with Tierra [[spoiler: falling into civil war.]] However, Shadow Regiment focuses firmly on an alternate continuity Antar where the BigBad of Sabers and Guns has responded to losing the war by massacring his peers and instituting a totalitarian dictatorship that crushes its own people in the name of revenge, while Antari resistance engage in bombings of their own people in an attempt to fight him. [[spoiler: Tierra still has civil war in this timeline, but they are already over by the start of this game, with Royalist faction emerged victorious, and the country went into an era of industrial revolution.]]

* DarkIsNotEvil\LightIsNotGood: Alluded to. Khorobirit's new totalitarian government promises to "light the bright flame of progress", which in practice means crushing all dissent and forcing the war-ravaged nation into breakneck industrialization and militarization in order to prepare for a genocidal revenge against Tierra. In contrast, the heroic Shadow Regiment opposing him hide in the darkness and talk about how every flame has a shadow.

* TheEmperor: Mikhail of Khorobirit has ascended from "merely" being a powerful, despotic feudal warlord in Antar to becoming its totalitarian dictator.

* KlingonPromotion: What the Lord of Korobirit does to [[KillEmAll essentially the entire Congress of Antar.]]

* TheCityVsTheCountry: Aetoria City vs Your estate, in this case. Aetoria City provides you with ample opportunities to profits, gain influences, and courting nobles of highger title [[spoiler:or promoting yourself as one]], but it also provides your with ample risks of draining your fortunes and ruining your reputation. Your estate, on the other hand, are dealing with more mundane issues and helping your tenants, but such endeavor won't grant you with the windfall that Aetoria City can provide.

* LogicBomb: The Kingdom grinds to a halt due to two conflicting laws making it unclear whether [[spoiler:Queen Isobel has the powers of her position. The laws of succession are clear that she is the queen, but the laws of inheritance state that her titles and powers are to be held in trust by a higher authority until her marriage. As the queen, she has no higher authority.]]

* CrusadingWidower: This version of Mikhail Khorobirit is explicitly motivated not just by the national humiliation of losing yet another war to Tierra, but the fact that they killed his wife and nearly got his daughter.

* DarkerAndEdgier: Arguably a retroactive example. No part of the Infinite Sea lore is charming, and Lords has taken a particularly dark turn with Tierra [[spoiler: falling into civil war.]] However, Shadow Regiment focuses firmly on an alternate continuity Antar where the BigBad of Sabers and Guns has responded to losing the war by massacring his peers and instituting a totalitarian dictatorship that crushes its own people in the name of revenge, while Antari resistance engage in bombings of their own people in an attempt to fight him.
* DarkIsNotEvil\LightIsNotGood: Alluded to. Korobirit's new totalitarian government promises to "light the bright flame of progress", which in practice means crushing all dissent and forcing the war-ravaged nation into breakneck industrialization and militarization in order to prepare for a genocidal revenge against Tierra. In contrast, the heroic Shadow Regiment opposing him hide in the darkness and talk about how every flame has a shadow.
* DayOfTheJackboot: What happened in the backstory, and one of the main differences between this game's timeline and the canon one. After losing the war and fending off opportunistic former "allies", Mikhail of Korobirit takes advantage of his skills and residual popularity as the OnlySaneMan in the League of Antar to march in to the Congress while it is in session, declare himself [[EvilEmperor The White King]], and massacre any opponent brave enough to speak out.
* TheEmperor: Mikhail of Korobirit has ascended from "merely" being a powerful, despotic feudal warlord in Antar to becoming its totalitarian dictator.

* DarkIsNotEvil/LightIsNotGood: Alluded to. Korobirit's new totalitarian government promises to "light the bright flame of progress", which in practice means crushing all dissent and forcing the war-ravaged nation into breakneck industrialization and militarization in order to prepare for a genocidal revenge against Tierra. In contrast, the heroic Shadow Regiment opposing him hide in the darkness and talk about how every flame has a shadow.

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* LogicBomb: The Kingdom grinds to a halt due to two conflicting laws making it unclear whether [[spoiler:Queen Isobel has the powers of her position. The laws of succession are clear that she is the Queen, but the laws of inheritance state that her titles and powers are to be held in trust by a higher authority until her marriage. As the queen, she has no higher authority.]]

A third game, Lords of Infinity, was released on March 2, 2023.

* TimeToStepUpCommander: Once again, your protagonist is put into this position again, though intentionally done by your superior due to him being invalid.[[By the end of this game, you are essentially commanding the Dragoon Regiment rather than Duke of Cunaris, and possibly leading Queens army to drive out the Wulframite forces.]]

* TheCityVsTheCountry: Aetoria City vs Your estate, in this case. Aetoria City provides you with ample opportunities to profits, gain influences, and courting nobles of highger title[[spoiler: promoting yourself as one]], but it also provides your with ample risks of draining your fortunes and ruining your reputation. Your estate, on the other hand, are dealing with more mundane issues and helping your tenants, but such endeavor won't grant you with the windfall that Aetoria City can provide.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Lords of Infinity took another level of DarkerAndEdgier than either of the prequels. So much so that the author had to put out a content warning at the start of the game. It is no wartime brutality, but the Cortes Politics can be just as merciless and cruel, if not worse.

A third game, Lords of Infinity, is set for release on March 2, 2023.