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* OhCrap: The caravan flying the Banner of the Prince has a collective one when they crest a hill to see that [[spoiler:Grojheim, capital of the varl, has been besieged and destroyed by the dredge.]]
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* OhCrap: The caravan flying the Banner of the Prince has a collective one when they crest a hill to see that [[spoiler:Grojheim, [[spoiler:Grofheim, capital of the varl, has been besieged and destroyed by the dredge.]]
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** SceneryGorn: Various scenes of destruction, such as [[spoiler:the serpent bringing down mountains and the view of the burning ruins of Grojheim.]]
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** SceneryGorn: Various scenes of destruction, such as [[spoiler:the serpent bringing down mountains and the view of the burning ruins of Grojheim.Grofheim.]]
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* TheSiege: [[spoiler:The siege of Einhartot by the dredge. Despite you even]] [[spoiler:[[GodzillaThreshold destroying the bridge to delay the dredge]], [[AllForNothing it falls even after several days of fierce resistance by the varl.]]]]
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* TheSiege: [[spoiler:The siege of Einhartot Einhartoft by the dredge. Despite you even]] [[spoiler:[[GodzillaThreshold destroying the bridge to delay the dredge]], [[AllForNothing it falls even after several days of fierce resistance by the varl.]]]]
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* TheSiege: [[spoiler:The siege of Einhartot by the dredge. Despite you even [[GodzillaThreshhold even]] [[spoiler:[[GodzillaThreshold destroying the bridge to delay the dredge]], [[AllForNothing it falls even after several days of fierce resistance by the varl.]]]]
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* HandicappedBadass: [[spoiler:Iver, after losing an arm to Bellower.]]
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* LawOfChromaticSuperiority: Bellower, a massive red dredge that is also apparently immortal. There are also the red slag slingers, who are more powerful than their other variants.
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* OhCrap: The caravan flying the Banner of the Prince has a collective one when they crest a hill to see that [[spoiler:Grojheim, capital of the varl, has been besieged and destroyed by the dredge.]]
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* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: [[spoiler:The massive serpent that slithers around the land, and speaks to Juno later in the story.]]
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* SceneryPorn: The backdrops to the traveling montages are beautiful.
** SceneryGorn: Various scenes of destruction, such as [[spoiler:the serpent bringing down mountains and the view of the burning ruins of Grojheim.]]
* TheSiege: [[spoiler:The siege of Einhartot by the dredge. Despite you even [[GodzillaThreshhold destroying the bridge to delay the dredge]], [[AllForNothing it falls even after several days of fierce resistance by the varl.
** SceneryGorn: Various scenes of destruction, such as [[spoiler:the serpent bringing down mountains and the view of the burning ruins of Grojheim.]]
* TheSiege: [[spoiler:The siege of Einhartot by the dredge. Despite you even [[GodzillaThreshhold destroying the bridge to delay the dredge]], [[AllForNothing it falls even after several days of fierce resistance by the varl.
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* DoesNotLikeFire: Varl make their homes in the colder northern climes. When you meet Yrsa, a fire-using witch, a lot of varl are nervous around her because of her pyromancy.
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* LongLived: Varl live for hundreds of years, and nobody knows exactly what their natural lifespan is.
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* LongLived: Varl live for hundreds of years, and nobody knows exactly what their natural lifespan is.is, mostly because they're more likely to fall in battle before they die of old age.
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* GoodScarsEvilScars: Hogun and Mogun, the twins, can be distinguished because Mogun has a scar across his face. Ysir also has a scar across her face, though it isn't as pronounced as Mogun's.
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* GoodScarsEvilScars: Hogun and Mogun, the twins, can be distinguished because Mogun has a scar across his face. Ysir Yrsa also has a scar across her face, though it isn't as pronounced as Mogun's.
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* GoodScarsEvilScars: Hogun and Mogun, the twins, can be distinguished because Mogun has a scar across his face. Ysir also has a scar across her face, though it isn't as pronounced as Mogun's.
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* BadassBeard: It's a game about fantasy vikings. So, of course, a lot of them will have epic beards to go with their battle prowess.
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* TitleDrop: A "banner saga" is a story woven into a banner.
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* WizardNeedsFoodBadly: Your party needs food, or else morale will suffer and people will start dying.
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* TimedMission: Food and caravan members are finite, so, you must hurry along.
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* ShieldBash: The special ability of many of the shield-bearing units. Dredge Stoneguards have a particularly nasty area-of-effect one.
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* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: In general, units who have shields will have high Armor (blue number), and therefore excellent survivability.
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* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: In general, units who have shields will have high Armor (blue number), and therefore excellent survivability.
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* ShipTease: Rook's wife died some time ago, and Oddleif becomes a widow with no children, so naturally people start assuming things about them.
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* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Sure enough, glory in battle is important for Varl society.
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* LongLived: Varl live for hundreds of years, and nobody knows exactly what their natural lifespan is.
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* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: All of the Varl, who love battle a lot.
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* GuideDangIt: How to recruit certain characters, as well as keep many of them alive in the first place.
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: As a SRPG with multiple parties, naturally the game has a lot of characters.
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* RobotWar: The Dredge don't even seem to be organic. They also summon help by using their weapons as tuning forks.
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* AllThereInTheManual: There's tons of lore and world building on the map that you're given in the game, and characters are given backgrounds on their character pages.
* AnAxeToGrind: Rook has one as his up-close weapon, with a bow for distance. Many other characters have a one-handed version.
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* EliteMook: Any enemy Varl, and all large-sized Dredge.
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* DoomedHometown: Skogr, which is abandoned when it's attacked by the dredge.
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* FieryRedhead: Played with in the case of Alette. She refuses to StayInTheKitchen like the other girls of the village but becomes very close to breaking down when she and Rook encounter dredge in the forest near Skogr.
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* GodIsDead: All of the pantheon has died somehow (apparently from some other kind of war) and now the sun has stopped in the sky.
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* FieryRedhead: Played with in the case of Alette. She refuses to StayInTheKitchen like the other girls of the village but becomes very close to breaking down when she and Rook encounter dredge in the forest near Skogr.
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* GreatOffscreenWar: Two of them. The first was between humans and varl and ended in a stalemate at what would become the Red River, the second was apparently between varl and dredge, and resulted in the dredge being driven north.
* GrimUpNorth: Not only is the entire land grim, but north is said to be where the dredge make their homes after the second great war.
* HeroicSacrifice: It's possible for Egil to run in front of a dredge's mace, sacrificing himself to save Alette.
* GrimUpNorth: Not only is the entire land grim, but north is said to be where the dredge make their homes after the second great war.
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* SadisticChoice: You'll be given many, such as during the escape from Skogr. The dredge are attacking the caravan and things are falling apart: do you save as many supplies as you can, try and keep people together, or help the chieftain and other warriors fight off a group of dredge?
* ShieldBearingMook: Dredge Stoneguards, which carry giant tower shields in addition to their maces.
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* ActionGirl: All of the women archers, of course.
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* GiantMook: Not only any large Dredge, but also any large Varl as well.
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* GreyAndGrayMorality: There are no easy choices. Men and Varl do what they can to survive, and sometimes this appears to conflict with your own needs, but there are no 100% right answers.
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* HornedHumanoid: The Varl all have horns.
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* HornedHumanoid: The Varl all have horns.
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* {{BFS}}: Varl naturally have weapons appropriate to their size, which includes swords as long as a man is tall.
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There was also a free-to-play spinoff named ''The Banner Saga: Factions'' focused entirely on player-vs-player combat.
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''The Banner Saga'' is a series of tales set in a fantasy north, where humans struggle to co-exist with horned giants named Varl. They live in the shadow of a race of armored beings known as the Dredge, making uneasy alliance. One day, the Dredge attack again, threatening all of mortal civilization.
The gameplay is reminiscent of both ''VideoGame/TacticsOgre'' and ''VideoGame/TheOregonTrail'', with a lot of difficult moral choices thrown in.
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!!This game provides examples of:
* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The Dredge, who don't even speak. They just attack.
* EliteMook: Any enemy Varl, and all large-sized Dredge.
* GreyAndGrayMorality: There are no easy choices. Men and Varl do what they can to survive, and sometimes this appears to conflict with your own needs, but there are no easy answers.
The gameplay is reminiscent of both ''VideoGame/TacticsOgre'' and ''VideoGame/TheOregonTrail'', with a lot of difficult moral choices thrown in.
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!!This game provides examples of:
* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The Dredge, who don't even speak. They just attack.
* EliteMook: Any enemy Varl, and all large-sized Dredge.
* GreyAndGrayMorality: There are no easy choices. Men and Varl do what they can to survive, and sometimes this appears to conflict with your own needs, but there are no easy answers.
