Line #71 VideoGame/Valenth


1	[[quoteright:278:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/valenth.png]]
2	->"''Valenth is monsters and moral dilemmas and black-market dealers and shady business and tragic figures and a very, very deliberate lack of such black and white concepts as 'good' and 'evil'.''"
3	-->-'''DNA''', co-creator of Valenth
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5	''[[https://web.archive.org/web/20140118233556/http://valenth.com/ Valenth]]'' was a [[MadScientist Mad Science]], SteamPunk, and {{Fantasy}}-themed adoptables/story site. Players could adopt various creatures and level them up through several life stages, with each species having three different potential final forms. The site also had an extensive ongoing plotline, which often influences the selection of adoptable species available.
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7	The site ran from mid 2008 to early 2014, and had over 100,000 members.
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10	!!''Valenth'' provides examples of:
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12	* AllegedlyFreeGame:
13	** Cash Shop adoptables can only be obtained using real money. However, the trading system does make it possible for non-paying users to obtain them.
14	** There are now also Gold Accounts, paid account upgrades that give players additional perks.
15	* AprilFoolsDay: The Miraleupak and Kumopakalion joke species.
16	* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: Kelan Flarion.]]
17	* BewareTheNiceOnes: Lyric'ai Dreamscar. [[spoiler:''Don't'' mess with his family. '''''EVER.''''']]
18	* BodyHorror: Leupak eggs, transformation due to leupak venom, horrible monstrous mutations caused by Mirajin exposure...
19	* CallARabbitASmeerp: Gierketts (a breed of cat), Talstags (caribou)
20	* CallingTheOldManOut: Valdren does this to Kelan in Book II, starting his (Valdren's) FaceHeelTurn.
21	* ClockworkCreature: Steampunk automatons powered by magic crystal shards. They range from tiny flying voice-messengers to humanoids with ArtificialIntelligence.
22	* CrossOver: Several promotional adoptables feature species from sister site Website/{{Subeta}}. The Brass Hatchling also appeared as a [[http://www.subetahq.com/iteminfo.php?name=Brass+Whelpling Subeta item]] [[EarlyBirdCameo several months before]] its Valenth release.
23	* DreamLand: The Reverie.
24	** [[spoiler:The Fatis Mirajin is purportedly slowly turning Valenth into one.]]
25	* ElementalPowers: There are seven elements: [[BlowYouAway Air]], [[PlayingWithFire Fire]], [[MakingASplash Water]], [[DishingOutDirt Earth]], [[LifeEnergy Vitae]], [[PsychicPowers Mirajin]], and [[{{Necromancer}} Morte]][[note]]Not natural. Ever. At least according to [[UniverseCompoudium the wiki]]--Nigel would dispute that[[/note]]
26	* FaceFullOfAlienWingWong: How leupaks reproduce, usually ending in ChestBurster if the resulting baby leupak isn't removed surgically. Some hosts actually go through this ''willingly'' (abit with the surgical removal).
27	* FaceHeelTurn: Valdren Flarion, who went from a slightly uptight {{Jerkass}} to KnightTemplar.
28	* FantasticRacism: The Firestarters hate mutants and leupaks, and anything else associated with Mirajin. Some Dremish Aeneski look down upon humans and other races as inferior. The Anshe Aeneski hate ''everyone''.
29	* FreudianExcuse: Valdren Flarion seems to be rather screwed up due to his WellDoneSonGuy father and MissingMom.
30	* FunnyOctopus: The Skid, cute squid creatures which were the first official species on the entire site.
31	* GiantSpider: The Enxiryixx, massive sapient spider creatures.
32	* GottaCatchEmAll: Optional, but some users choose to do it for the sake of HundredPercentCompletion or as a SelfImposedChallenge.
33	** And for some newer members, this could quickly become ''impossible'' due to adoptable retirement.
34	* GreyAndGrayMorality: To the point that who the [[ALighterShadeOfGray Light Shade of Gray]] is really seems to depend on the viewer--if there even is one. ''Everyone'' gets the SympatheticPOV. See also page quote.
35	* HellFire[=/=]HolyHandGrenade: Flarion fire will burn almost ''anything'', destroying any and all lifeforms on the surface (barring magical intervention), and purifying any traces of Mirajin and Morte in the area, before regrowing vegetation much faster than normal. (However, it has no association with hell. Or Hel.)
36	* IHaveManyNames: Kelan Flarion, the Flamekeeper, the Bright One, the Soul [[ThePhoenix Phoenix]]; Nefirion Dreamscar, the Dreamwaker, the Lord Doctor, the Watcher...and Nef.
37	* InJoke: The Suspicious Green Treat food item. It was inspired by one user's particularly hilarious browser cache error, which replaced a normal Valenth food icon with a ''Website/DragonCave'' sprite.
38	* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Aqk.]]
39	* LastSecondWordSwap: "The son of a bitch r-- hurt my Paloma!"
40	* LizardFolk: Silisk and Slithr, and some of the more humanoid leupaks.
41	* MadScientist: Doctor Nefirian Dreamscar, and most of the Silent Rose Organization.
42	* Magitech: Miratechnology
43	* {{Mon}}
44	* MoneyForNothing: The site currency, Krüs, is earned by feeding adoptables, and it's fairly easy to amass large quantities of it. Various shop items and species that cost Krüs to adopt were introduced as a MoneySink.
45	* HorseOfADifferentColor: [[OurGryphonsAreDifferent Griffins]], [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Land-drakes]], [[BearsAreBadNews Prrbs]], Talstags [[CallARabbitASmeerp caribou]], {{Unicorn}}s, Baslisks, and [[RodentsOfUnusualSize Sand-Cavy]]
46	* {{Mutants}}: Mirajin mutates things in [[BodyHorror unpredictable]] and [[PainfulTransformation painful]] ways. Some "tainted" adoptables are visibly mutated to reflect this.
47	* NoBiologicalSex: Adoptables originally had no assigned genders. When the gender system was introduced, all pre-existing adoptables were deliberately left with the special "genderless" status. They are now very rare collectors items.
48	** Additionally, leupaks lack a physical gender (though due to influence of the other races, many identify with one), as do (obviously) the automans.
49	* OppositeSexClone: The Erosion dragons are sterile, and all individuals, including the males, are actually clones of Lady Marquise. This is [[JustifiedTrope explained as their gender being determined by temperature during egg incubation, as with some real-life reptiles]].
50	* OurMonstersAreDifferent: Lots of them.
51	** OurDemonsAreDifferent: Viadante
52	** OurDragonsAreDifferent: There are, let's see, how many kinds?
53	** OurElvesAreDifferent: They call themselves ''Aeneski''.
54	** OurFairiesAreDifferent: Both the Aeneski and the Smallfae technically are fae, though the former are [[OurElvesAreDifferent elves]]. The latter...[[FairFolk vary]].
55	** OurGargoylesRock
56	** OurVampiresAreDifferent: In addition to the aforementioned Viadante who eat souls, Valenth also has more traditional blood-drinking Vampires.
57	** OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Varworgn
58	* OurSoulsAreDifferent: ''Vitae'' life-energy. The planet has a finite amount of this, and it usually returns to the vitae reservoir upon an individual's death so that it can be recycled into new life. Mirajin mutation corrupts vitae and interferes with this process, however...
59	* PaletteSwap: The Pandaprrbs, the Pacos, the Clockwork contest prize adoptables, and the original Chicklets. Also the rare alternate colored "shiny" variant adoptables.
60	* PowerCrystal: The Fatis Mirajin, a [[PhilosophersStone Philosopher's Stone]] GoneHorriblyWrong. Small shards from it are used in [[MagiTek various alchemical, magical and technological applications]].
61	* RareCandy: The Elevelixir item.
62	* RetCon: The [[AbortedArc unfinished]] Halloween 2008 plot was later retconned out of existence.
63	** The retired Imp adoptables which were associated with it became one of the most highly sought after species on the site, until they were briefly re-released in September 2010.
64	* RodentsOfUnusualSize: Sand-Cavies, enormous guinea pigs that can serve as mounts.
65	* ShoutOut:
66	** The Cancer Heavy Armor adoptables are based on the robots of the VideoGame/MegaMan series.
67	** DOUBLE LEUPAK. What does it mean? So intense. (Also, its shiny forms are based on Website/{{Subeta}}'s "spectrum" and "blacklight" pet colors.)
68	* SteamPunk: One of the main themes of the site.
69	* TheFairFolk: Aeneski elves. The Anshe tribes in particular are quite nasty, perpetually at war with each other and violently xenophobic. Dremish Aeneski, not so much, though they do have the standard elven superiority complex.
70	** The official wiki also counts as a UniverseCompendium.
71	* UnlockableContent: Some species can only be obtained by meeting special requirements. Faction membership has several different levels of exclusive rewards.
72	* UnsettlingGenderReveal: Initial user confusion over Elliot Christoph's gender.
73	* WalkingShirtlessScene: Bastion Bloodhawk.
74	* WeirdnessMagnet: Poor Gabriel Gaunthier. He's had to deal with Lab Gremlins (not [[Film/{{Gremlins}} those ones]]), [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Shadowling Imps]], Night-Worgn, [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Varworgn]] [[spoiler:including his partner Eva Santora ''turning into one'']], and now ''dinosaurs''.

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