Dragon Fable

DragonFable is a single-player RPG taking place in the fantastic world of Lore. The player has to fight to protect the world from the forces of evil and solve the strangely confused prophecy of the White and Black Dragon Boxes. He/she battles the strangest creatures ever to spawn in Lore, including Sneevils, Chickencows and the dreaded Sepulchure, a Fallen Hero corrupted by The Virus!

It also chronicles the life of a noob knight called Ash Dragonblade as he journeys to save his Damsel in Distress (because we all know Everythings Better With Princesses).

See also Adventure Quest, to which it is a Prequel, and the other games by Artix Entertainment: Mechquest, Adventure Quest Worlds, Warp Force, Epic Duel and Hero Smash.

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This RPG provides examples of:
"Your character: Well, I suppose this is the best time to tell you. Galanoth... I am a dragonlord!
 * Absurdly Spacious Sewer: Ravenloss has one. Giant skeletons float in its water.
 * Abusive Parents:.
 * Action Girl: Female player characters are this by default.
 * Actually Four Mooks: This happens all the time, mostly with Bandits.
 * Aerith and Bob: All over the place.
 * Affectionate Parody: Just as with AdventureQuest, the staff like these. But, being themselves, they once felt obliged to lampshade/parody the fact that they were doing a parody.
 * All Animals Are Dogs: Parodied by this Hand Wave from the end of the Dragesvard quest chain:

Galanoth: WHAT?! YOU?! WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN?!

Your character: How could you NOT have noticed? Didn't you see my pet dragon fighting beside us?

Galanoth: I thought it was a horribly deformed dog or something! I thought it might hurt your feelings if I said "man, what happened to that dog?!""

"Lim: SCIENCE!"
 * All Powerful Bystander: Warlic, and to a lesser extent, Nythera. They cannot aid too much without unleashing their full power... which is difficult to control. Even when they succeed at controlling it, it upsets the very balance of Lore.
 * All There in the Manual: The design notes, which are updated almost every week and are full of stuff you'd never know about if you didn't read them, as well as previews for upcoming quests and wars.
 * Allegedly Free Game: Sure the game's free. Unless you want to do anything useful with your dragon, go on Titan missions, have the other half of your class skills, equip any of the purple (read: decent) weapons you find, purchase anything requiring Dragon Coins, enter half the dungeons, have your character not be stuck with only class armor and a default weapon in the PvP option... this can go on quite a while.
 * Alternate Continuity: DragonFable appears to be in a different timeline from AdventureQuest, since in DragonFable the Great Fire War started before Battleon was founded.
 * Animal Motifs:
 * The Chickencow Lord has the motif of a Chickencow.
 * Fae's motif is a cat.
 * Galanoth, Frostscythe, the DragonLords and Sepulchure have a dragon motif.
 * Animesque
 * Annoying Arrows: Can be part of your attire.
 * Anti Villain: The Necromantress (a.k.a. ) seeks to . The Necropolis Arc's main villain, Noxus, had other plans for her as.
 * Arm Cannon: This is the Technomancer default attack.
 * Arson Murder and Jaywalking: The travelling button to Lady Celestia states that "she is an expert on dragons, dragon magic, and tea."
 * Artifact of Doom: The Doom weapons, of course.
 * As Himself: George Lowe in Falconreach Idle.
 * Ascended Fanboy:
 * Nythera's main goal is to replace Warlic as his assistant.
 * A lot of the game's staff are ascended AdventureQuest fans.
 * The Great Cysero Rebellion. That is all.
 * Aside Comment: You can't even keep track of how often this happens.
 * Audience Shift: It seems to do this a lot. While most of the game is cheery and meant for the younger audiences, the orb sagas are more mature and serious. And then there's Chapter 1's climactic war where . And that's just the beginning of said war!
 * Author Avatar: As with AdventureQuest, most of the major NPCs are based on staff members. This includes Artix, Cysero, Alina, Reens, Galanoth, Warlic, Nythera, Zhoom, and Rolith, just for starters.
 * Ax Crazy:
 * Xan. Well, fire-crazy, really.
 * Artix becomes this when he gets anywhere near the undead.
 * Bacon Addiction: Bacon has its own element.
 * Badass Adorable: Lots and lots. Baby dragons and the Doomkitten, for example.
 * Badass Longcoat: Tomix wears one. He weaved it himself using his headmaster's spirtlooms.
 * Badbutt: Trey Surehunter. Justified in that he's a Captain Ersatz of Indiana Jones.
 * Bag of Holding: The Hero's backpack.
 * Bandit Mook: Whenever you exited a wave in one of the Lucky Week Wars, the Sneevils would steal some of your Gold.
 * Bare Your Midriff: Valencia does this nicely.
 * Batman Can Breathe in Space: Subverted; The Hero is concerned about how he/she'll breathe when facing a battle in space. The Gnomes then give him/her a re-breathealator.
 * Bavarian Fire Drill: The Hero nearly pulls this off in the Necropolis arc, by combining Zorbak's Student ID (which has expired... and says he's expelled... and has a picture of a moglin on it) with A Wizard Did It. Only reason why it didn't work is because Artix couldn't keep it together for five minutes without slaying some undead.
 * Beam Spam: The Technomancer's Bow and the Soul Weaver's Banishment skills.
 * The Bechdel Test: Whether the game passes depends on whether your character is female, since most conversations are between The Hero and an NPC.
 * Beehive Barrier: The Soul Weaver's defend skill takes the form of a shield and this.
 * Better Than a Bare Bulb
 * BFG: The Pirate Armor pulls one out in one of its skills. Lampshaded by the skill description.
 * BFS: So many of these.
 * Big Bad: Sepulchure..
 * Big No:
 * Drakath lets one out while being carried away by the Wind Orb.
 * The Hero.
 * The Hero again when.
 * Sepulchure as well.
 * Big What: Artix and Zhoom when they find out they didn't have to cram into the phone booth to travel.
 * Bilingual Bonus:
 * Some items -- like the Belts in the Time-Travel shop -- have Latin names.
 * "Dragesvard" is Danish for Dragonblade.
 * Bishonen: Well... yeah. But especially Zhoom (that's him on the left). And Warlic who looks quite different from his Adventure Quest version. And then there's Tomix. Enough said.
 * Bishonen Line:.
 * Black Cloak
 * Blob Monster: Lots and lots of them.
 * A Boy and His X: A hero and his/her dragon.
 * Brainwashed and Crazy:, by Drakonnan.
 * Breaking the Fourth Wall: Like Aside Comment, there are countless examples of this.
 * Bribing Your Way to Victory: Although a lot of the game is free, you need to pay a one-time fee to get full access to all the best equipment and quite a few quests. The "Dragon Coin" items in Cysero's shop also qualify.
 * Brick Joke: You know how during the pirate quest chain, The Hero blows up a ship full of water-breathing potions? Yeah, they make passing references to that throughout the game. And in Adventure Quest as well.
 * Brought Down to Normal:.
 * Brown Bag Mask: Can be part of your attire. Galanoth also dons one when the guard took his helmet in the quest "Not So Great Escape".
 * Bunny Ears Lawyer: Cysero. A good smith, but very weird. He's not called the Mad Weaponsmith for nothing.
 * The Cameo: Artix pops up at the end of the first Hero's Heart Day quest from 2011. Lampshaded in the ending blurb.
 * Captain Ersatz:
 * Kathool Atchoo is a Captain Ersatz of Cthulhu.
 * Lust looks somewhat similar to the character of the same name from Fullmetal Alchemist. Word of God says she's not supposed to be a Captain Ersatz, though.
 * Trey Surehunter is a Captain Ersatz of Indiana Jones.
 * A few of the shopkeepers in the Shadow of the Wind Village; Ayane is a Captain Ersatz of Ayane from Dead or Alive, and Snake Ears is a Captain Ersatz of Snake Eyes from G.I. Joe. Ayane even mentions Dead or Alive in one of her dialogues.
 * Sir Stephan is a Captain Ersatz of Stephen Colbert.
 * The Zard Hunter is a Captain Ersatz of Steve Irwin.
 * Catgirl: Fae.
 * Catch Phrase: Lim's is rather simplistic, yet tells you pretty much everything you need to know about him.

"You: The point is, [Cysero] doesn't think the way you do. Try to predict what he'll do and you'll be in for a surprise."
 * Cave Behind the Falls
 * Cerebus Rollercoaster: Compare the orb sagas and the Chapter 1 finale to almost everything that isn't part of the main storyline. The Ravenloss saga is also fairly dark.
 * Character Development: Nythera's second quest chain is basically about her becoming less of a Jerkass while learning to be more responsible with her powers..
 * Chekhov's Gun:.
 * Chekhov's Gunman:
 * The Necromantress appeared considerably before she had any impact on the plot.
 * Chess With Death: Ash takes Death on with Tic-Tac-Toe.
 * The Chew Toy: Twilly -- literally, since the first thing your newly hatched  dragon does is to try and eat him.
 * Chronic Hero Syndrome: Pretty much par for the course.
 * Circling Birdies: The Hero gets circling stars in "Pachelbel's Cannon" after he/she lands in Sepulchure's castle after getting shot out of the eponymous cannon. It's combined with Non Sequitor Thud, below.
 * Cloudcuckoolander: Cysero. He tends to say the absolute silliest things and makes really weird inventions. He also wanted to destroy a force field with a sponge soaked in nitroglycerin. In one quest, The Hero winds up saying something along the lines of "Perhaps an infarction in the green color matrix"? (in response to why the ground was losing its color). Robina immediately replied "Have you been talking to Cysero?"
 * In The Clashening, the PC briefly discusses this with Lim.
 * In The Clashening, the PC briefly discusses this with Lim.

"Dragon: I really should just eat this adventurer, it will save me a lot of trouble in 30 levels or so."
 * Colony Drop: "Sire, your fortress is going to crash!" "Then let it crash."
 * Continuity Cavalcade: There's a quest in which you can get into Zorbak's attic, which includes all the items he has owned during the game.
 * Continuity Nod: Many of them, usually in regard to Mechquest and Adventure Quest.
 * Cosmetic Award: The Souvenir Tee, a rare drop from the second Boss Fight of the Friday the 13th War of 2011.
 * Creepy Child: Sally and Thursday. In Thursday's case it's justified, seeing as she is.
 * Cute Kitten: Subverted by the aptly named Doomkitten. Sure, it looks cute, but if you don't have a good water weapon you're screwed.
 * Cute Witch: The Cauldron Sisters from Mogloween (most especially Bubble... the human Bubble). The Art Shift in year 5 was an exception.
 * Cuteness Proximity:
 * At the end of the Dragongrasp quest chain  gushes over   even after it.
 * You need reminders from Warlic to get a hold of yourself when facing the incredibly cute Doomkitten.
 * In Mogloween year 6, Andy causes this towards two girls he meets, who want to kiss him..
 * Dark Is Not Evil:
 * At the end of the Dragon Egg quest chain, The Hero ends up with the Dragon of Chaos destined to destroy the world, while the Big Bad ends up with the Dragon of Order destined to save it..
 * There is also The Race of Dark Humanoids with horns.
 * Darker and Edgier: The Chapter 1 finale.
 * Day of the Week Name: Thursday and, Lord Frydae XIII. Also, the host of the Amityvale meeting is named Wednesday.
 * Dismantled MacGuffin: All the elemental Orbs in Chapter 1 combine into  which is absorbed by
 * Dem Bones: Lots of undead mooks... and, of course, the dracolich babies.
 * Fluffy!
 * Depraved Dentist: Dr. Voltabolt, who is also a Mad Scientist. An Informed Ability of sorts, since he claims to be a dentist but is never actually seen doing anything related to dentistry.
 * Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu:
 * Sepulchure isn't really an Eldritch Abomination so much as a Villainous God Mode Sue, but seeing definitely evokes this trope.
 * You can kill the three headed hydra near the beginning with a dagger.
 * In the Chapter 1 finale.
 * Disney Death:.
 * The Dog Bites Back:.
 * Doomy Dooms of Doom: The DOOM blades, the DOOM axe, and the DOOM staff. The Mysterious Stranger tries to sell them to you... for a price (namely, 28000 gold). The creators are obviously aware of the trope, since the description of one of these is simply "DOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMM!!!" and another is "So much DOOM it hurts!"
 * The Necrotic Sword of Doom.
 * Dragon Rider: Those who own a Dragon Amulet, which allows customisation.
 * Dungeon Crawl: There are a couple of hundred-room-plus megadungeons, just for the hell of it.
 * Eldritch Abomination:
 * The Cthulhu Captain Ersatz "Kathool Atchoo".
 * The Yaga Sisters were trying to summon one, and while they did get a monster that would destroy the world, it turned out to be an Affably Evil, Punch Clock Villain, sheepdog-haired critter named Guffer.
 * Elegant Gothic Lolita: Thursday and Nythera.
 * Elemental Powers: They added several more: Metal, Nature, Wood, Silver, Bacon, Disease, Poison, Evil, and Good.
 * Eleventh Hour Superpower: In the Final Battle of Chapter 1.
 * Enemy Mine:
 * Zorbak is on your side almost as often as not, in part because he's generally a Harmless Villain.
 * The Hero forms an alliance with.
 * Even Evil Has Standards: After Sepulchure turns Fluffy into a Dracolich Drakath pulls his Sword and shows Anger on what Sepulchure did and says "M... Master? What have you done?!"
 * Everythings Better With Bob: Bob the Sneevil from "Resident Sneevil: Outbreak".
 * Everythings Better With Penguins: Linus, the adorable king of the Killguins.
 * Everythings Better With Plushies: The Plushie Cabinet, and also an entire War with Plushies as enemies during Frostval 2010.
 * Everythings Better With Rainbows: The Lucky Week War had a rainbow as a central plot device.
 * Everythings Worse With Bears: Subverted with the Ursice Savages, which you befriend. Played straight with the bear that Zorbak sets on you on your way to Falconreach.
 * Evil Counterpart:
 * Sepulchure and Fluffy to The Hero and His/Her Dragon.
 * Xan to Warlic.
 * Evil Laugh:
 * Captain Davey indulges in this.
 * Xan is constantly laughing.
 * The Doom Weapons laugh evilly whenever their special is activated. Bizarrely enough, so do their purified counterparts, the Destiny Weapons.
 * Evil Weapon: The Doom Weapons. Including Sepulchre's Necrotic Blade of Doom, which is.
 * Exact Words: The Hero's Dragon is destined to destroy a planet..
 * Eyes of Gold:.
 * Failure to Save Murder: Konnan has a deep personal grudge against.
 * Fantastic Voyage: You need to retrieve some Trobbles a whale swallowed for Captain Rhubarb.
 * Fantasy Kitchen Sink
 * Fauxtivational Poster: There have been two forum contests to design these, and the Mayor of Falconreach has one in his office.
 * Fighter Mage Thief: Your default classes.
 * Filk Song: "Warcry of the Paladin" by theoutcrowd, which is all about the Necropolis chain.
 * Fishing Minigame
 * Fishing for Sole: In the Fishing Minigame. Your character also pulls out a boot during the Rummage Fail (see below).
 * Fixed Floor Fighting
 * Flash Step: The Soul Weaver has an abundance of skills involving this, being the fastest class in the game hands down. The Chronomancer also does this when using Blink.
 * Flash Back: Artix, Nythera and Vilmor have flashbacks as part of their quest chains.
 * Floating Continent: Popsprocket, Aeris Battle-Spire, and Dragonsgrasp.
 * Fluffy Tamer: Aria. In the quest where you have to rescue her from a cave full of Big Creepy Crawlies, the Boss Fight is a Giant Spider that she wants to keep as a pet.
 * Fluffy the Terrible: Sepulchure's Dracolich, which he names "Fluffy".
 * Flunky Boss: Most of them.
 * For Science: Lim (and Cysero, in a Mad Scientist Magitek sort of way).
 * Foregone Conclusion:
 * For those familiar with Adventure Quest, it was blindingly obvious that Konnan would eventually become Drakonnan.
 * And playing Alexander's Diary, which takes place in the past of Lore. Even without Word of God, it became obvious when the supporting cast showed up that.
 * Freudian Excuse:.
 * Frothy Mugs of Water: Lampshaded hilariously.
 * Gadgeteer Genius: The gnomes. All of them.
 * Gameplay and Story Integration: The last fights in the Dragongrasp questline are both Anti-Climax Bosses. The ease of the first fight  compared to most Titan fights   illustrates that  . The second fight is also pretty easy   since it's meant to show.
 * Gender Blender Name: Thomas, the female spider Aria was training.
 * Genre Savvy: The Hero and the NPCs certainly have their moments.
 * Genre Savvy: The Hero and the NPCs certainly have their moments.

""Your backpack inventories are VERY spacious. Your pets are not at all crowded due to the compartmentalized nature of the backpack. A space for weapons, a drawer for trinkets, and a large fenced-in grassy area in the side pocket for your pets to frolic in. Gotta love Hammerspace!""
 * Getting Crap Past the Radar: A humanoid shark warns his comrade that "Humans have natural means of defense! Stay away from the warm spots in the water!"
 * They also got past a attempted suicide in the "Dying Light" quest. Even the name is a reference!
 * Giant Spider: Thomas and other spiders.
 * Good Cop Bad Cop: Ash and The Hero in the "Dying Light" quest.
 * Gotta Catch Em All: Part of the plan to resist Sepulchure is to collect all the elemental orbs before he can.
 * Gratuitous Foreign Language: Danish, of all things.
 * Gratuitous French: The Verteroche villagers.
 * Gratuitous German: Cysero says "Tchuss" in "Cyseredux".
 * Gratuitous Japanese: The Nekonomicon, anyone?
 * Green Eyed Monster:.
 * Half Human Hybrid:
 * Nythera is half dragon (Hot Skitty On Wailord Action seems to have been averted, since her mother can turn into a more human-ish form).
 * Zhoom is half sand-elf, and has pointy ears.
 * Half the Man He Used To Be: Dave gets sliced in half vertically by Sepulchure.
 * Hammerspace: The Hero's backpack. Lampshaded in the design notes :
 * Half the Man He Used To Be: Dave gets sliced in half vertically by Sepulchure.
 * Hammerspace: The Hero's backpack. Lampshaded in the design notes :

"Xan: No, that is too boring. I need to kill him... creatively. Like, with fire. A LOT of fire. HAHAHAHAHA!"
 * Also mentioned by your character during a quest. You are trying to help someone escape, so you offer to carry him in your backpack. It works fine.
 * Have We Met Yet: Zhoom asks whether the character knows him in "Titans of Battleon!"
 * Hello Insert Name Here: Everyone addresses you as this. Even Doom-Knight Sepulchure.
 * Heroic Sacrifice:.
 * Hidden in Plain Sight: The Stone Orb was this,.
 * Highly Visible Ninja: None of the ninjas seem to bother with stealth in any way, shape, or form (except for the ones in Shadow of the Wind village that appear only as text bubbles when you stand near them).
 * Homemade Sweater From Hell: Can be obtained during Frostval. Lampshaded by its description.
 * A Homeowner Is You / An Interior Designer Is You: Yes, you can get a House in this game for a small price, when you're a DA, but the good decorations cost Dragon Coins, and the lesser costs Gold.
 * Hopeless Boss Fight: You can't beat Sepulchure, or, on a couple of occasions, Drakath, Xan, and Akriloth.
 * Hurricane of Puns: So many... Just for starters, all the names in Oaklore, the names of most quests, Artix's commentary about undead slaying in Amityvale, and -- dear god -- the quest featuring the Sand Witch. Special mention goes to the time in ArchKnight when Ash manages to really, really irritate a necromancer with one of these.
 * Hybrid Monster: The appropriately-named "Spare Parts" monsters randomly select parts from about five models to give them a different appearance every time. Word of God says that it's made up of 16 different parts from 6 different monsters. That makes 2821109907456 possible forms for this one monster.
 * The Hyena: Xan.
 * Idiot Ball:
 * Pretty much the case when you consider the numerous Amplifier Artifacts that both you and the Big Bad want, you not only have more, but you could likely beat him in a jiffy..
 * Cysero permanently holds the Idiot Ball whenever he makes a appearance in a quest. One could even go so far as to say Cysero is the physical manifestation of the Idiot Ball.
 * Idiot Hero: The Hero is often a complete moron for the sake of the Rule of Funny. Artix von Krieger and Ash Dragonblade aren't exactly Mensa candidates either (this leads to a few instances of Strange Minds Think Alike in Artix's quest chain).
 * Improbable Weapon User: There are weapons that look like screwdrivers, hockey sticks, candy canes, turkey legs, etc. The most memorable examples are definitely the bacon weapons, which are shaped like pigs and have an entire quest chain dedicated to explaining their origin. Then there is Cysero, who managed to slice a bar of steel in half... with a staff.
 * In the Back:.
 * Incredibly Lame Pun: Many of the Pactogonal Knight's names (Sir Vivor, Sir Prise, Sir Cull, Sir Pent, Sir Mise, etc.), Artix's constant puns on slaying the Undead, many of the monster names, and the list goes on... and on.
 * Incredibly Obvious Bug: The gnomes design a spy-camera to attach to one of Sepulchure's flying eyeballs... which is about the size of a dog. He only fails to notice it due to the Rule of Funny.
 * Inn Security: A quest in the Locker is all about type 2 of this.
 * Interspecies Romance: Nythera's father is a human wizard and her mother is a dragon. While her mother can take on human form, she seems to prefer eating in her natural dragon form. The only one who seems perturbed by the sight of a full-sized dragon crouching at a dinner table with her human husband is the soon-to-be-eaten Chickencow, for obvious reasons. Also, Zhoom's parents, presumably..
 * Involuntary Shapeshifting:, whenever she sneezes.
 * Just Ignore It: In the "Choose Your Own Adventure Quest", if you fail to ignore Zorbak, something WILL be destroyed. Doesn't stop you from getting rewards if the thing being destroyed is only Amityvale.
 * Katanas Are Just Better: The Frozen Claymore is an extremely powerful ice weapon and it was reforged with added ice crystals later on to increase its killing potential. It takes the form of a katana in its improved state.
 * Keet: Twig, when fed candy.
 * Kids Prefer Boxes: One of the enemies are a species of goblins called Sneevils, who make a point of stealing boxes and discarding any of their contents. Sneevils were actually kids once; Nythera created them.
 * Kill It With Fire:

""You can either give me the orb and run away... or I can take it back, and you can CRAWL away.""
 * Killed Off for Real:.
 * Killer Rabbit: A lot of monsters in the game.
 * It's possible to be killed by a wall. Yes, a wall.
 * Zorbak. When you first meet him, he tries to maul you with a bear. Did we mention he knows Necromancy?
 * Moglins, when they eat candy on Mogloween. They go from being small, cute little creatures to ravenous beasts bigger than the player character.
 * The Doomkitten.
 * King Mook: The Sneevil Box-Lord.
 * Knight of Cerebus: Whenever Sepulchure shows up, you know things are about to get bad.
 * Lampshade Hanging: Oh yeah.
 * Last of His Kind: Zhoom and Aquella..
 * Laughing Mad: Xan, Captain Davey, and the Necrotic Blade of Doom.
 * Law of Chromatic Superiority: The Doom Knights.
 * Lawyer Friendly Cameo: Word of God says this is why the Scooby-Doo parody was called "Nooby Nooby Noob".
 * Lethal Joke Character The Chickencow Armor, it has 9 skills (most classes have 14), 4 of which are run away, 1 of which is simply an attack which does regular damage but in nature (a useless element). Among the other 4, there is a basic shield, which nearly all classes have, and a few high damage moves. It seems useless, until you see that one of those moves has 12 hits, add a weapon which has a fairly low chance on hit of doing insane damage, and you go around killing everything in one attack. There are also weapons which heal on hit, and you can switch weapons in the middle of a battle. The end result is that you deal enough damage to kill most bosses in one attack, and can heal yourself whenever you want. Unsurprisingly, these are not easy to get.
 * Lethal Joke Weapon:.
 * Let's You and Him Fight: Xan makes you fight . Then there's the Blue Mage Rage from the Storm War. He was probably still holding back. Just not as much.
 * Letters 2 Numbers: In "Bombs Away", Zank said "Chcikencow Scan 50UP, Emergency Protocol Or4ng3 Ju1c3 ..."
 * Level Ate: The Necropolis cafeteria is full of undead food {including Bread Zombies that say "GRAIIIIIINSSS... GRAIIIIIINSSS...") . The Hero wonders why the necromancers thought this was a good idea.
 * Light Is Not Good: Sek-Duat XV,, the lizard creatures from the SandSea, and those dang Minx fairies... although, they may just be defending their homes from the invaders that we are.
 * During the Chapter 1 Epilogue, laughs with glee when he realizes that focused Light can bring.
 * Little Miss Badass: Aria. She trains giant spiders, commands beetles, and kicks Sneevil butt.
 * Little No: Aquella, when.
 * Living Doll Collector: Snou the giant collects her own Pen-Pals.
 * Loads and Loads of Characters
 * Lotus Eater Machine: You're subjected to this as part of Katchool's Mindscrew.
 * Lovecraft Lite:
 * Luke I Am Your Father: Parodied in the ArchKnight finale. A necromancer tries to pull this on Ash, who responds by telling him that his father works on a farm west of Falconreach.
 * Mad Scientist: Dr. Voltabolt and Lim.
 * The Man Behind the Man:.
 * Mascot Mook: Sneevils and Togs.
 * Meaningful Funeral:.
 * Meaningful Name: Sepulchure, which when spelled differently is a holy tomb (talk about ironic). Hey, in Adventure Quest Worlds, you meet his evil . See the connection?
 * Medieval Stasis: Due to "The Reset".
 * Mind Screw: The Water Orb quest chain, since a lot of it is an extended Cthulhu Mythos Homage. ...
 * Mini Game: Fishing, weapon crafting, cooking, and the ship-avoidance game in the ninja quest chain, to mention a few.
 * Mirror Match: You fight yourself in one of the more Mind Screwy quests in the Water Orb saga.
 * Mix and Match Critters: Chickencows.
 * Money Spider: Justified, since Robina the Hood stuns the forest monsters and leaves money on them.
 * MST3K Mantra: In Universe example -- Rolith asks us to use this in the Code Monkey Challenge. The Hero then notes that the show has been off the air since most players birth. Which isn't true, as the legal age to play DragonFable is 13, and the show ended in 1999. Then again...
 * Mundane Utility: Cysero used a black hole generator to... stretch spaghetti.
 * My Grandson Myself:.
 * Name Tron: Vend-Tron 3000, a special shop in the Kordana quest.
 * Names to Run Away From Really Fast:
 * It's worth noting that Sepulchure's name means "grave" or "tomb."
 * Vaal's name is similar to a demon named Baal.
 * Necromantic: Appropriately enough, the Necromantress..
 * Nice Job Breaking It Hero:
 * The Hero.
 * Subverted in the Amityvillain quest chain. The villagers blame The Hero for the "invading" baby dracoliches, but no one gets hurt and the villagers adopt the "monsters".
 * saved the world from eternal darkness, but it also throws the Elements into disarray. Chapter 2 is even titled "Elemental Distortion".
 * Nightmare Fetishist: Sally, a ten-year-old girl who thinks The Undead are awesome playmates.
 * Nintendo Hard: Rolith's challenges in the Lymcrest Labyrinth are patently impossible without cooperating with other players (which was the point). The fans solved all of them within days of their release.
 * No Fourth Wall: "I'm the hero of the story. It's my job."
 * No Indoor Voice: Ghost of Frostval Past, because his volume knob is broken.
 * No Name Given: The Necromancer working with Klatu, Verata, and Nicto.
 * No Sell: Most bosses (and a few mooks) have an annoying habit of being immune to stun and shrink abilities.
 * Non Sequitur Thud: "Blatharg lithmpule moffub foop..."
 * Not So Harmless Villain: Konnan, although those who remembered a major plot arc of Adventure Quest saw this coming as soon as he was introduced. Later on in the game,.
 * Oculothorax: Jimmy the Eye.
 * Only Sane Man: Your character is either this or an Idiot Hero, depending on what the plot calls for. Reens, Alina and Warlic also seem relatively sane (but that last one is up for debate).
 * Our Goblins Are Different: Sneevils.
 * Overly Narrow Superlative: Rosemary says that her Inn is Amityvale's best (and only) Inn.
 * Panicky Expectant Father: The Hero freaks out upon learning that the Dragon Egg is about to hatch.
 * Parasol of Pain: The Hero is able to obtain this in the boss fight of the Resident Evil parody.
 * Pass the Popcorn: The Hero asks if there's any popcorn while watching Drakath's chase in "Sitcom".
 * Planet Eris
 * Playing With Fire: Xan. Does not mix well with his Ax Crazy-ness.
 * Overlaps with An Ice Person when he gets the Eggnogonomicon during a Frostval.
 * Poirot Speak: The Verteroche villagers, apparently.
 * Pre Ass Kicking One Liner: The Hero to Drakath before the fight for the Wind Orb.

"Dragon: We can do this. We were meant for this.
 * Also:

Hero: To save Lore?

Dragon:."

"Yix: Occasionally, they short out and attack people. We really need to fix that."
 * Prophecy Twist:.
 * Pungeon Master: Artix.
 * Punny Name:
 * A punny name is required to be a Pactogonal Knight, apparently.
 * A somewhat subtle example (well, subtler than the puns usually are anyway); the witch who runs the bakery is named Gretel.
 * Quirky Miniboss Squad: Drakath is one all by himself.
 * Rage Against the Mentor:
 * Nythera against Warlic. She gets mad that Warlic won't unlock her dragon powers and tries to get rid of him and enrages declares war on the Elemental Avatars resulting in the Storm War.
 * Really Seven Hundred Years Old:
 * Warlic survived the Reset, a catastrophe that changed Mechquest into DragonFable 4995 years ago.
 * Also . Justified because of the.
 * And.
 * Real Men Wear Pink:.
 * Red Eyes Take Warning: Neatly summed up by one of the Fauxtivational Poster contest winners.
 * Ridiculously Cute Critter: Moglins, mostly.
 * Lampshaded by a Falconreach Guardian.
 * Trobbles.
 * The baby dragons.
 * The Rival: Drakath to The Hero.
 * Roar Before Beating:.
 * Rule of Fun / Rule of Funny: Don't expect a lot of logic in this game.
 * Rummage Fail: When The Hero tries to find the Schnozzberries for the Queen of Tarts, he/she digs up a boot, an axe, a book collection, and his/her Dragon. The queen fell asleep during this because it took too long.
 * Running Gag: Cysero and his love of left socks, Rolith's togs, Artix's painfully bad puns and tendency to smite first and ask questions later, Celestia's tea, Sneevils, Friday the 13th undead invasions, etc.
 * Samus Is a Girl:.
 * Save the Villain: Inverted; when Circe buries the you in an avalanche, Vilmor shows up and pulls you out of the snow..
 * Scaled Up: does this when you break into her castle to steal her  . Unfortunately for her,.
 * Scenery Porn: Some of the quests and cutscenes have very detailed backgrounds.
 * Scooby Dooby Doors: Played straight in "Mysterious LCC" quest (which was a Scooby-Doo parody, appropriately enough).
 * Screw Destiny: This was the main reason for Sepulchure turning Fluffy into a Dracolich. He was giving the prophecy a big middle finger..
 * Self Made Orphan: Xan is implied to have killed his parents in a fire..
 * Senseless Sacrifice: In the "Dying Light" quest,.
 * Seven Deadly Sins: In the Ravenloss saga, there appears to be a spirit for each of the Seven Deadly Sins.
 * Shamu Fu: Several weapons, probably inspired by an Incredibly Lame Pun on "swordfish."
 * Shout Out: So many... for starters, Robin Hood, Scooby-Doo, Dragonball Z, Bleach, Inuyasha, Naruto, Fullmetal Alchemist, The Amityville Horror, Pac-Man, The Ring, Okami, Doctor Who, Dune, The Labors of Heracles, Spider-Man, Pinocchio, HP Lovecraft, Battlestar Galactica, Star Wars, Ghostbusters, Peanuts, The Lord of the Rings, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Back to The Future, The Princess Bride, etc. Odds are, if it's not referenced in DragonFable, a quick look at another Artix Entertainment game should fix that. Especially if it's Shonen Anime or something else similarly geeky. A more comprehensive list of Shout-Outs in DragonFable can be found here.
 * Sinister Scythe:
 * You can claim Death's scythe as a weapon.
 * There was a scythe that was considered the most powerful ice weapon ever forged..
 * Frostscythe's weapon.
 * Sitcom Arch Nemesis: Lim does not like Cysero.
 * Sliding Scale of Silliness Versus Seriousness: For the most part, the game is pretty far on the silly end of the scale.
 * Small Annoying Creature: Twilly and Zorbak especially. Twig, not so much. This is something of a change from Adventure Quest, where Twig is kind of The Scrappy.
 * Spin Off: Of AdventureQuest.
 * Spy Catsuit: The basic rogue armor bears some similarities to this, particularly the female version.
 * The Starscream: Okuchi no Okami and.
 * Start of Darkness: The Fire War is this for Drakonnan.
 * Steampunk: Popsprocket.
 * Steal the Surroundings: Done in the Popsprocket quest chain to the storage facility containing the MacGuffin.
 * Stop Copying Me: In one quest, The Hero and Artix keep repeating each other's sentences until it culminates in "SNICKERDOODLE!"
 * Stop Helping Me: Princess Victoria, when The Hero keeps hinting towards . The Hero does not hesitate to lampshade this.
 * Stripperific: Female pirate and ninja classes.
 * Stunned Silence: Following the  and The Hero's Big No, even the music stops.
 * Stuff Blowing Up: Nitroglycerin-soaked sponges launched out of a catapult. 'Nuff said.
 * Super Powered Robot Meter Maids: Many of the machines in Popsprocket are repurposed Cyklons.
 * Stuff Blowing Up: Nitroglycerin-soaked sponges launched out of a catapult. 'Nuff said.
 * Super Powered Robot Meter Maids: Many of the machines in Popsprocket are repurposed Cyklons.

""'What's the worst thing that could happen?' Seriously? That's like saying 'What dragon?' ASKING for trouble.""
 * Suspiciously Specific Denial: In the quest Escort to Verteroche the Guardian leader asks The Hero to leave the horse with them, justifying it with: "It's for it's own safety, , definitely not to use it for bait for anything."
 * Swiss Army Weapon: The Cordemi Codex.
 * Talk Like a Pirate: Every Pirate NPC in the game.
 * Talking Weapon: The Necrotic Blade of Doom. Justified, as it got corrupted along with Sepulchure.
 * Tap On the Head: Subverted; Gary the Ice Elf is really bad at this, and the character ends up doing it himself.
 * Teleporting Keycard Squad: Any time you have to go to the end of a dungeon and turn around, this will happen.
 * Tempting Fate:

"Cysero: See ya later. Or earlier. You know what I mean."
 * That Liar Lies: Vayle responded to the character and Artix trying to explain with "You lie!"
 * There Is No Kill Like Overkill: A DoomKnight vs. a Sneevil.
 * Time Police: Doctor When intervenes when you and Cysero exploit Time Travel to gather eight copies of to save Lore. This isn't the first time Doctor When has run into Cysero either -- turns out Cysero stole the phonebooth time machine from him and he's still holding a grudge.
 * Time Stands Still: The Chronomancer.
 * Time Travel Tense Trouble:

"Sir Kuss: WHY... why would you DO this? You're not even getting any experience for this! You... you're just... you're MEAN. That's what you are."
 * Toilet Humour:
 * A couple of Guardians in the Dented Shield Inn took turns farting in another's helmet.
 * Sir Prize's quest, especially the line "Oh my... oh man... it's everywhere."
 * Trademark Favorite Food: Lady Celestia likes a Spot of Tea. Twig eats fish and ice cream. Lots of fish and ice cream.
 * Tragic Keepsake:
 * The Necromantress's crystal.
 * The Stone of Falconreach Tower item that the player can obtain, in memory of the.
 * Trauma Inn: Every Inn serves as this.
 * Transforming Mecha: The town of Popsprocket. As seen in this quest.
 * Troperiffic
 * Troubled Backstory Flashback: There are a few examples of this, the most memorable one belonging to in the Necropolis/Dark Orb
 * Twenty Four Hour Armor: Your character is always in his/her Armor, though he/she can change it.
 * The Undead: Has pretty much all of the examples of the list, with measures of Lampshade Hanging toward them. A mentioned example of a Lich was instead called 'Liche' by Warlic, to which a character asks he really meant 'Lich' instead. Warlic merely noted that he was the powerful wizard and they weren't.
 * Underground Monkey: Togs and Sneevils.
 * Underwater Ruins: The city of Tethys, which was destroyed by Captain Davey.
 * Unexplained Recovery: The phrase "He got better" is actually used word-for-word in-game as a Lampshade Hanging.
 * Vile Villain Saccharine Show: Sepulchure is a very dark villain in a silly, light-hearted game. This trope also applies to Kathool, Captain Davey, Drakonnan, Xan, Sek-Duat XV, and.
 * Villainous Breakdown: Sepulchure suffers this.
 * Weird Moon: The moon in Doomwood is always full according to Thursday.
 * Welcome to Corneria: Lampshaded in the Clashening quest "Dimension Cat".
 * Wham Episode: The "Flying Fortress" cutscene. It starts out with the Guardians and heroes holding the line, the music just stops and the characters stare in shock. The Boss Fight.
 * What the Hell Player:
 * You get this if you answer "Yes", when offered to join or aid the bad guy. One of them being "Excuse us, while we go rewrite Adventure Quest."
 * When you first meet Twilly, you're given the option to kick him. If you do kick him, then you are promptly told that you're "the meanest player ever".
 * And then there's "The Worst Prank Ever".


 * Whatevermancy
 * When All You Have Is a Hammer: At one point in the Fire War, you get to control Xan. His attacks are "Fire", "More Fire", "Even More Fire", "Lots of Fire", and "OMGBBQ!!"
 * Where It All Began: Sepulchure's fortress in the "Badlands" where the war with the "darkness" took place a thousand years ago, and where the Orbs were first created.
 * White Haired Pretty Boy: Some time between, Warlic goes from looking like this to looking like THIS. Which (if your character is male) leads to a brief moment of Ho Yay.
 * With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Xan, Drakonnan, the Kathool Adepts, possibly Sepulchure, definitely the Necrotic Blade of Doom, pretty much every other villain in the game, and Cysero.
 * A Wizard Did It: Artix says all the bugs and plot holes are Handwaved in the game by saying "magic." You immediately use this in a Bavarian Fire Drill to get past the Necropolis Gatekeeper... which would have worked if Artix had resisted the urge to smite. Anyone that's been on other quests with Artix would have seen it coming though.
 * The Wonka: Cysero (and Lim, to a lesser extent).
 * Woobie Destroyer of Worlds:
 * Drakonnan, despite being astonishingly dark compared to quite a few AE Games villains, is still genuinely sympathetic for his troubles:, prompting a What the Hell Hero moment because of your character's Failure to Save Murder. Followed by plotting pretty vengence, which leads to...
 * The Necromantress/ is an even better example. While she has sent several minions to kill your character, she has also.
 * World of Badass
 * World of Snark
 * A Worldwide Punomenon: The game loves this trope.
 * You All Look Familiar
 * You Didn't Ask:
 * During Frostval, Cysero doesn't tell The Hero that he could change the Coal Moglins back because The Hero never asked. The quest is even called "You Never Asked".
 * You Gotta Have Purple Hair: Valencia Surehunter, who got it from her father, Trey. Elysia and Nythera have it too.
 * You Kill It You Bought It: Sir Alteon killed the tyrant Slugwrath, and while reluctant at first, the people chose him to become the new King.
 * You Killed My Father & This Is Unforgivable: After The Hero and Artix destroy her Spirit Orb containing her brother Edgar's soul, Vayle both declares that she will never forgive them for destroying her only chance to supposedly bring back her brother by following Noxus' orders and vows vengeance against them out of belief that they killed him.
 * You Mean Xmas: As in AdventureQuest, Frostval.
 * You Mean Xmas: As in AdventureQuest, Frostval.