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An indie [[Adventure Game]] created by [[Crystal Shard]]. The player takes the role of Maeldun Whiteblade, who is framed for murdering King Vortigern of Theylinn. While on the run trying to clear his name, he has to deal with a goblin invasion, an assassin on the loose, an evil wizard trying to stop him, and the quirky faeries of Thierna na Oge.
The game is freeware and [http://crystalshard.net/atotk.php can be downloaded here], one can purchase it from [https://store.steampowered.com/app/603870/A_Tale_of_Two_Kingdoms/ Steam], [https://radiant.itch.io/two-kingdoms itch.io], or [https://www.humblebundle.com/g/atotk Humble Bundle].
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* [[Arbitrary Skepticism]]
▲* [[Action Girl]] - Branwyn.
▲* [[Arbitrary Skepticism]] - The monk considers faeries a "figment of man's imagination" while an army of goblins is camped just a few miles away.
* [[Awesome Moment of Crowning]]
▲* [[Awesome McCoolname]] - Maeldun Whiteblade.
* [[Baleful Polymorph]]
▲* [[Awesome Moment of Crowning]] - The good ending. {{spoiler|And no, you're not the one getting crowned.}}
* [[Better Manhandle the Murder Weapon]]
▲* [[Baleful Polymorph]] - Taranis's modus operandi; you spend the entire sixth chapter in the shape of a rabbit.
▲* [[Better Manhandle the Murder Weapon]] - The reason why you're accused of murder. [[Failure Is the Only Option|No, you can't avoid it]].
* [[Captain Ersatz]]
▲* [[Brutal Honesty]] - Lady Branwyn and Geraint. Subverted with {{spoiler|Cailte.}}
* [[Celtic Mythology]]
▲* [[Captain Ersatz]] - The protagonist's sprite looks very much like Prince Alexander from ''[[King's Quest VI]]'' (see [[Spiritual Successor]], below; funnily enough, in the original concept, Maeldun is a captain ersatz of Graham, not Alexander).
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: Branwyn's dagger.
▲* [[Celtic Mythology]] - Most of the names, characters and plot points are borrowed wholesale from Celtic myth.
* [[
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]
▲* [[Dark Is Not Evil]] - Arawn Nos.
* [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything]]
▲* [[Deadpan Snarker]] - Branwyn always has something to add to the conversation between Maeldun and another character when she is present. Geraint is also not bad at this.
* [[Everything's Better with Princesses]]:
* [[Evil Sorcerer]]
* [[Failure Is the Only Option]]
* [[The Fair Folk]]▼
* [[Fairy Tale]]
* [[Fantastic Foxes]]:
* [[Genre Savvy]]
* [[George Lucas Throwback]]
* [[Have a Nice Death]]:
* [[The High Queen]]
* [[Historical Villain Upgrade]]
* [[Informed Ability]]
▲* [[Info Dump]] - The opening narration.
▲* [[Informed Ability]] - In the opening [[Info Dump]], Maeldun is presented as a great warrior. In the game, he is anything but. Branwyn pointedly explains to the fawning Iseult that Maeldun is their ''diplomat'', and Branwyn herself is the great warrior. {{spoiler|She'll show it if you lead the barghest into your camp.}}
▲* [[Interface Screw]] - one of the spells Taranis casts on you inverts the mouse controls.
* [[Lost Forever]]
▲* [[Knight Templar]] - Geraint.
▲* [[Lost Forever]] - There are a few items in chapters 1 and 2 that cannot be retrieved once you end those chapters. There's also several sidequest objectives that can only be done early in the game. Plus, a lot of the inventory objects that can be applied to multiple puzzles are one-use items.
* [[Mistaken for Murderer]]
* [[Moon Logic Puzzle]]
* [[Multiple Endings]]
* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]
* [[Not So Different]]
* [[Our Giants Are Bigger]]
* [[Pardon My Klingon]]
* [[Proud Warrior Race Guy]]
* [[Reconstruction]]
* [[Redemption Equals Death]]
▲* [[Reconstruction]] - The game attempts to recreate the fun and joy of old VGA quests while jettisoning their annoying moments ([[Unwinnable]], [[Guide Dang It]], etc.).
* [[Shout-Out]]: Dozens of them, especially to ''[[King's Quest]]'' games.
** There are at least two to ''[[Discworld]]''. You can find "Twurp's Peerage" in the monastery's library, and Maeldun describes cider as a drink made of apples. "Well, mostly apples."
** Near the castle, you meet [[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz|a talking scarecrow
** If you try to enter a stump, a message will appear, requiring you to insert [[The Secret of Monkey Island|disk 23]], followed by 'Oops, wrong game
* [[Spiritual Successor]]
* [[True Love's Kiss]]:
▲* [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything]] - You need to buy a flute, and the most obvious ways for getting money are {{spoiler|gambling with the goblins, using the wishing well, or selling the sorcerer's figurine}}. In the unlikely event that you miss the opportunity for all of those, it may seem like you're stuck... but you can still {{spoiler|find a pot of gold under the rainbow; if you've already lost ''that'', you can sell Morholt's crystal.}}
* [[Unwinnable]]
▲* [[The Fair Folk]]
* [[World of Ham]]
▲* [[True Love's Kiss]] - required, of course, to wake the sleeping princess. {{spoiler|And no, you're not her true love.}}
* [[Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe]]
▲* [[Unwinnable]] - One trait of old Sierra adventures that [[Averted Trope|wasn't adopted]] by the game's creators.
▲* [[World of Ham]] - Although there is no voice acting, the dialogue is bombastic, grandiose and full of [[Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe]]. Very often [[Lampshaded]].
▲* [[Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe]] - [[The Fair Folk|the fairies talk like this]]. Blossom the changeling also tries to, but isn't very good at it. It's also [[Subverted]] and [[Lampshaded]] many, many times, particularly in this [[Easter Egg]]:
{{quote|Helloeth! Thou appeareth to be playingeth an adventure gameth. Wouldeth thou liketh help with thateth?}}
* [[You Fight Like a Cow]]:
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