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{{quote|''Gran Kain shouted with great pride to all the world and instilled spirit into the creatures of his own image. However, the result was terrible. His creatures were weak, stupid, sly, and cowardly. All the other gods despised Gran Kain's creatures. Overcome by the shame of his failure, Gran Kain abandoned his creatures and went into hiding for a time. [[Humans Are the Real Monsters|These creatures are called humans.]]''}}

 

 

 

 

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* [[A God Am I]] - [[Big Bad|Beleth]]. Cue the ominous music.

** Also, Bishops' get Turn Undead which reads "The undead cower and flee as you reveal your divine nature".

* [[BFS]] - Two-handed swords

* [[Blade Brake]] - Seen in one of the minimovies / trailers for the game. See [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm19W1PKMFQ&fmt=35 here]

* [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder]] - Humans, at least historically. See [[Humans Are the Real Monsters]] below.

* [[Competitive Balance]]

** [[Glass Cannon]]—The Kamael and most Dark Elves

** [[Squishy Wizard]]—Sorcerers, Spellhowlers, Spellsingers, Necromancers, and the three kinds of Summoners.

** [[Magic Knight]]—Mostly Soul Breakers, but Orc mages have a shade of this. Also, see the [[Magic Knight]] listing below.

* [[Critical Hit]] - Dagger wielders are based on these, they have passive abilities to increase the chance and damage of critical hits which also affect their main damaging abilities (as they're criticals themselves).

* [[Cute Bruiser]] - [[Little Miss Badass|Female dwarves]] and human-summoned [[Cats Are Mean|cats]].

* [[Dual-Wielding]] - Fist weapons and Dual swords are always this. Dual swords play this in an odd way; they're a pair of compatible swords that go through an irreversible magical joining process. Besides the fact that they used to be two different swords, for all purposes dual swords are a kind of their own. ''Anyone'' can dual wield if they want to, but...

** It's required for the Gladiator / Duelist and Blade Dancer / Spectral Dancer classes for them to use their skills.

* [[Even the Guys Want Him]] - [[Badass|Male Human warriors]] and [[Evil Is Sexy|male Dark Elves]].

* [[Evil Laugh]] - Male Dark Elves, Male Kamael, [[That One Boss|Frintezza]] and [[Big Bad|Beleth]].

* [[Floating Continent]] - Gracia, thanks to {{spoiler|the descendants of the servants of Shilen succeeding in bringing some of her power into the world via the Seeds of Destruction and infinity.}}

* [[Glass Cannon]] - The Kamael, and the Dark Elves as well. Somewhat subverted by the ability of the Elder, Shillen Elder and Bishop classes to become living [[Holy Hand Grenade]]s AND heal (though, not at the exact same time. The aptly named ''Inquisitor'' transformation prevents that so it can't be abused -in theory.)

* [[Item Crafting]] - Artisans, Warsmith and Maestros can do this.

* [[Jerkass Gods]] - [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Gran Kain]] is the [[God of Evil|God of Darkness and Destruction]] who once upon a time had a relationship with Shilen, [[Parental Incest|his own daughter]]; he is the [[Affably Evil|reasonable one]]. From his point of view its just his job to be something of a dick, but he has to restrain his wife Einhasad- [[Light Is Not Good|The Goddess of Creation]]- in particular from her jealous fits of rage that tend to result in an awful lot of smiting the innocent. Shilen, who [[Moral Myopia|bore the brunt of her mothers hate for the incest]] and was banished (over her dads protests, no less), is about as messed up as you'd expect and is probably more of an actual threat to the world than her dad (though maybe less than her mum).

* [[Level Grinding]] - Present in this game. Specially in earlier versions.

* [[Mad Scientist]] - The Giant race were implied to be this, performing experiments on the lesser races {{spoiler|like grafting a wing onto elves and eventually creating the Kamael}} and the use of [[Magic From Technology]] to turn most of them into cyborg-like creatures. There are quite a few of the Dwarves who are also this, notably the aptly named Dr. Chaos.

* [[Our Elves Are Better]] - Only in their [[Glory Days]]. Nowadays, They have no problem marrying humans and having children with them. Actually, Heine is supposed to be populated mostly by [[Half-Human Hybrid|Half-Elves]].

* [[Our Orcs Are Different]] - and ''how!''

* [[Petting Zoo People]] - As if the 6 playable races weren't diverse enough, there are several types of [[Lizard Folk]], ratmen, lion people, hyena people, and a tauren-like NPC race.

* [[Player Versus Player]] - Works like this:

** A player's name is white (default), purple or red.

* [[Rain of Blood]] - As of the latest installment, every night. Followed by a [[Fog of Doom]]. Caused by {{spoiler|The breath of Shilen as she begins to awaken.}}

* [[Ridiculously Cute Critter]] - ''Any'' of the Baby Pets, Hatchlings, Cat Summons, and even the little dinosaur pet. The Dwarf females are this as well.

** Jewel, a Dark Elf NPC, recalls once dancing with the Elves under the starlight {{spoiler|before the war that resulted in the curse of her tribe, creating the Dark Elves}} - which can be anywhere from hundreds to ''thousands'' of years ago. And then there's the elf, Lilith, on Talking Island, [[I Will Wait for You|waiting for her lover Teon]]. After a thousand years of waiting, she [[spoiler: [[The Mourning After|learns]] that he died only a few years ago, living in the human town just a short {{spoiler|and fast [[Idiot Ball|boat ride]] [[Plot Induced Stupidity|away]], and either thought her dead or lost in the war against Beleth. Players frequently recount wanting to smack Lilith for never trying to search for her beloved.}}

* [[Scenery Porn]] - Ivory Tower, Rune Township, Aden Castle, Hellbound...Anywhere in Lineage II's world, really. Even late newcomers to the game are astounded at the sheer amount of detail that was put in, both in the costumes and the landscape.

* [[Summon Magic]] - Elves summon [[Nature Spirit|Unicorns]], Dark Elves summon [[Our Demons Are Different|Demons]] and human summoners can summon... cats.

** Human Necromancers summon undead.

** And most epic bosses.

** Also, various "critical" abilities from weapons net you bonuses at low health.

* [[We Buy Anything]] - Anything which isn't a quest item or a newbie item.

* [[Weird Moon]] - The usual moon becomes red and has a burning eye open if the Servants of Dusk win the twice-weekly battle for the Seals of Shilen; when Dawn wins the moon turns green and the eye is visible but closed. joined permanently by the {{spoiler|Moon of Shilen as of the latest installment, resulting in an [[Alien Sky]].}}

* [[Your Soul Is Mine]] - Kamael have the ability to take the souls of monsters they kill, using them to power their abilities.

 

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