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When Neverwinter is struck by an unknown plague called the Wailing Death, four [[Plot Coupon|Waterdhavian creatures]] are brought to the Neverwinter Academy in the hopes of extracting components for a cure. Unfortunately, the Academy is suddenly attacked by unknown forces and the creatures are scattered across the city. Lady Aribeth, a paladin of Tyr who has been placed in charge of investigating the source of the plague, enlists the player character to retrieve the cure components and save a city in chaos.

 

The Aurora graphics engine, which debuted with ''NWN'', proved to be successful and enduring, and various heavily modified versions of the engine continue to be used to this day, most notably the Odyssey engine in the ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]]'' series and the Electron engine in ''[[Neverwinter Nights 2]]''. The main engine with modified graphics is also being used in ''[[The Witcher]]'', though [[CD Projekt]] has revealed they were less than fond of the engine, claiming it responsible for many of the [[Loads and Loads of Loading|technical flaws]] present, leading to them developing their own engine from scratch for the sequel.

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* [[Abandoned Mine]]

* [[Evil Laugh]]: A lot of villains have a lot of very cruel, lengthy laughs. Including one a player voice-set does upon ''death''.

* [[Face Heel Turn]]: {{spoiler|Aribeth}}.

* [[Fishing for Mooks]]: Works great--Hide or Move Silently works against every enemy separately, and mooks who noticed PC pursue on their own, leaving their pals idle. Thus sneaking closer until detected and then luring the pursuers so far away that others will not hear attack and death sounds makes slaughtering them much easier, up to long [[No Damage Run]].

* [[Friendly Fireproof]]: Optional.

** Actually, some of the player voices too, making this a [[World of Ham]].

* [[Light and Mirrors Puzzle]]

* [[Load-Bearing Boss]]: Morag, although {{spoiler|her lair IS a pocket dimension [[No Ontological Inertia|held up by her vast magic]], being used as a glorified bomb shelter}}.

* [[Load-Bearing Hero]]: The various modules based on this system ''love'' this trope.

* [[My Species Doth Protest Too Much]]: Haedraline. And [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|Daelan]]. And Deekin. And arguably Xanos and Dorna. Bioware likes these. Grimgnaw doesn't have any angst, but is about as far from the [[Our Dwarves Are All the Same|stock representation of fantasy dwarves]] as you can get.

* [[No Hero Discount]]: The merchants who you're trying to save will still charge you. Some will charge you a lot.

* [[Obviously Evil]]: {{spoiler|Desther's}} status as [[The Mole]] was kinda obvious from the start. Amusingly, though, said character [[Character Alignment|doesn't count as evil]] for the purposes of things such as Smite Evil.

* [[Old Save Bonus]]

* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: {{spoiler|Once the Wailing Death has run its course, Desther is promptly abandoned by Maugrim.}}

 

* [[Executive Meddling]]: Originally, the game would have allowed you to sell a kidnapped baby into slavery. You can still kidnap the baby, now you just can't do anything with it.

{{quote|"[[Chaotic Stupid|I'm keeping the baby for myself.]]"}}

* [[The Dragon]]: J'Nah to {{spoiler|Heurodis}} in ''Shadows of the Undrentide''. Somewhat notable for {{spoiler|being killed off almost as soon as she's introduced.}}

 

* [[Adam Smith Hates Your Guts]]: Somewhat inverted, actually. The best magical items you find will only be worth pennies at first, but what the game doesn't tell you is that there's a cap to how much merchants will pay for any item no matter how valuable. The more you progress in the game the higher the cap raises, and in Chapter 3 you can get tens of thousands of gold for items that merchants in Chapter 1 only offered you a couple thousand for.

** Played straight with Volkarion, the djinn merchant. He ''horribly'' rips you off on the items you sell to him, and if you comparison shop with other merchants you can usually get one and a half times what he offers for the same item, if not much more.<ref>In Chapter 3, the devil merchant in Cania will pay up to 50,000 gold for an item, assuming it's actually worth up to that much. Volkarion won't go any higher than 15,000. That's hundreds of thousands of gold he's scamming you out of.</ref>

* [[Doomy Dooms of Doom]]?: Deekin sings this trope. This ''song'' is also a major reason why people [[Ensemble Darkhorse|love him]], or alternatively, [[The Scrappy|hate him]].)

* [[Estrogen Brigade Bait]]: [[Fetish Fuel Station Attendant|Valen]] [[Troubled but Cute|Shadowbreath]], the Tiefling warrior in ''Hordes of the Underdark''. It's even lampshaded in-game, when he gets catcalled by Drow priestesses asking about [[Fetish Fuel|his tail]].

** There was also the ability to use a baby you picked up in ''Shadows of Undrentide'' for a Beholder's bridge machine. You'd get a spinning top.

* [[Face Heel Turn]]: {{spoiler|Mephistopheles}} attempts to invoke this against your allies, with the results depending on {{spoiler|how nice you were to them.}}

* [[Love Triangle]]: Hoo boy.

** You can make one between yourself, Nathyrra and {{spoiler|Aribeth}}. You can flirt shamelessly with both of them if you take them as your henchmen, and at one point when they stop to talk to each other the conversation briefly switches to their feelings for you. The endings for the two actually don't conflict at all if you try to get both of them to fall in love with you, which would seem to imply [[One True Threesome|you end up with both of them]]. A particularly racy dialogue option with both of them in the party actually has you trying to convince them to "share" you...''and potentially succeeding!''

** And then there's the fact that the name of your true love, and the name of the Sleeping Man's true love, are both chosen at random when you ask the Knower of Names who they are. There's the possibility that your henchman (or henchwomen, if you're a male with the two females) is in love with you and you with them, but the Knower of names reveals your true love to be someone else, and this same person is also the true love of the Sleeping Man, who is loved by the Knower of Places. The Knower of Names herself could also be someone's true love and she's in love with {{spoiler|Mephistopheles}}. Ultimately, almost every conceivable permutation of [[Triang Relations]] can be achieved by some combination of characters, or even multiple combinations at once, all thanks to the [[Random Number God]].

* [[Mirror Match]]: Literally. Early on, you find a mirror. It spawns a duplicate of you, sans your weapon.

** White Thesta she still charges you, but she says she's lowering her prices to only cover the base cost of the items since you ''are'' fighting to save the city. They're still

* [[Precursors]]: The pre-devil Baatezu.

* [[Sealed Badass in a Can]]: ''You'', after {{spoiler|Mephistopheles banishes you to Cania}}.

* [[Shmuck Bait]]: That golden armor trap in ''Shadows of Undrentide'' returns. With even more skeletons surrounding it.

 

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