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* [[Actionized Sequel]]: Combat is a much larger part of this game. Especially if you are neither a Fighter nor a Paladin. Previous games of the series made it a point that thieves and magic users could complete the game with very little to no fighting
* [[And the Adventure Continues...]]: A possible ending. If you refuse to become King, you can say that you want to keep adventuring.
* [[Ascended Extra]]:
* [[Awesome Moment of Crowning]]: {{spoiler|Either you or Elsa}} gets crowned King of Silmaria.▼
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** The owner of the Bank of Silmaria is the beggar who was in the street of Spielburg... having since wisely invested the money he was given (he considers begging and banking to be surprisingly similar jobs).
** Toro. He was just a minotaur dude in the first game, a particularly tough fight for the fighter, but otherwise an enemy to bypass for the mage and thief. A foot note in the game pretty much, where as here, he's a big character and an important source of exposition.
* [[Asskicking Equals Authority]]: Some of the Rites of Rulership boil down to killing a particular bad guy or monster. Asskicking might not equal authority on its own, but it's certainly a prerequisite.
▲* [[Awesome Moment of Crowning]]: {{spoiler|Either you or Elsa}} gets crowned King of Silmaria.
* [[Back for the Finale]]: The game's full of characters from previous installments.
* [[Back from the Dead]]: Depending how you play it: {{spoiler|Katrina or Erana
* [[Bi the Way]]: If you offer an engagement ring to Rakeesh, he'll mention that if he were not already happily married, he'd consider it.
* [[Devil in Plain Sight]]: The Assassin. You can find him hanging out in the Dead Parrot Inn and the Thieves' Guild. You can't kill him in these places, unfortunately.
* [[Failure Is the Only Option]]: You can't actually do anything to prevent the plot that would unleash the dragon.
* [[Genre Shift]]: The first four ''
* [[Gladiator Subquest]]: The Coliseum.
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: In the endgame, you and several others can do this.
* [[Heroic Self-Deprecation]]: Combined with a bit of [[Broken Pedestal]]. For four games, Erana was built up to be this incredible Archmage of surpassing power, grace
* [[His Name Is--]]: Ugarte has the opportunity to sell out the assassin, and gets poisoned right in front of you for his troubles.
* [[Homoerotic Subtext]]: Try offering the Ring of Hera in the fifth game to Rakeesh. He'd consider it, if he weren't already married to Kreesha. Note that he's half-lion
* [[Idle Animation]]: Multiple characters have these. Perhaps the most perplexing is one where the Hero "checks his watch".
* [[Jekyll and Hyde]]: {{spoiler|The kindly Dr. Pretorious and the [[Jerkass]] Dr. Mobius are one and the same, swapping over at sunrise and sunset
* [[Love Interest]]: Any one of four different women who can be wooed in the last game as a [[Romance Sidequest]]. Not all of them can be married by every character class.
** Elsa von Spielburg: [[Hot Amazon]] and [[First Girl Wins]] (even though she appears all of five seconds in the first game, where you can't speak to her, and not at all in the three other games). Can marry any character class.
** Erana: [[Betty and Veronica|The Betty]] and [[Broken Bird]]. The kind of girl who objects to being given flowers because oh, it killed those poor flowers! Also an uber powerful sorceress. Can marry a Paladin or Wizard.
** Katrina: [[Broken Bird]] and [[Betty and Veronica|The Veronica]]. {{spoiler|Also, a vampire, until her resurrection at least, but still uncomfortable in the light. [[Big Bad]] of the previous game, and prone to summoning [[Eldritch Abominations]]. She has been reformed due to learning her lessons from the previous game, although for some reason despite the fact that the ONLY reason she wants to be revived is because she's in love with the
** Nawar: [[Hello, Nurse!]] and [[Shallow Love Interest]]. Can marry any character class. Seen in the second game, but only if you played a thief.
* [[Magic Versus Science]]: {{spoiler|The scientist at the Silmarian academy wants science to gain prominence, so he enters his [[Frankenstein's Monster]] Gort in the Rites and poisons Erasmus
* [[Mauve Shirt]]:
* [[Mentor Occupational Hazard]]:
** {{spoiler|Rakeesh}} gets poisoned, and can potentially die if you don't obtain the {{spoiler|black lotus}} Salim needs to make the antidote.
** {{spoiler|Erasmus}}, though the poison he was struck with wont kill him, but may keep him asleep forever.
* [[Multiple Head Case]]: Doesn't apply to the Hydra, but done straight with Cerberus.
* [[Nietzsche Wannabe]]:
* [[Pet Rat]]: Ugarte for Ferrari.
* [[Punny Name]]: Gnome-Anne's Land Inn, [[Red Shirt|Kokeeno Pookameeso]]. Let's just say that, being a ''[[Quest for Glory]]'' game, if we listed every example, we'd be here all night.
* [[Red Herring]]: {{spoiler|Erasmus' poisoning has nothing at all to do with the main plot; his attackers were the scientists behind Gort, who are tired of magic getting all the attention
* [[Red Shirt]]:
* [[Romance Sidequest]]: As mentioned above.
* [[The Sadistic Choice]]: The
* [[Shout-Out]]: If you die by drowning, the [[Have a Nice Death]] message is "This is the lesson you've been taught — [[Monkey Island|Guybrush Threepwood]] you are not. When by water you are surrounded -- Get to shore before you're drowned."
* [[Super Not-Drowning Skills]]: You'd be amazed how long your character can hold his breath once he learns how to swim. On the other hand, the other four games carefully avoid underwater scenes.
* [[Tenchi Solution]]: A bug actually allows you to do this, though only one will be acknowledged as your bride.
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