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* [[Black and Grey Morality]]: The two main factions are a group of fanatical [[Knight Templar]] and a bandit clan. You ''have'' to side with one of them. Though the Bandits have a bit of a moral edge due to the fact that {{spoiler|the Bandit leader is the rightful ruler of the island who was ousted by the [[Knight Templar|Knight Templars]].}}

** There is the chance to [[Take a Third Option|join a third faction]], but it requires earning enough favor with both of the previous factions to enter the main city undetected, and then prove your worthiness to the third faction before the [[Knights Templar]] faction forces you to join them.

** You are also forced into joining a faction at the beginning of the game; no ''[[Fallout]]''-style tearing ass through the countryside with level 25 equipment and ignoring the plot for you.

*** Tevhnically you can explore 90% of the island before joining any faction and clear out all monsters and loot (including weapons) from there, you don't have acces to advanced training (which is crucial) and armor (even more so) though so accomplishing this requires exploting all the tricks you can think of and even then it is a trully masochistic task.

* [[Our Gnomes Are Weirder]]: Small, funny [[Ugly Cute]] creatures, who love nothing more than taking things, wether it's by scavenging, theft or by force. When they attack you they throw random things, including fish.

* [[Our Ogres Are Hungrier]]: Big and strong, speak slowly, claim to have no real interest in gold [[Gameplay and Story Segregation|while charging the player a fortune for training.]]

* [[Real Is Brown]]

* [[Sealed Evil in A Can]]: {{spoiler|The Fire Titan locked away in the volcano}}.

* [[Super Drowning Skills]]: Anything beyond waist-deep water, and you either sink and wash over to the nearest shore, or get swallowed by a giant worm-thing and wash over to the nearest shore. Really more of a sandboxing mechanism.

* [[The Spanish Inquisition]]: Is it really a coincidence that the Inquisitor's name is Mendoza...?

* [[Too Awesome to Use]]: Most potent magic scrolls, if you don't actually level magic. {{spoiler|[[The Dragon]] is pathetically weak and the [[Big Bad]] is immune to magic anyway so you're quite likely to never use those Inferno scrolls you've hoarded...}}

* [[Twenty Bear Asses]]: Very commonly required for sidequests and you typically get no warning whatsoever that a particular kind of bear ass will be necessary to advance some questline. This leads to compulsive collecting of all sorts of bear asses you come across during your travels.