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The world of tGA has seen many grand events unfold, most recently a worldwide catastrophe caused by a mysterious beast, the [[Eldritch Abomination|Godslayer]]. It single-handedly ended a drawn-out war by devouring the two gods responsible for the conflict, and the resulting shift in power rearranged the continents and killed countless people. The beast formed a cult around it and fell asleep shortly after its rampage, and the five nations of the world ended up living in isolation and rebuilding their war-torn kingdoms while dreading what future had in store for them. At the same time the [[Demonic Invaders|demons]], whose god the Godslayer had devoured, got used to their newfound freedom and began massing their forces to take over the world while they quickly conquered the most ravaged nation which became their base of operations. It didn't take long for ambitions to grow even in these dreadful times, however, and various factions rose among the races of the world as more and more people began bidding for power.

It remains to be seen whether the armies, bickering races and long-time rivals can eventually put aside their differences and combine their strength to face the looming threats of the Godslayer's cult, demons, [[Physical God|rogue gods]], [[The Undead]] and even ambitious individuals, all of whom have [[Plan|plans]] [[Gambit Roulette|of]] [[Evil Plan|their]] [[Xanatos Speed Chess|own]]. The world of tGA is not a happy place to live in, but heroes on all sides are willing to fight against the odds in order to reach for a better tomorrow.

 

 

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* [[Above Good and Evil]]: The Godslayer considers itself above other creatures, sees gods as relics of the past which must be wiped out, feels good and evil are needless concepts, uses its acolytes to spread prosperity and a new world order, and wishes to increase its knowledge by any means necessary. In its views the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, even if that means sacrificing many innocents along the way.

* [[Action Girl]]: Ax, Rhylian and Vaetris among others.

* [[All Your Base Are Belong to Us]]: The Yamato Empire and the Clergy of Mardük lead a surprise attack on the Aisonian capital of Myridia during the Yamatian Invasion arc.

* [[The Alliance]]: The Grand Alliance. The Crimson Coalition is the Alliance's seemingly [[Legion of Doom|villainous]] counterpart. Then again, most of the story has only been seen through the eyes of the Alliance so far...

* [[Amnesiac Dissonance]]: Happens to [[Cloudcuckoolander|Ronove]] after the siege of Vanna when he recovers his memories and remembers that he used to be a Dreadlord of one of the [[The Legions of Hell|demon hordes]]. He leaves his human friends behind and rejoins the demons, acting like a seemingly cruel [[Manipulative Bastard]] as most demons do, but he also still seems to harbor some feelings for his former companions in the Alliance who he is now forced to oppose.

* [[Amplifier Artifact]]: The magic swords Dawn and Dusk.

* [[Anyone Can Die]]: This happens quite a few times and often to ''major'' characters. [[Killed Off for Real|Not all of them come back from the dead, and this includes prominent heroes.]]

* [[Anti-Anti-Christ]]: After some soul-searching, Jemuel chooses to openly defy the lich warlock Drishnek even though Drishnek wants him to fulfill his destiny as the champion of the Underworld.

'''Jemuel''': No...you DESTROYED that man when you tortured his soul into becoming your servant, don't you understand!? I am Jemuel, born in Remon...I am Jemuel the Wise, Lord of Alent! I am Jemuel, and I will be your demise! }}

* [[Anti-Hero]]: Although Belial works for the Grand Alliance, he is ruthless and does whatever is necessary to make his Order grow more powerful.

* [[Anti-Villain]]: Kagetsu I deeply cares for his subordinates and loves his wife Marya above anything else. He knows that his plan of destroying the world is an unfortunate but necessary step to create an everlasting utopia but he hesitates when he has to choose whether to sacrifice Marya to make his dream come true.

* [[Apocalypse Maiden]]: Leon becomes this when he almost manages to regain his Andain powers during the First Battle of Remonton. He realizes at that moment that as long as he exists as a revenant, his existence will eventually make magic disappear and cause the end of the world. {{spoiler|He gets better when he is revived as a full mortal for his services to the forces of Light. However, fate has a nasty way of making things worse when the Godslayer appears and causes the Cataclysm anyway.}}

* [[Avenging the Villain]]: When a minor villain named Dorecia is killed, her lover {{spoiler|Ferron}} promises to hunt down her killer who turns out to be Refan. {{spoiler|Belial}} wants to avenge the death of his brother Antigonus who opposed various heroes in the past, and this {{spoiler|later gets reversed when Antigonus comes back to life and finds out Belial has been assassinated}}.

* [[Back for the Dead]]: {{spoiler|Marya and Mori'sul}} in the Godslayer arc. One ends up setting the stage for a power-hungry prince's return to the political stage of Maar Sul before committing suicide, the other is crushed by a collapsing temple while saving the heroes from certain death.

* [[Badass Beard]]: Belial, Khasra, Orestes, Pronin, Refan and Taliesin have these.

* [[Badass Bookworm]]: Richelieu has glasses and looks frail, but his spells really pack a punch, going so far as to take out brainwashed Jemuel, an archmage, out of all people.

* [[Big Screwed-Up Family]]: The Matheson Crime Family and Clan d'Zarnagon.

* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: There have been occasional sentences and words in e.g. Finnish, French, German, Japanese and Russian.

* [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]]: {{spoiler|Desdemona.}}

* [[Black Cloak]]: Worn by clerics of Mardük and Totenkopfs.

** Ragnar and Refan are the rare heroic examples wearing a black cloak... at least until {{spoiler|Refan does a [[Face Heel Turn]]}}.

* [[Determinator]]: Leopold and Orestes stop at nothing to get the job done.

* [[Determined Widow]]: Marya becomes a dark version of this after her husband Kagetsu bites the dust. She doesn't take his death well, and after a long period of mourning she becomes fixated on making his dream become real, going so far as kidnapping and corrupting a prince to do her bidding while acting as his [[Evil Mentor]], setting the stage for a brutal civil war in Maar Sul, and subtly opposing the Grand Alliance which she had once called friends. Once she has done all this and made sure that the prince will carry out her mission, she {{spoiler|is overcome by guilt of all the horrible things she has done to achieve her husband's dream, and she commits suicide to be reunited with Kagetsu in the afterlife}}.

* [[Diabolical Mastermind]]: Vesuvius Matheson is the wealthy head of the far-reaching Matheson Crime Family which owns the city of Matheson and has his minions infiltrating or bribing many government officials in Maar Sul. He hatches elaborate schemes to strengthen his power base, even going so far as to fund the Proninist invasion of Maar Sul.

* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: The heroes work together to defeat Nergal, the God of War, in combat.

* [[Dirty Communists]]: The Proninist Party. They have cake.

* [[Dirty Cop]]: George Bush is a SAVAGE officer secretly working for the Totenkopfs.

* [[Disability Superpower]]: Jono is blind but it doesn't stop him from kicking ass.

* [[Disappeared Dad]]: {{spoiler|Omaroch to Refan and Zarnagon.}}

* [[Divide and Conquer]]: Jemuel plays both the Grand Alliance and the Yamato Empire against each other during the Great War in order to carve his empire while the two are busy fighting.

* [[Divine Parentage]]: The half-god Andain. The most famous Andain have been Kagetsu I, Leon, Pooka and Taliesin.

* [[Evil Eye]]: Dante hypnotizes Leon to do his bidding for a time during the Great War. His eye can control a person and put a geas on his victim which forces the victim to subconsciously obey his orders. Leon learned this the hard way when he found out that all his actions during the Yamatian Invasion arc had in fact been Dante's all along.

* [[Evil Gloating]]: The Master loves these.

'''The Master''': It is ''you'' who are mistaken! You've digged your own grave by underestimating me! Did you really think that I would've played ''all'' my cards this early in the game? }}

* [[Evil Is Not a Toy]]: A greedy mage releases Yurius who immediately kills him.

* [[Fantastic Racism]]: The anti-elven movement in Remon gets so bad that humans pretty much hunt down any elves they can find and vice versa until the dark elf Mori'sul finally manages to calm things down. The [[Proud Warrior Race|Sarquil]] tribes of Libaterra use dark-skinned desert elves as slaves and kill any lizardmen they can find. Demons see all non-demon races as inferior which in their view justifies that they can use these "lesser races" as slaves and food.

* [[Fantasy Pantheon]]: Various gods live in the High Plane and are basically divided into factions supporting Chaos, Order or Neutrality. Each god and goddess is a [[Jerkass Gods|jerkass]] to a degree.

* [[Fetch Quest]]: Quite a few such as the quest for the Cricket Ball of Magic.

* [[Feuding Families]]: The Jardines and the Mathesons.

* [[Hidden Agenda Villain]]: The Master. The heroes know that he is connected to the Blood Fever epidemic somehow, but his overall goals remain a mystery.

* [[Hidden Elf Village]]: Illunii, Sanae and Tel'Elee are the three great elven cities in the world, all of which are hidden in ancient forests.

* [[Hitman with a Heart]]: Sylus defects from the Order of the Black Rose when he can't bring himself to kill people anymore.

* [[Hive Mind]]: The Dwellers have a hivemind which calls itself the Essence. Essentially every Dweller is just an extension of the Essence's will, and thus killing one Dweller (even a powerful, evolved one) doesn't harm the Essence itself.

* [[I Have You Now, My Pretty]]: Galeras Matheson forces Amarawyn Jardine to marry him and uses the marriage as a means to take over her business in Jardine.

* [[I Have Your Wife]]: Ferron forces Refan to work for him by threatening to kill Refan's son Gabriel if Refan refuses. Arawn kidnaps Kagetsu's wife Marya, forcing Kagetsu to work for him and preventing him from joining the Alliance.

'''Arawn''': Oh, I think not, my dear friend Kagetsu. I'm afraid I'll have to have some assurance of our friendship from here on in. I cannot have you joining yourself to the elf-lover and the wizard. Know that from this day onward, I own your precious wife. }}

** Unlike the other two examples, when Glaurung finds out that some shady people want to use her kidnapped son Hannibal as a means to control her, she doesn't submit as easily. Instead, she responds by placing a ransom on the heads of the ''kidnappers''.

* [[Just Like Us]]: Some of the heroes of the Grand Alliance have realized that the Crimson Coalition might not be as bad as they originally thought. Many others in the Alliance refuse to see it that way, however.

* [[Katanas Are Just Better]]: Dokubaraken is a special katana which has been used by Kagetsu I, various Distreyd Thanadars and most recently {{spoiler|Geraden Aurelac}}. Yamatians and the Akai Tora also prefer katanas as their main weapons.

* [[Killed Off for Real]]: A bunch of people, most recently {{spoiler|Awar, Belial, Ismail, Marya, Nalaen and Pronin}}.

* [[Killer Rabbit]]: Plushiebunny's first form looks like a cute and harmless black rabbit. It couldn't be further from the truth...

* [[The Kingdom]]: Aison, Libaterra, Maar Sul, Remon and Scundia in the Third Age.

* [[Knight in Shining Armor]]: Marcus is a virtuous, and gullible, paladin who is always eager to save damsels in distress and set things right.

* [[The Ladette]]: Ax is a spunky woman who likes to fight dirty, drink, and curse.

* [[Lady of Black Magic]]: Desdemona and Shyralis are quite frail-looking but wise women who possess tremendous magical powers.

* [[Lady of War]]: Skye fights elegantly.

* [[Last of His Kind]]: Daven is the last of the Lefein race... until he finds out that in fact [[There Is Another]].

* [[The Legions of Hell]]: Demons, demons, demons.

* [[Les Collaborateurs]]: Martin Struan chooses to betray his Maar Sulais countrymen and work for the Yamatians in order to get the throne of Maar Sul for himself.

* [[Our Gnomes Are Weirder]]: The sand gnomes of Tronin Desert are savage, bestial beings who try to kill and eat the heroes. However, the heroes end up killing and eating ''them''.

* [[Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions]]: The Magicracy of Alent believes only in the power of man, having forsaken the gods who they see as cruel, enslaving beings.

* [[Overlord, Jr.]]: Hannibal and Xerathas are this to Glaurung and Zarnagon, respectively.

* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Kaisa lost her parents in the Great War.

* [[Religion of Evil]]: Clergies of Mardük and Nergal.

* [[The Remnant]]: The new version of the Akai Tora.

* [[The Reveal]]: Plenty. Some examples: {{spoiler|Refan and Zarnagon}} turn out to be brothers as well as sons of a powerful demon lord, the Shadow is {{spoiler|Leon's old mentor Taliesin}}, Steve is {{spoiler|the reborn Despard Silverbranch}}, Khalid turns out to be {{spoiler|Belial's son and the exiled emir of Vanna}}, and {{spoiler|Vaetris}} is actually one of the four archdemons.

* [[Rightful King Returns]]: Agarwaen, Khalid and Marcus turn out to be of royal blood and come to claim their rightful throne from usurpers. Averted with Byron who never manages to reclaim his throne despite his efforts.

* [[Transhuman Treachery]]: When Arbriel's plan fails and he turns into a zombie who manages to retain his sentience, he decides to turn everyone into his undead servants so that they can share his pain.

* [[Trash Talk]]: Ax and Leraje are fond of this. An example from a duel between Ax and Varalia:

* [[Treacherous Advisor]]: Firion is this to the elven king Amandil in Folsworth Woods during the Great War. Iblis also ends up being one in the Godslayer era because the only reason he aided Sultana Adela as her vizier was to {{spoiler|subtly weaken Vanna from within and let his true masters, the demons of the Southern Horde, to invade Adela's realm}}.

* [[Tsundere]]: Unithien is usually a kind and compassionate white mage but she reacts violently to any man who is unlucky enough to provoke her. A hilarious example takes place in Vanna when she tries to seduce a guard in order to gain access to a cell where her mother is. Let's just say it doesn't end well for the lecherous guard.

* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: Glaurung wishes to create a world with no borders and make everyone equal. Jemuel wishes to unite Libaterra under his rule and make others see the threat posed by the demon hordes. Kagetsu I wishes to destroy the world and kill the gods in order to spread their powers among mortals and create an everlasting paradise. Taliesin is willing to kill a lot of people in order to maintain the balance in the world. Xerathas manipulates people in order to keep Aison safe and to prevent a bigger catastrophe which he has seen in visions.

* [[Wham! Line]]: Several, some examples listed below. '''Here there be spoilers!'''

'''Vaetris''': "Woman, [[Demon Lords and Archdevils|do you understand who you're dealing with]]? [[Evil All Along|Vaetris L'andariel]], [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Duchess of the Eastern Horde]]... [[Oh Crap|soon to be Grand Duchess of the Four Hordes]]." }}

* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Marcus chops off the head of an unarmed Yamatian officer in anger even though the officer was a prisoner of war who was to be interrogated the following morning. Ax leaves a group of injured Totenkopfs, who plead for their lives, to die in a collapsing temple out of anger for them hurting her friends. Their friends are shocked by the two's actions and call them out. When Marcus rejoins the heroes and explains his reason for siding with the antagonist Xerathas during the Vanna arc, the heroes call him out and blame him for acting selfishly and endangering everyone's lives in the process.

** A villainous variant happens to a few prominent clerics of Mardük and Yamatians who meet in a shady inn and start working together as a group to stop Marcus Sarillius's rebellion against the Yamatian overlords in Remon.

* [[You Are Not Alone]]: Marcus is about to face the ice elemental alone but is quickly joined by Ax and various other heroes who tell him that he's not alone and that they'll fight the elemental together.

* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: What the Master says to {{spoiler|Belial}} before having him killed.

* [[You Kill It, You Bought It]]: Whoever kills a higher level demon takes said demon's place and title. The son of Distreyd Thanadar must kill his father to become the next Distreyd while also dealing with siblings who are after the same title...

* [[You Killed My Father]]: Refan finds and kills his mother's murderer Derak. Belial tries to kill Refan when he mistakes him for Omaroch who killed Belial's brother Antigonus.

* [[You Monster!]]: Uttered by Khalid during the siege of Vanna when he saw how coldly Razoul acted even though Razoul's father Ismail had been slain only a moment ago before their very eyes.

'''Razoul''': I am what I am. Someone has to be. }}

* [[You Will Be Assimilated]]: The Dwellers do this to their victims.

 

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