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Times have been tough for [[Butt Monkey|Frederic]] ever since his father, Rael Bladeoath, was executed for alleged treason against the King. Frederic believes that his father must have been framed, but before he can find out the truth, he's ambushed and critically injured by [[Schoolyard Bully All Grown Up|Temonz]], a member of a rival family. With [[An Arm and Aa Leg|his right arm torn off]] and bleeding to death, it looks like the end for Frederic...
 
...[[First -Episode Resurrection|Except not]], as he's approached by the demon [[Evil Overlord|Krotus]] and accepts his [[Deal Withwith the Devil|offer]] to be [[The Undead|resurrected]] [[Our Liches Are Different|as a powerful lich]] in exchange for his [[Undying Loyalty]] to Krotus. After demonstrating to [[Asshole Victim|Temonz]] [[Who's Laughing Now?|that he's no weakling anymore]], he begins settling into his new unlife as [[Villain Protagonist|Frederone]], [[Evil Feels Good|happily]] using his [[The Evil Genius|talents]] and [[Necromancer|newfound powers]] to further Krotus's goal of [[Take Over the World|conquering the warring Northel and Southea lands]].
 
All is not well for our [[Villain Protagonist]], however, as aside from the obvious problem of being reviled by the human race he used to belong to, he also has to deal with the [[Ill Girl|terminal illness]] of his childhood friend Rosetta who he still loves, the presence of [[Doppelganger Replacement Love Interest|Marliene]] if he fails to save Rosetta, and the [[The Starscream|scheming]] of various other servants to dispose of him and/or Krotus. And perhaps in the end, his own lingering conscience.
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[[Multiple Endings|It all depends on your choices.]]
 
The official website for ''Winter Shard'' is [http://fiasanctuary.lunaen.com/wintershard/ here]. Unfortunately, the website's download links for the game are currently broken, but [http://rapidlibrary.com/files/winter-shard-1-1-zip_ulf8evqz9xi89on.html this alternate download link] still works as of this time of typing.
 
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=== This game contains the following tropes: ===
* [[A God Am I]]: {{spoiler|Frederone becomes this in the game's darkest route, with a cult worshipping him and performing human sacrifices in his name.}}
* [[Affably Evil]]: Krotus might be an undead conqueror, but his official goal is to end the long war between Northel and Southea and he treats Frederone better than most people ever did during his lifetime. The True ending even has him {{spoiler|congratulate Frederone after he defeats him and give him one last smile before dying}}.
* [[An Arm and Aa Leg]]: Frederone gets [[Red Right Hand|a new right arm capable of tearing through flesh]] from Krotus to replace his lost one.
* [[Anti-Villain]]: Frederone, in some endings.
* [[Asshole Victim]]: Temonz is killed by the newly Frederic-turned-Frederone near the beginning of the game, but considering that he was the one who brutally mocked Frederic, tore off his right arm and left him for dead, you probably won't feel ''too'' sorry for him.
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* [[Childhood Friend Romance]]: Frederone reunites with his childhood love Rosetta partway into the game. Of course, his new identity as the Frozen Lich, not to mention her [[Ill Girl|terminal illness]], complicates things between them.
* [[Dark Messiah]]: Krotus claims to only want to end the perpetual war between Northel and Southea by conquering one or both of them. {{spoiler|[[Word of God]] reveals that this actually is probably true, as he was summoned by Frederone's father [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|with the express purpose of giving both sides of the war a common enemy to unite against]].}}
* [[Deal Withwith the Devil]]: Although Frederone doesn't seem to regret it in the least.
* [[Doppelganger Replacement Love Interest]]: Marliene was literally created for this purpose, but Frederone can subvert it by refusing to accept her.
* [[Driven to Suicide]]: {{spoiler|Rosetta will commit suicide some time after her resurrection if Frederone isn't there to prevent it. Marliene will also kill herself if Frederone coldly rebukes her advances.}}
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* [[Evil Overlord]]: Krotus, and Frederone in some endings.
* [[Eye Scream]]: Frederone completes his [[Humiliation Conga]] of Temonz by impaling his newly bony fingers with the eyes of his slain henchmen. Fortunately, we don't get to see an image of ''that'' ourselves.
* [[First -Episode Resurrection]]
* [[Flower Motifs]]: Rosetta's association with roses is the most obvious, but [[Word of God]] says that the hair colors of Rosetta, Marliene and Metheus were based on the rose-related meanings for them: Rosetta's pink represents grace, Marliene's red love, and Metheus's yellow friendship.
* [[Go Out Withwith a Smile]]: {{spoiler|Marliene and Krotus}} in the True ending.
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: Metheus gets himself killed while protecting Frederone from his new master, but Frederone is able to resurrect him afterwards. A more final one occurs in the True ending with {{spoiler|Marliene, Metheus, and Frederone himself}}.
* [[Hundred Percent100% Completion]]: Getting all of the game's endings unlocks the Staff Room, which provides more backstory to the game and explanations for several questions left unanswered by the game.
* [[I Ate What?]]: In the darkest ending, {{spoiler|Frederone forces Zewoe to eat the chopped-up remains of Marliene's body for dinner}}.
* [[Ill Girl]]: Rosetta.
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* [[Multiple Endings]]: Eight of them, mainly determined by whether Federone acts more like a [[Complete Monster]] or an [[Anti-Villain]] throughout the game and his actions with Rosetta and Marliene.
* [[Necromancer]]
* [[No Canon for Thethe Wicked]]: Getting the True ending requires Frederone to act as much like an [[Anti-Villain]] as possible.
* [[Nonstandard Game Over]]: One of the game's [[Multiple Endings|eight endings]] feels more like this, as it comes from picking wrong on the very first choice of the game and results in an unglorious death for Frederone.
* [[Our Liches Are Different]]
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* [[Rose-Haired Girl]]: [[Meaningful Name|Rose]]tta.
* [[Schoolyard Bully All Grown Up]]: Temonz, which makes him ripe material for an [[Asshole Victim]].
* [[Shout -Out]]: While [[Word of God]] says that any ''[[Star Wars]]'' parallels between {{spoiler|Palpatine and Darth Vader}} and {{spoiler|Krotus and Frederone}} were purely coincidental, the resemblance of the rose monster Frederone uses to keep Rosetta alive to the one in ''[[Castlevania]]'' was intentional.
* [[The Starscream]]: Several of Krotus's undead minions actively plot against him throughout the game, Jubeist being the most notable of them.
* [[Take Over the World]]: {{spoiler|It's subverted in some endings, though.}}
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