History Characters / EtrianOdysseyV

* MagikarpPower: At the start of the game, Shamans are [[TheLoad practically useless]]. First, their low TP pool at early levels means that they can only cast maybe two or three of their rather expensive buffs before running out of TP. Second, while their buffs are very valuable, [[CripplingOverspecialization it's all they're good for]] until they learn their deeper skills, meaning that when they don't need to be extending the durations of their buffs, they're spending their turns either guarding or doing ScratchDamage. But with enough Skill Points (about 40 or so levels' worth, including the bonus points from upgrading to Master classes), they become highly valuable to the team, able to augment them with stat buffs and elemental damage, and depending on the choice of title, near-constant healing or a combination of lethal burst damage to enemies and ''TP restoration''.

* BarrierChangeBoss: The Crystal Dragon can manifest in two forms, each giving it different strengths and weaknesses. When the spilkes of its wings are extended, it is weak against all melee attacks (stab, cut and bash) but resistant against all elements (FireIceLightning). The the spikes are retracted to give prominence to the turbine-like features of the wings, the weaknesses and resistances are swapped. The player's character party has to keep an eye on the current appearance of the Dragon to know what type of attack to perform next.

* LegacyBossBattle: Hippogryph is the guardian of the Buried Castle maze in ''Nexus'', and behaves nearly identically to its first appearance. Notably, it's the ''only'' boss from ''Beyond the Myth'' to return.

* BoobsOfSteel: She's pretty busty and she has pretty good STR for a Deathguard.

* CloudCuckooLander: At one point she muses about wanting to become a happy little ''acorn''. [[spoiler: During the quest 'Request Friends Forever' she happily walk up to one of the game's [[BonusBoss optional bosses]] trying to befriend it, before noticing the room she's in is littered by dead bodies.]]

* DelinquentHair: The other male portrait has spiky light blue hair that [[PeekABangs covers half his face]].

* WarElephants: A war elephant with branching tusks called that roams a vast, wide-open terrain in Jagged Reach (the second stratum). When first met, his attack power and threat level are far beyond the capabilities of the player's character party, so they have to figure out a way to evade them. In the postgame, there's a sidequest where he's fought as a {{Superboss}}, and by that point the party should be ready for it.

* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: As far as you know, the journey through the postgame Stratum is simply about getting Arken back to her mothership. Then you reach the final floor and find out about this... ''thing'' and what it is capable of doing.

* StatusEffects: Can inflict poison and blind at first, with Graced Poisoners adding confuse, paralyze, petrification and stun to the list.

* DubNameChange: Originaly known as Herbalists. Which is kind of funny because the games' localizations have a tendency of changing some classes' names to "something-list" (Ranger to Surviva''list'', Ballista to Arba''list'', Mystic to Arca''nist'', etc.), yet the one time a Japanese version includes a class named liked that, the localization team ''still'' felt like changing it.

* DubNameChange: Originaly known as Herbalists. Which is kind of funny because the games' localizations have a tendency of chaning some classes' names to "something-list" (Ranger to Surviva''list'', Ballista to Arba''list'', Mystic to Arca''nist'', etc.), yet the one time a Japanese version includes a class named liked that, the localization team ''still'' felt like changing it.

* DubNameChange: Originaly known as Herbalists. Which is kind of funny because the games' localizations have a tendency of chaning some classes' names to "something-list" (Ranger to Surviva''list'', Ballista to Arba''list'', Mystic to Arcan''nist'', etc.), yet the one time a Japanese version includes a class named liked that, the localization team ''still'' felt like changing it.

* DubNameChange: Originaly known as Herbalists. Which is kind of funny because the games' localizations usually change the names of some classes to "X-list" (Ranger to Survivalist, Ballista to Arbalist, etc.), yet the one time a Japanese version includes a class named liked that, the localization team ''still'' felt like changing it.

!!Brouni (ブラニー) in general

* DubNameChange: Originaly known as Herbalists. Which is kind of funny because the games' localizations usually change the names of some classes to "X-list", yet the one time a Japanese version includes a class named liked that, the localization team ''still'' felt like changing it.