History Fanfic / FateRevelationOnline

* BrickJoke: [[spoiler:Yona]], while testing the construction module, develops a deep hatred for the wolves[[note]]Griefer Wolves, specifically[[/note]] that harass him, swearing to drop every last one of them into a lava pit. When the content goes live it includes a "Wolf Trap rule".

---> '''Itagaki''': I wouldn't be happy if Hexi-sempai asked me to wear a maid dress because another girl asked for it.

** Agil's [[PlayingWithFire Heat]] [[AnAxeToGrind Hawk]]. Clearly, someone is a ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'' fan. He's not even the only one.

** Ilya's new castle requires her to do a long quest to get the keys to it. Her solution is to use her [Mystic Eyes of Binding] to have the NPC trade it instead. She states she does it pretty regularly. Her senior apprentice is the first one to use it that way on-screen - by forcing the NPC to enter into marriage with him.

** They're actually so strong and knowledgeable about magecraft it leads to suspicion among some players that Ilya and Shirou are alpha testers, in league with Kayaba, or even outright ''AI''. [[spoiler:For Ilya, one of those rumors is even true.]]

[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9740933/1/Fate-Revelation-Online Fate Revelation Online]] by [[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/314218/daniel-gudman Daniel-Gudman]] is a crossover of the ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'' universe with ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight''.

* DifficultySpike: As the game progresses, [[spoiler:in line with Kayaba's goal of training them to be actual magi,]] it becomes more difficult. Even something like healing evolves from "filling HP bar" to "generating new flesh to stop bleeding" on the fifth floor and will require the players to research further, just to survive the later floors.

* NiceHat: Subverted. Ilya crafts a helmet with deer-like antlers for Shirou. Everybody but she thinks it looks ridiculous until it gets an upgrade later on.

* PowerGlows: The sword arts make the user's weapon glow. Shirou glows when he's using [[UpToEleven Prana Burst]].

* {{Invisibility}}: By the time the players reach the ninth floor there are several versions of this spell running around, but each one has a huge flaw. Foreign prana washes away the invisibility and it only turns what the spell is cast on invisible, so an InvisibilityCloak will appear invisible but show the person beneath it.

* WitchSpecies: Like in the Nasuverse canon, magi like Shirou and Ilya are born. However, Kayaba has somehow managed to induce magic circuits into most other players, allowing them to use magecraft. [[spoiler:Supposedly, most people are actually latent magi, except their magic circuits failed to initialize properly at birth – sort of like being born with a stunted limb. This entire [Death Game] is apparently Kayaba's attempt to both prove this hypothesis and correct the defect in the players.]]

* ShoutOut

* CultureClash: The difference between the Front-Liners and everyone else slowly widens as the game progresses. For example, the Inheritence System allows someone to learn a spell by sharing sensations, watching how a spell is cast from inside someone who already understands it. Front-Liners use this casually; Kirito learned the basic [Cure] spell from the best healer in the game this way. To everyone else, this is an extremely intimate procedure that, at best, should only be done with your own guildmates. So everyone is a little weirded out when he casually teaches Sacchi a spell this way.

* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: The [[BlobMonster slime monsters]] on the fourth floor come in all colors of the rainbow: [[MadeOfExplodium Red]], [[ProjectileSpell Orange]], [[StandardStatusEffects Yellow]], [[HollywoodAcid Green]], [[GradualRegeneration Blue]], [[HealingHands Indigo]], and [[StatusBuff Violet]].

** StandardStatusEffects: The various bosses early in the game have these; e.g., the floor boss on Floor 1 can cause paralysis, and the Floor 3 boss can cause poison.
* TechnicolorToxin: Poisons come in various colors: Red causes [[StandardStatusEffects Status Debuffs]], Green induces [[AndIMustScream Paralysis]], and Blue does DamageOverTime.

* CriticalHit: Any damage that would normally be fatal registers as a critical hit, and if it passes a threshold it can sever a limb.

** By later floors, Shirou's exploits have become famous enough that whenever a floor is cleared unusually quickly, the rumor is that Shirou one-shot it again. It's ''usually'' a case of DungeonBypass instead, though (such as when the DDA skipped a massive maze with their jetpacks).

** Agatha, the NPC on the fifth-floor quest. [[spoiler:She's based on Sakura Matou as a child and Kirito [[UnfortunateImplications hands her over to Zolgen, who's based on Zouken]].]]

* InvincibleHero: Shirou's and Ilya's in-game reputations grow into this. In fact, a minor plot point in the story is the worry that the [[ObviousRulePatch auto-balancing functions]] of the Cardinal system will lead to an inversion of MonsterThreatExpiration and make the game [[NintendoHard harder]] for everyone else.
--> '''Shirou:''' So it's a [[MortonsFork choice]]. Between saving people now and sacrificing people in the future, and sacrificing people now so that people in the future will be safe.\\

** Had [Moby Roc] targeted any other player but Shirou, they would have been killed. It's explicitly mentioned that if Asuna hadn't slowed it down and he didn't have such a high agility score, he wouldn't have been able to activate [Ribs of Steel] in time and it ''still'' takes out half his health. A normal player would have been skewered and carried off if still alive.

* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Zombies are {{Familiar}}s made from human corpses through [Hoodoo Magecraft]. Everything else is [The Dead].

* PoisonIsEvil: So far, only two people have used poison, and both are villains in the making.

* PrimalFear: Yolko is deathly afraid of bugs.

*** The Ether variation of the spell is named [[IncrediblyLamePun Psy]] [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Duck]].

* ZombieApocalypse: The fifth floor is set with this theme.

** For Griselda's party, Grimlock is cited to know all the information and methods to improve magecraft once someone gets him talking. His knowledge basically makes what is supposed to be a raid-sized boss a very easy kill. [[spoiler:Then again, he ''is'' an actual magus...]]

* TheWormThatWalks: '''Zolgen.''' Illya notes that she finds it funny how Kayaba based a boss enemy on his own master, Zouken Matou. [[spoiler:Then Zolgen kills two players who are friends with her apprentice, [[TranquilFury and she doesn't think it's funny any more]]]].

* TheWormThatWalks: '''Zolgen.''' Illya notes that she finds it funny how Kayaba based a boss enemy on his own master, Zouken Matou. [[spoiler:Then Zolgen kills two players who are friends with her apprentice, [[TranquilFury and she doesn't think it's funny any more]].

** Grimrock being a magus in real life means he is more familiar with the idea of danger and is less of a coward, so he doesn't have as much of a problem with his wife becoming more assertive.

** Illya recruits Asuna and Kirito early on, so Asuna never joins the biggest guild, and Kirito is only a solo player for a couple weeks.

** The Wolf Trap rule delays placement of structures while outside Safe Areas. This ensures the system can't be exploited to trap or kill enemies, as [[spoiler:Yona]] apparently has been doing.

* RPGMechanicsVerse: Kirito narrates events, even mundane conversations, as if he were in one. Which, y'know, he is.

** HealingHands: [Cure] spell. As part of the growing realism, it later on works by creating false flesh and gluing it to the wounded flesh to stop bleeding.

** Yui actually has something to do this time around - she serves as a {{Psychopomp}} and devises treatment for adversely affected specimens Kayaba experiments upon.

* TownWithADarkSecret:
** By the end of Chapter 13.2, the town that was under an orc invasion [[spoiler:ends up being the new headquarters of Laughing Coffin]].
** The [=NPCs=] of a town on the 10th floor don't believe in magecraft due to [[spoiler:Zolgen using it as a hiding place and messing with their memories]].

* WitchSpecies: Like in the Nasuverse canon, magi like Shirou and Ilya are born. However, Kayaba has somehow managed to induce magic circuits into most other players, allowing them to use magecraft.
** {{Justified}}. [[spoiler:Supposedly, most people are actually latent magi, except their magic circuits failed to initialize properly at birth – sort of like being born with a stunted limb. This entire [Death Game] is apparently Kayaba's attempt to both prove this hypothesis and correct the defect in the players.]]

* TheWormThatWalks: '''Zolgen.'''

* IWillPunishYourFriendForYourFailure: {{Subverted|Trope}} when Sasha believes Diabel intends to cut funding from the [Boarding School] if she doesn't go along with what he's suggesting. He points out that he'll simply fire her instead and let Yuiler take over with the [Church Aid Society].

* MagicEnhancement: The [Reinforcement] series of spells are the most basic, but there are others.