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* GreyAndGrayMorality: In ''King Beyond the Gate'' Ananais, the whitest morally of the three protagonists, has "freed" prisoners ambushed and killed to prevent them joining the enemy again.
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* GreyAndGrayMorality: In ''King Beyond the Gate'' Ananais, the whitest morally of the three protagonists, has "freed" prisoners ambushed and killed to prevent them joining the enemy again. For extra kick in the teeth Tenaka, who is pretty much the embodiment of [[IDidWhatIHadToDo cold pragmatism]] points out that it was unnecessary, as their enemies have mind-readers in their ranks and can find out whatever they need regardless.
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* BadassNormal: Many, but Decado in ''The King beyond the Gate'' probably exemplifies it best - faced with a psychic MagicKnight who could read his thoughts and thus anticipate his every move he prevails... because he's just ''so good'' with a sword that all the mind reading achieved was allowing the knight to delay his death for a little while longer.
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* CoversAlwaysLie: At least one cover of ''Legend'' depicts Druss the Captain of the Axe wielding ''a longsword'' instead. This cover also indulges in ComicBookFantasyCasting by making him a dead ringer for Creator/SeanConnery, whom incidentally a young Gemmell used to deliver beer to.
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* MarketBasedTitle: The first US edition of ''Legend'' was published under the title ''Against the Horde'', which was Gemmell's original title for the novel.
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* DistantSequel: Applied frequently, as the novels often take place decades or centuries apart from each other in the Drenai timeline. The most extreme example is ''The Swords of Night and Day,'' set around a thousand years after the era of Druss and Skilgannon, and also serving as a de facto DistantFinale to the saga as a whole. Meanwhile, the events of ''Knights of Dark Renown'' and ''Morningstar'' respectively occur around 1800 and 1400 years prior to the earliest-set novel in the main Drenai saga, and predate the Drenai empire itself.
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The standalone novels ''Knights of Dark Renown'' (1989) and ''Morningstar'' (1992) are understood to be set in the same world as the Drenai stories, but are not considered part of the main saga, taking place hundreds of years apart from each other and well over a millennium before ''Waylander''.
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* AnyoneCanDie: The cast of ''Legend'' is pretty big and just as well as people drop dead left and right with not even major characters being safe.
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* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:Virae ends up being revived near the end of ''Legend'' thanks to Serbitars foresight]].
* BackupFromOtherworld: [[spoiler:During the final siege of Dros Delnoch in ''Legend'', the ghosts of Druss and several others who died during the war show up to hold the tunnel in the final wall. Despite being nothing more than ghostly images, their mere presence alone is enough to scare the nadir to not even try to take the tunnel]].
* BackupFromOtherworld: [[spoiler:During the final siege of Dros Delnoch in ''Legend'', the ghosts of Druss and several others who died during the war show up to hold the tunnel in the final wall. Despite being nothing more than ghostly images, their mere presence alone is enough to scare the nadir to not even try to take the tunnel]].
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* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:Near the climax of ''Legend'' when all hope seems lost, Joakim and three thousand of his sathul warriors show up to help stem the tide of the Nadir attack]].
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* WeAllDieSomeday: A recurring theme in ''Legend'' with everyone's death looming over them.
