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* CastFromHitPoints: A Berserker ability allows you to convert life energy into Mana to power your spells.


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* DomedHometown: Abessa, courtesy of the Cleric's technology. It is also difficult to maintain.


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* {{Mana}}: A refined and purified version of Elex and resource unique to the Berserkers. Naturally it is used to power spells.


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* OneManArmy: A high-level Cleric ability is called this and befitting an ability with that name it grants you significant combat bonuses when you are traveling without companions.


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* PsychicPowers: The Clerics have them courtesy of Elex powered technology.


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* SummonMagic: High-level Berseker abilities allow you to summon spirits to help you in combat.


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** The Domed-City of Abessa was founded by the Clerics but they decided to let refugees and people from other factions, including the Alb Seperatists, into the city. Not all of them agree with the policies of the Clerics and by the time you stroll into town the city is a powder keg waiting to go off despite the treat of Alb attacks.
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* WretchedHive: Pretty much any Outlaw (hint, hint) settlement.

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* WretchedHive: Pretty much any Outlaw (hint, hint) settlement. Duras even directly quotes the TropeNamer if brought to the main Outlaw stronghold at the Fort.

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* BeefGate: These are heavily utilize these to keep you out of certain areas of the game world early on. Poking your head outside of the starting city of Goliet without first completing some quests in the city, leveling up a few times and getting some better gear is an invitation to be crushed. However, there usually are ways to bypass the high-level mobs and get to most areas.

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* BeefGate: These are heavily utilize these utilized to keep you out of certain areas of the game world early on. Poking your head outside of the starting city of Goliet without first completing some quests in the city, leveling up a few times and getting some better gear is an invitation to be crushed. However, there usually are ways to bypass the high-level mobs and get to most areas.


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* DetectiveMole: Shortly after reaching Goliet [[spoiler:Duras asks you to help solve a murder mystery for him. Interview all five-suspects and your quickly come to the conclusion Duras is the murderer. He admits it when pressed and you are given the option of turning him in, framing another Berserker or pointing the blame on somebody outside Goliet]].


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* LackOfEmpathy: Albs in general, thanks to Elex stripping away their emotions.
* MachineWorship: The Clerics don't exactly worship technology per se, but they definitely revere it and view it as a blessing from the god Calaan.


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* WeAreStrugglingTogether:
** The Berserkers, Clerics, Seperatists and Outlaws all have a common enemy in the Alb Loyalists. Unfortunately, there is so much bad blood between the four of them they spend just as much time fighting each other as they do the Alb Loyalists.
** The three Berserker Clans - Hooded Crows, Hammer and Isengard - do not see eye-to-eye on a lot of things. Indeed, some clan members are actively sabotaging other clans to convince people to join their clan instead.
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* ActionSurvivor: Jax starts the game getting his jet fighter shot down, shot in the chest and tossed off a cliff. He then proceeds to reclaim his tile of one of the most dangerous and influential individuals in all of Magalan.


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* BeefGate: These are heavily utilize these to keep you out of certain areas of the game world early on. Poking your head outside of the starting city of Goliet without first completing some quests in the city, leveling up a few times and getting some better gear is an invitation to be crushed. However, there usually are ways to bypass the high-level mobs and get to most areas.


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* PunchPunchPunchUhOh: Much like ''Risen'' and ''Gothic'' before it the only way to determine that a given enemy is way beyond your level is to start hacking or blasting away and monitor its healthbar. If it doesn't drop fast that is your sign to start running.


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* WretchedHive: Pretty much any Outlaw (hint, hint) settlement.

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* AnyoneCanDie: You can kill just about any character, even plot important ones. You do get a 'history will be altered' warning when you do so.

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* AnyoneCanDie: You can kill just about any character, even plot important ones. You do get a 'history will be altered' warning when you do so. You can even unintentionally kill quest important characters just by accidentally leading an aggro'ed monster to them.


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* KlingonPromotion: How Outlaws move up in the ranks.
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* CainAndAbel: Kallax, the Alb commander in charge of carrying out Jax's execution is Jax's own brother. You spent a good portion of the game hunting him down.

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* CainAndAbel: Kallax, the Alb commander in charge of carrying out Jax's execution is Jax's own brother. You spent spend a good portion of the game hunting him down.

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* AnyoneCanDie: You can kill just about any character, even plot important ones. You do get a 'history will be altered' warning when you do so.



* AnyoneCanDie: You can kill just about any character, even plot important ones. You do get a 'history will be altered' warning when you do so.
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* AnyoneCanDie: You can kill just about any character, even plot important ones. You do get a warning that 'history will be altered' warning when you do so.

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* AnyoneCanDie: You can kill just about any character, even plot important ones. You do get a warning that 'history will be altered' warning when you do so.

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* AnyoneCanDie: You can kill just about any character, even plot important ones. You do get a warning that 'history will be altered' warning when you do so.



* CainAndAbel: Kallax, the Alb commander in charge of carrying out Jax's execution is Jax's own brother. You spent a good portion of the game hunting him down.



* DangerousDeserter: How the Alb loyalists view the Separatists and Jax once they figure out he is alive.



* EliteMooks: Each faction has a couple different types of these guys. Typically, they have high-end weapons, armor and various faction specific special abilities.



* {{Expy}}: The Clerics have more than a few similarities with the Brotherhood of Steel from ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' being a high-tech religious military order in a post-apocalyptic wasteland that reveres technology and sees itself as the true guardians of the pre-cataclysm world's legacy.



* MostAnnoyingSound: You're gonna get tired of hearing the Berserkers admonish you for using technology real quick. They do it for ''anything'' tech related, including opening your in-game map/inventory/quest tracker or using the jet pack.



* VolcanoLair: The Clerics headquarters and main bases are located in Ignadon; site of the meteor’s impact and riven by constant volcanic activity.

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* VolcanoLair: The Clerics headquarters and main bases are located in Ignadon; site of the meteor’s impact and riven by constant volcanic activity.activity.
* YouHaveFailedMe: The Albs have a zero tolerance policy for failure, with the sentence always being execution followed by Elex extraction from the body.
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* DullSurprise: Let's just say the English voice acting lacks...enthusiasm. And the [[UncannyValley character models]] certainly don't help.
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* EarlyGameHell: As per tradition in Piranha Bytes games, you start out very weak, with no skills, crap gear, and high level mobs ready to stomp you into the ground if you so much as poke your head out of the starting city.
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* AppliedPhlebotinum: Elex. Is serves as fuel, it can produce Mana, it makes you stronger, it enhances weapons and armor, it can make you addictive......the list goes on.
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* CoolVersusAwesome: Druid viking {{Magic Knight}}s vs. a religious police state with super-tech vs. Film/MadMax baddies!
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* MostAnnoyingSound: You're gonna get tired of hearing the Berserkers admonish you for using technology real quick. They do it for ''anything'' tech related, including opening your in-game map/inventory/quest tracker or using the jet pack.
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* DroneDeployer: Playing nice with the Clerics and they give you the ability to summon their combat drones to help blast your enemies.

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* DroneDeployer: Playing Play nice with the Clerics and they give you the ability to summon their combat drones to help blast your enemies.
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* DroneDeployer: Playing nice with the Clerics and they give you the ability to summon their combat drones to help blast your enemies.
* EnemyCivilWar: A group of Albs calling themselves the Separatists have rebelled against rest of the group and are willing to team up with the other factions to take down the Alb loyalists.


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* MechaMooks: The Clerics field humanoid combat robots, along with other types of combat drones and advanced robots, to expand the size of their armies.
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Or in other words ''VideoGame/{{Gothic}}'' meets ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}''. You start the game as an elite Alb commander who has been betrayed and kicked out of the organization. Hunted by his former organization, and the other factions more than willing to kill him if they find out the he is a former Alb, and dealing with emotions for the first time the Alb renegade must forge new alliances if he hopes to survive the wasteland.

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Or in other words ''VideoGame/{{Gothic}}'' meets ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}''. You start the game play as Jax, an elite Alb commander commander, who has been betrayed and kicked out of the organization. Hunted by his former organization, and the other factions more than willing to kill him if they find out the he is a former Alb, and dealing with emotions for the first time the Alb renegade must forge new alliances if he hopes to survive the wasteland.
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* CharacterClassSystem: Averted like it was in ''VideoGame/{{Risen}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Gothic}}''.


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* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: You start the game with your jet fighter being shot down, betrayed by your organization, shot and left for dead and stripped of your armor, weapons and equipment while unconscious. The main plot of the game is you are trying to settle the score.


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* ScienceIsBad: The Berserkers have this mindset in that they view Elex powered technology as an abomination and other means of powering advanced machinery such a steam, gas or diesel engines as polluting the land. So they strip Elex out of any advanced weapons or machinery they come across, purify it into Mana and toss the scrap into a massive junk pile called the Pit in their capital of Goliet.


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* TheStoic: All the Albs are like this because consuming Elex either turns you into a mindless mutant or grants you immense physical power at the cost of your emotions.
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* UrbanFantasy: Takes place in a world that had a civilization roughly the same as modern day Earth's civilization in terms of tech and development. Magic is relatively new development and is only one faction really specializes in it.

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* UrbanFantasy: Takes place in a world that had a civilization roughly the same as modern day Earth's civilization in terms of tech and development. Magic is relatively new development and there is only one faction that really specializes in it.

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* Badass Army: All the factions to one degree or another.

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* Badass Army: ArmyOfThievesAndWhores: Does a pretty good job of summing up the Outlaws (their name is something of a hint).
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All the factions to one degree or another.



** The Clerics are a ChurchMilitant high-tech army, indeed the only other faction in the game that can match or surpass the Albs' tech. The game sums it up as they put their faith in their god Calaan, plasma weapons, mechs and the power of industry.

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** The Clerics are a ChurchMilitant high-tech army, indeed the only other faction in the game that can match or surpass the Albs' tech. The game sums it up as they put their faith in their god Calaan, [[PlasmaCannon plasma weapons, weapons]], mechs and the power of industry.



* TheDreaded: The Albs have a fearsome reputation and for good reasons too. That's why you have to keep the fact you are an ex-Alb soldier a secret from everybody else.

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* TheDreaded: The Albs have a fearsome reputation among the other factions and non-aligned characters and for good reasons too. That's why you have to keep the fact you are an ex-Alb soldier a secret from everybody else.



* GreyAndGrayMorality: The factions that the player can join are this. You can choose between a militaristic, nature worshiping, magic using faction; a freedom-loving, rough and brutal bandit/mercenary faction; or a group of high-tech religious fanatics. [[VideoGame/{{Gothic}} This might remind you]] [[VideoGame/{{Risen}} of other games made by the developers]].



* PlasmaCannon: The Clerics and the Albs both use them.



* TheSocialDarwinist: The Outlaws have a "survival of the fittest" and "might makes right" mentality.

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* TheSocialDarwinist: The Outlaws have a "survival of the fittest" and "might makes right" mentality.mentality.
* UrbanFantasy: Takes place in a world that had a civilization roughly the same as modern day Earth's civilization in terms of tech and development. Magic is relatively new development and is only one faction really specializes in it.
* VolcanoLair: The Clerics headquarters and main bases are located in Ignadon; site of the meteor’s impact and riven by constant volcanic activity.

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* ApocalypticLogistics: Somewhat subverted as the only faction that actively bases its infrastructure, economy and tech on looting pre-cataclysm ruins are the Outlaws. The Berserkers have purposefully regressed to a medieval tech base and using craftsman to manufacture new and relatively simple equipment. The Clerics and Albs have managed to maintain, upgrade and expand pre-cataclysm industries.
* Badass Army: All the factions to one degree or another.
** The Albs are high-tech, emotionless [[SuperSoldier super soldiers]] who are capable of taking on all the other factions at once; raiding them for slaves and resources.
** The Berserkers are a group of nature-worshiping [[MagicKnight magic using medieval warriors]] who manage to hold their own against the other three more technologically advanced factions.
** The Clerics are a ChurchMilitant high-tech army, indeed the only other faction in the game that can match or surpass the Albs' tech. The game sums it up as they put their faith in their god Calaan, plasma weapons, mechs and the power of industry.
** The Outlaws are a near anarchic ArmyOfThievesAndWhores that scavenge weapons and technology from the ruins and use Elex as a combat stimulant.



* DecadeDissonance: You got the Berserkers, pretty much Druid Vikings, existing only a few miles from the Mad Max inspired Outlaw settlements and the high-tech Alb and Cleric bases and fortresses.

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* DecadeDissonance: You got the Berserkers, pretty much Druid Vikings, Vikings who have abandoned modern technology, existing only a few miles from the Mad Max inspired Outlaw (who are armed with modern day weapons) settlements and the high-tech Alb and Cleric bases and fortresses. fortresses.
* TheDreaded: The Albs have a fearsome reputation and for good reasons too. That's why you have to keep the fact you are an ex-Alb soldier a secret from everybody else.



* MagicKnight: Berserkers again, traditional medieval warriors with some magical powers.
* TheMagicVersusTechnologyWar: The [[NatureHero Berserkers]] are magic users locked into a war with the Outlaws, Albs and Clerics; all of which have more advanced technology.



* TheMagicVersusTechnologyWar: The [[NatureHero Berserkers]] are magic users locked into a war with the Outlaws, Albs and Clerics; all of which have more advanced technology.
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* [[NatureHero Berserkers]]: a group of warrior who have renounced modern technology and the use of Elex, preferring to purify the substance into Mana to wield magic and restore life to nature.

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* [[NatureHero Berserkers]]: a group of warrior warriors who have renounced modern technology and the use of Elex, preferring to purify the substance into Mana to wield magic and restore life to nature.
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* [[NatureHero Berserkers]]: a group of warrior who have renounce modern technology and the use of Elex, preferring to purify the substance into Mana to wield magic and restore life to nature.

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* [[NatureHero Berserkers]]: a group of warrior who have renounce renounced modern technology and the use of Elex, preferring to purify the substance into Mana to wield magic and restore life to nature.
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Developed by German developer Piranha Bytes, the makers of ''VideoGame/{{Risen}}'', Elex is a third-person Western RPG released in 2017. Taking place on the fictional world of Magalan, home to a Human civilization roughly equivalent to modern day Earth, after a meteor hit the planet causing the collapse of said civilization. And just make matters more interesting the meteor brought with it the element Elex, a precious and limited resource which can power advanced machinery, give people magical powers and re-shape creatures into new and different life forms. Four factions are currently warring for control over Elex:

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Developed by German developer Piranha Bytes, the makers of ''VideoGame/{{Risen}}'', Elex is a third-person Western RPG released in 2017. Taking place on the fictional world of Magalan, home to a Human civilization roughly equivalent to modern day Earth, after a meteor hit the planet causing the collapse of said civilization. And just to make matters more interesting the meteor brought with it the element Elex, a precious and limited resource which can power advanced machinery, give people magical powers and re-shape creatures into new and different life forms. Four factions are currently warring for control over Elex:

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* Albs: a group of [[SuperSoldier super soldiers]] who consume Elex to enhance their bodies as well as rid themselves of emotions.

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* Albs: [[TheStoic Albs]]: a group of [[SuperSoldier super soldiers]] who consume Elex to enhance their bodies as well as rid themselves of emotions.



* Outlaws: raiders who have no formal leadership and operate with a "survival of the fittest" mentality, use improvised and deadly weaponry, and consume Elex in the form of specialized stimulant drugs.

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* Outlaws: [[TheSocialDarwinist Outlaws]]: raiders who have no formal leadership and operate with a "survival of the fittest" mentality, use improvised and deadly weaponry, and consume Elex in the form of specialized stimulant drugs.



* PostApunkalypticArmor: Worn by the Outlaws and non-aligned characters. The other factions avert this.



* ScienceFantasy: Magalan was pretty much modern day Earth until the meteor hit and introduced Elex into the mix. Now magic coexists with modern and futuristic technology.

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* ScienceFantasy: Magalan was pretty much modern day Earth until the meteor hit and introduced Elex into the mix. Now magic coexists with modern and futuristic technology.technology.
* TheSocialDarwinist: The Outlaws have a "survival of the fittest" and "might makes right" mentality.
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Developed by German developer Piranha Bytes, the makers of VideoGame/{{Risen}}, Elex is a third-person Western RPG released in 2017. Taking place on the fictional world of Magalan, home to a Human civilization roughly equivalent to modern day Earth, after a meteor hit the planet causing the collapse of said civilization. And just make matters more interesting the meteor brought with it the element Elex, a precious and limited resource which can power advanced machinery, give people magical powers and re-shape creatures into new and different life forms. Four factions are currently warring for control over Elex:

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Developed by German developer Piranha Bytes, the makers of VideoGame/{{Risen}}, ''VideoGame/{{Risen}}'', Elex is a third-person Western RPG released in 2017. Taking place on the fictional world of Magalan, home to a Human civilization roughly equivalent to modern day Earth, after a meteor hit the planet causing the collapse of said civilization. And just make matters more interesting the meteor brought with it the element Elex, a precious and limited resource which can power advanced machinery, give people magical powers and re-shape creatures into new and different life forms. Four factions are currently warring for control over Elex:
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* DecadeDissonance: You got the Berserkers, pretty much Druid Vikings, existing only a few miles from the Mad Max inspired Outlaw settlements and the high-tech Alb and Cleric bases and fortresses.


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* JetPack: You have one.


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* ScavengerWorld: Played straight with the Outlaws as the scavenge what is left of the civilization. The other factions avert this. Both the Albs and Clerics manufacture new weapons and equipment. The Beserkers, meanwhile, shun modern technology all together.

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* Clerics of Calaan: a religious police state where consuming Elex is forbidden and is instead used to power highly advanced weapons technology.
* Berserkers: a group of warrior who have renounce modern technology and the use of Elex, preferring to purify the substance into Mana to wield magic and restore life to nature.

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* [[ChurchMilitant Clerics of Calaan: Calaan]]: a religious police state where consuming Elex is forbidden and is instead used to power highly advanced weapons technology.
* Berserkers: [[NatureHero Berserkers]]: a group of warrior who have renounce modern technology and the use of Elex, preferring to purify the substance into Mana to wield magic and restore life to nature.



Or in other words VideoGame/{{Gothic}} meets VideoGame/{{Fallout}}. You start the game as an elite Alb commander who has been betrayed and kicked out of the organization. Hunted by his former organization, and the other factions more than willing to kill him if they find out the he is a former Alb, and dealing with emotions for the first time the Alb renegade must forge new alliances if he hopes to survive the wasteland.

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Or in other words VideoGame/{{Gothic}} ''VideoGame/{{Gothic}}'' meets VideoGame/{{Fallout}}.''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}''. You start the game as an elite Alb commander who has been betrayed and kicked out of the organization. Hunted by his former organization, and the other factions more than willing to kill him if they find out the he is a former Alb, and dealing with emotions for the first time the Alb renegade must forge new alliances if he hopes to survive the wasteland.

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* AfterTheEnd: The game takes place after a meteor strike caused civilization on Magalan to collapse.
* BeliefMakesYouStupid: Subverted, the religious faction is also the most technologically and scientifically advanced.
* ChickenWalker: The Clerics and the Albs both have mechs like this.
* ChurchMilitant: The Cleric faction in a nutshell.
* CrapsackWorld: Well what can you expect? There is a major war between multiple factions after civilization took a major hit from a meteor.
* FantasyGunControl: Averted, as this fantasy world has more in common with ''Videogame/ShadowrunReturns'' and ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' then with ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls''.
* NatureHero: What your character becomes if they join the Berserkers.
* TheMagicVersusTechnologyWar: The [[NatureHero Berserkers]] are magic users locked into a war with the Outlaws, Albs and Clerics; all of which have more advanced technology.
* ScienceFantasy: Magalan was pretty much modern day Earth until the meteor hit and introduced Elex into the mix. Now magic coexists with modern and futuristic technology.
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Developed by German developer Piranha Bytes, the makers of VideoGame/{{Risen}}, Elex is a third-person Western RPG released in 2017. Taking place on the fictional world of Magalan, home to a Human civilization roughly equivalent to modern day Earth, after a meteor hit the planet causing the collapse of said civilization. And just make matters more interesting the meteor brought with it the element Elex, a precious and limited resource which can power advanced machinery, give people magical powers and re-shape creatures into new and different life forms. Four factions are currently warring for control over Elex:

* Albs: a group of [[SuperSoldier super soldiers]] who consume Elex to enhance their bodies as well as rid themselves of emotions.
* Clerics of Calaan: a religious police state where consuming Elex is forbidden and is instead used to power highly advanced weapons technology.
* Berserkers: a group of warrior who have renounce modern technology and the use of Elex, preferring to purify the substance into Mana to wield magic and restore life to nature.
* Outlaws: raiders who have no formal leadership and operate with a "survival of the fittest" mentality, use improvised and deadly weaponry, and consume Elex in the form of specialized stimulant drugs.

Or in other words VideoGame/{{Gothic}} meets VideoGame/{{Fallout}}. You start the game as an elite Alb commander who has been betrayed and kicked out of the organization. Hunted by his former organization, and the other factions more than willing to kill him if they find out the he is a former Alb, and dealing with emotions for the first time the Alb renegade must forge new alliances if he hopes to survive the wasteland.

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