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''Exile'' was a series of [[FantasyVideoGames Fantasy]] [[WesternRPG RPGs]] created by Jeff Vogel of Creator/SpiderwebSoftware. They [[http://www.spiderwebsoftware.com/productsOld.html remain available]] as {{freeware}} for older computers running [[AppleMacintosh Mac OS Classic]] or [[IBMPersonalComputer 32-bit Windows]]. (''Exile III'' was also ported to [[UsefulNotes/{{UNIX}} Linux]] by a third party.) The four games were later remade as an [[IsometricProjection isometric 3D]] series called ''VideoGame/{{Avernum}}'', which added a fifth, sixth, and seventh installment.
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* MinmaxersDelight: The Ambidextrous trait. It allows DuelWielding without penalty. Incredibly powerful and the experience penalty for taking it is mild.
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* SequenceBreaking: The original series allowed for some cases of this - using the text-entry system, you could sometimes jump ahead simply by asking a character about something you really shouldn't know to ask them about yet. The loss of the text-entry function in the remakes closed most of these holes.
** An odd 'in-game' example appears in the 'Tower of Sixus' dungeon in the second game - where you HAVE to sequence-break to get the best results, by finding a breakable wall halfway through a trap-filled maze, and going through it to find a shortcut directly to the boss-room.
** An odd 'in-game' example appears in the 'Tower of Sixus' dungeon in the second game - where you HAVE to sequence-break to get the best results, by finding a breakable wall halfway through a trap-filled maze, and going through it to find a shortcut directly to the boss-room.
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[[SimilarlyNamedWorks Not to be confused with]] the third installment of the ''VideoGame/{{Myst}}'' series, or a completely different ''[[VideoGame/ExileBBCMicro Exile]]'' created in 1988 for the BBCMicro.
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* MinmaxersDelight: The Amidextrous trait. It allows DuelWielding without penalty. Incredibly powerful and the experience penalty for taking it is mild.
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* DifficultySpike: The Golem plague in Exile III. They are much nastier than anything you faced before, being tough and having powerful magical projectiles that ignore armour. In addition, their lair is one of the nastiest dungeons in the entire series.
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* {{Nephilim}}: InNameOnly, they're a race of CatFolk.
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* {{Cult}}: The Church of the Anama.
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* {{Cult}}: The Church of the Anama.Anama, which believes that Mage spells are an ultimately evil force that humanity should abandon in favour of divine magic and alchemy.
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* FlowerFromTheMountaintop: A quest given by a dryad.
* GameMaker: ''Blades of Exile''.
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* FlowerFromTheMountaintop: A quest given by a dryad.
dryad in Exile III.
* GameMaker: ''Blades of Exile''. Now open source.
* GameMaker: ''Blades of Exile''. Now open source.
*** There's a few other "generic" traders who are also justified in ridiculous and humorous ways in Exile III, such as a fletcher who apparently keeps forgetting everything except his trade, but has an inexplicable gift for "fitting in" wherever he goes. There's also a guy who owns a chain or near-identical shops, and who personally runs one of them every day - hilariously, it will always just happen to be the one you've just entered.
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* MoneySpider: Yes, but "gold" isn't [[GlobalCurrency standard currency]].
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* SuicidalOverconfidence: Averted. Monsters can flee unwinnable battles.
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* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: The Goblins. They're so stupid and uncultured that only thing they can do is banditry, but they're so laughably weak it's quite possible you'll feel pity for them. Bonus points because they're often bullied or enslaved by other races, especially the Nephilim.
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* ThatOneDisadvantage: Pacifist in ''Exile II''. Such a character cannot attack the enemy in any way whatsoever, and can't even cast most spells that would indirectly lead to an enemy being harmed. Even worse when you realize that, since most experience is gained by killing stuff, your character will lag behind despite the massive experience bonus he gets by taking this disadvantage. Still, some players use it as a challenge.
** Also, Sluggish. It wasn't worth much in XP savings, and a game like this requires perfect rationing of action points to succeed. A character with less-than-stellar action points will easily be left behind when everyone else advances on the enemy, and also left to be ganged up on and eaten alive when everyone else is fleeing. Furthermore, the Haste spells (critical in the late game) only multiply action points; someone who can barely move before Haste can still only move a little better after it.
** Also, Sluggish. It wasn't worth much in XP savings, and a game like this requires perfect rationing of action points to succeed. A character with less-than-stellar action points will easily be left behind when everyone else advances on the enemy, and also left to be ganged up on and eaten alive when everyone else is fleeing. Furthermore, the Haste spells (critical in the late game) only multiply action points; someone who can barely move before Haste can still only move a little better after it.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: It's mentioned in the first game that the Nephilim were sent down through another portal, but you can't find it in-game, and it's never explained what happened to it by the time Exile II starts. You'd think it would be important, since it's another potential entry point for the Empire.
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* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Averted for the Slithzerikai, Nephilim and Vahnatai - there are plenty of good members of each race, and there are even a few friendly Undead spirits. Played straight with Daemons, who are always evil, though some do help you for entirely selfish reasons. Subverted with the Troglodytes and Giants - they are always your enemies, but then again it was the humans who virtually exterminated them in the first place, so they have good reason to hate you.
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* TheArchmage: Several. The Triad mages, the ruling trio of the Tower of the Magi in Exile, are the most prominent examples. They have a very important role in the plot of the entire series - more important than the royalty, in fact.
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* TheArchmage: Several. The Triad mages, the ruling trio of the Tower of the Magi in Exile, are the most prominent examples. They have a very important role in the plot of the entire series - more important than the royalty, in fact. It is explicitly stated that the greatest mistake the Empire made was sending several powerful mages to Exile.
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* BeneathTheEarth: Exile itself.
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* BuryYourGays: The Empire considers homosexuals to be "misfits" and sends them to Exile. The nation of Exile, however, is much more tolerant.
* CatFolk: The Nephilim. They're more nimble than humans and good archers, but not as organized, and thus serve as low-level antagonists in the first two games.
* CatFolk: The Nephilim. They're more nimble than humans and good archers, but not as organized, and thus serve as low-level antagonists in the first two games.
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* EnemySummonerEnemySummoner: Introduced in Exile II. Enemy spellcasters can summon additional creatures to help them.
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* FantasticRacism: The Empire hunts down damn near everything that isn't human, and has succeeded in wiping out at least one race of sentient humanoids.
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* FantasticRacism: The Empire hunts down damn near everything that isn't human, and has succeeded in wiping out at least one race of sentient humanoids. They have pretty much cleared the entire surface world of non-humans, save for a few isolated groups deep in the wilderness.
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* {{Golem}}s: Only the classic rock version in the first two game, but many new types are introduced in the third game.
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* LinearWarriorsQuadraticWizards: Somewhat subvertes: The warriors are weaker later in the game, but the most effective use of a mage or priest's spell points is buffing the warriors - a blessed, hasted warrior can usually do more damage than a single fireball.
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* LinearWarriorsQuadraticWizards: Somewhat subvertes: subverted: The warriors are weaker later in the game, but the most effective use of a mage or priest's spell points is buffing the warriors - a blessed, hasted warrior can usually do more damage than a single fireball.
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* LizardFolk: The Slithzerikai. They are both stronger and smarter than the humans, but their vicious ways prevent them from obtaining allies. They are the major mid-game antagonists in the first two games.
* PenalColony: Exile is where the Empire dumps its misfits and petty criminals. There's also the Abyss, a sort of "Exile within Exile".
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ActuallyFourMooks: Wandering monsters (and occasionally non-hostile guard patrols) are represented this way on the map.
* TheArchmage: Several. The Triad mages, the ruling trio of the Tower of the Magi in Exile, are the most prominent examples. They have a very important role in the plot of the entire series - more important than the royalty, in fact.
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AutomatonHorses: Only appear in Exile III and Blades. They are utterly invincible and require no food. On the other hand, you can't take them indoors or into dungeons.
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* AntiMagicalFaction: The Anama. A cult on Valorim that considers all Mage magic to be evil (they allow - even encourage - the use of Priest magic, though).
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* LivingStatueLivingStatue: Some serve as "concealed" enemies, others can offer important information, but you often need to tell them a password of some sort.
* NonStandardGameOver: Try opening a certain portal in Exile II and "forget" to close it before leaving. [[spoiler: The entire northwestern part of Exile will collapse, killing your party and many, many other people. On the bright side, most Empire troops were stationed in the northwest, which means Exile wins the war... at an enormous cost.]]
** There are a few more: For example, try killing King Micah or Erika.
** There are a few more: For example, try killing King Micah or Erika.
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''Exile'' was a series of [[FantasyVideoGames Fantasy]] [[WesternRPG RPGs]] created by Jeff Vogel of Creator/SpiderwebSoftware. They [[http://www.spiderwebsoftware.com/productsOld.html remain available]] as {{shareware}} {{freeware}} for older computers running [[AppleMacintosh Mac OS Classic]] or [[IBMPersonalComputer 32-bit Windows]]. (''Exile III'' was also ported to [[UsefulNotes/{{UNIX}} Linux]] by a third party.) The four games were later remade as an [[IsometricProjection isometric 3D]] series called ''VideoGame/{{Avernum}}'', which added a fifth, sixth, and seventh installment.
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''Exile'' was a series of [[FantasyVideoGames Fantasy]] [[WesternRPG RPGs]] created by Jeff Vogel of Spiderweb Software.Creator/SpiderwebSoftware. They [[http://www.spiderwebsoftware.com/productsOld.html remain available]] as {{shareware}} for older computers running [[AppleMacintosh Mac OS Classic]] or [[IBMPersonalComputer 32-bit Windows]]. (''Exile III'' was also ported to [[UsefulNotes/{{UNIX}} Linux]] by a third party.) The four games were later remade as an [[IsometricProjection isometric 3D]] series called ''VideoGame/{{Avernum}}'', which added a fifth, sixth, and seventh installment.
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''Exile'' was a series of [[FantasyVideoGames Fantasy]] [[WesternRPG RPGs]] created by Jeff Vogel of Spiderweb Software. They [[http://www.spiderwebsoftware.com/productsOld.html remain available]] as {{shareware}} for older computers running [[AppleMacintosh Mac OS Classic]] or [[IBMPersonalComputer 32-bit Windows]]. (''Exile III'' was also ported to [[{{UNIX}} [[UsefulNotes/{{UNIX}} Linux]] by a third party.) The four games were later remade as an [[IsometricProjection isometric 3D]] series called ''VideoGame/{{Avernum}}'', which added a fifth, sixth, and seventh installment.
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''Exile'' was a series of [[FantasyVideoGames Fantasy]] [[WesternRPG RPGs]] created by Jeff Vogel of Spiderweb Software. They [[http://www.spiderwebsoftware.com/productsOld.html remain available]] as {{shareware}} for older computers running [[AppleMacintosh Mac OS Classic]] or [[IBMPersonalComputer 32-bit Windows]]. (''Exile III'' was also ported to [[{{UNIX}} Linux]] by a third party.) The four games were later remade as an [[IsometricProjection isometric 3D]] series called ''{{Avernum}}'', ''VideoGame/{{Avernum}}'', which added a fifth, sixth, and seventh installment.
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''Exile'' was a series of [[FantasyVideoGames Fantasy]] [[WesternRPG RPGs]] created by Jeff Vogel of Spiderweb Software. They [[http://www.spiderwebsoftware.com/productsOld.html remain available]] as {{shareware}} for older computers running [[AppleMacintosh Mac OS Classic]] or [[IBMPersonalComputer 32-bit Windows]]. (''Exile III'' was also ported to [[{{UNIX}} Linux]] by a third party.) The four games were later remade as an [[IsometricProjection isometric 3D]] series called ''{{Avernum}}'', which added a fifth, sixth, and seventh installment.
The eponymous nation is a vast network of caves to which the surface world banishes its criminals, dissenters, and misfits. In each game, you play a team of Exiles swept up in conflicts between the people of Exile, their nonhuman neighbors in the caves, and the cruel Empire that rules the surface.
* ''Exile: Escape from the Pit'' (released in January 1995)
* ''Exile II: Crystal Souls'' (released in November 1995)
* ''Exile III: Ruined World'' (released in January 1997)
* ''Blades of Exile'' (released in December 1997)
[[SimilarlyNamedWorks Not to be confused with]] the third installment of the ''{{Myst}}'' series, or a completely different 1988 {{BBC Micro}} game [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exile_(arcade_adventure) with the same title]].
!!'''This RPG series displays the following tropes:'''
* ActuallyFourMooks
* TheArchmage: Several.
* ArtifactCollectionAgency: The Cult of the Sacred Item.
* AsteroidsMonster: Slimes and Doomguards.
* AutomatonHorses
* AntiMagic
* AntiMagicalFaction: The Anama.
* BagOfSharing: Averted. Everyone has their own inventory (limited by number, rather than weight as in {{Avernum}}), and you have to be adjacent to pass stuff along in combat.
** ''Exile III'' introduced the weight mechanic.
* BanditMook: Gremlins steal your food.
* BeneathTheEarth: Exile itself.
* BonusBoss: In the first game, there are six dragons, and one of them has to be killed in order to beat the game. Each of the others tells or gives you something that is also necessary to beat the game. Once they've done that, though, you're free to kill them and take their loot. (Later in the series, [[spoiler:Motrax does die, but it wasn't the player who killed him.]])
* CatFolk: The Nephilim.
* CityGuards
* CollectionSidequest: The seven crystals, the five (or four, but that's not as good) brooches, the four syllables of the password, the six pieces of mold to get into Erika's tower free--and that's just ''Exile I''!
* CrapsackWorld: A globe-spanning totalitarian empire that summarily dispatches the "eccentric" and "awkward"... into a violent penal colony where a nasty death lurks around every corner!
* {{Cult}}: The Church of the Anama.
* DialogueTree: Of the hyperlink variety, in ''Exile III'' and ''Blades''. The first two games had you input keywords (of which the game ignored all but the first four letters). This led to bugs, like being able to say [[spoiler:"divulge" to the talking statues long before you'd met Erika, and "Icarus" to the Scimitar before you knew to say it]]. The later games have the same input system and the same potential for abuse, but obvious conversations can happen faster by clicking on text.
** This led to [=NPCs=] having a stock response for keywords they didn't have a response for. Each town had one that all its inhabitants (except for some notable exceptions) used, although some pairs of towns had the same one. (In ''Exile I'', for example, Fort Exile's was "I don't know about that", and Fort Duvno's was "You get a questioning look". In the Tower of Magi, it was "You receive a blank stare", consistent with the apprentices not being allowed to speak. The [=GIFTs=]? "You're silly!")
* TheEmpire: What the surface world is called.
--> Not the Empire of Something, or the Something Empire. Just the Empire. It's understandable. There's no need for elaborate names when there's only one game in town.
* EnemySummoner
* EventFlag: "Stuff Done Flags".
* FantasticDrug: Skribbane.
* FantasticRacism: The Empire hunts down damn near everything that isn't human, and has succeeded in wiping out at least one race of sentient humanoids.
* FantasticSlurs: There are various derogatory nicknames for the non-human races, plus the human residents of the Empire, Exile, and the Abyss who all hate each other.
** Those in the Abyss, who are basically Exile's truly dangerous criminals, call all other Exiles voles. Empire jerks do so love to call Exiles worms, though.
* FirstTimeInTheSun: The beginning of ''Exile III''.
* FlowerFromTheMountaintop: A quest given by a dryad.
* GameMaker: ''Blades of Exile''.
* GiantSpiders: They're also intelligent, friendly, talking and have cute, high pitched voices.
** In the third game, there are Giant Cockroaches, too.
* {{Golem}}s
* GoshdangItToHeck: In the first game, there's a sound effect shouting out "darn" or "dang!" if you fail to pick a lock.
* {{Hellfire}}: Quickfire.
* InconvenientlyPlacedConveyorBelt: The golem factory is a maze of these.
* InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals: Features a ''lot'', especially for minor vendors. Because of how the game stored NPC conversations, it was a lot easier to have one conversation come up all the time. If a vendor or similar character ''wasn't'' inexplicably identical, it was a good, though by no means infallible, clue that they had special wares and/or plot significance.
** Humorously justified for one particular set of [=IIIs=] in ''Exile III'': evidently, they're all siblings, all trained by their parents in the same craft (toolmaking), and all named "Merry" because their parents were horribly uncreative.
* InvisibleMonsters: Guardians and Black Shades.
* InvoluntaryGroupSplit
* InvulnerableHorses
* KleptomaniacHero: You. But {{NPC}}s only care about some items.
* LastChanceHitPoint
* LinearWarriorsQuadraticWizards
* LivingStatue
* LizardFolk: The Slithzerikai.
* LuckStat: Put points in it and you have a chance of "lucking out" of death. Max it out and you will essentially never die.
* MageTower: The [[CaptainObvious Tower of]] [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Magi]].
* MoneySpider: Yes, but "gold" isn't [[GlobalCurrency standard currency]].
* MoonLogicPuzzle
* NostalgiaLevel: The Tower of Magi is pretty much the same (and very awesome) in every game. [[spoiler:Until it gets destroyed by demons in ''Exile III'']].
* OddlyShapedSword: Waveblades.
* OurLichesAreDifferent
* OurWightsAreDifferent
* OutrunTheFireball: Quickfire.
* PartyInMyPocket
* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: In ''Blades of Exile'', the password to enter a cave full of giant gnats is... [[spoiler:"gnats".]]
* PettingZooPeople: The Nephilim, Nepharim and the Slithzerikai to name a few.
* PlanetOfSteves: The Giant Intelligent Friendly Talking Spiders are all named Spider.
** At one point in ''Exile III'', [[spoiler:you need to drop the name of a GIFT chief to get access to him. As mentioned, they're ''all'' named "Spider". This, depending largely on how fast it took you to twig to it, was either a [[CrowningMomentOfFunny brilliant]] or [[MoonLogicPuzzle horrid]] idea.]]
* TheRashomon: Different {{NPC}}s who have been in Exile since early on in its history tell you different stories about those early years. Notably, Erika claims to have invented the light-giving fungus on the cave walls, whereas actually it was just there when they arrived.
* ReforgedBlade: The Demonslayer.
* RiddleMeThis: ''Exile II'' has a dungeon that is supposed to test your mind. In addition to several puzzles are many riddles.
** Which were omitted in the ''Avernum II'' remake in favor of more "normal" puzzles that fit directly into the gameplay.
* RiverOfInsanity / InevitableWaterfall: ''Exile II'' has a section where your party must cross over a series of underground waterfalls, each one taking away some of your food. Eventually, a really big waterfall will make you lose ''all'' your remaining food, forcing you to scavenge (usually fighting off monsters along the way) or face starvation. It's also worth mentioning that there are no shops or training avaliable along the way, and no way to identify the items you find (and you probably won't have enough space to take everything you find). Oh, and the caverns you pass are full of dangerous monsters...
* SealedEvilInACan: Grah-Hoth in ''Exile I''.
* {{Shareware}}: "Suddenly, the Shareware Demon appears!"
* ShopliftAndDie
* ShoutOut: ''Exile III'' has towns populated with {{Trainspotting}} and {{Babylon 5}} characters.
* SoloCharacterRun: The maximum party size is six, but slots can be left empty as the player sees fit. (In fact, the [[AllThereInTheManual instructions]] suggest that you try making one "really powerful character" and seeing how far you can get.)
* {{Sssssnaketalk}}: The majority of the Slithzerikai.
* StockSoundEffects
* SufficientlyAdvancedAlien: The Vahnatai.
* SuicidalOverconfidence: Averted. Monsters can flee unwinnable battles.
* SuperDrowningSkills: You can't swim, and if your five steps of hovering run out when you're above water, you drown. (But you can walk on lava!)
* SwampsAreEvil
* TakeYourTime: Very, ''very'' averted in ''Exile III''.
* TranslatorMicrobes: In ''Exile II'', the party acquires this (or the equivalent) by completing a Vahnatai initiation ritual. This makes them able to understand and read Novah, and makes random Vahnatai stop attacking them.
* UpdatedRerelease: The first two games were redone to incorporate graphics and mechanics from the sequels.
* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: In the first scenario of ''Blades of Exile'', you visit towns that are being devastated by a curse. The water is undrinkable, crops are being wiped out, entire generations of children are dying, and life in general is a living hell. Feel free to ransack their houses of everything they have left.
* VideoGameRemake: The ''{{Avernum}}'' series. And now the first part of ''that'' [[TrilogyCreep hexalogy]] has been given a remake...
* WarpWhistle: The Amulet of Returning.
* WizardNeedsFoodBadly: Food rations are required as your party eats periodically.
* WorldMap
* YouAllMeetInACell: Or a colossal subterranean prison realm, anyway.
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The eponymous nation is a vast network of caves to which the surface world banishes its criminals, dissenters, and misfits. In each game, you play a team of Exiles swept up in conflicts between the people of Exile, their nonhuman neighbors in the caves, and the cruel Empire that rules the surface.
* ''Exile: Escape from the Pit'' (released in January 1995)
* ''Exile II: Crystal Souls'' (released in November 1995)
* ''Exile III: Ruined World'' (released in January 1997)
* ''Blades of Exile'' (released in December 1997)
[[SimilarlyNamedWorks Not to be confused with]] the third installment of the ''{{Myst}}'' series, or a completely different 1988 {{BBC Micro}} game [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exile_(arcade_adventure) with the same title]].
!!'''This RPG series displays the following tropes:'''
* ActuallyFourMooks
* TheArchmage: Several.
* ArtifactCollectionAgency: The Cult of the Sacred Item.
* AsteroidsMonster: Slimes and Doomguards.
* AutomatonHorses
* AntiMagic
* AntiMagicalFaction: The Anama.
* BagOfSharing: Averted. Everyone has their own inventory (limited by number, rather than weight as in {{Avernum}}), and you have to be adjacent to pass stuff along in combat.
** ''Exile III'' introduced the weight mechanic.
* BanditMook: Gremlins steal your food.
* BeneathTheEarth: Exile itself.
* BonusBoss: In the first game, there are six dragons, and one of them has to be killed in order to beat the game. Each of the others tells or gives you something that is also necessary to beat the game. Once they've done that, though, you're free to kill them and take their loot. (Later in the series, [[spoiler:Motrax does die, but it wasn't the player who killed him.]])
* CatFolk: The Nephilim.
* CityGuards
* CollectionSidequest: The seven crystals, the five (or four, but that's not as good) brooches, the four syllables of the password, the six pieces of mold to get into Erika's tower free--and that's just ''Exile I''!
* CrapsackWorld: A globe-spanning totalitarian empire that summarily dispatches the "eccentric" and "awkward"... into a violent penal colony where a nasty death lurks around every corner!
* {{Cult}}: The Church of the Anama.
* DialogueTree: Of the hyperlink variety, in ''Exile III'' and ''Blades''. The first two games had you input keywords (of which the game ignored all but the first four letters). This led to bugs, like being able to say [[spoiler:"divulge" to the talking statues long before you'd met Erika, and "Icarus" to the Scimitar before you knew to say it]]. The later games have the same input system and the same potential for abuse, but obvious conversations can happen faster by clicking on text.
** This led to [=NPCs=] having a stock response for keywords they didn't have a response for. Each town had one that all its inhabitants (except for some notable exceptions) used, although some pairs of towns had the same one. (In ''Exile I'', for example, Fort Exile's was "I don't know about that", and Fort Duvno's was "You get a questioning look". In the Tower of Magi, it was "You receive a blank stare", consistent with the apprentices not being allowed to speak. The [=GIFTs=]? "You're silly!")
* TheEmpire: What the surface world is called.
--> Not the Empire of Something, or the Something Empire. Just the Empire. It's understandable. There's no need for elaborate names when there's only one game in town.
* EnemySummoner
* EventFlag: "Stuff Done Flags".
* FantasticDrug: Skribbane.
* FantasticRacism: The Empire hunts down damn near everything that isn't human, and has succeeded in wiping out at least one race of sentient humanoids.
* FantasticSlurs: There are various derogatory nicknames for the non-human races, plus the human residents of the Empire, Exile, and the Abyss who all hate each other.
** Those in the Abyss, who are basically Exile's truly dangerous criminals, call all other Exiles voles. Empire jerks do so love to call Exiles worms, though.
* FirstTimeInTheSun: The beginning of ''Exile III''.
* FlowerFromTheMountaintop: A quest given by a dryad.
* GameMaker: ''Blades of Exile''.
* GiantSpiders: They're also intelligent, friendly, talking and have cute, high pitched voices.
** In the third game, there are Giant Cockroaches, too.
* {{Golem}}s
* GoshdangItToHeck: In the first game, there's a sound effect shouting out "darn" or "dang!" if you fail to pick a lock.
* {{Hellfire}}: Quickfire.
* InconvenientlyPlacedConveyorBelt: The golem factory is a maze of these.
* InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals: Features a ''lot'', especially for minor vendors. Because of how the game stored NPC conversations, it was a lot easier to have one conversation come up all the time. If a vendor or similar character ''wasn't'' inexplicably identical, it was a good, though by no means infallible, clue that they had special wares and/or plot significance.
** Humorously justified for one particular set of [=IIIs=] in ''Exile III'': evidently, they're all siblings, all trained by their parents in the same craft (toolmaking), and all named "Merry" because their parents were horribly uncreative.
* InvisibleMonsters: Guardians and Black Shades.
* InvoluntaryGroupSplit
* InvulnerableHorses
* KleptomaniacHero: You. But {{NPC}}s only care about some items.
* LastChanceHitPoint
* LinearWarriorsQuadraticWizards
* LivingStatue
* LizardFolk: The Slithzerikai.
* LuckStat: Put points in it and you have a chance of "lucking out" of death. Max it out and you will essentially never die.
* MageTower: The [[CaptainObvious Tower of]] [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Magi]].
* MoneySpider: Yes, but "gold" isn't [[GlobalCurrency standard currency]].
* MoonLogicPuzzle
* NostalgiaLevel: The Tower of Magi is pretty much the same (and very awesome) in every game. [[spoiler:Until it gets destroyed by demons in ''Exile III'']].
* OddlyShapedSword: Waveblades.
* OurLichesAreDifferent
* OurWightsAreDifferent
* OutrunTheFireball: Quickfire.
* PartyInMyPocket
* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: In ''Blades of Exile'', the password to enter a cave full of giant gnats is... [[spoiler:"gnats".]]
* PettingZooPeople: The Nephilim, Nepharim and the Slithzerikai to name a few.
* PlanetOfSteves: The Giant Intelligent Friendly Talking Spiders are all named Spider.
** At one point in ''Exile III'', [[spoiler:you need to drop the name of a GIFT chief to get access to him. As mentioned, they're ''all'' named "Spider". This, depending largely on how fast it took you to twig to it, was either a [[CrowningMomentOfFunny brilliant]] or [[MoonLogicPuzzle horrid]] idea.]]
* TheRashomon: Different {{NPC}}s who have been in Exile since early on in its history tell you different stories about those early years. Notably, Erika claims to have invented the light-giving fungus on the cave walls, whereas actually it was just there when they arrived.
* ReforgedBlade: The Demonslayer.
* RiddleMeThis: ''Exile II'' has a dungeon that is supposed to test your mind. In addition to several puzzles are many riddles.
** Which were omitted in the ''Avernum II'' remake in favor of more "normal" puzzles that fit directly into the gameplay.
* RiverOfInsanity / InevitableWaterfall: ''Exile II'' has a section where your party must cross over a series of underground waterfalls, each one taking away some of your food. Eventually, a really big waterfall will make you lose ''all'' your remaining food, forcing you to scavenge (usually fighting off monsters along the way) or face starvation. It's also worth mentioning that there are no shops or training avaliable along the way, and no way to identify the items you find (and you probably won't have enough space to take everything you find). Oh, and the caverns you pass are full of dangerous monsters...
* SealedEvilInACan: Grah-Hoth in ''Exile I''.
* {{Shareware}}: "Suddenly, the Shareware Demon appears!"
* ShopliftAndDie
* ShoutOut: ''Exile III'' has towns populated with {{Trainspotting}} and {{Babylon 5}} characters.
* SoloCharacterRun: The maximum party size is six, but slots can be left empty as the player sees fit. (In fact, the [[AllThereInTheManual instructions]] suggest that you try making one "really powerful character" and seeing how far you can get.)
* {{Sssssnaketalk}}: The majority of the Slithzerikai.
* StockSoundEffects
* SufficientlyAdvancedAlien: The Vahnatai.
* SuicidalOverconfidence: Averted. Monsters can flee unwinnable battles.
* SuperDrowningSkills: You can't swim, and if your five steps of hovering run out when you're above water, you drown. (But you can walk on lava!)
* SwampsAreEvil
* TakeYourTime: Very, ''very'' averted in ''Exile III''.
* TranslatorMicrobes: In ''Exile II'', the party acquires this (or the equivalent) by completing a Vahnatai initiation ritual. This makes them able to understand and read Novah, and makes random Vahnatai stop attacking them.
* UpdatedRerelease: The first two games were redone to incorporate graphics and mechanics from the sequels.
* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: In the first scenario of ''Blades of Exile'', you visit towns that are being devastated by a curse. The water is undrinkable, crops are being wiped out, entire generations of children are dying, and life in general is a living hell. Feel free to ransack their houses of everything they have left.
* VideoGameRemake: The ''{{Avernum}}'' series. And now the first part of ''that'' [[TrilogyCreep hexalogy]] has been given a remake...
* WarpWhistle: The Amulet of Returning.
* WizardNeedsFoodBadly: Food rations are required as your party eats periodically.
* WorldMap
* YouAllMeetInACell: Or a colossal subterranean prison realm, anyway.
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