History VideoGame / HeroinesQuest

* UncannyValley: The svartalfar may look like normal humans with purple skin and white hair at first, but on close inspection notice that their eyelids close from the bottom up when they blink, [[spoiler: [[GlamourFailure as do Regin's]]]]

* KnifeNut: Kraka's an expert with throwing daggers. [[spoiler: When Thrivaldi attacks, she joins in the defense of the town with them.]]

* AmbiguousGender: The Svartalfar, being able to appear in any form they please, are not clearly masculine or feminine, and Eitri will be quick to point this out if you ask them about it. Regin and Fafnir are identified as "brothers," but that's the closest thing any svartalf has to a gender identity.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: All the svartalfar have white hair.

* AdultFear: When Heime gets kidnapped, his parents are understandably worried and upset.

** Nevertheless, most warriors in game worry about how things like illness or a job in town can prevent one from going to [[WarriorHeaven Valhalla]] (Because you can't have just been a brave warrior, you have to die in battle). Definitely a case of ValuesDissonance.

* WorldOfBadass: While the heroine is the only character who is controlled, almost everyone in this game is a badass who can defend themselves in a fight. It would be easier to count the ones that can't: [[spoiler: Hervor, Heime, and Lithrasir. One of them is a child, and one of them is actually a swan.]]

* InfinityPlusOneSword: Balmung. And there's an infinity plus one spell, the lightning bolt.

* NeverTheSelvesShallMeet: [[spoiler: Meeting yourself in the time travel section erases both yous from existence.]]
* NeverTrustATrailer: The trailer has the heroine being attacked by a Spectre, a Draug and a Duergar in broad daylight. In the game however, all those monsters only show up at night or in Svartalfheim. Plus, different monsters never gang on you like this, you only face them one encounter at a time.

** Drinking the water from the mushroom cave gives the words ''VideoGame/KingsQuestVAbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder'' Ah, life-giving water, nectar of the gods. (Heroine) feels strength and renewal flowing through her.

** The Jarl gives you [[VideoGame/QuestForGloryIII SPIM rations]].

** You can spot the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' novels in Aurvandel's lab. He will speak of the Philosopher's stone and his good old friend [[{{VideoGame/Warthogs}} Mumblemore]]. Mumblemore's tombstone can also be found in the graveyard, together with a wish that "Larry" will avenge him.

* YouShouldntKnowThisAlready: The portal to Svartalfheim. You can use the steps to activate it and give the Norns the "right" answers before you're supposed to, but [[NonStandardGameOver you're stranded in limbo for all eternity for trying to outpace the plot]].
** The Sorceress's riddle quest is the same way. She must learn the riddles and their answers by talking to those who already know them; she can never learn them in another fashion.

* BladeOnAStick: Liff's weapon of choice [[spoiler: When Munarvagir is attacked.]]

* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: The warrior start out as this.

* MagicKnight: Skrymir is a powerful warrior who also knows magic (or at least alchemy). The Heroine can be this too if you start as a Fighter and take Magic and/or Herbalism at the start of the game.

* OffWithHisHead: One the jotunn's attack is a decapitation with his axe.

* PacifistRun: The rogue can finish the game without engaging combat.

** One particular one to ''Quest For Glory'' is that Brauggi, the frost giant from the first game, guards the villain's castle. With the way he talks completely in rhyme and even has the same dialogue animation, what else are you supposed to think?

* WorldOfBadass: While the heroine is the only character who is controlled, almost everyone in this game is a badass who can defend themselves in a fight. It would be easier to count the ones that can't: [[spoiler: Hervor, Heime, and Lithrasir. One of which is a child, and one of which is actually a swan.]]

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: All the svartalf have white hair.

** The Sorceress's riddle quest is the same way. She must learn the riddle answers by asking, she can never learn them in another fashion.

* FunWithAcronyms: 'the herald of ragnarok' spells 'THOR'.

** Uncommon is it for Eitri to begin his sentences with their subject.

* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: The Duergar in Svartalfheim. They're actually Svartalves in another form.
* OurElvesAreDifferent: The svartalf, AKA, dark elves.

* AwesomeButImpractical: Regin gives you the golden sword Gram, which breaks if you try to fight with it. The game immediately lampshades that [[RealityEnsues gold was a poor choice to make a weapon from]]. On the other hand it can be reformed with the right material, and is then better than a regular sword.

* RealityEnsues: This is one of the few games where a character trying to run across ice won't merely slip and slide, they slip and fall down.

* FighterWizardThief: The three character classes you can choose from.

* OurElvesAreBetter: The svartalf, AKA, dark elves.

*** His pattern of speech makes sense when you realize he is saying something [[RuleOfThree three times]], similar to how the Norns speak.

* AwesomeButImpractical: Regin gives you the golden sword Gram, which breaks if you try to fight with it. The game immediately lampshades that [[RealityEnsues gold was a poor choice to make a weapon from]].

* RealityEnsues: This is one of few games where a character trying to run across ice won't merely slip and slide, they slip and fall down.