History VideoGame / InheritTheEarth

* CosmicKeystone: Justified, as the Orb of Storms was created by [[MagicFromTechnology sufficiently advanced humans]]. It has been used for generations to judge the growing and planting seasons and its holders have a huge advantage in managing their food supply. [[spoiler: It's apparently the core operating system for some weather control satellites]].

An online webcomic strip based upon events occurring after the conclusion of the game may be found on the official ''Inherit the Earth'' [[http://inherittheearth.net/ website]].

!! Tropes:

* ArtImitatesArt: Some of the dogs play poker.
* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: Advertised by a bear at the fair. When you ask him what he's selling at his stand, he replies,
-->"Sweets. Fruit on a stick. Honey on a stick! Honeyed fruits on a stick. If it's sweet, and will fit on a stick, I'll sell it!"

* CatsAreMagic: Played with. One cat is a fortune teller. Another serves a priestly role.
* CosmicKeystone: Justified, as the Orb of Storms was created by [[MagicFromTechnology sufficiently advanced humans]]. It has been used for generations to judge the growing and planting seasons and its holders have a huge advantage in managing their food supply. [[spoiler: It's apparently the core operating system for some weather control satellites]].
* CunningLikeAFox: Rif comes in second in a puzzle competition. Then he and his girlfriend are suspected of theft [[FantasticRacism for no other reason than their tribe]].
* DeadpanSnarker: Rif in spades. It gets him in trouble often.
--> '''Wildcat Guard''': "Halt! Stand where you are."
--> '''Rif''': "That should be easy enough, where else can I stand?"
* DistressedDamsel: Rhene is held hostage by the Boar Tribe as an incentive for the protagonist to retrieve the Orb of Storms.
* DogsAreDumb: Only Tycho Northpaw, the reclusive scholar, truly averts this in the game. The webcomic has more dogs of decent intelligence.
* DumbMuscle: Okk, more or less.

* FunnyAnimal / PettingZooPeople: Everyone in the game.
* FurryFandom: That many of them are invested in this game shouldn't be a surprise...

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Gee, that fortune teller is awfully seductive.
** Additionally, Okk slips in a somewhat inappropriate joke when the group first visits the Sanctuary.
* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: You can walk right past the guards in Prince's castle. One will see you, but the other will [[WhatAnIdiot dismiss him as imagining things.]]

* ItAmusedMe: It's not clear what Prince does with his {{prison}}ers for entertainment, but it can't be fun for all.

* MacGuffin: The Orb of Storms, and how.

* MultinationalTeam: The team consists of a fox, a boar and an elk.
* NonIndicativeName: Prince is a king.
* ProudScholarRaceGuy: Sist. And perhaps the rats in general.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Okk isn't proud insofar as other boars look down on him (his assignment to watch Rif is a punishment), but they all appear to have pride in their brutal ways.
* RunningGag: If you talk to Eeah and Okk along the way, they will comment on the current situation. If Eeah likes the area, Okk will inevitably hate it. Also, Eeah often tries to get people to cooperate by mentioning that he's a soldier of the Forest King. It never works.

* SequelHook: The Orb of Storms is lost and is [[spoiler:set to create a dry spell, as soon as it receives further input]]. However, the creators of the game are having trouble raising funds for a sequel.
* ShoutOut: One of Rif's "jokes" to Prince sounds suspiciously like a summary of ''StarWars''.

* WhosOnFirst: Rif needs a distraction to get by a guard. His companions [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxJN7EzWBC8 introduce themselves as Hooryu and Yassir Iam]]. HilarityEnsues, and they keep the routine going for as long as you need to explore the next area.

* SequelHook: The Orb of Storms is lost [[spoiler:and is set to create a dry spell, as soon as it receives further input]]. However, the creators of the game are having trouble raising funds for a sequel.

* HumansAreCthulhu: The human ruins are ''strange''.

* FurryFandom: It shouldn't be a surprise that Furries lapped this game up.

->''Now we see the sky, the land, and the water we are heir to, and we wonder, why did they leave? Do they live still, and whence? In the stars? We wonder, was their fate good, or evil... And will we also share the same fate one day?"''

->''"We see the sky, we see the land, we see the water - and we wonder, are we the only ones? Long before we came to exist, the Humans ruled the Earth. They made marvelous things, and moved whole mountains. They knew the secret of Flight, the secret of Happiness, and other secrets beyond our imagining.
The Humans also knew the secret of Life, and they used it to give us the four great Gifts: Thinking minds, feeling hearts, speaking mouths, and reaching hands. We are their children. [softreturn]They taught us how to use our hands, and how to speak. They showed us the joy of using our minds. They loved us, and, when we were ready, they surely would have given us the secret of Happiness. [softreturn]Now we see the sky, the land, and the water we are heir to, and we wonder, why did they leave? Do they live still, and whence? In the stars? We wonder, was their fate good, or evil... And will we also share the same fate one day?"''

->''"We see the sky, we see the land, we see the water - and we wonder, are we the only ones? Long before we came to exist, the Humans ruled the Earth. They made marvelous things, and moved whole mountains. They knew the secret of Flight, the secret of Happiness, and other secrets beyond our imagining. [softreturn] The Humans also knew the secret of Life, and they used it to give us the four great Gifts: Thinking minds, feeling hearts, speaking mouths, and reaching hands. We are their children. [softreturn]They taught us how to use our hands, and how to speak. They showed us the joy of using our minds. They loved us, and, when we were ready, they surely would have given us the secret of Happiness. [softreturn]Now we see the sky, the land, and the water we are heir to, and we wonder, why did they leave? Do they live still, and whence? In the stars? We wonder, was their fate good, or evil... And will we also share the same fate one day?"''

->''"We see the sky, we see the land, we see the water - and we wonder, are we the only ones? Long before we came to exist, the Humans ruled the Earth. They made marvelous things, and moved whole mountains. They knew the secret of Flight, the secret of Happiness, and other secrets beyond our imagining.\\ The Humans also knew the secret of Life, and they used it to give us the four great Gifts: Thinking minds, feeling hearts, speaking mouths, and reaching hands. We are their children.\\They taught us how to use our hands, and how to speak. They showed us the joy of using our minds. They loved us, and, when we were ready, they surely would have given us the secret of Happiness.\\Now we see the sky, the land, and the water we are heir to, and we wonder, why did they leave? Do they live still, and whence? In the stars? We wonder, was their fate good, or evil... And will we also share the same fate one day?"''

--> '''A Story of the Morph''', ''as preserved by the Rat Tribe''

[[caption-width-right:289:Rif, the main protagonist, with his Distressed Damsel, Rhene.]]

''Inherit the Earth: Quest for the Orb'' is an point-and-click adventure game created under The Dreamers Guild during the early nineties and re-released under Wyrmkeep Entertainment.

* LostTechnology

The voice of Okk, Creator/BeauBillingslea, has a page on this wiki.

* ExecutiveMeddling: ''Inherit the Earth'' was originally supposed to be a serious game about quarreling races of UpliftedAnimal. However when the publishers heard that the main character was a talking fox, they decided the game [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids must]] be for kids. This lead to the plot being dumbed down, and the whole world becoming LighterAndSofter.
** Also, the reason why there's no sequel. There was meant to be one, but the publisher refused to allow one to be made.

* WhosOnFirst: Rif needs a distraction to get by a guard. HilarityEnsues. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxJN7EzWBC8 See?]]

* CosmicKeystone: Justified, as the Orb of a Stones was created by humans. It has been used for generations to judge the growing and planting seasons and its holders have a huge advantage in managing their food supply. [[spoiler: It's apparently the core operating system for some weather control satellites]].

Following the apparent disappearance of humanity, the world has been inhabited and civilized by anthropomorphized creatures descended from experimental animals endowed with self-awareness by mankind.

The major plot of the game involves the false accusation of Rif, a member of the Fox Tribe, of stealing the Orb of Storms, an ancient human artifact once used to forecast the weather [[spoiler:and control it]]. Holding his girlfriend, Rhene, hostage as an incentive, his accusers task him with retrieving the Orb in order to clear his name. He embarks upon his quest with two helpers and watchers - Okk, the boar, and Eeah, the elk - engaging in various quests and trials of intrigue along the way.

Inherit the Earth: Quest for the Orb is an point-and-click adventure game created under The Dreamers Guild during the early nineties and re-released under Wyrmkeep Entertainment.

* WhosOnFirst: Rif needs a distraction to get by a guard. HilarityEnsues. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxJN7EzWBC8 See?]]

* FunnyAnimal/PettingZooPeople: Everyone in the game.

* FunnyAnimal/ HumanoidAnimals: Everyone in the game.

* AndManGrewProud: The introduction takes the form of a series of cave paintings, with the narrator explaining how Humans created the various races of [[FurryFandom Morph]]. Before they could teach the Morph the secret of happiness, however, some terrible calamity befell them. Now the Humans have gone - where, no Morph knows - and their furry children can only wonder at the strange things they left behind.