History VideoGame / QuestForGlory

** In the first game the Baron's daughter Elsa turns out to be [[spoiler: the leader of the brigands]] and literally impossible to defeat in combat. While there her skill could be explained by magical enhancements, she returns in the fifth game and is still kicking ass in her own right.

** As Aziza mentions at the beginning of QFG3, Ad Avis' death released his life energy and caused enough of a "disturbance in the force" for demons to return to Tarna.

** In the backstory of QFG4, Erana had used up her life energy to power a DyingCurse against the Dark One. Because her life energy was expended deliberately, wizards such as Zara and Erasmus weren't able to sense the moment of her death.

Downplayed in that they serve mostly as a secondary score (apart from Puzzle Points) and are not tied to gaining experience levels. With regards to the player's stats, these are improved by performing them, which again can be done outside of combat in many cases.

* WizardsLiveLonger And Are OlderThanTheyLook: Erasmus is implied to be over 100 years old (having built his house on Zauberberg a century ago), while Ad Avis first met the Dark Master 70 years ago and was presumably already an adult at the time, making him roughly 90 years old. Most other wizards' ages are [[OurElvesAreBetter justified]] [[HalfHumanHybrid one way]] [[OurVampiresAreDifferent or another.]]

** The fan-remake of the second game adds another one: [[spoiler:if you request Katrina as your sponsor for the WIT exams, the wizards are so incensed that they teleport you to the Mordavian swamps, with your HaveANiceDeath message informing you that you aren't strong enough to survive because you skipped a game.]]

* ArmorAndMagicDontMix: Played with. In the first 4 games, wearing a chainmail doesn't affect your ability to cast spells. In the fifth however, it will lower your magic attribute, making your spells weaker. On the other hand, because of the game mechanics, having a low attribute means it will raise quicker when you use it. This makes armor perfect for StatGrinding magic. However, with the odd exception of the fourth game, it is outright impossible to cast spells while wearing a shield. (Or, in the fifth game, while wielding a weapon larger than a dagger.)

** One particular case: Mages who qualify as Paladins for the third game (after being imported from the second one) MUST acquire the throwing skill, either by [[spoiler:wishing for it from the Djinn at the end of the 2nd game]] or by buying it (at severe cost) at character creation. Winning a throwing event is necessary for the plot to advance in the third game (The leopardman prisoner only appears after you defeated Uhura at the targets), and if the new paladin starts the game without the skill, he will never get the chance to learn it, let alone win the needed challenge, making the game unwinnable from the start! The equivalent plot-advancement quest for mages (acquiring a staff, which causes the game to make the prisoner appear) is not available to Paladins, even if the paladin is a former mage, he cannot make the plot move forward ''at all''.

** From the third game on, the player's inability to get a "normal" meal. In 3, most of the food looks very strange (though all the meals are described as actually very tasty, just weird and sometimes a bit horrifying looking to the characters' eye). In the 4th game, Mordavians put garlic in everything, including meals that shouldn't traditionally include garlic. In the 5th games, each meal is the result of a catastrophe in the kitchen of Gnome Ann's inn (usually due to the cooks fighting among themselves).

** The Fighter gets a second chance to legitimately become a Paladin in the third game, which is somewhat harder to screw up. It actually makes the Fighter lost instead. It's quite easy to accidentally complete all the requirements of becoming a Paladin, even if you didn't want to. And it doesn't give you a choice either. [[spoiler:It may make the difference if the character asks to enter Uhura's hut before entering, once.]]

** The player can become one as well (in gameplay terms at least), if you buy a ton of daggers and max out your Throwing skill. It's possible to hurl daggers at enemies and kill them before they can close to melee range.

** He gives this to you if you are judged worthy to become a Paladin at the end of the second game, or as a fighter at the end of the third game. He recovers it when you've been involuntarily teleported at the end of the third game. Since you will inevitably get another flaming sword in the fourth game (in the same place as one of the plot-critical Rituals, to be exact), Rakeesh will keep Soulforge when you meet him again in the fifth game.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Katrina seems to be barefoot in some scenes.

* BrickJoke: The [=QFG3=] documentation lists "Thermonuclear Blast" as a possible spell. It only appears at the end if the [[BigBad demon]] succeeds in opening the gate for the GreaterScopeVillain to pass through. In [=QFG5=], someone finds a scroll enabling the player character to learn the spell, which could be used to defeat the dragon in the final battle.

** You can literally do this by trying to attack Julanar in the second.

* ArmorAndMagicDontMix: Played with. In the first 4 games, wearing a chainmail doesn't affect your ability to cast spells. In the fifth however, it will lower your magic attribute, making your spells weaker. On the other hand, because of the game mechanics, having a low attribute means it will raise quicker when you use it. This makes armor perfect for StatGrinding magic. However, with the odd exception of the fourth game, it is outright impossible to cast spells while wearing a shield.

* {{Minotaur}}: Traditional, except not quite as bloodthirsty as in mythology.
** Although since we only see ''two'' in the entire series, and the second one (Minos' bodyguard) seems to be quite bloodthirsty, it's hard to say which one is the typical example.

* NonCombatExp: There are not experience levels, the skills are improved by performing them.

* GodivaHair: The Rusalka in ''Shadows of Darkness''.

* MacGuffinBlindness: there's a thief-specific subplot running through the series regarding the search for a legendary blackbird statue, a ShoutOut to Literature/TheMalteseFalcon. In the second, third, and fourth games you can find a fake blackbird, and in the fifth you finally find the real one. However, the real bird also appears in the first game, but you can't pick it up because your character doesn't know what it is yet.

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*** In the magic shop in Quest for Glory II, there is a hand puppet resembling [[VideoGame/KingsQuestIV Rosella]], and some [[VideoGame/SpaceQuestIII Orats-on-a-Stick]]. In the WIT, you are quick to note Erana's resemblance to [[VideoGame/KingsQuestIV Genesta]] as well, and to note that [[VideoGame/ConquestsOfCamelot Merlin]] looks much different. The astrologer has a model of a planetary system from VideoGame/SpaceQuest, and apparently [[VideoGame/ConquestsOfCamelot King Arthur]] died of thirst in the desert (though that turns out to be just a mirage).

* ReplacedWithReplica: A key plot-point if you're a thief looking for the Black Bird. He who owns the Black Bird is a legend among thieves. It is said that the bird is filled with gems, but it's mostly treated as a status of power for thieves and criminals. However, at the same time that the original bird (made of ebony) was made three similar but lighter forgeries were made to create confusion. Eventually you must swap a forgery for the real one a la Indiana Jones. This tricks the previous owner of the real Black Bird long enough to declare victory.