Anti-Armor: Characters have a health and armor stat.
It's his left arm according to canon and cutscenes, though it switches depending on where he's facing in battle/conversations. The most noteworthy example is Iver/Yngvar, after he loses an arm in the battle with Bellower.
Ambidextrous Sprite: Played with candidly throughout the series.They think it was a genocidal first strike and are hellbent on getting revenge. It caused the mutant apocalypse, and the Dredge homeworld was ground zero. Unfortunately, one of their number went rogue and attempted an unstable experiment with the black sun. And then utterly subverted in 3, when it's revealed by Juno that the Valka are indirectly responsible for their angry suicide rage against the other races: At the climax of the second Great War, when the Valka learned that the Dredge's homeworld was powered by a miniature black sun that supercharged weaving, they went behind the alliance's back and forged a peace treaty with the Dredge, teaching them weaving and creating females for their race to reproduce in exchange for access to the black sun.However, it is revealed that Dredge weren't invading the kingdoms of Varl and men - they were running, trying to save themselves from the Darkness. They murdered thousands during the second Great War third one put Varl on the brink of extinction and reduced human civilization to a single desperate holdout in Arberrang. Always Chaotic Evil: The Dredge, silent and alien.There's also a lot of information only accessible at the godstones.
All There in the Manual: There's a lot of lore and worldbuilding on the in-game map, and characters' pages on the roster contain their backgrounds.It's only when they realize some of them have children strapped to them that they realize the Dredge army comprises both sexes and are actually Invading Refugees. Alien Gender Confusion: The stone-like Dredge have such incomprehensible biology compared to the setting's other, mammalian races that they initially assume every combatant they encounter is male.Action Girl: All of the female characters, of course.Every encounter, every decision you make has heavy and sometimes far-reaching consequences.This video game provides examples of the following tropes: It’s not about grinding to get past the next fight. Picture the classic tactical strategy games of your childhood but refined for the modern age. Our game is different, you can’t take anything for granted in Banner Saga. Many modern games play it safe – you are the chosen one who always saves the day. It’s a role-playing game merged with turn-based strategy, wrapped into an adventure mini-series about Vikings. Description from the page:īanner Saga 3 is the highly anticipated final game of an award-winning trilogy. You can find out more on the project’s Kickstarter page. This time Stoic Studio has presented a video dedicated to the race feared from the dawn of times – the Dredge.īut are they the real threat, or is there more to this mysterious race than meets the eye?īanner Saga 3 will come out in Summer 2018. The release date of the Banner Saga 3, the final instalment in the award-winning RPG trilogy, is rapidly approaching and the developers continue sharing bits of information with their community.