Dark Action Girl: Len, the First Knight is clearly one.

Crosshair Aware: A very dark sniper-rifle style crosshair, with a large dark zone around it, appears every time Hiro, The Third Knight, is about to shoot you from offscreen.

Bonus Boss: Herald of the Citadel, which can only be found if your sanity is fully depleted.

Disturbingly, the corpses of the enemies also act as light sources for some reason.

Blackout Basement: Many of the areas of the game are very dark, with only circles of light around your own lantern, or any other light sources.

Shrouded in Sanity contains examples of the following tropes:

In Usurper, this function is fulfilled by Seats of the Navigator.

This is referred to as 'syncing watch to realign time.'

Justified Save Point: In Shrouded in Sanity, you can only save at the location of your patron, Waltham.These then appear as enemies in Usurper.This obviously an insta-kill, unless you have managed to roll in time. The Grim Reaper: The signature attack of Len, The First Knight in Shrouded in Sanity is to have an apparition of one appear right above your character, before it sweeps its scythe.God Save Us from the Queen!: Although it's only been discussed and never shown, prior to her resurrection, Eleanore was apparently a utterly tyrannical queen.Your first choice is to accept external aid in order to survive, and escalate the protagonist to becoming an Empowered Badass Normal First Episode Resurrection: A tradition of the series.During the events of Usurper, all of the Knights appear or at least are mentioned though, confirming their survival.

Cutting Off the Branches: Saragat the Fourth Knight and Hito the Third Knight are two of the bosses in Shrouded in Sanity, who can either be killed or spared after their defeat.Usurper also features a battle inside a church with Seraph, an Eldritch Abomination that has two sets of angelic wings and little else. Bloodstained Glass Windows: Gray, the Second Knight is fought within the West Church of Berelai Manor.A World Half Full: In spite of the bleak alternate world the game is set in in addition to the two hostile eldritch forces present, the protagonists all are wholly invested in saving the world.Religion (or at least Christianity) has also been banned, due to the Roman Catholic Church having been a secret supporter of the American Revolution. Japan in turn been ruled by the Oda Shogunate for centuries as the Dawn Empire, and has long-since conquered China and Korea. Washington's rebellion was crushed, but his sacrifice continues to inspire Sons of Washington (or S.o.W.) group. Alternate History: Britain is the Angelic Empire of Britannia.Waltham, the mysterious benefactor of Eleanore in the first game, is nearly killed attempting to seize the Citadel for himself, and is forced to merge with the nearly-dead Saragat, the Fourth Knight, to rebuild their strength and save London from the Citadel. There, an otherwordly Citadel whose presence was only hinted at in Shrouded in Sanity had finally revealed itself, and immediately began to flood London with eldritch abominations. Usurper is a 2017 Metroidvania, set a year after the first game. The player character, Eleanore, is contacted to discover and eliminate its source - a task made more difficult by the former inhabitants of the manor having clearly gone violently insane. It begins in 1897, when the unnatural fog had enveloped Berelai Manor. As its title suggests, the latter is free, but lacks some bonus features of Skautfold, though the overall story is the same in both. It was later separated into the proper Skautfold version, and the Freebirth one. Shrouded in Sanity is the first instalment, released in 2016 as an Isometric Hack and Slash game.

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