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If a person is made of metal and has circuitry instead of a circulatory system, then their game belongs on this list.
A playable class in many roleplaying games. Rogues are also sometimes known as Thieves. The class in almost all these games center around their stealth capabilities.
A sacrifice is the act of offering something (item, health, creature, blood, etc.) to a higher power or a greater good. In games, this often guarantees some sort of favor in return.
The idea of deriving a feeling of pleasure through inflicting pain or suffering on another living being.
Worship of the devil or devil-like deities such as Diablo. Satanism is often associated with the sybol known as the pentagram and arcane rituals.
One who murders three or more people within a relatively short time span.
A race of rat-people found in the Warhammer universe. They are fully sentient, with their own religion, society, and technologies.
This concept is featured in games that have a character wearing a helmet or mask with a skull graphic or picture on it, or else a helmet styled to resemble a skull. This does not pertain to characters who actually have skulls for heads.
A person incapable of feeling emotion and empathy, though they may fake displaying such in order to fit into society. Their inability to empathize make them potentially dangerous as they lack the ability to feel guilt or remorse for cruel acts committed against others.
Summoning involves bringing a distant ally into battle to either perform a single, devastating attack or to fight on the behalf of the summoner.
The American Mafia which originated in Sicily and took root in Eastern America around the 20th century. It is also known as Cosa Nostra meaning "Our Thing". The explosion of Mafia activities and power in America happened in 1920's and their power lasted well into the 1970's and 1980's.
In the Warcraft universe, the Old Gods are a powerful and chaotic race chained beneath the Earth, having the power to control their victims and make them do their bidding. They can eventually turn even the most noble and powerful beings insane.
The XVth of the original Space Marine legions. Led by Magnus the Red, they have always been talented and powerful Psykers. Now pledged to Tzeentch, they are doomed to eventually turn to dust.
A transformation is a different stage or form for something. Usually an upgrade.
Many games feature storylines about wide, sweeping combat between three radically different factions.
Trolls are a mythical race of creatures that have been interpreted many different ways in games.
Vampires are undead, nocturnal creatures that subsist on blood. They have superhuman powers and are sometimes able to shape-shift. They are weak against sunlight, foreign objects stuck in and left in their hearts, decapitation and sometimes holy water and crosses.
Vikings were the seafaring people in Scandinavia between 800 - 1050.
A malevolent character whose goals are evil in nature. While villains are commonly featured as antagonists, not all antagonists are necessarily villains.
A group of villains, each with a different characteristic and ability (or gimmick) that insist on fighting the protagonist one at a time. They may have ridden together, but they never die together.
War is a series of organized conflicts carried on by force of arms between two or more nations or groups. Whether it never changes or has already changed is up for debate.
A shout to intimidate opponents or inspire allies' during battle.
In games they're often described as being masters of the dark arts. Basically, wizards gone bad.
Humans aligned with Chaos, they are one of the chief minions of the four Daemon gods in Warhammer Fantasy and Age of Sigmar, each one being larger, stronger, and deadlier than a mere mortal.
A corrupted Space Marine legion. They worship Chaos Undivided.
Some evil people have aspirations to conquer the world, and beyond!
A zealot is a religious fanatic.
Zombies, more accurately called the walking dead, are reanimated corpses who feed on the living, and have become a ubiquitous video game enemy. They often move slowly, but can be deadly in large numbers, which is unfortunately how they tend to travel. Shotgun time!
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