Central
Earliest
Earliest adjective - Coming before all others in time or order.
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The central character in Piers Anthony's Orn is a large omnivorous flightless bird, which is less intelligent than a person but has Genetic Memory going back to the earliest vertebrates.
Source: Genetic Memory - Some games make this one of (if not the) central mechanics (particularly the Roguelike subgenre, the earliest of which are the Ur-Example of this trope), with the main draw for playing the game being to find better and better loot (often with an Excuse Plot).
Source: Randomly Generated Loot
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