In Flipwart, and Chess, a Gambit is an opening in which a player sacrifices something with the goal of gaining a subsequent positional advantage. When successful, a gambit is game changing. Andrias finds himself submitting to Leif's Gambit early here, and as a result, the world changes.

"Just why are Rachnoids almost always on the Quest Board anyways?" Kokoro complained aloud, "They don't hunt the Aptonoth or the Rhenoplos that the nomads keep. They don't go out of their way to attack the merchant caravans when they travel through. They don't even scare anybody that comes out this way! So long as we leave them alone, they don't bother anybody."