History NightmareFuel / FinalFantasyXIV

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** Barbariccia was an elezen noblewoman whose father was [[GildedCage incredibly abusive and controlling, keeping her trapped in their house]]. One night, she snuck out of her home to visit friends, only to have her father show up and admit to her that he ''killed her friends and dumped their corpses into a river''. Enraged, she picked up a hatchet and spent the rest of the night beating him to death with it. The last we see of her father, he has the axe ''embedded in his skull''.

* Then there's Hephaistos' OneWingedAngel form in the Savage version. He breaks the chains restraining him, mutating his body even further with his right arm growing [[EyesDoNotBelongThere way more eyes than it should have]] and becoming larger than his body, sprouting mismatched wings, his body turning into a double-helix, and nothing but a red mask for his face, with veins flowing out like bloody tears. What you get is a ''horrifyingly grotesque'' Ascian Prime.

* The [=NieR Re[in]carnation=] crossover event goes into further detail on what Emet-Selch experienced after the sundering. When the world was sundered by Venat, all of the inhabitants were reduced to mere shapeless blobs of aether that could do nothing but [[AndIMustScream moan in pain]]. Not only did Emet-Selch saw his people get reduced to husks of their former selves, this also included his dear friend Azem (who would become the [[PlayerCharacter Warrior of Light]] in the present time). While the sundered eventually managed to reform and take on the shape of the people seen today, Emet-Selch sees them as completely unrecognizable from the people and friends he used to know. Another terrible part is that the main reason for it is not only modern mankind's ignorance, but first and foremost its penchant for wars and causing each others endless misery due to their conflicts, and in the end it's even what gives the Ascians the idea to cause Chaos to hasten the rejoining. It's little wonder that the Ascian became the dour man the Scions see him as.

* The first tier of Pandæmonium had already floated the idea that some other forces was messing with the minds of the warders within the facility, as seen when discussing Hesperos' turn from a kindly mentor to an obsessive and twisted evil. The continuation in Abyssos furthers this while adding on doses of BodyHorror unseen in Hesperos with the introduction of his female coworkers, Hegemone and Agdistis. Hegemone still retains most of her form, though she is crawling with vines and slime, including a large toothy mouthed vine protuding from her shoulder and a large spike from the other, however Agdistis was not as fortunate, being fused with a large tree covered in eyes and mouths along its trunk, and what remains of the poor woman is her upper body embedded into the trunk with her face frozen in an expression of horror.

* The [=NieR Re[in]carnation=] crossover event goes into further detail on what Emet-Selch experienced after the sundering. When the world was sundered by Venat, all of the inhabitants were reduced to mere shapeless blobs of aether that could do nothing but [[AndIMustScream moan in pain]]. Not only did Emet-Selch saw his people get reduced to husks of their former selves, this also included his dear friend Azem (who would become the [[PlayerCharacter Warrior of Light]] in the present time). While the sundered eventually managed to reform and take on the shape of the people seen today, Emet-Selch sees them as completely unrecognizable from the people and friends he used to know. It's little wonder that the Ascian became the dour man the Scions see him as.

->''"And lo, vile beasts did rise.\\
Leaving naught in their wake but blood and ash.\\
Sun scorches earth and boils seas...\\
And our sins ascend unto the heavens--\\
Three dooms to unmake all we were."''
-->'''-- Emet-Selch'''
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* The Unsundered Ascian themselves are shown to be displaying a certain disturbing BlueAndOrangeMorality despite the utopian facade. They eliminate their creations if they are "unfit" for their star. But instead of, say, inanimate broken furniture or some fictional writing that need to be scrapped, they are destroying ''fully sentient living beings'' that ''they created themselves''. While culling overly-carnivorous species might be understandable, killing a creature just because "it was born wrong" is much harder to justify. It is this irresponsible mindset that gnaws away at Hermes long before Meteion's report finally sends him over the edge.

** One particularly horrid scene during the attack on Radz-at-Han has a Blasphemy corner a terrified mother and her equally terrified infant daughter. The Blasphemy proceeds to grab the mother by the head, [[NeckSnap snap her neck]], and then throw her corpse ''[[AdultFear which is still holding the baby]]'' into a nearby pool of water. Only the quick intervention of the Warrior of Light and Vrtra saves the child's life. When you examine the mother's body, the narration [[SarcasmMode helpfully]] exposits that her final moments were spent in unimaginable agony, and that the only solace is that it was a quick death.

* While framed as a fairly goofy event during and after the duty, All Saint's Wake 2022 sees the Warrior of Light saving the souls of at least 50 unwitting people from being sacrificed to wraiths by [[MonsterClown Papa Gruff]]. While the man himself isn't terribly capable of harming the Warrior of Light thanks to a few provisions provided beforehand, the sheer number of victims he's almost able to wrack up despite being presented as a gag villain is rather surprising. Worse yet, he, his wife, and child manage to escape, with the implication that they will manage to entrap even more people as the event goes on, though the Adventurer's Guild is at least making pains to pre-empt his attempts at building up more victims.
* It's thankfully a WhatIf scenario, but in The Dragonsong's Reprise, had you been able to save Haurchefant from his fate, things would have taken a worse turn. Without that motive for revenge, the Warrior of Light could have been complacent in pursuing Thordan and the Heavens' Ward to Azys Lla. As a result, they get them ample time to figure out the Allagan technology housed up there, then use it to ''subjugate'' the Dragons instead of slay them, siccing them on you on top of having to deal with him and his knights. Had things play out that way instead, it would have been a far bloodier end to the Dragonsong War.
** In addition to this more bleak turn to the war, Hraesvelgr is made to fight alongside Nidhogg, and ''is fully aware of their actions as they attack the party.'' It's made clear that in this state, they do not wish to harm anyone, because of the vow made to Shiva to never harm mortals. This is exemplified with the fact that, if anyone dies because of Hraesvelgr's actions during this portion of the fight, Hraesvelgr flies into a rage, wiping the party because they failed to uphold the vow.

** The whole scenario is just ''extremely'' uncomfortable at the very least. [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything Zenos basically forces himself onto your body without your consent, and makes it do horrible things against your will.]] For several players, this scene carries some horrible ''rape'' undertones.

** Regardless of how much time is left on the clock, by the time you finally make it back to the camp, Zenos is mere nanoseconds from attacking Alisae and G'raha. Had the Warrior of Light been but a second longer, two of their closest friends would be dead by ''their own hand''.
* "Remember when I told you I wanted to die, and take everyone with me? I meant it."

* The Unsundered Ascian themselves is shown be displaying a certain disturbing BlueAndOrangeMorality despite the utopian facade. They eliminate the creations if it is "unfit" for their star. But instead of, say, inanimate broken furniture or some fictional writing that need to be scrapped, they are destroying ''fully sentient living beings'' that ''they created themselves''. While culling overly-carnivorous species might be understandable, killing a creature just because "it was born wrong" is much harder to justify. It is this irresponsible mindset that gnaws away at Hermes long before Meteion's report finally sends him over the edge.

** When you kill a blasphemy, what happens to the person that turns? Nothing. Rather, they turn to nothing. They don't get the repose of going to the aetherial sea, they just ''disintegrate'' to nonexistence. Y'shtola, who can only see through aether, ''can't'' see them because they're empty husks whose aether, in her words, crumbled away like dry mud.

->''"The sky burns."''

* [[spoiler:"Remember when I told you I wanted to die, and take everyone with me? I meant it.]]

** [[spoiler:"Remember when I told you I wanted to die, and take everyone with me? I meant it.]]

* On the topic of elimination, Hermes having AdultFear moment when Emet-Selch demands Meteion to be contained and evaluated, with failure to meet Ascians' qualification possibly ending in a girl who is practically Hermes' ''daughter'' killed.