History NightmareFuel / TheWheelOfTime

* The horrific deeds that Forsaken did are terrifying. Lanfear was known for her hobby to drive people to suicide using [[DreamLand Tel'aran'rhiod]]. Graendal brainwashed many people to adore and love her, making them like animals. [[TortureTechnician Semirhage]]... well, read above. Ishamael, with his manipulaions leading to the destruction of the biggest empire also counts. He drove Lews Therin to suicide by revealing him that he killed his own family when he went mad. Mesaana conditioned children to be bullies and killers, and they were so notorius that they were remembered ''millenia'' after being destroyed. [[ButForMeItWasTuesday And it's not even breakfast!]]

* THe horrific deeds that Forsaken did are terrifying. Lanfear was known for her hobby to drive people to suicide using [[DreamLand Tel'aran'rhiod]]. Graendal brainwashed many people to adore and love her, making them like animals. [[TortureTechnician Semirhage]]... well, read above. Ishamael, with his manipulaions leading to the destruction of the biggest empire also counts. He drove Lews Therin to suicide by revealing him [[ what he has done]] when he went mad. Mesaana conditioned children to be bullies and killers, and they were so notorius that they were remembered ''millenia'' after being destroyed. [[ButForMeItWasTuesday And it's not even breakfast!]]
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* Semirhage, undisputed master of torture. Back in the day, she so terrified her ''jailors'' that they smuggled her to freedom themselves. Some of the atrocities committed by the other Forsaken and Darkfriends also qualify.

* Poor ol' Perrin? While it was one of the most necessary deaths there was, [[spoiler:crushing Lanfear's neck with his bare hand while being COMPELLED to love her is decidedly horrible.. He's explicitly stated to be weeping over her body.]]

* The scene where Aviendha sees the very possible future for the Aiel in Rhuidean: [[spoiler:It consists of her children by Rand leading the Aiel into what becomes a very protracted war against the Seanchan, eventually getting beaten down, the White Tower itself falling to the Seanchan, the Aiel clans being either destroyed or reduced to shadows of their former selves, being pushed back into the Aiel Waste and still mercilessly hunted by the Seanchan, and finally reduced to a shattered vestige of their former culture, having totally losing their sense of honour and duty, and all but extinct as they scavenge whatever they can find off travellers in the waste.]]

* The scenes where Rand is going through the test at Rhuidean. Not because of the revelations themselves (which are {{Tear Jerker}}s, but because of the fact that the Aiel man who got there before him becomes increasingly overwhelmed and unhinged by the revelations, to the point where Rand eventually sees him clawing out his own eyes and chewing up his own tongue.

* Mashadar, the FogOfDoom that messes with peoples souls while killing them extremely painful, though it lacks the voice or preference.

* Rand's battle with the Dark One. [[spoiler:We see a world where everyone is a slave and Nynaeve is a Forsaken. Then we see a world with Light where everyone has no conscience. And finally, we see a world without Shadow. At first it looks like a utopia, but then Rand looks into Elayne's eyes and realizes just how wrong things are.]]

* If we're mentioning Turning, then how can we forget poor ol' Perrin? While it was one of the most necessary deaths there was, [[spoiler:crushing Lanfear's neck with his bare hand while COMPELLED to love her is decidedly horrible.. He's explicitly stated to be weeping over her body.]]

* If we're mentioning Turning, then how can we forget poor ol' Perrin? While it was one of the most necessary deaths there was,[[spoiler:Crushing Lanfear's neck with his bare hand while COMPELLED to love her. He's explicitly stated to be weeping over her body.]]

* If we're mentioning Turning,then how can we forget poor ol' Perrin?While it was one of the most necessary deaths there was,[[spoiler:Crushing Lanfear's neck with his bare hand while COMPELLED to love her. He's explicitly stated to be weeping over her body.]]

* If we're mentioning Turning,then how can we forget poor ol' Perrin?While it was one of the most necessary deaths there was,[[spoiler:Crushing Lanfear's skull with a hammer while COMPELLED to love her.Almost overwrote his love of Faile,and he's explicitly stated to be weeping over her body.]]There's no indication at all,that this is temporary or even rare.Care to think about all those people heartbroken over similar losses?

* Slayer, a ProfessionalKiller for the Shadow who specializes in people and wolves, and is composed of two identities: Isam Mandragoran and Lord Luc Mantear,

* [[DreamLand Tel'aran'rhiod]] and [[YourMindMakesItReal its incarnate nightmares that become real and attack you while you sleep]].

* Machin Shin, the Black Wind that devours people's souls, has a VoiceOfTheLegion and LovesTheSoundOfScreaming.
* Mashadar, the FogOfDoom that does the same thing, though it lacks the voice or preference.

* Semirhage, undisputed master of torture. Back in the day, she so terrified her ''captors'' that they smuggled her to freedom themselves. Some of the atrocities committed by the other Forsaken and Darkfriends also qualify.

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* The scenes where Rand is going through the test at Rhuidean. Not because of the revelations themselves (which are {{Tear Jerker}}s, but because of the fact that the Aiel man who got there before him becomes increasingly overwhelmed and unhinged by the revelations, to the point where Rand eventually sees him clawing out and chewing on his own eyes.

* One of Rand's memories from being Lews Therin involved entering a city that had been attacked by the Shadow during the War of Power only to discover that everyone who had not sworn allegiance to Dark One was tied up and thrown screaming into the fires that had been started at every crossroad.

* The scenes where Rand is going through the test at Rhuidean. Not because of the revelations themselves, but because of the fact that the Aiel man who got there before him becomes increasingly overwhelmed and unhinged by the revelations, to the point where Rand eventually sees him clawing out and chewing on his own eyes.

* How Seanchan treat ''damane'' and worse how the ''damane'' end up liking it.

* The sinking village in ''Knife of Dreams''. A perfectly innocent-looking village with a group of peaceful-looking folk. Completely harmless, right? Then Mat spots a huge inconsistency (namely, his implanted memories informing him that there haven't been roofs made like that in several hundred years) and realizes it's a dead village. Then it starts to sink into the ground, with the specters present continuing to act normally. Except that a peddler got caught there as it starts to sink, and Mat's group can only watch in horror as the man screams in terror and sinks with the village. Worst of all, this overlaps with ParanoiaFuel, as the entire group starts to wonder if the peaceful-looking field they next camp on will sink too.

* The Blight in ''The Eye Of The World''. [[EverythingIsTryingToKillYou Everything there, even the plants, were trying to kill them.]] There are also these giant worms there that will kill anything in their path and are nigh indestructible. At a mountain pass, they give up the chase because they're afraid of the things that live in the pass. [[BigOMG HOLY SHIT.]]

* The Blight in ''The Eye Of The World''. [[EverythingIsTryingToKillYou Everything there, even the plants, were trying to kill them.]] There are also these giant worms there that will kill anything in their path and are nigh indestructible. At a mountain pass, they give up the chase because [[ItGotWorse they're afraid of the things that live in the pass.]] [[BigOMG HOLY SHIT.]]

* There's some stiff competition, but Aginor might take the cake among the Forsaken. While the series doesn't go into too much detail, there are enough implications about the creation of the Shadowspawn to give anyone nightmares. Just one example is the Trollocs, which were made by crossing humans and animals [[YouDontWantToKnow somehow]]. To feed them, Aginor set up what were essentially giant concentration camps used to breed people to maintain a steady supply of human victims for the armies. Yikes.

* [[DreamLand Tel'aran'rhiod]] and [[YourMindMakesItReal its incarnate nightmares that become real and attack you while you sleep]]