History NightmareFuel / TheWitcher2019

* When Ciri realises Yennefer has been lying to her, she [[MakeMeWannaShout lashes out with her abilities]], and ends causing an earthquake that cracks the very walls of Cintra.

* Vereena's introduction screams UncannyValley. She emerges from the wall in the room's corner, despite there being no visible hole; crawls on the ceiling in a very jilted and animalistic manner with neither her hair nor clothes affected by gravity, then descends and climbs on Ciri's bed. She is constantly making strange, insect-like sounds and making small, but unsettlingly stiff movements. This, in addition to glowing irises and uneven, slightly vibrating speech patterns (even more pronounced when she speaks mind-to-mind with Ciri) in an otherwise normally looking human female make it seem like she is some beast wearing human skin.

** In the last fight, her real form is revealed as a fast and gigantic bat-like creature, who can SpeedBlitz groups of people in just a few seconds. Would her unnatural clothes and hair mean [[UncannyValley she doesn’t know how slower and land-bound humans SHOULD react to gravity?]] Is at least some of her “human form” [[GlamourFailure an illusion from her telepathy?]]

* A combination of AdultFear and FridgeHorror—discovering a friend you knew and thought you could trust is a rapist, ''and you left your (surrogate) daughter alone with him.''

* Francesca wakes up from a nightmare only to find Filavandrel cradling the body of their daughter, murdered while her mother slept metres away, oblivious. AdultFear at its finest.

* When the girls are first learning to use magic, they have to float a rock. Fringilla manages it and is pretty excited...only for her reaction to turn to horror when her hand turns black and shrivelled. Tissaia just casually remarks that this is a perfect demonstration of how magic is CastFromHitPoints, as if this sort of thing happens all the time.

** In the last fight, her real form is revealed as a fast and gigantic magical bat, who can SpeedBlitz groups of people in just a few seconds. Would her unnatural clothes and hair mean [[UncannyValley she doesn’t know how slower and land-bound humans SHOULD react to gravity?]] Is she even shapeshifting physically, or [[GlamourFailure is her “human form” just an illusion from her telepathy?]]
* A combination of AdultFear and FridgeHorror - discovering a friend you knew and thought you could trust is a rapist, ''and you left your (surrogate) daughter alone with him.''

** Tying into this, Lydia and Rience meeting with their MysteriousEmployer , who informs them that the brewing conflict between the North, Nilfgaard and the elves [[AllAccordingToPlan will serve their mutual ambitions]].

** It’s later revealed that her real form is a fast and gigantic magical bat, so would her clothes and hair flouting the laws of physics mean [[UncannyValley she doesn’t know how slower and land-bound human bodies SHOULD react to gravity?]] Is she even shapeshifting physically, or [[GlamourFailure is her “human form” just an illusion from her telepathy?]]

* A combination of AdultFear and FridgeHorror - discovering a friend you knew and thought you could trust is a [[spoiler: rapist]] ''and you left your (surrogate) daughter alone with him.''

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** And then she reveals Xenomorph-worthy NestedMouths and capability to fully rotate her limbs and neck around. Her final lunge against Nivellen in particular is very painful to watch, turning her head and arms 180 degrees and pulling herself closer on the spear impailing her through the back.

-->'''Tissaia:''' I need to know what Nilfgaard wants. Resist or submit, it makes no difference. It is not in my nature to be cruel, but you have taken someone from me. Someone I care about deeply. So now I will take the knowledge, your memories, your very being, and leave you cold and helpless, trapped in the eternal darkness of your own mind. I know... I know you want to scream, but it's too soon. It's too soon, because I haven't even started yet. If evolution has traced any groove at all in your brain, I will plow it so deeply, and you will know what a scream can really be!

** And then she reveals Xenomorph-worthy NestedMouth and capability to fully rotate her limbs and neck around. Her final lunge against Nivellen in particular is very painful to watch, turning her head and arms 180 degrees and pulling herself closer on the spear impailing her through the back.

* The roundup and wholesale genocide of elves in Redania on King Vizimir's orders after it gets out about the Nilfgaardian/elven alliance.

* Francesca [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge retaliating for her daughter's murder]] by magically killing ''every'' human baby in Redania. [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even her own brother feels this is a step too far]]...ad making it worse is the fact the murder was a FalseFlagOperation orchaestrated by Emperor Emhyr to goad the elves into fighting against the north.

-->'''Tissaia''': I need to know what Nilfgaard wants. Resist or submit, it makes no difference. It is not in my nature to be cruel, but you have taken someone from me. Someone I care about deeply. So now I will take the knowledge, your memories, your very being, and leave you cold and helpless, trapped in the eternal darkness of your own mind. I know... I know you want to scream, but it's too soon. It's too soon, because I haven't even started yet. If evolution has traced any groove at all in your brain, I will plow it so deeply, and you will know what a scream can really be!

-->'''King of the Wild Hunt''': Child of the Elder Blood, starry-eyed Daughter of Chaos, join our Hunt! Your place is among us...you are ''ours''!

* Tissaia clearly panicking when Triss informs her Ciri is a Child of the Elder Blood, giving her the potential to destroy the world.

* Fringilla poisons the Nilfgaardian commanders undermining her with a toxin that leaves them paralyzed but fully conscious, so they feel everything while she slowly kills them. The only one she spares is Cahir, solely [[CantKillYouStillNeedYou because she needs his influence with the Emperor]].

* When Ciri realises Yennefer has been lying to her, she [[MakeMeWannaShout lashes out with her abilities]], and end causing an earthquake that cracks the very walls of Cintra.

* Francesca [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge retaliating for her daughter's murder]] by magically killing ''every'' human child in Redania. [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even her own brother feels this is a step too far]]...ad making it worse is the fact the murder was a FalseFlagOperation orchaestrated by Emperor Emhyr to goad the elves into fighting against the north.

A Continent full of horrible monsters, the [[TheEmpire Nilfgaard]] army's RapePillageAndBurn tendencies, the gruesome magical surgery Yennefer endures to become beautiful, the [[BodyHorror horrific]] CastFromHitPoints cost of doing magic... the list goes on.