History NightmareFuel / Wynncraft

* ''Recover the Past'' provides insight as to what Fruma, the player's home, looked like. To say the least, it is not pretty.
** Every Wynn recruit from Fruma has all of their memories removed, a magician has discovered a way to recover these by use of a magic orb and requests you find some people for studying. The first of which is a scout. After helping him defend a bridge from the corrupt, you bring him to the tower and see his past as a farmer who notes the lack of water isn't even enough for him, his wife and their horses, all while working with an irrigated river. A few of Fruma's soldiers arrive with the message that an inquest has been ordered due to being behind on deliveries. When trying to justify this, they take the scout, trying him for Lèse-majesté. To rub salt in the wound, the soldier destroys their house with a fireball spell. [[SarcasmMode What a nice and friendly country to live in.]]
** Your second subject is a sailor. After dealing with his problem, you see his memory of his wife being arrested. The sailor proceeds to punch the guard which has him take his wife's place as a prisoner.
** The third subject, a farmer, is the kicker, as his last memory is inside of a Fruman prison. The person in the cell next to him is the sailor, who tells the farmer that there is no point in yelling as escape is impossible and anyone taken from the guards is never seen again. At which point, the sailor is taken to an interrogation room as a guard says the same phrase, over and over again.
---> There is no war inside the Fruman walls.
*** You view the above scene in thirdperson. Then you are placed in the chair and view the rest of the scene in firstperson. Then the textbox begins distorting with that phrase repeating itself. The magician calls out your name and tells you to escape as you are being sucked into the memory and will be trapped in it if otherwise.
*** Take a look at one of the fenced off areas of the prison before you escape. [[WhamShot There is a broken down wagon in it]]. That little quip at the beginning of your adventure takes a darker turn with this in mind.
** The fourth and last subject: you. You walk towards the magic orb, wait a few moments... and the orb explodes. The magician is shocked, saying its as if nonexistent memories were being accessed, like you never existed before Wynn. With this in mind, it can only lead to several questions of how the player ended up in Wynn, or what they were doing in Fruma in the first place.

* An early quest the player can do is called ''Poisoning the Pest'', which involves killing a Corruption-infected Farmer with water infused with rat poison. The cutscene of watching the farmer die involves it bleeding for a few moments before destroying a few parts of the farm and ultimately watching it explode and fighting some pests that were burrowed in the farmer’s body. At the very least, the player has expectations on what is to come in later quests.

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---> '''[[red:.;I. ,told;. .,you; :to, .,stay; ]].away[[red:';]]'''

* ''Hollow Serenity'' has the player explore an abandoned manor. Somehow, its only when the player ''leaves'' the mansion the first time that everything goes down.

** It starts out tame with a minecart segment, along with having a canary follow you. Your 'reward' for finishing the minecart segment has the tracks break underneath you and drops you into the deep, dark mines. The player's health bar drops ''extremely'' low as they fall into a cavern and they get to watch the canary die right in front of them. The player is alone. [[NothingIsScarier In a pitch-black cavern]]. Filled with eerie noises.

*** Take a look at the canary. It's slightly larger than the player on equal footing.

---> ''You are overwhelmed with pain...''\\

----->'''Lucio:''' (playername)! [[FaceMonsterTurn She was completely right. You ought to come with us...]]

** The finale of the quest is the kicker. As you must go to Detlas and fight the people who have taken your place in this alternate timeline: [[DualBoss Aledar and Tasim]], [[FightingYourFriend the very people you entered the continent with]].

** Following this, the player is shown a flashback to Katarin and Yorman arguing about Garvan's progress. Following his departure, Katarin meets with Garvan in the basement where she asks about his work. The fifth textbox of this scene intentionally glitches out on the screen before displaying scrambled text [[FreezeFrameBonus for a split second]] before Garvan says he's fine.

*** It doesn't help that you come back to your senses inside a house of the village.
** Then the place you go to next is Garvan's old research outpost, near some old ruins. What follows is a section where you need to gather evidence all while Garvan constantly enters the building to look for you while you hide in closets. And no, once you hide in one closet, you can't hide in it again.

*** About Eileen... [[DeadAllAlong she's been long dead before you began the quest]]. You can find her corpse in a Secret Discovery far from the manor near the northern mountain range with ''a massive hole in her face''. This is most likely from the parasite [[BodyHorror burrowing its way out of her head]].

** Think about it: this is a large part of the reason why Wynncraft takes place in a CrapsackWorld. The Elders couldn't let the secret out as that would spell trouble in a different way. Telling the world you were responsible for not only Orphion's infection, but the Corruption in Wynn, would make a lot people, both in and outside of Gavel, want your head.

** It starts out tame with a minecart segment, along with having a canary follow you. Your 'reward' for finishing the minecart segment has the tracks break underneath you and drops you into the deep, dark mines. The player's health bar drops ''extremely'' low as they fall into a cavern and they get to watch the canary die right in front of them. The player is alone. [[NothingIsScarier In a pitch black cavern]]. Filled with eerie noises.

*** Then you have its contents. Its writer suffered the loss of his home and family, which caused him to discover Thesead and meet Clight, who he quickly befriends upon getting a job offer from him. Even though they had arguments with each other at times and had competed against each other, they remained on good terms... until ''Clight'' shoved the writer into the depths of the mines with no means of escape. This started the writer's slow descent into insanity as he began to experience some of the same hallucinations the player underwent, and [[DespairEventHorizon this was all it took for the writer to understand that they're not going to escape the mines]]. As one final message, he erases his identity and warns any miners who found the journal to not follow his path.

** After traversing through the realm for a while, you and Relend get warped to a pitch black void. Relend, while in the void with you, [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness starts speaking normally without rhyming]], promising to find his friend... right before '''the Eye''' appears out of thin air and pulls Relend into the darkness. Then you get ejected from the realm into a cave filled with corpses holding pickaxes.

----->'''Lucio:''' <playername>! [[FaceMonsterTurn She was completely right. You ought to come with us...]]

* ''Recover the Past'' provides us insight as to what Fruma, the player's home, looked like. To say the least, it is not pretty.
** Every Wynn recruit from Fruma has all of their memories removed, a magician has discovered a way to recover these by use of a magic orb and requests you find some people for studying. The first of which is a scout. After helping him defend a bridge from the corrupt, you bring him to the tower and see his past as a farmer who notes the lack of water isn't even enough for him, his wife and their horses, all while working with an irrigated river. A few of Fruma's soldiers arrive with the message that an inquest has been ordered due to being behind on deliveries. When trying to justify this, they take the scout, trying him for Lèse-majesté. To rub salt in the wood, the soldier destroys their house with a fireball spell. [[SarcasmMode What a nice and friendly country to live in.]]

* The entirety of ''A Grave Mistake'', which manages to be superbly spine-chilling despite having no combat whatsoever. It is definitely telling what the quest will be like when you look at the quest description to begin the quest.

** There's also what exist below the Portal: the final and hardest [[OptionalBoss Boss Altar]] the player can use. The boss? The Panic Zealot.

* The Nameless Anomaly. Just... what is this thing? It's a dark, skeletal floating torso with long appendages and a blue crystal inside of its chest. The way it enters the area is through a hole to the void and every time it jumps around the arena, it creates even more of them. Calling it an EldritchAbomination somehow doesn't feel like enough to describe whatever the hell this thing is accurately enough.

* It can be a bit unnerving to hear the sounds of the Vex, Warden, and sculk as you traverse the underground caves in ''Purple and Blue''.

** The quest has secrets that reward the player with diary pages, which gives you a completed diary if you find all of them. You find its pages scattered throughout the mines in hidden areas, but it gets a little disturbing when you question how these pages managed to end up in the completely sealed off areas of the mine that you have to dig through.

** As the player leaves the study of the mansion, the ghost appears again and looks at the player, who is given four prompts which all have the player ask "''[[red: Did you open this door?]]''" and [[WhamShot the ghost will shake her head]] before vanishing.

** The player must then make their way through a mineshaft with 11 playing. This is where the game pulls its last trick on you. When 11 gets to the part where a person is heard sprinting, the mentally scarring image of the dead canary flies towards you as a JumpScare.
*** How quick the JumpScare happens should also be taken into account. Even though the canary moves towards the player, it almost looks as if it warps right in front of the player, as if to give the latter as little time to react to the scare.

** The Corkus segment not only shows that the Antikythera Supercomputer is still active even after finishing Fallen Factory, but it proceeds to have you instigate a war between the Corkians and Avos. Maxie, the one person who has helped the player in solving the issue of the rogue mechs in reality, is trying his best to ease the tensions between the two sides. He eventually discover's your interference which becomes his downfall as you murder him in a fight.

* [[DarkAndTroubledPast The story of General Skien]]. What was once a renowned leader of Troms' army, [[StartOfDarkness was betrayed by one of his own men during a crucial battle]] and was [[TheScapegoat forced to take the blame]] for the destruction of the city. He was exiled to an island which he used to create his stronghold, and while there, [[SanitySlippage began to lose his sanity]], still believing he was still in the very battle that caused this. He treated his soldiers horribly, like taking their armor and preventing them from leaving the island. He even tortured them for no reason whatsoever. Skien's soldiers, now fed up with everything the man has done, attempted to get boats and kill him, which ended in the soldiers' deaths. This slowly causes Skien to realize that not only had he failed to defend his people, but had a direct role in their deaths, which completely shatters him. Topping this off was the spirit of the traitor bringing the corruption to the island, raising the soldiers Skien had killed as undead. The fortress he resided in has now become his prison. The passing ships could not hear his pleas for help and he eventually starved to death which led to him being revived by the corruption.

** There is also what exists at the very end of the Silent Expanse: a portal to Dern above a {{Bottomless Pit}} being guarded by a dark, floating figure comprised of a skull and a torso with no arms. And it speaks to you in riddles.

--->[[MadnessMantra YOU CAN’T STOP PANICKING YOU CAN’T STOP PANICKING YOU CAN’T STOP PANICKING YOU CAN’T STOP PANICKING YOU CAN’T STOP PANICKING YOU CAN’T STOP PANICKING]] [[BrokenRecord YOU CAN’T YOU CAN’T YOU CAN’T YOU CAN’T YOU CAN’T YOU CAN’T]]