History Nightmarefuel / ChasingDragons

* The MysticalPlague that Arthur has a warlock unleash on King's Landing at the start of the Fourth Slave War. The city soon comes to a standstill as it goes on lockdown to avoid the spread of a disease that causes deadly fevers and leaves its victims coughing up blood. But no effort is enough to stop it, and soon people are dropping dead everywhere, from Flea Bottom to the Red Keep itself.

* [[RapePillageAndBurn Everything that the royalist forces do to the rebelling Iron Islands]], which in-universe texts from the timeline's future specifically call [[ObligatoryWarCrimeScene war crimes]]. Despite Stannis' orders against doing so, many of his lords allowing raping and murder of the Ironborn's civilian population by their men, or destroying food supplies to starve them out; Tywin in particular specifically tells his men to kill children and pretend that the Ironborn did that [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled themselves]]. Combined with the repressive laws that Stannis levels at the islands post-war designed to crush the Drowned God faith, the future texts specifically compare events to ethnic cleansing.

** Barristan reflects on how he and the other Volantene forces at Fort Dagger were forced to turn over refugees to the Dothraki because of their alliance. Specifically, how they ended up having to dig a mass grave for the hundreds of bodies that the Dothraki ended up leaving to rot outside the fort after they were finished.

* The Riverlands devolving into chaos as paranoia over rogue septons continuing the Rymanist heresy spreads, until the already fractious River Lords are all at each other's throats, accusing each other of being heretics.

** Robert brutally killing the magister who ran it is this mixed with CrazyAwesome In-Universe.

* As if canon Cersei wasn't bad enough, this version of her is now becoming a religious fanatic on top of it.

** How does Drogo get past the city's walls? Well, once the priests of the Black Goat announce their intent to sacrifice the children of the magisters in order to invoke their god against the Dothraki, the magister in charge of the Unsullied opens the gates for Drogo in exchange for his household being spared. [[RewardedAsATraitorDeserves Instead, Drogo ties the man and his family to posts and has his horde's horses trample them.]]

* When Sandor kills Balon and leaves his body on the Seastone Chair, said body begins to move unnaturally, with Sandor hearing a massive ''heartbeat'' coming from the throne, which only stops when he drags Balon's corpse off it. Along with the eerie feeling the Northern lords get from Nagga's Ribs, it really lends to the CosmicHorrorStory elements of the Ironborn.

* [[RapePillageAndBurn Everything that the royalist forces do to the rebelling Iron Islands]], which in-universe texts from the timeline's future specifically call [[ObligatoryWarCrimesScenes war crimes]]. Despite Stannis' orders against doing so, many of his lords allowing raping and murder of the Ironborn's civilian population by their men, or destroying food supplies to starve them out; Tywin in particular specifically tells his men to kill children and pretend that the Ironborn did that [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled themselves]]. Combined with the repressive laws that Stannis levels at the islands post-war designed to crush the Drowned God faith, the future texts specifically compare events to ethnic cleansing.

* [[RapePillageAndBurn Everything that the royalist forces do to the rebelling Iron Islands]], which in-universe texts from the timeline's future specifically call [[ObligatoryWarCrimesScene war crimes]]. Despite Stannis' orders against doing so, many of his lords allowing raping and murder of the Ironborn's civilian population by their men, or destroying food supplies to starve them out; Tywin in particular specifically tells his men to kill children and pretend that the Ironborn did that [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled themselves]]. Combined with the repressive laws that Stannis levels at the islands post-war designed to crush the Drowned God faith, the future texts specifically compare events to ethnic cleansing.

** When Harry manages to help break up the Gulltown cell, the septon warns that he was a ''moderate'' leader of the movement, and that without him his followers will rise up violently against the Arryns. Worse, according to Harry's narration, this is exactly what happens eventually...

** The first time Ser Harry meets an Old Faith septon, he's left deeply disturbed by the [[TheFundamentalist fanaticism]] in the man's eyes.

* The Flash Papers describe the severe unease Ser Harry and other experience in the depopulated former city of Tyrosh after the war.
* Septon Ryman and his followers start burning accused heretics at the stake.

* The Flash Papers describe the severe unease Ser Harry and other experience in the depopulated former city of Tyrosh after the war.

* The response to the massacres of slaves is PayUntoEvil. First with the Iron Legion purging the Freeborn where they can on the mainland, but shortly Robert eds up endorsing such actions for the pending Battle of Tyrosh. The war amounts to causing two genocides in the Tyroshi territory.

* The Night of Flames. With the mainland fallen and an attack on Tyrosh itself clearly coming, the Tyroshi massacre every slave on the island; when many of them flee to barracks and garrisons, the rioters set fire to the buildings and then cut down anyone who escapes the flames. Then they hunt down any who escaped this initial purge and kill them where they find them.

* Pick most any scene where the PoV is in battle to start with.

** Whatever the True Myrish have planned against the Braavosi, it horrifies the Archon of Tyrosh.

* Lyn Corbay's patrol on the border finds the corpses group of escaped slaves who were massacred. The state of the remains makes even Ser Lyn Corbay feel uncomfortable.

* News of Roberts engagement and the Braavosi mustering their fleet, have lead many Tyroshi to feel TheirDaysAreNumbered.

* Everything that happens to the Qohorik Commander after he runs into the mists of the Sorrows alone after the Battle of Chorayne.

* Mero and his sellswords crushing the Turtle Rover Slave Revolt with revolting ease and cruelty. It reminds us of why and how the Magisters world order has stood for so long prior to the events of this story.

** The Slaver Fleet's trap is this. For the Abolitionists it becomes a major defeat making their sacrifices up to that point AllForNothing. And when the trapped Braavosi hoist the Black Banner(ordering all their fleet members to fight to the death) it becomes on for the slavers facing that LastStand.

* Victarion's party in the Palace of Order. The author even put it in warnings.