Nightmare Fuel / The Evermore

The Recursions and Realms offer many worlds to visit and a diverse cast of characters. Many are wondrous places to visit with peaceful and friendly people... but regardless... some things are... rather horrifying...

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General

Evermore Recursions

Evermore Realms

• The Vortex. It's a massive storm at the centre of the Realm's where the Recursions broke back through into the wider multiverse. The Vortex proves able of tearing holes in reality. To make matters worse, the remains of the Silent Forest are inside it somewhere..
  • As of more recently, the Vortex has proceeded to devour one of the Realms.
  • As of recently, the Vortex has now clearly being shown as openly malevolent and sapient. It has actually started to fight the Construct itself and has proceeded to send a force of Vortex entities to attack Cascadia.
• The Neath and Fallen London, as usual is potentially packed with this.
• Dead Utopia and Cascadia's outbreaks. The former is filled with what are basically zombies which have pretty much taken over Earth. The latter is filled with former humans turned into a form of insane werewolf called Ferals who are more than happy to kill people for fun, infecting any survivors.
• Dead Metal's Nightmare: It shows the prospective of a single human marine desperately trying to flee from Berserkers to a drop ship. The Berserkers themselves are a twisted mass of organic and robotic material that are intent on killing the marine. The poor guy proceeds to find the entire crew of the dropship massacured. The marine himself is promptly killed horrifically by Dead Metal himself.
  • This isn't the friendly Dead Metal we recognise on Winterhail, this is a Dead Metal at his prime, fighting for the Berserkers. It's implied that he massacred the crew on the dropship. A ship that is shown to be around three stories tall, and judging by the mess, there must have been a lot of humans on board slaughtered to a completely horrific level. The poor Marine vomits at the sight of it.
    • The death of the marine takes the cake though, after being injured by Death Metal,is killed... by Dead Metal slicing slowly through the marine's head with a circular saw...
  • And worse of all, Dead Metal had to see the nightmare from the marine's POV... essentially seeing himself kill the marine from the latter's perspective... and likely feeling said pain at the same time.
  • Dead Metal waking up has him find, to his own horror, the very same circular saw extended and slowly spinning...
• The reveal of the Nevermore. Essentially the Vortex's evil counter to the Evermore.
  • It goes further than that though, as Word of God confirms that the Nevermore present in Realms are shadows of the original Evermore of the Recursions. Let that sink in, almost every single Evermore from Recursions now has an Nevermore counterpart, this in turn, could end up doubling as a Player Punch for those who played those characters in Recursions.
    • This is especially bad in the case of the Veterans... who now effectively have a Evil Twin running around. This dissent spread by this is quite horrifying.
  • Whilst they are similar to their previous selves, they also show distinct personalities... typically leaning on the darker side.
  • To make matters worse, they are already active. Some have attempted to manipulate Evermore to their own whims, whilst others have outright captured them.
• The existence of the Harbingers, captured Avatars that are corrupted and forced to serve the Vortex. Their Construct-granted powers are replaced with opposite, Vortexian abilites. For example, their ability to heal becomes the ability to drain life at a touch, while their telepathy becomes the ability to steal memories. As of now, there is no known way to revert a Harbinger back into an Avatar, with even the Construct only able to sever the connection to Vortex.
• The Darkwater. Essentially a species of Reality Warper Eldritch Abominations that live within Void Between the Worlds. If Crusader is to be believed, they have been responsible for the end of the Recursions, the Creation of the Vortex and being responsible for all the events that have taken place so far. They now settle into the position of Greater-Scope Villain not only to Realms, but the entire series. Worse still, they one up the Vortex by being responsible for dragging an entire Universe into the Void in, at the very least, an act of spite... and right now they are desperate to get out back into the Multiverse. If the Evermore are unable to find a way to prevent their escape... it may well be Game Over.
  • The fact we never seen them (at least for now) doesn't help matters... Save for a tiny, inert drop of black fluid... leads to the question of what the hell are they to be able to do all the above?

Evermore Resurrections

• The Sairentoikra. It probably qualifies as one of the most disturbing and horrific entities in the entire series, if not the most horrific. It first appears when Crag and Daphne when they enter the mysterious structure of their Autumn Engine expedition. A half-dead looking eel that is completely blind, reaches eight metres long and whilst it's head is fairly eel like, it's face looks like a cross between an deep-sea creature and a rotting human head. It's hearing however is near perfect, it shows signs of intellegence, it has poisonous spines which are completely lethal on contact and worse of all, it is completely unkillable within the Realm, surviving hits that would kill the toughest of opponents. Even the Darkwater would be hard-pressed to match it individually, even if they are were more dangerous on a multiversal scale. Eldritch Abomination doesn't even begin to cover it.
  • Its first appearence is terrifying on it's own. It emerges out of the darkness in total silence, drifting past the group as the writing lovingly/disturbingly describes the creature as it seems to pass by peacefully. Until an audible snick! rings out, revealing one of the spines had just barely scratched one of the survivors. She barely gets a chance to look at the others in terror before she suddenly drops dead on them, rapidly decaying from the poison as the Sairentoikra slips away without batting an eye. Her companion very quickly freaks out and attempts to run. He barely gets to the junction before he stops, as if realising he is already dead, before the Sairentoikra flies out of nowhere and proceeds to clomp down on his head and rip the poor bastard in half before disappearing back whence it came. Fuck.
  • Nevermind that not only is it capable of jump scaring it's potential victims (such as waiting outside elevator doors and filling them with it's ugly face), it also shows signs of being actively intellegent. Whilst throwing objects down corridors to lure it away works for a while, it's shown that the eel is very clearly aware that this is a distraction and proceeds to backtrack to the Evermore. Later on, that doesn't even work at all, and instead it beelines on the door leading to the Fugbees - and the Evermore - once it hears the sound of the squeaking mechanism.
  • Shortly after the ''battle'' between the Sairentoikra and the Fugbees, the eel disappears into a tunnel... and eventully remerges outside Autumn Engine altogether and disappears into the ocean. Lets say that again, the seemingly unkillable, hyperlethal Sairentoikra is now loose in Perdition.. And absolutely no one knows or is prepared to face it.
  • And to make it even worse, much like the Darkwater, the Sairentoikra was inspired by a nightmare. The above first appearence is basically the nightmare written moment for moment. Eek.