Tear Jerker / Utawarerumono

• Tuskur's death. She protects Aruruu from a rowdy soldier that Nuwangi brought and unfortunately, she dies from the wounds. Hakuowlo even laments from that point Nothing Is the Same Anymore and that there is no turning back.
• Also in the anime. Teoro bursts into Hakuowlo's throne room to warn them of an invading enemy. Despite all this, he assures them he helped hold them off and is his usual chipper self. Except, as everyone leaves, we see that he is bleeding heavily and as he slumps down from exhaustion, he is visited by the spirit of his deceased wife and all their neighbors, showing that the situation was a whole lot worse than he made it sound. He leaves with them satisfied that with his last bits of strength he was able to warn Hakuowlo.
  • What follows is probably the second saddest moment in the series. Kurou reports that not a single villager from Yamayura survived the massacre. Aruruu tries desperately to wake Teoro's body, but when Hakuowlo tells her he'll never wake up again, she cries so hysterically that she needs to be sedated by Eruruu and heartbroken by the report, after she sedates Aruruu, she sedates herself.
    • Made even worse when Fridge Horror kicks in because Aruruu starts calling for Tuskur as the trauma of feeling responsible for her death surfaces anew.
  • This also makes their goodbyes after the rise of the Empire of Tuskur even sadder since that is the last time they would see them alive. Sopoku's gift to Eruruu? It became a Tragic Keepsake and Eruruu realizes this.
  • To top it all off it was pointless. Orikakan started a war with Tuskur believing that Hakuowlo was Rakshain when it was most likely that Rakshain was long dead. As a result of the war, many innocent lives were killed including the aforementioned Yamayura Village, Kucca Kecca was all but destroyed making it annexed into Tuskur in the aftermath, and the masterminds behind the war Niwe and Dii got away with it when Orikakan is assassinated before trying to change things.
  • Eruruu's Shut Up, Hannibal! speech against Orikakan where she unleashes all of her grief in a very O.O.C. Is Serious Business manner, ending with this heartbreaking line shouted from the top of her lungs:
    Eruruu: Give me back my family!
• Yuzuha's situation, in general, pulls on the heartstrings but in the game, her desire to have Hakuowlo's child as proof that she existed, and the revelation in the game's epilogue that sometime after Hakuowlo is sealed away she did in fact have the child but that she either died giving birth or very shortly after giving birth is just beyond sad.
• Ulthury's breakdown after having to give Fumirul back to her birth parents. While she remains formal and seemingly accepting of the situation at the moment, Hakuowlo hugs her afterward and tells her to let it all out. She immediately starts sobbing and allows her honest feelings to flow freely.
  Ulthury: Give her back! Give me back my child!

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