- Complete Monster: Prince Garloth Pescheour is passed over to succeed the noble Pescheour family for his noble brother Alain due to his own personal selfishness and cruelty. Garloth later returns, driving Alain into a gibbering, crazed wreck, before turning everyone in the castle into horrible monsters, erasing their identities. To obtain the family treasure, the Stone of Corbinet, the linchpin of the world itself, Garloth hires adventurers to kill the monsters, without informing them of said monsters being innocent people Garloth had mutated. Upon realizing the theft of the stone has led to a dawning apocalypse, with demons and devils running rampant and everyone on the world about to die, Garloth decides to simply flee for a new world and to not return the stone to save the current one. A man of unbelievable pettiness and selfishness, Garloth decides if he cannot be king, then the entire world can burn for all he cares.
- Nightmare Fuel: Pretty much everything Moloch does to torment the Player Characters.
- Nintendo Hard: Since the module is built with the intent that the PCs fail and let the world burn, it is Tomb of Horrors levels of unfair. The Secret Tests Of Character are especially insidious. The party has to refuse to help a warrior kill a monster that is massacring innocents, and allow a village to Burn the Witch! rather than intervening, among other counter-intuitive choices.
- That One Boss: Moloch and the Tarrasque. The former is an archdevil assisted by three Pit Fiends and the latter is, well, the Tarrasque.
- Too Bleak, Stopped Caring: Can have this effect on some players.
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