History Fridge / EternalDarkness

** Edward Roivas can save his house staff from the vampire, which is awesome, but they still get ''attacked'' by a thing from beyond the veil. There's no way in Hell anyone wouldn't know the story of Crazy Max Roivas if they worked or lived in that house; for the ones that saw it? They ''know'' the story is true, which not only means they fully understand whatever ghostly presence they sense as Max traipses around the place as a spirit, but also that the corroboration that Max needed ''was'' there, just decades and decades out of reach.

* When when monsters look at you they drain your sanity, and when monsters are killed they fade away (as opposed to humans who slowly decompose). Both of these help the AncientConspiracy remain secret.

** In Xel'lotath's version of that scene, she accuses Pious of being a traitor, to which he reacts with confusion. [[spoiler:Xel'lotath saw the timeline where Pious was aligned with Ulyaoth]].

** Going further with the color coding, the Ancients (Chattur'gha, Ulyaoth, Xel'lotath, and Mantorok) mix with the colors of another bunch of people - [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda the hylian Goddesses (Din, Nayru, and Farore).]] At first, this doesn't fit regarding both Xel'lotath and Farore, who are beings of Sanity and Courage, respectively. That is, unless you regard the fact of that both are similar within their meanings. Even more, Majora doesn't have the Temporal capability like what Mantorok had...but more rather the fact that they were both within a nearly dead state and caused plenty of issues towards both the [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask the Skull Kid]] and Alexandra. As for his Temporal power and benevolence, it fits alongside [[HyruleWarriors Cia]], who alongside Majora, is purple.

** Alex is the most stable and level-headed of the three, but she [[spoiler:has a HeroicBSOD]] because of the ''knowledge'' that [[spoiler:she just released another EldritchAbomination on the world]], reversing how Xel'lotath normally wins. She "lost" to the ''knowledge'' that [[spoiler:she [[NiceJobBreakingItHero released something just as bad as the other ancient]]]]. Her sanity-meter gets lower with every chapter, the more she ''gains'' in knowledge, the more loose her sanity

** Going further with the color coding, the Ancients (Chattur'gha, Ulyaoth, Xel'lotath, and Mantorok) mix with the colors of another bunch of people - [[TheLegendOfZelda the hylian Goddesses (Din, Nayru, and Farore).]] At first, this doesn't fit regarding both Xel'lotath and Farore, who are beings of Sanity and Courage, respectively. That is, unless you regard the fact of that both are similar within their meanings. Even more, Majora doesn't have the Temporal capability like what Mantorok had...but more rather the fact that they were both within a nearly dead state and caused plenty of issues towards both the [[TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask the Skull Kid]] and Alexandra. As for his Temporal power and benevolence, it fits alongside [[HyruleWarriors Cia]], who alongside Majora, is purple.

** Strangely enough, both Ganondorf and Alexandra fit rather than Link and Alexandra. While the latter two are heroes, for the former it's due to the [[BookEnds contrast and comparison that the two have]], with Ganondorf usually causing the problems while Alexandra fixes them and how they both write the histories of others, with [[spoiler:them both]] causing 3 timelines due to their actions. Meanwhile, Link mixes with Pious due to the fact that their fates were already writen, [[YouCantFightFate and how they are doomed to repeat it]] [[spoiler:within the 3 timelines.]]

** Going further with the color coding, the Ancients (Chattur'gha, Ulyaoth, Xel'lotath, and Manatorok) mix with the colors of another bunch of people - [[TheLegendOfZelda the hylian Goddesses (Din, Nayru, and Farore).]] At first, this doesn't fit regarding both Xel'lotath and Farore, who are beings of Sanity and Courage, respectively. That is, unless you regard the fact of that both are similar within their meanings. Even more, Majora doesn't have the Temporal capability like what Manatorok had...but more rather the fact that they were both within a nearly dead state and caused plenty of issues towards both the [[TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask the Skull Kid]] and Alexandra. As for his Temporal power and benevolence, it fits alongside [[HyruleWarriors Cia]], who alongside Majora, is purple.

* A certain Sanity-effect let's the head of a character explode, and if picked up it recites Hamlets famous "To be or not to be"-scene, in which he thinks about suicide. This enforces the theme of the game itself. The player can either go through the game the easy way and stop or go on and finish it with all the problems that have to come, including the sanity-effect.

* In Max's voiceover for Ulyaoth Bonethives, he says "Those creatures inhabit the bodies of men and women... exorcising the human soul and replacing it with their own putrid spirits," but for Xel'lotath Bonethives, he says that they "[Secret] madness inside our very heads, while our souls are pushed into the corners of our skulls... watching as our hands do tasks that we have no control over!" This makes sense, as Ulyaoth Bonethives have no need for the persons former soul, but being aware while possessed can drive you insane, perfect for Xel'lotath (presumably Chattur'gha Bonethives discard the soul like Ulyaoth's do). But it makes sense in another way to: Unlike the other two varieties, Xel'lotath Bonethives don't have heads, meaning that the head, and therefore the brain, of the victim does not get replaced.

* In Peter's chapter you come across a room with an unfinished letter that hasn't been touched in a long time "as though its user suddenly turned away and never returned." One could guess the writer was another victim of the Black Guardian, but in all appearances, it seems they left on their own accord without bothering to finish the letter first. It's likely a bonethief snuck up on the letter writer and possessed them, then, not caring about its host's letter, simply got up and abandoned it.

* Out of all the characters in the game, the ones with the lowest sanity are Peter Jacob and Michael Edwards. Why? Peter is struggling through UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne, while Michael Edwards is experiencing Gulf War Syndrome.

* Notwithstanding the Ancient relic that Roberto passed on to Michael (which had its own metaphysical properties anyway), how did Michael retrieve the ruby and sapphire statuettes? Firstly, Roberto had crawled his way to the outer edge of the Pillar of Flesh before he died, and he had the statuettes on him. Secondly, the explosion that sent Michael and the bodies of his firefighting crew into the Forbidden City also blasted away a section of the Pillar of Flesh (possibly the side that held Roberto's body, and the statuettes that he carried). As for how the statuettes weren't destroyed in the blast that took out so much bone and concrete, ruby and sapphire are both forms of corundum, which is second only to diamond in hardness.