History NightmareFuel / DrowTales

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** Notably, [[spoiler: [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?sid=7126 Naal'suul's demise in chapter 27]], particularly what the Glutton demon did with her body just afterwards.]]
*** But see [[spoiler:HopeSpot.]]

* It's a more subtle kind of horror, but what happens to [[spoiler:[[http://www.drowtales.com/longestwait.php?sid=4330 Diva'ratrika]] while imprisoned in her tower]] is actually pretty disturbing. Just the idea of being trapped with no way out, with only one person that even knows you're alive while you're slowly losing your mind is bad enough on its own, but it gets worse when you consider [[spoiler:what it must have been like for Ragini to slowly feel her aura being taken over, to the point that she buried herself in alcohol to stave off the pain]].

* Watching [[spoiler:[[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?sid=7351 Kiel'ndia]]]] suffer from the effects of the poison is bad enough, especially since it goes on for several pages and is frighteningly realistic, but the [[spoiler:subverted]] EmergencyTransformation [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?sid=7373 has caused at least one actual nightmare]].

* Think flowers can't be scary? [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?order=chapters&id=1791 Oh]] [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?order=chapters&id=1804 boy]] [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?sid=7045 they]] [[http://www.drowtales.com/~relichunters/archive2/20101104c05c5p016_UrQUq3aUSP.jpg are]]. Especially since WordOfGod confirms that they're all connected, and worse, [[spoiler:Wafay believes that that a Nidraa'chal has been developing them]].

* [[spoiler: Shinae]] gave birth to something so deformed [[spoiler: Gailen]] ordered for it to be burned.[[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?sid=8803 Demon seeds are affecting children in the womb.]]
** And to make it worse, [[spoiler:the damn thing is covered in ''spikes'', which makes it horrifyingly clear why Shinae was having trouble with the birth and bleeding so badly. Ugh.]]
** Along the same lines in chapter 44, [[spoiler:Chrys'tels miscarriage as a result of her taint]].

* Regardless of how much good it actually does, the effects of Snadhya'rune's process of making someone's taint "safe" is rather nightmarish as shown by its [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?sid=9993 first victim]]--er, recipient [[spoiler:Jiaan, Yami'ni's former bodyguard]]. As several people on the forum commented, a character who had been a PerpetualFrowner looks nothing if not ''lobotomized''.
** The [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?sid=10076 actual process]] of making someone "safe" is also pretty disturbing, as it brings out the demon within them until they accept it. And the effect on [[spoiler:Shinae]], who screams "You're killing me" during it and once it's over her only reaction to being asked how it went is to [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?sid=10079 smile in a completely uncharacteristic fashion]] is one of the most subtly creepy moments thus far. Even Chrys'tel is unsettled by it.
* The faceless golems from the tainting room in chapter 46 gain a close up of ones pregnant body which highlights how creepy it is [[spoiler: then we find out the page is a GIF when a single red eye appears in the blank space of the face.]] Even Sarnel is freaked out.
* While it's also [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome awesome]] and [[LaserGuidedKarma deserved]], [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?sid=10317 seeing Ariel]] [[spoiler:absorb Kalki's arm into herself]] is pretty hard to watch, with the latter's expression making it clear ''just how'' painful it is.
** What makes it even more Nightmare Fuel is the FridgeHorror that comes from comparing how both lost [[spoiler: their arms]]. At least with Ariel, you know that merely [[spoiler: getting her arm cut off with a sword]] is a lot quicker and more merciful to the victim than [[spoiler: having it ''forcibly ripped off from your shoulder while fused with another person'']].
** Worse, one of the forum admins, in speaking about an event a couple pages later [[spoiler:mainly Snadhya getting stabbed]] clarified that unlike those whose seeds are slowly taking them over (i.e. Naal, Sabbror, Rann'dirk) whose pain response is diminished, "merged" tainted have a normal pain response. So [[spoiler:Kalki]] felt every bit of that, which either makes it more satisfying, more horrific, [[TakeAThirdOption or both]].

* When Snadhya finally grows weary of Kalki's antics [[spoiler:and kills her with a summon]], she does so with absolutely no emotion whatsoever. [[spoiler: And judging by the blood stains on the door and sounds, it's not a pretty or quick death.]] Even worse it looks like one of the summons ripped out her throat before she could even finish her last words!
** Learning from one webcomic forum troper that drow with a "merged" taint have normal pain responses, we now know that [[spoiler: Kalki having her arm stolen by Ariel]] was pretty painful. Now imagine how [[spoiler: Kalki]] must have felt as she was [[spoiler: brutally torn apart by Snadhya's summons]].

* Years of warfare have taken their toll on the Sarghress. In chapter 47 a squad of Sarghress troops [[spoiler:butcher what is apparently a Drow commoner ''child'' from an occupied district]] for their own and their wolves' consumption.

** Yet although every demon before now has claimed a host at the first opportunity, these completely ignore thousands of viable victims, only spreading outward as fast as possible. [[HopeSpot Pretty fortunate, right]]? But just when you start to breath easy, [[OhCrap it dawns on you]]; [[spoiler: those demons aren't benign, they're ''fleeing in terror'' from whatever's emerging from that gate]].
*** [[spoiler: And then Karla, the most unstable, unpredictable, and bat-shit ''insane'' Drow in the entire setting ''[[NoSell eats it]]'' and absorbs it's power]]. Don't waste time fearing the unknown; there is something ''much'' worse already here.
*** Then it turns out [[spoiler:even she can't control that beast. Karla is ''its'' puppet.]]

** Imagine what it would be like if all your remaining friends and family suddenly went into a frenzy trying to kill you. If by some miracle you manage to escape, a quick glance around reveals that it isn't just your family; ''the entire city'' wants you dead. [[spoiler: Even your adorable toddler, who will try her damnedest to bite your fingers off.]]
* After the events of Chapter 47 prove disastrous for the Beldrobbaen, Waes'soloth orders all the servants be thrown out and the clan fortress sealed. [[spoiler: Then it emerges that at least one devess has been infected with the parasitic Jal'darya flower, and probably at this point ''every'' other person in the clan has been exposed to the spores. Waes may very well have finally signed her clan's death warrant.]]

** [[spoiler: Even when she's ''dying,'' she ''still'' doesn't comprehend the evil of what she did, asking pitifully [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?sid=11065 "Did I do something wrong?"]] ]]

** We even get to see her dementia from her own perspective in chapter 49. [[spoiler: With Sabbor having lost control of his seed and gone missing, that monstrous hallucination could have been all too ''real'']].
** The forums universally agree that seeing Khaless in action certainly qualifies. [[spoiler: She shapeshifts into her true form, terrifying the Sul healer sent to treat Quain'tana and basically devours/assimilates her whole, regretting the fact that the Sul is "struggling" because she will forever remember the pain and fear the Sul healer experiences during the experience.]]
* The ''thing'' that comes out of [[spoiler: Laele'aell after Koil's squad executes her.]] ''[[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?sid=11615 SWEET MERCY.]]'' (And those blurry little blue outlines in the corners of the screen, there? Those would be the squad members either being fully eaten or having their mana 'souls' ripped out.)

* Nether gates are nasty things; until they are closed, formless "demons" will continue to drift out of them, who proceed to infest nearby Drow, [[YourSoulIsMine eat their souls]], and [[BodyHorror twist their bodies into nightmarish killing machines]]. [[FromBadToWorse As horrible as this is]], the gate that opens in Chapter 47 [[UpToEleven takes the cake]]; instead of one or two demons creeping out every few minutes, [[ZergRush a massive]] ''swarm'' pours out, and start tearing through the city at incredible speed.

* While it's also [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome awesome]] and [[LaserGuidedKarma deserved]], [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?sid=10317 seeing Ariel]] [[spoiler:absorb Kalki's arm into herself]] is pretty hard to watch, with the latter's expression making it clear ''just how'' painful it is.

** Most likely inspired from ''ForgottenRealms'' drow matriarchs, who tend to have such entertaining objects as a gemstone on their throne that violently rips the soul out of anyone who displeases them, then imprisons said souls for all eternity. And have archmages who take captured prisoners, transform them into horrible, horrible monsters, then set them lose on the prisoners own people.

* The ''thing'' that comes out of [[spoiler: Lae'lle after Koil's squad executes her.]] ''[[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?sid=11615 SWEET MERCY.]]'' (And those blurry little blue outlines in the corners of the screen, there? Those would be the squad members either being fully eaten or having their mana 'souls' ripped out.)

** We even get to see her dementia from her own pesepective in chapter 49. [[spoiler: With Sabbor having lost control of his seed and gone missing, there is no way to be sure that the monstrous hallucination wasn't actually ''real'']].

* Don't forget the "Corrupted", artificial nagas who were once enemies of the Vel'Vloz'ress or unlucky passerby who fell victim to the giant eyeless snakes bred by the clan which transform them by consuming them only up to the waist and biting into the flesh with their fangs as both the victim and the snake symbiotically fuse into one artificial creature. The venom of the snakes makes the victim's mind go numb and turns them into docile and easy to train minions. Because the venom makes them clumsy, forgettable, and confused they're mainly used as psychological warfare against their former kin. The worse part is that even if a corrupted could get free if someone removed the snake, it would be a painful process as the victim would feel everything the snake feels and very likely die from blood loss. And even then the whole process would most likely be in vain as their brains may not recover from the neurotoxin.