History NightmareFuel / OctopathTraveler

* The town of Wispermill isn't nightmarish in the "horrifying" or "depraved" sense, but more in the "unsettling" sense. The choice of music is one thing, but when you first arrive before starting Ophilia's Chapter 4, while the shops, inn and tavern are open, literally everything else you can interact with is dead silent, as if more a living statue than anything that passes as a human being. Talking to them just gives you dots ("..."). They do not react to any Path Actions. ''Even Cyrus and Alfyn gets nothing from Scrutinizing/Inquiring them.'' All of this just comes together to convey the feeling that something is just plain ''wrong'' with this town, and that this "Savior" is behind it. [[FromBadToWorse And then you actually start Ophilia's Chapter 4...]]

* The town of Wispermill isn't nightmarish in the "horrifying" or "depraved" sense, but more the "unsettling" sense. The choice of music is one thing, but when you first arrive before starting Ophilia's Chapter 4, while the shops, inn and tavern are open, literally everything else you can interact with is dead silent, as if more a living statue than anything that passes as a human being. Talking to them just gives you dots ("..."). They do not react to any Path Actions. ''Even Cyrus and Alfyn gets nothing from Scrutinizing/Inquiring them.'' All of this just comes together to convey the feeling that something is just plain ''wrong'' with this town, and that this "Savior" is behind it. [[FromBadToWorse And then you actually start Ophilia's Chapter 4...]]

* The encounter with Miguel in Chapter 3 can be one. Imagine that you're a fair and just doctor whose creed is that everyone deserves to be saved. Then you save someone who seemed friendly enough, but the next time you encounter him, you see him doing all sorts of crimes wholeheartedly, and he thanks ''you'' for saving him and allowing him to do more crimes, and in a way he's right, if you just bent your rule that one time and not save him, there will be less endangered lives thanks to the ensuing crime-spree. But as of now, you just become an accessory of crime. [[RealismInducedHorror For a doctor/apothecary who's open to all patients, they may encounter someone like Miguel in real life, and when that happens, their life and philosophy can turn upside down...]] As with what happened with Alfyn himself. He can get past Vanessa like usual despite her perverting his arts for her own profit. But Miguel successfully broke Alfyn's philosophy that he couldn't even bring himself to drug him the same way he did Vanessa, the drug more likely wouldn't work on a heartless person like him.

* The town of Wispermill isn't nightmarish in the "horrifying" or "depraved" sense, but more the "unsettling" sense. The choice of music is one thing, but when you first arrive before starting Ophilia's Chapter 4, while the shops, inn and tavern are open, literally everything else you can interact with is dead silent, as if more a living statue than anything that passes as a human being. Talking to them just gives you dots ("..."). They do not react to any Path Actions. ''Even Cyrus gets nothing from Scrutinizing them.'' All of this just comes together to convey the feeling that something is just plain ''wrong'' with this town, and that this "Savior" is behind it. [[FromBadToWorse And then you actually start Ophilia's Chapter 4...]]

* H'aanit realizes a tree is a monster blocking a path and challenges it to a fight. It's true form almost resembles a smaller Galdera, with several snarling humanoid bodies sprouting out of the main one. Made worse when you consider H'aanit passes no remark on it, meaning they might be normal creatures and because it perfectly blends in as a tree they might be hiding in plain sight.

** For added FridgeHorror, think about it if you haven't already completed Cyrus' second chapter. It's possible that Ali (and potentially Tressa) could be sold off to Gideon for use in his blood rituals.

** During their first re-encounter—before Primrose finds out that Simeon was responsible for her father's murder—the two reminisce on Primrose's childhood before the tragedy, where present-day Simeon expresses signs that he was smitten with Primrose when she was still a little girl, and Simeon... was already a grown man in their flashback. While Simeon's motivation behind forming a ChildhoodFriendRomance with Primrose is so that any emotional pain he can inflict on her will be made that much worse, rather than sexual exploitation, his behaviour is still not unlike paedophilic grooming. Sure enough, he turns out to be EvilAllAlong, and his "love" is less about caring about her and more about enjoying her suffering.

** They are so devoted to [[DarkMessiah The]] [[ArcVillain Savior]] and his goals that the surviving cultist [[CyanidePill injects himself with a deadly poison]] just so Ophilia won't get any more information out of him. Even [[{{Determinator}} Primrose]] is disturbed by that!

!!Cyrus' Story
* In Cyrus' second chapter, his search for the missing villagers takes him to a hidden chamber in the sewers, with blood covering the floor and a drained corpse chained to the wall. A necromancer has been kidnapping and brutally murdering innocent people to create blood crystals. And of the ten missing villagers, Cyrus can only save three.
* A smaller but still horrifying moment occurs during Cyrus' Chapter 3. After Cyrus refuses to cooperate with Yvon, Yvon threatens to leave him locked in his cellar to starve to death, casually mentioning that nobody visits his home anymore, so no one would even know what happened to him. If [[SpannerInTheWorks Therese]] hadn't shown up when she did, this likely would've ''actually happened''.

!!Cyrus's Story
* In Cyrus's second chapter, his search for the missing villagers takes him to a hidden chamber in the sewers, with blood covering the floor and a drained corpse chained to the wall. A necromancer has been kidnapping and brutally murdering innocent people to create blood crystals. And of the ten missing villagers, Cyrus can only save three.
* A smaller but still horrifying moment occurs during Cyrus's Chapter 3. After Cyrus refuses to cooperate with Yvon, Yvon threatens to leave him locked in his cellar to starve to death, casually mentioning that nobody visits his home anymore, so no one would even know what happened to him. If [[SpannerInTheWorks Therese]] hadn't shown up when she did, this likely would've ''actually happened''.

** For added FridgeHorror, think about it if you haven't already completed Cyrus's second chapter. It's possible that Ali (and potentially Tressa) could be sold off to Gideon for use in his blood rituals.