History TearJerker / WildStar

* A minor case, but the poor Skeech have it rough. They start off relatively intelligent, but as they grow older they start slipping more and more into the mindless cannibalistic ways of their parents. The journal [[ApocalypticLog "I Was a Teenage Skeech!"]] is a perfect example of how horrifying this is.

* A minor case, but the poor Skeech have it rough. They start of relatively intelligent, but as they grow older they start slipping more and more into the mindless cannibalistic ways of their parents. The journal [[ApocalypticLog "I Was a Teenage Skeech!"]] is a perfect example of how horrifying this is.

* The story of the Angel during Shade's Eve is heart breaking. She was one of the colonists who had to see many people died from ThePlague but managed to be immune to it. Later, the people managed to create vaccines but she became weakened due to being a small child. As a result, the few survivors survived the plague but [[BitterSweetEnding the girl died]] [[HeroicSacrifice from having accepted to be drained of her blood due to being a small child]]. The surviving populace and their descendents would honor her memory through the holiday, which both the Dominion and the Exiles managing to retain the original rituals of Shade's Eve.

* Eldan almighty, the Exile Tutorial. To really hammer in the fact that their very lifeline is a rustbucket falling apart at the seams, you open to a shot of [[spoiler:major cryobay failure, with frozen and defrosted corpses everywhere. You can see scores of people mourning the dead, half-thawed Exiles begging for the pain to end, and medical personnel desperately trying to control the situation.]] And then, if you follow the Human/Granok path, you get to watch as [[spoiler:Deadeye Brightland's wife and newborn child who you've been working to save in the tutorial get blown to bits by Dominion artillery.]]
** Stick around. [[spoiler:It was sabotage. Exiles don't cut corners with their cryopods.]]

** As an Exile its not any better. [[spoiler:Artemis, weakened from beating you to the Cube only has enough strength to plead with you not to kill Kevo. After Dorian Walker arrives to see what happened she allows you to go with a respectful tone for not killing Kevo (despite Kevo being perfectly able to kill you both), and all this after nearly getting the Cube yourself! [[note]]Artemis is very arrogant and self-centered in general, and calls you Walker's lap dog the entire time, so for her this is a grand gesture.[[/note]] The extra dialogue option you could choose after you get back to the Protostar town essentially is Walker comforting you over being a second to late to get the Cube proclaiming:]]

* In Wilderrun for the Exiles [[spoiler: the Strain infected area has a quest were you go hunt down researchers that Lazarin sent to attempt to study the Strain, you find two of the researchers at there own camp both infected and Lazarin wants one captured to study for a cure. One of the researchers is a fully infected Mordesh who makes his sole intent to try to kill you while the other is a human cowering in the corner frightened of what he is turning into and saying that he is starting to hear voices. (He and a few other unfortunate souls end up back at camp, begging for a cure, after you finish the quest. You find out later that not even Lazarin can find a cure to the Strain...)]]

* Celestion Settlers in Slyvan Glade can help build the Arborian Memorial Garden, a tranquil spot filled with native Arborian Wildlife. The Arborian Tenders oftentimes tell you this is all they have left of home. The end-result is beautiful, and you get a quest from an Aurin girl to invite her adoptive family back to the garden so they may all enjoy it's beauty. (Her original family was killed during the Ravaging.) [[spoiler:They're all dead, defending Hijunga Village from chompacabra, ambushed by the ICI, or ending the Caretaker's clone army. You give her the bad news over the datachron.]]
** This troper [[spoiler:manned up and gave it to her in person. You find that all three of her adoptive family's spirits are with her in the garden.]]

* The Casca Homestead episode has you trying to find the family of a girl who's survived the Hycrest Plague. [[spoiler:Her brother is insane, her father is dead, and her mother is reduced to a gibbering idiot.]]
* On the Exiles [[spoiler: what happens to the Male Human explorer, Female Aurin scientist, and Male Granok soldier that you are escorting to Nazrek's Squirg Factory. The human explorer stays behind after you reach the factory and goes to base camp. You enter to pick up data on what happened here and why Nazrek created the brain-sucking Squirg with the Aurin scientist in tow. The Granok stays behind to guard the entry way to the facility. After you retrieve all the information you need you get a call from the Human explaining that he just found the Granok wandering into camp with ''a strange creature attached to his head.'' After hearing this it does not matter how fast you rush back to camp with the Aurin, you will be too late to save the Human from being torn apart. Right after you find the poor guy's body the Granok now turned zombie ambushes you and immediately tears the Aurin apart with you powerless to stop it with her pleading the entire time to him to fight the squirg's control. It was pretty obvious this was not just a random crew but trio of friends whom were systematically killed even with you protecting them.]]

** [[spoiler: Its actually even worse then that, the scanbot specifically mentions that all the Aurin seen there died from unfortunate causes. It leaves it vague enough for you to remember the fact that this could be Aurin from Arboria, Aurin that died during the attack that killed Elderroot, and the Aurin that were killed by Everstar Grove's wildlife. Myala has to see these subjects that she has failed to protect '''everyday''' and that is not even getting into the trees and wildlife that died in all those events either....]]

* Tales From Beyond the Fringe's The Price of Defeat, [[spoiler: which showed Kezrek Warbreaker's reason on why he wanted to gain glory at all costs due to having to kill his former friend and predecessor Zarkonis One-Horn to spare him from shame of being executed after his disastrous campaign against the Exiles. As much of a BloodKnight he may be, you could feel the sorrow of the tales for his willingness to give his friend a glorious death and using his skull on his left shoulder pad as a reminder on why he shouldn't lose the war.]]

* At the Squirg Apocalypse area in Winterrun for Exiles you find a injured Aurin soldier who requests you to search for his lover. [[spoiler: Expect to find her dead right? Well turns out she wasn't dead...but instead turned into a mutated monster that actually remembers her lover and is willing to go see him. This makes it all the more worse that during her CreepyCute reunion with him that she lapses into a hunger craze and precedes to eat him alive with his last words being terrified pleading.]]

* The story of the Angel during Shade's Eve is heart breaking. She was one of the colonists who had to see many people died from ThePlague but managed to be immune to it. Later, the people managed to create vaccines but she became weakened due to being a small child. As a result, the few survivors survived the plague but [[BitterSweetEnding the girl died]] [[HeroicSacrifice from having accepted to be drained of her blood due to being a small child]]. The surviving populace and their descendents would honor her memory through the holiday, which the Exiles managing to retain the original rituals of Shade's Eve.

* The story of the Angel during Shade's Eve is heart breaking. [[spoiler: She was one of the colonists who had to see many people died from ThePlague but managed to be immune to it. Later, the people managed to create vaccines but she became weakened due to being a small child. Finally, the plague was ended but the girl died from having [[BitterSweetEnding given up most of her blood for the price]]. The surviving populace and their descendents would honor her memory through the holiday, which the Exiles managing to retain the original rituals of Shade's Eve.]]

* Heck, the entire War between the Exiles and the Dominion can be this if you think of it long enough. For the Exiles, Nexus is a chance at a new home after spending three hundred years being hunted down by the Dominion and chased to the ends of the Galaxy. Nexus is literally their only hope of survival, as habitable planets in the ''WildStar'' universe are a true rarity. For the Dominion, it's the chance to reclaim their glory and finally, ''finally'' find out what happened to the Eldan all these years, as the Empire's had absolutely no contact with their forebears for the past millenium and Nexus is literally their only chance at discovering the reasons for them vanishing. ''Both sides have very good points and grounds to fight each other''. It makes you realize that, no matter what, they will never stop hating one another, and people will continue to die in everyday bloodshed over one single planet... it gets really depressing and very telling of the sheer amount of bad blood between these two factions when the ''only'' thing they can agree on is the fact that reconciliation is ''impossible'' at this point.

--> ''Drusera:'' [[spoiler: I was so lonely and I didn't want to drive away my only friend.]]

* Drusera's reasons for [[spoiler: lying about the source of the entity]].

** The man is distraught and alone. He seeks your counsel because it seems you really ARE all he has left in the world... which is bounds more depressing.

* The death of [[spoiler:Lucy Lazarin.]] Especially painful is when you finish the quest by finding [[spoiler:Victor]] solemnly sitting by a tree on a hill overlooking Blighthaven, the [[spoiler:jabbit Lucy thought was the answer to the cure for the Contagion]] right beside him.

* The fate of Drusera's [[spoiler:village. This was a cute town of friendly animals you helped create... and it all gets corrupted and killed.]]

** [[spoiler: Its actually even worse then that, the scanbot specifically mentions that all the Aurin seen theredied from unfortunate causes. It leaves it vague enough for you to remember the fact that this could be Aurin from Arboria, the attack that killed Elderroot, and the Aurin that were killed by Everstar Grove's Wildlife. Myala has subjects that she has failed to protect '''everyday''' and that is not even getting into the trees and Wildlife that died in those attacks either....]]

** [[spoiler: Its actually even worse then that, the scanbot specifically mentions that all the aurin souls there died from unfortunate causes. It leaves it vague enough for you to remember the fact that this could be Aurin from Arboria, the attack that killed Elderroot, and the Aurin that were killed by Everstar Grove's Wildlife. Myala has subjects that she has failed to protect '''everyday''' and that is not even getting into the trees and Wildlife that died in those attacks either....

--> [[spoiler: ''Lukov:'']] Remember us with fondness. We died so others may live.

* The HeroicSacrifice of [[spoiler: Lukov, a Mordesh Reaper. After searching for him for the entire questline, you find Lukov too late. His squad have all perished, and his own Vitalus tanks have ruptured. Knowing he is succumbing to the Contagion, he gives you his speeder, and tells you to escape the Grimhold Quarantine Zone while he remains behind to detonate the explosives. You can plead with him to come with you, but he won't listen.]]

* The HeroicSacrifice of [[Lukov, a Mordesh Reaper. After searching for him for the entire questline, you find Lukov too late. His squad have all perished, and his own Vitalus tanks have ruptured. Knowing he is succumbing to the Contagion, he gives you his speeder, and tells you to escape the Grimhold Quarantine Zone while he remains behind to detonate the explosives. You can plead with him to come with you, but he won't listen.]]

--> [[spoiler: Elyona: I recently learned that Tresayne Toria and her "swordsisters" are still alive in this jungle, preserved for hundreds of years by the intense energies of the Focus of Life. They have also pledged their eternal allegiance to Vitara, although what possible use the creature might have for these humans is well beyond my comprehension. I try to imagine their lives, helpless victims of circumstance torn from their homes, living forever on a hostile alien world from which they can never escape. Their story, although the stuff of legends, is incomparably tragic.]]

* In Celestion as a Scientist one of the path first quests you get [[spoiler:has you tapping into the Weave with your scanbot. The Weave shows you all the lost Aurin souls that died by ''burning to death'' in the Embertree, and they are all confused about what exactly happened to them. Now here's a reminder that Queen Myala is tapping in to the Weave everyday and likely has to see all of her dead subjects wandering around confused and broken. How can she not be a StepfordSmiler?]]

* In Celestion as a Scientist one of the path first quests you get [[spoiler:has you tapping into the Weave with your scanbot. The Weave shows you all the lost aurin souls that died back on Arboria and they are all confused about what exactly happened to them, now heres a reminder that Queen Myala is tapping in to the Weave everyday and likely has to see all of her dead subjects wandering around confused and broken. How can she not be a StepfordSmiler?]]

* In Celestion as a Scientist one of the path first quests you get [[ has you tapping into the Weave with your scanbot. The Weave shows you all the lost aurin souls that died back on Arboria and they are all confused about what exactly happened to them, now heres a reminder that Queen Myala is tapping in to the Weave everyday and likely has to see all of her dead subjects wandering around confused and broken. How can she not be a StepfordSmiler?]]

* On the Exiles [[spoiler: what happens to the Male Human explorer, Female Aurin scientist, and Male Granok soldier that you are escorting to Nazrek's Squirg Factory. The human explorer stays behind after you reach the factory and goes to base camp. You enter to pick up data on what happened here and why Nazrek created the brain-sucking Squirg with the Aurin scientist in tow. The Granok stays behind to guard the entry way to the facility. After you retrieve all the information you need you get a call from the Human explaining that he just found the Granok wandering into camp with ''a strange creature attached to his head.'' After hearing this it does not matter how fast you rush back to camp with the Aurin, you will be too late to save the Human from being torn apart. Right after you find the poor guy's body the Granok now turned zombie ambushes you and immediately tears the Aurin apart with you powerless to stop it with her pleading the entire time to him to fight the squirg's control. It was pretty obvious this was not just a random crew but trio of friends whom were systematically killed even with you protecting them.]]

** In the first settlement after [[spoiler:Sadie is killed]], there is a holo of Sadie with Deadeye's wolfdog staring at it.

* On the Exiles [[spoiler: what happens to the Male Human explorer, Female Aurin scientist, and Male Granok soldier that you are escorting to Nazrek's Squirg Factory. The human explorer stays behind after you reach the factory and goes to base camp. You enter to pick up data on what happened here and why Nazrek created the brain-sucking Squirg with the Aurin scientist in tow. The Granok stays behind to guard the entry way to the facility. After you retrieve all the information you need you get a call from the Human explaining that he just found the Granok wandering into camp with ''a strange creature attached to his head.'' After hearing this it does not matter how fast you rush back to camp with the Aurin, you will be too late save the Human from being torn apart. Right after you find the poor guy's body the Granok now turned zombie ambushes you and immediately tears the Aurin apart with you powerless to stop it with her pleading the entire time to him to fight the squirg's control. It was pretty obvious this was not just a random crew but trio of friends whom were systematically killed even with you protecting them.]]