History VideoGame / Hedon

* HubLevel: Two of them over the course of ''Bloodrite'', where the second and third act are centered around batches of interconnected levels. Both hubs include an Iron Division encampment that serves as a safe haven, with NPCs to interact with (who often provide sidequests or will reward the delivery of special items), a replenishing cache of healing pickups, and shops run by a blacksmith and TheScrounger.

* DeadGuyOnDisplay: The demons enjoy doing this, to their own human slaves and cult members. Their bodies can be found hanging in many locations through the demon-controlled sections of the underground and Hell itself.

* DishonoredDead: [[spoiler:Lith the witch, who served Nithriel as TheMole and conducted nightmarish experiments in her clinic, is said in ''Crystal Heart'''s epilogue to have been cremated rather than given a proper burial.]]

* FantasyGunControl: In-universe, the Iron Division produces ''tons'' of sophisticated {{Magitek}} firearms, but the Lancer Council refuses to allow them (or the related {{Power Crystal}}s) to be traded with other nations, preventing their proliferation. When the demon cult invades Valc, several {{Apocalyptic Log}}s express concern that their enemies might try to steal the tech for themselves -- which is exactly what happens partway through the sequel, with the introduction of demonic Hellions armed with [[GatlingGood Painguns]].

* HornyDevils: Succubi form the ranks of the Hellion enemy type introduced in ''Bloodrite'', having grown bored with simply seducing people in favor of taking to the battlefield with [[GatlingGood Painguns]]. Off the battlefield, succubi are said to serve the LegionsOfHell as {{Torture Technician}}s.
* HubLevel: Two of them over the course of ''Bloodrite'', where the second and third act are centered around batches of interconnected levels. Both hubs include an Iron Division encampment that serves as a safe haven, with NPCs to interact with (who often provide sidequests or will reward the delivery of special items), a replenishing cache of healing pickups, and shops run by a blacksmith and a shady fixer goblin.

* MeatMoss: Partway through the game, you'll start coming upon areas coated in a fungus-like purple-black material with pulsating acid pods, which the demon cult uses to sabotage a portal in the Grove. [[spoiler:It originates from the corpses of people killed by a {{Precursor}} bioweapon, which Nithriel tasked [[MadScientist Lith]] with recreating. Ironpeak, whose inhabitants were poisoned by Lith, has a growing cavern of meat moss in the well where the corpses were disposed of. Lith's lair in the witch clinic is so overgrown with the stuff that it [[XenomorphXerox resembles a]] [[Franchise/{{Alien}} xenomorph hive]], complete with pulsating acid "eggs" and the uncanny humanoid forms of Golems cocooned on the walls. The elvish mothership seen in the twist ending of ''Bloodrite'' is similarly overgrown, with the remains of elves in hazmat suits filled to bursting with the ooze.]]

* PortalCut: The demon cult sabotages the portal network when the Iron Division seeks to regroup at the Lancer Temple, and two unlucky bear warriors from Captain Dura's party are spat out in the Grove, one losing her leg (which can later be found in "Research and Decay", when the player finds the warriors' intended destination).

* ToBeContinued: The end of ''Crystal Heart''. [[spoiler:Despite the Iron Division's efforts, Nithriel [[YouCantThwartStageOne successfully steals the Disc and flees to Hell through a portal]], and Zan jumps in after her, leaving the Iron Division behind to mop up the stragglers of the cult army and slowly rebuild their home.]] The final screen thanks the player for completing "Chapter 1" of ''Hedon''.