* NightmareFuel:
** The Russians suffered horribly from the Fall. They've since turned into a Satanic cannibal empire in Central Asia. And let's just leave it at that. The Fall was ''so'' destructive to them that even sanity was devoured. No wonder people in the book are reluctant to even mention them. In addition to terrorizing the native Uzbek and Kazakh peoples, there's also the matter of the Sisters...
** The followers of the Black God sacrifice girls (and presumably boys) in the most grisly manner, eat their hearts and livers raw, cook their flesh, and at some point Count Ignatieff admits to have eaten roast ''babies''. Worse, he not only admits to it, but reminisces fondly about it and looks forward to going home so he can do so again.
* TheWoobie: Yasmini was born and raised as a slave of an apocalyptic death-cult, gets dragged around India by the main villain who treats her like dirt, fully expects to start going mad and then be forcibly 'bred', and has increasingly unpleasant fainting fits and bouts of waking dreams as the story progresses. Couple that with her frequently remarked upon exotic beauty and you have the literary equivalent of a [[{{Moe}} Moeblob]].