Ain't no hamsters living in paradise...
- On the page talking about Beta-twilight it has an illustration
◊ of group of dark maulers in silhouette with shining red eyes. They aren't even doing anything threatening as it's just a mated pair with their pups but it still manages to be a very frightening image. This is further topped off by the page introducing the maniacal ripperoo: another shot set in Beta-twilight but showing three ripperoos dismembering a smaller podothere, with the lighting serving as a Gory Discretion Shot. - The chapter on the extinction of the splintsters comes with an image of a lone, wounded splintster surrounded by harmsters emerging from behind a wall of fire with glowing eyes, giving off a positively hellish feel. One harmster even has a severed splintster head on a spear.
- The plurodon, an apex predator rivaling sperm whales in size, possessing More Teeth than the Osmond Family with numerous jagged cusps on each molar.
- Oh, the Hamanity: A Cruel Fate for the Conquered in its entirety. The Tundra Harmsters drugging, lobotomizing, vivisecting, and testing weapons on prisoners of war (complete with a terrified Savannah Harmster strapped to a bloody table and a male Matriarch Harmster being hit with a spray of nerve gas while trapped in a cage) would be bad enough, but they don't stop there. They selectively breed the subjugated species for less intelligence and more obedience until they're reduced to the intellect of animals, then use the resulting Brutes for war animals and Beastly Bloodsports... but some still breed with them.
- One of the new harmster civilizations to arise after the war are the Frazettas. These harmsters sought to strengthen themselves by breeding with the animalistic brutes but also got the genes for lower intelligence in the process. They are large and savage looking with long fur and massive fangs and are also the most cannibalistic of the harmsters. These features effectively make them something in between Neanderthals and flesh-eating ogres.
- Despite its silly sounding acronym, the SIHTT (Severe Infectious Harmster Transmissible Tumor) infection still manages to be horrifying. It causes horrific cancerous growths on the faces of its victims with the more dangerous neural-ocular strain causing the infected Harmster to become more feral and even causing their bodies to start rotting while alive due to the cancer eating away at them. The final saga of the Harmsters even causes the story to go into a Genre Shift as it becomes a zombie horror story, complete with images of a pair of terrified Harmsters being met by a swarm of the infected and their incompetent general being attacked by a horribly rotted infected who lost his eyes and lower jaw. The story ends on a rather bleak note when said general starts infecting the other Harmsters and they decide to burn their fortress with them in it.
- The apex predator in the Temperocene seas is the sarchon, a ten-meter long predator with facial armor and slicing blades for teeth that is basically the rodent version of a Dunkleosteus. It's especially horrific reading how it came about: the diversity of life in the ocean due to the increase of diverse food sources in the warmer climate meant that the ocean was so jam-packed with macropredators that something evolved to prey on said macropredators.
- That being said, it's downplayed by its feeding habits - Due to the sheer abundance of food and the lack of any predators, the sarchon is surprisingly chill, spending up to twenty hours a day half-asleep and only hunting every couple of days, with most of its waking hours being spent in a relaxed state. Still a powerful apex predator, of course, but most of the time the sarchon's somewhat of a Gentle Giant.
- While far more benign than SIHTT, the descendant of the transmissible tumor known as the shroomor is still rather disturbing, being a free-living cancer that now only uses live hosts as vectors and instead flourishes on decaying carrion, in essence becoming a hamster version of a fungus. It's more unsettling when you remember that tecnically speaking, the harmsters are still an extant species but now downgraded from thinking sophonts to a cancerous fungal mass that can hardly even be considered an animal nymore.
- The Sub-Arcuterran Cavern System has come to slowly resemble an Eldritch Location, a dark, sunless network of caves and tunnels spanning miles wide, with "plants" made of flesh in the form of meatmoss and populated by the daggoths, eyeless, hairless tentacled molrocks with fingers modified into multiple arthropod-like pseudo-legs.
- Some of the art one-shots manage to show some pretty eerie events. Such as a battle between a giant skwoid (showing off their harpoon-like radula in the process) and a galvaprawn in the abyss of the ocean. Another scenario shows some cricetaceans and wanderganders hunting shrish during Beta-twilight, the crimson sun turning the waters blood red with pitch blackness beneath, this makes the rotund cricetaceans look downright demonic.
- Nighty-Nightmare: The Drysander Fear-Stories gives us the warning song of a drysander mother telling her pups the dangers of the world through a song. It’s accompanied by terrifying images of animals we’ve seen before like a desert falcyon and a tigerilla that make it easy to see them a living nightmare even when we know they’re only animals. It also has some brutal lyrics such as how these predators would eat them alive and peel the flesh from their bones.
- Reign of Fire: The Firethieves' Siege portrays the Outlanders in a downright terrifying perspective and shows how ruthless they are. When Strange-Eyes's pack are attacked by them, their leader, Whitesmoke is (though hesitant at first) willing to murder a pair of innocent pups considering even them as the enemy. And when the elderly Pale-Beard desperately tries to protect them, he gets brutally mauled to death.
- The highbrows reacting with sheer and utter terror at learning the Outlanders are coming. And it's not an entirely unwarranted fear, as, upon the assault, many of them are killed, with only three members of the main pack surviving the encounter.
- Whitesmoke's death: he is impaled through the throat and into the chest after he accidentally lands on Switch-Eyes' "wood-tooth" (a type of crude spear wielded by the baywulves) and the resulting guilt and trauma Switch-Eyes suffers upon committing murder for the first time. His younger sister, Shade (who is but a teenager in baywulf years) on the other hand seems almost gleeful that her brother killed Whitesmoke, saying that he deserved to die.
