Tear Jerker / Pathfinder: Kingmaker

• Olika is a poor, penniless woman who is going to lose her unborn child, and this is what brings her to make a deal with a priestess of Lamashtu. The Baron may naturally feel inclined to stop the ritual, is it may bring about an anti-Christ, but Olika's desperation might get them to reconsider. In the end, the child causes trouble, ends up maiming a boy and has to flee the village where he lived. His mother is torn to shreds by the crowd in retaliation.
• Ekun's eulogy. Crosses over with heartwarming, because he gains a new resolve.
  Ekun: I was a father and a husband. I did everything in my power... and I failed to protect you. I can't fix this. But I can keep others from such a loss. Someday, my hands will fail to draw my bow... and we'll be together again... Until then, my place is here.
• Jaethal's death. Sure, she was an evil person who killed people to appease her goddess, but she was your friend. And she dies because of a singular moment of humanity that stops her from sacrificing her daughter to get what she always wanted. Her daughter even grieves that she has two terrible regrets: that she initially pleaded for her mother to be exiled instead of killed...and then that she came to believe that her mother truly was irredeemable.
• Nok-nok's personal quest ends with him meeting the resurrected goblin king. The king was cursed by a fey to harm the allies of false ruler of the land. One of the ways to save Nok-nok without resorting to violence is to say harsh words to the goblin and momentarily break your friendship. Your words wound him so much that he gives up his dreams of becoming a hero.
• The story of Ivar in Lake Silverstep Village, as recounted by him after being defeated in front of his children's graves.
  Baron: Tell me the truth of what happened to you.
  Ivar: Let it be my last fairy tale, then. Once Upon a Time, there lived a stupid young hunter named Ivar. He loved his family - his wife, his son, his little daughter - very much. He also loved making up fairy tales for his children. But one night, he came up with a foolish story, one about a silver dragon that can only be spotted if you climb to the top of a high cliff as the new moon rises. That very night, the children snuck out of the house and... their bodies were found at the base of the cliff the next morning... His poor wife's heart couldn't bear the loss. Lissa... she was gone soon after. So Ivar cursed himself. Cursed his own blabbering tongue and reckless mind. Standing near the graves of his family, he could only mutter to himself over and over, "I'm a monster... I'm a monster!" Then, he felt the self-inflicted curse begin to melt him from the inside - burning him, turning him into a beast. He became a werewolf, swore to protect the village to honor the memory of Lissa and his children. He wanted to serve people, to bring them good instead of evil, at least once.
• Adding to this was a bundle of notes found at his former home, describing the events of that morning.
  ''The next morning, you woke first, and it was you who found our children's beds empty. You said nothing to me then. Not then, not when we walked through the misty woods, not when we found Mika's doll at the start of the path leading to the cliff. You kept silent as I ascended from the chasm with Arry's body in my hands. You said nothing when Aysel brought Mika's body, found further out, at the lake shore near the cliff. You're such a fool, Ivar. You wag your tongue too much. It was just a story, another of your stupid fairy tales, how could it end this way?! I'm so sorry, Lissa. Better you'd married the smith. Or the headman's son. Or even stupid Aysel. Anyone but me. It's all my fault. Forgive me. Please. And let me go. Today, I'll go to the children's graves and...
• Almost all of the mementos of adventurers that perished in the Tenebrous Depths have some level of a Tear Jerker, especially if they went on to become the level bosses. Perhaps the worst of them is the Wicked Chanter, who it can be learned is a child born to a pair of newly-wed adventurers that entered the depths before either knew that the wife was pregnant.
• If you mess up Amiri's quest during "The Twice-Born Warlord", her Only Friend from the tribe, Nilak, dies. Amiri quietly buries her and the refuses to speak of her at all, which is itself sad, but when you find her at the House on the Edge of Time, she will abandon your party out of grief and guilt.
  • Amiri's whole backstory is the fact that she feels unwelcome. This is an insecurity that Nyrissa exploits, as she tells her that she's a plague that brings death everywhere she goes. Nilak's death is the straw that breaks her and she refuses to travel with your group anymore, angrily calling herself a burden.
• What happens to Regongar and Octavia in the House at the Edge of Time if you didn't complete both of their quests. They get locked in prisons which are being set on fire, with the chance to save only one of them. They let themselves burn to death rather than leave the other to die.
  • If you romanced Octavia, she will be standing over the body of her dead friend, who sacrificed himself so that she may live.
• Linzi's death. She's the first friend you ever made in the entire game and she stayed by your side through thick and thin, and she dies trying to trick Nyrissa into sparing the kingdom. There isn't anything you could do about it.
  Realizing what had happened, the [ruler] took the unfinished book from her dead hands and clasped it to [their] heart like the most cherished treasure in the world.
• Nyrissa's tragic backstory. The reason she's doing any of this is because the Lantern King banished her from the First World for the crime of trying to "steal" a Queendom. She'll only be permitted back in after she destroys a thousand fiefdoms in Golarion, and the Lantern King even went so far as to rip out her ability to love to make sure she'd do it.
• The Story of the Fallen Soldier (told by the Storyteller). The Soldier in question is a pre-Earthfall cyclopes and a member of a legion sent to clear a portion of the Darklands of Serpentfolk. As the campaign wears on, other members of the Soldier's legion begin turning to the Serpentfolks' gods^note Cyclopes of this era worship the sun and the moon, and being underground in the long term makes them feel cut off from their gods out of desperation and eventually start a mutiny against the legion's commanding officer; the Soldier hesitates to take a side in the mutiny because he wants to see his wife and son again, and after the mutineers win he partakes in the cannibalistic sacrificial rituals of the Serpentfolk's gods at swordpoint. He continues following his new religion as he and the rest of the legion return home and, by the end of the story, the Soldier is so broken by his experiences that he's considering sacrificing his own son to his new gods.