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Author: NubianSatyress

Nov 17th 2016 at 8:34:26 AM

* ''Videogame/TheWitcher3WildHunt'':
** One quest takes protagonist Geralt to a cursed and haunted island, where he finds the ghost of a young woman pleading to help her spirit leave the island.  It turns out that she's a nobleman's daughter and, during a peasant uprising, her entire family was slaughtered and the invaders had planned to rape and murder her.  [[spoiler:Instead, she drank a sleeping potion which put her in a death-like state which fooled everyone...including her boyfriend, who ran away and wished that everyone would die.  Eventually, everyone DID die and she was stuck in her fake death, unable to move as [[AndIMustScream the rats in the tower ate her warm body alive]].  The combination of the boyfriend's curses, her CruelAndUnusualDeath, and the plague the rats carried (which is a long story in itself) turned the young woman's spirit into a Petra--a Plague Maiden that cursed the entire island.]]
** A Baron and his wife were in an unhappy marriage [[spoiler:where he beat her constantly and she found herself pregnant with a child she didn't want.  The wife was eventually visited by three evil witch spirits who offered to get rid of the unborn child if the wife agreed to serve them for a year.  She agreed, and not long afterward, her husband beat her so badly that she miscarried.  The wife and her other daughter decided to escape from the Baron that night and left the dead fetus on the bed.  The Baron found his dead child and, in his grief, buried it in an unmarked grave without giving it a name.  The dead child transformed into a Botchling--a malevolent and murderous spirit created from babies that died unwanted or unloved.]]