History NightmareFuel / BeastThePrimordial

* ''Conquering Heroes'' adds the Insatiate, aka [[EvilCounterpart what would happen if Beasts didn't have even the barest scrap of humanity remaining]]. They inflict a HatePlague on the world by simply ''eating'', because they have to eat humans in order to feast on them-preventing their fears from joining the Primordial Dream. In effect, they ''MindRape humanity's subconscious just by existing''. They see Beasts as [[FoodChainOfEvil upstart prey]] who just exist as a source of good homes by stealing their Lairs, and the Horrors they have are so estranged from humanity that mortals [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm are driven mad with fear and confusion upon seeing them]]-and has a significant chance of doing that to supernatural beings, too! Each of the examples is pretty terrifying in their own way, too;

** There is also the implications of being a Beast to begin with. You feel compelled to harm, dominate or scare people around you, while still retaining a human conscience to tell you this is wrong. And should you ''try'' to resist these urges and let yourself starve for it, the mythological monster you have as a soul will go on a rampage in people's dreams to feed itself. But perharps worst of all is that ''anyone'' around you, including your loved ones, can suddenly turn into a super-powered psychopath obsessed with killing you. [[ParanoiaFuel It doesn't matter how good your relationship with them were, how much they used to love you: the moment they turn, they will immediatly feel compelled to turn on you and murder you]].

*** Worst of all... you will completely deserve it, because Heroes only result from people you've either intentionally tortured into insanity by feeding your hunger... or negligently tortured into insanity by _not_ feeding your hunger, resulting in your transformation into an insanity-inducing dream-bomb in a situation that's still your fault because you knew the risks and decided to gamble with the sanity of family and friends for your personal comfort. There is literally no way to win this one, and no way for it not to be your fault somehow.

* ''Conquering Heroes'' adds the Insatiate, aka [[EvilCounterpart what would happen if Beasts didn't have even the barest scrap of humanity remaining]]. They inflict a HatePlague on the world by simply ''eating'', because they have to eat humans in order to feast on them-preventing their fears from joining the Primordial Dream. In effect, they ''MindRape humanity's subconscious just by existing''. They Beasts as [[FoodChainOfEvil upstart prey]] who just exist as a source of good homes by stealing their Lairs, and the Horrors they have are so estranged from humanity that mortals [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm are driven mad with fear and confusion upon seeing them]]-and has a significant chance of doing that to supernatural beings, too! Each of the examples is pretty terrifying in their own way, too;

** There is also the implications of being a Beast to begin with. You feel compelled to harm, dominate or scare people around you, while still retaining a human conscience to tell you this is wrong. And should you ''try'' to resist these urges and let yourself starve for it, the mythological monster you have as a soul will go on a rampage in people's dreams to feed itself. But perharps worst of all is that ''anyone'' around you, including your loved ones, can suddenly turn into a super-powered psychopath obsessed with killing you. It doesn't matter how good your relationship with them were, how much they used to love you: the moment they turn, they will immediatly feel compelled to kill you.

** There is also the implications of being a Beast to begin with. You feel compelled to harm, dominate or scare people around you, while still retaining a human conscience to tell you this is wrong. And should you ''try'' to resist these urges and let yourself starve for it, the mythological monster you have as a soul will go on a rampage in people's dreams to feed itself. But perharps worst of all is that ''anyone'' around you, including your loved ones, can suddenly turn into a super-powered psychopath obsessed with killing you.

** There is also the implications of being a Beast to begin with. You feel compelled to harm, dominate or scare people around you, while still retaining a human conscience to tell you this is wrong. And should you ''try'' to resist these urges and let yourself starve for it, the mythological monster you have as a soul will go on a rampage in people's dreams to feed itself. And there is a good chance that mortals your soul ends up terrorizing will turn into superpowered psychopaths who will be obsessed with killing you at any cost.

** [[TheCracker Null Snyper]], a vicious {{Troll}} and psychotic cyberbully who transformed into a [[StarfishAlien Void]] Insatiable when she realized she drove a friend of hers to suicide...and ''[[EvilFeelsGood loved every minute of it]]''. She's become a digital spider fit for becoming the [[MailerDaemon ultimate Internet predator]], ruining lives from the safety of her HackerCave; she's long figured out how to turn the worst elements of hacker and especially Men's Rights Activist culture to her advantage, realizing she can create an army of [[{{GIFT}} borderline sociopathic minions]] simply by posting the right rant, and relaxing while her pawns gradually tear apart some poor sap's life [[ForTheEvulz because they can]]. Even worse, she [[PostModernMagic never needs to leave]]; she's realized she can inflict Nightmares over things like ''[[ParanoiaFuel Skype]]'' and so long as she's observing someone take their own life or lose it in some other way due to her manipulations, she can eat almost as well as if she was there. Her only limitation is that she's terrified of leaving her house, and as she gets physically hungrier, that is going to change...

** [[TheCracker Null Snyper]], a vicious {{Troll}} and psychotic cyberbully who transformed into a [[StarfishAlien Void]] Insatiable when she realized she drove a friend of hers to suicide...and ''[[EvilFeelsGood loved every minute of it]]''. She's become a digital spider fit for becoming the [[MailerDemon ultimate Internet predator]], ruining lives from the safety of her HackerCavern; she's long figured out how to turn the worst elements of hacker and especially Men's Rights Activist culture to her advantage, realizing she can create an army of [[{{GIFT}} borderline sociopathic minions]] simply by posting the right rant, and relaxing while her pawns gradually tear apart some poor sap's life [[ForTheEvulz because they can]]. Even worse, she [[PostModernMagic never needs to leave]]; she's realized she can inflict Nightmares over things like ''[[ParanoiaFuel Skype]]'' and so long as she's observing someone take their own life or lose it in some other way due to her manipulations, she can eat almost as well as if she was there. Her only limitation is that she's terrified of leaving her house, and as she gets physically hungrier, that is going to change...

*** To illustrate the horror the last one implies, we get a text describing a method by a Beast to reach the Beast Incarnate: it makes a cave its home, spreads stories to attract people, then whenever people come to visit it, kills or makes part of them disappear while letting the others go on the condition they will talk about what they saw to someone else, spreading the story. Rinse and repeat.

** The Beast Incarnate, perhaps the scariest of the three, has the Beast subvert its Legend to become [[LivingLegend a true Myth]], turning into an even more powerful version of itself. It can now [[OneWingedAngel switch at will between its human and monster forms]] without bothering to open a Primordial Pathway, travel to the Primordial Dream no matter where it is, and perhaps the scariest of all "[[BroughtDownToNormal shut down]]" Heroes. This is the ''good end'' Inheritance, as while the Beast is not human anymore in any way, their conscience survives the transition and merges with their Legend to become a Myth-their brand new role and position as a monster-god. But the worst part about it is ''how'' you ascend to it: at best, aside from having at least Lair 8, you can do it by [[CurbStompBattle defeating a Hero in such a one-sided way that he is made irrelevant in your Myth]], or become the leader or a Hive... or you can spread your Myth by feeding in a particularly spectacular and brutal way (such as killing a lot of people) in order to mark everyone.

** The Merger is what happens when a Beast decides to stick to the physical world so hard she pulls her Horror into it and literally merge with it, warping its body in the process. The resulting creature is a usually mindless monster with no humanity left who becomes obsessed with satisfying its hunger in the most primal way. And unlike the Retreat, we are ''not'' talking about an Ephemeral Being here; the Merged Beast is a one hundred percent physical monster who can and will most likely hurt you if you cross its path.
** The Beast Incarnate, perhaps the scariest of the three, has the Beast subvert its Legend to become a true Myth, turning into an even more powerful version of itself. It can now [[OneWingedAngel switch at will between its human and monster forms]] without bothering to open a Primordial Pathway, travel to the Primordial Dream no matter where it is, and perhaps the scariest of all "[[BroughtDownToNormal shut down]]" Heroes. This is the ''good end'' Inheritance, as while the Beast is not human anymore in any way, their conscience survives the transition and merges with their Legend to become a Myth-their brand new role and position as a monster-god.

** There is also the implications of being a Beast to begin with. You feel compelled to harm, dominate or scare people around you, while still retaining a human conscience to tell you this is wrong. And should you ''try'' resist these urges and let yourself starve for it, the mythological monster you have as a soul will go on a rampage in people's dreams to feed itself. And there is a good chance that mortals your soul ends up terrorizing will turn into superpowered psychopaths who will be obsessed with killing you at any cost.

** Worse, a Beast needs not to actually drag you to its Lair in order to benefit from all these advantages. When they open a Primordial Pathway, they aren't using some form of portal, they are causing the location in the physical world to temporarly overlap with one of the Chambers in their Lair. Meaning for a moment, the place in the physical world ''becomes'' part of their Lair, allowing the Beast to benefit from all the HomefieldAdvantage and to revert to its true form. And don't bother trying to leave the area; all the issues will just lead you to a different Chamber, where you will be trapped when the Beast finally closes the Pathway, leaving you alone in the Lair as an easy prey for her Horror...

* Atavisms, powers that invoke a Begotten's true form and its physical abilities, are two different kinds of Nightmare Fuel. If you happen to be a supernatural individual yourself, the human disguise you see [[GlamorFailure slips]], and you see the seemingly normal guy [[JumpScare turn into a dragon]] long enough to spit fire at you or a giant long enough to pick up a car and throw it. If you happen to be a [[{{Muggles}} hapless mortal]], however, you don't see the Beast form...just the normal guy ''breathing fire or throwing a goddamn car at you''.

* Then you have their ''other'' set of powers, Nightmares, which basically consist in how they can MindRape you in various terrifying ways. All a Beast has to do is either touching or staring at you and speaking a few words, and suddenly you fall under the illusion that your entire body is rotting away, [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm a vision of something so horrible it literally hurt you through fear]], maggots or bugs covering your entire body or the conviction that your entire life is meaningless. Oh, and they can create ''more'' of these by taking inspiration from other supernaturals. A Beast who spends some time with vampires can learn how to make you paranoid about getting infected by blood, while one who hangs out with werewolf will be able to cause victims to randomly suffer psychotic rages and attack everyone in sight. Those who hang out with mummies can develop a Nightmare inflicting LaserGuidedAmnesia.

** Worse, a Beast needs not to actually drag you to its Lair in order to benefit from all these advantages. When they open a Primordial Pathway, they aren't using some form of portal, they are causing the location in the physical world to temporarly overlap with one of the Chambers in their Lair. Meaning for a moment, the place in the physical world ''becomes'' part of their Lair, allowing the Beast to benefit from all the HomefieldAdvantage and to revert to its true form. And don't bother trying to leave the area; all the issues will just lead you to a different Chamber, where you will be trapt when the Beast finally closes the Pathway, leaving you alone in the Lair as an easy prey for her Horror...

* The only thing worse than the Beasts are the Heros that fight them. At least in the Beast's case, they don't mean to hurt people (sometimes); but the Heros are more than willing to kill people if it means getting to the Beast and are firmly convinced that they are the main characters of a story that operates on ProtagonistCenteredMorality. Even hunters think these guys are insane.

*** A particularly disturbing one is Marian Jones, who used to be a nice, quiet housewife with two kids, and lived a happy life... until one of her sons went through a Homecoming at the age of seventeen. After a few vain attempts to understand why her son was suddenly becoming distant, staying out late at night and keeping secrets, she started suffering nightmares involving his monster form. She eventually came to the conclusion her son had been replaced by the monster of her dreams, and her response was to [[OffingTheOffspring try to kill him]] (notice that by this point, her son had most likely done nothing wrong intentionally- the nightmares like the ones she suffered are something Beasts have no control over and typically happen when they are starving because they didn't feed enough). When her murder attempt failed, causing her son to run away and her husband to understandably call the police, she ran away with all their money and dedicated the rest of her life to become a [[KnightTemplar religious zealot]] travelling around the world, killing all the monsters she can find ([[FantasticRacism not just Beasts, but also vampires, mages, changelings]]- as far as she is concerned, [[TheWitchHunter if it's magic, then it's evil and must be destroyed]]. [[CategoryTraitor Even regular humans who spend too much time with monsters can become her targets if she is in a bad mood]]). And she is ''still'' looking for her son, being somehow convinced that he is the source of all monsters in the world and will cause to all disappear if she kills him.

** Another scary thing about the Heroes? They can use their connection to the Primordial Dream to drag in regular people in order to use them as their "followers", essentially using them as mooks to support them against the Beasts. This is bad enough if they do it with civilians and give them guns or bats, but just try imagining what happens when they get cops to join them. To make it worse, they [[WeHaveReserve have no regard for these people they drag in their mad quest and will sacrifice them without a second thought.]]

** Another scary thing about the Heroes? They can use their connection to the Primordial Dream to drag in regular people in order to use them as their "followers", essentially using them as mooks to support them against the Beasts. This is bad enough if they do it with civilians and give them guns or bats, but just try imagining what happens when they get cops to join them...

** Another scary thing about the Heroes? They can use their connection to the Primordial Dream to attract regular bystanders in order to use them as their "followers", essentially using them as mooks to support them against the Beasts. This is bad enough if they do it with civilians and give them guns or bats, but just try imagining what happens when they get cops to join them...

** While Heroes might sound [[DracoInLeatherPants sympathetic]] at first, the book offers some examples illustrating how bad they can be. Notable mentions include a girl suddenly deciding she needs to kill her boyfriend, or a group of activist who plan to place a ''bomb'' under a house.

** The Retreat happens when a Beast abandon her human part to become her Soul/Horror alone, leaving nothing but an Ephemeral incarnation of a nightmare who wanders in the Primordial Dream and ''might'' retain some memories and personality of its former self. What makes it actually scary, however, is that this usually doesn't happen on purpose: any Beast can go through this Inheritance against her will if she is killed while separated from her Horror (usually when she has fed well enough that her Horror goes back to sleep, leaving her temporarily BroughtDownToNormal). Better be careful to not raise your Satiety meter too high...