History NightmareFuel / TheLifeAndSufferingOfSirBrante

* More [[SarcasmMode fun times]] from Felipe. If you increase Spy Network high enough, a traitor ([[spoiler: Olver Moss]]) tries to sell the whole scheme out for money. If you capture the traitor, El Ferro states that they are too valuable an agent and should be forgiven for now. His idea of "forgiveness"? Several days of relentless torture followed by lesser death. Most terrifying is Felipe's unfallible tranquility - he's totally okay with breaking a person's mind and spirit and then letting them go back to business as usual.

** What's scarier than the possibility of going to Hell? How about not knowing how to avoid it? Though it is repeated many times that the Twins are "the Love and the Law", the exact meaning of this is murky at best. Does "the Law" mean the secular law or the divine law, are they one and the same? WHAT is the divine law? Should you obey your Lot at all times, or should break it for the cause of love? Can you break the law to serve love, or should you forsake love to follow the law? These abstract questions seem far more pressing when guessing wrong can mean the damnation of your soul, don't they?

** Ulrich's endgame. To bind the whole city with magic collars, remove free will entirely and whip people to the Peak of the Pillar through blind obedience. Out of all evil plans in the game, this is perhaps the most horrific, reducing people to mere cattle. And it would have suceeded, if not for...

** Ulrich's endgame. To remove free will entirely and whip people to the Peak of the Pillar througg blind obedience. Out of all evil plans in the game, this is perhaps the most horrific.
** The Wrath of the Gods befalling Ulrich is pretty scary too. As the corrupt priest proclaims to be the Will incarnate, a gush of wind blows like a furious scream. Ulrich suddenly chokes on his own words, clawing at his throat until it bleeds and burning alive in the flames of his own pyre. If you did not renounce him by this point, you are burning with him.

** Having Ulrich as your Master triggers a unique scene where you torture a benevolent scientist suspected of heresy, cutting his nose and ears off and making his face a butchered mess of flesh and blood. The scene closes with an honest to Twins [[TheMirrorScare Mirror Scare]] when you look in the mirror and see Father Ulrich in your place.

* The Foot of the Pillar. If the Younger Twin judges you unworthy after your True Death, He passes swift and terrible judgement, slashing your bare soul with His sword. Your very essence dissolves from the strike, and you fall screaming from the Shining Pillar into the eternal darkness where black hands of the damned suffocate you for all eternity. Many games threaten your [[PlayerCharacter Player Character]] with death, but not so many play the eternal damnation as a very real possibility for your endgame.

* The [[Hell Foot of the Pillar.]] If the Younger Twin judges you unworthy after your True Death, He passes swift and terrible judgement, slashing your bare soul with His sword. Your very essence dissolves from the strike, and you fall screaming from the Shining Pillar into the eternal darkness where black hands of the damned suffocate you for all eternity. Many games threaten your [[PlayerCharacter Player Character]] with death, but not so many play the eternal damnation as a very real possibility for your endgame.

* The [[Hell Foot of the Pillar]]. If the Younger Twin judges you unworthy after your True Death, He passes swift and terrible judgement, slashing your bare soul with His sword. Your very essence dissolves from the strike, and you fall screaming from the Shining Pillar into the eternal darkness where black hands of the damned suffocate you for all eternity. Many games threaten your [[PlayerCharacter Player Character]] with death, but not so many play the eternal damnation as a very real possibility for your endgame.

* [[Hell The Foot of the Pillar]]. If the Younger Twin judges you unworthy after your True Death, He passes swift and terrible judgement, slashing your bare soul with His sword. Your very essence dissolves from the strike, and you fall screaming from the Shining Pillar into the eternal darkness where black hands of the damned suffocate you for all eternity. Many games threaten your [[PlayerCharacter Player Character]] with death, but not so many play the eternal damnation as a very real possibility for your endgame.

* Dorius Otton. He's a rapist and who murders his own soldiers seemingly for fun, in chapter 4 he goes out of his way to murder Thommas and only fails if Sir Brante intervenes to save him. He's so powerful that for most of the game he's untouchable, and unless the rebels win or a Noble Sir Brante goes out of his way to see the man punished Otton [[KarmaHoudini gets away with it]].

* In both the Noble and Commoner paths, you are going to make truly terrifying enemies who threaten to destroy you if you step out of line, and until the very end it is well within their power to do so. You have some influence over which people like and dislike you, but you're going to end up a few steps away from total ruination or even death no matter who you side with. Fortunately, the priest has it much easier and can actually avoid living antagonizing anyone too frightening... though your immediate superior on that path is one of the most evil people in the entire game.

* Spending three years working for the Lotless in Eterna, only to learn the whole thing was a front for the Secret Chancellery to trap and eliminate potential rebels. You gave up your chance for a better future and hurt your relationship with your family-members, and it was all for a lie. If you survive at all, it's as a pawn of the Secret Chancellery. You joined the Lotless for the sake of freedom, and now you're less free than ever before.

* Dorius Otton. He's a rapist and who murders his own soldiers seemingly for fun, and he's so powerful he seemingly gets away with it. Unless the rebels win or a Noble Sir Brante goes out of his way to see the man punished, Otton [[KarmaHoudini gets away with it]].

* Dorius Otton tries to murder your friend Thommas, and the only way to save him is to get him out of the city. While he seems happy, his career is ruined and unless the rebels win under Sir Brante's leadership he'll never see his parents or hometown again.

* Your affair with Jeanne becomes this in games where Father Brante believes in the Old Faith. You and a fellow cleric break your vows of celibacy with each other, at the holiest sight in your religion, while worshipping Gods who explicitly don't forgive sins. Father Brante likely leaves that scene believing he's irreparably damned himself to [[{{Hell}} the foot of the pillar]] just because were weak once in your life.
** This can turn into NightmareRetardant later when you and Jeanne face tribunal and confess your guilt. You're both sentenced to three months of solitary confinement, meaning you've paid for your sin in life and won't have to in death. It also helps if you and Nathan teach forgiveness to the Gods.

* The Inquisition uses ColdBloodedTorture on suspected heritics. The first time it happens the game describes how Sir Brante and Jeannie watch Father Ulrich mutilated the prisoner by cutting off his fingers at the joints, then by bashing in his knees, then he demands you inflict a lesser death on him without a trial. If you insist the poor man deserves at least a tribunal, [[EvilIsPetty Ulrich upgrades his sentence to a true death]].

** The New Faith is so far presented as the more sympathetic of the two, preaching that the Lots are lies and that humans and Arknians are equal. But what if they're wrong? If the Lots really are the will of the Gods then that would not only mean any playthrough where Sir Brante defies his Lot will lead to his damnation, it also means the Gods want a large portion of the world's population to suffer and be abused from birth. It might even mean that Gregor was ''right'' to try and burn Lydia and her children, and that doing so would be rewarded in the afterlife. You can overthrow a [[TheEmpire tyrannical government]], but how can you overthrow a pair of [[GodIsEvil tyrannical Gods?]]

* The sacrament. You start by seeing your younger brother Nathan get thrown onto the ground, beg to be spared or at least know what he did wrong, and get violently lashed on his back by the priest. Your character struggles to save him but is held back from doing so. Then it's Sir Brante's turn, and [[ForgoneConclusion no matter what you do you will be assigned the commoner's Lot]].