History TearJerker / LoomingGaia

* In "As Nature Intended", Isaac's best friend, his roc Shadow, gets grievously injured, even losing a part of her beak, making her unable to eat. Isaac seeing her injuries is reminded of when he was ten years old and a sparrow he was taking care of died, making him worry that Shadow is dying as well. Thankfully, Shadow recovers and gets a prosthetic beak made for her.

* In "Hereditary", Dr. Che tells Evan that his heart condition is getting worse and he should retire, and he refuses. Across the story he gets more and more stressed out, with Connor having the genius idea to intentionally contract lycanthropy from him despite his warnings, and then Zeffer forcing Connor to leave the Hollow, leading Evan to think he ran away.

* "Nymph's Hollow" starts with Flora and the other limniads digging themselves out of the ground in spring, only to find Drifter's Hollow and the forest burned to the ground, desolate after Disgrace's attack, and beginning to cry. Flora's first act is to build a great wreath to honor the fallen.

* In "Monster by Moonlight", Evan eats his father as a werewolf. Though Foster was abusive to him, he's still filled with guilt for years to come.

* In "Hereditary", Dr. Che tells Evan that his heart condition is getting worse and he should retire, and he refuses. Across the story he gets more and more stressed out, with Connor having the genius idea to intentionally contract lycanthropy from him, and then Zeffer forcing Connor to leave the Hollow, leading Evan to think he ran away.

* When Itchy and Mr. Ocean lose Cinnamon in "A Mage in the Making", Ginger finds her and gets so angry with the two that she makes them look for her all day without telling them where she is to teach them a lesson. They probably deserved it, but Itchy's desperation at losing his two-year-old daughter can be hard to read.

* When Itchy and Mr. Ocean lose Cinnamon in "A Mage in the Making", Ginger finds her and gets so angry with the two that she makes them look for her all day to teach them a lesson. They probably deserved it, but Itchy's desperation at losing his two-year-old daughter can be hard to read.

* "Nymph's Hollow" starts with Flora and the other limniads digging themselves out of the ground in spring, only to find Drifter's Hollow and the forest burned to the ground, desolate after Disgrace's attack, and beginning to cry. Flora's first act is to build a great wreath to honor the fallen.

* Lilian's entire life story. Being orphaned at age six and running away from home because of her aunt's abuse, being adopted by a clan of vampires who isolate her from the outside world, use her as a sexual bait for their victims, and don't allow her to get sunlight which makes her sick, sexually assaulted by her adoptive father who then abuses her harder for tempting him into it, and being forcibly turned into a vampire herself. And if that wasn't bad enough, after Bigbad kills most of the Dusks, she's left alone with Dario, who just doubles down on the abuse and even forces Zeffer to go down on her to "reward" him.

* Lilian's entire life story. Being orphaned at age six and running away from home because of her aunt's abuse, being adopted by a clan of vampires who isolate her from the outside world, use her as a sexual bait for their victims, and don't allow her to get sunlight which makes her sick, sexually assaulted by her adoptive father who then abuses her harder for tempting him into it, and being forcibly turned into a vampire herself.

* "Nymph's Hollow" starts with Flora and the other limniads digging themselves out of the ground in spring, only to find Drifter's Hollow and the forest burned to the ground, desolate after Disgrace's attack, and beginning to cry.

* "Nymph's Hollow" starts with Flora and the other limniads digging themselves out of the ground in spring, only to find Drifter's Hollow and the forest burned to the ground, desolate after Disgrace's attack, and begin to cry.

* "From the Ashes" is just one tearjerker after the other: Isaac seeing Hope destroy Destiny's Tome of Infinity, Frederick crying when he thinks his father is dead, and Balthazaar finding out about Feredil's death.

* In "Lycanthrope's Laboratory", Evan meets a dworven lycanthrope who talks about how lycanthropy completely ruined her life, and how she's hopeful that Dr. Lendon will cure her. She dies soon after, alone in her cell, before Evan even learned her name.

* Mr. Ocean's fruitless efforts to rid his body of greenlite in "Fungicide", getting awful symptoms from faulty medicine and is about to leave back to Redwood Island alone, forcing Alaine to force feed him his last medicine.

* Jeimos' life in the Empire of Damijana. They have severe gender dysphoria, their parents neglect them, they have to deal with very demanding schoolwork, their mother goes mad from exposure to arcane particles, and their only friend Felice ends up falsely imprisoned. So they use pyre dust to escape from it all and get addicted. Then their mother gets imprisoned too, and when Jeimos is supposed to negotiate with Serafeen for her release, they end up having to flee the empire and end up homeless in the Zareen Empire for decades.

* In "The Perfect Shot", Lukas, after dealing with a lifetime of abuse from his mother and working so hard to be with Itanya, including deserting his kingdom, accidentally shoots her, and soon becomes a depressed slump.

* In "Perfect Shot", Lukas, after dealing with a lifetime of abuse from his mother and working so hard to be with Itanya, including deserting his kingdom, accidentally shoots her, and soon becomes a depressed slump.

* Mr. Ocean's fruitless efforts to rid his body of greenlite in "Fungicide", getting awful symptoms from faulty medicine and is about to leave back to Redwood Island, forcing Alaine to force feed him his last medicine.

* Alaine finding out that her parens died soon after she was captured by the Alliance in "Chains of Melody".

* Lilian's entire life story. Orphaned at age six and running away from home because of her aunt's abuse, being adopted by a clan of vampires who isolate her from the outside world, use her as a sexual bait for their victims, and don't allow her to get sunlight which makes her sick, sexually assaulted by her adoptive father who then abuses her harder for tempting him into it, and being forcibly turned into a vampire herself.

* Jeimos' life in the Empire of Damijana. Their parents neglect them, they have to deal with very demanding schoolwork, they have severe gender dysphoria, their mother goes mad from exposure from arcane particles, and their only friend Felice ends up falsely imprisoned. So they use pyre dust to escape from it all and get addicted. Then their mother gets imprisoned too, and when Jeimos is supposed to negotiate with Serafeen for her release, they end up having to flee the empire and end up homeless in the Zareen Empire for decades.

* In "Perfect Shot", Lukas, after dealing with a lifetime of abuse from his mother and working so hard to be with Itanya, accidentally shoots her, and soon becomes a depressed slump.

* Zeffer was unwillingly turned into a vampire, and Evan had to tell his mother that he died because he was ashamed of his condition.

* Lilian's entire life story. Orphaned at age six and running away from home because of her aunt's abuse, being adopted by a clan of vampires who use her as a sexual bait for their victims and don't allow her to get sunlight which makes her sick, sexually assaulted by her adoptive father who then abuses her harder for tempting him into it, and being forcibly turned into a vampire herself.

* Lilian's entire life story. Orphaned at age six and running away from home because of her aunt's abuse and being adopted by a clan of vampires who use her as a sexual bait for their victims and don't allow her to get sunlight which makes her sick, sexually assaulted by her adoptive father who then abuses her harder for tempting him into it, and being forcibly turned into a vampire herself.

* Jeimos' life in the Empire of Damijana. Their parents neglect them, they have to deal with very demanding schoolwork, they have severe gender dysphoria, their mother goes mad from exposure from arcane particles, and their only friend Felice ends up falsely imprisoned. So they use pyre dust to escape from it all and get addicted. Then their mother gets imprisoned too, and when Jeimos is supposed to negotiate with Serafeen for her release, they end up having to flee the empire and end up homeless in the Zareen empire for decades.