History TearJerker / PillarsOfEternity

!!From the first game:

--->'''Edér''': "It's a funny thing. You can tell yourself that a hundred different ways. Makes no difference in the end."

!!From ''Deadfire'':
* This speech, from Edér, which he only gives if the Watcher and your other companions can't talk Bearn down:
-->'''Edér:''' Listen to me. You gotta listen, kid. Bearn. During the Saint's War, me and my brother, we had a choice to make. It was just like this. We saw it different, he and I. He chose our god. I didn't.\\
'''Edér:''' I'll never see him again.\\
'''Edér:''' And I don't know where his soul is now, but I don't think Eothas was around to save it. You're gonna stay here. There's better ways to serve your god. you can build something in his honor, like I did. A town. A temple. A good life.\\
'''Edér:''' Maybe not a statue...

* Aloth's personal quest, in which you find out that his father regularly beat him and his mother, and this made him develop a second personality to survive ([[TruthInTelevision which is actually something that can happen]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissociative_identity_disorder due to extreme trauma]]). He has to relive the memories when his soul is being examined.

** Prior to this, Eder can give you a bit of insight into the day-to-day struggles of those that had tried "The Salvation"[[labelnote:Explanation]]Implanting the souls of animals (typically pets) into Hollowborn children[[/labelnote]] with their Hollowborn children.
--->'''Eder''': "The mother, she wouldn't have anything to do with the girl after [she'd eaten her brother]. But the father, he'd visit her every day. Feed her chickens. Toss water on her once in a while to get the dirt off. Most of the village, they'd whisper about him. 'Poor man', they'd say, 'Sick with grief.'" He shakes his head, and his eyes narrow, contemplative. "He was just waiting for his daughter to look up one day and recognize her papa. He was waiting for her to get better. Didn't understand that at the time, of course. But these days I think about him a lot."

** Prior to this, Eder can give you a bit of insight into the day-to-day struggles of those that had tried "The Salvation" with their Hollowborn children.

--->'''Eder''': "The mother, she wouldn't have anything to do with the girl after [she'd eaten her brother]. But the father, he'd visit her every day. Feed her chickens. Toss water on her once in a while to get the dirt off. Most of the village, they'd whisper about him. 'Poor man', they'd say, 'Sick with grief'." He shakes his head, and his eyes narrow, contemplative. "He was just waiting for his daughter to look up one day and recognize her papa. He was waiting for her to get better. Didn't understand that at the time, of course. But these days I think about him a lot."

* Aloth's personal quest, in which you find out that his father regularly beat him and his mother, and this made him develop a second personality to survive (which is actually something that can happen due to extreme trauma). He has to relive the memories when his soul is being examined.

* The Grieving Mother, for all of her creepiness, is actually one of the kindest and sweetest members of the party. [[spoiler:Which makes the discovery of what she feels so guilty about ''even more heartwrenching'' than it would be normally, because there's absolutely no doubt that she was ''trying to do the best thing possible'', and in so doing became responsible for at least a few Wicht-induced fatalities.]]

* The end of Sagani's personal quest. She's spent five years of her life, away from her husband and children, searching for a reincarnation of a village elder. She finally finds him, [[spoiler: reincarnated as a stag. Worse, he's dying after being shot by hunters. All she can do is recount events of her tribe as he bleeds to death. Afterwards, she sounds so defeated, faced with the notion that her search was utterly pointless and a failure.]]

* Aloth's personal quest, in which you find out that his father regularly beat him and his mother, and this made him develop a second personality to survive (which is actually something that can happen due to extreme trauma). He has to relive the memories when his soul is being examined.

-->'''Eadric Morley''': My son and daughter are ''buried'' beneath the floor of my house. We don't own no land, so that's where we lay them. My son, my wife let him slip while she was bathing him, got water in his lungs he couldn't cough up. My daughter, we put her to bed one night and the next morning she wasn't breathing. This Hollowborn thing, it ain't ending. And it ain't ending 'cause we still let these charlatans play god. ''There's'' your proof, you damned copperfucker!

* While The Dozens are a group that shout to anyone who can hear about [[ScienceIsBad the evils of animancy]], it's hard not to sympathize with their representative at the Defiance Bay hearing, putting the impact of [[SterilityPlague the Hollowborn]] into perspective.

-->'''Soul Memory''': [[spoiler: Then [Azlo] turns a knob and you feel yourself begin to crack from within and you can feel pieces of you torn away, like having your insides chewed by a horde of rats, and you are screaming a scream you can barely hear]].