History VisualNovel / TheHouseInFataMorgana

* ThePowerOfLove: Mocked byMorgana, who believes such a thing to be trite and chalks Michel's triumph – with Giselle's invaluable aid – over the ordeal she put him through down to more mundane means.

* {{Reincarnation}}: The White-Haired Girl from each time era is implied to be a reincarnation. In fact, almost every main character from the first 3 doors is a reincarnation doomed to misery as a result of the curse Morgana placed on their souls.
* ReincarnationRomance:

** The true ending consists of both Michel and Giselle reincarnating with the memories from their past lives apparently intact, they meet again in the plot of land where the mansion used to be located.

* SandInMyEyes: A dramatic example. Didier kept his helm on during Michel's execution and crucifiction in order to nobody see him crying.

* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: The White-Haired girl in all stories. Morgana in her origin story. And once again the White-Haired Girl, after you discover the whole truth.

* ReincarnationRomance: Somewhat in the case of Jacopo and Morgana. In his first life, he had feelings for her, but they were never expressed. In his second life, he marries the White-Haired Girl, who is the personification of Morgana's saintly side.

** The true consists of both Michel and Giselle reincarnating with the memories from their past lives apparently intact, they meet again in the plot of land where the mansion used to be located.

** Ending 8 consists of both Michael and Giselle reincarnating with the memories from their past lives apparently intact, they meet again in the plot of land where the mansion used to be located.

* SandInMyEyes: A dramatic example. Didier kept his helm on during Michel's execution and crucification in order to nobody see him crying.

* [[GratuitousForeignLanguage Gratuitous Portuguese]]: Several songs in the game are in Portuguese, including the transition tune of the first tale [[note]]The words sung in the transition tune are "a história continua" ("the story continues")[[/note]], but it is very broken, with noticeable grammar mistakes, nonsensical sentences and a few wrong pronunciations.

* [[GratuitousForeignLanguage Gratuitous Portuguese]]: Several songs in the game are in Portuguese, including the transition tune [[note]]The words sung in the transition tune are "a história continua" ("the story continues")[[/note]], but it is very broken, with noticeable grammar mistakes and nonsensical sentences.

* NatureVersusNuture: Bestia's tale plays with this. Initially, it goes down with the nurture argument, making it seems that Yukimasa only became delusioned about being a beast after being dehumanized and treated like an animal by the villagers. However, as the tale progresses, it is subverted: Yukimasa was always being a sadist in denial and the "beast" fame was convinient for him to demonstrate his real nature.

* [[GratuitousForeignLanguage Gratuitous Portuguese]]: Several songs in the game are in Portuguese, including the transition tune [[note]]The words sung in the transition tune are "a história continua" ("the story continues")[[/note]], but it has several grammar mistakes nearing {{Engrish}} levels.

* TranslationWithAnAgenda: One post-game scene has Morgana calling Jacopo a tsundere[[note]]The full line is 「来てやったわ、ツンデレ馬鹿野郎。」, or ''I came to see you, you stupid tsundere asshole''[[/note]], in reference to his "macho bravado" facade. In the English version, she calls out his [[https://imgur.com/O6IIM7o "fragile male ego"]]. When this translation was criticized, the translator posted [[http://archive.is/jfAyw an explanation]] as to why they used that term: They deliberately used such a ''politically-charged buzzword'' because it was something [[http://archive.is/jfAyw#selection-9199.0-9199.278 "snappy and vitriolic"]]. A check of the translator's past tweets[[note]][[https://pastebin.com/8Zsbj4nW A pastebin with links to screencaps of 27 of their tweets]][[/note]] further fanned the flames by confirming (''alongside their admission of using the buzzword in the translation'') that their forced political agenda insertion into the translation was in line with their political bias.

* * WalkingSpoiler: Two major ones, that funnily enough are our hero and our villain: Michel, the PlayerCharacter and TheHero, and Morgana, the eponymous BigBad.

** The aforementioned Aimee Joubert is the one mainly responsible for Michel's trauma. The fiancee of Georges Bollinger who created on him with his brother Didider, Aimee [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain shows disgust towards homosexuality]] when the female-presenting Michel kisses her. When Michel is locked up, Aimee gleefully [[ColdBloodedTorture tortures him]], depriving him of food and water, ritually humiliating, him and taking great pleasure in all of his pain. Later, she slowly poisons Georges to death to gain all his property. When she reappears in the backstage interviews, [[KarmaHoudini she smugly gloats about how she went on to live a life of comfort and security and faced no justice for her crimes]].

* HateSink: Most villains are shown to have once been good people before being DrivenToEvil, but these [[AristocratsAreEvil nobles]] were not:

* HateSink:
** Aimee from Michel's backstory, who gleefully tortured him as he was being kept prisoner by his family, depriving him of food and water, ritually humiliating him and taking great pleasure in all of his pain. When she reappears in the backstage interviews [[KarmaHoudini she smugly gloats about how she went on to live a life of comfort and security, and faces no justice for her crimes.]] By the end of the story, she stands out as the only character without a single redeeming quality.
** The Lord. Specifically, Barnier, who bought Morgana and organized the blood sabbaths. ''A Requiem for Innocence'' only cements how depraved he really is, although even he is given a few HiddenDepths.

** The Lord from the Witch's era, responsible for the blood sabbaths. In ''A Requiem for Innocence'', we finally discover how he looks like. Using the adjective "unhinged" to describe him is being generous.

** The second door's tale is a blatant re-creation of this. It turns out to be slightly more complicated in regards to the Beast.

** In "A Requiem For Innocence", Barnier and Ceren. Barnier's "beast" status leaves no doubt for interpretation, but Ceren's case is more complicated. She is genuinely innocent to the core, but her inability to understand negative emotions is what makes Barnier interested in her in the first place, as he feels she is the only person with whom he can be completely honest, and in the end she becomes an instrument to his cruelty.

* AbusiveParents: Michel is living in the house because his father ordered his execution. His mother, while not intending to be malicious, only continues to fuel his breakdown by insisting he's cursed and that he's 'still her daughter' in their correspondence.
* AccompliceByInaction: Georges in Michel's story and Mell in Morgana's story. Noted that while it isn't portrayed as being as bad as being the one committing the sin, it is still a bad thing.
* AccidentalMisnaming: Barely anyone is shown to actually remember The Merchant's name, Yukimasa, when he appears in the final chapter as The Swordsman. Possibly justified as most Europeans from the Middle Ages wouldn't be familiar with Japanese names.

* AscendedExtra / ADayInTheLimelight: Arthur Baldwin, a very minor character in the first story told (he was Nellie's {{Jerkass}} betrothed), is the focus character of the ''A Slow-Killing Poison'' chapter in ''A Requiem For Innocence'', which details the aftermath of Nellie's breakdown and Mell's flight. It shows him to be a more conflicted and sympathetic lad than the brief glimpse we had of him in the main game.
* TheAlcoholic: In ''A Requiem For Innocence'', Jacopo turns into one shortly after the first assassination attempt, as alcohol is the only thing that keep at bay Barnier's disembodied spirit - or, more likely, his own thoughts - from haunting him.

* AristocratsAreEvil: Not all of them, but we have a few disturbing examples:
** Antonin, Michel's father, who raped Giselle.
** Aimee, Georges' fiancee, who tortured Michel for months.
** Lord Barnier, who bought Morgana and drained her of her blood numerous times in his sabbats, and who years later ordered her capture to enact his scam - except that the one who bought Morgana in the first place and the one who captured her years later aren't one and the same.

* TheAtoner: In ''A Requiem For Innocence'', it is revealed that after the events of the main game in which he is finally set free, Jacopo's soul lingers, still shackled to the afterlife but, this time, by his own volition, and he created an illusion of the place he wanted to show to Morgana, a place in which Morgana's soul is drawn to before reincarnating. In this illusion, he makes it clear that he deeply regret his actions and that he wants to atone for his sins. He tells her he loves her, and that he doesn't want her to forget him. While Morgana's states that she still despises him, it is obvious that, deep down, she still feels some affection for him. The two then spend some time in this peaceful space, before moving on to their next lives.

* PetTheDog: Lord Barnier's kindness and affection for Ceren, with an incredibly twisted application of BeYourself. In her he sees something of a [[BirdsOfAFeather kindred spirit]] – an utterly remorseless, inscrutable creature, and unlike every other authority figure she'd ever known, who had tried in vain to make her feel human emotions she didn't have, he tells her there's nothing wrong with just being who she is. He also greatly values her unconditional affection, no matter the depravities she sees him commit, and wants her to stay with him. He even goes out of his way to ensure she survives his LastVillainStand, but she refuses: [[MonsterFangirl she is madly in love with him, and would rather join him in death than go on living alone.]]

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Aimee, who prescribes to proper gender roles and traditional values except faithfulness, apparently is disgusted when she thinks "Michelle" has homosexual feelings for her, and even more aghast when she realises he lacks any sex organs, deriding him as an "abomination". She's hardly alone in feeling this way during her time period, but still.

* ProtagonistJourneyToVillain: The spin-off game ''A Requiem For Innocence'' is one for Jacopo, as we see exactly how heroic, good-natured and well-intentioned he was before slowly but surely becoming a paranoid, heartless and tyrannic lord who killed slaves by the dozen and ultimately decided to kidnap an old woman and bleed her dry to enact his scam. Said woman turns out to be a now maimed and delirious Morgana, and not even that stop him, as he feels that, at this point, there is no going back. By the end of his tale, he is nothing but a shadow of his former self, and dies alone, responsible for the deaths of everyone he knew and loved, his spirit completely broken.

A prequel called ''A Requiem for Innocence'' was scheduled to be localized in 2016, but was delayed to 2018, and ultimately release May 18, 2018. A short story titled ''Our Home'' was released on the official japanese website, and takes place during ''A Requiem for Innocence'''s epilogue, but is narrated through another point of view. You can find a translated version of that epilogue [[https://oujidere.wordpress.com/2018/06/10/fatamoru-a-requiem-for-innocence-short-story-our-home/ here]].

Beyond the fourth door lies the year 1099. The Maid tells You that this is the final tale. In this era, You see a young man who claims to be cursed and a girl with white hair, called Giselle, who has been branded a witch and marked for death.

''The House in Fata Morgana'' is a VisualNovel that was released in Japan on December 27, 2012. Mangagamer released an English version on [[http://mangagamer.org/fatamorgana/ their store]] and [[http://store.steampowered.com/app/303310 Steam]] on May 12, 2016.

* BigBad: Morgana, the witch of the mansion, is this for the main plot, though there are numerous other sub-plots with their own {{ArcVillain}}s.

* AbusiveParents: Michel is living in the house because his father ordered his execution.

** Jacopo, "the Lord", wasn't the same lord as the one who initially bought Morgana as his property and used her in his sabbats: he was in fact the very slave who helped her to escape and who lived with her for a few years immediately after. And he is the same man who would later usurp the position of lord and order her capture. When he realizes he captured the girl who he wanted to make happy in the first place, he finds himself unable to talk with her, as she doesn't recognize him, her traumatic experiences leading her to jump to the conclusion that he must have been the same person who bought her years ago.]]