Ghosts can be quite unsettling. They have eyeless sockets, incredibly long nails, jagged teeth, and incredibly disorganized long, inky tufts of black 'hair', and to top it off, instead of a stomach, they have a mostly featureless human head which looks like it's screaming. Fortunately, most of the ghosts you can talk to are either Played for Laughs or benevolent.
When you fight an enemy ghost or an enemy fights against a ghost you summoned, the ghost will sometimes let out long, chilling breaths. If you listen closer, you will notice that these breaths are actually the Ghost saying "Diiiiieeee".
Most members of the Black Ring which you encounter have heavily deformed faces and have carved a 'D' for 'Damian' onto their foreheads. Other than that, they aren't too scary and are quite incompetent.
After you complete the main quest of Sentinel Island, Damian will entirely nuke Broken Valley and Sentinel Island. Most everyone who you helped and spoke with in those two locations is now dead, with a few exceptions. One can't help but get a bit nauseous at the thought.
Bellegar is a huge source of comic relief throughout the game, being a magical, immortal, rhyming cloudcuckoolander who starts to be a sort of hilarious menace to the player. However, there are darker tones to his pranks, such as soul-forging an innocent young man to a chicken. Were the chicken to be killed by a fox, an eagle, or a hungry traveller, this young man would die too. Bellegar's so-called prank is actually quite cruel.
Farglow and Broken Valley
Your first encounter with Damian is downright chilling. Not only does he look terrifying, with his pupiless eyes and pale complexion, your encounter also takes place during the middle of the night, and he threatens you and taunts you all while speaking very calmly.
Lord Lovis may seem benevolent at first, but he can appear quite unsettling. First of all, there's the combination of his skin colour being a pale gray and you not being able to see his face through the bizarre helmet he wears. Then, there's the music which plays while you speak with him - called 'Waltz of Woe' - which is a slight bit creepy. And this combined with the deep, yet loud voice he has...
He tells you that Maxos cursed him because of his taste for wine and women. As is revealed later, Maxos didn't mind that, but actually cursed Lovis because Lovis was a brutal, arrogant tyrant.
Naberius, one of the first necromancers you meet in the game and one of the few who isn't batshit crazy, claims that he doesn't experiment on humans. A few bloodstained cages in his cave and his storage prove otherwise.
Next to nothing compares to what happens after the events of the Battle Tower, when Damian and the Black Ring flood the entirety of the Broken Valley with Deathfog, killing all life in it. You can return there after the event, but if you get too close to the surface, you will also die as well.
Maxos Temple and Sentinel Island
Everything about Laiken.
He's not undead, but he's immortal. This is because he soul forged himself with an immortal demon. It is implied that while he stays alive, his flesh decays all the same. He looks like a rotting corpse.
After you kill Jagon, Laiken believes that you will be his new chief corpse deliverer. He orders you to procure the corpses of several young women. For what purpose? Well, some questions are better left unanswered.
Why did he make said undead concubine? Because he sacrificed Sassan, his original, living concubine to soul forge himself with the demon Razakel.
He wrote a journal of sorts called 'Amusing Anomalies'. Here, he describes removing every bit of bone from a young man he just revived just like a normal person would describe brushing their teeth. It is also written that him and a few of his disciples had a good laugh about it.
Laiken: In a frivolous mood I revived a corpse too decomposed to be of any real use. The thing staggered around a bit as it tried to speak with a rotten tongue, while its glib-eyes fell from their sockets and flesh dropped in meaty sploshes, all to a highly comical effect. Encouraged by this jocular escapade, I revived, in the company of my disciples, a fresh young man, but not before having carefully removed every piece of bone from his body, save for the skull. The sight of the helplessly quivering heap of meat, combined with the look of utter panic and horror on the callow face, proved to be too great a strain on the simulated seriousness of the assembled onlookers and all laughed uncontrollably.
He is a ruthless ruler who tortures and kills anyone who defies him. It is said that his rule of Sentinel Island is what drove the Dragon Elves mad. He also regularly mocks Jonah, a poor ghost fisherman.
He doesn't want anyone to summon Razakel, so he cut out the tongue of Erlking, his goblin servant, who was the only other person who knows Razakel's name.
Orobas Fjords
Keara is a Black Ring commander whose husband was murdered. What did she do then? Well, she did what any normal grieving widow would do - she reanimated his skeleton and started, well, you know...
Do you feel good about choosing the loyal, generally friendly, and somewhat creepily funny Igor as your necromancer over that psycho Jonelath? Well, the journal of his former master Barnabus might just change your mind.
Barnabus: Damn (Igor)! Damn him! May his soul be snatched by Damian and forever be subject to the worst abominations! I rescued him, raised him as my child, trained him in the dark arts, made him what he is today! Ah, the smile on his face when I offered him his first corpse for his tenth birthday, and a year later a live woman for him to practice his torturing skills on. What delicious debauchery! And how delighted he was when her mangled body rose again, obeying his every command! He was my pride, my heir! And he just left! Left when this wretched Jonelath offered him a life of servitude, and 'powers he couldn't imagine'. All lies. Damn you, Igor! If we ever meet again, I'll make your putrid corpse my puppet!
So basically, Igor sadistically and happily tortured a woman as an 11-year old. What a cute kid!
In a letter, he says that while he does like nymphs, he wants to try something involving botany and necromantic grafts.
Aleroth (Flames of Vengeance)
Luxurius is a Divine Order general who also happens to be a sexual predator. According to Tom, whose wife was kidnapped by Luxurius, he abducts women and upon releasing them bribes them into silence. It is also said that some don't make it back at all, so it is implied that his sexual engagement with his victims can be so intense and sadistic that it kills some of them. Needless to say, killing him is extremely satisfying.
Halliwel, though being almost frustratingly Obviously Evil, is still quite disconcerting. Not only is his face majorly deformed, he also speaks in a calm, yet sinister fashion, and his introduction music is just plain creepy.
He cursed an innocent man who wanted his autograph to be eaten alive by a demon. You find this man, Kelton, as a skeleton in the healer's house basement who reveals that the demon is eating him - in his dreams, and yet the effect still shows. The fact that he is forced to exist as a skeleton while technically still being alive is pretty disturbing.
Halliwel is generally calm. But that is not the case for his associate, Laeniel, whose face you never truly see, expect that he has dark gray skin and red markings. His roommates say that they always hear him chant ominously when he's at home. When you meet him for the first time, he speaks ominous lines in his dark, gravelly voice. Most notably 'I am the one... to bring the many.'
Laeniel and Halliwel were planning to sacrifice Laeniel's roommates. In short, these two men would have been killed had you not stopped Halliwel. And since killing Laeniel isn't part of the main quest, you can neglect him in which case they would probably be killed anyway.
Zombie Jake was something of a running gag in Divine Divinity, but here he does something considerably darker. He attacks a brothel and murders four people, three of which you probably already met in Broken Valley. He then animates them as zombies and uses them to keep him invincible. Now, you have to kill the zombies of people you probably already helped during your stay in Broken Valley. Jake's voice is also quite disconcerting.
Wild Willows Asylum is downright terrifying. It is an abandoned asylum in Crow's Nest. Not only does the 'music' in this location consist of creaks, ringing, and screams, it is also home to a bunch of absolute lunatics in containment whose rants can be quite funny, but still VERY disturbing.
Coming at worse, it is shown that a doctors there dabbled with necromancy, and it is highly implied that they conducted gruesome experiments on people who may or may not have been patients.
Caracalla might be a source of comic relief with his bizarre insults and almost consistent anger, but his quest can be viewed as pretty scary. It takes place in a dark, sinister house where several champions under Caracalla's command were brutally killed. What were they killed by? Invisible wraiths who can only be seen if one lights the candles in the house. Once the candles fade, the wraiths disappear, and attack you while you can't see them.
Invisible Terror: Haha! I claw from the left, then tear from the right and vanish in the shadows! Now you see me, now you don’t! Blood, blood! Ha! You don’t see death, but feel it!
To make things worse, there is no music in this house - just blood-curdling screams. These screams are clearly coming from somewhere, but even after you kill the invisible wraiths, the screams continue. This means that there are still people trapped in the house.
In a game full of necrophilia, it should be no surprise that cannibalism comes into play at one point. Alzbeta seems to be a normal shopkeeper, right? Nope. She and a deranged cook named Dwayne work for Gula, a 'man of great hunger'. They stole food which was meant to be given to beggars, but two healers stumbled upon their operation. One of them, Otto, was killed by Dwayne. So Alzbeta thought 'why waste this body?' and take a wild guess what they were planning on serving Gula next.
