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- Kindly Yushan burying the bones of the children who died in the orphanage in the flooding of Old Tien's Landing.
- A man captured by cannibals wants you to kill him before he turns into one of them. There is no way to save him.
- Sagacious Zu repeatedly warns you not to infiltrate the Lotus Assassins because he fears that you would be corrupted. He reveals to you that he was there when they massacred your people and it's heavily implied that the reason he follows you around is to atone. When you meet Death's Hand face to face for the first time, you're too weak to fight him. Zu holds him back to give you time to escape, ultimately losing his life.
- When Aishi the Mournful Blade asks you to Mercy Kill her because she has nothing to live for and she's too consumed by her guilt. And you'll be forced to do that because she attacks you even if you refuse to kill her. What's worse, at first she asks that you give her an honorable death... then stops and says she doesn't have any honor left, so just kill her and be done with it. Soft-hearted gamers will cry buckets, especially after meeting her ghost father.
- Wild Flower is the personification of a tearjerker moment. She is a poor girl who died during the flood in Tien's Landing and who now has the souls of two rival spirits dwelling inside her and warring over possession of her body. Her innocent struggle with them and her painfully sad fear of the bad spirit could make a statue cry.
- Chai Ka makes it clear that Wild Flower isn't fully aware of her death in the flood (she knows that something happened to her, but the explicit fact is something she hasn't quite processed), and asks the Spirit Monk not to tell her.
- Meanwhile, the other demon possessing her, Ya Zhen, is utterly unconcerned about Wild Flower's wellbeing or fate - in the event that the Spirit Monk sides with Ya Zhen in the spiritual realm when he and Chai Ka duel, Wild Flower's personality is utterly repressed, and every time you subsequently speak with Ya Zhen, it's led with a scream from Wild Flower before the demon speaks, a constant reminder of the horrific fate you've condemned her to.
- There is a mission wherein a doctor is trying to find a fresh corpse in a graveyard to replace his daughter's dying organs with. The player character finds an Undead by the name of Ji Xin
who preserved his corpse out of fear of the afterlife because he knew he was fated for damnation due to all his sins. The player can simply kill him for his organs, but if you persuade him, he gives this heart wrenching line, "For a little girl? Yes, very well. If Damnation is my fate, at least let it be worth something in the end."note - An alternate path is to seek out Doctor An at the Arena, and she will perform the necessary surgery, and the girl's father will give up his own liver, and his life.
- Miss Chan's fate in the Necropolis quest. Not only did she die in childbirth, but her baby died along with her, and she's understandably unable to accept that fact.
- Reng's ghost as well. He believes he was murdered by his wife, and asks you to bring her to the graveyard so he can take his vengeance. However if you speak to her, she tearfully confesses that her husband's death was an accident. He died from eating spoiled salmon she had prepared for his dinner. Even when you assure her that she couldn't have known, she still blames herself for killng the man she loved.
- You can spiritually enslave Death's Hand. When your party objects, you can spiritually enslave them. And you can steal the power of the Water Dragon. You will never feel so bad for doing anything else in a videogame.
- Dialogue heavily implies that Hui the Brave's dedication to Sun Li comes from her having been in love with him, but between his wife and his station, it being impossible for her to even speak her feelings, let alone act on them. Worse still, considering everything we learn about him subsequently in the game, it's clear that either he didn't care about her feelings, or even called upon her because of them, using her feelings to ensure that his orders would be obeyed.
