Fall From Heaven/YMMV


 * Complete Monster: Nearly all evil leaders can pretend to be this, but if you restrain yourself to the scenarios, Auric Ulvin, who.
 * And Hyborem gives a foretaste of his wickedness when he
 * And then, there's the Ashen Veil. They constantly Kick the Dog and the backstory makes crystal clear that there's absolutely nothing redeemable about those guys: A Religion of Evil centered around Deal With the Devil and For the Evulz, with cultists coming in three flavors -power-hungry ones who didn't realize yet that Evil Is Not a Toy, fools recruted by the Faust-wannabees who have to fulfill their part of the contract, and Nietzsche Wannabe ones who have fully embraced the ideals of Agares and just want to destroy the world.
 * Crowning Music of Awesome: A soundtrack as detailed as the original game, with music mostly taken from Nox Arcana (used with permission) and Cirque Du Soleil.
 * Designated Hero: The game runs on Black and White Morality, but many of the "Good" factions are Ax Crazy and so devoted to the destruction of evil that they don't care who they kill in the process (or in the case of the Mercurians, actively encourage the death of good people so they can be reborn as Angels to defend the world).
 * Which is rather possibly intentional, even the leaders branded as good are incredibly anti-heroic and such, emphazising the Crapsack World Erebus actually is.
 * Epileptic Trees: Many, many examples regarding lore that hasn't been fully explored.
 * Evil Is Sexy: Faeryl Viconia and Flauros.
 * That One Boss: Any enemy civ's Hero Unit would count, but the most notable ones among the barbarians are Orthus, a warlord who appears early in the game to terrorize and eliminate any unprepared players who happen to be nearby, and Acheron, a really nasty dragon who is supposed to be optional but may spawn right outside your borders. The most irritating Hero Unit is Loki, who can't be killed unless he is surrounded or in a city. This wouldn't be so bad except for the facts that he can enter enemy borders at will and flip cities without culture, such as all new cities unless you have a certain trait.
 * Unfortunate Implications: Likely because of the exotic feel of some of the languages used in the original game, many of them have been recycled for this mod. This creates an unfortunate situation where some of the more morally ambiguous cultures are represented by real world languages. The Balseraphs speak French, though this may be a Shout Out to 'Cirque Du Soleil'.


 * Woobie Destroyer of Worlds: Os-Gabella. She just wants to find a way for her cursed existence to end, and her current plan is to destroy everything, including herself.