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* Polythreme. So far it's only appeared in the sidebar text, but it's terrifying. The city is enchanted with a magic that makes inanimate objects alive. This doesn't sound so bad until you [[Fridge Horror|realize the implications]] -- as the sidebar gleefully points out, this includes things like ''candles''.

** Best illustrated by a card you can get if you play as a {{spoiler|[[Easter Egg|Clay Man]]}}:

** The way to Polythreme is now open. From the hints dropped about it, one would expect a nightmarish hellscape, but it is actually...surprisingly upbeat. It comes off as more quirky and bizarre than legitimately terrifying. (Even the option to write a travelogue condemning it as a horrible place actually comes off as ''comical'', because the only "horrors" you end up writing about are the milder ones.)

* {{spoiler|The third coil of the Labyrinth of Tigers. It's where the tigers keep ''humans'' locked up in horrible conditions, tucked away where few people will ever see them, and apparently held there indefinitely.}} It even gives your character nightmares just from walking around and hearing the screams!

* In the "Light Fingers" Ambition, {{spoiler|The Orphanage, in its entirety. People are only sent here if their parents are dead (or murdered), and the entire place is a strange sort of asylum/hospital dedicated to creating and testing psychoses in the inmates, using the mind-affecting excretions of an eldritch monster.}}

* The very concept of "snow" in an underground cavern.

* [[Body Horror|The Cantigaster]]. {{spoiler|''It was once human.''}}

** Also, the poison it excretes is one of the few ways to [[Deader Than Dead|permanently]] kill someone in the Neath. Make of that what you will.