u/Embarrassed_Road3766

I'm not entirely sure if these scenes are definitely going to be in my current project, but worst case scenario here is that I learn something.

I need some scenes to be unsettling without just relying on shock content, excessive gore/brutality, etc. Jumpscare-level scariness. I'm more trying to lean towards the a'dam from Wheel Of Time. Something the character is intimately aware of the danger of, and terrified of facing again because she understands or believes she cannot win.

The a'dam in this scenario is my gryphons, my Egwene is a character who accidentally (and only via luck) kills one and takes responsibility for her baby, but is explicitly warned that the father is going to kill him for what he's done. (Adult) gryphons r hugely built up (during a period where they're mostly absent in the story) as this concept of a perfect predator, one of few species that actively prey on other sapient races. Theyre supposed to be scary, except one individual who IS put across as scary when written from antagonist POVs

But I'm not hugely sure how to this kind of primal and hopeless fear, at least not like Jordan does. Reading the parts of WoT that concern the a'dam Dominance Band makes us, or at least made me, just as afraid of the ter'angreal as the characters victimised by them are.

Tips for writing this kind of not-quite-horror fear?? Pretty please

Vilia, the NPC who gives you women's clothes to get into gerudo town and is supposedly a man whos also sneaking in, has dark skin and red hair just like the rest of the Gerudo

Every 100 years a man is born to the Gerudo, but is made chief. 100 years before BOTW, it was Ganon. Shouldn't Vilia be in Riju's place?

However mentioning ganon i cant find anything that confirms or denies whether or not the male Gerudo is inherently Ganondorf. They all say he's the only known male Gerudo in every reincarnation

I dont know very much about the older games and lore set up there so im probably missing a huge chunk but is Vilia that centurys male Gerudo, why isnt she in Gerudo town, is she supposed to be ganon?