The game largely centers around witch trials, in which the culprit of each case are lowered into a pit of fire. In addition, a large number of characters are burned alive off-screen. Several more are implied to have been burned, but are revealed to have escaped unscathed much later in the game.
One of the cases involves a character's death by suicide which happened several months before the events of the game, and said character's death is an important plot point of the overarching plot of the game.