Today we will finish talking about pitfalls plot the latest installment of the famous Japanese RPG series Tales – games Tales of Arise. In the previous part of the blog, I introduced you to the world and characters, and today we will delve into the intricacies of plot twists: the secrets of the twin planets await us; we learn the secrets of Shion and who Alfen worked before becoming a slave in the mine.
Just in case, I warn you, spoilers await you.
And this shot is so spoilery that you can post it without fear – it will spoil the ending of the secret post-game content.
For those who plan to play or are playing Tales of Arise, It’s probably not worth reading this article. The spoilers here can greatly spoil the impression of the passage, since the story of the game is based largely on revealing the intriguing secrets of the world. I myself had the misfortune of guessing about the main plot twist much in advance – and this spoiled one of the best moments of the game for me.
In general, read further at your own peril and risk.
Although if you already landed on Rena – there is nothing to be afraid of spoilers.
This is the secret opening video Tales of Arise, which you get by beating the last of the planetary lords. It’s funny how the final boss of the game is too secret even for a secret cutscene. Instead, we were shown spectacular side bosses who must be beaten in order to gain access to the scene at the hot springs.
From the previous article, you remember that the world of Dana consists of two twin planets: Dana and Rena, with the more technologically advanced Rehnians conquering Dana and pumping out astral energy from the inhabitants – essentially, the life force of the planet. They are opposed by resistance in the form of a young man in a mask who does not feel pain, his girlfriend who causes severe pain with every touch, a beautiful knight, a girl, a poet and a kawaii owl.
Long before we got off the planet, I noticed two oddities:
1. Reniananm, it seems that our liberation of the planet is deeply inconceivable: we recaptured five provinces from them, killed five lords, and did not send a single ship against us! Not even a single fallen infantryman! This is despite the fact that of all the inhabitants of Dana, only a couple of people can defeat a warrior in exo-armor. A handful of soldiers would be enough to recapture the provinces we liberated.
2. None of the Rhenians have been to Rhenya! Dana is ruled from an orbital capital on the artificial moon Lenegis. The Rhenians are born there, and the only way for them to get to their home planet is to win the Struggle for the Crown and become the Ruler of the planet. After this, no one ever sees the Ruler – he gives instructions on interplanetary communications.
I wondered with great interest what the game writers would make of these riddles.
The first point was explained simply – as soon as we liberated the planet, the moon of Lenegis opened – and a kilometer-long semi-organic spike fell from the sky. He entered the planet’s crust and began pumping out astral energy with colossal force.
Whatever the plan of the Lords of Dana, it had clearly entered a decisive stage, and they no longer needed the surface of the planet. We urgently needed a spaceship. Actually, Shion clearly didn’t come to Dana on foot, but we never saw her starship – but we did find Alfen’s spaceship!
It turned out that this young man is not so young – he had been in love with his great-great-grandmother Shion. Alphen arrived on Dana three hundred years ago, before the Rhenian invasion began. And, one might say, it started precisely because of him. Alfen was chosen from thousands of kidnapped Daninans to play the role of Ruler – the one who was to pump out all the astral energy from Dana in one go. He was paired with Shion’s great-great-grandmother, the beautiful Nayori. (Naturally, they had a GREAT LOVE)! However, during the ceremony, one of them made a mistake. The energy channel was disrupted, and a monstrous explosion almost destroyed the moon Lenegis, damaging even the planetary crust of Dana. I suspect that the ocean in the center of the world map is the creation of Alfen.
Alfen was deeply shocked by the fact that he had killed millions and was on the verge of madness. And then Nayori put the Mask of Oblivion on him. It took Alfen three hundred years to recover and he spent these centuries in cryogenic sleep on board a ship forgotten by everyone (standing completely openly in the middle of a mountain plateau in sight of the castle of the main villain). Nayori discovered that along with the astral energy, what she called Thorns entered her body: a clot of dark energy ready to destroy the entire world – whatever that means in this context. He unleashed monstrous attacks of pain on anyone who touched her, protecting himself from a possible threat.
I doubt that the Thorns could extinguish the stars, as, I remember, the evil xel’naga Amun was going to do from Starcraft 2, but one way or another, Nayori decided to hold back the thorns and look for a way to destroy them.
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We have the sun and we have a bunch of starships with hyperdrive (as it turned out at the end of the game).
Nayori gets on board – after waiting until old age, if she doesn’t want to sacrifice herself in her prime – sets the course for the autopilot – and sets off!
But she apparently decided that simple methods were too simple.
1. I forgot my GREAT LOVE for Alfen.
4. handed the Thorns to her.
5. and bequeathed to pass them on from generation to generation, preventing the Thorns from consuming the world.
Her descendants diligently did this for three hundred years until the time of Shion, who finally decided to put an end to them.
Alas, the trick with the starship and the sun did not occur to her either. Having hijacked a ship, she went to Dana instead of the sun – to take away the cores of the elements from the lords, hoping to destroy the Thorns with their combined power – truly, simple plans were not honored in her family.
Friends, having received the ship, did not waste time and launched into space. Arriving at Lenegis, they understood why the Rhenians did not react in any way to the uprising: they were not interested in. During the launch of a spike on Dana, a monstrous earthquake destroyed the settlements inside the artificial moon, and complete chaos still reigns there: the Zogl monsters fled, and some of the soldiers stopped obeying. The characters soon realize that the Rhenians on Lenegis are used just as shamelessly and indifferently as the Danians: some as slaves, others as overseers. But who?
The friends remembered that next to each of the lords stood women in red – the Daninas took them for secretaries, and the lords. and the lords, as it turned out, did not know about their existence at all!
Having penetrated into the depths of the artificial moon, the friends discovered there a huge ancient laboratory, in the center of which women in red were pumping out the energy of the planet, using as a guide the arrogant Lord Volran, whom the friends considered the Rhenian ruler of the planet, and who turned out to be a Danian slave. Trying to disrupt the ceremony, they forced the women in red to transform into their true form – armored monsters.
As a result, Alfen and the company achieved that they were noticed – as soon as they boarded the ship after the battle, women in red surrounded him – and disabled all systems, and then threw him into space – away from the Twin Planets!
And then the friends learned the main secret of the universe.
Moreover, its original inhabitants (the Helgankwell race) were not even human.
All this was told to them by the only Helgankvel who retained his mind, who kindly pulled their ship flying to nowhere to his space station and thus prevented the game from playing the final credits.
Helgankvel said that since the beginning of its existence, his ancient race has been enslaved by the Spirit of Rena – the embodiment of the crippled planet. This spirit is not very intelligent, but is obsessed with fears – many fears. Because of them, he did not allow the creation of a single planet to be completed, which eventually split into Rena and Dana.
The Helgankwells arose to carry out his dim will. After thinking, they decided that they needed to complete the unification of the planets – but on the terms of the Spirit of Darkness. Having created a high technological civilization, they decided to enslave Dana in order to pump out astral energy from her. But by that time there were very few Helgankvels left and the slaves of the Spirit decided to entrust this matter to their slaves. To do this, they kidnapped Danians to their heart’s content, settled them on the newly created Lenegis, and subjugated their memory. and explained to the people that they were the Rehnians and the Rena Party and Government instructed them to conquer Dana!
Well, they conquered!
The characters were pretty shocked to learn that the Rhenians turned out to be the same Danians, and went to beat the Spirit of Rena.
Descending to the surface of the planet, they realized that Rena had long been dead; trying to protect herself from her fears, Rena’s Spirit devastated her own world, destroying all life.
Of the entire Helgankwell race, only about two dozen creatures remained – and even those died in vain attempts to stop the heroes descending to the center of the planet along a huge, majestic well full of astral energy.
And then the main villain himself appeared before us – a gigantic, omnipotent spirit..
…30 levels lower than the side bosses that must be defeated to access the hot springs scene! Oh Japanese, oh post-game content..
We heroically defeated the Spirit of Darkness, but an unforeseen difficulty arose – JRPG heroes, as you know, love to sow the reasonable, good and eternal in the soul of the main reptile, hammering him with swords and fists in the final battle. And the Great Spirit, as luck would have it, was completely stupid – you couldn’t even talk! The long-suffering Lord Volran had to harness himself to the situation.
At the end of the final battle, he jumped out of the bushes – that is, sorry, out of the ship, took away the main core of astral energy that the heroes needed to destroy the Shion Thorns and was beaten according to all the rules – with a soul-saving conversation. Alas, Alfen got too carried away with the conversation – and the lord managed to destroy the core.
Thorns grew through Shion’s body like huge black roots, preparing to devour both worlds; Shion asked to kill her.
Alfen took out his sword. And here it is:
Alfen held a quick referendum among the inhabitants of Dana, using astral energy instead of Skype; all the people gathered strength – and HOW they hit the Thorns!
They colorfully disintegrated.
With the death of the Spirit of Rena, the shackles that bound the twin planets fell and they finally became one world, as they should have been from the very beginning.
Everyone was happy – except for Rinvell, who at the wedding of Alfena and Shion, the jealous Pukhunya stole the bride’s bouquet, and, perhaps, the inhabitants of Lenegis, which became the core of the new planet.
In the next blog you will find the previously promised small comic visit to the world Tales with a couple more notes on the plot.
If you have interesting thoughts, questions or comments about the story Tales of Arise – feel free to write about them in the comments!