Conveniently, the Emperor's men are the same guys who did the dirty deed to Kalas's family, so the two teens have an excuse to band together and hurt lots of people. Seeing as how the current Emperor Geldoblame is not a nice man, this would be A Bad Thing (TM). A young Anti-Hero named Kalas is searching for the murderer of his grandfather and brother with the help of his "Guardian Spirit" (essentially a stand-in for the player himself, which allows the characters to break the fourth wall without breaking character) when he runs into a Mysterious Waif named Xelha, who's trying to stop the agents of the Alfard Empire from uncovering five " End Magnus", which, if gathered together, will allow the evil god destroyed so long ago to be resurrected. A tribe of shaman-like magicians called the Children of the Earth managed to save humanity by using the body parts of the dead god to raise several continents into the sky, where they've remained ever since.įlash forward a few millennia. However, as a consequence of the terrible carnage and forbidden magics used in the conflict, the ocean dried up, the god-like Whale vanished, and the world was nearly consumed by poisonous miasma. The men won, of course, and dismembered their fallen opponent. The basic story? Thousands of years ago, an apocalyptic global war between man and gods took place. memorably named JRPG for the Nintendo GameCube, developed by Monolith Soft.