Tales Of Phantasia

Tales Of Phantasia

The animation is based off of the SNES game (later ported to GBA).

Tales of Phantasia begins by showing a heroic battle between four unknown warriors against an evil sorcerer, Dhaos, whose outcome changed the fate of the world. The warriors were victorious, but Dhaos escapes through time. Though, four new heroes are waiting and seal the weakened Dhaos away using the power of two pendants, thus returning peace to the world.

The adventure begins in the town of Toltus ten years after the sealing, where a young swordsman named Cless Alvein (translated as Cress Albane in the GBA localization) and his best friend, archer Chester Barklight, live. The town is destroyed by a dark knight named Mars (Malice in the DeJap translation) and his soldiers while Cless and Chester are out hunting in the forest. Every villager is killed in the attack, including Chester's sister and both of Cless' parents. While Chester is in mourning, Cless vows for revenge and proceeds to the town of Euclid in search of the dark knight.

Unfortunately, he is betrayed there by his cowardly uncle and is thrown in jail, captured by Mars. The heirloom pendant entrusted to Cless by his father Miguel is taken away from him, but Cless does not know of its significance in holding Dhaos sealed, nor that his father was one of the four who sealed him away.

Cless meets Mint Adnade (a healer) in the jail, and she joins the party and helps him escape. Soon afterwards, the party meets Chester again at Trinicus (Tornix) D. Morrison's house, another of the four warriors. Trinicus informs the party that he knew Cless's parents and Mint's mother quite well, and they once joined together to seal away a great evil. But he is horrified to hear that Cless' pendant has been stolen, and immediately runs off towards a nearby mausoleum. Cless and party figure out that Mars must be there, and follow Trinicus without him knowing. Unfortunately, Mars manages to release Dhaos using the pendants before Trinicus and party can stop him. With no hope of dealing with the all-powerful Dhaos for now, Trinicus attempts to send Cress, Mint and Chester 100 years in the past, so that they can learn about Dhaos and acquire the skills to defeat him. Dhaos attacks the party with a magic spell, which Chester dives in front of. An injured Chester and Trinicus are left behind to suffer Dhaos' wrath.

In the past, Dhaos is still causing chaos with an imminent war against the two largest human countries - Alvanista and Midgards. These events happened almost a century before he was sealed. In this time period, Dhaos' evil pervades throughout most of the world, and he even controls the prince of Alvanista's royal family. The party learns that the only way to defeat Dhaos is by using magic, but neither Cless nor Mint can practice magic - only Elves and half-Elves can use the powerful magic spells. But they soon meets Klarth F. Lester (translated as Claus F. Lester in the GBA localization) (a summoner) and Arche Klaine (a half-elf witch), who join the quest. Klarth is a researcher of summoning (the act evoking a magical spirit or elemental) - and is thus one of the only humans who can indirectly use magic, by forming a pact with the spirits via rings and then summoning them to attack in battle. He suggests that the spirit Luna may be able to help their quest, and the party travels across the world to the deserts of Freyland, the depths of the ancient dwarven caverns of the Morlia Gallery, and to mountains above and caves below in search of rings and spirits to help them fight Dhaos.

Eventually, the party reaches Midgards and succeeds in helping fend off Dhaos' army in the conflict called the Valhalla War. They continue to Dhaos' castle in search of the fiend, in the hope of restoring peace to the world and avenging the deaths of their loved ones. Reaching the throne room, an epic battle with Dhaos ensues. Unfortunately, Dhaos escapes. Dhaos is down, but not out.

The party travels back to their original time to interrupt the resurrected Dhaos from killing Trinicus and Chester in the mausoleum, and fight him once more. This time, Dhaos is thoroughly defeated, and the cave begins to collapse on itself, and an unconscious Dhaos. The party escapes and then decides that, with Dhaos most-likely dead, they have succeeded and can part ways so that Klarth and Arche can return to their original time. But at that moment, a traveler arrives from the future to inform them that Dhaos is still alive and is terrorizing the future. Cress and company immediately travel forward in time fifty years and have to deal with Dhaos and his minions once and for all.

- quoted from Wikipedia

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