And then there was , a inquisitor of the Sacred Guard. He was a cleric with a sharp tongue and a sharper mind, who solved holy mysteries with logic, not faith. When the pontiff was murdered and a sacred flame extinguished, Temenos found a cryptic note: “The night will be long, but the dawn will belong to the wicked.” His journey for the truth led him to Agnea’s trail—and to Osvald’s.
Their fates converged in the industrial city of New Delsta, at a clock tower that struck thirteen. There, they met , a former member of the Blacksnakes, a guild of assassins. Throné had cut her own shackles and now sought to kill the leaders of the guild—two figures she only knew as "Father" and "Mother." Her daggers were quick, but her heart was heavier than lead. OCTOPATH TRAVELER II
"Help… or don't," he rasped. "But if you value your song, stay away from the men in black coats." And then there was , a inquisitor of the Sacred Guard
That man was , a former scholar of the Magic University. He had been imprisoned for a murder he did not commit—the killing of his wife and daughter. After escaping the frigid hellhole of Frigit Isle, he was now a fugitive, hunting a man with a scarred face named Harvey, his former rival. Osvald’s tale was not one of joy, but of ice and fire: a cold quest for vengeance. Their fates converged in the industrial city of
In the deep, mushroom-veiled forests of the Leaflands, an apothecary named woke with no memory. Her bag was full of herbs, and her hands remembered their work—but her mind was a white void, haunted by a plague called the "Sorrow of the Moon." She followed a trail of dead soldiers and empty villages, searching for who she was and what terrible cure she had once created. The Dancer's Secret, The Cleric's Sin
"You all want something," Throné said, watching the eight of them stand in the moonlit plaza. "Osvald wants revenge. Castti wants her memory. Partitio wants to end poverty. Hikari wants his throne. Temenos wants the truth. Agnea wants her stage. And me? I just want to be free."
"And the eighth?" asked a new voice—a soft, sad one.