Tales of Zestiria The X: Calamity's End

Alternative Timeline

Alternative Timeline

Fortune of Phantasia

In the first era that the world came to be, the ancient humans and seraphim lived alongside each other peacefully. The first seraphim, Tiamat, ascends to the earth alongside her four sub lords to facilitate coexistence between races. Another young seraph from a separate tribe takes the responsibility to increase humanity's resonance, lending his powerful domain under Tiamat's orders to enable the humans to see and interact with the seraphim kind.

However, a fatal barrier prevents safe interactions. Tiamat witnesses war and brutality of the human race and is disgusted with their merciless acts as humanity produces malevolence, a deadly spiritual corruption that is poisonous to seraphim. After a council with the seraphim in their heavenly realm, those who never interacted with the humans vote on eradicating humanity, while others who witnessed the good side of humanity and desired coexistence boycott the genocide and wager to prove that cohabitation is possible.

The seraphim who wished for annihilation accepted their bet to overcome the malevolence. Tiamat, on behalf of the heavenly seraphim, imposes a rule upon humanity and the seraphim. Instead of it being a rule, she curses them, making the coexistence nearly impossible. The curse turns humans into murderous daemons and seraphim into dragons upon amassing malevolence in their bodies.

Soon, the land is filled with dragons and daemons. They rampage across nations of descended seraphim and peaceful humanity, bringing only death and chaos. The trust slowly shatters, and many seraphim abandon the dreams of peaceful coexistence and isolate themselves from the humans.

The young and mighty seraphim who amplified humanity's resonance and his name is lost to history, known only as Innominat, decides to make that dream a reality and conspire with four of Tiamat's sub lords to force her to remove the curse. But Tiamat rejects his idea and decides to annihilate humanity. With the world's fate hanging in the balance, Innominat, along with Tiamat's four sub lords, betray her and, after a devastating battle, seal her under the deepest part of the Earthpulses.

However, the curse remains, and malevolence spreads faster than expected. Innominat uses his domain over the earthpulses to release his gift to turn it into the power of suppression and removes the malevolence from the world, devouring the poison into himself. To draw the malevolence, Innominat makes a pact with seven loyal seraphim as his sub lords. The seven seraph twist under the influence of the malevolence and change into daemon hybrids called Therions. The oath of suppressing malevolence turns the Innominat and his sub lords into a golden, eight-headed dragon known as the Eight Serpents. The other four remaining seraphim take control over the four elements to stabilize the earth, giving enough time for humanity and seraphim to rebuild their lost civilizations.

Destiny Dawn

The advent of the five seraphim, which are now known as the Empyreans, begins. After a thousand years, Innominat's mind, under the influence of devouring malevolence, begins to change and deteriorates as he tries to banish the other four Empyreans out of the earthpulses. With the balance of the world in danger, the Empyreans plead to the heavenly realm, which is closed to all until the descended seraphim can prove that coexistence is possible. A young thunder seraph by the name of Susanoo answers their call for help. He and his closest friend, Zenrus, sneak out of the heavenly gate and descend to earth to meet with the Empyreans. The remaining earthly tribes of seraphim and the Empyreans stand together and fight back against the Innominat's hollowed army.

Knowing that the world needs Innominat, Susanoo desperately looks for a solution to keep the balance. Tiamat's voice calls to him from the depths of the earthpulse and offers a solution. Having no other choice, he listens to Tiamat's offer of help to lock up the Empyrean of suppression and awakens him under the control of gifted humans called the Oracles. During the final battle, he cleaves a part of Innominat with his legendary sword, Caliburn, stealing a portion of his purification power and sealing him in a heavily guarded prison. After a selfless act, Susanoo sacrifices his soul to the well of souls in the center of the earthpulses to grant humanity the power of resonance, sharing the ability of Innominat that he stole and leaving his friend Zenrus alone to help the earthly seraphim.