Cold Steel - Inazuma Gaiden

Time passes, seasons change, yet old wounds remain. Even as the Traveler finishes their business within the nation of thunder and lightning, Inazuma remains a broken and fractured land. Smoldering embers and past trauma left the country torn in half still, even as the arctic wind approaches.

Splintered, weary, and still yet to recover from the Civil War, Inazuma was brought to its knees while the people bleed, and yet threats of past, present, and emerging would continue to haunt the islands.

Inazuma was entering a new cold season, one without the light of the Shogun to guide its people.

This is a tale of two opposites, a heron who's graceful and as faultless as the snow, and a wounded thrush - unwanted and unable to fly without its wings.

This is a tale of a noble and a simple lowly thief, one who wants to fight for the nation, while the other wanting nothing but to escape from it. Both shall come together in search for answers of their nation's future in a dark, Inazuman winter.

This is a tale of two songbirds.

This is the tale of Cold Steel.

A Side Story of Inazuma.

[Non-canon take of lore, character, and locations. Only follows in-game lore up to Patch 2.1-2.2. Better to be consumed as AU material!]