After Shulk invokes his desire for a world that has no need for gods, he, along with Alvis, Fiora, and Melia, are transported to the world of Alrest, where they are fished out of the Cloud Sea by a young salvager by the name of Rex and his Titan guardian, Azurda, who offer the group a ride to the Argentum Trade Guild, where they can figure out what to do next from there. But, after Shulk has a vision of Rex being stabbed through the heart by a masked man, the group soon find themselves roped into another adventure to save the dying world as they accompany Rex and a Blade by the name of Pyra, who just so happens to be Alvis' sister, to the paradise spoken of only in myths and legends known as Elysium, while searching for the remainder of Shulk's allies and putting an end to the genocidal plans of the terrorist organization known as Torna... as well as trying to find an alternative energy source for Fiora's Mechon body before it's too late.