Ariqa's quest: Origins of Maria

"Where am I in this alternate world? What got me here in the first place? And why look like I belong in the world of anime?" That is what one young man is asking when he woke up to find nothing but a few established societies, his own name, and other people like him waking up in a new world in an alternate universe.

As Arbour makes new friends, explores the past of the known world that is the Maria islands, and rebuilding civilization, the consequences of a rising darkness begin to take hold of not just the people, but also to the Phoenixes that protect this world from the widespread darkness.

Will the people prevail against the darkness, or will it purge the whole known world into a series of unimaginable events that are yet to come...