Drakengard 2

The story is quite complicated, so the summary is kind of long. (Or maybe its just because I'm bad at summarizing things.) The summary does not include too many details or the story parts detailing the allies. This summary is only of the events leading up to ending one, which is the official ending from which Drakengard 2 is spawned.

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Caim is the main character, and he is the elder brother to Furiae, the goddess. He has an intense hatred for the Empire and dragons, as his kingdom was destroyed by the Empire and his parents were killed by a black dragon when the Empire tried to kidnap his sister when they were younger. The world is protected by the four seals of Forest, Desert, Ocean and the goddess herself.

The Empire attacks the castle at which Furiae is at, and Caim is fighting against the Empire soldiers, who eyes shine bright red, with Union soldiers. Caim gets seriously injured, and rushes back to the castle when he sees a soldier setting the Union flag aflame. He gets to the castle bailey, sees a dying red dragon. Caim then got into a pact with the dragon, which healed them both and they share one life after that (ie. if one dies, so does the other). Caim's pact price was his voice, so he has become mute. Pact partners can read each other's thoughts.

Caim manages to get to Furiae in time, as Inuart, Furiae's fiancee before she was made goddess, managed to hold off the Empire soldiers long enough. Inuart decides to take Furiae to the elf village, as the castle is no longer safe, and the elves are bound to eternal neutrality.

They go to the forest of the elves, to find that the Empire is there as well, and the village has been completely destroyed. They suddenly hears the voice of Verdelet, the heirarch, who has petrified dragon for a pact beast. Inuart and Furiae go to Verdelet in the desert, while Caim goes to further investigate the shrine of the Watchers in the forest.

After the investigation, Caim hears from Verdelet again, saying that both Inuart and Verdelet himself, has been captured by the Empire while protecting the goddess. Caim goes to the desert, meets up with Furiae, rescues Verdelet. Verdelet goes on about why the Empire wants to break the seal, it is because the Empire wants the Seeds of Resurrection that will fall upon the earth when all the seals are broken. The dragon rebuts saying that humans twists even the myths to their own convenience. Caim tries to find Inuart, but to no avail, as he was taken to a different prison, and hypnotized/possessed. Inuart then makes a pact with a black Imperial dragon. The desert seal gets destroyed by the Empire.

Inuart arrives back at Caim's camp on his dragon, and tries to take Furiae away. Caim and Inuart gets into a fight, where Caim loses. Inuart flies off with the goddess. After Caim and the dragon recovers, they begin their pursuit in the direction of the Empire. Caim hears the dying screams of the faeries, who are the protectors of the Forest seal, hence the forest seal has been broken by the empire.

The Union readies for an all-out war against the Imperial Army, which the Union almost wins. When on the verge of losing, a floating fortress rains down destruction on the battlefield, turning the tides. Caim flies up to the bottom of the fortress on his dragon, but discovers that they cannot go any higher.

At this time, Inuart swoops down from the fortress on his black dragon, and engages into a battle with Caim. Caim emerges victorious, and Inuart retreats back to the fortress. Riding the same air current as Inuart, Caim gains entry to the fortress. Caim slaughters his way through the hoards of soldiers, and enters the inner sanctum where Furiae is held, only to discover that he was too late. The last seal has been broken, and her lifeless body lies on top of the altar. Caim exits the fortress at the dragon's urging.

Inuart arrives back at the sanctum to discover Furiae's body beside the child priestess Manah who hypnotized him. He wakes from the spell on seeing Furiae dead. He goes up against the priestess but she is too powerful. Inuart takes Furiae's body in his arms, and decides that he would resurrect Furiae using the Seeds. Inuart then gets into another fight with Caim, but Inuart escapes.

Caim gets to the Imperial capital, kills hoards of monsters, and gets to the priestess at the center. He defeats the priestess, who then begs for death. He and Verdelet both deny her wish, and proceed to think who should become the next goddess. The dragon volunteers, and undergoes the ritual which makes her the seal. She finally tells Caim her name, Angelus, before she becomes a bubble and disappears off into the sky.

This is a really boiled down version of the story, and doesn't really reflect the complex tragedy. If you have time, read the script that I put on GameFAQs for the full story. http://db.gamefaqs.com/console/ps2/f...d_script_a.txt

Jam it back in, in the dark.