"Despair has cast a long, dark shadow across this land. The winds have stopped, the seas churn, and the earth rots. The people await for a hero to appear— the hero foretold in an ancient prophecy: 'When darkness shrouds the land, the Warrior of Light will come. Hope rides in his wake.' After a long journey across the Ether, castaways without pasts appear on the shores of Palamecia. One of them is destined to become the warrior of legend. You stand among them. Are you the hero whom the prophecy foretells?"