Tales of Arise Plot Summary in 12 mins! (SPOILER WARNING)

Hello Everyone! Celestia here and I just finished the game, I tried to make a shortened and very brief plot summary for the game.
I have not played many Tales Games, I only played Zestiria, Berseria, Vesperia, Eternia and Destiny. But the last two was when I was still a kid and I barely remember the story.
I loved this game so far, aside from the Romance and Sci-Fi theme, I love how it fosters positivity as you progress through the story.
The happy ending may not fit everyone's taste, but to me it is a perfect way to end it. We as Alphen fought for Shionne, fought for a world where we believe everyone can settle their differences and live side by side. And I'm glad we were able to save Shionne, and created a foundation for a unified world divided by deep roots of oppression. I fought and felt it was all worth it!
Music: "Mukashi Kara Aru Basho" (Hello, Again) by My Little Lover music box edition
• Hello, Again ～Mukashi ...
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[@OG_G4m3r]

I needed a recap before the DLC. Salamat!

[@NamelessKing1119]

I still don’t understand the ending like what happens after marriage how can they just end it like that and they should’ve ended in game mode not anime setting💀

[@datetien4846]

Even after i finished the game, i still don't know what happened to all the winners of the crown contest and their own Renas Almas. Also, what is the point of kidnapping Dahna and turn them into Renan?

[@SkyeCelestiaAdventures]

To answer your questions:
1. The winners of the Crown Contest were turned into one huge zeugle. When you're in Rena, you will get into a place with containers of human bodies inside and in there you will find a huge spider-like Zeugle with different faces and uses astral artes. Alphen and Dohalim had a chat shortly after this battle, and implied that the Crown Contest winners are taken to Rena, and well you know there's no life in Rena. Just put two and two together and you get it.
2. Renas Alma, Dohalim said he never seen that artifiact at all with his own eyes and only the winners of the crown contest can lay their eyes on it. But remember, aside from 5 master cores it needs the dark master core too. So everything about the Crown contest, and the winners of the crown contest getting a Renas Alma are all bunch of lies. There were only two Renas Alma in history of Arise, one during Alphen's time and one which was created in Pelegion.
3. Kidnapping Dahna and making them Renans is to boost the dying populatioon of the Helganquils - the true Renans. Remember that Rena is a dying Planet and doesn't have enough time, and in order to save it, it needs to absorb Dahna into its own. But the Helganquils lack the manpower to accomplish this in their target timeline, so they result in kidnapping Dahnans.
Back in Daeq Fazol, you'll learn that these kidnapped Dahnans are those with high affinity to Astral Energy and knowledgeable in using Astral Artes like Rinwell.
In short, Renans are kidnapped Dahnan mages. Rinwell mentioned that their kind has always been persecuted and predates the oppression, you connect these details and you will realize the connection. It was kind of sinister to me in a way because Dahnan mages has been persecuted by the Dahnans themselves, and then they were kidnapped, re-engineered to make them more powerful and became the Renans we know in the game. Then they're sent to Dahna to oppress their "used to be own kind" - it's like a major payback time for the Dahnan mages, it's just that they do not know anymore that they've been persecuted and they don't care. They oppress their own kind because that's what they needed to do to get the Astral Energy required by the Helganquils. they were like brainwashed individuals, similar to the people in Daeq Fazol who no longer cares what happens between Dahna or Rena and all they care about is their work.

[@datetien4846]

@@SkyeCelestiaAdventures Thank you so much!

[@SkyeCelestiaAdventures]

@@datetien4846 Happy to help!

[@martinwoodrome6588]

@@SkyeCelestiaAdventures this answers all my questions as well! Thank you. (You would think they would have a few side conversations about these, since they repeated the other plot points over and over)

[@komlat253]

Them bright eyed devils lol. U know this game was being cute with a very dark plot. Actually i loved the theme of this game . Theres a strong message in a good story . Too bad the game stroy moves really fast over the serious parts of the world

[@wsrtwetr]

Ce-re- mo-ny not se-reh-meh-ny