A few years later, Velvet lives with Laphicet and Artorius in the same village. Velvet's pregnant older sister, Celica Crowe, is killed by the disease through an event known as the Opening. When she was a child, Velvet and her younger brother, Laphicet Crowe, were saved by her brother-in-law, Artorius Collbrande, when a Scarlet Night occurred and the daemonblight consumed their village, Aball. The exorcists, soldiers from the Abbey, are tasked with bringing peace and order by purging the world of daemons and are willing to go to extremes to reach their goal. Along with the rulers of the Holy Midgand Empire exists a theocratic order known as the Abbey, who are of great political and religious importance and are influential in imperial affairs.
Throughout the empire, a disease known as daemonblight causes those infected to lose their humanity and sense of rationality and transform into monsters known as daemons, who pose a threat to the world. Along with humans, one of the other main races is the malakim, supernatural spirits whose wills are sealed and used by humans as slaves to utilize their magical abilities after being made visible to even normal humans due to the Advent, an incident three years prior to Velvet Crowe's escape from the prison island of Titania. Areas of land and islands in the game are divided into territories. There are countless numbers of islands around, and Midgand's rule crosses even the seas. The game's world is shared with Tales of Zestiria, though these events occur in the distant past. Its characteristic genre is " RPG of Discovering Your Own Reasons to Live" ( 君が君らしく生きるためのRPG, Kimi ga Kimirashiku Ikiru tame no RPG ?).īerseria takes places in a world known as Desolation, specifically in the Holy Midgand Empire, a powerful country that rules over Desolation's archipelago of a continent. Tales of Berseria is a distant prequel to Tales of Zestiria.
The main motif of the game is a conflict between emotion and reason. Ufotable produced the animated cutscenes for the game. The title was announced on Jduring the Tales of Festival 2015, while the localization was confirmed on December 21, 2015. Tales of Berseria ( テイルズ オブ ベルセリア, Teiruzu obu Beruseria ?) is the sixteenth Mothership Title in the Tales series.