Traveler Ii - Octopath

"I ain't buyin' this mine for me. I'm buyin' it to set it free," he told a skeptical guard. His voice was drawling, warm, and utterly unstoppable.

Agnea, despite her fear, knelt beside him. "A performer never leaves an audience in pain."

Their fates converged in the industrial city of New Delsta, at a clock tower that struck thirteen. There, they met , a former member of the Blacksnakes, a guild of assassins. Throné had cut her own shackles and now sought to kill the leaders of the guild—two figures she only knew as "Father" and "Mother." Her daggers were quick, but her heart was heavier than lead. OCTOPATH TRAVELER II

, a hunter from the remote island of Toto'haha, stepped from the shadows. She was a beastling, half-wolf, half-human, with pointed ears and a bow carved from ancient wood. "The Great Spirit said the night will swallow the world unless we light the flames. I'm here to eat and hunt the dark."

In the deep, mushroom-veiled forests of the Leaflands, an apothecary named woke with no memory. Her bag was full of herbs, and her hands remembered their work—but her mind was a white void, haunted by a plague called the "Sorrow of the Moon." She followed a trail of dead soldiers and empty villages, searching for who she was and what terrible cure she had once created. The Dancer's Secret, The Cleric's Sin "I ain't buyin' this mine for me

"Ladies and gentlemen," Agnea said, her voice carrying like a bell. "This story is for you. It is called… The Eightfold Path of Light. "

"You all want something," Throné said, watching the eight of them stand in the moonlit plaza. "Osvald wants revenge. Castti wants her memory. Partitio wants to end poverty. Hikari wants his throne. Temenos wants the truth. Agnea wants her stage. And me? I just want to be free." Agnea, despite her fear, knelt beside him

And the music began.