Bloodstained Skies of a Fallen Arcadia

Bloodstained Skies of a Fallen Arcadia, released in Japan as Fulgurous Arcadia, is the sequel to Skies of Arcadia ("Eternal Arcadia" in Japanese), and a Playstation 5 exclusive RPG.
It takes a much darker tone, being set in the far future of Skies of Arcadia, when the world in the sky has had an industrial revolution and gone cyberpunk. Air pirates, riding much more technologically advanced ships, are much more violent and Mad Max-esque, a bleak tone replacing the adventurous tone of Skies of Arcadia entirely. Vyse himself, now more than 100 years old and almost completely cybernetic, is the Blue Emperor of the Sega.
== Setting ==
The Cloud Sea is a world in the sky, covered in a sea of clouds which people traverse with ships (which now look more like hi-tech spacecrafts, unlike the flying sailboat look of the ships of SoA): it's formally a unified world all under the same government, but technically a lawless place. The center of the world power is a great city called Mikadopolis, which was once Yafutoma, is the center of the world, inspired by real-life Tokyo and ruled by an emperor and corporate tyrant known as Mikado. Everyone who opposes Mikado is known as a pirate. 
Some pirate gangs are big enough to be de-facto independent superpowers (Mostri Sacri), and their captains are nicknamed Shoguns. 
The most important Mostro Sacro is the Sega, a Japanese-style Yakuza-like organization with inspiration from samurai, which has become an empire (whose emblem is the one of the Blue Rogues). Sega is led by Vyse the Immortal Emperor, a man over 100 years old but eternally young through cybernetics. Vyse rules from Sega Island's Aoi Shiro, and his elite unit is called Rakshasa. 6 years before the game, in September, the Settembre Nero Conflict happened when a unit of Rakshasa led by Durga rebelled against Vyse in order to support the claim to the throne of Akane, last descendant of the Valuan royal family. 
The Novikov Tovarish are another Mostro Sacro pirate crew, looking like a socialist republic and spanning what was once Nasr. Their Shogun is Natsuki. Novikov is a sworn rival of Sega.
The player party, the crew of the Sakura, is based in the Quarnaro Archipelago. 
== Party members (Sakura crew): ==
* Eisernes Blut: A silent protagonist (though she has quotes in battle, especially her catchphrase "For iron and blood!"), her true name is given by the player but she's nicknamed Eisernes Blut (Iron Blood). Most of her dialogue is player-chosen options, and the player can choose a love interest for her (though she seems to be an open lesbian, considering how fondly she reminisces about Akane and how her romance options with women are significantly more romantic than with men, which only allude to being "best friends"). She's an Air Pirate and the strongest fighter of the ship Sakura, as its captain Hyouma the Fulgurous took her on board. She eschews Vyse's cool roguish appearance for a "90s anti-hero" look, being a muscular, scar-faced and tattooed 33-year-old female cyborg with a mask over her face and an entirely robotic arm, hiding a dark past as Durga, a former pirate of Sega's chosen "Rakshasa Unit", a unit which, during the Settembre Nero war, betrayed Sega to join Akane, a girl who claims to be the last descendant of the Valuan royal family, and, after Vyse's men killed Akane, roamed the world as a mercenary in the Santi Escrementi company, shedding her name Durga, until being recruited after the Santi Escrementi got annihilated by the Novikov Army. Durga is actually Vyse's very daughter, a "yakuza princess" chosen to lead his Rakshasa, and who betrayed him. She packs a cybernetic arm and wears a mask over her face. She uses a machine gun in battle. 
* Hyouma "the Fulgurous": Captain of the Sakura pirates, who recruited Eisernes Blut after finding her alone in the city of Suika, in Novikov. His battle cry is "Eia Eia Alalà!" (a phrase associated with superheroes in Japan, but considered unlucky in Italy). 
* Kazuyuki:
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