Trails of Shadow

Trails of Shadow (Kage no Kiseki in Japan, meaning "Trail of Shadow" but also "Miracle of Shadow") is the third game in the Calvard Arc, which serves as a denouement episode between the Calvard and Remiferia arcs. 
It takes inspiration from Mother 3 in that it uses different protagonists per chapter, most of whom are silent when they are the main character. The hero of the fourth chapter is a player-created MC, whose canon name is Suzuya. 
== Plot ==
=== Prologue: The Osaka Massacre === 
The story starts with you creating the protagonist, then the game showing you the capsule containing them, with the two scientists Cesare Suzuya and Tasuku Alighieri near it, mentioning that the structure of the synthetic demon is stable. 
Soon after, however, an alarm rings in the clandestine lab in Osaka where the experiment is taking place. Kasim Al-Fayed, a soldier working for Marduk Company, attacks the lab in order to take the synthetic demon. 
Keisuke, Cataldo, Matteo and Shingo, four Nidhogg Jaegers tasked to guard the lab, resist as much as possible trying to repel the attack, but they die one by one, struggling to buy time for the evacuation. Kasim is too strong for them and effortlessly murders a lot of Nidhogg Jaegers one by one as if it was nothing. 
Keisuke shoots Kasim in the face and lets himself be killed by his blade in order for Cesare Suzuya to escape safely, carrying the protagonist on his back. 
Tasuku Alighieri has also survived, but you don't see him escape because he was saved by Ouroboros and joined them. 
Then, the story shows Cesare returning in his house in the city of Lucent, laying the still unconscious protagonist on a bed and saying: "Thank you, Keisuke, for having given me a child. I promise you I'll raise them to be a good person, like you have been". 
=== Chapter 1: Epstein's Inheritance===
The story moves two years after the Osaka Massacre. Van Arkride is doing 
=== Chapter 2: The Divine Blade of Ash ===
=== Chapter 3: The Hermit === 
=== Intermission: A New Student ===
=== Chapter 4: The Synthetic Demon === 
=== Finale === 
== Playable Characters ==
==== Chapter Protagonists: ====
Protagonist/Suzuya (canon name: Yoshinori/Yoshimi): A player-created main character, who is part of an experiment to create a synthetic demon. His weapon is a mystical silver flame and his fighting style is magic-based akin to McBurn. Adopted by the Remiferian Cesare Suzuya, one of the few survivors of the Osaka Massacre, Suzuya grew up in Lucent, a Remiferian city on the border with Calvard, and is now a new transfer student at Aramis High School. Suzuya is the main hero, though you can only play as him from the intermission onwards.
C/Rufus Albarea
Van Arkride: The protagonist of Chapter 1. He's a Spriggan, some sort of bounty hunter who takes care of shady business from any client, even dangerous ones. He receives a new mission from president Roy Gramheart himself, involving the Wind Sept-Terrion. 
Shizuna Rem Misurugi
Keisuke: Prologue protagonist. Dies after said prologue is over. 
==== Other Playable Characters: ====
Aaron Wei
Agnes Claudel
Shizuna
Rean Schwarzer 
TBA
== Villains ==
=== Ouroboros ===
Ellroy Harwood, the Thousand Oathbreaker
Tasuku Alighieri, The Evolving Intelligence
Gongzhei Huo, the Perpetually Agonizing
Xiaoyu Salision, the Digital Nightmare
== Trivia ==
* Remiferia is inspired by a combination of Northern Europe and Italy, not Japan. It has a city called Osaka in order to fit with various cities in the Trails universe that are named after places they have nothing to do with, such as Alster being named after Ulster but being in a German counterpart nation, and Basel being named after a city nowhere near China despite Calvard being a fictional counterpart of it. 
* Tasuku Alighieri (and the character Vincenzo Honjo from the Remiferia arc) is named after Italian scientist Tasuku Honjo. 
* THIS GAME CANNOT EXIST. KAI NO KISEKI, THE ACTUAL THIRD GAME OF THE CALVARD ARC, HAS A SIMILAR MULTIPLE POV STRUCTURE BUT WITHOUT MAKING EACH POV CHARACTER SILENT AND WITHOUT CHARACTER CREATION: VAN, KEVIN AND RUFUS ARE ALL POV CHARACTERS. 
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