Fiery Souls

Fiery Souls is a Japanese action-thriller fighting video game series, being developed and published by Square Enix since October 15th, 2009.
==Synopsis==
The series follows a recurring tournament known as the Fiery Souls tournament, chronicling those involved in the tournament, primarily those tied to the mysterious force known as the Abyss.
===First game===
The rich megacompany known as DeCarlo Unlimited has announced the first Fiery Souls tournament as people all across the world join the tournament for wealth, fame, glory and practice as unfortunately, none of them know DeCarlo's true plans.
===Round Two===
A mysterious rich figure known as Augustine hosts a new Fiery Souls tournament as soon it turns out it is a scheme to bring forth the entity known as Abyss as Kyoko, Lionel, Dhayra and Lucian DeCarlo become central players in this new tournament.
==Games==
===Mainline===
#Fiery Souls (2009)
#Fiery Souls Round 2 (2012)
#TBD (2016)
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===Spin-offs===
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==Characters ==
===Playable===
====Introduced in the first game====
*Kyoko Shimura (voiced by TBD):
**First Game - a young and energetic martial artist from Japan who wants to prove her skills as she joins the Fiery Souls tournament, wanting to become stronger. Her martial arts style allows her to generate electricity from her fists.
**Round 2 - a young and energetic Japanese martial artist who was the champion of the previous tournament, having beat both Dharya and Lucian as she learns of the new Fiery Souls tournament, joining both to grow stronger and to investigate it, feeling something sinister is brewing at the tournament.
* Lionel Vaganay (voiced by TBD):
**First Game - an egotistical and somewhat short tempered French savant fighter who wants to fight strong opponents as he joins the Fiery Souls tournament explicitly to do that. He discovers Kyoko and loses a fight to her, starting his obsession with finding and eventually defeating her in a duel.
**Round 2 - an egotistical and short tempered savant fighter who is quite fascinated by Kyoko, joining the new Fiery Souls tournament just to get a chance to fight Kyoko again, unaware that he has a bond to the Abyss.
*Marcie Carter/Unknown (voiced by TBD):
**First Game - a British teenager whose parents were hunted down and killed by DeCarlo for a mysterious unknown reason as she trains herself with a bo-staff and becomes a masked vigilante known as Unknown, joining the tournament to kill DeCarlo.
**Round 2 - a British teenage orphan who became the vigilante Unknown and learns that Lucian DeCarlo is heading to the second Fiery Souls tournament, intending to finally get the chance to kill him after Kyoko ended up being the champion and stopping her chance to end his misery.
*Vasily Dudnik (voiced by TBD): 
**First Game - a Russian boxer who enjoys the thrill of combat as he is rather kindhearted and pure, willing to stand down if he has to, joining the Fiery Souls tournament to get the cash prize to donate to those who really need it.
**Round 2 - a good-willed, kindhearted and honorable Russian boxer who participates in the second tournament after being promised to receive a reward he intends to donate to charity, while also wanting to put on a great show for everyone at the tournament.
*El Lagarto (voiced by TBD):
**First Game - a Mexican luchador known for wearing a mask that is a literal lizard as he quite loves the thrill of combat, being paid by DeCarlo to join the tournament, being capable of grabbing anyone.
**Round 2 - TBD
* Dhayra Nayar (voiced by TBD):
**First Game - a roaming Hindi wanderer who had murdered his entire village in cold blood due to having been contracted with the Abyss, having a deadly bloodlust. He has been wandering the world in search of strong opponents, learning of the Fiery Souls tournament as he joins due to figuring killing at least one of them would satiate his bloodlust, for now.
**Round 2 - a roaming Hindi warrior who is still unable to control his bloodlust as he joins the new Fiery Souls tournament to try and find a way to satiate his bloodlust, reluctantly working with Kyoko to find a way to remove his bloodlust. At the end of the game, his connection to the Abyss was severed due to Augustine forcing it inside of Lionel as he is now a fully normal person.
*Blair McShane (voiced by TBD):
** First Game - a Scottish secret service agent known for his aggressive loudmouth as he is sent to underground tournaments to take them down from the inside as his superiors send him to the Fiery Souls tournament to check and see if DeCarlo has any ulterior motives or if he truly wants to give the world a show.
**Round 2 - an aggressive loud-mouthed Scottish secret service agent who is sent to Fiery Souls mainly due to knowing how messed up the first tournament was as he attempts to uncover what is going on in the second tournament, while trying his best to hide the fact that he is a secret service agent.
*Dimitroula Xena (voiced by TBD):
**First Game - a Greek gladiator who is the champion of an arena in Athens as she enjoys keeping the tradition of gladiatorial combat alive, using her own strength to fight against primarily wild animals. She joins the Fiery Souls tournament to prove her strength in the global sense, never have fought against humans on the same caliber as her.
**Round 2 - a Greek gladiator who is the champion of an arena in Athens as she enjoyed the fight against the people in the tournament as she rejoins the next tournament, wanting to just gain the fame and to fight against stronger opponents, gaining a rivalry against Charles due to her seeing him as a good rival.
*Charles Powers (voiced by TBD):
**First Game - an egotistical yet skilled martial artist who is a movie star as he starred in multiple martial art movies as he gets convinced by his agent to join the Fiery Souls tournament, with his agent seeing it as great publicity, especially if he wins.
**Round 2 - a famous movie star and martial artist who despite losing the tournament, still got good publicity as he joins the new Fiery Souls tournament, but instead of joining to gain publicity, he joins to just train and be stronger and faster, trading blows with Dimitroula, who he believes is a perfect opponent.
*Cui Zhong (voiced by TBD):
**First Game - a giddy and ditzy Chinese young adult who runs her own restaurant that she needs funding to run as she joins Fiery Souls to fund her restaurant, fighting by using her ditziness.
**Round 2 - a giddy and ditzy restaurant owner who had successfully funded her restaurant as she joins the new tournament due to wanting to advertise her restaurant, being unaware of the darker side of the tournament.
*Adolf Heimler (voiced by TBD):
**First Game - a gluttonous but friendly German wrestler who loves stuffing his face with food and equally enjoys combat and fighting, joining the Fiery Souls tournament to hone and perfect his fighting style, as well as to eat.
*Taigen Yasahara (voiced by TBD):
**First Game - a cold Japanese man who is one of the last practicians of the samurai lifestyle as he learns that he is slowly dying, deciding to join the tournament to try and see if he can find someone to train to be his successor.
**Round 2 - one of the last practicians of the samurai lifestyle who had found a new protegee as he joins the tournament alongside his protegee as an advanced form of training, while assuming he only has a few years left to live.
*Ace Bathris (voiced by TBD):
** First Game - a cocky Canadian arms dealer known for his egocentric behavior as he has a mechanical arm and wants to just evolve the world by selling his high tech, joining the Fiery Souls tournament to sell his tech.
**Round 2 - TBD
* Nigel Fishnet (voiced by TBD):
** First Game - an Australian big game hunter who claimed to have been able to fight deadly animals with only his hands as he sees himself as undefeatable, joining Fiery Souls explicitly to prove that he is undefeatable.
*Melinda Von Brunn (voiced by TBD):
** First Game - a German noble who joins the Fiery Souls tournament to train herself in combat as she is known for her surprisingly noble behavior, being willing to stand down if she needs to.
**Round 2 - TBD
* Cletus Crane (voiced by TBD): 
**First Game - an American prison convict and serial killer who breaks free from prison as he enjoys violence and fighting as he joins the Fiery Souls tournament to fight, being surprisingly hard to hit as he also uses a knife to fight.
**Round 2 - TBD
*Lucian DeCarlo (voiced by TBD):
**First Game - the cocky and flamboyant young Italian CEO of DeCarlo Unlimited who formed the Fiery Souls tournament, apparently to just lighten up the world with a worldwide tournament. It is revealed at the end of the game that he has powers given to him by a dark force known as the Abyss, which gave him a powerful bloodlust as the true reason he formed the tournament is to find a strong opponent and to absorb their power. He is an unlockable final boss, being unlocked by inputting a special code.
**Round 2 - TBD
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*Augustine Cross (voiced by Matthew Mercer):
**Round 2 - a zealous and eccentric socialite who runs a cult worshipping the Abyss as he hosts a new Fiery Souls tournament to find the perfect host to the Abyss, believing that they would destroy everything and anything. He is the game's sub boss who is unlockable via cheatcode.
*Abyss Lionel (also voiced by TBD):
**Round 2 - an alternate form of Lionel's who is Lionel consumed by the energy of the Abyss as he is driven mad, interrupting the championship of the tournament and attempting to murder whoever the champion ends up being. He is the game's final boss who is unlockable via cheatcode.
===Non-playable===
====Introduced in the first game====
==== Introduced in Round 2 ====
==Gameplay==
==Trivia==
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