Ristaccia

***Ouverture ~ Ristaccia ~*** (***프롤로그 ~ 리스타치아 ~***) is the main theme and prologue/intro song of the first *Cornerstone* game and its remake. It also serves as the main theme of the *11th Arc* of Cornerstone.

## Lyrics

Although Ristaccia does not feature lyrics in *Cornerstone: Collegiate Academy of Seoul* for the NES, the 3DS remake features lyrics.

Ristaccia, confessione nostra

Governa

Forze *anima* nostra.

N*ostro* arme sono in tua nomine

Nostra anima abbiamo benduto (*venduto ?*) e il *l'effetto* e nostro destino

Tuo commando noi sempre ubbiamo

Sia fatta tua *volontà*,

Per questo noi combattiamo

Santa Ristaccia

Santa Ristaccia

Venga il tuo regno Patrona.

### Translation

Ristaccia, faith of ours,

Who governs our souls,

Our weapons are raised in Your name.

To You we have sold our soul ; and thus this is our fate :

To always obey Your command.

Your will be done,

This will for which we fight.

Saint Ristaccia,

Saint Ristaccia,

Your Kingdom come, Goddess.

## Events of the 3DS Remake intro

This intro serves to narrate the prologue.

The first scene shown after the title depicts Hajin Cha, Ginnah Kim, Queengel, and Oscuro Caballero. All of them only show their face, have their eyes closed as if they were sleeping, and are depicted against what looks like a static background. Meanwhile, a solist female singer is heard lamenting.

After Oscuro's portrait has been shown, the screen is dyed in green, and soon transforms into one of its hexagonal vortexes, as the music transforms into a modern, rapid beat. The vortex is very short, and for a split second, Oscuro's green silhouette in his Blaken form is seen at its end. It then explodes and a seemingly infinite flow of number patterns and complex equations form a vortex of their own, as a choir rises. At the end of this second vortex of numbers, it is this time Earth that can be seen.

The camera then plunges down on Earth, where the remains of the Ouroboros Ark are visible. Five Fightgels, Fighter Warrior, Annette Fantine Dominic, Mage, Yuri Leclerc, and Balthus von Albrecht grab their powers. Their hands quickly fade out, and their shadows form the shape of Queengel who now sits on a throne, with her face veiled.

The camera then travels slowly up into the clouds. All of a sudden, a quick vertical ray of green light appears and dyes the entire screen in that colour once again. Then, a massive crowd of Fightgels is pictured, as Fightertopia is shown. As the screen quickly flashes to let us see Oscuro and his younger brother Noche Caballero descending on Fightertopia. Oscuro and Noche then transform into their Blaken forms. What follows is an almost subliminal depiction of Oscuro with that same constant green, with a real close up to his face. The scene then changes.

Six of the Fighters' Relics are shown firmly planted in the land, seemingly comprised of mountains, as if they were gigantic. From left to right are Limelight, Flamberge, Crusher, Vajra-Mushti, Wand, and Dagger of the Feathers. Afterwards, Queengel appears inbetween them, as clouds quickly run through the sky, and the relics all fade to black and evaporate, with the scenery being cut by black lines drawing Warrior's face, before he collapses back to reveal a mural painting.

The mural painting actually shows events from the games that happened after *Cornerstone: Collegiate Academy of Seoul*, despite this game being the prologue. Only Hajin's part shows events from this game itself. Ginnah's part shows *Apocalypse*, Jaeyi's part shows *Shrunken Adventure*, Hyekang's part shows *Dream Adventure*, Shion's part shows *Dear You*, and Minjae's part shows *The Island of Hotness*.

A quick "realistic" image of Jaeyi after she transforms into her Fighter form is shown, after which the camera plunges right into her eye, revealing a sort of round mirror. Around this mirror slowly spin the Power Pets of four Fighters; Jaeyi's Axol, Hyekang's Strength, Shion's Felina, and finally Minjae's Curser. The Power Pets are seen in both their original and awakened/human forms. Inside it, each first shot of each Fighter shows them themselves, and the second shot shows their negative events. In the second shots of the mirror, Jaeyi has a shocked expression after she gets shrunk, Hyekang is frightened to see himself in his Nightmare form, and Shion looks in shock as Ashe collapses. However, Minjae's order is reversed from the other three, as his negative event shows first (him being covered in Bleck's goop) before a close-up of him is shown.

The next scene shows Ginnah screaming, holding her face, cutting her ponytail with Flamberge, then falls down without a sign of life, with Oscuro and Caliente approaching her. The former intends to grab her, but is too slow; and the latter instead wraps himself around her, and as she wakes up, rests his head on her shoulder before floating up with her in the air, and falling back down. As the two fall down and the background turns black, Ginnah's Fighter form and Caliente's human form are seen behind them.

The next image comprises Youngmok Ryu on the right and Erica Kim on the left. Microscopic red and white particles are carried around in the air, as if flown by the wind; then, a zoom shows both characters holding their weapons.

A camera rapidly travels all over the depicted characters, and where the particles continue to float in the air. The particles change colors depending on the character seen on-screen. (blue for Ginnah, Caliente, and Shion, green for Hajin, Flower, and Hyekang, cyan for Minjae, and orange for Jaeyi) First, Jaeyi is seen attacking with her Crusher; as we observe Crusher, it spins around to reveal Shion's wand, and we can see Shion swinging in and closing her eyes. A zoom on Shion's wand transforms it into Vajra-Mushti, and Hyekang performs a fast punch, before another punch turns his hands into Minjae's hands and reveals him fighting with the Dagger of the Feathers. The Dagger of the Feathers then transforms into Flower in her awakened form, Caliente in his human form, Ginnah fighting with her Flamberge as she removes her cloak, and finally Hajin fighting with Limelight. As Hajin is shown, he raises Limelight up in the air, and finally transitions to the video's final image.

This last image shows all of the characters from the PV, as if to bring together all of the scenes witnessed in it. The center column is comprised, from bottom to top, of Oscuro, Noche, Queengel, and Fighter Warrior. Youngmok's students are on the left, and Erica's students are on the right. The characters from the front row either look at the viewer, or, in Queengel and Fighter Warrior's case, have their eyes closed. Those on the left look in that direction, and those on the right look to the right themselves.

## Trivia

* Despite the Cornerstone games' main setting is in Korea, the prologue song is in Italian.