Hedion

**Hedion** is the main playable character in Battle Phantasia. A kind-hearted boy who grew up in the rural town of Ladeaen, always dreaming of going in an adventure alongside his best friend Eko. His life changes completely when he meets Olivia, a mysterious girl pursued by demons seeking refuge in Ladeaen. That night, Locke sacrifices himself to allow the three of them to escape and search for a way to lift her curse.

## History

### Battle Phantasia

One day while collecting wood from the Great Forest, Hedion and Eko help a mysterious girl running away from monsters, which up to this day had never come so close to the village. They decide to bring her into Ladeaen to let her sleep, with Locke mentioning her clothes are similar to that of the Lost Kingdom of Kharea, prompting him to look for a book about it. Olivia wakes up, and tries to leave the house but fails due to not having fully recovered. She talks to Hedion, Eko and Locke about her mission to find the 7 Runestones to stop the resurrection of Yombagra, an ancient demon god revered by the Urudic Cult. She also tells them that Kharea is currently governed by Dagath, an usurper who imprisoned her mother, revealing herself to be the princess. Dagath is working in tandem with the Uduric Cult, which he used for his coup, and she ran away as a last effort. Unfortunately, the Uduric priest put a curse on her before she left, causing all monsters to get aggresive around her and demons to chase her at night.

Locke promises her they´ll fight the demons if needed to protect her, and that the 4 of them will continue her mission the following day. Unfortunately, Locke dies alongside a number of villagers when night falls, sacrificing himself to help Hedion, Eko and Olivia escape. The three of them then try asking in the nearby town of (Town 1) about someone who might know about the Runestones, and learn about a mage being imprisoned in another nearby town. They try visiting the prison but the guards don´t let them in, so they ask for help in the tavern. They meet a gnome by the name of Bastien, who tells them about a hidden passage through the sewers they could use to break him out. They do so at night, as the town has a protective spell around it so demons won´t come close, but the monsters in the sewers will still attack them. They break Nero out, despite his initial refusal, and take him back to his cabin in the woods, where he uncovers an ancient book about one of the Runestones, which is said to be at the bottom of Blackwater Temple.

After exploring the temple and defeating it´s guardian, the party acquires the Blue Runestone. As they leave however, they´re met with a number of Uduric cultists lead by the Dark Priest, Necrodias. Feeling the imminent danger, Nero casts the Ogstel spell, which allows it´s user and allies to be teleported at will. However, Nero still does not control the spell, so they end up in a random location. This location ends up being the middle of a battlefield. As the battle dies down, they notice a priestess tending to the wounds of the soldiers, and decide to help her out. Her name is Valnika, and works as a healer at (Town 2), but the last battle between the Himmelgard and Gormidia has resulted in his father, Pomo, being afflicted by a curse that will kill him in 3 days, unless a magic flower is used for an antidote. The party decides to help her find this flower because his father could know more about the Runestones. On their way up Mount Zephyr, they stumble across a mural written in Ancient Kharean, which Olivia reads, and reveals the location of the Green Runestone to be in the Garden of Jylia, just like the flower they were looking for. They make their way to the sealed garden, defeat the guardian and take both the Runestone and Lazar Flower with them. Once Pomo is healed, he mentions his commander, Grendelwulf, once telling him about the Runestones, but he´s currently somewhere else. He does however recommed the party go to the Mirage Forest, as legend says looking at your reflection in the lake might reveal the way forward in times of need. Valnika decides to join the party in their quest.

Once they reach the lake, a unicorn appears in front of Hedion, as if bowing in front of him. By touching his horn, Hedion is able to communicate with him. He calls himself Thaumad, and says he´s been sent by the goddess to help him accomplish his destiny. He also tells him his next destination, where they will meet Grendelwulf as he´s an important part of fate, but they first need to lift Olivia´s curse before Necrodias finds them again. With his magic, Thaumad can carry the entire party across the map, and Hedion can even use his power in batttle, as the "Luminous Arc" skill. The party makes their way to a desolate region where the witch Myrr lives. She agrees to lifting Olivia's curse as long as the party defeats a group of monsters that have taken over a nearby town. After defeating these enemies, the town disappears in the mist, as they were all illusions cast by Myrr to test them. Upon returning to her house, they meet Jufze, a young man who often visits Myrr to bring her food and resources as she doesn't leave her house much. He's on his way to the desert known as the Sands of Vith, which happens to be the location of the Yellow Runestone, according to Myrr. The party escorts Jufze through the desert to safely reach Mahalem, where he delivers an important message from Grendelwulf, who's revealed to be his father. After this revelation, the party goes to the Pyramid of Nohilm, where the locals say a glowing rock is located. They explore it, defeat the guardian, and obtain the Runestone.

Once again, when leaving the pyramid, the group encounters Necrodias, taunting them and telling them he never needed the curse to locate Olivia, but now he's decided to let them collect the Runestones for him. Hedion jumps to attack him, but Necrodias repels his attack with no effort, mentioning how Hedion's eyes are annoying to him. Necrodias tries to stab him but stops at the last second, deciding he'll kill them together some other time. Distressed, the party picks Jufze up and they all make their way to Kymgrad to finally meet with Grendelwulf. He thanks the party for escorting his son, and explains that the Himmelgard served King Notus the first as their personal guard. However, after he was assassinated by Gormidian spies, most of them left as they did not want to serve his despot son, King Notus II. Grendelwulf discovered that the assassination was actually plotted with Notus II's help, making him try to rebel and kill him. Despite making his way past all the guards and having his blade on his neck, he could not kill his king's son, so he left the kingdom branded as a criminal. He then moved to the continent of (Continent 2), where he united a number of mercenaries and soldiers under the banner of Lennyr, the free nation, fighting off the Gormidian occupational forces trying to take over it. Some years later, rumours about a second son of King Notus emerged, promting Grendelwulf to send loyal soliers far and wide searching for him, to no avail. He still hopes to find him and restore peace in Haryse, but is currently locked in combat with Gormidia. He finally tells the party about Tempest Isle, where the White Runestone should be at. Unfortunately, the Lemyrian army has no ships, but there are rumours about a pirate captain with a ship capable of navigating the whirlwinds around Tempest Isle.

Following the rumours, the party meets with Captain Sylvia in her pirate cave, but her crew is currently under a witch´s spell so she can´t go anywhere. She agrees to take the party to the island as long as they help her liberate her crewmates. The witch´s fortress is a dangerous place, but the party solves all her puzzles and labyrinths and confronts her. She then casts a protective spell, locking herself up inside of a cocoon. Nero recognizes this spell and lists the ingredients needed for the potion they need to dissolve her cocoon. The party gathers it, fights the witch and finally frees Sylvia´s crew. With the ship, Hedion makes his way to Tempest Isle. Unfortunately, a Gormidian ship opens fire, forcing the party to get sepparated on the island. Hedion ends up with Sylvia, and together explore the East side of the jungle. They get ambushed by a group of elf thieves, but just like the other party members before, manage to defeat them. They hear a very loud noise nearby and go check, meeting with the rest of the party as well as the thieves, being attacked by the Gormidian captain. The thieves try to run away but get killed, which the general uses as a window to jump on the elf leader, Janhor. Luckily for him, Hedion protects him from the attack, and the party fights him. After defeating him and his soldiers, Janhor swears an oath of loyalty to Hedion for saving his life. He then takes them to an elf settlement and explains he and his teammates were hunting for food, as everyone else in the settlement are old people or children. The elder points out Olivia´s clothes, and uses his mystic powers to tell them the direction to Neptune´s Cavern, where the next Runestone awaits.

After getting the runestone and returning to the settlement, they find it´s being raided by another Gormidian party, lead by the Gormidian prince Zonlar himself and accompanied by Necrodias, who reintroduces himself as the prince´s advisor. Zonlar challenges the party to a battle, which they lose, but just as they´re about to die Thaumad appears and petrifies Zonlar. Necrodias takes this chance to scape as he does not want to face a unicorn. The party leaves for the shore but the ship is missing. Traveling a but further they find a crewmate who tells the party they hid along the ship following a river upstream after being hit, and started repairing the damages. They also learn that the elves from the settlement evacuated before Zonlar arrived thanks to the elder´s powers, and joined the crewmates in hiding. He tells the party the location of the next Runestone, Felgatt the Elf Knigdom. Unfortunately, Janhor was exiled and elves don´t take kindly to other races, but if they had a noble, the situation could change. Nero proposes asking Jufze to accompany them, as he´s technically the prince of Lemyr, so they return to Kyngrad. Grendelwulf takes Hedion aside to tell him they´re preparing to engage Gormidia, so Jufze will be safer with them. The party travels to (Continent 3), and begin their expedition towards Felgatt.

As expected, they´re refused entry from the gates, but Jufze´s presence changes the king´s mind, allowing all of them to pass. They go towards the palace to ask the king for the Runestone, but the king only seems interested in knowing Kharea´s whereabouts from Olivia. She proposes telling him in exchange for the Runestone, but the king feels insulted and orders the guards to take her and Jufze prisoners. The party fights off the guards, so the king, fearing for his life, agrees to give them the Runestone. However, he does not possess it, as his is fake. The real one is protected by it´s guardian atop Mount Velgr. The party makes their way there to grab it. Once they get it, a large group of Gormidian soldiers, lead by Necrodias, captures them and kill Thaumad, stealing all the Runestones too. The party is taken to Gormidia to be executed, and stay in prison for a week. During this time, Necrodias taunts Hedion every day and tells him how he hates him the most, and will kill all of his friends before him to make him suffer. Eventually, out of trying to punch his way through the wall to be with Olivia, he breaks his hands. The execution day comes, and all characters are brought in front of the King and the Prince, learning that the Himmelgard lost their battle and Grendelwulf is gonna be executed too. King Notus II is also there, as he wants to kill him personally. And so, in front of the entire party, Jufze and the remaining Himmelgards, Grendelwulf is executed. This causes a very loud fanfare from the public, while our main characters lose all hope. Hedion then starts hearing a voice in his head telling him to "Unleash the power", but his current mental state makes him unable to be brave and do it. Necrodias, appointed executioner, decides to kill Olivia first. She uses her final words to claim to the people of Gormidia that the Uduric Cult is lying to them, and Yombagra is no savior, but the Chariot of Darkness who will engulf all life. She then looks back at her friends, and says farewell to Hedion, also saying she won´t be killed a prisoner, and will die a free woman, using her medallion to cast the final spell, a massive explosion that kills herself and Necrodias on the spot.

The voice is now yelling at Hedios to unlash him, but he´s too shocked to react. The public starts scrambling, and the King calls for all of them to be killed at once. Thaumad appears in a flash of light and frees everyone, managing to scape past all the guards. A completely distraught Hedion then wakes up some days later, with his hands healed. Nero explains they´ve been running away and manage to hide in Tempest Isle for a while, but they have no idea what to do next. Thaumad tells Hedion they can save Olivia using the same spell he used to come back, through the Corridor of Phantasia, but in order to do that they´ll need the help of Kharaeron, the dragon deity of Kharea who´s currently under Dagath´s leash. The party starts their search for the 3 monoliths in (Continent 3) they need to activate to enter Kharea. After revealing a secret passage through a mountain, they cross it and reach the Lost Kingdom of Kharea. There, with the help of some of Olivia´s mother supporters, they learn of the way into the castle. They fight their way in and confront Dagath, who seems completely impervuous to damage due to his Runestone. Once again, the voice calls for Hedion to unleash him, and this time he accepts, summoning the legendary sword Diogalthas, which he uses to make Dagath vulnerable again. Once they defeat him, they go up Kharea Tower and free Kharaeon, who´s actually the voice talking to Hedion. He reveals he´s been chosen by the Goddess Luam as her champion against Udur, and if they want to bring Olivia back they´ll also resurrect Necrodias. Hedion accepts and jumps into the corridor, where he fights 3 spirits, Olivia, Necrodias and himself. Back in the tower, the 3 of them come out. Necrodias, now aware as to why he hates Hedion so much, since he´s the champion of Udur, promises him they´ll fight to the death at some point, but leaves for now.

Now able to fly on Kharaeon, Olivia rallies Kharea up to fight against Gormidia. The party returns to Felgatt and basically blackmails the elves into joining them too. The remainder of the Himmelgard, as well as warriors from all towns they liberated, join too. Jufze, wishing revenge against both Gormidia and Haryse, takes up his father´s sword and becomes the new King of Lemyr, and joins the party. With this setup, they decide the best option is to attack Haryse first, and so they march on there. They also find out the gnome they met so long ago, Bastien, is actually King Notus´ second son, making him the true heir. Before taking on the castle, they march to Luluquia Mountains to deactivate the Astra Cannon, which is the army´s biggest weapon. King Notus II calls Gormidia for help, but they refuse to send anyone, leading to his downfall. The party defeats him and instaurates Bastien as the new King, with his first order being restoring the Himmelgard as his royal guard and restoring Grendelwulf´s honor. News arrive that all Gormidian forces have returned to Gormidia, as they await an invasion anytime. The party makes preparation, and their alliances marches on to attack. A long battle ensues, but the party manages to get inside the castle. They fight Zonlar, who regrets ever listening to Necrodias, as he vanished as soon as the army broke through the castle gates and was clearly using them. King Baramoth accepts defeat and relinquishes the last Runestone to Olivia, but Necrodias appears and stabs the king through his heart. He then taunts the party saying the Uduric Cult is too powerful now, and they´ve began the preparations to summon Yombagra, then leaves again.

Olivia takes the party to the Tower of Luam, atop of which she can perform the ritual to stop Yombagra´s resurrection. Necrodias fights the party but loses to the Diogalthas, and the counter-spell goes through, re-sealing Yombagra. Necrodias however, already planned everything, and reveals he can summon the Corridor of Phantasia at will. Using it, he summons the Obsidian Fortress, which flies menacingly in the sky. He tells the party he´s gonna wait for them there while he completes the ritual to summon Yombagra, and tells them they have 5 days before the world ends. The party has one final rest before flying on Kharaeon to the Fortress, which is protected by a layer of strong magic. Kharaeon flies through but warns the party they cannot come back once they enter. In the Fortress, they party defeats the 4 Generals of Doom to reach Necrodias. They fight him, but he uses his powers and transforms into Neo Necrodias. Defeated, he sacrifices the last of his strength to become the vessel of Yombagra, summoning into this world. The party has one las fight and defeats the Chariot of Darkness. They barely scape the collapsing building on Kharaeon´s back, and Hedion unleashes the Diogalthas to remove the Fortress debris before it falls on the ground.

With the world saved and at peace, Olivia becomes the new Queen of Kharea as the Queendom opens her gates to the rest of the world, and every character returns to their normal life. Hedion, now married to Olivia, and Eko return to Laeaen and begin rebuilding it, with the help of all their allies. After the reconstruction is done, he assumes his duty as the King of Kharea, and the game ends.

## List of appearances

* Battle Phantasia as the Main Character.