Believe

> *"I don't think my skills would have been enough to somehow improve the lighting in this episode.."*
>
> *― **GenVera** in conversation with **Alex\_Clark**.*

## Episode guide

### Next

Numb

**Believe** is the fifth episode of the 1st Season of the *GenVera's Universe* series. It uses the Neffex's song of the same name.

*Believe* tells the continuing story of Ethan, an assassin from the village of Naftali, former keeper of the wither-book and sole owner of the Stone of Cold Fire, which was debut in the Defeat the Night video.

Ethan, teleported to an unknown place, sees a building with lights on, enters it and asks for help in protecting the artifact.

## Synopsis

Ethan, the keeper of the magic book, is forced to hide from Nether's thugs in order to protect a powerful artifact. Injured, he stumbles upon a settlement and walks to the nearest building to ask for help.

## Plot

The video begins right where Defeat the Night was ending: as a wounded Ethan, displaced to a completely new place, walks down a path in the direction of the Bar, but stumbles and falls, dropping the Stone of Cold Fire from his hands. He finds the strength to walk forward and reaches the door to the bar, which is called Busa's and Nate's Bar.

At the bar, customers are relaxing after the day's activities, having dinner and drinks, while the owners engage in casual conversation, bantering with each other. Suddenly, Ethan walks into the bar and soon passes out. The owners of the bar give him medical attention and give him time to sleep it off, closing the place for a while.

A week passes and Ethan regains consciousness. He is met by Busa and Nate, who were discussing their own business. Seeing that Ethan is awake, the couple walks up to the guy and starts questioning him about what happened to him. Ethan told them everything: where and how he grew up, how he found the wither-book, how he studied it, how Kamefaros invaded his village after a while, and how he was forced to escape.

After getting some sleep and a quick bite to eat, Ethan decided to go to the Upper World to avoid putting the local people in danger, and to warn the Leaders of the 4 Unions. They went outside and Ethan was about to leave, but Nate tried unsuccessfully to talk him out of the venture, urging him to stay in that place where he would be safe, but Ethan was undeterred in his decision. Busa, looking at the guys talking, turned her gaze to the sky, which was covered by some untypical clouds.

Nate was about to say goodbye to Ethan, but was pierced by Kamefaros' knife, who had tracked Ethan through the Stone of Cold Fire, using spells from the wither-book. Ethan and Busa picked up the wounded Nate and Ethan borrowed her katana, snapping his artifact to her while Busa carried the wounded man into the bar building and called for help. On the premises, she met Jeff, the demon-hunter, and told him what had happened. Jeff was greatly surprised and went to help fight the Kamefaros.

At the same time, Ethan fights Kamefaros. With one blow from his enemy, he falls to the ground, crashing into a tree, but manages to bounce back and continues to parry his opponent's blows a moment before he is killed.

At this time, Jeff comes out of the bar, thus distracting Ethan from the battle. Kamefaros knocks him to the ground and prepares to kill him, but Jeff stops his enemy's weapon with his halberd and parries the remaining blows.
A fallen Ethan rolls over the ground and pierces Kamefaros' shoulder with his katana, as the enemy pushes Jeff several meters away from him.

While Jeff was stunned, Kamefaros leaves a wound in Ethan's face with his folding axe, then breaks the katana, pulling it from his shoulder and throwing the point in Jeff's direction. Jeff managed to dodge it, but suffered a minor facial laceration. But in spite of that, he adopted a fighting stance, and waited for the next blow from Kamefaros, who was already coming at him with confidence. Ethan, after another wound, tried to distract his enemy, but was thrown back toward the bar, where he punched through the front doors and broke the bar counter.

After dealing with Jeff, Kamefaros went to finish Ethan off, but was shocked by what he saw. Busa handed Ethan the Stone of Cold Fire and the guy activated its magic, which, for a time, gave him powers and supernatural skills. Ethan was knocking back Kamefaros all over the settlement and hitting him with magic blows. After a few moments, he froze the enemy and turned him into an icy statue, which Jeff, who soon returned to the fight, shattered into a multitude of ice blocks with his halberd. From the use of magic, Ethan fell unconscious.

In the Upper World, some time later, Alex Clark, in the Dolonwan medical wards, had a vision in which he felt the magic of Ethan's artifact awaken, and also saw some outlines of the battle that had taken place in the Down World.

Waking up in a cold sweat, Clark, catching his breath in spite of Diane the medic's opinion, ran to report what he had seen to someone in the upper management. Outside, he met Randor, who was on patrol, and informed him of what had happened. Randor understood and took Clark to Limbo, where three Leaders of the 4 Unions were holding an emergency meeting.

Clark told them what he'd seen, after which everyone was in mild shock and began to discuss what they'd just heard. The video ends with a blackout.

## Cast

* Ethan
* Busa (debut)
* Nate (debut)
* Jeff (debut)
* Kell (debut, cameo)
* Dream (debut, cameo)
* Kamefaros †
* Alex Clark (cameo)
* Diana (cameo)
* Randor (cameo)
* Lordes (cameo)
* Gen (cameo)
* Enderina (cameo)
* Unnamed visitors to Busa's and Nate's Bar

## Trivia

* This is GenVera's seventh overall and fifth canonical animated video.
* This is the third canonical video to use the originally approved song.
* This video is the second time the music by NEFFEX was used.
	+ In the future, music from this author will appear more and more often.
* This is the first video in which the dialogue between characters is irrelevant to the progression of the story.
* This is the first video in which a fraction of the potential of the Stone of Cold fire was revealed.
* This is the first video in which the antagonist-general was killed.
* This is the first video in which no pyromancers were shown.
* Most of the skins of the debuted characters were based on skins of existing people familiar with GenVera:
	+ Busa possesses the skin of Bauntea, the former voice-actor of Enderina.
	+ Nate has a skin of Nether, a former voice-actor for Hunter and former rig-master.
	+ Jeff has a skin of Jeffvix, a YouTube-animator.
	+ Kell has a skin of Kelber, an assistant-animator and animator from the YouTube platform.
	+ Dream has a skin of Dream, a creator who creates his own animated cartoon universe.
* The day after the release of this video, March 7, 2022, GenVera set up a discord-server for the english-speaking audience.
	+ Later this server will be promoted in the Numb music video.
	+ After breaking into the administration of the russian-language discord-server on July 12, 2022 and then removing it, the english-language discord-server will be the only one in existence.

## Gallery

Image of the Believe music video.Ethan comes to the Bar in Down World in the promo-rendering.Busa's and Nate's bar in all its glory in the promo-rendering.Ethan, waking up after a week's sleep in the promo-rendering.Ethan talks to Nate in the promotional rendering.Busa, who noticed something strange in Clear SkiesEthan prepares for battle in the promotional rendering.Kamefaros' fighting stance in the promotional rendering.Kamefaros in battle with Ethan.Jeff comes to the aid of a defeated Ethan.Jeff's fighting stance in the promotional rendering.Jeff VS Kamefaros in the promotional rendering.A katana plunged into the shoulder of Kamefaros in the promotion rendering.Kamefaros wounds Jeff with a splinter of katana.Kamefaros looks inside the bar in the promotional rendering.Ethan, activating the magic of the Stone of Cold Fire.Kamefaros is shocked by the phenomenon he sees in the promotional rendering.Ethan takes out Kamefaros and freezes him.Alex Clark, who received a vision of a battle where Cold Fire magic was used.Randor brings Alex Clark to the Four Union Leaders' Council in LimboLordes, shocked to hear the news from Alex Clark.