Sorey "The Dawn's Guidance"

**Sorey** (スレイ, *Surei*?) is a main character and the lead protagonist in *Tales of Zestiria*. He is a human raised by the Seraphim of Elysia. Because of his upbringing, he comes to possess high levels of resonance, allowing him to interact with the Seraphim. He grew up studying ruins with his sole childhood friend, Mikleo. One day, he and Mikleo explore one of the Elysium's abandoned old ruins mentioned in the book known as the Celestial Records, and whilst searching for ancient relics of the past Shepherds, powerful exorcists said to be extinct from the present timeline, he encounters a mysterious girl later revealing herself as Alisha Diphda, who invites him to the world outside of his secluded hometown.

When Sorey enters the capital city of Ladylake, he comes into contact with a seraphim of fire, Lailah, who forms a pacts with him which grants him the powers of a figure appearing ancient folktales, the Shepherd. After forming the pact, he gains the power to quell the beasts roaming across the world known as hellions and encounters multiple humans and members of the seraphim tribe to quell the evil spread around the world.

**INTRODUCTION:**

Sorey is a human youth who grew up among the “seraphim” (tenzoku), spiritual beings not visible to humans.

Sorey believes in the folklore that says “long ago, every human was able to see the seraphim” and dreams of unraveling the ancient mystery to make the world a place where people and seraphim can live together in peace.

One day, Sorey visits the human capital for the very first time. He becomes embroiled in an incident during which he pulls out a holy sword imbedded in a rock and ends up becoming a “Shepherd,” one who casts away calamity from the world.

He begins to realize the gravity of his mission, and his dream of coexistence between mankind and the seraphim becomes more intense—

And thus, the Shepherd embarks on an amazing journey with his companions.

## Profile

### Appearance

Sorey is a young man who has brown hair and green eyes. He wears a long-sleeved blue shirt, baggy black-brown pants, white boots with yellow headers, a regular glove on his right hand and a Shepherd's artifact glove on his left. This all resembles the clothing of the Exorcist's from the past lore. He also wears a brown belt buckle, yellow feather earrings, feather attachments on his glove, practice sword and finally on his Shepherd's robe given to him by Alisha Diphda.

### Personality

Sorey is a cheerful and boisterous character. He shows an interest in ruins, being able to talk for a considerably long time about one artifact as evident with his conversations with Mikleo. Living in Elysia has made it so that he had been able to see the seraphim by raising him spiritual resonance. He is very mature, like Mikleo, but can act very unreasonable in dangerous situations. When related to Mikleo, as a childhood friend, he can be protective such as when the topic relates to Sorey using Mikleo's powers or endangering him.

## Story

***Tales of Zestiria the X*** takes place in a world where there are beings called **Seraphim**. Humans and **Seraphim** used to live together in harmony thousands of years ago. The humans prayed to the **Seraphim**, and in return the Seraphim blessed them. The Seraphim have magical powers and their own element to control. Earth, wind, water, or fire. There were thousands of **Seraphim**, but mankind was awash with terrible emotions, and could easily be overcome and turn into monsters. When **Seraphim** became too connected to a human, seeing their friend physically and mentally turn into a monster caused them to despair and their ephemeral forms were quickly turned into monsters as well. The monsters were created when an area was thick with negative emotions that created a dangerous byproduct called malevolence. Malevolence turns any weak or negative living creature into a monster. While **Seraphim** are turned into powerful dragons, all other living creatures are turned into monsters called Hellions when they are taken over by malevolence.

The **Seraphim** kept nature running smoothly and in balance, while a person called the Shepherd kept the malevolence at bay. The Shepherd is a regular person until they are able to pull a sacred sword from a stone. Then they become a living legend with the power to purify all Hellions. They can form contracts with **Seraphim** and combine their bodies so they can use their elemental powers to purify dangerous creatures. They can also form contracts with humans, who help carry the burden of malevolence. While forming contracts with **Seraphim** has no adverse consequences, humans are a different story. Should the Shepherd die, so will the humans that have a contract with him or her. Also, the more humans the Shepard has contracts with, the heavier the burden on the Shepherd. They can weigh him or her down and cause problems if there are too many.

All of this is a simple legend, of course, no one's seen a Shepherd or **Seraphim** in hundreds of years. The legend says, humans became too self-absorbed and malevolent and therefore lost the ability to see a **Seraphim's** ephemeral form. That all changes when a certain princess stumbles across a young man who's lived in a **Seraphim** village his entire life and can see, touch and talk to them just as easily as he does humans. He has a dream to create a world in which **Seraphim** and humans can coexist again, but he doesn't have the power to act on his desires. The world is falling into darkness and the malevolence that the humans are blissfully unaware of is dangerously close to destroying everyone. How will the princess and her new optimistic friend fair in this world of monsters and mayhem?

## Abilities

### **Arte User (The Armatus)**

> -also known as **Divinity** in *Tales of Zestiria the X*, is a form accessible when a human and a seraph undergo the process of **armatization**
> - Is a Ability to manifest **Element Seraph**, It is also Called the "**True Power of the Shepherd**" and also called Armatization.
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> **Armatization** -manifesting the Element seraph by recite the name and harness the power within that flow from it, and let become the weapon and the armor of the user who called upon it that is The **True power of the Shepherd.**
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### **Other Information:**

**FUNCTION**

-Only the characters **Sorey** and **Rose** can perform **armatization**, which fuses either of them with a chosen seraph partner to produce a powerful hybrid form called **the armatus**. This form can perform hidden and seraphic artes indicative of the element the seraph represents and loses access to martial artes. While in this form, the stats for the human and seraph characters are combined, and they gain special abilities unique to the fusion: the character can wield a large sword and employ fire-based magic (**Lailah**), shoot water arrows using a bow (**Mikleo**), use stone fists and summon stone pillars (**Edna**), or gain blade-like wings and summon whirlwinds (**Dezel/Zaveid**).

-A character can swap out their seraph partners while not in this form, and both characters capable of **armatization** can be in this form at the same time. If the human character is knocked out, activating **armatization** will resurrect them if their current seraph partner is still active. When the fusion ends, the combined form's BG is split evenly between the participants.

### **Fire Element Seraph**

**-Lailah** (ライラ, *Raira*) is a Seraph aligned with **the element of Fire**. She acts as a tutor to Sorey, and forms a pact with him when he wishes to become a Shepherd. Lailah becomes a Prime Lord to Mikleo, Edna and Dezel/Zaveid as Sub Lords, being the senior member of the partnership. Though she is knowledgeable, she is prone to delusional outbursts if provoked. By recite the name of Lailah, Sorey manifest the Fire Element seraph and became his first **Fire Armatization.**

-A female seraph who dwells in the Sacred Blade of which legend says “”the one who extracts it will become a Shepherd.”” She has been waiting a long time for one who possesses the qualities of a Shepherd. Although she is a calm and mature woman, she can be a bit of an airhead. She possesses great knowledge about hellions, humans and creatures spawned by malevolence. She utilizes fire-based seraphic artes.

#### **Fire Armatization:**

* Vermillion Crescent
* Burning Shards
* Purgatory of Flame

* Rain of Fire

* Scorched Valley
* Tower of Blood
* Blood Moon
* Molten Wall
* Crimson Cross
* Burning Echo
* Crown Fire
* Calamity Flare
* Ancient Nova
* Rhapsody
* Divine Phoenix Blade
* Flamberge

### **Water Element Seraph**

**-Mikleo** (ミクリオ, *Mikurio*) is the Seraph aligned with **the element of Water**, and Sorey's childhood best friend. He acts as a contrast to Sorey, being cool and considerate, but because of this he has a very strong bond of friendship with him. by reciting the of Mikleo, Sorey manifest the power of Water Element and became the **Water Aramatization.**

-A young seraph who was raised with Sorey since infancy. They are like brothers, and are best friends. But he also thinks of Sorey as a rival, so they get into arguments every so often. He believes his role is to calmly assess Sorey’s behavior and offers frank advice. Due to Sorey’s influence, he is also interested in the ancient ruins. He utilizes water-based seraphic artes.

-Mikleo fights with a long Earth-based staff and Water-based seraphic artes. He is designed by Mutsumi Inomata and voiced by Michael Johnston in English and Ryōta Ōsaka in Japanese.

#### **Water Armatization:**

* Blue Flurry
* Ocean Blitz
* Azure Assault
* Saint's Arrow
* Blistering Fangs
* Binding Vortex
* Splitting Torrent
* Shattered Deluge
* Six Falling Stars
* Bubble Arrow
* Arrow Squall
* Trinity Arrow
* Maelstrom
* Elixir Vitae
* Divine Dragon Torrent
* Aqua Limit

### **Earth Element Seraph**

-Edna is a Seraph aligned with the **element of Earth**. While she has a pretty and petite exterior, she has a cold personality and has a hatred for humans. However, when it comes to her brother, she is prone to outbursts of emotion. Edna uses her parasol in combat and utilizes Earth-based seraphic artes. by reciting the name of edna, Sorey manifest the Element of Earth Seraph and became the Earth Armatization.

-A young seraph who utilizes earth-based seraphic artes. Distrustful of others, she often displays a cold, grown-up attitude, and it is hard to read her true feelings. She is sharp-tongued and likes to confuse people and put them at her mercy. She is extremely calm, and becomes emotional only about her older brother who is her only family. Her mascot, a mysterious “”Normin,”” hangs from her favorite umbrella.

-She is designed by Minoru Iwamoto and voiced by Kira Buckland in English and Misato Fukuen in Japanese.

#### **Earth Armatization:**

* Rising Sands
* Echo Shock
* Rock Wringer
* Rampaging Giant
* Iron Curtain
* Scrap Toss
* Surging Landscape
* Earth-pulse
* Monolithic Current
* Rock Satellite
* Crystal Tower
* Earth-shaker
* Gigaton Smash
* Fairy Circle
* Divine Basalt Blow
* Earth Revolution

### **Wind Element Seraph**

**-Dezel** (デゼル, *Dezeru*) is a Seraph aligned with **the element of Wind**. Working in secret among the human population, he seeks vengeance against the Hellion after they killed a close friend. He is also considered an outlaw by the humans and the Seraphim. Dezel uses whip-like pendulums and Wind-based seraphic artes in battle.

-With a persona like an outlaw, he utilizes seraphic artes of the wind. He gained experience in battle from spending time with a mercenary group, and toys with his foes, using two pendulums like whips. He rarely shows emotion and prefers to be a loner who avoids communicating with others.

-He is designed by Daigo Okumura and voiced by Chris Niosi in the English version of *Zestiria the X* and Daisuke Ono in Japanese.

-**Zaveid** (ザビーダ, *Zabīda*, pronounced "Zaveed") is a Seraph also aligned with the element of Wind. Though he also fights the Hellion, he is generally a prankster and shares some form of connection with Dezel, he is also dangerous due to his uncertain allegiance and his willingness to fight Sorey. Zaveid fights with whip-like pendulums and Wind-based seraphic artes too.

-A seraph who utilizes wind-based seraphic artes and hunts hellions all alone. He tends to be frivolous and loose-lipped, but when the time comes, he displays unyielding skill and deportment. His true identity and purpose are not known, but he has an uncanny sense for battle and seems to relish a good fight with a formidable foe.

-The character is designed by Iwamoto and voiced by Ian Sinclair in English and Kenjiro Tsuda in Japanese.

### **Notable Attacks/Techniques:**

#### **Wind Armatization:**

* Wind Blade
* Dragon Blitz
* Virulent Stars
* Violent Projection
* Torrent Spear
* Dark Star
* Gale Fang
* Whirlwind Slash
* Razor Vortex
* Gale Phantom
* Stratashield
* Deep Squall
* Cloudburst
* Soul Resonance
* Divine Tiger Tempest
* Sylphystia

### **Full Armatization**

-by reciting and combine the four element (Fire, Earth, Wind and Water) and manifest them, Sorey gain the Full Armatization and they he gain the full capacity of the element seraph ability.

### **Notable Attacks/Techniques:**

#### **Martial Artes:**

* Striking Fang
* True Fang
* Steel Render
* Trihawk
* Starfall
* Tiger Blade
* Earth Dragon Fang'
* Sword Rain
* Freezing Strike
* Wolfwind Fang
* Frigid Moon
* Sword Flare
* Phantasm Flash
* Searing Gale

#### **Hidden Artes:**

* Heavenly Torrent
* Lion's Howl
* Beast Thunder
* Shatterfang
* Shadow Shock
* Cantering Flames
* Sonic Thrust
* Crimson Edge
* Raging Winds
* Rending Gale
* Severing Wind
* Runic Circle

#### **Mystic Artes:**

* Bolt Tempest
* Divine Wrath

### **Other Feature Stats in Game:**

#### **Powers and Abilities:**

* Superhuman Physical Characteristics
* Expert Swordsman
* Statistics Amplification
* Status Effect Inducement
* Fire Manipulation
* Earth Manipulation
* Water Manipulation
* Wind Manipulation
* Electricity Manipulation
* Light Manipulation
* Darkness Manipulation
* Energy Projection
* Non-Physical Interaction (Can interact with Seraphim)
* Statistics Amplification
* Statistics Reduction
* Gravity Manipulation (Runic Circle creates a gravity well)
* Heat Manipulation (Searing Gale creates waves of heat)
* Life Manipulation
* Healing, Intangibility (Can turn himself into wind for a short time)
* Invisibility (Can briefly turn in invisible)
* Transformation/Fusion-ism (via Armatization)
* Flight, Holy Manipulation

* Summoning (Can summon the Seraphim bonded to him)
* Resistance to Transmutation and Corruption (Can resist the effects of Malevolence)

## Other Appearances

Sorey appears as the nexus of the exoflected Glenwood who meets Ix and Mileena when saving them from a monster attack. After having the situation explained to him, Sorey agrees to help the party locate and destroy a shimmera glass. Along the way, Sorey is excited to marvel at various ruins he had only read about even though some of them are different ones mixed together. He also picks up on Ix’s suspicions that Sorey might secretly resent them for taking him away from his home. The Shepherd quickly dispels their worries by his optimistic outlook at having a whole new world to explore and the satisfaction knowing his original self is still continuing his journey.

After Lailah and the other seraphs reunite with the party, they begin to ponder the possibility of reacquiring Armatization with an Overray mirrage. Although Sorey and Mikleo discover the catalyst for their Armatus, they have difficulty maintaining it for more than a few seconds. Aster, who had been observing them, then offers a spirit ring that stabilizes the fusion. Later on after more research is put into the spirit ring, Aster theorizes the combined **Armatization** of all four main elemental seraphim, the same one that appears in **Tales of Zestiria the X**.

As a nexus, Sorey’s emotions and memories influenced the exoflection of his world. Because of his high resonance and growing up seeing seraphim, he felt those experiences as normal which resulted in seraphim and hellions being visible to everyone in Tir Na Nog.

When not in the active party, Sorey enjoys exploring ruins with Mikleo and they even form a club out of it. They also become students under Raine who happily endorses their activities learning the histories of other worlds.

## Trivia

* Sorey's name is based off of the middle-eastern render of the name *Solomon*.
* It has been revealed that Mikleo always cuts Sorey's hair for him.
* Sorey shares the same colour palette as Eleanor Hume from *Tales of Berseria*.