Soul Caliber 5

## Story

The game takes place during the 17th century, 17 years after the events of Soulcalibur 4, with Nightmare's death by the hands of Siegfried. The main protagonist is Patroklos and the deuteragonist is Pyrrha, son and daughter of Sophitia and Rothion Alexander and nephew and niece of Cassandra Alexandra.

The plot consists of a 20 chapters storymode.

It begins with the final confrontation between Siegfried and Nightmare in which Siegfried kills Nightmare.

Seventeen years later, Patroklos Alexander
 is seen fighting a group of villagers he considers being malfested.
 Without hesitation, he kills several of them until he is confronted and
 defeated by a mysterious stranger named Z.W.E.I.. Patroklos returns to Graf Dumas for his report and after he questions his master, he is shunned by him and forced to fight Voldo.

At the same time, Pyrrha is seen kneeling in front of several dead people, crying.  She is joined by a satisfied Tira who compliments her on these killings.  Forced to fight other
villagers, she reluctantly kills them before she is informed by Tira
that she has a brother.

Later, after meeting with Siegfried and being granted to wield Soul Calibur, Patroklos, accompanied by Z.W.E.I. and Viola,
 sets on finding his sister and the malfested who kidnapped her. After
fighting Tira twice, Patroklos is finally reunited with his long lost
sister. During their travels, in which Pyrrha shows some symptoms of
malfestation, they are attacked by Astaroth
 and later by Voldo. During the battle with Astaroth, Patroklos is
injured and Pyrrha is forced to fight Voldo. Later they meet Ivy who
tends to Patroklos' wounds.

They arrive in a city where malfested are wreaking havoc. Graf
Dumas is revealed to be a reincarnated Nightmare who used Patroklos,
tricking him to think he was killing malfested while in fact he killed
innocent human beings. Incapacitated due to his wounds, Patroklos is
unable to fight his former master and once again, Pyrrha has to step
forward and fight. She turns into a malfested and defeats Nightmare. A
shocked Patroklos rejects her and runs away, while Tira reunites with
Pyrrha, telling her she was right. Pyrrha acknowledges that Tira is the
only she can ever trust.

Patroklos returns to Seigfried where he tells Z.W.E.I. of Dumas'
real identity. Left alone, Patroklos has a vision of an angelic entity
looking exactly like his late mother Sophitia. She tells him that he
must revive Soulcalibur in order to cure Pyrrha of her malfestation.
Forced to fight Z.W.E.I., Patroklos comes to realized his true destiny.

He sets out on to resurrecting Soul Calibur, seeking the help of Ivy. She informs him that she came across a man named Kilik
 who had one of the artifacts necessary for the process, while the other
 one was detained by a women. Patroklos comes across three teenagers: Natsu, Leixia and Xiba who travel with Maxi. To prove his worth, Patroklos is forced to face them all.

After resurrecting Soul Calibur, Patroklos faces his malfested sister who was now the heir of Soul Edge had been wreaking havoc all around her. After he kills her and encases her into crystal, the entity, Elysium pretending to be his mother, Sophitia appears in front of him and congratulates him.

While this occurs, Siegfried and Z.W.E.I., along with Schwarzwind,
 fight the army of the malfested.  Z.W.E.I. fights and defeats
Nightmare, but he is stabbed in the back by Pyrrha and falls into the
abyss, his fate left unknown. Pyrrha seizes Soul Edge for herself and
opens a rift to the Astral Chaos.

Meanwhile, Patroklos questons his acts and he is confronted by Edge Master.
 Patroklos is brought back in the moments where he resurrected
Soulcalibur, then confronts his sister again. Refusing to kill her,
Patroklos is punished by Elysium who encases him in crystal.

Pyrrha regains her spirits and seeing her brother in crystal. She
 then took up Soul Egde and was able to overcome its will and she tries
to break him free by chipping away the crystal.

In what appears to be another plane of existence of Patroklos'
conscience, the entity, named Elysium, reveals herself to be the
incarnation of Soul Calibur, tells him that she will use him to destroy
the malfested in order to bring peace to the world. Breaking free of his
 crystal prison and realizing that it was never his mother guiding him,
he fights and defeats her, then says goodbye to his mother.

Waking up, Patroklos is once again reunited with his sister.
Despite her being malfested, he is ready to accept her the way she is,
just like their mother would have, and together, they banish both soul
swords in the Astral Chaos and close the rift.

Pyrrha and Patroklos then depart together in the sunset.

## Characters

Siegfried Schtauffen

Nightmare

Heishiro Mitsurugi

Ivy

Maxi

Hildegard von Krone

Tira

Voldo

Astaroth

Raphael Sorel

Geo Dampierre

Cervantes de Leon

Aeon Calcos

Yoshimitsu

Algol

Edge Master

Kilik

Patroklos Alexander

Pyrrha Alexandra

Natsu

Z.W.E.I.

Yan Leixia

Viola

Xiba

Alpha Patroklos

Pyrrha Omega

Elysium

Ezio Auditore da Firenze

Devil Jin