Prologue: The Age of Drakengard…
"In every generation, there is a woman chosen to bear the Goddess Seal, which is what binds the world together. There are several seals which assist the Goddess Seal but according to myth and documents, the Goddess Seal is the most important.
Thirty-two years ago, there was a war between the Empire and the Union. The two powers battled for supremacy to gain custody of the chosen of that Goddess Furiae, who she and her brother were royalty to a small Union kingdom up until the Empire came along with black dragons and their parents were slain. Caim began to slip from grace, feeling rage and hatred towards everything that opposed his ideals.
In one particularly difficult battle for the Union, Caim was mortally wounded and saw the Imperial soldiers set fire to the castle where Furiae was to be guarded. He flung himself at the castle, barely alive, past the Imperial defenses and fought hard to protect his sister, Furiae. His efforts seemed for naught, as he felt himself slip away before he made it. When he reached the castle bailey, he saw a red dragon. Old wounds opened, the black dragons that killed his parents. He was tempted to end it here and there. But Imperial soldiers attacked the two. After Caim destroyed the interlopers, they proposed a plan for them to live through this. Passion overcame hatred and the two exchanged souls for mutual survival at the price of Caim's voice. The mute soldier was one with his steed, the mighty red dragon.
With the two of them fighting together they were nigh invincible, Caim's swordplay unparalleled in the Union while the red dragon was a mighty beast adept at scorching her foes with her blaze. The two fought against the Empire, fleeing with Inuart—a childhood friend and former betrothed of Furiae and Furiae, the Goddess. Inuart went missing after they sought out the hierarch, making a pact with a black dragon to gain the power to protect Furiae. He went mad and went to take Furiae for the Empire.
Caim and Inuart fought viciously, but Caim couldn't bring himself to kill Inuart. The black dragon tore at the red dragon's throat and was about to incinerate Caim until Inuart got his prize and the red dragon intervened. The broken dragon and Caim resolved to get Furiae back from the clutches of the Empire. Battles upon battles upon battles and the two came across three people, the heart-broken hermit, Leonard who paid the price of sight for a pact with a faerie; Arioch, an elven woman who went mad with the deaths of her children and paid her womb for a price with Undine and Salamander and Seere, a young boy who felt remorse because he was the mother's favorite and as a result, his twin sister was abused. He paid the price for a pact with the golem with his ability to age.
The Cult of Watchers, which was what was pulling the strings behind the Empire's actions was led by Manah—Seere's sister. Caim and his party cut their way to the auditorium to witness the death of Furiae. Caim was broken. Inuart was the same way. Maddened with the need to return his betrothed to life, he searched for what was called the Seeds of Resurrection to restore his love. Caim stopped Inuart by killing him. He then found Manah and killed her, but the world was with no seal… and they were all damned… until the red dragon offered to become the goddess. The hierarch performed the ceremony of sealing, which bound the seals to the red dragon. She told Caim her real name, Angelus… and when she was sealed… Caim shed his first tears…"
This is the story that was told to an order known as the Knights of the Seal, who became responsible for the life of the successor to the last goddess, Eris. The Goddess Venna, who was charged with the burden of the Goddess Seal seems to take this stoically. The Knights of the Seal have no more districts, instead protecting her with sheer force of arms and magic. The armies are trained personally by Nowe, a hero of a past war sixteen years ago while the mages are trained by Manah, another who helped save the world after inadvertedly almost causing its downfall.
The monster armies in the north have begun to move again, attacks to villages and cities under the Knights control becoming all the more frequent, and rumors of a group with unknown intent is rising… All that is known about the Order is that in areas where the Knights have no firm grip on the law, heaps of dead monsters have been found, yet at the same time, every ambassador the Knights send to this Order ends up destroyed or comes back maddened beyond all reasoning.
This land doesn't know true peace… The Knights are to protect the lands, and the Goddess… And for some reason, a third power exists that manages to be a friend and a foe to both of the other sides at the same time.
The agonizing memories of the wars that tore the land, turning it into a maelstrom of bloody rain flood back to us...