"In the year Solis 493, Harmonia has started a strike to invade the Queendom of Falena. Many countless lives were lost within the initial strike. The people of Falena had no chance massing their troops at the last second. The Harmonians continued their assault throughout the Queendom looking for the True Rune that lied within," says a young girl with red hair reading from a book. Her eyes are emerald green and she is wearing a very elegant dress.
"Welcome to the world of Suikoden, I am your host Elle McDohl, join me in this epic adventure of war, love, and death. I do hope you enjoy your journey into this magical world. Now let us begin."
The city of Ansendale which lies deep within the Queendom of Falena is home to many people from all over the world. The city itself resides within the center of the country. Many people seeking refuge come to this place. The city is always bustling with talk of trade with the other countries over sea, as well as the island countries at the back door, but this day is different from all others. Today is the day Harmonia invades. They hail from the North east above the Kingdom of Dunan and east of the land known as the Grasslands. Traveling by ship they land on the northern boarder of Falena, marching directly to Ansendale. Their troops wear silver armor with a deep blue leather under coat. They all carry large halberds to inflict as much pain as possible when striking down any resistance brought to them.
"Its amazing how powerful Harmonia is..their country is so large with so many troops..I don't know how they manage to keep everyone's hopes and dreams up while they are constantly in war. Anyway I'm sorry for interrupting lets head back to the story," giggled Elle.
In Ansendale a young man and his best friend are heading out of the city to go explore for treasure and relics to sell to the greedy merchants on the streets. The young man has short black hair with brown eyes. He wears a crimson red shirt with pitch black pants, and deep brown boots worn on his feet. He has a sword strapped to his side. The sword has a large emerald orb on the base of the hilt. The actual sword has characters written in the Cindar language. His best friend wears a similar outfit, mainly to the fact that they are normal travel clothes within the Queendom of Falena. His variation of the clothes are an emerald green shirt. He has blonde hair and crystal blue eyes. This young man has a similar sword as well only difference is with a ruby instead of the emerald.
"Alen, where are we headed today?" asked the blonde hair young man.
"I wanted to check that cave near Durandall, that ok with you, Grenseal?" responded Alen.
"Pfft, whatever..I just want to find something this time," said Grenseal as he wandered out of the town.
"I know that feeling," laughed Alen following.
The two young men wandered toward the other town fighting many beasts on the way. Their blades quenched its thirst on many creatures. That is until they found their destination. Upon entry the looks around to see many strange symbols on the walls.
"What do you think they mean?" asked Alen.
"Hell if I know..prolly something to do with those Cindar again..Remember those two explorers Lorilai and Killey? They were trying to figure this place out," responded Grenseal.
"Oh yeah! That is right..they were here for hours on end looking at the weird alter and such," commented Alen.
The two walked up to the alter and looked about it. The alter was made of some kind of stone..it was purely white in color. Many symbols were carved onto it. Most of the symbols were that of different creatures in the world.
"Didn't they say that this place held the True Rune of Change?" asked Alen.
"Yeah..something like that..they read these things and couldn't figure out how to get to it." Responded Grenseal.
"I wonder what would happen if we looked for it," said Alen.
"You idiot..This was a waste of time..I'm heading back..I'd suggest you come," said Grenseal as he sighed walking out of the cave.
"You may want to leave..but I want to know more..." said Alen talking to himself.
Alen reached out and touched the alter running his fingers over the symbols as if in trance. He blinked suddenly as if he got a headache and held his one hand to his head.
"What in the world...?"
The alter began to glow in a shimmering light before completely exploding sending chunks of it about the cave and knocking Alen out cold. After about an hour went by Alen woke back up to see a shining floating object infront of him. He blinked in astonishment.
"What the hell is that?" he asked to himself.
Slowly Alen summed up enough courage to touch the glowing object. Almost instantly the cave was consumed by a blinding white light. Alen felt a strange tingling throughout his body. He could feel his skin becoming smooth as well as his black hair beginning to trickle down his neck and continue down his back. He started to feel a weight on his chest as it grew more and more prominent. Then slowly the light went away. Alen felt very strange as his vision was still blurred. He wandered out of the cave and toward the town of Durandall hoping to stay the night at the inn. He managed to enter the town with his blurred vision slightly getting better. Everyone in the town was looking at him. He didn't really pay it much thought since he figured he probably looked horrible from all the battling he did with Grenseal before. He wandered into the inn and laid a few potch onto the counter. The inn keeper lead him to a room where he collapsed onto the bed. The next morning he awoke and still felt very strange. He wandered over to the full length mirror and then only a scream was heard from the inn.