Chapter 1 Old Relics
We start on a familiar sight of a moody atmosphere, it's raining heavily but instead of the cloud sea we instead find a vast ocean and the corpses of the Titans that once were the land on which people lived on, the age of Titans is no more. Underwater we see a figure hauling some junk up to the surface thanks to a mechanism he attached to it, when he reaches the surface he takes off his helmet to reveal his face, it's Rex now 18 years old(actual age is never said or stated, it can be 13-15 and I wanted 15). "Ah Rex your back" said Azurda nicknamed "gramps" who has his original size back "of course you didn't think I would waste time to get this up as soon as possible" said Rex who seems to be in a hurry "is what your trying to salvage really that important remember what happened the last time you took a job in a rush" "well to be fair if I didn't take that job I wouldn't have saved the world and gotten us a new one so no big deal" "True but you did die right?" said Azurda with a little chuckle" don't remind me" replied Rex with a little grumble to it. Turns out that the junk Rex hauled up apparently had the technology or at best instructions of how to make premium cylinders so Salvaging can done longer and they could cover more ground, however at the time most of the salvagers already had their hands full and Rex was the only one available and instantly took the job once he heard what he was looking for. Eventually Rex opens the last container that he brought up and as luck would have it seems he got what he needed" Yeah!"" You actually found it?" "Yep though it's half and half there some technology here along with blue prints if we can figure this out then maybe we can make those cylinders again" Rex tells gramps to head back to the trade guild as fast as he could so he can bring the good news.
Even though the age of titans is over the issue of titans going extinct is no longer a problem as it seems there numbers are going up and thanks to this people who used Titans in there every day life still can now, this of course raises the question where are they coming from? However, since there's no cloud sea the usefulness of Titans has gone down the most since they were used for is transportation, weaponry, and obtaining new blades. Yet surprisingly they're being a part of the ecosystem in this new land, but the New Empire of Mor Ardain are trying to phase out the Titans to focus more on technological advancements. As Rex and Gramps make their way to the argentum trade guild via flying, he looks at it to try and remember what it was like back then when it needed a Titan to stay afloat but now it's on one very important spot which is the center between all of the nations since despite having more than enough land for everyone to live in centuries worth of bad blood can never truly go away. While war is something that definitely won't happen for a while as well as the leaders of the kingdoms coming together to lead the people of Alrest together they still have a responsibility to their country and their way of life not to mention the many separatist groups that have "different" ideals.
One of these groups are called "Blade Haters", as the name suggest they hate blades for what reason is unknown, "hey gramps how come people hate blades even though we've always needed each other" asked Rex Genuinely wanting a answer. Gramps thought for a moment and said "well Rex since time uncounted Humans and Blades have been together as living creatures as you humans evolved so did blades, in the beginning Blades could only conjure objects from their bodies because they could control ether something humans can't do without a conduit". Gramps continued "depending on the blade they could summon fans to neutralize storms, or unbreakable drills to burrow through the earth, however as small communities became countries war ravaged Alrest and blades soon became the living weapons you know them today", "but how does that explain why some humans hate them?" asked Rex, "Humans fear what they don't understand it's due to that fear of the unknown the most primal and potent instinct in any living organism, that fear then leads to anger, anger then becomes hate and with that hate atrocities happen". Rex sits back as the winds push his white hair all around he then asks "how do you know all this gramps?" "I've been around a long time Rex you tend to learn a thing or three" Gramps said chuckling. If your wondering where these blade haters were in the first place they kept to the shadows when land on Alrest was running dry, guess they figure why cause a ruckus when there's a bigger problem, at least until now that is when they've made a resurgence.
Author's Note: Hello people Worlds Synchronized here back with a new story. Like last time I'll clarify a few things and tell you of future planes; first Rex you'll notice that whenever I mention the physical appearance of the main character mostly everything about them is the same except their hair, every character either original or taken from somewhere else will have white hair, as for hair styles I'm still working on that but if you want to draw rex with white hair go ahead it's not original in the slightest; second the history lesson, according to interviews with the games development team blades in the game as we see them were completely different at one point however this was cut I think due to time and sorry I forgot the links to said interview; and lastly enemies, many new enemies will emerge in this new world like the Blade haters, the old Praetorium, New Blades with Dangerous Powers, and maybe The Return of Torna. But that's not until muuuuch later so stay tuned.