
Mythra and Brighid have a duel in which Mythra decides to use the power of Siren against Addam's orders because she got upset about being called names, so Haze has to interrupt and force the two of them down. The group is then surrounded by Ardanian troops and Brighid who think they're responsible. Lora finds a grave that she believes to be her mother's based on the necklace hung on it.

The party reach Yanchik Harbor and ride a ship to Gormott to find that Torigoth has been sacked, with several fresh graves in the cemetary. They are being watched by a "Bluefist", strongly implied to be the person who stole Jin and tried to kill Lora. Addam agrees, partly since it's as good a place as any to find Malos. Lora asks if they could first help her own quest: to find her mother, which Haze says has been spotted in Torigoth of Gormott.

Lora explains how she got Jin, and Addam decides to recruit them to help with Malos. Haze then arrives, alongside Addam's young Gormotti aide Milton. Addam is impressed by how they fight, specifically the idea of passing the Blade's weapon between them (which they came up with because Lora couldn't afford her own sword), so he decides he likes them. Addam recognizes Jin as being the stolen Paragon of Torna and assumes Lora did it, so Jin and Lora fight for freedom. Lora's group reaches Feltley Village expecting to meet up with Haze, but they find a large crater that Malos caused instead, and are attacked by one of his Gargoyle Artifices. Back in Indol, Magister Baltrich reports the destruction of Coeia to Rhadallis, and suggests that Quaestor Amalthus's Blade is to blame Rhadallis sees no reason to be concerned. They come upon a destroyed Porton Village and a lone survivor, a child called Mikhail, who Lora decides is now their friend. In a forest within the Kingdom of Torna, Lora and her Blade Jin are fighting off a pack of blood-crazed animals. The country and Titan of Coeia has been destroyed and sunk by Malos, though Indoline Praetor Rhadallis and the rising power of Mor Ardain claim joint attribution.

The story begins about five hundred years before the main game, in the year 3564.
