We’re all super fed up with Malos being a massive pain (some things don’t change between games!) and want to get to the bottom of who’s his Driver, and why is bad stuff happening. We run into a member of Torna royalty by the name of Addam, and his Blade, Mythra. Lora finds an orphaned boy and brings him into her party. Anyways, in a short amount of time, several things happen. If you don’t remember, Blades are personified weapons that come to life through beings called Drivers, and Lora happens to be a Driver for both Haze and Jin. Lora is trying to find her mother, whom she has been searching for all this time, and she’s doing so with the help of a second Blade named Haze. Set approximately 500 years before the events of the Xenoblade Chronicles 2, you begin with the story of Lora, a lone adventurer who was saved 17 years before by Jin, who is one of the main antagonists of the core game. What brought the civilization to the ruinous level where it currently sits? What became of the great kingdoms before, and why are Malos and Jin so hellbent on the destruction and control of the current? Thankfully, the amazing group that is Monolith Soft found the perfect way to help players understand more…and question even more. Most important are the events that happened off camera, in times before the game began.

As the Xeno series does it’s best to (in recent years) keep connections between games tangential at best, the sheer scope of the world of Rex, Pyra, the Titans and the Architect is massive to many. The same feels true for the current saga of Xenoblade Chronicles 2.

The Silmarillion might be an incredibly dry read to some, but it really does cover so much of Middle Earth’s history, that Tolkien fans simply eat it up in a single serving. No matter how much time and detail goes into one, two or twelve tomes, there’s always a bit more to mention, and that can be the most captivating elements.

Sometimes a story is developed that becomes too big to merely tell in one sitting.

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