The game begins with the Hero and his childhood friend Jowy Atreides working together as members of the youth division of the Highland Army. Luca Blight,
the prince of Highland, and Captain Rowd, the Hero’s commanding
officer, orchestrate the slaughter of Hero's and Jowy's unit and blame
it on the neighboring city-state
of Jowston, giving the prince an excuse to invade Jowston. The Hero and
Jowy escape the slaughter by jumping off a cliff into a river.
They meet again after the Hero is fished from the river by a group
of mercenaries from the first game—Viktor and Flik—and Jowy is rescued
from the river by a girl named Pilika
from the town of Toto. The Hero is forced to work for the mercenaries,
until Jowy eventually finds him, and the two escape to their hometown
of Kyaro in Highland. Upon arriving and reuniting with the Hero's
sister, Nanami,
the two are tried as spies against Highland and sentenced to death, but
are saved by Viktor and Flik and return with the mercenaries.
The Hero travels to the village of Toto to meet Pilika and her
family, shortly before the town is destroyed and its inhabitants killed
by Blight. They decide that they must fight against Prince Blight, and
participate in an unsuccessful defense of the fort. Viktor tells the
party to travel to Muse—the capital of the city-state of Jowston—to meet up with the rest of the mercenary force.
On the way to Muse, Jowy and the Hero must travel through Toto
village. While walking through the village, Pilika runs off to the
shell of shrine that her father was charged with maintaining. Although
previously closed to all, the party enter, where the Hero and Jowy are
magically transported deeper into the shrine and are met by the seeress
Leknaat, the keeper of the Gate Rune. The Hero and Jowy walk down
separate paths in the shrine, and are each given half of the Rune of
Beginning—the Hero is given the Bright Shield Rune, and Jowy the Black
Sword Rune. Afterwards, the two are transported by Leknaat out of the
shrine, and continue on their travel to Muse.
After difficulty entering into Muse due to increased security, the
party finally reunite with Viktor and members of the mercenary army
that survived the attack. Viktor introduces the Hero and Jowy to Lady
Annabelle—the mayor of Muse—who tells them she has a story to share
regarding the adoptive grandfather/father figure of the Hero and
Nanami, Genkaku, who had passed away shortly before the game begins.
Without the knowledge of the others, the Hero and Jowy are asked to
participate in a spy mission to the Highland camp to the north, and
while trying to escape, Jowy is captured by the enemy. He promises to
catch up with the Hero and Nanami, however, and eventually reunites
with them in Muse.
Time passes, and the Hero awakens on the morning of the Hill Top
Summit held in Muse for all of the leaders of the city-state; Muse,
Tinto, Two River, South Window, Greenhill, and the Matilda Knightdom.
The party all attend the conference, where Annabelle shares the
information on the Highland Army's imminent attack. The city-state is
split on what action to take, as the Highland Army arrives outside
Muse. After successfully defending the city, the Hero and Nanami go to
meet Annabelle for information regarding Genkaku. They arrive, however,
to find that Jowy has murdered Anabelle, and immediately flees before
he can be discovered. Anabelle then apologizes to the Hero and Nanami
for how the state treated Genkaku, without revealing details about what
actually happened. Shortly after Annabelle's last words, her assistant
Jess arrives and assumes that the Hero has killed Anabelle, and runs to
get help. Jowy opens the gates to Muse as the Highland army invades the
city, with the party managing to escape southward to South Window.
In South Window, the mayor asks them to travel to the city of North
Window—Viktor's hometown—to investigate disturbances that have been
occurring there. After discovering that the vampire, Neclord, is alive
and causing the disturbances, the party obtain the Star Dragon Sword
and drive Neclord from the castle. As the party begin to leave North
Window, the rest of the survivors from Muse arrive and tell that South
Window has fallen to the Highland Army.
With North Window as the site of a new base they begin to build up
their forces, and Viktor reveals what Annabelle had wanted to share
about Genkaku. He had been a heroic general for the city-state—who also
wielded the Bright Shield Rune worn by the Hero—and was betrayed by the
then mayor of Muse, Anabelle's father. He participated in a duel
against his Highland friend and fellow general, Han, to decide the fate
of Kyaro town. Anabelle's father coated Genkaku's sword in a poison
that he detected before the duel began, planning to blame Genkaku for
the death of the Highland general. Genkaku could not bring himself to
strike his friend, and thus was defeated in the duel, with Kyaro
becoming Highland territory and Genkaku's name disgraced for many
decades. It is this connection to Genkaku and his own character that
lead the Hero to be named leader of the new Dunan Unification Army, and
bring him to recruit people to join the cause.
The Hero and the rest of the Stars of Destiny recruited work to gain
the support of the remaining city-states to challenge Highland. During
this time, Luca Blight sacrifices nearly the entire populace of Muse to
the Beast Rune after running down refugees trying to flee the city.
However, Jowy has risen through the ranks of Luca Blight's army after
capturing Greenhill without even a battle, eventually marrying Jilia
Blight—the sister of Luca—and murdering the King of Highland by poison.
Luca becomes King of Highland, and eventually launches an unsuccessful
attack against the Dunan army. However, Jowy betrays Luca Blight,
giving the Dunan army information of the pending attack. This allows
the Dunan army to set up an ambush for Luca Blight. He is defeated and
killed with Jowy then ascending to the leader of Highland through his
marriage. It is revealed that Jowy's intention since his original
betrayal of the city-state by murdering Anabelle has been to bring
peace to the land; he never expected the Hero to have such success
against Highland.
After finally freeing the occupied city-states and uniting all of
them under one banner, the Hero and the party successfully defeat
Highland, causing Jowy to flee, however, Nanami is shot by arrow from
one of the soldiers for the king of Matilda, who plotted to assassinate
both the hero and Jowy. After the fall of the capital of Highland and
the Beast Rune's defeat, the Hero returns to the spot on the cliff from
the beginning of the game, when the two first escaped from the youth
brigade massacre and promised to return to if they should become
separated. Jowy speaks about how the two's fate had been destined to be
interconnected since they first accepted the two runes in Toto. The two
duel, with Jowy, Nanami, and the Hero's fate depending on how many
Stars of Destiny the player has recruited and if the player chooses to
attack Jowy.
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