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In the remote farming village of Rasheans, [[The Hero|Reid Hershel]] lives a simple and boring life with his best friend, [[The Lancer|Farah Oersted]]. That was until the day they witness an airship fall from the sky and crash into the nearby forest. From the wreck emerges a [[Mysterious Waif|strange girl]] wearing foreign clothing and [[Fictionary|speaking an alien language]]. Farah [[Jumped At the Call|jumps at the opportunity]] to help out the girl, and [[The Drag Along|drags the reluctant and lazy Reid]] along for the ride.

With the help of their childhood friend and [[The Smart Guy|scholar Keele Zeibel]], Reid and Farah discover the terrible warning that the girl- named Meredy- has brought: that the two worlds that make up the ''Eternia'' universe are [[Colony Drop|destined to collide, with apocalyptic consequences]].

 

 

 

 

* [[Alternate World Map]]: Celestia, considering the protagonist comes from Inferia and spends the first part of the game there. Next to Inferia, which is your classic fantasy world, it seems almost post-apocalyptic by comparison. This is really due to the elemental makeup; Inferia has the elements of Fire, Water and Wind, so their weather is more natural, their plant life is more lush, and the world itself is warmer, while Celestia has the elements of Earth, Thunder and Ice, so the weather is rife with storms almost all the time, their world is more barren and craggy, and much colder. Furthermore, Inferia is associated with the Craymel of Light (Rem) while Celestia is associated with the Craymel of Darkness (Shadow). Ironically for their contrast in climates, the name Inferia seems to come from Latin ''infernus'', meaning hell, while Celestia comes from ''caelestis'' (also Latin), meaning heaven.

* [[Artistic License Astronomy]]: Though it makes more sense due to the fact that they essentially go in circles around the Orbus Barrier, Eternia is essentially a binary planet system, which like binary star systems that exist in real life (and are very common in our own Milky Way Galaxy minus our own Sun) seem to orbit a point between the two, though unlike Eternia with its Orbus barrier binary stars orbit the area between them. With Eternia, since they orbit a star themselves, as pointed out on a diagram of its star system in one of Seyfert's shrines. Rotation would explain why they both experience day and night. Although it seems they always face each other, it could just be that the continent on Inferia Reid, Farah, and Keele live on does and that Mt. Mitche on Inferia always faces the part of Celestia Keele showed the Reid, Farah, and Meredy with the observatory's telescope on Mt. Mintche, similar to how one side of Earth's moon always faces its planet but still experiences day and night (i.e. the cause of moon phases). In addition, even though Celestia and Inferia are shown to be round on the solar system diagram the party sees, traveling across the northern or southernmost part of the map [[World Shapes|loops around]].

* [[Awesome but Impractical]] : {{spoiler|The Destiny summon}}, only useable once every 30 minutes of gameplay, {{spoiler|summons the main characters of the previous game}} to attack a single enemy.

* [[Ax Crazy]] ({{spoiler|Hyades becomes increasingly more insane and inhuman each time you fight him.}})

* [[Big Eater]]: Reid. He brings up food ''a lot'', especially in the presence of it, even if that means just smelling it without knowing where it actually is.

* [[Blatant Lies]]: {{spoiler|"Ras was the one who did ''all'' the teaching." [[Shout-Out|Bull]]. [[Zero Punctuation|Fucking]]. [[Cluster F-Bomb|Shit]].}}

* [[Bonus Boss]]: Sekundes, the Greater Craymel of Time, doesn't require the heroes to fight him for him to join as with the other Craymels. However, fighting him is still an option for players who want to.

* [[Bragging Rights Reward]]: If you do decide to fight Sekundes, doing so gives you experience and money. It also gives you the Derris Emblem, which unlocks the final ability of the Maxwell summon.

* [[Capital City]]: Inferia City is home of the King of Inferia and one of the bigger cities on Inferia.

* [[Catch Phrase]]:

'''Meredy:''' You bet! }}

** In the [[Let's Play]] done by [http://www.youtube.com/user/PrinceBoo21 PrinceBoo21] (seen [http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL919222ACD7A7CD1B here]), he actually keeps running counters for how many times they say their individual phrases.

* [[Combination Attack]]

* [[Combos]]

* [[Crystal Dragon Jesus]]: Seyfert is [[God]], but his relationship with [[Satan|Nereid]] has an interesting twist, revealed partway through the second disc. In the meantime, Seyfert has several churches, and a ''cathedral'' with the works, including stained glass and organ music.

* [[Dead All Along]]: {{spoiler|Balir, the ruler of Celestia. The heroes think he's the one trying to end the world and a group of Celestians known as Shileska plan to overthrow him, but despite what the general public of Celestia believes, he's been dead for some time.}}

* [[Doomed Hometown]]: Three of 'em, at various points in the game and flashbacks.

* [[Dummied Out]]: The US release of the game removed some things from the original, unfortunately. Such as the camping skits, a few voice clips, and even some titles. Only some of these were restored in the EU release.

** There's more than that. In the original version of the game, {{spoiler|Shizel has dummied data for every spell in the game.}} It really makes you wonder...

* [[Escort Mission]]. Only one, but it's a nightmare -- the combat system isn't designed to let you defend a non-combatant.

** {{spoiler|Shizel}} actually has a heal spell bound. However, the game doesn't let you rebind or even see her techs, so you have to figure it out the hard way.

* [[Evolving Attack]]: 2/3 of Reid and Farah's skills are souped up versions of their basic ones.

* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Not exactly very played up, but Inferians think that Celestians are a race of savage monsters. What the Celestians think of Inferians is only slightly better than that. At least the Inferian party members ended up getting along fine with the people of Meredy's hometown of Imem, who tend to show more curiosity than hostility and only take their weapons out to show off what Celstians use to defend themselves, though for a brief moment the Inferian party members are startled until the townspeople explain ''why'' they took their weapons out, likely because an Inferian (aside from the ones present at the time) probably wouldn't take out a weapon in front of a Celestian merely to show it off.

* [[Global Airship]]: The party's ship, the ''Van Elita'', ends up with storage for this as well as submarines.

* [[Global Currency Exception]]: The town called Jini uses, "Jini" rather than Gald (normal money) for most of its services.

* [[Guide Dang It]]: Just ''try'' finding all those Lenses on your own, as well as the entrance to the town of Jini. We'll wait.

* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|Ras}}.

** One of Cless's' [[Limit Break|Hi-Ougis]] in the Cameo Battle, Final Justice, also has this effect.

** In fact, many hi-ougis will not kill their targets (leaving them at 1 HP instead) except for the last hit. Holy Lance has the same effect (those 100 damage hits the lances do will never kill its target, only the damage procured from the explosion will). Admittedly trivial pursuit but hey.

* [[Impossibly Cool Clothes]]: Meredy's dress is so outstandingly cool that Farah has to lend her something less flashy to begin traveling. If you bother yourself to translate, Meredy comments that "it is a little plain..." in Melnics.

* [[Improbable Weapon User]]. Meredy equips whistles, to command her [[Non-Human Sidekick]] to attack.

* [[Killer Rabbit]]: Literally. Rabbit-like enemies called Rapid Rabbits appear during random encounters on Celestia, and they don't look very threatening and tend to be easier to defeat than a lot of enemies at that point. A [[Underground Monkey|pink]] [[Palette Swap]] called the Pink Hopper appears a bit later in the game, and it looks even less threatening.

* [[La Résistance]]: Shileska, a group of Celestian rebels. Unlike Inferians' obedience to their king, not all Celestians are content with their regime. {{spoiler|And said regime turns out to actually be led by someone different than everyone thought and that the original ruler was dead.}}

* [[Large Ham]] (Max. Boy howdy, Max.)

** Any of Sekundes' spells. ''Especially'' Shooting Star, which requires you to grind him up to level 26.

* [[Lethal Lava Land]]: Efreet Gorge, home of the Craymel Efreet. Since the game's designers know what convection is, the party has to have temporary protection from the heat via Undine's water abilities, so exploration of the area is essentially timed since her HP runs out over time (running out more quickly in the presence of fire).

* [[The Man Behind the Man]]: ({{spoiler|Here, it's 'The god behind the woman behind the man'.}})

* [[Magical Incantation]]

* [[Medieval European Fantasy]]: Inferia is pretty much this way, but this is not the case with Celestia. If the spaceship in the intro didn't make it obvious enough, the first town visited in Celestia, Imem, has electric lighting and telephones while the biggest city, Tinnsia, has moving walkways and escalators connecting the town's areas.

* [[Medieval Stasis]]: Inferia, which incidentally had been cut off from the more technologically advanced Celestia for centuries until Meredy travels from the latter to the former.

* [[Power Creep, Power Seep]]. ({{spoiler|The cameo bosses, Cless and Arche from Tales of Phantasia, now sport thousands of HP and insta-cast spells, in typical boss fashion.}})

** Those "thousands of HP" is deceiving as Cless has 90% resistance to every element including physical attacks, and Arche 80%. Effectively they have tens of thousands of HP.

** The game also has the Gentallman enemy that randomly appears in Gnome's Mine, whose name refers to the fact that it is a very tall and vaguely humanoid monster.

* [[Save Game Limits]]. You can save anywhere in a dungeon, but when loading you will be thrown back to the last [[Check Point|Load Point]].

* [[Shorter Means Smarter]]: Inverted. This is touched on more in the anime than the game. Keele becomes taller than Reid when he goes off to the university and is the group's squishy wizard. Reid, on the other hand, is the dumb hunter/fighter.

* [[Slap-On-The-Wrist Nuke]]: Averted: The final boss actually has an attack which instantly wipes out the entire party, the only way to survive it is to use the Aurora Artes to block it.

* [[Sprite Polygon Mix]]: Characters and battle scenes are pretty much all 2D, while environments have more 3D components.

* [[Squishy Wizard]]: Taking the archetype to it's extreme is Keele, who wields the powers of the Craymels to devastate his foes, reads eldritch texts and unlocks the secrets of the universe, and ''forces the party to rest half way through every dungeon due to getting winded''.

* [[Stylish Protection Gear]]: The party gets some warm, but nice looking, clothes (even changing the sprites) to take on Mt. Celsius.

* [[Super Move Portrait Attack]]: The first game in the series to use these.

* [[Translator Microbes]]. Melnics magically gets turned into English (sorry, Inferian) thanks to the Orz Earrings given to the first four members of the party. Of course, they don't work perfectly and at first Meredy's Melnics isn't translated and later on there's still some occasional Melnics that isn't translated.

* [[There Are No Tents]]. Averted. You ALWAYS have access to a tent.

* [[Useless Useful Spell]]. The Summon Spirit of Ice grants you her immunity agaisnt Freeze, which if inflicted on every character means Game Over. All of this occurs AFTER the only dungeon in which it could have been useful. Like this, MANY examples.

** [[Not Completely Useless]] actually. {{spoiler|If you fail to activate Infinity Reviver during Nereid-Shizel's' Finality Dead End attack and you have Reverse Dolls equipped, it can protect you from the freezing effect. Same goes for the Poison effect with Poison Guard.}}

* [[Warmup Boss]] ({{spoiler|Hyades,}} as the first boss of the game, [[That One Boss|bizarrely, given his next two encounters]]. The first time you see him, unless on higher difficulty, he's a full-out [[Squishy Wizard]] with no moves at his disposal aside from two spell, and it's trivially easy to surround and stun-lock him to death with Reid and Farah such that he can't complete a spell charge-up.)

* [[We Hardly Knew Ye]]: {{spoiler|Ras who? Oh, right! The [[Guest Star Party Member]]...}}

* [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?]] ''And'' [[What Measure Is a Mook?]]: Early on, Reid and Keele casually bring down an Egg Bear. {{spoiler|Reid is put through a guilt trip for this later, when he experiences the event through the Egg Bear's eyes. Even you are probably going to feel at least a little sorry for the thing.}}

 

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