You know how Quentin Tarantino loves to give you a scene from a movie and then shoot you into a flash back? Yeah, well that's how Final Fantasy Tactics starts off. The scene they give you is that from inside a church on a dark and stormy night! (Creeeepy) We see a young maiden kneeling in prayer, mumbling about how she wishes this world was at peace, and how she wants to find a solution away from all this bloodshed. We find out that this is a Princess named Ovelia. She is probably next to Ramza and Delita, the most important character in the story.
A quick backstory on the princess and her heritage. She is the daughter of the former king who had just recently perished, though it is later discovered she is not the king's true daughter, but was only adopted and raised as such. The king after adopting Ovelia has another child, a boy named Orinas. This causes the nobles to start a split on who should reign should the king (and eventually does) die; Ovelia or Orinas. Two factions eventually form. Orinas's uncle, Prince Larg supports his nephew alongside the queen to become the regent and ruler of Ivalice, and Duke Goltanna who supports Ovelia. Ovelia is the more suitable heir to the throne because Orinas is only an infant (1 year old) at the time of his fathers death. Prince Larg and his sister, Queen Louveria. Thankfully, most of these characters names do not appear in the meat and potatoes of this story, because I know it would get somewhat confusing.
So backstory summed up. You have two sides, Larg who is in charge of the Order of the Nothern Sky Knights, and you have Goltanna who commands to Order of the Sourth Sky Knights. It's Goltanna who wants or shall I say, needs Ovelia for his selfish needs of ruling the country.
Back to the story.
Ovelia is praying at a church. She is hiding I guess, and then comes her body guards. Her closest guardian is a Holy Knight (I guess Paladin in some translations) by the name of Agrias. She has caught wind that Larg's men know of her whereabouts and has bought the assistance of some mercenaries to help transport her to a new location. This is when we get introduced to Ramza. He is part of the mercenaries hired by Ovelia to help guard the princess. his leader is that of a man whose blade is forged with black arts, a Fell Knights by the name of Gafgarion. He is an older man who wears dark armor and is feared throughout the land because of his skills with a blade and its ability to steal his opponents soul.
In any case, the chucrh then becomes overridden with members of the Nouthern Sky (Larg's men).
yada yada, to be continued or something...
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