Back to the Past

So back to Final Fantasy Tactics, (which I will refer to as FFT from here on after...) you got the tiny little exert from the current timeline. Delita, who was until previously was thought to be dead has just kidnapped Princess Ovelia. That was now, this is then. They flashback to when Ramza and Delita were still recruits in a low level militia for the Hokuten. (which is Prince Larg's faction name) They are best friends and Delita has Ramza's status and fame to thank for his acceptance in the academy they are both enrolled in.

The threat of war breaks out and the recruits are called to duty. (I'm going to have to make up something for the meaningless fights that take place between travels. Some have minor importance so I cannot just leave them out, less the reader be even more confused as is!)

...  <------This will signify a fight of some importance, or those that I remember!

Ramza and Delita with their little army of no named fledglings are quick to try to decipher what is going on and look to Ramza's brothers for guidance. House Beoulve sits at the stronghold of Igros castle. Along the way home they encounter a band of Deatn Corps renegades.

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*The Death Corp is a small time band of mercenaries and hired sell swords who were thrown away so to speak by the government after the fifty year war without receiving their pay. They turned their anger and hostility to the nobles who turned their backs on them. Led by Wiegraf Folles they execute guerrilla warfare style tactics to weaken and annoy their former comrades.

*The Fifty Years' War was a huge war that gets brought up repeatedly during the course of this story. This is one place where the story turns and praises Balbanes Beoulve for his acts of heroism and bravery. Wiegraf was also a major player during this war, but was considered a peasant in the end and denied his pay for his help. The most storied general during this war is a man by the name of Count Cidolfus Orlandeau. Known on the battlefield as Thunder God Cid, (or T.G. Cid for short.) this is man who strikes fear in any who oppose him. (You will hear more about him later!)

So, back to the story. Ramza and Delita save a man who was being attacked by remnants of the Corps Brigade. This man turns out to be Algus, the sole survivor of a Marquis' convoy. Marquis Elmdor, another important figure was taken prisoner by the Brigade and upon hearing that he is a Beoulve, Algus begs Ramza for his aid. The three of them then book it towards Igros.

At castle Igros, Dycedarg barely looks up from his paper work to address his brother and the impatient Algus. Ramza is ordered to stay in the castle and Dycedarg will take care of the matter. Out in the courtyard, Ramza and Delita share some family time with their respected sisters, Alma and Teta. The siblings take about the war and how the ghost of the past will not give up. Delita believes the Corps Brigade, while not in the right, deserved better treatment from the nobles. Algus, who is an apparent upper class dislikes Delita's ideology. Tension between the two can begin to be seen. Zalbag, Ramza's other half brother comes into the courtyard and drops a hint as to where the Marquis is being held. Zalbag tells ramza to be careful, because he is starting to get involved in something he shouldn't and implores him to stay out of it. Knowing his brother though, Zalbag can see the young Beoulve is the spitting image of their father and cannot allow the brigade to get away with these acts of  terrorism.

The three young squires, with the tip from brother Zalbag head toward the trade city of Dorter.

and that is where I will stop for now!