

When they go to see what happened, they meet Meredy, who is dressed in a strange fashion and speaks a bizarre foreign language, and her pet Quickie. Reid Hershel, along with his childhood friend Farah Oersted, notice an unusual change in the color of the Orbus Barrier coupled with the flight of a strange ship from Celestia. The Orbus Barrier has shown recent signs of weakening and possible collapse due to the actions of an unknown external force. The Aurora War, an ancient conflict that set Inferia against Celestia over two thousand years ago, continues to generate persistent mistrust between the two groups. Interaction between the two planets has been infrequent over the last few centuries despite their proximity the Bridge of Light linked Inferia and Celestia in the distant past, but the link has been severed for an extensive period of time. The story takes place in Eternia, a world where two planets, Inferia and Celestia, face one another, separated by the Orbus Barrier. The journey takes Reid across both planets, as he seeks out those responsible for this movement towards the brink of annihilation.

Specifically, the Grand Fall entails the violent collision of twin planets Inferia and Celestia. Tales of Eternia follows Reid Hershel as he tries to prevent the Grand Fall, a cataclysmic event that would destroy his planet along with that of newly-found traveling companion Meredy. All 13 episodes of the series were animated in early 2001. The series focuses on the four main characters while introducing a few new faces in a subplot unrelated to the game's actual plot. The game inspired Tales of Eternia, a 13 episode anime series co-produced by Production I.G, which is loosely based on the game. Tales of Eternia is not directly related to Tales of Destiny, except for a few brief character cameos that are typical of all Tales series games after Tales of Phantasia.īoth the North American and Japanese releases of the game feature an anime introductory video the Japanese version has an accompanying song called flying by Garnet Crow. The naming choice later caused some confusion after the release of the PlayStation 2 game known as Tales of Destiny 2, a genuine sequel to Tales of Destiny taking place in the same fictional world. Its North American release was titled Tales of Destiny II to avoid trademark infringement on the name Eternia, owned by Mattel in North America for the Masters of the Universe toyline. It is the third "Mothership Title" of the Tales RPG series the Linear Motion Battle System, as well as various other aspects from previous Tales titles, still feature prominently. Eternia is a 2D anime-style RPG with an original real-time battle system taken from its predecessors, Tales of Phantasia and Tales of Destiny. Tales of Eternia is a Japanese PlayStation action role-playing video game released by Namco on November 30, 2000, selling 873,000 copies and later ported to the PlayStation Portable on March 3, 2005, selling 398,000 copies.
