Tales of Symphonia: The Synopsis

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I'm going to put one segment of the Synopsis in here as I have the time to copy it directly from the TV infront of me. (I'm using wordpad to copy it in here!)

EDIT: (Forgot to put in the Pre thingy)

Once apon a time,
there existed a giant tree that was the source of all mana.
A war however caused this tree to wither away,
and a hero's life was sacrificed in order to take it's place.
Gieving over the loss, the goddess disappeared unto the heavens.
The goddess left the angels with this edict:
" You must wake me, for if I should sleep. the world shall be destroyed."
The angels bore the chosen one,
who headed towards the tower that reached up unto the heavens.
And that marked the beginning of the regeneratiom of the world.


Light of the Oracle
Location: Iselia, the Village of Oracles
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Iselia, the Village of Oracles and home
to the Mana Clan.

On the morning of the Day of Prophecy, Lloyd and his childhood friends,
Colette and Genis,
were in class with Raine, their teacher.

Suddenly, the class was interrupted by a blinding flash
from the Martel Temple to the northwest of the village.
This was a sign that the Prophecy would soon be given.

Raine ordered her students to remain inside and
left the classroom to investigate.
As they were waiting for Raine's return, an injured priest staggered
into the room and said that
the sacred ground had been attacked by Desians before
breathing his last.

Lloyd decided to take Genis and Colette to the Martel Temple
and see what was going on.

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The Temple
Location: Martel Temple
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At the Martel Temple, the Desians that had broken through the village's
defenses came to kill Colette,
the Chosen One of the Mana Clan.
Lloyd and Genis fought desperately to protect her, but they were no
match for the enemy's fearsome power.

Just then, a traveling mercenary named Kratos appeared with a
shining Exsphere on his wrist and
drove away the enemy.

Colette and Genis were awed by Kratos' swordsmanship,
but Lloyd was jealous,
considering he had his own Exsphere and still lacked Kratos' power.

According to Phaidra, Colette's grandmother,
the Desians appeared to be after Colette to prevent her
from receiving the Oracle.

With the Martel Temple filled with monsters sent
by the Goddess as a test for those who
would seek the prophecy,
and no priests left to protect Colette, she was unable
to visit the Oracle.

After a short discussing, Lloyd and the others
were elected to serve as Colette's bodyguards in the temple.
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The Angel
Location: Martel Temple
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When they finally made their way to the altar at
the highest level of the temple,
the Cruxis Crystal began to shine, and an angel descended from above.
The angel named Remial, Colette's true father, asked her to embark on
a journey to regenerate the world.

To do this, Remiel said, Colette must travel the world and break the
seals that prevented the
Summon Spirits from awakening.

After hearing the oracle, Colette returned to Iselia with Kratos,
leaving Lloyd and Genis.
Afterwards, Lloyd and Genis decided to head back to Colette's house.
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Iselia Forest
Location: Iselia Forest
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It was decided that Colette would set off on her quest the next day.
Raine and Kratos were chosen to accompany her.
Lloyd asked for permission to tag along,
but it was summarily denied.

Disgusted at the unfairness of it all, Lloyd was about to
head home when
Genis asked to follow him, mentioning some place he wanted to visit.
The two headed west of the village to cut through the Iselia Forest,
which was on the way home for Lloyd.

It turned out that Genis was going to the Human Ranch.
a place taboo to the people of Iselia.
There, humans captured by Desians were herded
like cattle and abused.
Iselia has agreed to a peace treaty with the Desians that guaranteed
the village's safety as long as the villagers did not get
involved with the ranch.

Genis knew about this, but there was one person
he had to tell about the oracle.
Afraid to let Genis go alone, Lloyd decided
to accompany him to the Human Ranch.
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The Human Ranch
Location: Iselia Human Ranch
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Carefully avoiding the watchful eyes of the Desian guards,
an old woman approached Lloyd and Genis.
It was Marble, a woman Genis was quite fond of.

Lloyd had never actually met a captive of the Human Ranch before.
His attention was drawn to the woman's Exsphere,
which was not unlike his own but lacked the Key Crest necessary
to control the Exsphere's power.
Without a Key Crest, an Exsphere would bring harm to its wearer,
so Lloyd decided he would ask Dirk, his dwarven adoptive father,
to make a Key Crest for Marble.

Just then, Desian guards began to approach the scene.
Marble urged Lloyd and Genis to flee, so they hid nearby,
only to see her be taken away by the Desians and beaten.
Fearing for Marble's life, Lloyd and Genis rescued
her from the beating.
Unbeknownst to them, though, the entire event had
been captured by a Desian recording device....

Genis went back to the village, and Lloyd took the
road into the forest
to return to his house.
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The Exsphere
Location: Dirk's House
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When Lloyd got back home, Dirk scolded him for
going to the Human Ranch.
He explained that the Exsphere Lloyd wore was
a special one--so special, in fact,
that the Desians had killed his mother
Anna in an attempt to gain possession of it.

By entering the ranch, Lloyd may have brought his
Exsphere to the attention of the
Desians, putting his life in danger.
Dirk warned Lloyd never to visit the ranch again,
lest he fact death at the hands of the Desians.

But Lloyd refused to listen to Dirk.
He couldn't just abandon Marble like that....
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Under the Moon
Location: Dirk's House
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That night, Colette came to Lloyd's house under the
protection of her traveling companions,
Raine, and Kratos. Genis, having
been unable to let his sister go without him,
also came along.

Lloyd confessed to Colette that he hadn't had time to
finish making her birthday present.
He once again asked to join her quest, revealing to her
that the Desians kill his mother.
He wanted to help restore the world--and he also wanted
to wipe out his mother's killers.

With that Colette agreed to let Lloyd join the quest.

Lloyd promised to meet up with them the next day with
Colette's present.
Thus he set off to finish making the present in time.
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The Departure
Location: Dirk's House
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The next morning, Dirk gave Lloyd, who had
finished Colette's birthday present,
a new Key Crest, Knowing Lloyd's mind was made up,
Dirk gave his permission for the journey,
and the two made up for their previous argument.
Just when Lloyd was ready to set off,
Genis arrived in a fluster.

According to Genis, Colette and the
others left earlier that morning.
Stunned that he was left behind,
Lloyd rushed off to the village.

When Lloyd reached Iselia, one of the villagers
said that Colette's grandmother, Phaidra,
was waiting for him. Lloyd hurried to Colette's house.

Upon reaching Colette's house, Lloyd was met
by Colette's father, Frank,
who passed on a letter left by Colette. In the message,
Colette wrote that she had lied about their departure
on purpose in order to keep Lloyd out of danger,
knowing that their journey would be a perilous one.

Lloyd was just about to rush off after Colette,
but then something happened within the village.
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The Massacre
Location: Iselia, the Village of the Oracles
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Iselia was under attack. The Desians had
come to teach the village a lesson after Lloyd and
Genis broke the agreement.

Forcystus, one of the Five Desian Grand Cardinals,
had transformed Marble into a monster and
brought her to the village to kill Lloyd.

However, just when things looked grim for Lloyd,
the monster gave up her own life to protect him.
Marble's sacrifice injured Forcystus, and the
Desians called off the attack and fled.

The village had taken major damage in the attack.
The villagers held Lloyd and Genis
responsible for the carnage and drove them out of Iselia.
Lloyd was both enraged at the Desian's
barbarity and disgusted at his own ineffectuality.

With nowhere else to go, Lloyd and Genis
set off southward after Colette.
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To the Desert
Location: Triet, the Desert Oasis
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Tracing Colette's footsteps, Lloyd and Genis
came to Triet, the Desert Oasis.

The Desians, beginning their hunt for Lloyd,
had already plastered the town with wanted posters.
Taking care to keep out of their way,
Lloyd and Genis started gathering
information to find out where Colette had gone.

The two discovered that Colette
went to an oasis that was said to have been
destroyed by Efreet's rampage.
Before they could leave town,
they were attacked by the Desians.

Lloyd was kidnapped and imprisoned by the Desians.
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The Escape
Location: Sylvarant Base
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Hearing that he might be sentenced to public execution,
Lloyd used the Sorcerer's ring he had been left
with to escape from his prison cell.
Keeping out of enemy sight,
Lloyd explored the base, searching for a way out.

As he searched the base, Lloyd suddenly
found himself trapped in a corner by the enemy.

Just then, however, Genis burst in with Colette
and the others, rescuing Lloyd from his attackers.
After finding their way out of the Desian base,
the group decided to return to Triet.
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The Quest
Location: Triet, the Desert Oasis
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After hearing their story, Colette allowed
Lloyd and Genis to join her group.

And so began Lloyd's true Journey--a quest to break
the divine seals and regenerate the world.
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The Seal of Fire
Location: The Triet Ruins
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Lloyd's group began by heading for the Triet Ruins,
which lay southwest of Triet.
There lay the Seal of Fire, which the angel
Remiel had told Colette about.

After arriving at the old ruins,
the party headed for the lowest level.
Where they hoped to find and break
the Seal of Fire.
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The Wings
Location: The Triet Ruins
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Lloyd and the others reached the Seal of Fire
in Triet Ruins,
where they defeated Ktugach,
the seal's guardian and broke the seal.

As Efreet, the Spirit of Fire, reawakened,
a pair of angelic wings sprouted on Colette's back.
The party was amazed by her transformation.

Remiel told them that another seal awaited them
across the sea on the Eastern Continent,
so the party decided to take an eastern route
over the Ossa Mountains.
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The Metamorphosis
Location: The Triet Ruins
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After breaking the seal, Lloyd and the others
prepared to leave the Triet Ruins.
However, as they were approaching the exit,
Colette suddenly fell ill.
Her transformation into an angel caused sudden
changes within her body that were too much
for her to bear.
Concerned for her health, the group decided
to setup camp for the night.

Although her health was quick to return,
Colette remained out of sorts all night,
for reasons she kept to herself.
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The Assassin
Location: Ossa Trail
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While traversing the Ossa Trail, the only
route through the Ossa Mountains,
the group was attacked by a mysterious
assassin trying to take Colette's life.
Luckily, the assassin fell down a hidden
maintenance tunnel accidentally opened by Colette,
ending the battle before it began.
Although disturbed by the assassin's existence,
Lloyd and the others pressed on through the mountains.

It wasn't until the party approached the
end of the pass that the assassin caught up with them
and attacked again.
Although they were able to fend her off,
Lloyd and the others were stunned to find that
there were people who opposed
their quest to regenerate the world.

Shaken by the unexpected attacked,
the party decided to continue down the Ossa Trail
to reach the eastern coastline.
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Eastern Continent
Location: None Given
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After making it through the Ossa Mountains,
Lloyd and the others set about looking
for a ship to the Eastern Continent.

The crew eventually arrived at Izoold,
a small fishing port on the eastern coastline.
However, the villagers were reluctant to
set sail--monsters had apparently been
spotted in the nearby waters.

After some aggressive negotiations, Lloyd and the others
finally managed to convince Max,
one of the villagers, to give them passage across the seas.
The group set sail for the port city of Palmacosta.
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Palmacosta
Location: Palmacosta, The port City
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The ship Lloyd found in Izoold took
the group to the port city of Palmacosta
located on the next continent. The town's residents,
though terrified by the Desian's oppression,
had banded together into a militia to fight against them.
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The Book
Location: Palmacosta, The port City
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The Book of Regeneration, which contained clues
regarding the locations of the seals,
had been given to an imposter posing as Colette,
and the book's current whereabouts were unknown.

Recalling that the imposters were planning to sell the book,
Lloyd and the others decided to head
for Hakonesia Peak in the northeast.
Which led to the Asgard area.
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To see the Book....
Location: Hakonesia Peak
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At Hakonesia Peak, Lloyd and the others met Koton,
an old antiques connoisseur who lives with the sentries.
He had bought the Book of Regeneration from the
Colette imposter. If Lloyd could bring him a
statue depicting Spiritua, the first Chosen,
he would let them read the book.
Lloyd had no choice but to visit the
House of Salvation to the south, where he hoped to
find the Spiritua Statue.
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Bad Omen
Location: Hakonesia Peak
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Lloyd heard that the Desians had set off for
Palmacosta--and as if that wasn't bad enough,
Magnius, the chief of the nearby
Human Ranch had been spotted among them.

The party feared the worst.
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Desians' Retaliation
Location: Palmacosta, the Port City
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Lloyd and the others returned to Palmacosta,
only to find it under attack by the Desians.
The cause; Chocolat's defiance in
the face of the town's oppressors.

Lloyd and the others rescued Chocolat's mother,
who was about to be executed as an example
to the town. Realizing that time was of the
essence, the group once again devoted
their attention to their quest to save the world.
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Chocolat in Danger
Location: None Given
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After leaving Palmacosta, Lloyd and the others
were stopped by a messenger from Dorr.
The messenger told them that Chocolat had been kidnapped.

The party decided to go to the
Palmacosta Human Ranch, southeast of Hakonesia Peak,
to rescue her.
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