Released by Square Enix in 2015 on the Nintendo 3ds, Bravely Second: End Layer would be the
direct sequel to Bravely Default.
Directed by Kensuke Nakahara, who directed the first game, and written by Tomoya Asano,
who produced both this game and the original, the game would continue events two and a half
years after the original installment.
For story, the game features a knight named Yew, a warrior from the moon named Magnolia
that we saw previewed at the end of the first game, and returning are Tiz and Edea from
the first game.
For progression, things are essentially unchanged from the first game, reusing the same systems
for levels, gear and jobs, though there are now 30 distinct jobs.
For gameplay, the game brings back the same battle system, though instead of rewarding
consecutive 1 round K0 victories with random encounters, any battle with a 1 round KO has
the option of leading directly into a followup battle with no break, which may be chained
for enhanced rewards.
Most of the original dungeons, maps, and musical tracks are revisited here, though new locations,
enemies, music, and dungeons are also introduced, expanding the world of Luxendarc.
The game was previewed at the end of the first game and demoed with a standalone chapter
named the Ballad of the Three Cavaliers that is essentially non-canon.
The story only gets larger from here, so let's cut it down to size with a RECAPitation.
The game begins immediately in conflict as Kaiser Oblivion, leader of the Glanz Empire,
crashes a peace treaty signing between the Crystal Orthodoxy's Pope Anges, and the Duchy
of Eternia's Grand Marshal Braev.
Anne (an-nah), a crystfairy accompanying Kaiser Oblivion, expresses their intent to crush
both powers on the eve of their assumed victory.
To aide the Grand Marshal is the Dark Knight Alternis, and by Anges's side is Yew Geneolgia,
Cavalier and leader of her Crystalguard.
Oblivion's power is overwhelming, and as Anges attempts to summon otherworldly aide with
her pendant, Oblivion quickly shatters the crystal.
With the group utterly defeated, Oblivion picks up Anges and leaves the rest to their
wounds.
The next thing he knows, Yew wakes up in the bedroom of his manor, and he's been out for
7 days recovering from near-fatal wounds.
Blaming himself for his failure to protect his ward, he finds a fragment of Anges' pendant
in his possession, and hurries to raise the forces of the other Crystalguard.
Finding the sanctum ransacked, he sees the Bishop Nikolai and Fencer Janne and learn
almost the entire Crystalguard was also wiped out.
Nikolai directs his attention outside where the Kaiser's air fortress, the Skyhold is
currently beseiging Eternia now.
Undeterred, Yew vows to storm the skyhold and rescue the Pope, and reluctantly, Janne
and Nikolai opt to help him, bonded as their roles as the Three Cavaliers.
With the remainder of the crystalguard as an advance unit, their plan is the sneak aboard
the Skyhold.
Passing by a curiously familiar adventurer and facing down the threats of the woods,
they see the advance guard, and Nikolai breaks off to tend to the wounded.
As they pitch camp, Yew reflects on his school days with his friend Janne, where Yew aspired
to be a scholar, and was often bullied because of his family's nobility.
Thanks to training with Janne, the two of them quickly rose to being the top swordsmen
in the school.
After this, Janne offers to take the first shift as Yew sleeps, though he's waken up
by screams.
Investigating, he's horrified to see Janne finished killing the rest of the crystalguard
himself, confessing now to have always been a spy for the empire planted here.
He offers Yew a chance to defect, but Yew refuses to budge as Janne now moves to kill
him.
Just then, the voice of Anges comes in through the crystal shard on his person, urging him
to flee.
After escaping via a river, Yew now hurries to tell Nikolai about Janne, only to see the
empire has attacked and killed everyone else in the sanctum.
Nikolai also urges Yew to give up his pursuit of the empire and flee, before collapsing.
Meanwhile, the Kaiser is keeping tabs on Janne through Anne, noting that Yew specifically
still lives.
He then sends Dark Vestal Bella to deal with Yew, and delegates occupation of Eternia to
Cu Chulainn (ka-hoolan), a charioteer.
On the road again, Yew is still determined to save Pope Anges, alone or not, but returning
to the woods where the crystalguard fell, he is now surrounded by the haunting spirits
of the dead.
Terrified, he's soon met by Bella but is too scared to fight back.
Suddenly, he's chastised by the voice of a girl who leaps out to save him, Knight-Captain
of Eternia, Edea from the first game.
Bolstered, Yew stands to fight and together they defeat Bella and gain the Wizard asterisk.
Yew is starstruck at meeting Edea though Edea doesn't think much of being a hero of light.
She explains she was actually guided here by an astrologer who conveyed Yew's mission
to save Anges and his location, so naturally she wants to join the endeavor.
As they leave the forest, the connection to Anges opens up, who is glad to see Edea once
again.
Edea now directs Yew back to Eternia, where she introduces him to the Astrologer that
led her to him, and he explains that in order to stem the impending darkness he forsees,
they must now awaken Tiz, who has actually been asleep for the past two years since the
end of the last game.
In his comatose state, Tiz's body is an empty vessel, and until they can reunite him with
his soul, the Astrologer provides them with a soulstone that can fill Tiz with the energy
of the Celestial realm for now.
Edea is more than willing to take a chance this will work for her friend, and though
Tiz is in Eternian Central Command, it is currently occupied by the Empire.
Choosing to sneak in from the side, they rest in Gravemark Village, where Yew notes a magnolia
tree, and like a scholar, its reported effects.
That night, a crash nearby wakes up Yew, who sees a strange, wrecked ship.
Within, he finds an unconscious girl, and thinking of magnolia outside, he uses its
strong scent to wake her.
Speaking in French, a moonspeak unknown to Yew, it turns out she speaks his language
as well.
She is taken aback by his presentation of a flower to her, and weeps tears of joy, which
surprises Yew in turn.
Yew introduces himself, and she hesistates before revealing her name to be Magnolia,
like the flower.
She explains she's from the Moon, and despite their disbelief, is here on thier world since
her home was destroyed and she is here to seek vengeance on her enemy within the Skyhold.
Since their destination is the same, and she insists on traveling with Yew, they welcome
her aboard the team.
Magnolia then introduces to them a special hourglass, that allows them to use the Bravely
Second maneuver, which stops time for all but the party, gaining a massive but brief
advantage.
Bella and Cu Chulainn bar their way again, but with Magnolia proving a strong companion,
they put down the pair and gain the Charioteer asterisk.
Despite Yew not understanding Magnolia's obvious infatuation with him, they enter Central Command
and use the Soulstone on Tiz.
As they wait in Edea's room for the soulstone to work, Magnolia goes to fetch Tiz in events
we see from the original Bravely Second Trailer.
Tiz indeed wakes up as if from a long slumber, as Edea is overjoyed to see him alive again,
and Yew is humbled to meet his hero.
Agnes greets him with happy tears as well, as Tiz is now focused on saving Anges too.
As they reach the top of Central Command, they are about to board the Skyhold, when
Janne and Nikolai, who faked his death and was also a mole for the empire, present themselves
to bar Yew's path.
Yew is forced to leave his all life and allegiances behind as he faces down the men he once thought
of as brothers, and in turn, gains their Fencer and Bishop asterisks.
Yew still refuses to kill them, allowing them to retreat, though the Skyhold now gets away
as well.
As a new chapter in their adventure begins, they use the pendant and Anges's observations
to determine the Skyhold is heading for the land of Harena down south, but there is an
ocean between them.
Just then, they are met by Edea's sword master Kamiizumi, who has survived since the last
game, as he offers them his own boat and boasts of his new cat companion.
Magnolia takes notes of Yew's home life as they learn Yew originally aspired to be a
scholar.
Meanwhile, the Kaiser meets with Janne and Nikolai to move their plans of finding a compass,
while mentioning an assassin sent after Yew.
As Yew and crew sail to Harena on Kamiizumi's dingy, they now encounter a strange little
girl dressed as a cat, who notes the cat in Kamiizumi's arms.
The girl takes her leave as the cat suddenly becomes enraged and slashes the swordsman
deeply.
Concenrned, Yew directs them to Al-Khampis nearby, the city of learning, as it turns
out he's an alumnus of the esteemed university.
As they brush past some of the students, Yew mentions how everyone is assigned a star ranking
representing their status in the school and ranking, the more stars per higher ranking,
resulting in literal class discrimination.
Asking around, they learn the Skyhold was spotted recently, and Yew runs into an old
underclassmen named Rifa who always admired him, much to magnolia's annoyance.
Rifa mentions her research on Ba'als, powerful lords of monsters, and a word that Magnolia
recognizes.
She mentions a sleeping one that crashed down a year ago that the researchers are studying,
and Magnolia quickly insists on a detour to see the Ba'al.
Along the way, they see Jackal the Thief and Red Mage DeRosa again, who are in dispute
over whether to use a magical source of water to sustain the people of the desert or use
it for an experimental new clean energy source, and leave it to Edea to choose.
As they approach the crater with the Ba'al, Magnolia gets a call on her unique wristband
communicator, as she is contacted by her commander on the Moon, who gets an update on her situation,
and is alerted that a Ba'al is headed her way now from the Moon.
Revealing her profession to be a Ba'al buster, Magnolia leads the way against busting the
giant Ba'al with the party.
After its defeat, she repeats how her people on the moon have been fighting Ba'als for
centuries, protecting Luxendarc from this threat all this time.
However, one immeasurably stronger than the others emerged and wiped out nearly everyone
on the moon.
Her and her commander gave chase as it moved from the moon to Luxendarc, but her ship crashed,
leading her to meeting the party now.
She recognizes the miasma here in this crater as the same from the one she was chasing,
which she suspects is on the Skyhold now.
Prepared to chase it alone, the party affirms they are committed to helping their new friend
in need just as she is helping them save Anges.
Speaking of, they learn from Anges that the Skyhold is above Anchiem now, but the city
is surrounded by an unnatural wind barrier now.
Seeking aide on the matter in Al-Kahmpis where its revealed Yew was a rare-elite 6-star status,
they run into the old astrologer from before who turns out to be a legendary professor
Norzen here.
As it turns out, he is the one who summoned the massive sandstorm around Ancheim for the
purpose of knocking down the Skyhold, regardless of the danger to the city, or Anges within.
At an impasse, the party is forced to contend with Norzen, defeat him in order to quell
the sandstorm, and take his asterisk.
After his defeat, Norzen then asks them to recover the legendary compass of space and
time, which he knows the Kaiser is seeking.
However, a nearby cat turns out to be the spy for the strange cat-girl they met earlier
named Minette, who turns out to be working for the Kaiser himself.
She powers up the cat to deal a fatal blow to Norzen, and rushes off to get a head start.
As Norzen dies, he urges them to get to the compass first, and as they check in on Kamiizumi,
he has already left, leaving them a small task to deliver a letter to a pupil of his
in Anchiem named Gho.
Arriving in Anchiem, they meet Gho, who is working with the Summoner Mephilia on summoning
the legendary Amaterasu, and Edea must choose to encourage him into being a Swordmaster
or Summoner.
Traveling now to the Harena sea caves, they spot the compass, but Minette is one step
before them to claim it, and finish her task of also killing Yew and friends.
She fails to do so, but in distracting the party, Janne is able to grab the compass and
flee.
Catching up to him, Yew confronts him on betraying the Crystalguard, and Janne points out years
ago, it was the Crystalguard that betrayed everyone.
When the Anti-crystalists were overthrowing the orthodoxy, Yew's house, which has led
the crystalguard for generations, was one of the houses that surrendered when the duchy
opposed them in order to the spared.
However, Janne's house, house Balestra was one of those that opposed the surrender and
in turn his parents were killed and his house was erased from history.
Since then, Janne has made it his mission to avenge his house, especially to house Geneolgia.
Anne interrupts them to retrieve Janne, who gets away in Skyhold as the party is then
forced to back off when a sniper provides cover fire.
As the next chapter begins, Janne's words hang heavy with Yew, but bolstered by his
friends his faith in his mission is renewed.
Speaking with Anges, it seems the Skyhold is above Mt Karka in the Eisen region now,
but the distance seems far for their small boat.
That night, Yew is approached by a mysterious patron who knows of his journey and trials,
and informs him of a shortcut to the Eisen region without revealing himself.
When sailing, they find the stranger's information to be true and safely land in Eisen.
While docking in a small port, they spot a weakened girl, and as Yew helps her up, she
introduces herself as Yoko, princess of Yunohana, who is out here searching for her missing
brother on her own.
As the party continues their pursuit of the skyhold, she insists on tagging along until
she finds her brother, and Yew chooses to allow it, though soon finds pampering the
princess to be a chore of its own.
Still, Yoko is immediately smitten with Yew, inviting him to marry her, which infuriates
Magnolia.
Making it to Eisenberg, they run into Commander Goodman again, who is under seige by the sniper
from before, the Hawkeye Aimee.
She fires at Yew, who is saved by Magnolia, but Goodman is struck instead.
Tiz calls for a retreat and has Goodman brought to Hartschild nearby for medical attention.
Fortunately, they save him in time, and notice a festival outside, which has been sponsored
by a legendary confectioner.
Unfortunately, he's sold out of his sweets by the time the party arrives, and so they
enjoy the rest of the festival.
Edea sets the scene for Yew and Magnolia to have an impromptu date and Magnolia notes
a flower girl and remarks that flowers are very rare and valuable on the Moon.
Later, Yoko has Yew get a flower for her, and he also gets one for Magnolia, but suddenly
Magnolia is upset and confused, as on the Moon, it's custom to give a flower when asking
for a lady's hand in marriage.
Yew is startled by the misunderstanding, and Magnolia is flustered and embarassed at thinking
this whole time Yew and her were engaged.
Magnolia dashes away now, though Yoko is thoroughly amused by all of this.
The next morning, Yew and Magnolia try and put last night behind them, but strangely
enough, the entire town is suddenly deserted.
Yew now notes the mysterious stranger who guided them across the sea has written a message
for the group in his journal, yet they don't notice anyone following them to do so.
More surprisingly, Yoko spots her missing brother here in town, Danzaburo the swordsman.
He offers to help them cross the bridge against Aimee so that Yoko may return home, and stands
alone against her as the party moves to flank Aimee and catch her in close range.
During the exchange, Yoko is shot as she takes a blow meant for here brother, and the groups
now duels with the Silver Sniper, taking her out and earning her Hawkeye asterisk.
With the path to Yunohana clear, Edea and group run into the Merchant Profiteur and
White Mage Holly, and settles a dispute about a fisherman selling his family's land to turn
into an industrial dock, or let it stay in the family and preserve the natural scenery.
Now arriving in Yunohana, the girls take Yoko to soak in the healing hot springs the country
is known for.
The guys relax as well, as after their bath Yoko approaches Yew and asks him if he's heard
of the Sword of the Brave, as her brother seeks to aquire it in order to become the
next ruler of the kingdom.
Slyly, she manages to coax it out of Yew, who warns her the blade is cursed, but with
this new information, she leaves immediately.
While chasing her, the party enters the old Grapp Keep finding the Black Mage Ominas Crowe
with his dragon Bahamut, and the Ranger Artemia acting as his bodyguard.
When a cave-in occurs, it's up to Edea to decide if rations should go to the strong
who can get them out, or split evenly until help arrives.
Racing to catch up to Yoko, they find her before the sentient Sword of the Brave, who
asks if she will pay the price to accept its power.
Despite Yew's warning, she accepts, and as payment, the sword claims one of her brother's
sword wielding arms.
Yew goes into shock, as he suddenly recalls that he too once had a brother, who was challenged
to find the same sword in order to become head of house Geneolgia.
Yew found the sword and his brother warned him the sword was really a demon, but when
Yew claimed the sword anyway, it also took his brother's arm and vanished.
With that, his brother could not become a knight and left house geneolgia forever, and
this spurred Yew to join the crystalguard in his brother's stead.
However, Yoko now laughs, as she reveals Danzaburo to actually be an elaborate illusion, and
herself to actually be a yokai who was specifically forcing Yew to confront his painful past.
She then mocks the party, asking Tiz if finding a new little brother replaced the pain for
letting his actually little brother die, and asking Magnolia if busting makes her feel
good in light of all her people dying.
She then turns to Edea, about to expose her dark secret, when suddenly the Dark Knight
Alternis dashes in to save her.
She overpowers him easily, and reads his thoughts, amused at the troubles in his life, and then
chooses to revert back into Yoko, advising them to travel to the temple of fire if they
wish to learn what the Kaiser's intent truly is.
As Edea tends to Alternis's wounds, he eases her with news that her father the grand marshal
is safe but in no shape to fight.
Though he wants to help them save Anges, he says his current goal is to pursue Yoko and
leaves.
Now investigating the Fire Temple, Tiz notes the crystal is outputting too much light,
and like last time, if all fours crystals get out of control, then this world links
to another and a giant chasm between the two will open up.
However, normally only a vestal can commune with a crystal, and Anges is the last one
and she hasn't done anything.
Noting the Kaiser has already visited three crystals, they know their next destination
to be the water crystal in florem.
Janne now steps in to impede their progress, but they overpower him as he tumbles over
the edge, and now seek to charter a ship to Florem.
Meanwhile, the kaiser minds his mechanical hand, and Nikolai expresses concern over Janne
not returning.
The patissier Angelo from before turns out to be in employ of the emperor, and offers
to deal with the group on his own.
Back with the group, they enjoy a meal as they observe Former Knights-Captain Heinkel
and Kunoichi Kikyo are now investigators, now solving a murder mystery with which Edea
helps their nephew choose a career path for himself.
Back in Yunohana, the lord there cannot help them with a ship for now but invites them
to eat, especially since a famous confectioner is catering.
Yew declines the sweets, so the rest dig in, finding the desserts to literally die for,
and thus what happened to the people in Hartschild.
Angelo now comes in, claiming ownership of the attack and assaults the group, though
they defeat him and claim his patissier asterisk.
Using the bath waters to rid themselves of the debilitating cake effects, Yew and Magnolia
stay an extra bit and Yew takes the opportunity to apologize about the flower misunderstanding.
Magnolia isn't bothered anymore since she was the one who jumped to a conclusion, though
she admits she was thinking about accepting the proposal from him, but declines to share
why for now.
Suddenly, the mysterious stranger helping them chimes in, saying he's uncovered Yunohana's
secret, revealing the entire town to be a giant floating ship.
The lord is pleased to see the ship restored to function, and the first stop for Yew is
using the healing water to save the people of Hartschild and then chase the Kaiser to
the Temple of Water.
Making to Florem, they spot the skyhold overhead as they are shocked to witness a purple beam
fire out and strike the skyhold, damaging it significantly.
As the next chapter begins, Magnolia gets notified by her commander on the moon that
the beam just now was a massive output of SP energy, the same energy Magnolia has in
her time altering hourglass.
Meanwhile, the Kaiser is concerned who fired on the Skyhold as it does indeed deter their
mission, as he sends another group down to investigate.
As the group enters Florem, the land of radiant flowers, they find they're in time for the
Sacred flower festival.
Once devolved into a beauty pageant, the culture has changed and now the festival winner is
based on inner beauty and even men can compete.
They inform the matriarch of the city about the Skyhold's pursuit of the water crystal,
and she sends their new young vestal Sylvie with them to put up a shield around the crystal.
Returning, they stay for the festival, only to see the Empire crashing the party interrogating
the people of Florem for information on who attacked them.
Leading them is Geist the Bloody, who delights in using his reversal powers to inflict pain
continuously on his victims.
He encroachs upon Edea, but Alternis intervenes again to save Edea, still bearing the ribbon
Edea bandaged him with.
Geists ability to inflict pain mean nothing to Alternis' Dark Knight powers that are fueled
by pain and so he retreats for now.
The crowds of Florem cheer for the two, naming them the winners of the festival and saviors
of the city, though a man in crowd notes the moonspeak Magnolia talks in.
He approaches them, introducing himself as Lotus of the Sagitta tribe, who live in the
forests of Florem, who make it their mission to battle the Ba'als, just like Magnolia and
her people on the moon.
On their way to meet the tribe, Edea is appointed as Superintendent for an upcoming school in
Florem, and she must choose between the co-ed school patroned by the Monk Barras, or a separate
gender school endorsed by the Valkyrie Einheria.
Now making their way to the hidden sky village of the Sagitta, they meet with the elder who
says his people did once come from the moon ages ago and have always held to the mission
of defeating Ba'als though this is the first encounter they've had in ages.
They intend to kill the Ba'al within Skyhold regardless of whomever is within, and so urge
them to save Anges before that happens.
They learn more about how the same SP they use to stop time is actually a recognized
energy source harnessed from the flow of time, and the Sagitta harvest and store it.
Along the way they also meet Pellar the third, descendant of the famous bard, Arca Pellar,
who needs Edeas help in sorting out a dispute between the Performer Praline and Pirate Barbarossa,
who argue about whether to remix a lost classic song, or preserve it for the modern day.
Exploring some old ruins of the Sagitta, they learn of a Professor Altair (all-tire) who
created a compass that would allow one to leap to a specific point in time, as a last
resort in the war against Ba'als.
However, one day the compass went missing, forcing the head of the base Director Sagitta
to accept responsibility for the incident, and repent by spending his life personally
protecting Luxendarc.
Meanwhile, Altair would die from disease in the newly founded kingdom of Eternia, pining
for Vega on his deathbed.
They see more records of the inventions and contributions of Altair, from rice cookers
to flying battleships, of which they take note of as a means to reach the Skyhold.
They ask Lotus about it, and he points out the giant cannon they use is all that's left
of the mighty battleship Sagittarius.
Yew investigates around town on his own that night, joined by Magnolia, and when they get
a quiet moment together, Yew revisits his commitment to the mission, and Magnolia points
out how much Yew inspires her.
She reveals that on the Moon when a man gives a woman a flower, it comes with the promise
to protect them for the rest of their life, essentially a marriage proposal.
She knows Yew didn't know that when he gave her the flower when they met, but she was
still so encouraged by the action.
In turn, Yew admits Magnolia has been a source of strength for him as well ever since.
Suddenly, their mysterious stranger speaks up again, guiding them to the secret of how
the village floats, but Yew tumbles over the edge, Magnolia leaps after him, and while
falling, Yew thinks quickly, figures the secret is with the stones outside the village and
lands them safely on some debris.
Recovering and moving quickly, Yew confronts the mysterious stranger, who turns out to
be Tiz with a strange voice.
He introduces himself as Altair, who is inhabiting Tiz's body, and is about to reveal the Kaiser's
true objective though is interrupted as Geist followed them here and attacks.
Altair sees Geist's reversals as localized time manipulation, and floods the area in
SP energy, smothering Geist's abilities and allowing the party to defeat him and gain
his exorcist asterisk.
Afterwards, Altair now reveals the Kaiser likely intends to use the spacetime compass,
power it up with the cosmic light that appears with the breach of dimensions, and activate
it to travel to the past and change history.
For now he bids them farewell, as he can only use Tiz's body at night when the moon is out.
The next day, Tiz easily accepts having a second soul inside him, though Anges now chimes
in, alerting everyone that the skyhold is on its way to the Water temple.
When they arrive they are shocked to find Anges is the one breaking the seals on the
crystals and overloading them, though under some strange posssession.
Anne shows up to collect Anges and laughs at the plight of the party, and Nikolai shows
up to expose the former crystalguard for the weak and corrupted group it was while attempting
to persuade Yew to their side.
Yew chooses now to stay by his new friends, and so the two clash, with the group victorious,
as Nikolai falls.
The kaiser notes the heavy losses sustained as Anne returns to him, though Janne now shows
up, alive after all.
With all 4 crystals overloaded, Tiz recognizes the Holy Pillar that is set to tear down the
boundary between worlds though at this time, their hotsprings ship Rubadub has now become
a flying vessel thanks to the efforts of Lotus and the Sagitta.
Looking past the point of no return, Yew and crew now chase the skyhold into the holy pillar
as a new chapter unfolds.
As Yew finally boards the skyhold, Janne moves out to intercept, and the group finds the
room Anges was kept in now empty.
Suddenly, Magnolia becomes possessed, attacking the group, claiming herself to be Revenant,
the ghostly son of Geist who is mad at Edea for striking down his father.
Possessing a nearby suit of armor, Revenant strikes, but is taken down by the party, who
gains the Guardian Asterisk and quells the sons soul with the final words of his father.
Janne now steps in to cross blades with Yew specifically, and as the two former friends
clash in this personal duel, Yew ends up the victor, now weeping over the fall of his friend,
who admits there was some sincerity in their friendship before dying.
With nothing between them and the Kaiser now, Yew reflects on his early failure, to which
Magnolia encourages him with the words Bravely Second, an expression on the moon that simply
mean the courage to try again.
Meanwhile, the Skyhold has now entered the Holy Pillar, and with Anges in hand, the Kaiser
notes the group now walking in on him a second too late as he produces the spacetime compass
and warps away with its power.
Anne now laughs as she points out anything that touches the Pillar of Light is warped
to the next world, including the moon, as she directs the crystal the Skyhold is on
to redirect the Holy Pillar light directly into the moon.
Shocked and in awe at the feat, the party now contends with Anne the crystfairy who
succeeds in delaying the party.
As they exit the skyhold, they note the world seems eerily still, and Magnolia speaks out
that its been said that the Moon bring outs the night and day, not the other way around,
so with the moon gone, it's like the world is frozen in time.
Tiz is frustrated they never got to even fight the Kaiser once, but Yew suddenly has an idea
as he beseeches the player personally to bring everything back to the beginning.
Resetting the game, things turn back to the intial duel with the kaiser, and this time,
Yew uses the stored time and memories in their hourglass to call forth bravely second, bringing
forth Magnolia, Edea and Tiz back in time to deliver thier custom Coup de gravy as the
next chapter begins.
Fighting and defeating a bewildered Kaiser, they defeat him, shattering his mask, and
revealing him to be Yew's long lost brother Denys (denee).
Meanwhile, Anges is overjoyed to see Tiz alive and on his feet to her rescue.
They recount their tales, which Anges says feels familiar somehow and that's likely because
her memories were stored in the hourglass as well.
However, just because the Kaiser is jailed, with everything reset, his army, the Skyhold,
and the Ba'al within are still around.
Soon enough, Nikolai and Janne break the kaiser out of jail, with Bella and Cuchullain close
behind to cover their escape.
This time, Yew chooses to show mercy to their defeated, showing them the othrodoxy can change
for the better for the problems caused in the past.
With the worlds' nations now united against the Empire, they call all their allies forward
now, with a plan to capture the skyhold and protect Anges from the kaiser's capture again.
Meanwhile, the kaiser and his minions understand that they also have memories of the past,
and so understand Yew knows their plans, now hurrying to get to the spacetime compass first.
Geist and Revenant get the jump on the group to get the compass, though as the group defeats
them, they learn the regret Geist carries with him is he knew patient Zero of the Great
Plague and allowed her to infect the world.
Regardless, Edea and her father point out what good such an oversight had produced too,
and in doing so forgive and allow the two to live.
While now answering a call from Kamiizumi, they visit the old Grandship, and find Alternis
there assisting the poor who benefit from the social programs funded the huge taxation
in the bankrupting nation.
However, they find former King Khamer who seeks to lower taxes mainly to benefit businesses
so the nation can prosper as a whole and Edea must settle the dispute.
Meeting up with Kamiizumi they see Aimee and Angelo have realized each other's feelings
and have left the empire on their own to start life anew.
To which, after a short spar, Yew agrees to sponsor their shop in Gathelatio.
Finding a large congregation of cats, they figure Minette's spy network of cats in afoot
and so plant false information to lure the skyhold to Sagitta.
The plan works and the Sagitta's cannon strikes true against the fort.
Minette chooses to buy time for the kaiser now, and falling against the group, Minette
fears being abandoned again, though this time, Kamiizumi comes in and chooses to show compassion
and adopt Minette.
At this time, Professor Norzen chimes in, saying he knew Minette's mother, who was a
researcher under him during the great plague.
When a second plague was showing signs of emerging, her mother noted it did not affect
cats and created a vaccine to save everyone, especially her daughter, though her life would
be claimed as well thus dying for the greater good.
Still, he and the other students in Al-kahmpis use their magic to trap the skyhold in a spell
over the ocean to hold it for Yew and the others to enter now.
As they infiltrate the fort, Altair now mentions the woman he used to love named Vega and that
they both came from the Celestial Realm.
They were married too, and left as the celestial realm was on the verge of being wiped out.
Altair realized too late Vega did not make it aboard the escape vessel in time with him,
and urges the party now to leave no regrets of love before the final battle, talking especially
to Yew and Tiz.
As the party moves on, Janne and Nikolai block their way saying the Kaiser has already moved
on, and though they remember the reconciliation they had in the last timeline, they will still
stand in Yew's way.
After the clash, Yew chooses not to kill his friends and urges them to join him again into
reforming the crtysalguard into what they wanted it to be and not the corruption it
formerly was reminding them revenge is a savage cycle.
As proof, his house and others relinguish control of the crystalguard to the orthodoxy,
Anges gives her blessing, and other leaders around the world, including the duchy promise
to aide in the reform as well.
Moved by his actions, Nikolai reconsiders, and then reveals the location of the Kaiser,
who is now in the tunnels beneath Gathelatio, the Genelogia mausoleum.
When he catches up to his brother, Denys exposes the whitewashed history of their house, something
that drove him to his goal to using the spacetime compass to go back in time to slay the founder
of their house and stop the path of destruction wrought at the source.
Understanding him, yet not in agreement, Yew faces his brother as their convictions clash,
defeating him and gaining the kaiser asterisk.
Showing mercy again, Yew brings his brother home to recover and says that despite his
crimes, he can make amends to a better future in this world.
Anges now takes him away as he surrenders, wishing to see his comrades in death but instead
she shows him his comrades who have chosen to live for a better future in this world.
Despite his failings and crimes in the past, Anges offers Denys a chance to have the Galnz
Empire similarly join the other nations in having the courage to try again.
Accepting, the future seems bright, as both brothers are reunited, and at dinner, Yew
minds that Magnolia may be leaving soon after her mission is done, and Tiz spends some overdue
time with Anges.
As they talk privately, Denys has noticed Yew's feelings for Magnolia and also encourages
him to at least tell her his true feelings.
Yew makes up his mind to do so, but suddenly they are shocked when the Holy Pillar suddenly
bursts open and Skyhold is somehow heading to it.
Intercepting, they are surprised to find the Matriarch of Florem and the vestaling Sylvie
under control of Anne.
Denys strikes Anne's pendant before she can power it up to take the moon away, and Anne
revealed she was the one who sabotaged him destination into the future last time to make
sure he didn't interfere with her plans.
She now communicates with her true master, who authorizes her to use Diamante, the mightiests
of the Ba'als, and who destroyed Magnolia's people to come forth from within the Skyhold's
crystal and attack the party.
The group is pushed to their limit in a tough battle against a nightmarish pale rider, only
for Anne to mock them that Diamante is unbreakable and will continue to the extinction of all
life on Luxendarc.
Denys now steps forward to use the compass to sacrifice himself to bringing Diamante
to the far limit of the future and save this world today.
As the next chapter begins in a familiar bedside manner, Magnolia's commander notes the defeat
of Diamante and orders Magnolia to return as soon as she is able.
Though in Caldisla with old friends, Tiz and Edea struggle to remember anything about it
until now, like there is a strange hole in their memories.
Alternis now steps in, saying the same has happened to him, while also mentioning he
was the one who brought them here from the skyhold to safety.
Edea thanks him with a rare blush, and Alternis continues that for all this, the Yokai Yoko
is why, telling them to return to the grand marshal and Pope Anges for thier next move.
Visiting the King briefly, Tiz is geeted royally, and even sees Egil is doing well for himself
as Junior Captain, though he reports a large monster attack nearby.
Tiz offers to investigate, though at the same time, Edea is confronted by her father on
her readiness to lead a nation.
Helping her with this, her father gives his approval for her maturity and after a duel,
imparts the Templar asterisk.
More importantly, Edea is passed on the title of Grand Marshal, ruler and authority of Eternia,
as he himself looks forward to a well-earned retirement.
Now exploring the monster report, they are shocked to find a new Ba'al somehow more powerful
than even Diamante, adorned like an undead bride, though manage to bust it despite it
somehow slipping past the moon's security measures.
Checking in on the King, they see Anges and Alternis there speaking on how strange the
people within the kingdom likewise somehow forgot the rest of the world in isolation,
complicated more by the mysterious appearance of Ba'als.
Altair steps in, now confirming what he has always suspected, and that is that Ba'als
are the manifestations of the unresolved feelings of his beloved Vega, born from their shared
memories, but even he is unsure how they start as feelings and end up as weapons of mass
destruction.
He suspects the missing link may lie with Anne, and suggests they seek her out.
Meanwhile, we see Anne before the great chasm the holy pillar once created and Anne gleefully
celebrating how she can create endless Ba'als now with this link to the Celestial realm.
Back with the party, they travel to the Vampire castle, and within find the signature dark
knight helm of Alternis within.
Within, they find the paitings now reveal the past of Yoko who appears before them,
admitting this castle was formerly called the hall of truth, despite how hard some truths
are to face.
Her shrine was once raided by a man who sought her treasure hoarde and sealed her within
the body of a young girl he brought along, who became patient zero for the great plague.
As they learned before, Geist was asked of the church to cure her, but it was disease
and not spirits that availed her.
The man who raided the shrine and essentially started the plauge incidentally was none other
than Yew's own father, something confirmed by the writings left behind by his father.
Learning his folly quickly, his father had nearly his entire fleet poisoned and killed,
and himself returned to Gathelatio with all the treasure, thus gaining great favor from
the church.
Afterwards, Braev Lee was a young priest who urged the elders to use the power of the crystals
to treat the sick but was denied, letting his home village be quarantined and die, this
causing him to resign from the church and lead his revolution later, beginning with
asking Norzen to investigate the origins of the plague.
Norzen as well as all reasearchers worked furiously and sacrificed everything to stave
off the second pandemic, even using himself as a test subject.
Eventually, Minette's mother saw the immunity in cats and learned how to transfer the antibodies
to Minette to survive the disease and create a vaccine.
As the authority of the church was crumbling at the same time as Templar Braev's uprising,
Yew's father issued the order to disband the Crystalguard in order to save his own house
and those he kept close, while fighting those that sought to keep the crystalguard intact,
like Janne's former house, with soldiers like Nikolai who were horrified at the atrocities
committed.
By killing off the other houses, House Geneolgia consolidated power to form its own army, and
used it to defeat unemployed soldiers who had turned to banditry, thus gaining favor
with smaller villages.
They also killed Bella's family on charge of withcraft and starting the plague, thus
earning more favor from the church.
Ironically, Yew's father would die of a common illness afterwards.
Now, Yoko speaks of herself, who wishes simply to change the world and help lift it into
\a higher plane.
Now in her true form, she continues from where she left off, now analyzing the secrets of
Edea, who despite her overt motivations, was also seeking approval from her father when
she ran off years ago, and feels lonliness by everyone having companions around her except
for her.
In truth, Edea did have her heart on someone, but he left her behind, and that man was Ringabel,
who oddly on cue, now enters the scene in his dark knight armor.
In fact, it was really him, not the Alternis of this world, who was really there to save
her the many times before.
With tears of joy she runs into his arms, and seeing his old friend Tiz again, he urges
his companions to aide him in chasing down Yoko.
He explains he is part of the Planeswardens now, here to protect a multitude of dimensions
from threats like Yoko, a S-class villain who has reveled in creating chaos and torturing
people for centuries.
With Ringabel as support and backup, the group now confronts Yoko, defeat and strip her of
her asterisk, and learn the final truth.
As it turns out, Yoko met two travellers from another world, and in a laboratory on their
ship, a deadly disease became mixed with one from Luxendarc, resulting in a potential Plague
that would kill everyone in the world.
So, Yoko took the disease within herself and asked to be sealed away.
It wasn't until thousands of years later that the founder of the geneolgia house arrived
and gave her hope that one of his line would find a cure for her.
Later was when Yew's father would come by, seal Yoko inside a girl in hopes of curing
Yoko as promised, but ended up causing the Great Plague instead.
She points out a lot of good things happened because of these events too, so its not all
bad, though with that she disappears.
Ringabel now also bids farewell to the group and a teary-eyed Edea, but leaves them with
the mission of destroying 7 deadly sin beasts now free in the world since Yoko has left.
Now confronting Anne at the great chasm, the group learns Anne doesn't create the Ba'als,
only transport them here, while here true master, Lord Providence of the Celestial Realm
actually creates them.
Before he makes his entrance, it was he who sent the Ba'als to cleanse the world first,
prioritizing the destruction of the moon since they put up the biggest fight to repel the
monsters.
She laments having to deal with the aftermath of her little sister's plans in the first
game, but also finding someone here who wanted to summon the holy pillar.
Amused at the stuggles of the party, she ascends to a larger form to deal with the party before
her master descends, to which Tiz questions what faires are anyway.
She expains fairies are born from the will of the gods to serve them, and thanks them
for saving the Celestial Realm from Airy and Ouroboros in the first game.
As they defeat Anne, Altair comes out to say Providence likely has control of Vega, but
this Great Chasm is the portal they need to invade the Celestial Realm and defeat Providence
before he destroys their world.
Seeking the aide of the player personally, the black mists blocking their way are cleared
and together the group enters the celestial realms.
Beyond they find a pathway filled with images of Vega's memories, as Altair explains them.
For example, one such image is when Altair first met Vega at a ski resort and produced
a flower to her, and another when, almost by fate, he was transferred to the same research
facility she worked at the next year.
Also, sharing an umbrella in the rain as well as attending a festival together, coyly parallels
Yew and Magnolia's experiences together.
He continues on how they worked together on shared dreams and hypothesis, and how after
much success and toil, he asked her to marry him, even without a wedding ring, and she
accepted.
He eventually saved up for one, and gave it to her, before he traveled to Luxendarc and
was separated from her ever since.
Despite that, he was glad to be able to bravely default on the expecations of others and encourages
them to have the courage to defy the world as well.
Arriving at an elaborate altar, Altair is amazed to find the soul of Vega still there.
She asks why Altair left her and reveals that after he disappeared, she was lied to about
where to find him, led into a trap, and killed.
Suddenly, Providence appears, pleased at the reveal of such despairing news.
Feeding on her negative emotions, he wanted to eliminate her lingering hope and love for
Altair, and so set his sights on destroying Luxendarc to that end.
The group declares their will to fight and deny this false god, and wishing to crush
the light before him, Providence attacks the group.
As he tries to feed himself more power from Vega's despair, Altair counters by feeding
her hope to save her and poison the strength of Providence.
The light overpowers the dark, and love saves the day as the souls of Altair and Vega are
reunited, and Luxendarc seems safe at last.
However, just as they turn to leave Providence descends in its true form, unbound by Vega,
and Tiz, Awakened warrior of light, Edea the new Grand Marshal of Eternia, Yew Noble Knight
and Captain of the Crystalguard, and Magnolia survivor of the moon and Ba'al exterminator,
unite in friendship to confront the dark lord.
Curiously, Providence points out the group isn't fighting of their own free will, but
by the whims of another influence, the player themself.
Speaking to the player, Providence declares sovereignty and moves to delete the save progress
of the entire game to win, but Yew cuts past the fourth wall to deliver hope, saying the
player has only encouraged, not controlled, and is proud to fight for them too.
Going to title screen to collect the new message for the player, Yew takes the literal SP now
present, and uses it to power up as the entire ensemble of allies, former foes, and the bonds
forged come forth to lend aide in denying the will of the false god.
With the fight now over, Altair and Vega are reunited and there are no more Ba'als, things
seem better as they prepare to head home, but suddenly Tiz collapses again.
As he suspected, Altair's soul was keeping him alive, and he accepts his early demise,
despite all the things he wanted to do.
Unexpectedly, the mysterious adventurer who has been with them in the background since
the first game, approachs and thanks them for reuniting her friends Altair and Vega.
She would pay them back now, and reminds them that a soul is simply an embodiment of wishes,
dreams, and desires, as in the case of Altair and Vega.
She urges them to use the hourglass on hand to fill Tiz with the power of dreams, but
it seems low on power.
Borrowing it, the adventurer opens a portal to the past and hands it to the party right
before they went to fight Providence, and by now, expects it to be full of the hopes,
dreams, and wishes of them and everyone whose lives they touched.
The hourglass ends up in the hands of Anges who hurries over to Tiz, as the adventurer,
named Deneb, bids them farewell.
As the game ends, we see the lives of the many asterisk wielders who have moved onward
with renewed hope, as Anges pours the energy from the hourglass into Tiz, and his soul
is finally restored for good this time.
For Edea, the path as Grand Marshal is filled with trials, though this world's Alternis
is always there to help her with her new duties like he had with her father.
For Tiz, he returns home to live his quiet life, and as Anges's duties as Pope are completed
after the treaty and with a new vestal in training, she approaches him telling him she
wishes to abandon the name Oblige for the name Arrior instead and live her life as his
wife.
For Magnolia, she returns to her ship and fixes it up, preparing to leave for the Moon.
However, Yew dashes after her, frustred he never got to tell her his feelings.
As it turns out, she never left after all, and now hears him out as he confesses his
love for her, and in return, she tells him her true name, something done on the moon
only with those who are married.
As the credits thank you as the player, we now see the moon, and hear Ringabel speak
with the Vice President, confirming the demonic Sword of the Brave as the missing third key
they seek.
Bravely Second: End Layer has enjoyed the success of selling over 700 thousand copies
worldwide.
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