Raised in the church, Inara has always had a strong love of the Divine. She trained in the art of white magic from a young age, and eventually decided to go a step further and add divine magic to her studies. Inara loved the church…
After the Iberian Revolution ended, Inara felt disgusted at the church’s actions, completely disagreeing with their decision to form a Caliphate and negotiate territory of their own from the ashes of a bloody war. She did not voice this disgust, though, as she still had great respect for the church that raised her and the Divine that guided her. It was 20 years later, however, when she discovered that multiple high-rank figures within the Caliphate were helping the Auran cabinet create an Iberian invasion plan. Enraged, she fled her quarters by night, making no stops until she crossed the border into Iberia.
From there, she warned the Iberian People’s Congress of the coming invasion. With her reputation and status as a Bishop, as well as fairly strong evidence, they did not question her, and began to prepare for war.
Following their meeting, Inara was sent to a small town at the suggestion of the Congress, where she was to meet a small group of escorts. They would travel with her to the Caliphate’s capital, where she was to warn the Archbishop of this invasion plot, and alert him to a potential traitor within the ranks of the Caliphate’s leadership. This is where she meets Elio (protagonist), and where her story goes from here…
I wrote most of this up just now, and I’m aware I’m releasing this before I released the worldbuilding post. I wanted to give a taste of what I had thought of for one of the starting characters. It’s not meant to be a super-complex story, she’s not a main character, but she does trigger the first part of the plot, so I thought Inara would be a good way to start off the story-posting.
In terms of gameplay, she serves as a Jagen unit. For those unfamiliar, Jagens gain EXP really slowly, and usually don’t gain many stats from leveling up. They do, however, have really high base stats compared to many of the other characters at the start of the game. I figured that with the weaker and more accurate light magic, Inara would be able to chip at tougher units that could be finished off by other units that need EXP at the start of the game. Where Inara differs, however, is that she also uses staves/white-magic, meaning that she doubles as the team’s healer. My hope with this is that she would be able to retain some utility, and not simply fall off after the beginning of the game. As a light magic user, she would also serve as a weapon triangle counter to anima magic (I plan on reversing the triangle to suit the story), demonstrating the fact that the weapon triangle exists for magic as well. The only other mage at this point is an anima mage, so without another type of magic user, the triangle could feel like it appears of out nowhere.
This was Inara the Bishop, Whistleblower and Certified Jagen. Let me know what you think, and feel free to give me constructive criticism. This is really my first go at writing a complete fictional story, as well as my first attempt at creating my own game (well, romhack), so it’s really appreciated. Look forward to my initial world-building setup post, as it’s probably coming next, and I’m excited to see what you all think!
I will also make sure to develop character portraits before doing these kinds of posts in the future. I’m still trying to get a windows VM working, because of course the software doesn’t work through wine
