Great Disaster

Great Disaster


In the Paradox trilogy universe, thirty years prior to the game's events, a catastrophe known as the Great Disaster drastically altered the entire world within a day. With damage done to Remina, Sentora continent had then split apart into several pieces, along with a new continent called Snow which, hence its name, was entirely covered in snow. Additionally, seven huge black holes called Tartarus appeared all over the world; each Tartarus had huge dungeons within, filled with completely new and bizarre monsters called Apoptosis, and lots of highly advanced relics and technologies called Machina, or Machines, were discovered.  Moreover, Goddess Ilias has suddenly vanished and never appeared again, causing the downfall of her religion and increase of human-monster association. Finally, a huge amount of mana filled the whole world`s atmosphere, making humans capable of using magic, thus causing the Magical Revolution, or the Renaissance era as it was called, among human countries.

Grangold became very powerful kingdom. After creation of a monster army and beginning a war with other kingdoms, Grangold became major threat to other three countries. Some shady rumors started to spread about the monstrous 'Magic King' Grangold 11th.

In Sabasa, after the sudden death of Sabasa King, his daughter inherited his throne. However, it turned out that the new Queen is very extravagant, evil person who loves to party and has no interest in politics, causing great poverty among the kingdom. People started to suspect that the woman who seated on the throne is actually a Succubus, who killed the king and princess and morphed into the princess`s form.

In San Ilia, lots of religious conflict occurred because of Pop`s tolerance of using Machines. Political force was spread into two factions: Pop and his followers, who accepted use of Machines; and their opposition, who kept their belief in Ilias and her prohibition using these gadgets.

Present Day
Luka finds himself dreaming about Goddess Ilias, who tries to warn him of some upcoming threat. However, her body begins to fade, distorting her message. Luka wakes up and ponders about a Great Disaster 30 years prior caused Ilias to seemingly disappear, then writes in his diary about his dream before leaving to be "baptized" and setting off on his first journey to find his father Marcellus.

Upon leaving his Mother's Inn, Luka finds that Iliasville is in panic because Hans, the village lumberjack, was kidnapped and taken to the Slime Girl Village to the North. Luka leaves and heads straight there, fighting through the hostile Slime Girls before hearing a large explosion. Upon heading to the source, he finds a young angel who reveals herself to be a younger-looking Ilias. Luka doesn't believe her and in response she attempts to punish him with Thunder of Judgement, however the attack only lightly shocks him; Ilias is confused until she conjures a mirror with her magic, and discovers she is now in a smaller body. Unable to contact help, Ilias runs away, leaving Luka confused.

Luka arrives at the peak to find Hans cornered by a Bunny Slime and two Slime Girls. He manages to fend them off and rescue Hans. On his way back down he comes across Alice, also in a sealed state, who asks if he's seen a rabbit anywhere. Luka directs her to the top of the summit and she thanks him, leaving to search for the rabbit.

Upon returning to Ilias Village, Luka is confronted by Sonya, a temple priestess and his childhood best friend who was raised by Lazarus, who scolds him for nearly being late to the baptism. The two head to the Village Chief who thanks Luka for his help. Luka and Sonya then head to Ilias Temple for the baptism. The ceremony takes place, although the priest mentions since Ilias disappeared that the Goddess no longer appears for the ceremony, however as they continue the baptism Ilias suddenly appears before Luka and company and tries to warn him of the upcoming threat again. However, once again her body fades and her message was distorted, and as a result she fails to bless Luka.

Luka decides to head on the journey to find his father and face this upcoming threat. After leaving the Temple, Luka learns of a commotion going on at his Mother's Inn, he arrives to find both the sealed Alice and Ilias fighting; Luka assumes both are just a monster and young angel imitating the Great Monster Wars, but soon learns that they are both the Monster Lord and the Goddess, respectively. Luka then has to choose which one to take on his journey.

After he chooses, Luka and his new traveling companion head to the Village Chief's house to meet with him and discuss some important matter. Following the meeting, Sonya meets with Luka and decides to join him as well. If the player chose Ilias, Sonya will not recognize Ilias until she is told who she really is. As they're about to leave, a mysterious man named Nero arrives, who talks with Luka about the strong presence of magic in the world that resulted from the Great Disaster. Nero mentions that magic is uncommon where he's from. He then acts confused when he sees Sonia and mentions that Luka had no childhood best friends, leaving everyone confused as he quickly leaves.

The party leaves Iliasville and heads to Iliasburg. Before they reach the city, they camp out for the night. Luka decides to practice his sword fighting before bed, as no one would train him; even Lazarus wouldn't because his fighting style is too reckless and led to his broken arm. Ilias or Alice decide to train him with Angel or Monster techniques respectively. If the player chose Alice, she teaches him Demon Decapitation. If the player chose Ilias, she will instead teach him Angel Dance.

After some training and sleep, they continue to Iliasburg. They then encounter a White Rabbit at the city entrance. The White Rabbit mentions Granberia not being here this time, which triggers an illusion in Luka's mind of Granberia. Luka and company attempt to talk with the White Rabbit about her motives and why Granberia was mentioned; the White Rabbit answers that she's here to guide Alice and mentions that she did not cast the Six Ancestor's Great Seal on either Ilias or Alice. After some dialogue, Luka can try to force an elaboration, but this results the White Rabbit summoning a Bunny Slime and two Slime Girls to fight Luka. After the battle, the White Rabbit leaves while accidentally dropping a Key to Hades.The party decides that they need information and luckily they hear of an Information Broker right in town.

After getting the information they need, either by paying for it or by doing a favor, the party continues to Pornof in search of the rabbit they heard about it. Except the rabbit they find in the Pornof Inn is the wrong rabbit. Luckily, she directs them to the nearby Tartarus where do find who they are looking for, only for the White Rabbit to run away again, forcing the group to chase her down the Tartarus.