The five protagonists: their wishes and their connectionsMinor spoilers

Cai is the son of Castor and the goddess Aurora. Castor worked at Aurora's temple and tried to elope with her, which the empire treated as abduction. Cai was born in Dagdan year 1434. The following year, his father received a reprieve until the child turned fifteen. The 1449 arrest is therefore an old reckoning his father always knew would come, rather than a sudden disaster. Only then is Cai forced into the order governing gods and humans.

Aurora's mother is Yu Phas, and her nominal father is Solel.

His conversation with Fabio identifies Lamine of the Ten Elites as Dietrich’s great-grandmother. He has never met her.

In his solo ending, he keeps seeking battles in Dagda and eventually dies on a battlefield. His badly damaged sword returns to Garreg Mach and is sealed away as a “lost Relic.” Paired endings take other paths. With Esmeralda, he discovers that fighting giant fish is just as entertaining and lives with her afterward. With Fabio, the two fight side by side a hundred years later. His later life changes with the ending conditions.

The assassin Bahr Vahn killed her father, King Sergio, and she lost her right arm. Eligibility to inherit the kingdom is tied to wielding an axe, so the injury threatens her life, throne, and country at once. She accepts the arm left by her ancestor Mahadu and carries the spear connected to it.

The price of that strength is a ten-year limit on her remaining life and gradual erosion of her mind. Mahadu's legend already provides a warning, yet she demands secrecy. Her urgency becomes understandable: she is responsible for a people's long-held wish with limited time of her own.

How does she choose between the Games and her country? Her route gives a specific sequence. She retrieves ore to make a new necklace, temporarily suppresses the arm's power, and returns to continue competing. The necklace breaks again in the semifinal; she nears loss of control, breaks free through willpower, and wins. Before the final, news arrives of an invasion and a fallen fortress. She withdraws and returns home.

Winning is a way to fulfill her country’s wish; when her people face danger, she sets the championship aside. On her journey, she learns to think independently and shoulder a queen’s responsibilities. The necklace only suppresses the condition temporarily. It does not prove her arm is permanently healed or remove the ten-year limit. Do not present her withdrawal on this route as the result shared by every route.

After losing her father and arm, she accepts this power to take the throne, at a cost to her body. Nuada, the Irish mythological king who lost his hand, offers an interpretation of the creative inspiration. In the game, the cost is the ten-year limit and her ending.

The specific wish is to acquire Cybele, restore the holy land at Damascar's old capital, and rebuild Yu Phas's temple. Her solo ending records successful annexation and rebuilding, followed by abdication and seclusion as the arm worsens her health. The kingdom's revival does not erase her personal cost.

Her true name is Leilidahna Guillermo Cohendia. The Cydonia Massacre of 1444 took her father and her former life. Buccar carried her out of the flames. She later hunts those connected to it using a list left by her mentor Mahdel. Bertrand and Lechner are important targets in that pursuit.

The cruelest entry on the list is Mahdel’s own name. In the end, he remains in the temple and sets it ablaze. The object she uses to identify enemies also forces her to confront someone who once protected her. Her pursuit gradually uncovers these relationships.

In her solo ending, she settles her feud with Bertrand, seals the family vihuela Obsidian in Kalla’s temple, and continues traveling as a musician. Her ending with Olympia more explicitly frames the journey as mourning the dead and healing her heart. She has not forgotten the past; music can finally serve a purpose beyond revenge.

Separate the body's manufacture from the soul's origin. Character-creation dialogue calls the body a Mediator, an artificial human made in ancient times for long voyages and conflict resolution. Zenon prepares the body in Kunlun and ultimately gives his own core to complete it.

Consider the clues about his body, weapon, and soul separately:

One prerelease interpretation connects Cai’s mixed heritage and mystic eye, Theodora’s lost arm and royal duty, Dietrich’s divine sword and cloak, and Leda’s inspiring music to different parts of the Irish hero Lugh’s legend. Each of the four represents some of Lugh’s traits, while Eshmel organizes them. This interpretation of their inspirations fits the theme of convergence. The unlock conditions for a five-person combined attack require separate investigation.

In the finished story, Balor’s descendants are intertwined with Dagda’s family. Cai’s parents connect village life to the gods’ past. Leda’s inherited black instrument connects her private revenge to Maria and a performer from the old era. The four seemingly independent journeys keep passing through the same old conflicts.

Their inspirations explain the five characters’ roles, while their relationships connect the past. There are two views on the Solel reincarnation theory: one analysis of the finished game affirms it outright; a prerelease interpretation argues that similar weapons may only indicate inherited powers, while acknowledging its opposing evidence is weak. The creation of the body has a clear account, but the soul connection remains strongly implied.

Compare tournament brackets across protagonists and the outcomes change. Cai usually defeats Leda; Dietrich usually loses to Bertrand; player involvement on the relevant route may change those results. Theodora also leaves the tournament because of war at home.

This leads to two counterfactual possibilities: if Theodora reached the finals, she might be the likeliest champion; if she withdrew, Bertrand might win by default. The game has no “unintervened canon” route, so include each route’s matchups and withdrawal conditions in such speculation.

A developer interview mentions an early plan for eight perspectives, later narrowed to four. The finished game still gives Bertrand, Talimun, Orchel, and Anatolia their own teams, deputies, paralogues, and special Blaze Arts. Their paralogues often take up wishes they could not fulfill in the Games.

These four also have independent stories: Bertrand’s Mane of Flames, Talimun’s Moon’s Lie, Orchel’s Linaria’s Morning Dew, and Anatolia’s Brides of the Pale Raven.

The actual game has only four route entry points. Eight perspectives were an early development concept.