A brief summary of Asteria - Recollections of Eden (Part Four)
So it’s been a couple of years since I did any translation work on this but with the news of Tales of Asteria shutting down I wanted to finally finish my summary of Recollections of Eden (aka the White Lions) arc.
You can start from Part One here
Let’s finish this! The final summary;
With all three barriers surrounding Shangrace now disabled the core group head into the city and fight to the top of the tower to reach Van and Lazaris.
As they climb the tower and break further barriers they can hear Lazaris’ voice.
The dragon monster from the shrine priestess trials appears and though they manage to injure one dragon, another shows up and blocks the path;
In their final appearance the White Lions show up to take over the fight which allows the others to move on and confront Van and Lazaris. Farewell to these amazing outfits!
Letting the White Lions do their thing the group continues on. At the top of the tower is a ball of light and Mikleo realises its’ the same as the one he saw in the ruins which helped him regain his memories of their original world.
Lazaris arrives and says that with the disappearance of that last ball of light this new world is complete.
Lazaris then attacks them but Colette still struggles to understand why they must fight and why she can feel Lazaris is hurting still. (As a side note anyone who has their original memory is referred to as a ‘sinner’ in this story. I didn’t know that when I was translating previously)
We finally get some backstory on Lazaris. Describing events in a previous Asteria arc (or possibly alluding to Radiant Mythology 3) Lazaris tells how the appearance of Kanonno (the descender) started everything.
How they came into existence at that time and how since then they’ve became exhausted watching how humans fought and killed each other, living creatures and even the world itself.
We briefly fight Lazaris and it looks like the group will be overwhelmed when Colette awakens again to her power and uses it to stop everyone from becoming crystals.
But she doesn’t want to hurt Lazaris, Colette has finally worked out that Lazaris was born as a collection of human consciousness and is not their enemy.
She wants to work with Lazaris to return the world to its former state and make a better future. Lazaris repeatedly denies Colette’s help and that’s when the big cheese himself appears and to everyone’s surprise Van attacks Lazaris.
The group cannot believe Van is now trying to kill Lazaris but we get a little more backstory on why the two were working together in the first place.
Still in Van’s eyes Lazaris’ role is now over and he wants to destroy them to finally complete this new ‘perfect’ world.
The group step in to defend Lazaris and Van tries to reason and bring them round to his way of thinking.
Sorey and the others take responsibility as humans for how their world became and promise if things return to normal that they’ll make the world right again.
None of them want to live in this new fake perfect world and leave their old ones behind because Van’s ultimate wish is to destroy everything and start again.
As they prepare to fight Van, Colette once again offers Lazaris her protection and assurance that they will make the world a better place.
We push Van back once but he comes back stronger than ever.
However Lazaris will not be taken down and musters enough strength to fight back.
I had a very difficult boss fight with Van to get to this point and it didn’t seem like we would be able to defeat him when Lazaris finally steps in.
Lazaris crystallise both themself and Van, Colette and the rest of the group’s words seem to have finally won them over.
The world starts to return to normal, all the traces of crystals disappear.
A few of the group we haven’t seen for awhile show up and tell us the world outside is returning to normal.
They are sad hearing what happened but Colette knows Lazaris is still with them and watching over to make sure they keep their promise to make a better world.
Raven asks Ludger and the others if they saw the White Lions on their way up but Ludger tells them no. It seems they have already disappeared from this world along with the crystals.
One by one they are engulfed by a bright light and start to disappear. Everyone is worried they won’t remember these events later on and all say their goodbyes now.
Still, despite everything they are finally returning home.
Epilogue!!
Back in the regular world the various groups discuss what happened. It seems like only a select few people remember what happened.
Raven explains it here but people who remembered the original world are the ones who now retain their memories of Lazaris and Van’s world.
I didn’t see this in my reading earlier but there were some stone mouments which also appeared with Lazaris’ world. I asked @sekaiki-honey about this as well as why Colette had ‘the will of the world’ inside her and they said;
Colette, Lloyd, Zelos vow to keep their promise to Lazaris and make a better world.
The end!
Thanks to everyone who read this far. I know I summarised it heavily and probably missed a lot of stuff but there’s still a couple of months til the game shuts down and I encourage you to read it yourself if you want info on a particular character’s journey or more backstory.
I am also sorry for the poor quality of the photos and translations as well as how long this took to finish but I don’t speak Japanese or have much free time so this is the best I could do. I wanted to record the story somewhere for people who were as curious as me before the game shut down and I’m happy I could finally do that.
A brief summary of Asteria - Recollections of Eden (Part Two)
This post is part two of my summary of Lloyd and Colette’s role in Asteria Arc 4 ‘Recollections of Eden’!
You can read Part One here
Let’s get into it!
At the end of the last part Colette had successfully become a shrine priestess and got her wish of helping Lazaris. However it ended badly when Lazaris sealed her away by crystallising her!
While in the crystal Colette dreams of travelling again with Zelos and Lloyd, signalling her memories have returned.
She manages to break out eventually but is unsure why and is now in the dungeon alone. However there is someone she recognises nearby...
Seeing Zelos Colette is able to use a mysterious new power and free him from the crystal.
(apologies for the bad translation, some parts just dont want to behave)
Once Zelos is free it’s clear he retains his memories of the previous world. Zelos urges Colette to come with him and find Sorey who he was travelling with before he got caught by the White Lions. Colette wants to help the other people in the crystals but Lazaris finds out they’re trying to escape so they have to leave in a hurry.
Zelos has a home nearby in Mar Village (near where he last saw Sorey) so the two travel there to hide. That night Colette says she feels something is calling for her and they go out and find both Sorey and Mikleo talking heatedly near some ruins. It seems Mikleo does not have his memories back either.
I apologise to all the Mikleo fans I wasn’t sure what his role was in this world but he seemed to be important as Rowen was his butler near the start and people were treating him importantly too.
Mikleo seems to think he’s been lead into a trap and isn’t too happy with the situation but Colette’s feeling of something calling her gets stronger and they go a little deeper to find this ball of light.
But that’s not the only thing waiting in the ruins. It seems the group caused more of a disturbance than they intended because some White Lions show up to chase them out! Including-
Colette is really happy to see Fang whom she addresses as “Lloyd” for the first time and while Lloyd is initially happy to see that Colette passed the exam and became the shrine maiden he gets confused when she uses his real name.
He’s also not super happy that they were trespassing in the ruins and tries to arrest them.
Even though Lloyd’s memories do not return, thanks to the ball of light some of Mikleo’s do and together he armatises with Sorey and manage to cause enough of a ruckus to escape the white lions. They do briefly fight Lloyd and there’s a fun line from Zelos here;
But it’s clear both parties are holding back their true strength so Colette’s group escapes and Lloyd decides to let them go, both sides feeling unsatisfied.
It’s also shown here again that Colette has the power to get rid of Lazaris’ special crystals as there was one sealing the entrance to the cave that she was able to destroy.
The three important White Lions report to Van who is not super happy with their progress. All three of them were trying to track down the people who retained their memories and are seen a threat to this new world and all three failed.
I also wanted to add here that Lloyd, Milla and Yuri aren’t ‘evil’, they’re just being misled. They have their same personalities as usual but don’t seem to know the exact reason they need to hunt down the others, they’re just following orders. Van and Lazaris are the only ones who know the big picture.
Lloyd does also mention to Lazaris about meeting Colette who he thought was her shrine priestess but Lazaris says she already knows and dismisses him without giving him more info on the situation.
Back to Colette’s group they now meet up with all the other people who have their memories (Velvet, Raven, Veigue, Ludger, Kyle, Tear, Elize, Jude and Stahn) and while deciding what to do Velvet tries to rush to the capital and gets caught by Lazaris in a fabricated world she doesn’t want to leave where her brother Laphicet is still alive.
I did skim over this part a bunch (apologies to Velvet fans) but the rest of the group follow Velvet into her delusion and manage to help her break free and return to the real world by killing Laphicet (again not 100% on that) and sorry I didn’t take screenshots of that part.
Once they’re free Lazaris tries to encase everyone in crystal but with Colette’s power stopping her she doesn’t succeed.
Colette tries to appeal to Lazaris and says she only wants to help her and feels a connection to her but Lazaris just wants to use Colette for her own plans.
Colette refuses and Lazaris, who is kinda mad now, blocks the road to Shangrace and turns it into a crystallised fortress so the group won’t be able to reach her and Van.
❝ there’s no need for hostility , dean . i have no desire to meddle in any of your affairs , celestial or otherwise . this is merely a quick visit . & , ——— AH , DO TRY NOT TO FLATTER YOURSELF . i am only looking for castiel . he hasn’t been responding to any of my messages . ❞
