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* BigBad: Rhetz is the current leader of the Holy Order of Vyena, an organization that claims to protect the world's peace by hunting down mages. However, he secretly [[spoiler:sacrifices mages in order to absorb their power for his own use. He later uses the rest of the mage prisoners as hostages to force Lyrelle's party to get the Holy Stone for him, which he uses to gain divine power in the hopes of becoming Vyena's champion and forcing order on the world. He turns out to be manipulated by Matria, who wants to use his new divine power to give birth to Scion the Devourer of Worlds, all so she can destroy and remake Vyen in her own image]].
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* WombLevel: The FinalBoss fight takes place in [[spoiler:Matria's womb, which the party entered via a teleporter in her false heaven]].
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* WombLevel: The FinalBoss fight takes place in [[spoiler:Matria's womb, which the party entered via a teleporter in her false heaven]]. Naturally, it uses RPG Maker XP's flesh tiles.
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* TheUnfought: The party never gets to fight [[spoiler:Matria herself, since the FinalBoss fight against the Devourer takes place inside her [[WombLevel womb]]]].
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* TheUnfought: The party never gets to fight [[spoiler:Matria herself, since the FinalBoss fight against the Devourer takes place inside her [[WombLevel womb]]]].womb]]. However, she does become a boss in ''VideoGame/HeroesOfTheSeasons'']].
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* SelectiveObliviousness: In Moonlit Forest, [[spoiler:Ophelia notes that Rhetz's narcissism made him vulnerable to Matria's manipulations, since she makes him feel important in order to gain his unconditional trust. As a result, he fails to realize her true demonic nature even as she summons a demon army and orders him to slaughter innocents]].
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* SelectiveObliviousness: In Moonlit Forest, [[spoiler:Ophelia notes that Rhetz's narcissism made him vulnerable to Matria's manipulations, since she makes him feel important in order to gain his unconditional trust. As a result, he fails to realize her true demonic nature even as she summons a demon army and orders him to slaughter innocents]].innocents and ignores all the obvious evidence that she's lying out of her ass about creating a utopia]].
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* PurposefullyOverpowered: The OptionalPartyMember [[spoiler:Ophelia starts with a weapon that gives her an extra 200 INT, which is stronger than Lyrelle's ultimate weapon. This, along with her powerful single-target light spells, gives her more damage output than the rest of the party until they can also acquire their ultimate weapons]].
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* PurposefullyOverpowered: PurposelyOverpowered: The OptionalPartyMember [[spoiler:Ophelia starts with a weapon that gives her an extra 200 INT, which is stronger than Lyrelle's ultimate weapon. This, along with her powerful single-target light spells, gives her more damage output than the rest of the party until they can also acquire their ultimate weapons]].
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* PurposefullyOverpowered: The OptionalPartyMember [[spoiler:Ophelia starts with a weapon that gives her an extra 200 INT, which is stronger than Lyrelle's ultimate weapon. This, along with her powerful single-target light spells, gives her more damage output than the rest of the party]].
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* PurposefullyOverpowered: The OptionalPartyMember [[spoiler:Ophelia starts with a weapon that gives her an extra 200 INT, which is stronger than Lyrelle's ultimate weapon. This, along with her powerful single-target light spells, gives her more damage output than the rest of the party]].party until they can also acquire their ultimate weapons]].
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* PokeInTheThirdEye: Hanni's psychic powers gives her a limited form of clairvoyance, but when she tries to see the future where Alpatina is attacked by Nibiru, the latter detects her.
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* PokeInTheThirdEye: Hanni's psychic powers gives her a limited form of clairvoyance, but when she tries to see the future where Alpatina is attacked by Nibiru, the latter detects her.her and looks in her direction to give her a scare, thanks to his own psychic powers.
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* ControlFreak: Chancellor Rhetz [[spoiler:wants to rule the entire world under a totalitarian government in order to forcibly bring peace and believes freedom isn't worth the risk of war]].
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* OrderVersusChaos: Chancellor Rhetz [[spoiler:wants to rule the entire world under a totalitarian government in order to forcibly bring peace and believes freedom isn't worth the risk of war]].
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** Lyrelle specializes in healing magic and light-elemental offensive magic.
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** Lyrelle specializes [[spoiler:and Ophelia]] specialize in healing magic and light-elemental offensive magic.
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* NotAlwaysEvil: Daemons are living beings who are possessed by demons, who are usually evil. However, the one in Hegala Volcano is willing to leave Hegala Village alone as long as no one disturbs them. Although they do get agitated by Lyrelle's presence, they agree to a truce with her after their boss fight.
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** River starts with a light-elemental sword skill due to being a Crusader, and he's one of the few in his organization who doesn't discriminate against witches.
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** River starts with a light-elemental sword skill due to being a Crusader, and he's one of the few in his organization who doesn't discriminate against witches. The entire Holy Order [[spoiler:eventually comes around to his way of thinking, resulting in Cesar and Krizza joining the party and contributing their own light-elemental skills]].
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* {{Hypocrite}}: The Holy Order of Vyena claims magic is evil, but they're willing to use Warptowers to teleport conveniently, even though those towers are powered by magic.
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* MirrorBoss: In the optional dungeon, Ezul's Lair, the party must face [[spoiler:doppelgangers of themselves before they can fight Ezul. The first enemy team consists of Hanni, Cesar, Alden, and Clark; the second team consists of Ophelia, Luna, Krizza, and Fence; and the third team consists of Lyrelle and River]].
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* FreudianExcuse: Rhetz and Cesar's clan was wiped out by evil mages, causing them to join the Holy Order of Vyena to take revenge on mages. Unfortunately, Rhetz also becomes obsessed with power and order, [[spoiler:seeking to become Vyena's champion in order to rule the world and force everyone to submit to his idea of order so that he will [[NeverBeHurtAgain never have to feel powerless ever again]]]].
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* FreudianExcuse: GenocideSurvivor: Rhetz and Cesar's clan was wiped out by evil mages, causing them to join the Holy Order of Vyena to take revenge on mages. Unfortunately, Rhetz also becomes obsessed with power and order, [[spoiler:seeking to become Vyena's champion in order to rule the world and force everyone to submit to his idea of order so that he will [[NeverBeHurtAgain never have to feel powerless ever again]]]].
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* FaceOfAThug: Lyrelle mistakens Zermo for a daemon because he looks like a huge winged minotaur, but Zermo reveals that he's actually a Celestial and is on Lyrelle's side.
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* FaceOfAThug: Lyrelle mistakens Zermo for a daemon because he looks like a huge winged minotaur, demonic goat man, but Zermo reveals that he's actually a Celestial and is on Lyrelle's side.
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* EvilMatriarch: The BigBad is [[spoiler:Matria, a demoness who manipulates Rhetz into gaining divine power so she can siphon his energy and use it to birth a powerful world-ending demon]].
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* DuelBoss: In the Fortress of Light, [[spoiler:Cesar has to fight his brother Rhetz in a one-on-one duel]].
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* DuelBoss: In the Fortress of Light, Artificial Heaven dungeon, [[spoiler:Cesar has to fight his brother Rhetz in a one-on-one duel]].
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* DraconicAbomination:
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* DarkIsEvil: Most demons are dark elemental and the BigBad [[spoiler:Matria]] has an army of them.
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** The first half of the final dungeon has light-lemental demons, who are all [[spoiler:servants of Matria, the demoness of illusion and false light]].
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''[=BlueSkies=] 2'' is an MediaNotes/RPGMaker XP game developed by Starmage in 2018 as part of the ''VideoGame/BlueSkiesSeries''.
Sometime after the events of the [[VideoGame/BlueSkies previous game]], a war ravaged the world due to all sides using magic. A religious organization, the Holy Order of Vyena, rose up and took control of the remains of civilization. They blamed magic for the war and made it their mission to hunt down all mages in the name of Vyena. These witch hunts continued for a millennium, with the Calbane Clan being the latest target. Only two members of the Calbane Clan, Lyrelle and Luna, managed to evade capture. For ten years, they kept a low profile and hid their magic, but the Order eventually discovers them anyways. Fortunately, one of the Order's Crusaders, River, sides with them and helps them escape his superiors' clutches. However, the Order has a deeper conspiracy beyond their witch hunts, and it's up to Lyrelle and her allies to uncover it and restore true peace to Vyen.
Download from itch [[https://starmage.itch.io/blueskies-2 here]].
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* AllThereInTheManual: The game never reveals the identity of the cloaked man who warns the party about an attack on Alpatina, but the rpgmaker.net page reveals that he's actually a survivor of the Calbane clan.
* AmbiguousStartOfDarkness: According to Cesar, Rhetz was already ambitious and selfish even before the destruction of their clan, making it questionable how much of an effect that event had on Rhetz. On the other hand, Rhetz does cite the destruction of his clan as a major factor for his belief that only absolute power can bring peace.
* BatmanGambit: Chancellor Rhetz already knows his brother Cesar doesn't trust him, so he [[spoiler:"carelessly" leaves his journal open on his desk so that Cesar will have the evidence needed to go after him. He also anticipates that Cesar will team up with Lyrelle to do so. Unfortunately, this means the two of them will have to confront Rhetz near the Holy Stone, which allows the Holy Stone to absorb enough of Lyrelle's power to turn Rhetz into Matria's champion]].
* DarkIsEvil: Most demons are dark elemental and the BigBad [[spoiler:Matria]] has an army of them.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Fence and his family are dark-elemental mages, but they're on the party's side in opposing Rhetz [[spoiler:and Matria]].
* DarkerAndEdgier: While the previous game had many dark moments due to Xmeil's war crimes, the war was stopped before Xmeil could take over Gemeid and Utania. In this game, the Holy Order of Vyena controls almost all of Vyen and regularly conducts witch hunts to drive mages to extinction. Skye's modus operandi of healing the sick and injured made him a beloved hero in the past, but here, Lyrelle's attempt to do the same just results in the people she helped capturing her for her bounty money.
* DraconicAbomination:
* DualBoss: The second to last boss of the game is Lyrelle and River versus Ursula and Vendrak, two demons who look similar to Enine and Ciceri respectively.
* DuelBoss: In the Fortress of Light, [[spoiler:Cesar has to fight his brother Rhetz in a one-on-one duel]].
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Downplayed with Rhetz. Although he's eager to become Vyena's champion, [[spoiler:when "Vyena" tells him to wipe out all life on Vyen, Rhetz is hesitant because he thought the plan was to simply rule over everyone. Unfortunately, he ultimately relents because he has no idea his goddess "Vyena" is an impostor]].
* EvilMatriarch: The BigBad is [[spoiler:Matria, a demoness who manipulates Rhetz into gaining divine power so she can siphon his energy and use it to birth a powerful world-ending demon]].
* FaceOfAThug: Lyrelle mistakens Zermo for a daemon, but Zermo reveals that he's actually a Celestial and is on Lyrelle's side.
* FauxAffablyEvil:
** Chancellor Rhetz may sound more rational and calm than his brother, to the point where [[spoiler:he's willing to form a peace treaty with the mages. This is all just a facade to hide that he's really a power-hungry, manipulative, and fanatical megalomaniac who will do anything to become Vyena's champion]].
** The archdemon Nibiru is polite to the party in a condescending way and mocks them for being rude as they storm through the final dungeon. He also tries to use his silver tongue to turn the party against the goddess Vyena by blaming her for the persecution of mages, but the party isn't fooled.
* FreudianExcuse: Rhetz and Cesar's clan was wiped out by evil mages, causing them to join the Holy Order of Vyena to take revenge on mages. Unfortunately, Rhetz also becomes obsessed with power and order, [[spoiler:seeking to become Vyena's champion in order to rule the world and force everyone to submit to his idea of order so that he will [[NeverBeHurtAgain never have to feel powerless ever again]]]].
* HappyEndingOverride: In the previous game, Skye's party ended the world war that Lord Gwir started, prevented [[spoiler:Cael from destroying humanity]], and brought peace to Vyen, with Skye and Xent ruling over Gemeid and Xmeil respectively. Unfortunately, sometime after they passed away, Vyen went through another world war that led to mages being persecuted for over a millennium.
* HeelFaceTurn: The Holy Order of Vyena starts as an antagonistic witch-hunting faction, but [[spoiler:agree to a truce when it becomes evident that they need Lyrelle's help to defeat the demons. Unfortunately, this is actually a ploy by Chancellor Rhetz to have the Holy Stone absorb Lyrelle's power. However, the Order turns on Rhetz once it becomes clear that he's working with the demons, to the point where they appoint Lyrelle as their new chancellor]].
* HopelessBossFight: The first battle with Krizza ends with her defeating the party with Judging Strikes. Unlike most examples, she is never fought again, unless one counts [[spoiler:her doppelganger in Ezul's Lair]].
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Rhetz is unable to tell that [[spoiler:"Vyena" is actually an impostor, even after she tells him to wipe out all life on the planet with an army of demons]].
* HostageSituation: Chancellor Rhetz [[spoiler:forces the party to support his plan to TakeOverTheWorld by threatening the lives of the Calbane clan, who he is holding prisoner in Gemeid]].
* {{Hypocrite}}: The Holy Order of Vyena claims magic is evil, but they're willing to use Warptowers to teleport conveniently, even though those towers are powered by magic.
* KarmaHoudini: Captain Ranjir and Rob get no comeuppance for selling Lyrelle out to the Holy Order of Vyena. This is justified because the party needs them in order to sail between continents.
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: Mayor Whelmer and the citizens of Saymal seem to have gotten off easy at first for capturing Lyrelle and attempting to sell her to the Holy Order, but when the party returns to the village, Saymal is in the red financially and none of their inquiries are being fulfilled.
* KnightTemplar:
** The Holy Order of Vyena seeks to purge all magic users in order to prevent the magic wars that ravaged the world in the past. They don't care if those mages committed actual crimes, leading to them executing many innocent mages.
** Chancellor Rhetz believes [[spoiler:he must fulfill Vyena's instructions to sacrifice mages to gain their power, all so he can become strong enough to unite the world under a single government. However, Lyrelle notes that this would give him absolute authority over the population and strip away their freeodm. He has no idea that Matria is actually impersonating Vyena in order to manipulate him]].
* LightIsGood:
** Lyrelle specializes in healing magic and light-elemental offensive magic.
** River starts with a light-elemental sword skill due to being a Crusader, and he's one of the few in his organization who doesn't discriminate against witches.
* LightIsNotGood:
** The Holy Order of Vyena can use light elemental attacks, but they're a bunch of {{Knight Templar}}s who enact witch hunts to exterminate all mages.
** The first half of the final dungeon has light-lemental demons, who are all [[spoiler:servants of Matria, the demoness of illusion and false light]].
* LyingByOmission: When Chancellor Rhetz [[spoiler:states that he has the Calbane clan hostage, Lyrelle assumes her parents must be among them. Chancellor Rhetz never directly mentions her parents in order to hide the fact that he already killed them for trying to escape, and only allows her to believe they're alive to motivate her to get the Holy Stone for him]].
* ManipulativeBastard: Chancellor Rhetz [[spoiler:instigates demon attacks in order to force the Holy Order of Vyena and Lyrelle to form a truce, and then uses the Calbane clan as hostages to make her comply with his demands. After he takes the Holy Crystal and imprisons Lyrelle, he leaves his journal full of his plans open on his desk, which turns his brother Cesar against him. This is exactly what he's counting on, since he wants Cesar and Lyrelle to team up against him. This causes Lyrelle to use white magic near the Holy Stone and unwittingly empower it, allowing Rhetz to gain the full power of the stone]].
* NobleBigot: Cesar refuses to forgive mages for the genocide of his clan and is flabbergasted when Lyrelle decides to heal him after his boss battle. He doesn't call off the search order for the party, but he does delay the search for one day so that [[DebtDetester he isn't indebted to them]]. He also [[spoiler:opposes his brother for secretly working with demons and draining mages in order to become Vyena's champion, to the point where he's willing to form an EnemyMine with Lyrelle]].
* NotAlwaysEvil: Daemons are living beings who are possessed by demons, who are usually evil. However, the one in Hegala Volcano is willing to leave Hegala Village alone as long as no one disturbs them. Although they do get agitated by Lyrelle's presence, they agree to a truce with her after their boss fight.
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: Vyena[[spoiler:, or rather her impostor Matria, tells Rhetz that it's necessary to wipe out all life on Vyen in order to create new life from the ashes and establish a more peaceful world, but this is just a lie so that she can have her demonic forces take over the world and rebuild it into a dystopia just to spite the real Vyena]].
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Mayor Whelmer of Seymal Village admits he doesn't care about the Holy Order's doctrines, but sells out mages to them anyways because he wants the reward money.
* OptionalPartyMember: After [[spoiler:Enine destroys Gemeid, the party can go to Xmeil to recruit Ophelia, the nun who usually saves the game for them. She functions as a secondary white mage in combat, being better than Lyrelle in some ways and worse in others]].
* OrderVersusChaos: Chancellor Rhetz [[spoiler:wants to rule the entire world under a totalitarian government in order to forcibly bring peace and believes freedom isn't worth the risk of war]].
* PointOfNoReturn:
** Once the party leaves for the continent of Baul via the warp on Mt. Glacius, they won't be able to return, since the garnet stone only has enough power for a one-way trip.
** Entering the final dungeon locks the party in, with several more one-way warps along the way. To compensate, enemies in this dungeon have a very high chance of dropping healing items.
* PokeInTheThirdEye: Hanni's psychic powers gives her a limited form of clairvoyance, but when she tries to see the future where Alpatina is attacked by Nibiru, the latter detects her.
* PurposefullyOverpowered: The OptionalPartyMember [[spoiler:Ophelia starts with a weapon that gives her an extra 200 INT, which is stronger than Lyrelle's ultimate weapon. This, along with her powerful single-target light spells, gives her more damage output than the rest of the party]].
* SelectiveObliviousness: In Moonlit Forest, [[spoiler:Ophelia notes that Rhetz's narcissism made him vulnerable to Matria's manipulations, since she makes him feel important in order to gain his unconditional trust. As a result, he fails to realize her true demonic nature even as she summons a demon army and orders him to slaughter innocents]].
* SummonMagic: Crema, Zermo, Excar, Lianna, and Divina return in this game as summonable Celestials, but unlike before, they give their powers for free and their summon skills are group-wide buffs rather than offensive skills.
* TokenGoodTeammate: River joined the Holy Order of Vyena out of a genuine desire to protect innocents and disagrees with their policy of criminalizing mages. Unfortunately, this makes him a fugitive alongside the rest of the party when he tries to help Lyrelle flee from the Order.
* TookALevelInKindness: Luna is very distrustful of River because he's a Crusader, though she warms up to him when he proves that he isn't bigoted and puts his career on the line to help the party escape the Order of Vyena.
* TheUnfought: The party never gets to fight [[spoiler:Matria herself, since the FinalBoss fight against the Devourer takes place inside her [[WombLevel womb]]]].
* UngratefulBastard:
** Downplayed with Cesar, who doesn't appreciate being spared by the party, though he at least has the decency to postpone pursuing them. Later, he refuses to be grateful when they save Quelengarde from a demon. It takes [[spoiler:learning the truth about his brother Rhetz's villainy for him to finally bury the hatchet with the party]].
** Rob and Captain Ranjir [[spoiler:sell the party out to the Order of Vyena in exchange for money, despite how the party saved their ship from a kraken]]. To their credit, they seem to be genuinely remorseful for their actions afterwards.
** Lyrelle heals someone from Saymal Village, but the villagers capture her anyways in order to collect her bounty.
* WombLevel: The FinalBoss fight takes place in [[spoiler:Matria's womb, which the party entered via a teleporter in her false heaven]].
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Sometime after the events of the [[VideoGame/BlueSkies previous game]], a war ravaged the world due to all sides using magic. A religious organization, the Holy Order of Vyena, rose up and took control of the remains of civilization. They blamed magic for the war and made it their mission to hunt down all mages in the name of Vyena. These witch hunts continued for a millennium, with the Calbane Clan being the latest target. Only two members of the Calbane Clan, Lyrelle and Luna, managed to evade capture. For ten years, they kept a low profile and hid their magic, but the Order eventually discovers them anyways. Fortunately, one of the Order's Crusaders, River, sides with them and helps them escape his superiors' clutches. However, the Order has a deeper conspiracy beyond their witch hunts, and it's up to Lyrelle and her allies to uncover it and restore true peace to Vyen.
Download from itch [[https://starmage.itch.io/blueskies-2 here]].
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* AllThereInTheManual: The game never reveals the identity of the cloaked man who warns the party about an attack on Alpatina, but the rpgmaker.net page reveals that he's actually a survivor of the Calbane clan.
* AmbiguousStartOfDarkness: According to Cesar, Rhetz was already ambitious and selfish even before the destruction of their clan, making it questionable how much of an effect that event had on Rhetz. On the other hand, Rhetz does cite the destruction of his clan as a major factor for his belief that only absolute power can bring peace.
* BatmanGambit: Chancellor Rhetz already knows his brother Cesar doesn't trust him, so he [[spoiler:"carelessly" leaves his journal open on his desk so that Cesar will have the evidence needed to go after him. He also anticipates that Cesar will team up with Lyrelle to do so. Unfortunately, this means the two of them will have to confront Rhetz near the Holy Stone, which allows the Holy Stone to absorb enough of Lyrelle's power to turn Rhetz into Matria's champion]].
* DarkIsEvil: Most demons are dark elemental and the BigBad [[spoiler:Matria]] has an army of them.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Fence and his family are dark-elemental mages, but they're on the party's side in opposing Rhetz [[spoiler:and Matria]].
* DarkerAndEdgier: While the previous game had many dark moments due to Xmeil's war crimes, the war was stopped before Xmeil could take over Gemeid and Utania. In this game, the Holy Order of Vyena controls almost all of Vyen and regularly conducts witch hunts to drive mages to extinction. Skye's modus operandi of healing the sick and injured made him a beloved hero in the past, but here, Lyrelle's attempt to do the same just results in the people she helped capturing her for her bounty money.
* DraconicAbomination:
* DualBoss: The second to last boss of the game is Lyrelle and River versus Ursula and Vendrak, two demons who look similar to Enine and Ciceri respectively.
* DuelBoss: In the Fortress of Light, [[spoiler:Cesar has to fight his brother Rhetz in a one-on-one duel]].
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Downplayed with Rhetz. Although he's eager to become Vyena's champion, [[spoiler:when "Vyena" tells him to wipe out all life on Vyen, Rhetz is hesitant because he thought the plan was to simply rule over everyone. Unfortunately, he ultimately relents because he has no idea his goddess "Vyena" is an impostor]].
* EvilMatriarch: The BigBad is [[spoiler:Matria, a demoness who manipulates Rhetz into gaining divine power so she can siphon his energy and use it to birth a powerful world-ending demon]].
* FaceOfAThug: Lyrelle mistakens Zermo for a daemon, but Zermo reveals that he's actually a Celestial and is on Lyrelle's side.
* FauxAffablyEvil:
** Chancellor Rhetz may sound more rational and calm than his brother, to the point where [[spoiler:he's willing to form a peace treaty with the mages. This is all just a facade to hide that he's really a power-hungry, manipulative, and fanatical megalomaniac who will do anything to become Vyena's champion]].
** The archdemon Nibiru is polite to the party in a condescending way and mocks them for being rude as they storm through the final dungeon. He also tries to use his silver tongue to turn the party against the goddess Vyena by blaming her for the persecution of mages, but the party isn't fooled.
* FreudianExcuse: Rhetz and Cesar's clan was wiped out by evil mages, causing them to join the Holy Order of Vyena to take revenge on mages. Unfortunately, Rhetz also becomes obsessed with power and order, [[spoiler:seeking to become Vyena's champion in order to rule the world and force everyone to submit to his idea of order so that he will [[NeverBeHurtAgain never have to feel powerless ever again]]]].
* HappyEndingOverride: In the previous game, Skye's party ended the world war that Lord Gwir started, prevented [[spoiler:Cael from destroying humanity]], and brought peace to Vyen, with Skye and Xent ruling over Gemeid and Xmeil respectively. Unfortunately, sometime after they passed away, Vyen went through another world war that led to mages being persecuted for over a millennium.
* HeelFaceTurn: The Holy Order of Vyena starts as an antagonistic witch-hunting faction, but [[spoiler:agree to a truce when it becomes evident that they need Lyrelle's help to defeat the demons. Unfortunately, this is actually a ploy by Chancellor Rhetz to have the Holy Stone absorb Lyrelle's power. However, the Order turns on Rhetz once it becomes clear that he's working with the demons, to the point where they appoint Lyrelle as their new chancellor]].
* HopelessBossFight: The first battle with Krizza ends with her defeating the party with Judging Strikes. Unlike most examples, she is never fought again, unless one counts [[spoiler:her doppelganger in Ezul's Lair]].
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Rhetz is unable to tell that [[spoiler:"Vyena" is actually an impostor, even after she tells him to wipe out all life on the planet with an army of demons]].
* HostageSituation: Chancellor Rhetz [[spoiler:forces the party to support his plan to TakeOverTheWorld by threatening the lives of the Calbane clan, who he is holding prisoner in Gemeid]].
* {{Hypocrite}}: The Holy Order of Vyena claims magic is evil, but they're willing to use Warptowers to teleport conveniently, even though those towers are powered by magic.
* KarmaHoudini: Captain Ranjir and Rob get no comeuppance for selling Lyrelle out to the Holy Order of Vyena. This is justified because the party needs them in order to sail between continents.
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: Mayor Whelmer and the citizens of Saymal seem to have gotten off easy at first for capturing Lyrelle and attempting to sell her to the Holy Order, but when the party returns to the village, Saymal is in the red financially and none of their inquiries are being fulfilled.
* KnightTemplar:
** The Holy Order of Vyena seeks to purge all magic users in order to prevent the magic wars that ravaged the world in the past. They don't care if those mages committed actual crimes, leading to them executing many innocent mages.
** Chancellor Rhetz believes [[spoiler:he must fulfill Vyena's instructions to sacrifice mages to gain their power, all so he can become strong enough to unite the world under a single government. However, Lyrelle notes that this would give him absolute authority over the population and strip away their freeodm. He has no idea that Matria is actually impersonating Vyena in order to manipulate him]].
* LightIsGood:
** Lyrelle specializes in healing magic and light-elemental offensive magic.
** River starts with a light-elemental sword skill due to being a Crusader, and he's one of the few in his organization who doesn't discriminate against witches.
* LightIsNotGood:
** The Holy Order of Vyena can use light elemental attacks, but they're a bunch of {{Knight Templar}}s who enact witch hunts to exterminate all mages.
** The first half of the final dungeon has light-lemental demons, who are all [[spoiler:servants of Matria, the demoness of illusion and false light]].
* LyingByOmission: When Chancellor Rhetz [[spoiler:states that he has the Calbane clan hostage, Lyrelle assumes her parents must be among them. Chancellor Rhetz never directly mentions her parents in order to hide the fact that he already killed them for trying to escape, and only allows her to believe they're alive to motivate her to get the Holy Stone for him]].
* ManipulativeBastard: Chancellor Rhetz [[spoiler:instigates demon attacks in order to force the Holy Order of Vyena and Lyrelle to form a truce, and then uses the Calbane clan as hostages to make her comply with his demands. After he takes the Holy Crystal and imprisons Lyrelle, he leaves his journal full of his plans open on his desk, which turns his brother Cesar against him. This is exactly what he's counting on, since he wants Cesar and Lyrelle to team up against him. This causes Lyrelle to use white magic near the Holy Stone and unwittingly empower it, allowing Rhetz to gain the full power of the stone]].
* NobleBigot: Cesar refuses to forgive mages for the genocide of his clan and is flabbergasted when Lyrelle decides to heal him after his boss battle. He doesn't call off the search order for the party, but he does delay the search for one day so that [[DebtDetester he isn't indebted to them]]. He also [[spoiler:opposes his brother for secretly working with demons and draining mages in order to become Vyena's champion, to the point where he's willing to form an EnemyMine with Lyrelle]].
* NotAlwaysEvil: Daemons are living beings who are possessed by demons, who are usually evil. However, the one in Hegala Volcano is willing to leave Hegala Village alone as long as no one disturbs them. Although they do get agitated by Lyrelle's presence, they agree to a truce with her after their boss fight.
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: Vyena[[spoiler:, or rather her impostor Matria, tells Rhetz that it's necessary to wipe out all life on Vyen in order to create new life from the ashes and establish a more peaceful world, but this is just a lie so that she can have her demonic forces take over the world and rebuild it into a dystopia just to spite the real Vyena]].
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Mayor Whelmer of Seymal Village admits he doesn't care about the Holy Order's doctrines, but sells out mages to them anyways because he wants the reward money.
* OptionalPartyMember: After [[spoiler:Enine destroys Gemeid, the party can go to Xmeil to recruit Ophelia, the nun who usually saves the game for them. She functions as a secondary white mage in combat, being better than Lyrelle in some ways and worse in others]].
* OrderVersusChaos: Chancellor Rhetz [[spoiler:wants to rule the entire world under a totalitarian government in order to forcibly bring peace and believes freedom isn't worth the risk of war]].
* PointOfNoReturn:
** Once the party leaves for the continent of Baul via the warp on Mt. Glacius, they won't be able to return, since the garnet stone only has enough power for a one-way trip.
** Entering the final dungeon locks the party in, with several more one-way warps along the way. To compensate, enemies in this dungeon have a very high chance of dropping healing items.
* PokeInTheThirdEye: Hanni's psychic powers gives her a limited form of clairvoyance, but when she tries to see the future where Alpatina is attacked by Nibiru, the latter detects her.
* PurposefullyOverpowered: The OptionalPartyMember [[spoiler:Ophelia starts with a weapon that gives her an extra 200 INT, which is stronger than Lyrelle's ultimate weapon. This, along with her powerful single-target light spells, gives her more damage output than the rest of the party]].
* SelectiveObliviousness: In Moonlit Forest, [[spoiler:Ophelia notes that Rhetz's narcissism made him vulnerable to Matria's manipulations, since she makes him feel important in order to gain his unconditional trust. As a result, he fails to realize her true demonic nature even as she summons a demon army and orders him to slaughter innocents]].
* SummonMagic: Crema, Zermo, Excar, Lianna, and Divina return in this game as summonable Celestials, but unlike before, they give their powers for free and their summon skills are group-wide buffs rather than offensive skills.
* TokenGoodTeammate: River joined the Holy Order of Vyena out of a genuine desire to protect innocents and disagrees with their policy of criminalizing mages. Unfortunately, this makes him a fugitive alongside the rest of the party when he tries to help Lyrelle flee from the Order.
* TookALevelInKindness: Luna is very distrustful of River because he's a Crusader, though she warms up to him when he proves that he isn't bigoted and puts his career on the line to help the party escape the Order of Vyena.
* TheUnfought: The party never gets to fight [[spoiler:Matria herself, since the FinalBoss fight against the Devourer takes place inside her [[WombLevel womb]]]].
* UngratefulBastard:
** Downplayed with Cesar, who doesn't appreciate being spared by the party, though he at least has the decency to postpone pursuing them. Later, he refuses to be grateful when they save Quelengarde from a demon. It takes [[spoiler:learning the truth about his brother Rhetz's villainy for him to finally bury the hatchet with the party]].
** Rob and Captain Ranjir [[spoiler:sell the party out to the Order of Vyena in exchange for money, despite how the party saved their ship from a kraken]]. To their credit, they seem to be genuinely remorseful for their actions afterwards.
** Lyrelle heals someone from Saymal Village, but the villagers capture her anyways in order to collect her bounty.
* WombLevel: The FinalBoss fight takes place in [[spoiler:Matria's womb, which the party entered via a teleporter in her false heaven]].
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