The year is once again 873 and Clive has returned from his reverie to the chaos that smolders in the wake“ of Shiva and Titan’s terrible encounter. Tiamat reminds Wyvern of their mission and that there is no escaping the inexorable fate of the Branded.

The night burns red as twin titans clash. Dressed in flame, they vie for dominance—one a beacon of hope, the other an aberration, an affront to the very laws of nature. There is no room in this world for both, for there can be only one Eikon of Fire.

A familiar voice beckons Clive into the heart of a raging storm. Clive follows, hoping there he might find the source of his deep-seated anguish and quell it Headwind once and for all.

• Defeat Garuda.

Word of a Dominant of Fire spotted in a nearby village convinces Clive to set aside any misgivings he might have surrounding Cid and his motives and join the man—though only for as long as his desire for revenge demands it.

The Shields of Rosaria have marched to Phoenix Gate that the dutchy’s Dominant and heir to the throne, Joshua, might hear the Words of their Ancestors, as is custom before any great battle. However, the night before the ceremony, the young prince is stirred from his slumber by the sounds of battle. The fortress is under attack, and Joshua must fight his way to his father with the aid of but a single brave Shield.

• Escape The Stronghold
• Find The Archduke
• Search The Keep For Survivors
• Slay The Imperial Knights
• Slay The Knight of The Blinding Dawn
• Defeat the Second Eikon of Fire

Phoenix Gate, Grand Duchy of Rosaria

In their pursuit of the missing Dominant and Lostwing’s Bearers, Clive and Cid must infiltrate a nearby Sanbrequois fortress now teeming with Waloeder soldiers. Fortunately for both of them, Clive knows of a secret entrance.

• Fight your way through the fortress.
• Defeat Chirada and Suparna.
• Pursue Benedikta.

• Begins after entering Caer Norvent.

Promising succor, Cid welcomes Clive into his deadlands sanctuary hidden deep within the ruins of a lost civilization. There, Clive discovers something that had eluded him for nigh thirteen years—freedom.

Bade by his father, the archduke, to address reports of the ever-spreading Blight having driven a horde of goblins into Rosarian territory, Clive journeys to the swamps of Stillwind accompanied by a pair of loyal Shields of the duchy.

Explore Stillwind.

While traveling through the Greatwood, Clive and Cid happen upon a small party of Waloeder intelligencers captained by a woman from Cid’s past–Benedikta Harman. Left with more questions than answers, the pair continue on to Lostwing.

• Make for Lostwing.
• Pursue the fleeing soldier.

It is the year 860, and with the coming of spring does green once again return to the Grand Duchy of Rosaria. In the baileys of Rosalith Castle, men who have sworn their swords to their country train in anticipation of coming conflict—and it is here that one young man in particular endeavors to prove himself worthy to the ones he loves.

As the duchy readies itself for war with the Iron Kingdom, its most bitter and longstanding of rivals, so too does Clive prepare to do his duty as First Shield of Rosaria—to protect and serve his brother Joshua, Dominant of the Phoenix.

• Make for the throne room.

The Dominant of Fire has fallen into the hands of Benedikta’s intelligencers and Clive, Cid, and Gav must scramble to gather information on their quarry’s whereabouts.

• Speak with Quinten.
• Gather information from the villagers 0/2.
• Speak with Cid.
• Speak with Quinten.
• Make for Caer Norvent.
• Enter Caer Norvent.

• Lostwing, Sanbreque.

Gav has been tracking the one die citizens of„ Lostwing believed to be a Dominant of Fire—the same man who reduced Caer Norvent to cinders— and sends word to Cid that OF has picked up the scent of their quarry. However, it seems the forces of Sanbreque are also on Gay’s trail, as en route to rendezvous with him at the Kingsfall, Cid and Clive hear the unmistakable sound of an imperial hunting whistle. They split up and race to his rescue.

• Rendezvous with Gav.
• Defeat the Imperial forces.
• Defeat the Knight of the Dying Sun.
• Return to the hideaway.
• Visit the infirmary.
• Speak with Charon.
• Speak with Gav.
• Journey into Rosaria via Three Reeds.

• Begins at The Kingsfall in northwestern Sanbreque.

Clive discovers that the second Dominant of Fire, the one who slew his brother thirteen years before, was none other than he himself His resolve to see Joshua’s murderer put to the sword undiminished, he begs for Cid to grant him death—but Cid has other plans for his tortured ward.

• Speak with Cid.
• Journey to the Kingsfall.

• Begins in Cid’s Hideaway.

As dawn breaks over the Nysa Defile in the 873rd year of the Valisthean calendar, the armies of Dhalmekia and the Iron Kingdom gather, and their Eikons—Titan of the republic and Shiva of the orthodoxy—make ready to take the field. Meanwhile, high above it all, a small party of Branded assassins survey the battlefield like hawks in search of prey.

Clive’s spar with the Dominant of Wind not only ends in victory, but sees him wrest away her Eikon’s very essence and claim it for his own. But before he or Cid can make heads or tails of this curious turn of events, an explosion rocks the caer, prompting a hurried evacuation.

• Head north.
• Slay the imperial reinforcements
• Continue north.
• Make for the Eye of the Tempest
• Enter the vortex.

Clive and Jill make for Phoenix Gate to ascertain the truth of the tragedy that occurred there thirteen years before—a tragedy that led to them both being abducted from Rosaria and enslaved by their enemies. They are soon to find that the intervening years have been no kinder to the land in which they were raised than they were to them.

• Make for Martha’s Rest
• Speak to Martha.
• Fulfil Martha’s Request

In order to continue on their way to Phoenix Gate, Clive and Jill must see the bridge to Eastpool rebuilt. They make their way down into the marshes in search of Martha’s wayward carpenter.

• Find Bernard
• Rescue the man being attacked.
• Slay the cray claws.
• Report back to Martha.

• Just south of Martha’s Rest.

Clive and Jill are shocked to hear how Bearers are hated in their former homeland. Martha ushers them to the nearby Glaidemond Abbey, that they might learn the full truth.

• Make for the Glaidemond Abbey
• Report back to Martha.

• Given to you by Martha at Martha’s Rest after finishing Building Bridges main quest.

At Martha’s Rest, Clive and Jill cross paths win Cid, and say their final farewells before continuing their journey. The road ahead leads north through Rhiannon’s Ride to Eastpool, then on to Phoenix Gate.

• Make for Eastpool.
• Make for Phoenix Gate.
• Fulfil the mayor’s request.
• Explore the ruins of Phoenix Gate.

• Begins at Martha’s Rest.

Back in the Day The Mayor of Eastpool asks Clive to meet with an elderly Bearer who resides in his village—a former loyal servant of Clive’s father, Archduke Elwin.

• Look for the old man by the well.
• Speak with the villagers 0/2.
• Speak with the villagers.
• Find the old man.
• Slay the slavering beasts.

• Automatically begins in Eastpool, The Imperial Province of Rosaria after speaking with the Mayor during the main quest Holding On.

The ruins of Phoenix Gate are still and silent, much as they were on the day after the disaster thirteen years before. Yet amidst the shattered stonework and blackened beams that Clive recognizes only too well, he catches sight of something entirely unexpected—the hooded man he has long been chasing. Desperate to uncover the truth, Clive and Jill pursue the figure into the catacombs.

• Explore the ruins of Phoenix Gate.

• After leaving Eastpool for the first time and traveling to The Dim.

Clive finally accepts the truth: that he is the Dominant of Ifrit, the second Eikon of Fire. Along with this knowledge, he finds a new purpose—to unravel the mystery of why he was chosen to bear this burden, and to live not for revenge, but to atone for the crimes he committed thirteen years before.

• Return to Eastpool.
• Slay the soldiers attacking Eastpool.
• Return to the hideaway.

• Begins outside Phoenix Gate Ruins.

Still reeling from the atrocity they witnessed at Eastpool—one ordered by none other than Clive’s own mother, the Empress Anabella—Clive and Jill return to the hideaway to consult with Cid as to what might be done.

• Visit Cid’s solar.
• Speak with Charon.

• The Hideaway