The Hylann Defense Corps

The Grieving – a brutal conflict that saw men, elves, and orcs fight tooth-and-nail for the dominant role on the world’s stage. Or, at least, that’s what the cotemporaries of the time believed when border skirmishes devolved into open warfare. Little did they know this three-way slugging match would leave nearly a fifth of the world’s population dead and usher the survivors into an age of global isolation.

Now, a century later, you play as Ashton – a recruit of the 107th Trainee Unit – as he, and the rest of his unit, approach the final stages of their training to join the HDC – the Hylann Defense Corps. While only a shell of its former self, the HDC has roots tracing all the way back to The Grieving and serves as the Hylann Dynasty’s main military force in modern times.

Peace has reigned since humanity withdrew itself from the affairs of the other races, but ignorance comes at a cost, and grim signs are looming off the Dynasty’s verdant shores…​