About Tales of Phantasia

Cress and Chester, two young men living in the small village of Toltus, have been friends since childhood. One day they set out from their village to do some hunting in the forest to the south. However, when they returned from a day of successful hunting, they found their village in ruins and all of the villagers slaughtered en masse. Cress and Chester, their families now murdered, swore to get revenge on whoever had perpetrated this horrendous massacre. The ones who destroyed Toltus were trying to find Cress's pendant, the key to a seal preventing an evil force from reviving the ancient sorcerer, Dhaos.

Not wishing for any harm to come to his friend Chester, Cress sets out on his own, but he is soon captured, and his pendant is stolen. Cress is locked up in an underground prison, but a mysterious force sets him free. He then meets Mint, who is also imprisoned there. Cress hears that a ceremony to revive Dhaos is to be performed in an underground mausoleum, and heads there. But he is too late to stop Dhaos's revival. The seal now broken, Dhaos attempts to kill Cress and his friends, but at the very last second, Cress and Mint's lives are saved as they are transported through a time warp back into the past.

Cress and Mint set out on a journey to defeat Dhaos. Along the way, they meet Claus, Arche, and many other interesting characters, and together they engage in an adventure that transcends time. But what is Dhaos’s true purpose...?