y and Maotelus took their rest at the end of Zestiria, their spirits came across Velvet and Laphi's, so they joined in. This (and some creative difference-related tension between the four of them) resulted in the split campaigns of Xillia (which was itself based off of a pengyon and a woman Velvet and Maotelus met). Milla was crafted as a middle-ground between Velvet and Sorey's moralities, and unfortunately, they got into a bit of an argument halfway through, which Laphi and Maotellus capitalized on, resulting in that part in Xillia where Milla missed out on a good amount of plot-relevant information.
This also ties well into the ship exploration mini-game. What seems like references to past Tales games were in fact Velvet's source of initial inspiration for the stories she would later dream up to become past Tales games!
Rose uses Rokurou's fighting style.
Rose's fighting style is a form of Rokurou's fighting style, modified and refined from years of practice and combat.
Rokurou and Rose both use dual daggers to fight and some of their artes have similar animations.
Rose's Jade Luminescence Mystic Arte is called Rangetsuryuu Kawasemi in Japan. Rangetsuryuu. The Rangetsuryuu part even uses the same kanji as Rokurou and Shigure's signature Mystic Artes (嵐月流)!
Rokurou mentioned that "four of [his] five older brothers are dead", meaning he and his older brother Shigure are the only surviving heirs of the Rangetsu family. The Rangetsu family has two fighting styles: one using a greatsword and one using twin shortswords/daggers, with the twinsword style being used to help train greatsword practitioners. Rokurou ultimately kills Shigure toward the end of the game, leaving him the last of the Rangetsu bloodline, and in the epilogue, he's seen still using his twinsword style. With Shigure dead, there are no other users of the greatsword style, leaving the twinsword style as the sole form.
Given that humans can be daemons and other humans can't see the humans that are daemons after Berseria's ending, and some daemons can maintain their will in both games... it is totally possible Rokorou married and had descendants.
Also in either the perfect guide or a different guidebook Rokurou is stated to have taught some people he came across the Rangetsu style. So in the event that Rokurou didn't end up having descendants Rose would've learned it from the descendants of the people who were taught by Rokurou.
How else would you explain a 15 year old being the world's foremost scholar of Blastia and possessing that level of magic? Not to mention, the snarky attitude. She had to "get it" from somewhere.
There will be a third game to complete the trilogy.
There will be a follow up in the distant future in which Sorey, Maotelus/Phi, Velvet, Mikleo, and let's be honest here, thanks to Popularity Power Zaveid is a lock as well, once awakened from their various slumbers go on to deal with the True Seraphim revealed in Berseria's bonus dungeon and finally fight the root cause of the world's Malevolence. Most Tales games find a way to stop the big overarching Supernatural threat, like the The Adephagos and Miasma or at least stop them from being an everpresent problem. Since the Zestiria duology didn't do this, its absence is glaring.
However this seems unlikely due to Zestiria's Japanese reception and quite possibly the Alisha controversy. Heck Berseria coming out seems like a miracle in on itself as Zestiria was that unpopular.
. But she died as a baby or before she was born.
This is due to the fact that Lailah shares many of Celica's habits, looks, and personality traits yet she, or rather her malak form Seres disappears during the events of Berseria. Since we don't get any hints of her returning it can be assumed that she died unknown what her ultimate fate ended up being. Between Berseria and Zestiria her soul could've tried to get reincarnated back into a human but it didn't last long as she died as a human. However this theory is based on a not very common piece of fanon that say that seraphim/malakim reincarnate as humans after they die continuing the cycle of reincarnation. This is seemingly helped by Tales of Zestiria the X as in the ending there is a child that looks like Dezel, a seraph that died in an earlier episode having many fans speculate that he did reincarnate as a human. Coincidentally, Lailah also shares a common trait with seraphim that were born as human as well as seraphim that died as babies. For the former she has the whiteish hair that seraphim like Mikleo, Phi/Maotelus, Seres, Eskeo, and even Innominat have all of whom were stated to be previously human in one way or another. As for the latter in a skit in Zestiria she states that she doesn't remember her origins which is a trait that Phi/Maotelus and Mikleo have, two seraphim who were clearly stated to have died as babies or before they were born and were shown to be unaware of their origins until a Big Reveal. If she wasn't born this way then she would have stated her origins when asked about them instead saying "I'm too old to remember" as the seraphim whose origins we know minus Phi/Maotelus and Mikleo clearly state that they were previously human or born from the elements no matter the age as in Berseria we have 1000 year old Eizen clearly state that he was born from an earth pulse without indication of having a hazy memory. So if Lailah died as a baby and later became a disciple of Maotelus she would've been more or less a blank slate and likely relearned the traits she had two lives ago thus making her another incarnation of Celica.
They both have red hair. I know, Celica and Seres have different hair colors, but consider if you will that even in a technicolor-hair world, there are only so many colors to choose from. The thought that some human might be reborn as a seraph with the same hair color as them isn't too far fetched (plus, Eleanor's hair is lighter than Aksha's).
Aksha Aksha was friends with a female Mayvin who had died 300 years ago. It is already theorized that said Mayvin is in fact Magilou, which creates a tie with Eleanor, but the issue becomes the poem Aksha recited, in that it is vastly more sentimental than anything Magilou expressed during the events of Berseria. This can be overlooked, however, as A: Magilou was shown to have a softer side that she let out in VERY short spurts that were few and far inbetween during the course of the game, and B: Spending a lot of time around Eleanor will eventually wear you down, no matter how morally gray you are. She's a paragon of morality that cannot be stopped by any force besides debatably the Lord of Calamity.
Magilou may have been Zesteria’s/Berseria’s version of an elf.
The most we know about Magilou’s family is that her parents abandoned her because her high resonance freaked them out. We’re also never given an explanation why she’s the only character (even including all NPCs) to have pointy ears. And pointy ears in the Tales series are usually reserved for non-human characters, like the elves from Phantasia and Symphonia. However elves are not one of the races you can find in Zesteria/Berseria. It’s likely they don’t exist.
But what if Magilou was actually the first elf or elf-like person in their world? Magilou’s unique features could’ve been the result of a genetic mutation! High exposure to mana and/or Malaks altered her biology while in the womb, turning Magilou into a unique high-resonance elf like being, despite having human parents.
This WMG would also add to her secret insecurities and self-loathing. One of the reasons she feels lonely is because she always felt that she looked different from humans. She was neither human nor Malak, and so she had nowhere to truly belong.
Unfortunately, it’s likely that Magilou never reproduced. That’s why we never see characters that look liked her in Zesteria. The Mayvin title is simply passed down to a chosen descendent. So in the history of their world, Magilou was the first elf, and unfortunately the last.While for some of us starting the day with a morning shower is the chance to unwind, there's no reason for feeling bad if you skip your bathing session.
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