Set in the Victorian age in the fictional city of Anargal, we follow Arthur Artorias, a man stripped of his past, tortured, and forced to escape into isolation. Thought to be dead, he returns eight years later a changed man, disfigured, seeking answers and pursuing revenge.
Set in the Victorian age in the fictional city of Anargal, we follow Arthur Artorias, a man stripped of his past, tortured, and forced to escape into isolation. Thought to be dead, he returns eight years later a changed man, disfigured, seeking answers and pursuing revenge.
Arthur Artorias is a care-free aristocrat born into privilege. After a foreboding message from his father, one night will change everything for Arthur and forge his destiny as a stealth assassin.
Arthur is a man stripped of his past, tortured, and forced to escape into isolation. Thought to be dead, he returns eight years later a changed man, disfigured, seeking answers and pursuing revenge.
Arthur's personal quest for revenge has to be put aside because the scars from his brutal attack continue to inflict pain on him. In order to ease his suffering, he has to pay a price that could cost him the last of his humanity.
On Arthur's latest mission, he comes across the term uttered by his victim, "Greater Heaven". Arthur's father said the same thing before he was killed by his attackers on that faithful night. Arthur starts to ponder what if anything does his victim and his late father share in common. And were their fates connected by Arthur's benefactor?
Arthur comes to the conclusion that his benefactor is a cold-hearted villain of the highest order, and he may have something to do with his family's death. After confronting him Arthur realizes he's helpless to gain answers and he's also beholden to his benefactor to do his bidding. The benefactor task Arthur to carry out another mission that he just can't bring himself to do.
Arthur now realizes that as a servant to his benefactor and his pain-killing drugs, he's become something he didn't like. He became a man who no longer had a sense of himself and who he was. He was an animal and a caricature of humanity; a monster inside and out. But is it too late for him to make a change or do drugs compel him to embrace his enslavement?
A duty is a commitment and expectation to perform some action in general or when certain circumstances arise. Arthur's duties to steal and kill are created by a need to survive from his scars. The Maiden of Grayfern's duties to agree to an arranged marriage are created by a system of socialite culture. One faithful day, the tasks of their duties enable them to meet each other.
Arthur won't carry out the assassination mission but he can't live without the pain-killing drugs from his benefactor; the benefactor also holds the secrets to Arthur's tragic past. He can't live with or without the benefactor. All Arthur can do is confront his benefactor no matter what the consequences are.