can also use Peco to communicate with Yggdrasil trees, which serves as yet another master. Near the end of the game, the dragon spirit Ladon will offer to communicate with Ryu in a similar fashion. Story The game begins in a chrysm mine in a far corner of the world, where a rare and powerful mineral is being harvested from the fossilized remains of dragons. When a large deposit is cracked open by dynamite, a preserved baby dragon emerges and is attacked by the frightened miners. The dragon defends itself, quickly killing everyone who rushes in to fight it. Eventually, the miners manage to ambush the dragon and, after knocking it unconscious, place it in a cage aboard a train to be taken away for experimentation. On the way out of the mine, the dragon jostles its cage off the train and falls down a hill on the outskirts of the Cedar Woods, where it transforms into a young blue-haired boy before again losing consciousness. The boy is discovered by a wandering thief named Rei, a member of the cat-like Woren clan and fellow orphan who believes himself to have discovered just another abandoned child, while hunting for food. Rei takes the boy to his home in the woods, where they meet Teepo, Rei's longtime friend and partner-in-crime, who agrees to let the boy join their thieving operation. Rei and Teepo learn that the boy's name is Ryu, the only fact he can remember. The team commits several minor crimes throughout Yraald Region but later cross a woodsman named Bunyan after being caught looting his cabin. They are given a task to slay the Nue in Mt. Glaus that is terrorizing the village of McNeil, and later come into favor with the local villagers after slaying the Nue . Upon defeating the Nue, the team discovered she was gathering food for her young, which she was unaware had already died. The villagers knew, and, afraid of the Nue taking revenge on the village for her youngs' death, tried to avert a massacre. Shortly afterward, the trio are hired by a hooded figure named Loki to steal all the money heavily taxed upon the villagers from the town's corrupt mayor. The trio break into the manor and discover McNeil's ancestors haunt it. The defeat his spirits, pilfer the gold, and re-distribute his money among the villagers. The next morning, the trio