 When her self-made magical blade Rekkimaru has been weakened by the legendary mighty evil sword known as Soul Edge, she decides to travel west to find and destroy it.The prologue of "Soulcalibur" (1998) tells of how at the end of "Soul Edge" she has confronted and defeated the game's main villain and Soul Edge's wielder, Cervantes de Leon, and obtained a fragment of the shattered sword.During that fight, Taki also saved the wounded Greek female warrior Sophitia Alexandra, who became her friend.