A/N: This is a bit of a spurn of the moment type story. I actually planned for it to be written in strategy guide form, but since Fictionpress doesn't accept that as a suitable story form (Does it?), I'm writing out the basic storyline and such here. This is the prologue, and it's past events, and basic history of what led up to the events happening in the actual story.

Prologue: Destierro

In the world of Destierro, two thousand years have passed since the Banisher Revelin rebeled against the Empire. Since that time, the Empire has had a growing interest in the notion of Banishers and their servants known as Banes. Seeking to increase their power and hold over the people, and to supress all thoughts of rebellion, the government instituted the Day of Banishment to help them make this possible.

The Day of Banishment is said to be the day when a terrible disease will take effect in persons who have come of age in the past year. These people are taken to a government facility to undergo testing to see if it is possible that they may contract the fatal disease. In actualality, the Day of Banishment is the day when people who have turned eighteen in the past year, are suseptable to recieve an injection containing a unique discrepency found in Revelin's genetic pattern.

Knowing that if they do react to this injection, the person will eventually die and become a Bane. Banes are divided into three catagories; Berserker, Humanoid, and Animal. The person's ancestory will effect which form the will take, Berserkers are the strongest and rarest, followed by Humanoids, and then Animals.

The Empire also recruits Banishers, who they promise status, money, and anything else that they can give them to lure them into working for them. These Banishers usually are unsure of themselves, or are greedy, and are just looking to find their place in the world.

A Bane is a departed spirit that has chosen to stay in the world; the persons who react to the injection cannot leave this world because their souls have been transformed into Banes before they actually died, and therefore cannot leave this world. A Banisher can see Banes even before binding one to themselves, this has caused them to be shunned because of this ability.

The Crescent family is the only family that can trace its roots back to Revelin. Alese is the youngest surviving child of this family, and has inheritated the ability to see Banes, she is destined to become a Banisher, or a bane herself. Her brother, Blade, also has this ability, but has kept it secret all these years.

Shortly after recieving the injection, Blade sent his sister away from the village, and told her that she must never let the Empire find her or convince her to join their ranks. He tells her that she is the latest in a long line of Banishers, and that she must carry on the family duty to destroy the Empire and bring freedom back to the people.

When her brother was taken away by the Empire, Alese was twelve. At sixteen, she left her home town of Roen, and began to travel the world of Destierro...