King Aurella

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This article is about "King Aurella", an important figure in Tales of the Tempest. For the world that shares its name with his own, see Aurella.

King Aurella is the primary antagonist in Tales of the Tempest. Despite being over one hundred years old, King Aruera still has the body of a child. His voice seems to have developed normally however, and he speaks somewhat like an old man. He is voiced by Cho Katsumi.

For the most part of the game, his significance to the story is kept a secret and the Pope is portrayed as the main enemy, but as the plot begins to reach it's climax, King Aurella is revealed to be controlling everything behind the scenes.

It seems that he is actually a being from another planet (the Spot homeworld) who accidently drifted through space to Aurella after practicing some with some strange magic. Once there, he began to work on a Prespurith known as Life Magic that could get him back. However, this magic required for thousands of lives to be sacrificed to a mysterious stone known as the Pensient and so King Aurella set about thinking of a way to gather the required amount.

Eventually, he came face to face with the Leymon president Couber, whose main ambition was to restore the life to the dead. The king convinced him that Life Magic would allow him to do this, persuading Couber to start a war against his people to harvest their lives, thinking that he could bring them all back again once the Prespurith was complete. The people overpowered him though and the war ended before the Life Magic was complete.

Because of this, King Aurella had to wait for somebody with a significant place in society who might fall for the same trick. Almost one hundred years later, he discovered this person in the form of the Pope whom had recently lost his wife Melissa and was looking for a way to restore her. The king convinced him that by sacrificng the lives of the Leymon, he could bring her back along with the lives of millions of other people. The Pope belived him, setting up the Leymon hunt and offering a reward to anybody who captured them.

His plans were foiled though, by a boy named Caius Qualls who's stepfather was one of the many Leymon taken away by the church. With his party of warriors, Caius defeated the Pope and then headed to King Aurella's castle.

However, the king was close to finishing his Life Magic and so by the time they reached him, he was able to call upon the power of his homeworld via a mysterious portal. This energy proved to be unsubstantial though and Aruera was defeated.