Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana - Prologue Translation

Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana - Prologue Translation
Source: Falcom Magazine, Vol. 59, p. 5
Translation: @gu4n

> PROLOGUE

Do you know the name of Adol Christin?

The extraordinary "adventurer" Adol Christin was a man risking himself in numerous adventures throughout his lifetime and left behind an "adventure journal" of more than a hundred volumes.

This particular story is one of these journals, passed down as the "Sea of Gate Guidebook"...

"Siren Island"

An archipelago in the south of Greek.
Rumours have it that a ship sailing toward the Sea of Gate has sunk in a mysterious way.

The Lombardia passenger ship was supposed to ferry Adol from Xandria to Eresia when the ship was suddenly attacked by an enormous sea creature that sank the ship and all passengers with it.

Upon opening his eyes, he finds himself lying on a white, almost radiant beach. Looking across the sea, Adol realises that he had awakened on the eternally cursed Siren Island.

Untouched by human hands, curious creatures that have evolved in ways very different from the outside world, and riddled with ruins of an ancient civilisation.

To protect the shipwrecked passengers he found, Adol and friends started to build a village for castaways to keep them safe from "ancient species".

Before long, Adol is having a mysterious "dream". A mystical girl with azure hair inhabiting in a world he had never seen before.

Why is this island called the "eternally cursed Siren Island"? What hidden mysteries does it hold?

And who is the girl Adol saw in this dreams...?

On an islet in faraway sea hidden between legendary waves, Adol starts his new adventure!