Descender

A Descender is a term used in the Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology-series.

Reason of birth
A Descender is born from a world's World Tree in a time of crisis. When a world is threatened, it uses its mana to give birth to a Descender to travel and use its power to protect the world who made him or her.

It is said that after the Descender has fulfilled his or her mission, he or she will disappear, for there are no longer need for a Descender. However, a special spirit in the Orphic Maze tells the player and Mormo that it is possible for Descenders who have brought peace to his or her world to continue to live and watch his or her world.

A Descender is born to love their world. They love them more than anything, which sometimes is not just as positive as other times. Some Descenders, like Widdershin, is blind by his love for Gilgulim and therefore sacrifices many other worlds in order to restore it, while others like Aurora, loves their world and its people so much that they feel lost and betrayed if the world forgets about them. Some Descenders are even so desperate to save the world they love that they destroy the humanity in that world.

Also, in a conversation with Raine from Tales of Symphonia, Mormo says that he is the third Descender of Yaoon. This may imply that the World Tree never gives birth to the same Descender twice.

Power of Descenders
The power of a Descender is anormous, yet it is unknown just how strong it really is. However, the Descender's power was used when Widdershin turned his World Tree into a seed, when Kanonno used her power to stop the mana flow for a time, and when the player gets rid of all the Gilgulim nodes all over Terresia. The reason the player is able to become so strong throughout the game so fast, even though he or she was born just recently, may also be because of the power of a Descender. Although the Descender is incredible strong regardless of how weak the World Tree is, it has been said that the stronger the World Tree's mana is, the stronger the Descender will be.

Known Descenders

 * The player
 * Mormo
 * Kanonno
 * Widdershin
 * Aurora