Opening

The Opening is an event in Tales of Berseria. It was since this day that people began to see daemons.

History
Ten years prior to the game brigands attack Aball for reasons unknown on a Scarlet Night. The brigands' malevolence results in them turning into daemons and attack the village, while chasing Celica Crowe into the shrine in Tranquil Woods. Artorius Collbrande rushes after her, slaying the daemons and makes his way to her. When a daemon is about to attack him with his back turned on him, Celica pushes him off and receives the blow that forces her into the depths of the shrine as a mouth of a mysterious entity devours her. Artorius is in pain after losing his beloved and Melchior appears explaining that the Aball's inhabitants offered him and his family to the daemon brigands explaining that the "reason" upon which they acted was so they could escape and hide. A bright light emerged from the shrine's depth, surprising Artorius who notes that it must have been in this place that the Empyrean must have been. Celica and her unborn baby are reborn as malakhim and forges a pact with Celica's malak reincarnation. Angry at people's selfishness, Artorius declares to put an end to the world's suffering with Melchior's help, intending to resurrect Innominat and use him to strip people from emotions which would result with lack of malevolence, and therefore daemons who would bring ruin wherever they go. While Celica had no resonance, her unborn child had, and that resulted in Innominat's resurrection being half-complete and that triggering humans' inner resonance that caused them to see daemons and suppressing most of malakhim's free will.