Areulla VIII

King Aruera is the central antagonist in Tales of the Tempest.

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 Aruera is revealed to be controlling everything behind the scenes.

It seems that he is actually a being from another planet who accidently drifted through space to Aruera 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 Aruera set about thinking of a way to gather the required amount.

Eventually, he came face to face with the Lycanthe president Couber who's main ambition was to restore the life to the dead. He convinced him that Life Magic would allow him to do this and so Couber started 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 Aruera 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. Aruera convinced him that by sacrificng the lives of Lycanthe, he could bring her back and The Pope belived him, setting up the Lycanthe hunt and ordering people to hunt them down.