Aball

Aball (Spoilers for the game Tales of Vesperia)

Aball is a small village found in Eastgand and is an important location in Tales of Vesperia. It is the home village of Velvet Crowe and Laphicet Crowe and is the starting village in Tales of Vesperia. The village is found just beyond the Morgana Woods and is close to the Tranquil Woods which houses the earthpulse point that once held Innominat.

Story: 7 Years Before

7 years before the game begins Arthur (Arturius) Collbrande after failing to destroy the demon threat was found just outside the village in the Morgana Woods by Celica Crowe who offered him a place to stay. After an unknown amount of time, the two fell in love and were set to have a child. Unfortunately, during a Scarlet Night, Celica is killed by a massive demon attack and falls into the Earthpulse point just beyond the village. Their unborn child was then offered as the 1st sacrifice to Innominat granting humans greater resonance allowing humans to see demons. Devasted by the loss of his family, Arthur meets Melchior who convinces him to use his exorcist powers to revive Innominat. He then forges a pact with Seres and plots for a way to finish the ritual.

The 2nd Scarlet Night

7 years later Arthur still lives with Celica's younger siblings Velvet and Laphicet. Velvet is determined to take care of the two. Laphicet, however, feels he is nothing but a burden on his sister. Destined to die from the 12-year sickness and after translating Arthur's book, he decides to use his life to revive Innominat for his sister's happiness. During this time, Laphicet left a copy of the book with a local merchant to purchase Velvet a new comb. It is later when they visit the earthpulse point that Arthur rescues the two before the demons who showed up can kill them. When Velvet awakens and finds Laphicet is missing that she rushes to find Arthur sacrificing him. Devastated she plunges with her brother into the abyss when she fails Artorius' final test but after Laphicet is sacrificed it is revealed that Velvet is receptive to his power. She is transformed into a therion and sets out to kill Arthur but is stopped by demons. The demons are the various villagers turned by their malevolence because Innominat is free and they no longer have anything to feed off their malevolence. Velvet is eventually captured and transported to Titania for 3 years.

Return to Aball In her quest to find the 7 therions, Laphicet the Malak leads Velvet home to investigate the earthpulse left behind. Melchior seizing the opportunity to trap Velvet to make her despair to feed Innominat uses illusions to transform the nearby demons into the lost villagers and convince Velvet nothing happened but thanks to his miscalculation about Velvet's ability to taste in dreams, she breaks free of his control. She then saves the 6th therion from its prison and confronts Melchior who steals Artorious' copy of the book on all the emperions. However, by pure luck, Laphicet's copy was not destroyed in the devastation of the village long ago and the group manages to get ahold of it. Thus, Velvet and her friends continued onward on their quest to find the therions and stop the revival of Innominat.

Setting: Aball is a small woodlands village nested nearby the sea. There's a merchant that sells a variety of goods, a village elder, and other locals that mill around. The entire area is surrounded by perpetual autumn woods that encompass most of Eastgand. The village is also near the Cape, one of the largest earthpulse points where Innominat has slept for hundreds of years.

Trivia: Aball is known for its prickleboar meat which villagers hunt for to profit off in Tallesin which is the nearest town.

Velvet's quiche is considered really good by her friends. The player can deduce the entire trip through Eastgand is a dream early on because her famous quiche is supposedly sold in Tallesin despite the fact Velvet never got to teach her closest friend the recipe before the tragedy.

Aball is the sight of two therions being born as both Velvet and a nearby villagers' pair of dogs both became therions but Velvet was transferred to Titania while they remained to be tethered to the earthpulse point.