Vanguard

Vanguard is an organization in the sequel of Tales of Symphonia, Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World. It was originally founded to rise the Sylvarant side against the Tethe'alla side, who thought of themselves as superior due to Sylvarant's inferior technology. However, as time goes, Brute, the leader of the Vanguard, seeks to find a way to separate the world into Sylvarant and Tethe'alla again, believing that will be for the best.

One day, the Church of Martel went to war with the Vanguard, and Sylvarant's city of Palmacosta was caught in the crossfire. Countless innocent lives were lost and the city was consumed in flames. This event came to be known as the "Purge of Blood", a massacre allegedly led by the same Lloyd Irving who helped unite the worlds two years before.

The Vanguard are also opposing Colette Brunel and Zelos Wilder, the last Chosens og Regeneration.

Known members of the Vanguard

 * Brute - The leader of the whole Vanguard. He began doubting the power of the Church of Martel even before the worlds were reunited, when the Giant Kharlan Tree's rampage killed his wife. When the people of Sylvarant were discriminated because of their inferior technology, Brute founded the Vanguard to rise Sylvarant into a place just like Tethe'alla. He wants to get the Ratatosk Core in order to get help in his liberation efforts.


 * Alice - A cute, selfish and mean-spirited girl who's later revealed to be a half-elf from Hima. She uses machines runned by Exspheres to manipulate monster to be her slaves, though she doesn't care about them, nor her combrades in the Vanguard, at all. Brute and possibly Richter may be exceptions.


 * Decus - A supposedly good-looking man who's in love with Alice and wants to follow her to the end of the world. He himself is quite neutral about the whole situation between the whole world, but takes the Vanguard's side just to be wiht Alice.


 * Richter Abend - A hard red-haired man who befriends Emil and teaches him the basics of swordsmanship. He is later revealed to be a half-elf from Sybak.