Altar of the Sea

The Altar of the Sea is a location from Tales of Legendia. The area is located on the north tip of the Legacy. The background music here is called Sunlight Filtering Through The Trees.

Description
The entrance area of the Altar of the Sea looks like a simple cave, but the inside the walls are made out of of crystallized rainbow material. The inside also includes plenty of small ravines and waterfalls scattered all over. The very top is large Altar that's architecture color is similar to the exterior of Mirage Palace and the Great Hallow and it has large circular platform that is used to contact Nerifes and open the way to the Cradle of Time.

Main Quest
Shirley Fennes, Fenimore Xelhes, and Maurits Welnes go to the altar to reattempt the Rite of Acession. Senel Coolidge and his party go to the Altar of the Sea after learning from Walter Delques that Shirley Fennes is reattempting the Rite of Acession. When the party arrives they find two young Ferines killed by Gadorian knights. Meanwhile Shirley trying to complete the ritual is not getting a response from Nerifes, but the ritual is interrupted by the Gadorian Captain. When the party goes further into the area they find more dead Ferines scattered all over, during this scene the Gadorian soldiers begin to kill the Ferines with Shirley. Shirley tries to protect one of the women there, but the Gadorian knight attempts to kill Shirley, but Fenimore pushes her out of the way and takes the full blow.

Shirley in front of Fenimore's dead body, begins hearing a voice in which she begins to awaken her powers as the Merines and kills two of the Gadorian soldiers. When the party arrives at the altar they are attacked by a monster called a Zephyr Mammon and force to battle it. The party arrives to see Shirley awaken as the Merines and also the dead body of Fenimore, the party questions how this happened Walter gets angry and blames the party for the death. The party tries to speak with Shirley, but Walter gets in the way and attacks the party and defeats them due to having the full blessing of Nerifes. The defeated party on the ground tries to reason with Shirley, but she simply replies "I shall take back the blessings of Nerifes" and unleashes a power that makes the party weak. Walter attempts to attack the party again, but they are swept away by a blizzard to the entrance of the area.

The party meets up with Grune at the entrance, who is speaking with a orb of light named Celsius, which causes the party to think she is losing her mind. After the brief conversation with Celsius, Grune puts Celsius' seed into her urn. After the party is attacked by Sentinels, but when the party tries to fight them none of their eres are responding leaving them out for attack. The sentinels begin to fire at the party, but they manage to escape back to Werites Beacon.

Character Quest
Senel and his party returns to the Altar of the Sea twice during Grune's character quest. The frist time they visit is in a attempt to contact Nerifes so they can find out where Grune went to fight Schwartz. When they arrive at the altar they fall for a trap set by Schwartz and are forced to fight a black mist monster called Anubis Megant. After defeating the monster Shirley contacts Nerifes then they get informed that Grune went to the Wings of Light and then leave the location. After the events at the Wings of Light the party returns to the altar to make a request to Nerifes to get Super Sacred Eres, Nerifes hears their plea, but Nerifes sends a Pandemonium Gaet to test them. After defeating the Gaet they obtain a new power and the way to the Cradle of Time is now open.