The land is rife with rumors of a terrible curse that transforms its victims into beasts.

Those afflicted by the curse are said to bear a curious mark, as if their skin has somehow been branded. The curse's progress is said to be remorseless, and once it has progressed beyond a certain point, the victim will never recover their human form.

Yet nothing is known about the true nature of the curse, and there are many who doubt its very existence.

But now, in the year 511 of the Unified Era, a terrible incident has occurred. At the Harvest Festival in the city of Helycon, the temple maiden Elena has launched a ferocious attack on the festival goers.

Witnesses say that before she ran amok, this maiden had taken the blood-chilling form of a monstrous beast…