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Before long, the people living nearby had learned of their strange behavior. They must have considered it a form of plague, for they attempted to drive away their lord--the second time the Soul Edge had been responsible for such social humiliation. Furious, Raphael contemplated taking revenge on the peasants, but his priority was with Amy's safety. He took her away from that mansion in southern France for good. They traveled to Eastern Europe, and taking advantage of the war throughout the land, he purchased a castle ruin in the mountainous terrain to begin a new life separate from the outside world. However, Raphael had no intention of living life constantly on the run. Amy had been transformed into a being that could no longer interact with the world, and in his own twisted logic, he rationalized that it was neither he nor Amy who required change, but the rest of the world around them. He spread his evil plague in secrecy, and it eventually moved on to a grand scale, starting only within the castle and moving on to nearby villages and even a neighboring city. Eventually, he would be able to corrupt the entire world. But one day, something strange had occurred, and many of the citizens he had transformed had been returning to their original state. It seemed that something called the "Holy Stone"--a charm brought by a recent visitor--was the source of these reversals. Raphael tried to steal the stone from the villagers, but upon touching the faintly glowing item, his hand surged with pain, blistering as if it had been burned. In a fit of rage, he had it destroyed. But he still wondered as to whether or not any other such "Holy Stones" or charms with similar powers existed. Feeling threatened by the prospect, Raphael concluded that he must venture away from his beloved foster daughter again to seek out the true nature of this "Holy Stone" and obliterate all of its traces from this world. Nothing would be allowed to interfere with the new world he wanted to create for Amy. But just as he had made this decision, an army who had noticed the region's abnormality appeared at the base of the castle; he would need to kill them first. Raphael bid farewell to young Amy and descended to the outside world that refused to accept them--and the taciturn girl who watched him leave betrayed no hint of what lay hidden in her heart.
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Age: 32
Birthplace: Rouen, France
Height: 5'10"
Weight: 159 lbs
Birth Date: November 27
Blood Type: A
Weapons: Rapier
SC2~3 Weapon: Flambert
Discipline: La Rapier des Sorel
Family: Relatives: Cut all ties, Foster Daughter: Amy
Raphael, the young master of the Sorel family, grew up with the rapier and medicine as his playmates. His cool, unemotional demeanor created many enemies, but his quick and precise decision-making and execution skills were prominent features of his family amongst the nobles. Unfortunately, Raphael made a critical mistake during the year of the notorious Evil Seed and killed an insane noble in self-defense--a noble supported by his family. His family cast him out of their household and even aided the town in their pursuit of the murderer. Raphael hid himself in a poor town to escape from his pursuers. There he met a young girl named Amy, who hid the weakened Raphael from his enemies. For Raphael, this marked the first time he had ever owed his life to someone else, causing him to feel emotions he had never experienced before--Amy became an irreplaceable presence in his life. Convinced that the chaos of the war in France at that time was no place to live a meaningful life, Raphael took Amy and left the town. But even with the new surroundings, he could not get Amy to open her heart to the world. One day, in the library of a mansion in southern France that he had acquired after killing its master, Raphael found a letter with references to the Evil Seed. It wasn't long before he could make the connections between Evil Seed and the insanity of the noble that had attacked him; and he knew that the source of all this evil was the Soul Edge. He pondered over the consequences that could occur if the pathetic nobles were to have the sword thrust into their possession; they would destroy themselves from the inside. Raphael decided to retrieve the sword himself so that the war-mongering nobles could be eliminated and a meaningful future could be secured for his foster daughter Amy. He was determined to obtain the Soul Edge by any means necessary for the sake of this young girl, and concocted an insane scheme to help him achieve his end.
In his quest for the Soul Edge, Raphael tracked down and pursued its possessor, the azure knight, Nightmare, at Ostrheinsburg Chapel. At the end of the fierce battle, Nightmare stood victorious. His body weakened and his consciousness fading, Raphael looked up towards the azure knight, who was just about to administer a finishing blow, and muttered the name of his foster daughter, Amy. For an instant, emotion overcame Raphael's entire being, and he forced his body to move. The desperate strike he unleashed hit its mark, piercing the center of Soul Edge's eye; and his opponent writhed in pain. That was all he remembered of his battle with Nightmare before he lost consciousness. He should have been dead yet, for some reason, the azure knight had left without ever finishing him off. Raphael dragged his wounded body back to his mansion in southern France. He spent several days on the brink of death, but eventually recovered. He did not notice, however, the evil energy that had radiated in his Soul Edge-induced wounds. He had come across the phenomenon of maglinity transformation before in his research, but by the time this knowledge had occurred to him now, the transformation was already completed. The symptoms even spread to Amy, who had undoubtedly become infected when she was treating his wounds. No symptoms indicated that their minds had been infected, but cursed blood pulsed through their bodies nevertheless, their skin turned pale and their eyes shone with wicked light. By day, they felt weak and sluggish; but by night, they felt a powerful thirst. They were no longer human.
At the end of Raphael's story in Tales of Souls mode, there are 2 possible out-comes. The good and the bad. If you don't press the comands when instructed, Kilik heals Amy, and seems to promise to heal Raphael too, however Raphael collapses from having to carry Soul Edge by the day. The 'good ending', when you do press the buttons as instructed, sees him going home to Amy and taking her into their own world.