Faraway Promise

Faraway Promise (called A Distant Promise on the Revival disc) is Disc 1, Track 6 on the Xenogears Original Soundtrack and track 6 on the Xenogears Original Soundtrack Revival Disc -the first and the last-. The track was remixed for the Xenogears 20th Anniversary Concert -The Beginning and the End- as Wind from the Valley - A Distant Promise, and is the 4th track on the associated Blu-Ray disc. It was also remixed for -MYTH- The Xenogears Orchestral Album.

SMALL TWO OF PIECES ~Broken Shards~ (and, by extension, Möbius, SMALL TWO OF PIECES - Orchestral Version -, and Small Two of Pieces -Screeching Shards- (20th Anniversary)) are vocal remixes of this track. In addition, Dark Daybreak, In A Dark Slumber..., and Wings all use a motif taken from this track's melody at 1:03.

It plays as the music in the following cutscenes:
 * Fei listens to the music box constructed by Kim. (Here, the music plays in-universe.)
 * Fei momentarily sees a flashback of him as a child playing with his mother after falling in battle near the Kislev border.
 * Rico remembers scenes from his young life after entering Kaiser Sigmund's room.
 * Fei and Elly have a heart-to-heart while adrift at sea in Aquvy.
 * Fei and Elly talk about the former being frozen in carbonite after the destruction of Etrenank.
 * Lacan tells Sophia he needs to get more paint to finish the latter's portrait (flashback, Lacan's perspective).
 * Lacan tells Sophia he needs to get more paint to finish the latter's portrait (flashback, Sophia's perspective).
 * Fei regains the memories from previous Contacts of the various incarnations of Elly dying, telling him to live each time.