Plot summary of Torna ~ The Golden Country

This page describes a plot summary of Torna ~ The Golden Country. It is not a full description nor a complete novelization, but simply an overview of major events. It is assumed that the reader is familiar with the entire plot of Xenoblade Chronicles 2.

Summary
The story begins about five hundred years before the main game, in the year 3564. The country and Titan of Coeia has been destroyed and sunk by Malos, though Indoline Praetor Rhadallis and the rising power of Mor Ardain claim joint attribution.

In a forest within the Kingdom of Torna, Lora and her Blade Jin are fighting off a pack of blood-crazed animals. They come upon a destroyed Porton Village and a lone survivor, a child called Mikhail, who Lora decides is now their friend. Back in Indol, Magister Baltrich reports the destruction of Coeia to Rhadallis, and suggests that Quaestor Amalthus's Blade is to blame; Rhadallis sees no reason to be concerned. Lora's group reaches Feltley Village expecting to meet up with Haze, but they find a large crater that Malos caused instead, and are attacked by one of his Gargoyle Artifices. They are saved by Addam and Mythra. Addam recognizes Jin as being the stolen Paragon of Torna and assumes Lora did it, so Jin and Lora fight for freedom. Addam is impressed by how they fight, specifically the idea of passing the Blade's weapon between them (which they came up with because Lora couldn't afford her own sword), so he decides he likes them. Haze then arrives, alongside Addam's young Gormotti aide Milton. Lora explains how she got Jin, and Addam decides to recruit them to help with Malos. Lora asks if they could first help her own quest: to find her mother, which Haze says has been spotted in Torigoth of Gormott. Addam agrees, partly since it's as good a place as any to find Malos. They are being watched by a "Bluefist", strongly implied to be the person who stole Jin and tried to kill Lora.