The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II

The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II is a JRPG video game developed by Nihon Falcom. The game is an entry in The Legend of Heroes series, and serves as a direct sequel to Trails of Cold Steel. It was published by the company for PlayStation Vita and PlayStation 3 in Japan in 2014. A port by Xseed for Microsoft Windows was released in February 2018, while a remastered version for the PlayStation 4 was released in Japan in April 2018, and worldwide the following year.

Civil war has broken out across Erebonia. After his narrow escape from Trista, Rean will take up his sword again on a journey with his Divine Knight, Valimar, in search of his friends from Class VII and a way to end the conflict before its price becomes far too dear...

Prologue: The End of Despair
The Hexen breed is a clan of witches that can use a spell called Audite Sermone Meum (latin for Listen To My Words) which compel the targets into obeying the caster without question. In the prologue Vita use it to command a groupe of mercenaries into going back to their base and forgetting everything that they saw.

Act 1: Ashen Chronicles
Emma, who is also a member of the Hexen breed, hypnotize two soldiers into letting the party enter the city of Bareahard.