[SYNOPSIS]

Utawarerumono is a story centered around the masked protagonist, Hakuoro, who one day is found by a family of two girls and their grandmother in a nearby forest close to their village.

He is badly injured and is soon found to have amnesia, so they take him to their home and treat him until he is well again. Hakuoro is soon accepted into their village where he stays and lives with them, but before long Hakuoro finds that life in this village is being oppressed by the greedy emperor who rules over the country their village resides in.

Soon after, these negative actions taken towards their village result in him leading a rebellion against the emperor of the country which later lands him to become emperor of a vast new country.

However, after becoming an emperor, Hakuoro soon realizes that keeping peace is the hardest part of all and eventually, he is led into many bloody battles in order to fight for the freedom.