Past
The Hero, Kiefer, and Maribel reach Orph. Inside Orph, they noticed that something was wrong about the village. All of the humans were unable to communicate. They eventually sought the help of the woodsman, a man who lives in a house near the village of Fishbel, who has an unusual ability to talk to animals.
He eventually notices why the humans cannot speak. The people were not really human, they were animals in human form, and vice versa, people were actually humans in animal form. They also meet a young boy who is trapped in tough chains, whom they help escape. He wildly escapes, and went out of the town.
The woodsman decided to know the story behind all of this.