10,000 years before the events of the original White Knight Chronicles, nation ruled over the continent, but one day the nation split apart, and thus the Dogma Wars begin. In those wars Yshrenian Empire with their incorrupti were unstoppable, every nation they attacked, fell. Only one nation matched the Yshrenian Empire's power, the Athwan Empire. The player controls an unnamed silent protagonist, an Athwan Empire citizen, whose town is under attack by the Yshrenian Empire. The protagonist is saved by the Mobile Corps after facing the White Knight. Thus your life as a mercenary begins.