The keepsake sword of her mother, this was Xianghua's treasure. Every time she gazed at the sword, she remembered her mother's last words: "You were born to complete an important task... cut your path through uncertain future!". What Xianghua didn't know was that Krita-Yuga, alongside Kali-Yuga and Dvapara-Yuga, formed the sacred trinity protected by the Ling-Sheng Su Temple. The sword, at the pulsing force of the evil Soul Edge, revealed its true form as Soul Calibur, the polar opposite of Soul Edge. After defeating Inferno, Soul Calibur was trapped inside of it for the next four years, and after Siegfried freed himself from Soul Edge's control, it was freed from the Tartaros. Siegfried then used it to pierce Soul Edge, and both Soul Calibur and Soul Edge ended in a dormant state, known a