Rock Adams

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Soul Edge

He it a giant living on the Savannah of the New World.

"Rock, look at the 'Soul Edge'. Isn't it a beauty?"

His father's wish had finally been fulfilled. He showed his son the sword in the ship's cabin. "At last, 'Soul Edge', the hero's sword..."

The storm that buffeted the ship scared young Rock to the point of tears. His Father was too excited to even notice. His mother, frustrated, led Rock to the hammock. Just then, cannon fire sounded and the ship rocked from a direct hit! Rock screamed in terror. His Father and Mother held him tight as the cries of the crew echoed: "Pirates!"

The Spanish pirate Cervantes, confederate of Vercci, the Italian "Merchant of Death," had started his attack. His goal was none other than "Soul Edge." Father ran to the ship's storeroom to hide the"Soul Edge," After another explosion, Rock's Mother ran after to stop him.

"Rock, stay here until we return!" His parents never did. Before they could, the ship sank. Rock awoke on an unfamiliar shoreline, alone

At first, Rock cried out, looking for his parents. Eventually he learned to live off the land to survive; discarding former habits and language.

It was at this point that he first came upon other living people, a tribe native to the area. Afraid of the "white giant," they would not approach him. The child Bangoo, an orphan of tribal warfare, was the sole consolation for Rock, who was now an adult. From the natives, Rock re-learnt about the "people across the ocean." Faded memories of his parents and even "Soul Edge" returned.

He remembered having heard the words "Soul Edge." It was a word he had heard often as a child. At bedtime, mealtime, while being held in someone's arms ... a hazy image formed in his mind. If he could find the "Soul Edge," perhaps he could recover his own past. He might even find his parents!

With his giant ax in hand, Rock set out for the land across the sea.

Soul Calibur

As a young child, Rock was cast adrift at sea after a shipwreck and landed in the New World, an orphan without parents.

Many years later, he came across an orphan named Bangoo, who lost his kin through tribal warfare. Rock felt sympathetic to the boy and became his guardian.

Rock had once travelled abroad in search of Soul Edge, a distant memory and a fleeting clue to his past. However, he realized that by doing so, he was subjecting Bangoo to the same loneliness that he had suffered as a child, and so he returned home to Bangoo.

But one day, Bangoo disappeared.

Kunpaetku, the grand priest of a heretical order called Fygul Cystemus, was responsible for Bangoos kidnapping. The abduction of Bangoo by his Lizardmen was part of his plan to lure Rock out into the open with the ultimate goal of taking his soul.

"Bangoo, I will never abandon you!" Rock cried out as he crossed the sea again in desparate search for Bangoo.

Soul Calibur 3

Several years ago, Rock succeeded in rescuing Bangoo from the clutches of the evil cult that had kidnapped him. His trusty axe had broken in the process, but he did not regret it.

The two of them were once again free, but deciding that Bangoo was not ready for a long journey, they headed up north along the coast and settled in northern Europe. Rock hoped for Bangoo to grow stronger in the fierce winters of this land, different from the New World.

One night during a snowstorm, Bangoo met with an accident. When the sun rose and Rock rescued him, Rock asked the boy if he was frightened of nature.

"Yes, it's scary. But I can't bring myself to hate it..."

Hearing this answer, Rock sensed that the time had come for Bangoo to become a man. Bangoo chose a trip across the sea alone as his ritual manhood, and Rock saw him off with a great mix of emotions.

Rock was alone again.

Bangoo had returned to his place of birth. But as for Rock...

In the past, he had traveled in search of Soul Edge, the one clue linking him to his parents... had old regrets and attachments surfaced now that he'd come to this place?

"No. I, too, need to become a man that Bangoo can be proud of," he said to himself.

Rock decided to set out on his own journey to confirm his strength and will. The quest for Soul Edge which he had previously abandoned... once he completed that, he could proudly call himself Bangoo's father.

With the image of the boy in heart, Rock cast his gaze one last time across the great sea.

Soul Calibur 4

Was he truly a father Bangoo could be proud of? Rock needed proof, and so he continued his hunt for Soul Edge. However, an unexpected road block had cut that search short. As he crossed the Alps and headed south, he had been ambushed by a gargantuan man, and lost.

By throwing himself off the cliff into the river below, he had narrowly escaped his unknown foe, and found his way to a secluded hot spring where he could heal his battered body. During the time he spent recovering, Rock's thoughts wandered toward his assailant, the "Black Giant." It bothered him that the assailant's fighting style was so similar to Rock's own. Then there was the attacker's merciless nature. He was dangerous, too dangerous to be allowed to run loose. With new resolve, he waited for his wounds to heal and the strength to return to his limbs, and then left the hot spring.

As he continued his journey, he discovered a startling fact; his attacker, named Astaroth, had entered the service of the Azure Knight, who was headuartered in Ostrheinsburg Castle, and the Azure Knight was none other than the wielder of Soul Edge.

Was fate the architect of all this? To Rock, the journey becamse not only about finding "proof," but instead something much bigger.