The happy ending.
The moving ending.
In the game, there are 108 characters whom you can recruit to aid you in a war. They are called the 108 stars of destiny. The Suikoden story goes...
You start off in a castle waiting with your father to meet with the emperor. Your father, Teo, is a heroic general who helped the emperor bring peace to the empire seven years prior. You meet with the emperor and your father is needed in the north to defend the border. You enlist in the military, but you're not going with your father.
The next day your Teo leaves, and you get your first assignment - errand work. Your best friend, Ted, a servant who practically raised you, Gremio, and two other servants, Pahn and Cleo, go with you. You visit a lady named Leknaat for star charts, and when she delivers them, she also enigmatically predicts your destiny to you. Your next assignment is to collect taxes from a town and you're followed by a cowardly little officer who is really there to keep an eye on your party. Clearly, the man in charge of the town is keeping the taxes for himself, but blames it on a band of bandits in the nearby mountains. So you hunt down the bandits who attack you simply because you're part of the imperial army, and you're accusing them of stealing taxes, and because the sniveling officer provokes them and then hides behind you.
You capture the bandits and return them to the town where you are reward with a bunch of money that the officer takes from you, but on the way, you're attacked.
It's a big bug, and your party can't defeat it, so Ted says he's going to try something. He uses some magic from a rune which catches the officer's attention.
Finally, when you head back home, the officer asks Ted to join him briefly for the debriefing. Dinner finished, and a storm raging, you wonder where your best friend is when suddenly you hear the door, and you find him injured and unconscious just inside the door. When he wakes up he explains that his rune is a very powerful and cursed rune called the Soul Eater that the emperor's sorceress, Windy, has been hunting for 300 years, and Ted has been running from her for that long.
He apologizer for the burden, but must transfer the rune to you to keep it protected. He passes out again saying that he can finally sleep peacefully.
Pahn had run to report this all in an attempt to keep your name from being soiled and soon after Soldiers arrive at the door and since you try to defend Ted, you have to confront the soldiers. Ted surrenders to them allowing you the chance to escape, since they still think he still has the Soul Eater.
You run out into the rain and go to the inn in town. The soldiers come looking for you and a big man named Victor uses the confrontation to skip out on the bill for his food. He gets you out of the town, and introduces you to Odessa, who is leading a rebellion against the empire which seems to have become corrupt in the seven years since your father had helped unite it.
A man shows up telling this woman about the bandits you guys captured, and you head out to rescue them since it was your fault they were being tortured. Next you head out with Odessa on a mission to deliver some secret blueprints crucial to the rebellion. The whole time it's this constant thing that you can't be helping rebels, and Cleo and Gremio are trying to keep you from helping the rebels so that you can clear your name, but they follow you no matter what you choose. It also keeps becoming more apparent that there are problems with the empire... So...
Upon returning from the mission, the rebel hideout has been raided and Odessa is killed. She gives you her earring asking you to find her brother Mathui (pronounced Matthew, I think). When you find Mathui he joins you and you end up becoming the leader of the rebellion. Thus begins the search to recruit people to help you... Thus, the 108 stars of Destiny. It's not required to recruit them all... But...
Because of the nature of the Soul Eater Rune, it's curse is that it's bearer will suffer greatly because it takes the souls of those closest the the bearer. During the game, you have to fight and kill your father. He dies happy and very proud of you though.
But the other person who the rune takes is Gremio... Who basically raised you while your father was at war when you were little. Well, he's always trying to protect you, and ends up sacrificing himself to save you about halfway through the game. If you collect all the characters by a certain time in the game, Windy's sister, Leknaat -- who really shows up randomly and helps you out the whole game -- but she appears and brings Gremio back to life with the power of all the stars of destiny gathered together.
Anyway, that's how you get the good ending. Which I have the picture of. Gremio has the green cape and blonde hair on the right while you, the hero, have the green bandanna on the left. But at the end of the game, after saving the empire, you sneak off to live a quiet life. If you gathered all the 108 stars, Gremio is alive and goes with you, but if you didn't, you just go by yourself.
All that said...
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