Rance VI: Collapse of Zeth
Rance VI -The Collapse of Zeth- is the ninth installment of the Rance Series.
Despite the fact that 5D was released earlier, Rance VI is usually considered the beginning of the new Rance timeline set after Kichikuou Rance, due to the much bigger scale of the game along with the fact that it takes place in LP0004, leaving the year LP0003 where Kichikuou Rance would have taken place as "the missing year", since the canonical events of that year weren't adapted into games. It was also from this point that many details of the lore and the setting were better established and given further detail.
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DeveloperAlicesoft
PublisherMangaGamer
ReleasedAugust 27, 2004
StatusReleased
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About This Game
Rance and Sill travel to the Magic Kingdom of Zeth after running out of money, only for Rance to offend a high-ranked minister and magic user named Radon almost immediately. He is thrown into a slave camp while his magic-using slave Sill is treated as a valued guest. Furious, Rance escapes with an underground resistance group called Ice Flame and joins their cause. Zeth is built on profound inequality: only those with magical ability are considered full citizens; everyone else is effectively enslaved. Ice Flame fights quietly against this, while the extremist group Pentagon fights violently, and the mysterious King of Zeth pursues his own unknown agenda. Rance joins officially to take revenge on the government mages — and, almost as an afterthought, to get Sill back.