Mountaineers Guild

"They are not really good games, but they have some nostalgic value, you know? Being the only games we have in the common room... I have played through them a few times."

- Reynir Helgisson

Mountaineers Guild (登山者 の ギルド, Tozan sha no girudo) is a series of 4 RPG games developed and published by Kyoshiki Ltd. The first game was released in 2006 and the forth and final one was released in 2014, thereby concluding the game series.

Takeo Ishikawa
Class: Rogue, Element: Fire

Takeo Ishikawa is the main character of the game, and works as an engineer. He is hot-headed and a bit sarcastic, but a brave and loyal person who always wants the best for his village and his friends.

Takeo is a boy with tanned skin, dark brown hair and honey eyes. He often carries many weapons and wears hoods as to cover himself and "keep up the assassin look".

He is very protective over his friends, and especially his team. During the second game, he and Enya has a romance, but it ends later in the same game where Enya falls for Ryuta. Throughout the game there are several hints that the relationship between Takeo Ishikawa and Kizuki Sato may be more than just platonic (strongly bromancy), but there was no real signs that a romance between the two male friends was possible until the forth game, where Kizuki suddenly confesses to Takeo. Takeo answers to the confession by saying that he needs some time to think about what Kizuki just said. In the end of the game, they are seen holding hands and seem to be in a romantic relationship.

Kizuki Sato
Class: Cleric, Element: Air Kizuki

Enya Fujisaki
Class: Ranger, Element: Earth

Ryuta Yamasaki
Class: Warrior, Element: Water

Plot
"It's a really beautiful story about how an unlikely journey can lead to unlikely friendships, and discovering not only the world, but oneself!"

- Reynir Helgisson to Alenka Kowalczyk

Dun Village, located at the coast of the large Dun Lake, is entirely surrounded by mountains. According to local legend, the gods habit the mountains and watches over the humans. If a person manages to climb the mountains and reach the housing of the gods, the person and its village will receive blessing of prosperity and eternal happiness. Therefore, the village's local guild every year assembles a couple of groups of four, which are trained throughout the course of the year. Then, at the annual spring ceremony, one team is chosen to be given the honorable task to climb the mountain.

The story follows Takeo Ishikawa, a young rogue-in-training inhabiting the village of Dun. He is chosen by the local guild to assemble a team of four, together with three others: the cleric Kizuki Sato, the ranger/huntress Enya Fujisawa and the warrior Ryuta Yamisaki.

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Trivia

 * Reynir, when first playing through the game with Jóhann, noted that he found Jóhann very similar to the main character, Takeo. Johann agreed, and said that Reynir actually was much like Kizuki. It is because of this that Jóhann always chooses to play as Takeo and Reynir always chooses to play as Kizuki.
 * Reynir and Jóhann both peg themselves as avid Kizukeo (Kizuki and Takeo) and Ryuya (Enya and Ryuta) shippers.