Hehe, this game is great stuff.
Anyone yet managed to get all key items/ chars? I recently missed a key item because I accidently finished the 'final' enemy off... Actually, how many chars are there?
Concerning transsoul, it changes the vitality, the alignment (law-chaos) and the stat growth of a char. Quite nice if you get a someone to have full chaos/law alignment, makes them a lot stronger.
As for the story, it's just the common evil-comes-over-the-world-because-people-were-nasty thingy. There's that valkry-like maid who steals the old kings soul and (I'm guessing) forms it into what they call the wisp. That wisp then goes out to kill a lot of monsters, first of which is the werewolf Jamie, while saving the world of the Great Evil Approaching.
And no wonder it's difficult to follow, since the story is told by changing place and time a lot. There's plenty of flashbacks, unimportant scenes and subplot.
Small tip concerning items: first, fuse all of one kind together, you don't need multiple copies since you can use one weapon for multiple chars. This gives you a weapon with lots of uses, which makes it worth upgrading. Do so, till you think that it's not worth risking anymore durability.
Also weapon effects is a little confusing. Those effects are not active immedeately after setting the item in tactics screen, they trigger when the hit counter (upper left of screen) reaches the tiny number written in the coloured effect box. Therefore, a "Makes your wisp invincible for 999s." is not really useful if it triggers after 600 hits.
Sincerly,
~BlackNeedle