Summon Night Swordcraft Story 3: The Stone of Beginnings, known as Summon Night Craft Sword Monogatari: Hajimari no Ishi in Japan, is an action role-playing game developed by Flight-Plan for the Game Boy Advance. It is part of the Summon Night series of games and the sequel to Summon Night: Swordcraft Story 2. Unlike the previous two games, Stone of Beginnings was not released outside of Japan. It was released in Japan on December 8, 2005.
It was translated into English by pablitox. The protagonist was the Craftknight apprentice of Rob and his partner, the summon beast V.E. However, one day they got separated, and Rob was killed by a summon beast, making V.E the protagonist’s new master. Since then, the protagonist has been looked down upon as V.E was now a Stray Summon and his/her new boss at the same time. Certain day, an unknown summoned beast appears at their workshop and injures V.E, making the main character angry.
After chasing the summoned beast, he/she meets a mysterious girl named Murno, and after saving her from Bostaph’s men, he notices that the summoned beast was Murno’s guardian beast. Afterwards, as an apology for the trouble caused, Murno would have to live with them, helping V.E with the house chores; her guardian beast would become the protagonist’s partner, and the protagonist makes a vow to protect Murno with the help of his/her new partner. Unknowingly, the protagonist had just become involved in events that would threaten the world of Lyndbaum.
Summon Night Swordcraft Story 3: Stone of Beginnings introduces players to creating arrows. However, this new method drains the duration of the new weapon. Ability to play as a partner summon, who has their own set of skills in battle, and they also have a Super Form, similar to the Mono Shift from Swordcraft Story 2. New monsters also appear that are resistant to the main character’s attack, but are weak against the partner summon’s attacks.