Xenosaga Database
by Ricky Alvarez
YOU THERE!  HALT!  THE FOLLOWING CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR XENOSAGA I,
II, III, IV, V, AND VI.  SOME OF THESE EPISODES HAVEN'T BEEN
RELEASED, BUT MUCH EDUCATED SPECULATION IS MADE IN THIS DATABASE,
SO SOME ASSUMPTIONS MAY BECOME FUTURE SPOILERS.  YOU HAVE BEEN
WARNED.
Introduction
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This is the Xenosaga Database, a fanmade database for the Xenosaga
series.  It was first created during Episode II, when Monolith
decided it would be a great idea to remove the database even though
the story got a lot more complicated.  Therefore, I decided to make
my own for Episode II.  However, I realized that it would be much
more useful if I updated Episode I's database with Episode II
knowledge--but why stop there?  I've decided to revamp this database
every time a new episode comes out, regardless of whether or not
future episodes have a database feature, since it is often undetailed
and very strangely secretive, even after completing revealing events.
So, enjoy; I hope you find this useful.
Terms of Use
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Feel free to use this as a reference, but I don't want to see this
database copied in its entirety anywhere else regardless of whether
you give me credit or not.  I'm not gonna hunt anyone down, but if
you do break these terms, I wish upon you a most agonizing hangnail.
These websites have received permission to host this Database:
- GameFAQs
- Neoseeker
Version History
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3/19/05 - Fixed many errors, added some entries, updated some stuff.
3/14/05 - Put in all Episode II entries I know of, updated and
corrected some Episode I entries.  Added a Table of Contents for ease
of use and created a Credits section as well.
3/13/05 - Finished the revamping of the Episode I database.  Will be
adding Episode II-specific entries in next update.
Credits
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I write everything here from scratch, but without the following
sources I'd be totally clueless:
- The GameFAQs Xenosaga II message board, which is just an unlimited
source of information.
- MightyCat for notifying me of Wikipedia's usefulness, and Wikipedia
itself.
- FScell's Episode I Database transcripts; without them this would
have taken a LOT longer.
- tamashii's Xenosaga II Game Script.
- jinxhaas' Miltian Conflict timeline.
- X CubeStation, Ryuto, the void, Moonstone 04, and RPGC Cidolfas for
pointing out many errors and making many suggestions.
So thank you thank you thank you to those people!
Final Thought
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If you spot any errors, be they typos or storyline-related errors,
please inform me as soon as possible!  You may contact me at
aridity at gmail for those purposes.  If you'd like to plain discuss
and speculate, however, don't e-mail me for that; make a topic about
it on GameFAQs' Xenosaga II message board.  I am human, not a
Realian; I will always make mistakes.  But I try my best.  Now, on to
the database!
Table of Contents (For ease of use; Ctrl + F.)
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#Abel
#Abel's Ark
#Abyss
#Acute Neurosis Treatment Facility
#Aird
#Albedo Piasora
#A.M.W.S.
#Anima Relic
#bookworm
#Bormeo University
#Boss
#Canaan
#Cecily and Catherine
#chaos
#Citrine
#Commander Andrew Cherenkov
#curry
#Dammerung
#Dinah
#DME addiction
#Dr. Dmitri Yuriev
#Durandal
#Dur Wille zur Macht
#Elsa
#Encephalon
#Erich
#E.S.
#Febronia
#Gaignun Kukai
#Gnosis
#Hammer
#Heinlein
#Helmer
#Hermann
#Hyams
#Immigrant Fleet
#Issachar
#Jenseits von Gut und Bose
#Jin Uzuki
#Joachim Mizrahi
#Jr., Gaignun
#Juli Mizrahi
#Kahles scope
#Kevin
#KOS-MOS
#KOS-MOS Tertiary Weapons System
#Kukai Foundation
#Labyrinthos
#Lost Jerusalem
#Man in Ebony Cloak; Black Testament
#Man in Ivory Cloak; White Testament
#Man in Rainbow Cloak; Skittles Testament
#Man in Scarlet Cloak; Red Testament
#Man in Violet Cloak; Blue Testament
#Margulis
#Marking on the Forehead
#Mary Godwin
#Miltian Conflict
#Miyuki Itsumi
#MOMO
#Nephilim
#Nigredo
#Old Miltia
#Orgulla
#Ormus
#Patriarch/Pope
#Pellegri
#Pied Piper
#Pieta
#Pleroma
#Proto Merkabah
#Proto Omega
#Richard
#Rubedo
#Sakura
#Second Miltia
#Sellers
#Shelley Godwin
#Shion Uzuki
#Shion's Father
#Simeon
#S.O.C.E
#Togashi
#Tony
#tromp l'oeil
#U-DO
#U.M.N
#U.R.T.V.
#U-TIC
#Vector
#Vessel of Anima/Anima Relic
#Virgil
#Voyager
#Weaver of the Eternal Circle of Zarathustra
#Wilhelm
#Y-Data
#Yuriev Institute
#Zebulun
#Ziggurat 8/Ziggy/Jan Sauer
#Zoar Incident
#Zohar
#... Are you saying the answer lies in the Unus Mundus? ...
#... 'Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony.' ...
#... No wonder we didn't find anything; we were analyzing each system
separately. ...
#... The country of the hills of Mud, the land of Mu, was
sacrificed. ...
#... The red horse carries war, and the black horse, famine. ...
#... We need to protect them from the coming crisis, if and when it
occurs. ...
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. XENOSAGA
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. DATABASE
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. G E T !!
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#Abel
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A character from Xenosaga I, seen only for a split second.  He is the
boy who is playing with blocks during the ending, while everything is
going crazy; chaos' hands light up, Nephilim looks up, Compass of
Order's going insane, KOS-MOS is a blazin'--BOOM, ABEL!
Abel seems to have special powers because if you take a good look at
his blocks, they are defying physics.  Telekinesis, maybe.
The name 'Abel' is a reference to a character from Xenogears, but the
characters look identical in both Xenogears and Xenosaga.  Whether or
not this is relevant at all is unknown.
#Abel's Ark
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A huge, structural Gnosis that appears at the end of Episode II.
It's Wilhelm's favorite subject.  Abel's Ark itself seems to have
been formed by some kind of solar system, and some--myself
included--speculate that it is the solar system that holds Earth/Lost
Jerusalem, or in other words, the Milky Way.  This is unconfirmed,
though.  Either way, Abel's Ark takes the Original Zohar.  I
speculate that just as the Zohar emulator that was in Cathedral Ship
created Cathedral Ship, the Original Zohar that goes into Abel's Ark
created Abel's Ark.
How the Ark is related to the character, Abel, is unknown, but in
Xenogears 'Abel's Ark' referred to a (literal) ship that would lead
the characters to God.
#Abyss
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Although Juli Mizrahi refers to them as 'the abyss', there are in
fact two black holes residing near Old Miltia.  They were created
fourteen years ago during the Miltian Conflict by Albedo's partial
contact with U-DO, which resulted in a medium-scale space-time anomaly.
In Xenosaga II the Ormus Stronghold appears between the black holes,
and after it is conquered it disappears, and so do the black holes.
For this reason it can be assumed that Ormus had some kind of control
over the black holes.
#Acute Neurosis Treatment Facility
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This is an establishment on Old Miltia where Shion's mother was being
treated for whatever was wrong with her.  Neurosis facilities treat
mental illnesses, not physical ones.  The Song of Nephilim used to
reside next to this facility.
#Aird
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Aird is an attack that Issachar, Zebulun, and Simeon can use.  I
mention it because it is very similar to Xenogears' Aerods, or
'Animum Ether Response Offensive Drones'.  It's unknown what Aird
stands for, if it even is an acronym.
#Albedo Piasora
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BIRTHDATE: T.C. 4741
AGE: 26
'Albedo' is in fact U.R.T.V. Unit #667's nickname.  The nickname was
not given to him by Dr. Yuriev, his creator, as he and his friends
(Rubedo and Nigredo) seem to be discouraged to call each other by
their nicknames.  As a clone of Yuriev, Albedo seems to have
inherited the man's insanity; he is extremely protective over Rubedo
in particular, so much so that he's willing to beat people up over him,
boys and girls alike.  This protectiveness most likely stems from the
fact that Albedo and Rubedo were conjoined twins upon birth; they
were joined by Albedo's heart, which rested in Rubedo's right chest.
They were separated soon after.
For unknown reasons, Yuriev altered Albedo's
body somehow so that it had infinite telomerase, which is an enzyme
that enables regeneration.  In other words, Albedo is immortal.
Once the Miltian Conflict begins, the U.R.T.V.s are sent to the Song
of Nephilim where U-DO is to appear, and when it does, Albedo
starts freaking out because he's afraid.  When Rubedo severs the
link, Albedo is infected by U-DO, and because he is immortal, becomes
one with U-DO instead of being killed by it.  Albedo stirs up
trouble by knocking Nigredo down with his newly found powers, but
what he does or where he goes afterwards is unknown.
Over time, Albedo is driven completely mad over the fact that
everyone he knows will die, yet he will remain forever, and so he
decides that he must find U-DO, and become one completely with U-DO,
in order to die.  Somehow, he gains a craft named Simeon and the
Song of Nephilim (maybe from Vector, as he works with Blue Testament
at one point).
As a U.R.T.V., Albedo has telepathic abilities, and so he is hired by
Margulis in Episode I to extract the Y-Data from MOMO.  He ends up
kidnapping her by disguising himself as Joachim Mizrahi, her father
(I have no idea how he disguises himself so well).  In the Song of
Nephilim, Albedo displays his hatred for Sakura (because she was
stealing Rubedo from him) by torturing the Kirchwassers, who were
modelled after her.  He is able to get the first layer of the Y-Data
by reversing MOMO's spiritual link before he is stopped by Jr.,
giving MOMO a little of his power in the process.  The 'little power'
MOMO inherits is actually a trap that is activated in Episode II; an
emulator of Albedo's consciousness.
Using the data he is able to bring back Proto Merkabah somehow and
docks the Song of Nephilim into it.  He tries to crash Proto Merkabah
into Second Miltia, but is stopped by Jr. and party.
Once MOMO is hooked up to the U.M.N. for the analysis of the Y-Data,
Albedo's consciousness within her uses the U.M.N. to access the
most well-protected portions of the Y-Data.  He uses this to get the
access code to Old Miltia, and the planet is brought back from the
'dead'.
He is next confronted in the Omega System, and tries to kill
Patriarch, but is defeated.  He turns into particles, truly becoming
one with U-DO now that the Zohar is right there, and then is summoned
by the Testaments to kill Jr.'s party once Patriarch is finished off.
U-DO-Albedo's threat is blocked by KOS-MOS for a time, but all of the
Omega System is soon consumed by a space-time anomaly because of the
U-DO exposure, similar to what happened during the Miltia Conflict.
Albedo's plans finally come true: he is U-DO, and because Jr. is the
Red Dragon, meant to be the main offensive against U-DO, he is the
only person who can kill U-DO, and therefore kill Albedo.  Albedo
taunts Jr. to come to the space-time anomaly, fights with him knowing
he will lose, and then dies.  The Kirchwassers he'd been so cruel to
seem to forgive him as they lift him to a higher plane of existence.
Though it seems ironic, considering Albedo went through all of that
just to kill himself, it is likely that Albedo still lives on as the
White Testament, or the Weaver of the Eternal Circle of Zarathustra.
It is the newest Testament, gained right after Albedo's death by
Wilhelm, who states..
"His will shines with such wondrous light. It's a shame to relegate
him to such a minor role..  Don't you think..?"
.. in Episode I when speaking about Albedo.  He proceeds to state..
"I said it was a shame, didn't I?"
.. in Episode II, right before introducing the White Testament.  Of
course, this is speculation.  If it is true, it can be assumed that
Albedo didn't want to die so badly because he didn't want to watch
other people die as he lived on: he wanted to die so badly because
he had already made a deal with Wilhelm to become a Testament after
his death to fulfill goals unknown to us.
#A.M.W.S.
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The standard mech in Xenosaga; the A.G.W.S. class are much smaller
and compact.  The A.M.W.S. are huge, and used for all kinds of stuff
in comparison to the A.G.W.S., which are only used for anti-Gnosis
fighting.  What A.M.W.S. stands for is unknown.
#Anima Relic
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See 'Vessel of Anima/Anima Relic'.
#bookworm
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Jin Uzuki, Jr.
#Bormeo University
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One of the best educational institutions in the Federation.  People
who have attended it include Allen, Shion, Kevin, and the three
Professors.  Joachim Mizrahi mentored Kevin here, but it is unknown
whether or not Mizrahi had any official connections (such as being
an instructor) to the University.
#Boss
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Shion's former boss, believe it or not.  He's the owner of Moby
Dick's Cafe, and used to employ Shion when she was in high school;
that's how she learned how to make such good curry.  Boss makes the
best curry in the whole star cluster.
#Canaan
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Canaan is a special Realian created by Vector, overseen by none other
than Wilhelm.  He is one of the few (MOMO included) Realians that can
operate an E.S.  His most unusual feature is his unique look,
deviating from the standard Realian models.
He is first introduced in Miltia, where he and chaos are deployed
on a mission to retrieve the U.R.T.V.s and the Y-Data by Helmer.
Canaan is nearly driven mad by the Song of Nephilim, but Jin comes
to he and chaos' aide.  Jin entrusts some data that proves that U-TIC
is up to no good to Canaan; being a Realian, Canaan is able to
electronically transfer the data from the chip into his brain.
However, some kind of a shadow (possibly the black hole(s)) consumes
he and chaos, and what happens after that is a mystery, but they do
go on to save Rubedo and Nigredo somehow.  The shadow has some kind
of lasting effect on Canaan that makes him unable to retrieve the
data; every time he tries, the data simply cuts off and he can't get
anything out of it.
Therefore, instead of trying to comprehend the data with his own
brain, Canaan realizes that he must first extract the data and then
allow another computer (one that wasn't affected by the shadow) to
comprehend it.  But the only computer able to extract that particular
data is the one in the U-TIC Garden, which Jin and Canaan visit later
in Episode II, and successfully are able to extract the data with.
From then on, Canaan becomes more or less useless; he doesn't even
operate his own E.S.  It's a real shame.  Early video clips of
Xenosaga II seemed to portray Canaan as a playable character both in
and out of E.S., so he may have been 'cut out' to an extent.
Canaan's E.S. is aligned with the Anima Relic Asher.
'Canaan' itself is an ancient term referring to the general area
around present-day Israel, but also including western Jordan,
southern Syria and southern Lebanon.
#Cecily and Catherine
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Twin Realians linked up to the Original Zohar, used to control its
power output for the U-TIC.  They are the sisters of Febronia, but
how they got involved with the U-TIC is unknown.  They are unaware of
their true positions, living in a fantasy world as shown by Febronia
in Episode I, but they cannot be parted from the Zohar without dying
because it is their life support.  However, Febronia gives Shion
permission to let KOS-MOS kill them--free them--and thus, their story
ends.
Something interesting to note: the twins' bodies were 'decomposing'
similar to Betty's, the half-Gnosis woman in Jr.'s science tanks
aboard the Durandal.
#chaos
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BIRTHDATE: Unknown
AGE: Unknown; Appears 16
A mysterious boy, often the victim of yaoi fanfiction.  He first
appeared when he was issued by (Commander?) Helmer to infiltrate
Old Miltia during the Miltian Conflict, to retrieve the U.R.T.V.s
before they made the grave mistake of trying to contain U-DO.  He was
escorted by Canaan, and co-piloted the E.S. Asher with inhuman
skills.  He and Canaan saved Rubedo and Nigredo, and he has watched
over Jr. ever since.
chaos has many interesting abilities: he can walk into rooms without
using the door, he can instantly kill Gnosis by touching them, he can
haunt peoples' daydreams, he can breathe in space--the list goes on
and on, and considering his real name is Yeshua, it's no wonder why.
'Yeshua' is the Jewish name for 'Jesus', who is the Messiah, which
the Patriarch mentions.  (Note that he mentions 'Messiah', not
Jesus.)
chaos seems to have some kind of past with Wilhelm and the
Testaments; he and Wilhelm can telepathically speak with each other
and the Blue Testament, Virgil, calls chaos 'boss' at one point in
Episode I.  Details are unknown.
#Citrine
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Citrine is U.R.T.V. #668; she was created right after Albedo and
Rubedo, and right before Nigredo.  She is one of the very few female
U.R.T.V.s, since technically there is no need for females aside from
their purpose of securing the mtDNA.  The girls' ward is separated
from the main part of the Yuriev Institute for reasons we don't know,
but it might have to do with the fact that unsuccessful females were
'disposed' of.  Only nine remain, including Citrine.  It's unknown
what business Citrine had at the main part of the Yuriev Institute,
but she seemed to have come specially just to meet Rubedo.
Citrine calls the female types superior, and technically they are.
All the females have Nigredo's ability: the ability to kill Rubedo if
the situation ever arises.  On top of this, they are the rare X stock
of course (female), and since Citrine is probably the Pale Horse,
she is Death, and Death seems a lot more intimidating than Famine.
Some people speculate that Citrine has other special powers, such as
the ability to transform into an orange juicemaker.
The name 'Citrine' is derived from the citrine quartz/topaz, a
beautiful amber-colored gemstone.  It's the same color as Citrine's
hair.  'Citrinas' is also the fourth stage of Alchamy, following the
pattern of Rubedo/Nigredo/Albedo.
#Commander Andrew Cherenkov
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BIRTHDATE: T.C. 4731
AGE: 36
Cherenkov's life was a hard one.  He was a victim of the Zoar (not
Zohar) Incident, which produced Super Soldiers under the Life
Recycling Act.  Details of the Zoar Incident are unknown, but it was
a war of some kind that took place on Ariadne, and the soldiers who
fought in it were given the drive to kill.  These killer
instincts--combined with the fact that the super soldiers were looked
at as abominations when they came back from the war--drove many of
them mad, including Cherenkov.
Cherenkov committed a horrible, unnamed crime while the Species
Preservation Act--which outlawed the Life Recycling Act--was being
put into order, and because of this ended up in court.  He soon fell
in love with his lawyer, who was able to get him out of jailtime
under one condition: that he get personality reconditioning.  She
and Cherenkov got married, but it was soon revealed that his wife
wasn't actually in love with him: she just got married to him
because she wanted to get a cloning license (for unnamed reasons),
which is only issued under certain conditions because of the Species
Preservation Act.  (In their case, since Cherenkov was labelled
'mad', the lawyer was seen to have a good excuse to clone herself
instead of having a child between she and Cherenkov.)  His wife was
also having a virtual affair with another man via her U.M.N.
headgear.
But all Cherenkov ever wanted in his life was to leave a legacy.
This is why he kills his wife, and then is ordered to an even higher
level of personality reconditioning.
Then, one day, he comes across his wife's clone, and kills her as
well.  Thus, he is put into the highest level of personality
reconditioning; so high it's still experimental.  Yet even this
doesn't have an effect on him: he murders everyone in the
reconditioning facility with his bare hands, and Margulis hears of
this so he decides to give Cherenkov a purpose and hires him under
U-TIC.
Cherenkov's first mission is to infiltrate the Dammerung?*** and kidnap
the KOS-MOS Prototype, so he takes a ship off Ariadne and while
ascending hallucinates and sees his dead wife and her clone.  Once
he gets on the Dammerung, Kevin gives Cherenkov his connection gear,
which has the ability to activate KOS-MOS.  Cherenkov and his men
storm the First R&D Division and wake up the Prototype, much to their
mistake.  Prototype KOS-MOS ends up slaughtering everyone in the
building, and Cherenkov is only saved when her attention is grabbed
by an attacking helicopter.
Two years later..
Though Cherenkov failed his mission, it wasn't Cherenkov's fault that
the Prototype was so unexpectedly dangerous, and so Margulis puts him
on another mission: to be part of the Zohar Link Experiment.  Nobody
knows what this is about, but it involved the Zohar emulator, and it
ended up transforming Ariadne into the Cathedral Ship.  Cherenkov
completed this mission successfully, yet had been unaware from the
beginning that it would result in the destruction of his own planet.
The Zohar Link Experiment might have been an attempt to copy the link
between Cecily, Cathe, and the Zohar, used to control the original
Zohar on Old Miltia, invented by Joachim Mizrahi and the U-TIC.
Cherenkov's next mission is to secure the Zohar from the destroyed
Ariadne, and because there are U-TIC spies in the Federation, he is
issued (along with Vanderkaum and his men) to the Woglinde to recover
it.  His plans fall short when Gnosis appear, wanting the Zohar for
themselves since its presence wasn't disguised with an attract
inhibitor.  Because he left the Zohar exposed to normal space and
it was sucked up by Cathedral Ship soon after the destruction of the
Woglinde, Cherenkov fails yet another mission, but is able to live by
clinging onto the rescue pod of Shion and Allen while in a spacesuit.
The party boards the Elsa, and Cherenkov is touched by a Gnosis
before being half-saved by chaos.  The Elsa goes to the Dock Colony,
which hates soldiers, and Cherenkov is attacked because he is one.
Cherenkov's drive to kill awakens and he beats the living daylights
out of the thugs.  He later refuses treatment from MOMO because the
nanomachines she wanted to use to treat him (nanotreatment) could
have triggered a change in the chemicals that controled his emotions,
creating a violent reaction.
The Gnosis within Cherenkov--because he was attacked earlier--starts
to take effect, and this combined with the fact that he is a Super
Soldier and wants to kill something makes for a nasty combination.
Cherenkov tries to use one of his personality conditioning drugs to
calm himself down, but to little avail.
He ends up in Cathedral Ship, which is Ariadne, and because of this
hallucinates until he reaches the Zohar.  Strains of U-DO--the souls
of the people in Cherenkov's life--spawn from the Zohar and spiral
around Cherenkov, blaming him for everything he's done and haunting
him some more.  The strains pelt him with the weight of all his
crimes, and he finally gives in to becoming Gargoyle, a horrifyingly
strong Gnosis.  Ziggy has a flashback of Voyager because Voyager,
too, made a 'contract' with U-DO and turned into a Gnosis.
Gargoyle is defeated, and Shion gets sucked into the world that
Cherenkov's consciousness now lives in.  It seems similar to the
world where Shion sees Nephilim, the Zohar, and chaos' shadow.
Cherenkov says he likes it in this world, since there is nothing to
trouble him anymore.  The world Cherenkov is in might be a higher
plane of existence existing within U-DO and the Zohar.  Either way,
he tells Shion that she will be there soon too, because somehow he
knows about the fact that she was touched by a Gnosis.
Cherenkov's tracking signal ceases to exist, and Margulis closes his
eyes, having been the only one who actually valued him.
***We don't know where these events take place.  It's either on the
Dammerung or in Ariadne; I stated it was the Dammerung before, but
I've come across some evidence (thanks to X CubeStation) that may
prove me wrong.  Apparently, during the scene where Kevin gives
Cherenkov his connection gear, the building behind them (very hard
to see since Kevin's hand immediately comes up to block the sign as
if the developers were trying to hide something) says ARIADNE.  The
buildings also look a lot like the buildings on Ariadne, so it is
most likely Ariadne, but because of the fact that it's very odd for
First Division to be operating on Ariadne, I've decided not to list
it as fact yet.  What *is* fact is that it is either on the Dammerung
or in Ariadne.
#curry
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Though curry was technically derived from India, nobody in India
calls it 'curry'--that's because curry isn't an object.  It's a whole
bunch of dishes under one name, coined by the British and picked up
by other countries from there.  These dishes range from an unlimited
set of types of soups and stews, often containing ginger, garlic,
onion, turmeric, chile, oil--it's often served on rice, particularly
in Asia.
Shion is an expert curry-maker, having worked at Moby Dick's Cafe
when she was younger.  Jin loves his curry extra spicy.  That witch
from Double Trouble likes rat skull curry.  Mmm!
#Dammerung
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A massive colony, bigger than the Kukai Foundation--perhaps the
biggest colony in the Federation.  It holds cities, the First R&D
Division, has artificial weather, and even has a graveyard.  It can
team up with other ships equipped with the the Rhine Maiden for awesome
Gnosis-owning attacks.
'Dammerung' is derived from Richard Wagner's Gotterdammerung.  The
play is about a golden ring sleeping at the bottom of a lake, protected
by three Rhine Maidens named Woglinde, Welgunde, and Flosshilde.
These are, of course, the names of the Dammerung's sister ships.
#Dinah
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An E.S. comprised of two parts: Kevin's U.M.N-independent ship and
KOS-MOS' dive unit.  The Anima Relic is probably stored somewhere
inside of Kevin's ship, but it is unknown where Kevin would have
acquired such a thing.  Perhaps from Mizrahi, since he was most
likely mentored by him.
#DME addiction
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DME addiction is caused when one eats Realians.  The tissue is
absorbed by the bloodstream and causes mutations in the brain.  These
mutations allow one to pick up the whatever the Realian had in their
brain, and in DME Addict Virgil's case, this includes the fact that
an emergency Realian override code exists.  As Realian tissue
collects in veins, the veins harden and create cornification of the
skin.
#Dr. Dmitri Yuriev
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Father of around 700 kids, all clones of him.  He founded the Yuriev
Institute so that he could battle U-DO, and also so that
he could somehow reincarnate into them later on after he died.
(Though so far, it's only confirmed that Nigredo can be reincarnated
into.)
Dmitri's a pretty crazy guy.  He doesn't mind sacrificing people in
order to get what he wants, which is to remove U-TIC from the face of
the planet: you could even say that Dmitri had a grudge against
Mizrahi because he was the other, *better* scientist.
Dmitri ends up dying when he tells Nigredo of his mission, which
goes more or less undisclosed.  However, Albedo comments to Nigredo
over Episode II about how Nigredo's just waiting for his chance to
take out Rubedo, so the mission might have been for Nigredo to subdue
or kill Rubedo.  Though Nigredo shot Dmitri to his death, Dmitri's
consciousness is revived inside of the adult version of Nigredo
in Episode II, though he only has a certain degree of control over
Nigredo.
#Durandal
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The Durandal is a warship that docks with the Kukai Foundation.  It
contains eleven Zohar emulators, protected by attract inhibitors, and
all of the ship's functions are controlled by Mama, the AI of the
mainframe.  The Durandal has the ability to externally amplify the
crew's magical powers, ram into things with its tip, and also has
a magnetized towing device.
The Durandal was named after the French sword, 'Durandal', wielded
by the hero Roland.  Notice the Durandal's swordlike shape, used to
impale victim ships.
#Dur Wille zur Macht
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German for 'The Will to Power'.  Named after a Nietzsche work.
#Elsa
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LENGTH: 166 Meters
WEIGHT: 8400 Tons
The Elsa is a luxury liner, jerry-rigged to its fullest extent.
Because of all these illegal parts, combined with the fact that the
Elsa was just completely remodeled and the Professor just built a
robot factory without Captain Matthews' permission, the Elsa has been
the Captain's main source of debt.
The Elsa also employs many droids to keep the place in tip-top shape,
but because the crew consists of the rowdy Matthews, Tony, Hammer,
and chaos, they have picked up the overbearing personalities of the
boys.
The name 'Elsa' comes from the heroine of Richard Wagner's
'Lohengrin'.
#Encephalon
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An Encephalon is nothing more than a virtual space, but one that is
constructed inside the mind, enabling what happens in that virtual
space to have an effect on normal space.  For example, if you are
infected with U-DO in an Encephalon dive, your complete brain
structure is changed, and so you are infected in virtual space and in
the real world.  If you die in the virtual space, your brain shuts
down permanently both in the virtual and real world.
Encephalons can exist inside of Encephalons, too.
#Erich
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Ziggy's former friend, future nemesis.  He made a deal with U-DO and
then became the evil Voyager, and the Black Testament.  His story is
delved into in Pied Piper.  See 'Voyager'.
If you're interested in Pied Piper's whole plot, I suggest
Kouli's amazing Pied Piper Story Translation:
http://db.gamefaqs.com/portable/mobile/file/xenosaga_pp_trans.txt
#E.S.
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Any mech that has a Vessel of Anima installed in it.  What E.S. the
acronym stands for is unknown.  The E.S. class itself was created by
U-TIC, and then stolen by Vector.  (What means Vector used is
unknown.)
#Febronia
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A female Realian, the caretaker of Shion when she was a child.
Febronia had two sisters, Cecily and Catherine.  For some reason,
these twins were the Realians selected to control the output of the
original Zohar.  They were connected to it, and slept eternally while
being used, completely oblivious to the horrors they were producing.
Febronia comes in contact with Virgil, who was a soldier in Old
Miltia, and probably falls in love with him.  Then she is killed by
a mutated Realian, infected by U-DO, in order to save Shion during
the Miltian Conflict.
Febronia continues to lives on by being a consciousness within the
extended Encephalon of KOS-MOS, meeting with Shion in the church that
she also cherished when she was alive.  She always knew Shion was a
kind soul, so she chooses her to free her sisters from the clutches
of the Zohar, but in order for Shion to get the courage to go back
to Old Miltia and carry out this task she must face her fears of Old
Miltia: the death of her parents, the death of Febronia, and the
death of Old Miltia itself.
Eventually, Shion does reach the original Zohar sleeping on Old
Miltia, and finally meets with the decomposing, yet alive, Cecily
and Catherine.  Febronia gives Shion permission to allow KOS-MOS
to destroy the system, destroying Cecily and Cathe in the process,
yet freeing them at the same time.  The link between Cecily and Cathe
and the Zohar might have been what Cherenkov was trying to copy with
the emulator on Ariadne; the Zohar Link Experiment, originally
created by Joachim Mizrahi and U-TIC.
#Gaignun Kukai
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A false identity issued by the Miltian government, inspired by the
name of Jr.'s pet cat.  See 'Nigredo'.
#Gnosis
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'Monsters' that have always existed, but were very rarely seen up
until the Miltian Conflict.  They are comprised of salt and water,
period.  Transluscent, they have no physical barriers or limits
unless they are brought into the physical world with the Hilbert
Effect.
The Gnosis were created from the Zohar/U-DO, and are therefore
attracted to it, which requires all Zohars to be enclosed in an
attract inhibitor or the Gnosis will be drawn to it.  What are
Gnosis, really?  Well, since U-DO eats souls, and the .3% of things
that come in contact with the Zohar 'lose what makes them human',
they could be the shell-like bodies of that .3%.
There are two different kinds of Gnosis: hostile Gnosis and
structural Gnosis.  Hostile Gnosis are constantly searching for any
living thing to kill.  Structural Gnosis, since they are comprised of
objects such as Ariadne (Cathedral Ship) or a solar system (Abel's Ark),
are not hostile, but do have the ability to defend their Zohars.
The Gnosis literally suck the life out of their victims by absorbing
every last ounce of fluid, until the living thing breaks apart
because it's so dry; they turn into salt, more or less.  It should be
noted that Gnosis are never hostile towards anything that is
non-living.  If a person is able to escape after being touched by a
Gnosis, they slowly become a Gnosis themselves.  This process is
similar to that of a mosquito: it uses saliva to secure the entry
point on your skin, sucks blood, then removes its saliva and flies
away, leaving you unharmed.  However, if you interrupt the mosquito,
it leaves its saliva in you and that point becomes infected and turns
into a mosquito bite.  If a Gnosis' case, that saliva is instead
something that turns you into a Gnosis.
The point in history that brought Gnosis to the forefront was the
birth of MOMO, which for some reason required that the Song of
Nephilim be played, which for some reason called the Gnosis to the
Federation's star system.  Since the Song of Nephilim and Proto
Merkabah run off of the energy input of Gnosis, it can be assumed
the Song was played in order to draw, and then suck up the Gnosis so
that the energy required to give birth to MOMO was met.  Joachim
Mizrahi may have or may have not been aware of this.
#Hammer
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BIRTHDATE: T.C. 4740
AGE: 27
Hammer is the greatest hacker in the universe--maybe a little too
great, since he hacked into a criminal organization's database and
ended up in a lot of trouble because of it.  Captain Matthews decided
to save him by inviting him onto the Elsa, and they've been together
ever since.  Technically, Hammer isn't needed since the Elsa's
mainframe is smart enough to control the ship's output by itself, but
Hammer does it manually just to show off.
The name 'Hammer' is a reference to the character Hammer from
Xenogears, who also acts as comic relief.
#Heinlein
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A high-up in Ormus--a Cardinal holding less power than
Patriarch in rank, but not reality-wise--who is the head of Hyams and
funds the U-TIC organization.  We never get to see his face in
Episode II.  Heinlein also funds the Yuriev Institute through Hyams;
he seems to be sitting on the fence when it comes to the dismay
between U-TIC and Yuriev.
Heinlein may have been named after Robert A. Heinlein, one of the
founding fathers of the science-fiction genre of literature.
#Helmer
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BIRTHDATE: T.C. 4711
AGE: 56
Helmer started off as an officer of some kind (perhaps a Commander,
as he is the one who gives chaos and Canaan the orders to retrieve
the U.R.T.V.s and the Y-Data) within the Miltian military, and
slowly worked his way up to his current position as Representative
Helmer.  He was one of the people who established the Kukai
Foundation, which was made to investigate what happened in the
Miltian Conflict.
He is most known for his quote, "U-DO", and the fact that he is the
only person of color in Xenosaga.
#Hermann
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Some dude.  He works under the Ormus and we never get to see his
face, but he does operate the A.M.W.S. Scutum.  He tries to kidnap
MOMO along with the help of Richard near the beginning of Episode II.
#Hyams
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A wealthy company providing funding for U-TIC from behind the scenes.
The head of the company, Heinlein, is a Cardinal for Ormus.  It also
funds the Yuriev Institute.
#Immigrant Fleet
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A fake name for Ormus.  See 'Ormus'.
#Issachar
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Pellegri's E.S., provided by Margulis himself, capable of AIRD
assaults.
#Jenseits von Gut und Bose
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German for 'Beyond Good and Evil'.  Named after a Nietzsche work.
#Jin Uzuki
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BIRTHDATE: T.C. 4732
AGE: 35
Shion's older brother; stern, stubborn, an expert in the martial
arts.  Did I just describe Shion?  Anyhow, he was taught how to use
the sword from his grandfather, who was also the mentor of Margulis.
Once he was old enough, Jin enlisted in the Miltian military, his
Colonel none other than Margulis.
Somehow, Jin obtained data that exposed the corruption behind U-TIC,
and turned against the military.  In order to publicize the data he
needed to extract it from a chip, and in order to extract it he
needed to get into Labyrinthos.  Unfortunately, Margulis blocked the
way to Labyrinthos, and so Jin transferred the data from the chip to
Canaan and threw the empty chip at Margulis as a distraction.  He
hastily leaves chaos and Canaan because he has something to do..
This something is to save his family from certain doom!  But Jin
arrives at Shion's aide too late; her parents and Febronia have been
slaughtered.  It is for this reason that Shion has a grudge against Jin:
had he come earlier, they would all still be alive.
Then Jin dropped out of the military and switched jobs every six or
so months; from a martial artist to a swordsman, to a soldier to a
doctor, to a books salesman to a Citan Uzuki wannabe.  Through all of
this, Jin has become a very useful jack-of-all-trades.
He ends up joining Shion's party, and then rejoins the
military at Helmer's request at the end of Episode II because he has
come to realize that time will not wait.
Most people believe Jin might be related to Citan Uzuki from
Xenogears, but that's just dead wrong.  Citan gained the last name
'Uzuki' from his wife, Yui, and *she* was the one who taught him how
to use and gave him his sword.  Therefore, if Jin (and his family,
and Shion) are related to anyone, it is most definitely Yui.
#Joachim Mizrahi
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BIRTHDATE: T.C. 4701
AGE: Died at 52 in Miltia Conflict
Joachim Mizrahi was the creator of the 100-Series Observational
Realians, the environmental nanomachine bugs, the Hilbert Effect,
U-TIC, and he drew the Gnosis into the Federation's star cluster and
somehow hurled all of Old Miltia into the double black holes during
the Miltian Conflict, killing himself.  Or so we assume.  The Official
Design Materials state that the help of the Zohar allowed Miltia to be
hurled into the holes.
He was perhaps the most genius person in recent history.  He created
Proto Merkabah, which held the construction of MOMO and studied the
Gnosis, Zohars, and mentally ill Realians.  He created the Song of
Nephilim, which was
made to dock with Proto Merkabah.  He may have
had something to do with the linking of Cecily and Catherine to the
Zohar.
Joachim Mizrahi was a good and bad man: good for his genius, bad for
the fact that he went a bit cooky when his daughter, Sakura, killed
herself.  He was willing to do anything to get Sakura back, including
doing things he didn't really want to do, or was completely oblivious
about for his own organization, the U-TIC.  He was in fact being used by
U-TIC, who simply wanted to control all the universe under Ormus once
again.  Mizrahi was manipulated by U-TIC, made to believe that if he
did as they said he would somehow be able to ascend to the plane of
existence where Sakura existed after her death.  (Heaven?)
And through all this was Juli Mizrahi, his wife.  She was very
distant, fearing Joachim's madness and spending most of her time
trying to make contact with the inner Sakura, plagued by an
unidentifiable disorder.  Perhaps it was this absence that made
Joachim even more mad, surrounded by nothing but his research.
'Joachim' means 'established by Yaweh' in Hebrew.
#Jr., Gaignun
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A false identity issued by the Miltian government.
The official records state that he was born in T.C. 4755 and is the
adopted son of Gaignun Kukai.  See 'Rubedo'.
#Juli Mizrahi
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BIRTHDATE: T.C. 4723
AGE: 44
Juli Niwashiro got married to Joachim Mizrahi at one point and thus
became Juli Mizrahi.  Her name is pronounced both YOO-LEE and YOO-REE
Mizrahi in Xenosaga I and II, but the proper way is most likely
YOO-REE.  She and Joachim had a daughter, Sakura, but because of
Sakura's condition Juli spent most of her time trying to cure it; to
figure it what it was.  She took Sakura to the Yuriev Institute to
use the U.R.T.V.s to destroy whatever was plaguing Sakura's mind
numerous times, and to her surprise the U.R.T.V.s were able to
speak with Sakura while in her mind.
However, one day for unknown reasons, Sakura committed suicide by
unknown means right in front of Juli.  Sakura's death inspired the
100-Series Observational Realian models, and those models inspired
Juli's fear of MOMO.
Because the birth of MOMO was partially responsible for the coming of
the Gnosis, Juli took responsibility and founded the S.O.C.E. in
order to put a halt to the madness.  To this day, she holds a grudge
against her own husband for all the things she thinks he did, and all
the things he really did do, but in Episode II she learns to
appreciate MOMO as another daughter, not Sakura's replacement.
Juli might be falling in love with Ziggy.
#Kahles scope
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A type of magnification scope developed in the 1900s for use with
rifles.  chaos asks how Jr. would feel if he had to give up his
precious Kahles scope, and considering how much of an antique it is,
Jr. obviously wouldn't want to lose it.
#Kevin Winicott
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BIRTHDATE: T.C. 7439
AGE: Died at 26
Kevin was the former Chief Engineer of the KOS-MOS Project, but also
invented a vehicle that could travel through hyperspace completely
independently, without the help of the U.M.N.  This vehicle is
actually half of an E.S; the other half is KOS-MOS' maintenance unit.
The reason Kevin is so skilled in his work is because he was most
likely mentored by Joachim Mizrahi while in Bormeo.
He was Shion's boyfriend, and gave her his glasses as a gift.  They
both worked on KOS-MOS together, but Kevin had a dark--or easily
manipulated--side to him.  He ended up giving his connection gear to
Cherenkov, and this resulted in U-TIC storming First R&D Division and
trying to take KOS-MOS.  The Prototype goes completely out of
control, ripping apart everyone in the building, including the very
person that created her.  Kevin saves Shion by taking a fatal hit,
and dies in her arms.  His necklace is taken by Shion as something
to remember him by.
The reason why Kevin decides to give away his research and have
himself killed--he couldn't have been oblivious to the fact that
KOS-MOS was VERY dangerous--probably has something to do with Vector.
Kevin most likely becomes the Red Testament after dying, but why he
would give up everything he had to become one is unknown.  Either
way, the Red Testament IS the one that keeps track of KOS-MOS and
tells her what to do all throughout Episode I, so..
#KOS-MOS
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An android created by Kevin, though technically the KOS-MOS we meet
in Episode I has no knowledge of Kevin.  The Prototype's head was
destroyed somewhere***, so the present KOS-MOS has no knowledge
of anything that happened before two years ago.  Well, it SHOULD have
no knowledge of what happened, but it does.
Anyway, after Shion kills the Prototype, she and Allen create a new
KOS-MOS from the remains--they have to, since the black boxes are
the core units and cannot be duplicated since Kevin is dead--and that
is the KOS-MOS you see.  This KOS-MOS can turn just about every part
of her body into a weapon and her weapons include automatic firearms,
scythes, scarily high ether compatibility, giant phase cannons, and
glowy hair.  OoOoOooO.  She can also increase and decrease her
weapons output, allowing her to take out fused masses of Gnosis as
well as do the dishes.
The black boxes in KOS-MOS left behind by Kevin, uneditable, also
hide secrets: they allow KOS-MOS to absorb Gnosis much like the Song
of Nephilim, (more proof that Joachim and Kevin worked together) and
they are also what allows KOS-MOS to sometimes show unusual acts of
emotion.  These black boxes also allow her to create her E.S. in
Episode II; you'll know when the black boxes are activated whenever
KOS-MOS' eyes turn blue.  In the case of the Gnosis absorbtion,
KOS-MOS is able to hack into the Durandal's mainframe and use the
Zohars as a power source.
More evidence that Joachim was Kevin's mentor is the fact that both
KOS-MOS and Shion's consciousnesses exist within MOMO, guarding the
Y-Data.  Joachim probably had a part in creating those black boxes
with Kevin.
A consciousness that exists within KOS-MOS happens to be Nephilim,
who hacks into KOS-MOS' mainframe in the beginning of the game and
extends the Encephalon so that it covers the memories of Shion and
party; this is premeditated to give Shion the message that she needs
to save Cecily and Catherine and to also warn her of U-DO and what
KOS-MOS will become.
At the end of Episode I, KOS-MOS and chaos have an unusual
confrontation, and choas' hands start to glow.  For this reason,
some assume that chaos and KOS-MOS merge somehow as KOS-MOS saves the
Elsa--this combined with the fact that KOS-MOS does have an uncanny
resemblance to chaos at that particular point in the game, and it's
angel wings that protect the Elsa, provides an interesting argument.
However, as there is no further evidence, this isn't something I am
ready to actually believe happened.  Just something to think about.
In Episode II, KOS-MOS receives an upgrade that transforms her into
the KOS-MOS that is to battle U-DO, and Wilhelm mentions that when
the way to Lost Jerusalem is opened (and it pretty much is at the end
of the game) 'KOS-MOS will awaken.'
***We don't know where these events take place.  It's either on the