List of antagonists in Xenosaga

The following is a list of major villains/antagonists in the Xenosaga series.

Dimitri Yuriev

Japanese Voice Actor: Osamu Saka
English Voice Actor: Keith Szarabajka

Dr. Dimitri Yuriev (also spelled Dmitri) is one of the principle antagonists in the Xenosaga series. A complex and enigmatic man, he serves many influential roles throughout the series, including General Assemblyman of the Federation Parliament, Founder and Acting Head of the Yuriev Institute, Leader and First Member of the powerful Salvator Faction, and eventually, Federation Executive Committee Director. Being one of only three people in the Xenosaga Universe to have made direct contact with U-DO and survived (the other two being Albedo and Nigredo), he possesses a unique form of parasitic immortality that has allowed his consciousness to remain alive for several hundred years, albeit in countless different bodies. Although it is unclear how many bodies he has possessed over the course of his life, the body he possessed in the years preceding the Miltian Conflict supplied the DNA for the production of his URTV clone “children,” including Rubedo, Albedo, Nigredo, and Citrine.

As stated in Episode III, the Salvator faction was created as a means of curtailing the near-hegemonic influence of Ormus (AKA the Immigrant Fleet) within the Federation Parliament. Before the creation of the Salvator faction, Ormus members were able to assert socio-political dominance within the Federation Parliament through their claims of ecclesiastical superiority stemming from their unique ability to communicate with the Zohar. Since its discovery in the 21st Century CE, the Zohar was fervently pursued because of its ability to serve as a supply of limitless energy; much more significant, however, was its ability to serve as a bidirectional contact point between the deific U-DO and the real number domain (it was this direct link to the theoretically-omnipotent U-DO that supplied the artifact with this infinite energy). Ormus members’ ability to communicate with the Zohar therefore gave them the ability to communicate with U-DO, and vice-versa; those with particularly-strong links to the artifact, such as Patriarch Sergius, were able to use the “holy” powers generated from the artifact as powerful weapons, which explains his ability to remotely operate Proto Omega in spite of the absence of a pilot, as well as his ability to create cataclysmic dimensional rifts using simple hand motions. However, the Episode 3 Encyclopedia explains explicitly that, while Ormus members were able to perform such astounding communication with the deity, their capacity to do so was far-less developed than that possessed by test subjects in the Acute Neurosis Treatment Facility in Labyrinthos. Whether the subjects in the ANT facility used the Zohar as an interface in the same manner as Ormus members, or actually made direct contact with U-DO is never made clear. However, this disparity in communicative ability, regardless of the reason, explains why members of Ormus were not reduced to the near-vegetative states observed in the Zohar Link Test subjects such as Aoi Uzuki. In spite of Patriarch Sergius’ nearly unprecedented affinity for and finesse with the waves generated by U-DO through the Zohar, even he would almost undoubtedly have been completely overwhelmed by direct contact with the deity from whom he drew his power.

As gathered from information pieced together from both Episodes 2 and 3, the first batch of “designer children” was always intended to become what would later be called the Salvators, and were used in the living-matter transfer experiments during the earliest days of the UMN. This experiment was conducted for two reasons. The more practical reason, as well as the reason more easily marketed to the citizens of the Federation, was the logistical benefit of the experiment: the successful transport of living matter through the UMN would expand the network’s functionality, transforming it from the mere cargo-shipping and information-distribution medium it had been thus far into an interstellar transport system that allowed humans to engage in faster-than-light travel. However, the more pressing reason that led to the political authorization of experimentation on human children was the restraint of the ever-expanding influence of the increasingly militant Ormus faction. These experiments involved forcefully exposing genetically modified children, prenatally altered assortment of physical and neurological characteristics, to the then poorly understood atmosphere of hyperspace. Little was known about the intrinsic qualities of hyperspace, with only one known certainty: objects that entered hyperspace were directly exposed to U-DO. The hope was that at least one subject would make direct contact with the deity and return alive. This survivor would possess the characteristics necessary to make contact with U-DO without the need for the Zohar interface that Ormus was dependent upon for their power.

After countless trials, 99.76% of all subjects directly exposed to U-DO within hyperspace died immediately, unable to tolerate the overwhelming terror experienced during their contact with the higher-dimensional being. However, one subject returned alive. Dmitri Yuriev successfully made contact with the waveform known as U-DO. However, while he survived, he too was overwhelmed by the fear of the contact with the deity, and had suffered a psychotic break in the process. Yuriev eventually recovered his sentience, but his consciousness had fused with a fragment of U-DO as a result of their contact. While he retained the intellectual brilliance, social adroitness, and aesthetic appeal that his artificial genetic code had given him, his previous self had been completely consumed by his inescapable terror, and his new, chimerical personality was dominated by a single, overwhelming compulsion: to eliminate the cause of his fear so that he would never experience it again.

Although his contact with U-DO was severely traumatizing, his retention of a fragment of the deity did come with very large advantages: a near-complete understanding of U-DO, as well as an understanding of the fabric of the universe that only a deity could have bestowed. This newfound understanding manifested itself as a condition that would, centuries later, become known as “U-DO contamination.” This so-called “contamination” gave Dmitri the ability to directly generate the waves of U-DO and manipulate them at will. Contact with these waves had the same effect on living organisms as contact with U-DO itself: complete annihilation. However, a significantly more useful ability obtained from Dmitri’s fusion with U-DO—one that he would use countless times over the next few centuries—was a form of immortality called “Metempsychosis”—hence the name of Omega’s final transformation after a vanquished Dmitri fuses with it. Normally, human consciousness returns to the UMN upon death, where it either merges with the collective unconscious and obtains peace, or rejects the rest of humanity, refuses to merge, and subsequently becomes a Gnosis to seek its reincarnation through the activation of the Eternal Circle (Zarathustra) by the Demiurge (Wilhelm). In contrast, upon the inevitable death of Dmitri’s physical body, his consciousness also moves into the imaginary number domain of the UMN. However, because the fragment of U-DO fused with Dmitri’s consciousness is categorically different from both the formerly human Gnosis as well as the aggregation of humans comprising the UMN’s collective unconscious, it keeps Dmitri’s consciousness from transforming into either. Instead, U-DO initiates Metempsychosis, which leaves Dmitri’s consciousness in a state of disembodied stasis that constantly searches for a host that is deemed to be physically capable of withstanding the stress that Dmitri’s “contaminated” consciousness would inevitably inflict.

During the course of his very long life, Dmitri served as a very successful assemblyman in the Federation Parliament. At the time, he was the only member of the Salvator faction, and he had the considerable task of stalling any power plays by Ormus until more Salvators could be produced using his genetic code. In that endeavor, he succeeded, and the charismatic Salvators were able to flood the Parliament. With The Salvators effectively reigned in the Ormus supporters within the Federation.

With his party in control of the Parliament, Dmitri resigned and allowed another member of his party to take his place on the Parliament. Using the massive amount of funding he was able to obtain from his Salvator supporters throughout political and financial circles, Dmitri began the Yuriev Institute, whose various research efforts were intended to coalesce into the accomplishment of one goal: the elimination of Dmitri’s fear of the deity. Through the near-omniscience he has obtained through his direct contact with U-DO centuries before, he understood that any being made of imaginary-domain infinitives could not ever be fully destroyed. However, he was able to ascertain a list of certain artifacts that, when unified under very specific circumstances, would sufficiently weaken the boundary between the real and imaginary number domains to allow him cross that barrier as a being so near omnipotence that he would be on par with, and possibly greater than, the deity he had feared for so long. To accomplish this dimensional shift, he would first need to find a way to summon Abel’s Ark—the mechanism U-DO used to observe the imaginary number domain. Then, he would need the Ark to absorb Omega with Abel as its pilot. Once the Ark had absorbed Abel, the two observational terminals would be unified, thereby eliminating U-DO’s ability to distinguish the real number domain from the imaginary number domain and preventing the deity’s intervention. Dmitri would subsequently activate the Zohar using either the Vessels of Anima or their emulations, and would proceed to use the infinite energy from the fully activated Zohar as the power source for Omega. In addition to being the only adequate power source, the Zohar is also integral to the process because it is the interface between the real and imaginary number domains, and is therefore the weakest point in the boundary between the two dimensions. Dmitri would use his power of Metempsychosis to fuse with Omega, becoming a being of near-omnipotence in the real number domain. Finally, he would have Abel’s Ark absorb the planet Michtam, which houses Zarathustra: the massive device that would actually perform the dimensional shift. The amalgamation of Dmitri, Omega, Abel’s Ark, Abel, and the Zohar would then fuse itself with Zarathustra, allowing the device to utilize the Zohar as a power source and subsequently punch a hole in the weakened dimensional fabric around the Zohar, thereby creating a threshold through which Dmitri could enter the imaginary number domain in his newly-acquired body, thereby becoming a God-like being himself and putting his fears to rest.

Dmitri begins planning to obtain the artifacts he needs. Dmitri already had the schematics for Omega from his contact with U-DO, so that would be obtained as sooned as he ordered its construction. Abel was already in the possession of the Federation. Zarathustra was quite safe in the core of Michtam, so no acquisition, per se, was necessary in that case. The Ark could not be summoned without the Zohar. Dmitri realized he was remarkably close to his goal already; upon obtaining the Zohar, everything would fall into place. However, the Zohar was in the possession of the Miltian government, which was actually run by the Ormus-controlled U-TIC organization. Ormus would never willingly hand the Zohar over willingly to a Salvator-controlled Federation government. However, it would be easily enough to manipulate the parliament into a military conflict with the Miltian government. Miltia’s possession of both Omega and the Zohar could cause mass casualties, which could lead to the Salvator faction losing power in Parliament. Thus, to minimize the possibility of political ramifications, Dmitri decided that the Zohar needed to be temporarily disabled for the purpose of rendering Omega, along with all other Ormus mobile weapons useless during the conflict. This would lead to minimal political backlash. To accomplish this, Dmitri began work on a group of bioweapons called U.R.T.V.’s. Dmitri submitted a sample of his own U-DO waveforms and had his scientists engineer a waveform that was diametrically opposed to it; this negative waveform would effectively sever the link between the Zohar and all mobile weapons powered by it—including Omega. Dmitri then had scientists create several hundred clones of himself, the rationale being that an army of anti-U-DO bioweapons should be just as resistant to U-DO’s waves as he is. He had the anti-U-DO waveforms implanted into all the clones in equal strength. Lastly, Dmitri had three variants created: Rubedo, Albedo, and Nigredo. Rubedo was implanted with the strongest anti-U-DO waveform, and was deemed the leader. Albedo was made slightly weaker, but was given the ability to regenerate endlessly. Nigredo, however, was very different from all other U.R.T.V.’s; namely, he wasn’t actually a U.R.T.V. Dmitri wanted there to be no period of stasis between his death and subsequent rebirth. Nigredo was specially designed to mature into the perfect host for Dmitri’s soul. Nigredo was not equipped with the anti-U-DO waveform possessed by his U.R.T.V. brethren, as the presence of Dmitri's contaminated consciousness inside a host possessing an antithetical waveform would have resulted in the mutual annihilation of both parties. Instead, Nigredo was given a unique power that Dmitri intended to use as a self-preservation measure upon his eventual possession of Nigredo's body. Ironically, Dmitri had reason to fear the U.R.T.V. bioweapons he had just created as part of his crusade to eliminate his fears. Dmitri’s immortality was linked to his “contamination.” The only thing capable of destroying that “contamination” was the anti-U-DO waveform he had implanted in the U.R.T.V.'s. Should he lose the fragment of U-DO imbedded in his consciousness, he would subsequently lose his treasured ability of Metempsychosis. Therefore, Nigredo—Dmitri's future body—was given the ability to turn the other U.R.T.V.’s waveforms against them at will, thereby destroying them from the inside out should they ever become insubordinate. This fail-safe put Dmitri's mind to rest, as he would no longer have any reason to fear his U.R.T.V. children, or anyone else with an anti-U-DO waveform, as he could destroy them all in an instant.

After extensively training the U.R.T.V.’s to use their waveforms, Dmitri ordered them to be sent as part of the offensive line during the Third Descent Operation. However, Dmitri intended to keep Nigredo behind, as he was too valuable to be sacrificed. One thing only Dmitri knew about the U.R.T.V. negative waveforms was that, should U-DO’s waves meet the antithetical U.R.T.V. waves, the waves would not merely negate one another. Much like the meeting of an electron and its antithetical positron—an analogy used by Albedo—the contact between these two antothetical waveforms would release enormous amounts of thermal energy, resulting in a cataclysmic explosion so massive that it would incinerate the entire planet of Miltia, all battleships on both sides, and the billions of Miltian civilians remaining in the area, the only survivor of the cataclysm being the indestructible Zohar. Dmitri could then spin the disaster he himself caused to his political advantage, attributing the explosion to the "horrific experimentation" on the Zohar conducted by the Ormus-controlled Miltian Government; the Salvators would subsequently obtain near-complete domininace of the Federation Parliament, and Dmitri would ostensibly have both the legal, as well as ethical, right to take possession of the Zohar.

As an additional bonus, this would also successfully destroy the U.R.T.V.’s and decidedly eliminating whatever threat they posed to his plans. However, it was not a certainty that the U.R.T.V.’s would come into direct conflict with large quantities of U-DO’s waves; their primary mission was simply to use their waves as interference to disable the mobile weapons powered by the waves from the Zohar. Thus, there was a chance that they could all return alive. Nigredo was not old enough for Dmitri take over Nigredo’s body and eliminate the hypothetical U.R.T.V. survivors himself. Thus, Dmitri explained to Nigredo what his power was and that, should any of his brothers return alive, it would be his responsibility to kill them all—most especially Rubedo, whose Red Dragon waveform posed the most danger to Dmitri. Nigredo became hysterical, refused to follow Dmitri’s orders, and shot Dmitri in the head. Dmitri’s soul then retreated to its period of stasis within the UMN, as it had so many times before. However, because Dmitri had worked so hard to create the perfect body for himself, he was content to wait for however long it would take for him to be able to seize control of Nigredo’s body.

Fourteen years passed, and events traveled in a giant circle. When Yuriev “died,” Ormus controlled the Zohar and Omega on Miltia, the Federation wanted the Zohar—because of Dmitri pulling the strings—and the Parliament was almost a perfect 50:50 split, with Ormus slowly but consistently losing Parliamentary power to the Salvators with every passing election.

During Dmitri’s absence, Old Miltia was sealed, Ormus was presumed extinct, and the Salvator Faction, while still in existence, became divided and weak without their leader at the helm. But then, randomly, Dmitri finally takes over Nigredo’s body like he always planned. From his perspective, it probably looks like nothing’s changed. In spite of the constant turmoil during his fourteen year nap, he wakes up, has some video conferences, shoots a couple dozen politicians (all in about ten minutes, no joke), and suddenly... Ormus controls the Zohar and Omega on Miltia, the Federation wants the Zohar—because of Dmitri pulling the strings—and the Parliament was almost a perfect 50:50 split, with Ormus slowly but consistently losing Parliamentary power to the Salvators with every passing election (no elections this time though; Ormus people just get shot...including the President—“Executive Committee Director” excuse me). If all that sounds slightly familiar, reread the paragraph just above this one.

Albedo

Arubedo Piasora is U.R.T.V. Unit 667, and one of the few surviving U.R.T.V.s from the Miltian Conflict. Despite being mentally unstable, he is highly educated in a number of subjects, including but not limited to philosophy, science, language and religion, particularly ancient (in the Xenosaga universe) Christianity. He is also adept at complex strategic planning and anticipating his enemies' moves well in advance.

Wilhelm

Japanese Voice Actor: Nobuyuki Hiyama
English Voice Actor: Richard Cansino (Episode I), Jason Spisak (Episode II, III), Vic Mignogna (anime)

Wilhelm (ヴィルヘルム, Wiruherumu^?) is the mysterious founder and CEO of the largest interplanetary conglomerate, Vector Industries. He also served as the Executive Committee Director of the Galaxy Federation, up to a decade ago. To be the founder of Vector, Wilhelm must be very old, much older than any normal human could possibly live. This is because Vector funded the Masuda expedition (featured at the very beginning of Episode I) that uncovered the Zohar over 4000 years ago from present time. He also has an active role in the events of Pied Piper, 100 years ago from present time. It is speculated that Wilhelm is not human. He is one of the most suspicious and enigmatic characters in the Xenosaga series; it seems he is manipulating every other conglomerate and individual toward some mysterious goal. Wilhelm also has an affinity for referring to life's situations as if they were all a part of a universal theatrical drama, and is an avid fan of chess, adding fuel to the dramatic approach of his manipulations. He seems to have a background with chaos, as the two are seen having a conversation at the end of Episode II, in which Wilhelm refers to him as Yeshua. Then, his sidekick Kevin Winnicot killed him, and vanished on his body. He's the main antagonist of Xenosaga III.

According to the ODM ("Original Design Materials"), Wilhelm "knows everything."

Heinlein

Heinlein is an Ormus society cardinal and an extremely enigmatic figure; not even Margulis knows exactly who he is or what he looks like. He is always disguised by a blinding ray of white light. As of Episode III, he is the acting leader of the Ormus organization, replacing Patriarch Sergius after his death at the hands of the Testaments at the end of Episode II. In the Catholic Church, the rank of cardinal falls directly under the pope. Based on this, a powerful cardinal such as Heinlein would be the de facto successor to Patriarch Sergius. Both Margulis and Sellers, for a time, are under Heinlein’s wing. Heinlein is the cardinal in charge of Ormus' Inquisitor Fleet, and Margulis is his Chief Inquisitor, while Dr. Sellers is, until Episode III, his chief scientific researcher, albeit holding no actual rank in or allegiance to Ormus.

Heinlein is in league with Margulis to overthrow Sergius during the resurgence of Old Miltia. Despite Sergius being the head of the Ormus society, Heinlein is actually the more powerful of the two through his connections. Not only is he an Ormus cardinal, Heinlein is also the CEO of Hyams Group (also called Hyams Heavy Industries), the main corporate competitor of Vector Industries. Since Dr. Sellers is Hyams chief scientist, the company has his personal, albeit inferior, 13th Zohar Emulator at their disposal. Sellers has stolen much of the research of Dr. Mizrahi and is a great asset to Heinlein.

Heinlein funds both the U-TIC Organization, under the command of Margulis, and the Immigrant Fleet through Hyams. U-TIC is a dummy arm of the Immigrant Fleet, and the Yuriev Institute is originally an arm of the Hyams Group. These four factions are collectively controlled under Ormus, who are pulling the strings. Dr. Yuriev, however later broke free and began working on his own. Considering the high level of manipulation and under-the-table funding taking place throughout Ormus and its many front organizations, all roads lead back to Heinlein and make him one of the most important people in the universe.

In Episode III, Heinlein is revealed to be Wilhelm; his true purpose for founding Ormus was to protect Lemegeton, also known as the "Word of Yeshua", that was left behind by a man who died thousands of years ago. The database states that chaos was the man who left this "word." The public purpose of Ormus was to preserve and spread the teachings of that man. Although according to Wilhelm, the man Ormus worshiped did not understand Lemegeton, because only chaos could understand it. Ormus were also the guardians of the Relics of God left behind in ancient times, such as Zarathustra and Merkabah. Wilhelm as Heinlein had the true control over the Ormus society even when the Patriarchs were in power; they were scapegoats and figureheads without even knowing it. He also orchestrated many back door corporate "exchanges" between Vector and Hyams, such as the exchanges of materials related to the E.S. and the Vessels of Anima through the U-TIC Organization. This harkens back to how connected the public persona of Heinlein really is. What on the outside appears to be behind the scenes dealing between two corporate masterminds is just Wilhelm shuffling materials from his left hand to his right hand.

Margulis

Japanese Voice Actor: Jouji Nakata
English Voice Actor: Michael McConnohie, Andy McAvin (anime)

Margulis (マーグリス, Māgurisu^?) is one of the main villains in Xenosaga Episode I, II and III. In Episode I, very little is known about him besides the fact that he pursues the Y-Data hidden in MOMO's subconscious, he wields a sword with spiritual abilities (possibly some form of Ether-based kenjutsu), and that he is the commander of the U-TIC Organization, answering only to Heinlein of Ormus. In the Ormus Society he holds the rank of Chief Inquisitor and serves Cardinal Heinlein, overseer of the Inquisitors directly. His second in command is Pellegri. Episode II reveals a little more of Margulis' character. Both forceful and arrogant, he cares little for the lives of those sacrificed by his actions or for his goals, whether civilians or his own operatives. Nonetheless he shows a dislike for torture and senseless violence, denouncing Albedo's actions in the later part of Episode I and saying he lacks his "perverse taste in hobbies". In Episode III it is revealed that he has a black-plated E.S. named Levi with a large broadsword and two wing-like drones.

During the Miltian Conflict, 14 years before the events of Episode I, Margulis was a double agent serving as a Colonel in the Federation Military and working for U-TIC and by extension the Ormus Society at the same time. One of the soldiers under his command, Jin Uzuki - Shion Uzuki's older brother - had discovered his treachery and was going to use the Y-Data to reveal his and his superiors' dealings to the proper authorities. Before he could do that, Margulis confronted Jin and the two engaged in a heated sword fight which resulted in Jin giving Margulis the sword scar that appears on his face in the game's present-day time frame. Later, it is revealed that both men were actually taught by Jin's grandfather, Ouga Uzuki in the ways of martial arts, swordplay, and Ether manipulation. Jin claims that Margulis "betrayed" his grandfather, but what he meant by that is not explicitly known. He could have meant betrayed him on principle by siding with U-TIC and becoming a criminal, or perhaps Margulis played a role in the old man's death.

After the U.R.T.V. Albedo stole the Y-Data from MOMO's subconscious, the Immigrant Fleet, the real power behind U-TIC, raids the planet Old Miltia to gain possession of the Original Zohar, now unlocked with the Y-Data. Once there, another personal duel between Jin and Margulis ensued. Upon being defeated, he exclaimed that it would be too late to stop the plans of using the Zohar, since the Zohar was already in the possession of the Immigrant Fleet's leader Patriarch Sergius.

With Margulis' plan set in motion, he abandons the Patriarch to be killed by Shion and friends in the Ω System, so that the Patriarch would be replaced by Cardinal Heinlein. Margulis' motives, as revealed in Episode III stem from the fact that he believes Sergius to be a petty and foolish old man who has lost sight of Ormus' original goal, returning to Lost Jerusalem. He believes the Heinlein shares this ideal and follows his orders unquestioningly because of it.

At the beginning of Episode III, Margulis reveals that he is one of the "people of the Zohar", born on planet Michtam, also known as Abraxas, what he believes to be the birthplace of Ormus. He believes that the Immigrant Fleet's return to Michtam is a sign of the beginning of their return to Lost Jerusalem. However, doubts begin to form in his mind when Heinlein begins issuing orders that seem to contradict Ormus' goals. He follows these orders with a measure of reluctance right up until the end of the game when Heinlein orders the fleet to abandon Michtam. When he shows his stubborn dedication to the ideals of Ormus, "Heinlein" realizes there is no helping him. He steps forth finally and reveals his true form to his devout disciple; Wilhelm of Vector.

When Wilhelm explains Ormus' true purpose to Margulis, to protect the "words of God" (Lemegeton) and the "relics of God" (The Zohar, Zarathustra, the Anima, et all) he questions whether or not everything he had worked for was all in vain. He then questions his own faith before coming to terms with the fact that a return to Lost Jerusalem is indeed impossible. He fights Jin and everyone else in the E.S. Levi one last time. After being defeated and with his E.S. close to the point of self-destructing he claims his own life with his sword, not wanting to give Uzuki the "satisfaction" of killing him.

Patriarch Sergius

Japanese Voice Actor: Chikao Ōtsuka
English Voice Actor: Michael Bell

Sergius XVII (教皇セルギウス17世, Kyōkō Serugiusu 17 Yo^?, Pope Sergius 17th generation), known only as the Patriarch in Episode II, is the leader of the Immigrant Fleet and, ultimately, head of the Ormus Society prior his death in Episode II. Sergius was obsessed with obtaining the Zohar for the ultimate power that his religion preached about. He used Ormus, the Immigrant Fleet and its dummy corporations and contacts, including the Hyams Group, the U-TIC Organization and the URTV Albedo, to re-open the way to Old Miltia. His goal was to retrieve the Original Zohar and Proto Ω, the ultimate weapon in the known galaxy. However, his subordinates, namely Margulis, had other plans. They wanted to take control over Ormus and return it to its original mission: finding and returning to Lost Jerusalem. They believed that Sergius had led Ormus astray with his lust for power. Therefore, when Sergius summons Proto Ω and the Ω System with it, they abandon him. Sergius is left on his own when the Federation attacks the Ω System and when Shion and her friends storm the facility. They confront the Patriarch and are briefly aided by Albedo, but Sergius turns Proto Ω's Phase Transfer Cannon on him and atomizes him. He then turns Proto Ω on Shion and her friends and they fight and defeat it.

In a desperate move Sergius tried to fire Proto Ω's Phase Transfer Cannon again, however the Red, Blue and Black Testament appear and effortlessly destroy him and Proto Ω leaving only the Zohar behind. Sergius acknowledges the Testaments when they appear before him, but no clear information on how he knows of the Testaments exists.

Sergius is mentioned several times in Episode III but does not make any appearances in the game's flashbacks to the Miltian Conflict.

In Pied Piper, another Sergius, Sergius XIV becomes head of Ormus after his predecessor, Patriarch Julius XVIII, is assassinated. While Julius sought peace between the peoples of the Federation and the Immigrant Fleet, Sergius wants to use the people of the Zohar to lead the way to (presumably) Lost Jerusalem. When Voyager appears and attempts to make contact with U-DO however, the people of the Zohar are killed and the Sergius is visibly shaken by the sight before being rushed away by a subordinate. Sergius XVII later inherits the Patriarchy and the name Sergius.

In the Japanese version of Episode II, the Patriarch is known as the Pope. The title was changed for the North American release of the game due to religious sensitivity issues.

Sergius appears in the Episode I portion of Xenosaga I&II during the U-TIC Organization's attempt to frame the Kukai Foundation for the destruction of the Woglinde. Acting as the representative for the Immigrant Fleet, the Patriarch addresses the Executive Committee on Fifth Jerusalem in the place of the random U-TIC affiliated representative seen in Episode I, his motives being to use the government to acquire not only MOMO but the Foundation's twelve Zohar Emulators as well. His role in the Episode II portion of the game is very similar to his role in the PlayStation 2 version of Episode II.

Sergius' odd appearance is one of Xenosaga's unsolved mysteries. In Episode II he has yellow eyes, white hair and corpse-like gray skin, leading some to question whether or not he was fully human or possibly even a Realian. No explanation for his unusual looks has been given to date, however in Xenosaga I&II he appears to have a healthier skin tone.

Pellegri

Japanese Voice Actor: Eriko Hara
English Voice Actor: Kari Wahlgren, Christine Auten (anime)

Pellegri (ペレグリー, Peregerī^?) serves as Commander Margulis' aide de camp and second-in-command of his Inquisitor Fleet. She was stationed with other U-TIC officers on the asteroid complex Pleroma and was displaced when it was abandoned and later destroyed by Sellers. She seems far more conscionable than her commander, as she expressed her outrage to Margulis when the failure of the Zohar Link Experiment on Ariadne resulted in the planet's disappearance and the loss of over half a billion innocent lives. That being said she is capable of turning off her emotional side and becoming very callous and objective-driven when she needs to be. She is not very fond of Life Recycling variants, like the U.R.T.V.s and super soldiers like Cherenkov.

In Episode II Pellegri is given command of the E.S. Issachar, a powerful mech outclassing every other machine the Federation could field. Along with her wingmen Hermann and Richard she was ordered to retrieve MOMO on Second Miltia. Her mission ultimately fails when Canaan arrives in the E.S. Asher and drives the three of them off before they can capture her. Pellegri later reappears on the Ormus Stronghold where she confronts Shion, Jr., Jin, and the others as they are attempt to escape the fortress. After being defeated a second time Pellegri escapes and is not seen again for the rest of the game.

In Episode III the E.S. Issachar is in action once again, piloted by Pellegri. She is still a part of Heinlein's plot and is working to see the new Ormus Patriarch's goals fulfilled. In the recreation of the Miltian Conflict, her past self goes up against Jin and the rest of the party in Labyrinthos when he and his friends try to rescue Shion from U-TIC custody. She faces off against the party for real on Michtam in E.S. Issachar, and gets into a heated argument with Jin, explaining why their previously-hinted at relationship was always destined for failure. After she is defeated, Jin pleads with her in vain to stop fighting and join them in stopping Wilhelm's plans, but she refuses to eject and dies when Issachar explodes. E.S. Dan then appears and takes Issachar's Vessel of Anima.

In the TV Asahi anime Xenosaga: The Animation, Pellegri appears to have once been a student of Jin Uzuki's grandfather, the martial arts expert who taught Margulis, Shion Uzuki, and Jin Uzuki himself how to fight and manipulate the elements like fire, ice, and lightning. Though the events seen in the anime are not canon, much of the history and back story shown in it has been corroborated by various sources in all three games. It is quite possible that this is where Margulis and Pellegri first met, and this is how she was first introduced to U-TIC and the Ormus Society. In the anime, Pellegri is dispatched to chase down Ziggy and MOMO and is given E.S. Issachar by Margulis in order to secretly attack the Kukai Foundation and retrieve MOMO. She is driven off through interference from chaos and Jin. None of these events occur in Episode I, however. There was a lot of tension between Pellegri and Jin when they confronted each other in the anime stemming from their failed relationship. Episode III confirms that she left Jin to devote herself to Ormus and Margulis.

Sellers

Japanese Voice Actor: Masaharu Satou
English Voice Actor: Steve Blum (Episode II, III)

Dr. Sellers (セラーズ, Serēzu^?) is a scientist and was once a colleague and rival of the legendary Dr. Joachim Mizrahi. He wears mechanical sunglasses and has short, dark blood-red hair. He is a paraplegic man confined to a futuristic hover-chair thanks to Mizrahi, who shot him once in each leg shortly before he committed suicide on the night of that Old Miltia disappeared from known space.

Sellers is a man who has no real loyalties and constantly allies himself with whomever can best further his own ambitions. During the Miltian Conflict he worked with Mizrahi and Suou Uzuki in the U-TIC Organization where he researched the Zohar, the Vessels of Anima, Proto Ω and the Zohar control program Lemegeton. During the 14 year span between the Miltian Conflict and Episode I-II he joined the Ormus Society through a "personal contact" (most likely Margulis) and he continued to research the Zohar and the Vessels of Anima under Patriarch Sergius and Cardinal Heinlein. Unlike Margulis and Pellegri, Sellers had no official rank in Ormus, he was just a scientist. Despite his lack of standing he has enough authority to order the destruction of the Ormus asteroid base Pleroma after Margulis abandons it.

After Sergius' death he deserts Ormus and joins the Salvator Faction under Dimitri Yuriev in Episode III. Just like when he worked for U-TIC and Ormus, Sellers has no real loyalty to the Federation and seems to detest Yuriev as a person. He doesn't care what Yuriev is trying to accomplish, he just wants to further his research on the Zohar and the Federation's new weapon Ω Res Novae. When the party confronts him on the Federation's new flagship, Tactical Warship Merkabah, he reveals that his entire career has been dedicated to trying to surpass his rival Joachim Mizrahi by any means necessary. While working for Yuriev he came to the ultimate realization that all his works were just inferior imitations of Mizrahi's, and that ultimately he was just an imitation of Mizrahi as well. With nothing left to live for he betrays Yuriev as well, telling the party of his true nature and his plans for the Zohar Emulators aboard the Durandal. His ultimate fate is ambiguous, as he never appears again after this scene and the Merkabah is absorbed by Abel's Ark shortly after the party abandons it.

T-elos

Japanese Voice Actor: Mariko Suzuki
English Voice Actor: Bridget Hoffman

T-elos is a mysterious battle android similar to KOS-MOS, but unknown to most of Vector Industries. Its designs were featured in a U-TIC ship in Episode I; however, details on it were unknown back then. Note that telos is a Greek word meaning purpose, or goal; the final end of a process. This seems to tie in with her rumored function and eventual task of destroying KOS-MOS.

A few known features are that she is the diametric opposite of KOS-MOS, wearing a black suit with red and dark purple highlights to contrast KOS-MOS' white, blue and gray uniforms. Notably her uniform resembles almost exactly KOS-MOS' Ver. 4 form, the ultimate form of KOS-MOS. T-elos also has dark skin, blue eyes, and silver hair. She seems to possess a sapient personality unlike KOS-MOS' robotic personality. Her power is 4.75 times that of KOS-MOS v.3 because T-elos interfaces directly with the U.M.N., regulating the material domain data. She emits red energy instead of blue energy. She appears to rely primarily on her physical strength and energy generation, though she does have an arm blade, an energy revolver similar to KOS-MOS, and the U-TENERITAS attack located on her chest just above her heart, which opens into a quadropod structure which focuses a ball of red plasma. The T-elos project is being headed by a man named Roth Mantel, a mysterious and previously unknown scientist now working with the Federation military. Similar to KOS-MOS, T-elos' development code is TP-XX.

T-elos's energy blade is on her left hand (as in her attack 'L-Blade' compared to KOS-MOS's 'R-Blade'). In Latin, sinister and dexter originally mean left and right respectively, suggested that KOS-MOS is dexterous/skillful whilst T-elos is sinister/malicious, sometimes even downright sadistic. It could also be a reference to the left-right brain specialization, as the left brain controls the right side of the body and vice versa; namely the left brain is concerned with linear thought and structure and right with intuition and creativity. This could explain the personality differences as KOS-MOS carries out her duties with efficiency whilst T-elos seems vain, brutal and borderline sadistic.

Furthermore, another of her attacks involving a revolver identical to KOS-MOS' pistol named "Magdalene 16", is the name of the follower and (according to the Gospel of Mary Magdalene) confidante of Jesus, or "Yeshua".

While KOS-MOS possesses the soul of Mary, T-elos possesses the body of Mary. Over 80% of the body structure is based on the reanimated body of Mary Magdalene, recovered from Rennes-le-Château, and thus can be rightly described as flesh and blood. This also means that technically T-elos is a cyborg, not an android. Intending to assimilate the consciousness of KOS-MOS, the half of Mary that exists in imaginary space, and become a single whole, T-elos is instead defeated and absorbed by the awakened KOS-MOS, who then becomes a fully realized Mary.

Recently T-elos has been confirmed to appear in the spinoff game of Super Robot Wars Original Generation: Mugen no Frontier: Super Robot Wars OG Saga, which had KOS-MOS appearing as well.

Testaments

The Testaments are Wilhelm's closest assistants and servants. Characterized by colored robes with matching beak-like masks, the true nature and power of the Testaments is phenomenal. Indeed, they are more on par with the Gnosis than they are human beings. They possess the power to manipulate space, time and even other people's perceptions. Each Testament has their own E.S., a special kind of spacecraft that contains a Vessel of Anima. Four Testaments exist by the end of Episode II: red, blue, black, and white.

Main article: The Testaments

References

• Xenosaga Episode III Perfect Guide (English translation available at http://translations.xenotensei.com/Xeno3/PerfectGuide.html)
• Xenosaga Episode III Complete Guide (English translation available at http://www.xenotensei.com/translations/truth_of_xs.html)
• Xenosaga Original Design Materials (English translation available at http://odm.xenotensei.com/scansafe.html)