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Abel (アベル, Aberu) is U-DO's physical incarnation in the Real Number Domain of the Lower Domain, or the physical domain. When humans perceive U-DO's observation, they perceive him as Abel.
Biography[]
Perception of Abel in relation to U-DO (from Perfect Guide)
Abel first appeared thousands of years ago on Lost Jerusalem. After Nephilim Verum vanished during a link experiment with the Zohar conducted by her father Grimoire Verum, she made contact with U-DO in the Imaginary Number Domain. Unlike everyone else that comes into contact with U-DO, Nephilim was not possessed by fear of U-DO. U-DO became very interested in her and began observing her from the Real Number Domain in the form of Abel.
Several thousands of years later, Dmitri Yuriev came to know of Abel's existence. Dmitri mentions that he knew Abel, and Abel was always in an isolated facility. Dmitri failed to recognize that Abel was an observational terminal of U-DO.[citation needed] Dmitri mentions that Abel is several hundreds of years old, implying an immortal existence. Sellers mentions that Abel acts as a "mediator" to the Zohar's waves.[1]
Xenosaga Episode I: Der Wille zur Macht[]
Abel is only seen in the ending, when Mary Magdalene awakens inside KOS-MOS. Abel is seen in a white void stacking toy building blocks on top of each other unnaturally, hinting a supernatural presence deeply connected to the current events.
Xenosaga Episode III: Also sprach Zarathustra[]
Juli gives Abel a pen to draw with.
After taking control of the Parliament and the Zohar Project, Dmitri Yuriev placed Abel into the position of pilot of Omega Res Novae and assigned Contact Subcommittee member Juli Mizrahi to watch over him. Shion Uzuki, the reincarnation of the Maiden of Mary Magdalene, has a latent ability to connect and communicate with Abel, because Abel is U-DO.
Abel first appears at the CAT Testing Grounds on Fifth Jerusalem. Juli reveals her primary job is to facilitate smooth communication with Abel and that he is an invaluable member of the Zohar Project. Abel draws a picture and Shion recognizes it as Nephilim.
While infiltrating the CAT Testing Grounds to rescue KOS-MOS, Shion's group spots Abel. Abel says, "Sad being, this way." He then leaves the corridor through a door. Allen Ridgeley reveals that Abel lives in the facility, and wonders if Abel is trying to lead them to KOS-MOS (who could be the "sad being" he's referring to). As the group soon finds KOS-MOS, it seems likely Allen's guess was correct, but it's possible Abel was asking Shion (another potential "sad being") to follow him.
On Abel's Ark, Dmitri Yuriev kidnaps Abel and forces him to pilot the reconfigured Ω Res Novae. Yuriev attempts to use Abel in Ω Res Novae to attack and kill Shion and her allies, but thanks to Gaignun Kukai sacrificing himself, Yuriev's plan fails. Before Albedo Piazzolla disappears, Albedo tells Jr. that the Zohar and Abel were transferred to planet Michtam by "someone's will", likely Wilhelm[citation needed].
Xenosaga III HD Cutscene 312 - Conversation with Abel - ENGLISH
Shion communicating with U-DO as Abel.
On Michtam, Shion is able to identify Abel as an observational terminal of U-DO. Wilhelm sealed away Abel's power using Joshua. The 'two Abels', or eyes of God, as Wilhelm calls Abel and Abel's Ark, needed to be sealed away. To perform Eternal Recurrence, Wilhelm needed to prevent U-DO's observation of the universe.
With the intervention of Kevin Winnicot, Wilhelm's link to the Zarathustra device and Abel was severed, and they went out of control. Zarathustra, piloted by an out-of-control Abel, merged with Joshua.
After the defeat of Zarathustra, Abel receives chaos's power of Anima. chaos then performs a dimension shift that sends Abel, Nephilim, the Gnosis and the Zohar to Lost Jerusalem. There, they will create a new history for mankind.
Etymology[]
The name Abel is a Hebrew baby name. In Hebrew the meaning of the name Abel is: Breath; son; breathing spirit.
In the Old Testament of the Bible, Abel was the son of Adam and Eve who was killed by his brother Cain in a fit of jealousy.
Quotes[]
- "Sad being, this way."
- "Shion, a word to define an individual. Are you Shion?"
- "I want to know. To know you. To know your world."
- "I am the will of the universe. You identify me as U-DO. What do you desire from the world?"
- "Shion, what fills your heart? Is it fear? Sadness... or joy?"
- "Are you afraid? What are you afraid of? Why are you afraid? Are you afraid of being isolated from the world? Are you afraid of people rejecting you? Are you afraid of your eventual death?"
- "What does it mean to be alone? Is it more terrifying than death? Why does your face show such an expression?"
- "U-DO wants to know. About the wills that desire a dissipating world. Everything about you. Everything about this world."
Trivia[]
- His appearance is almost exactly that of a younger Fei Fong Wong or Abel from Xenogears.
- Abel is seen drawing Nephilim, which may be a reference to Lacan painting Sophia.
- U-DO being perceived as Abel when interacting with the Lower Domain shares some similarities with Edwin A. Abbott's Flatland, in which the inhabitants of a two-dimensional world can only perceive a three-dimensional sphere as a circle. This idea is further explored in Carl Sagan's Cosmos while discussing how four-dimensional concepts hypothetically may be perceived imperfectly by humans limited to a three-dimensional world.
Gallery[]
Xenosaga Episode I: Der Wille zur Macht[]
Xenosaga Episode III: Also sprach Zarathustra[]
