Sophia

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Sophia, is a woman who lived 500 years before the game Xenogears. She is the Mother of Nisan and is the third reincarnation of the very first Elly. There was a deep relationship (perhaps a love triangle) between Sophia, Lacan (Grahf/Wiseman during the game), and Krelian. Sophia and Lacan had feelings for each other, but never showed it to the other. They both have always avoided mentioning love when they talked to each other. Krelian is friends with both of them, but was sometimes trying to "hit on" Sophia, and knew that she didn't like him that much. After the war, the Mother Sophia let out a huge cry, "Live, Lacan!!!!!" before crashing the airship into Merkava. This led Krelian to "committed so many sins!" and Lacan to seek evil, turning him into Grahf.

In Gnostic lore, Sophia (Greek Σoφíα, "wisdom"), is the Demiurge’s mother and a partial aspect of the divine Pleroma. She desired to create something apart from the divine totality and without the receipt of divine assent. In this abortive act of separate creation, she gave birth to the monstrous Demiurge and, being ashamed of her deed, she wrapped him in a cloud and created a throne for him within it. The Demiurge, isolated, did not behold his mother, nor anyone else, and thus concluded that only he himself existed, being ignorant of the superior levels of reality that were his birth-place. Thus the demiurge is frequently identified as the Abrahamic God Yahweh.

The Gnostic myths describing these events are full of intricate nuances portraying the declination of aspects of the divine into human form: this process occurs through the agency of the Demiurge who, having stolen a portion of power from his mother, sets about a work of creation in unconscious imitation of the superior Pleromatic realm. Thus Sophia’s power becomes enclosed within the material forms of humanity, themselves entrapped within the material universe: the goal of Gnostic movements was typically the awakening of this spark, which permitted a return by the subject to the superior, non-material realities which were its primal source (the Pleroma).