Moebius (music)

Moebius is a track in Xenoblade Chronicles 3. It plays in the following cutscenes:

Main story

 * Consul K confronts the party after the fight against in.
 * Mechafriend protects Valdi from Consul Q during The Kind Right Hand.
 * Consul J reveals his mudpuppet-creating power in.
 * Consul O and Consul P show off their Interlink form in.
 * Consul M reveals her power of bodily possession in.
 * The Annihilator charges up to fire at the City in.
 * Consul Y explains the violet Flame Clocks during Mio's Side Story.
 * Consul D reveals his habits during his lives before he became Moebius in Chapter 6.
 * Consul Y confronts the party in Origin.

Motifs
Moebius is composed of several melodies used as motifs in other tracks in the game's music.


 * 0:05 to 0:24 (unofficially referred to as 'Moebius 1') is a leitmotif appearing in the following sections of the following tracks:
 * Battlefield - The Scramble for Life (0:40)
 * Suffocating Reverberation (0:07)
 * Suspicion (2:24)
 * Young Warriors (0:31, 1:51)
 * Against the World (0:06)
 * (0:00)
 * Something's Beginning to Move (3:01)
 * Congregating Lives (1:49, 2:09)
 * Origin Upper Reaches/Origin Depths (1:26)
 * 0:35 to 0:54 (unofficially 'Moebius 2') plays in the following tracks:
 * Battlefield - The Scramble for Life (2:06, 3:22)
 * Suffocating Reverberation (0:50)
 * The Two Off-Seers (1:58)
 * Suspicion (1:01)
 * Ferronis (1:43)
 * Origin Ascending (1:59)
 * Congregating Lives (0:18, 1:41)
 * How the Future Endures (4:16)
 * Noah and N (0:18, 0:30)
 * 1:15 to 1:55 (unofficially 'Moebius 3') is arguably the main melody of the piece. It plays in the following tracks:
 * Battlefield - The Scramble for Life (1:09, 3:10)
 * Suffocating Reverberation (1:43)
 * The Two Off-Seers (1:06, 2:14)
 * Young Warriors (1:44, 2:35)
 * Against the World (2:10)
 * Impending Crisis (2:16)
 * Ferronis (2:25)
 * Origin Ascending (1:28, 2:52)
 * Something's Beginning to Move (3:16)
 * Congregating Lives (0:00, 0:33)
 * Origin Upper Reaches/Origin Depths (0:18)
 * Noah and N (1:14)
 * Encroaching Malice (0:51, 2:26)
 * Grand Theater of Life (0:40)
 * Z - Harbinger of the End (1:23)
 * Showdown With Z, Act 1/Act 2 (0:27)
 * 3:55 to 4:35 (unofficially 'Moebius 4') is a melody that continues from Moebius 3. It plays in the following tracks:
 * The Two Queens of Aionios (2:46)
 * Congregating Lives (1:08)
 * How the Future Endures (0:32)
 * Origin Upper Reaches/Origin Depths (2:22)
 * Noah and N (1:44)
 * Showdown With Z, Act 1/Act 2 (1:56)

The Moebius motifs are not to be confused with those of Ouroboros Awakening, which are similar but distinct.

Trivia

 * Moebius and its variations were sung by Lauren McGlynn of ANÚNA. Correspondingly, Ouroboros Awakening and its variations were sung by Aisling McGlynn, Lauren's sister.