Song of Nephilim

Song of Nephilim
Manufacturer	Joachim Mizrahi
Purpose	Weapon
Main Engine	Unknown
Length	Unknown
Weight	Unknown
Equipment	Cloaking device
Weaponry	Insanity-driving wavelength
Crew Members	Kirschwassers
Affiliation	U-TIC Organization Albedo Piazzolla

For other articles titled "Song of Nephilim", see Song of Nephilim (disambiguation).

The Song of Nephilim is a fortress created by Joachim Mizrahi in the Xenosaga series. In Episode I, it is summoned and occupied by Albedo after he kidnaps MOMO.

Description

The Song of Nephilim is an upside-down tetrahedron-shaped grey facility with red trims. It emits a wavelength that can only be heard by certain individuals. It can cause madness in certain individuals, most notably in Realians, and also attracts the Gnosis. The wevelength is a partial translation of the Zohar control program Lemegeton.

Story

Creation

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Miltian Conflict

The Song of Nephilim played a crucial role in the Miltian Conflict, where Sellers activated it to cause combat Realians to go berserk, despite Joachim Mizrahi's and Suou Uzuki's objections. When the Gnosis started appearing, Joachim overloads the Song of Nephilim to seal Miltia into the Abyss but dies. The Song is later used as a ferry to abandon Miltia before it was cut off from the U.M.N.. Some time later, U.R.T.V.: Number 667 "Albedo", who was half-dead from his battle with Rubedo and Nigredo was saved by the Kirschwassers inhabited who were later discovered by Sellers.

Publicly it was believed by the general public that it was the Song of Nephilim and Joachim Mizrahi that summoned the Gnosis and destroyed Miltia.

Episode I

Margulis and Pellegri speak to each other about the possibility of using the Song of Nephilim and it appears later in the game after the plot to frame Second Miltia through Plans 31 and 401 failed, attracting a large amount of Gnosis to the Kukai Foundation. Albedo later kidnaps MOMO he brings her here. While it is initially invisible, KOS-MOS fires a phase transfer cannon at it that enables everyone to see it. The Elsa heads close in order for the party to rescue MOMO. When it flies over the top, Shion recognizes having seen it when she was a child in Old Miltia. The party heads through the Song of Nephilim, eventually confronting Albedo and recovering MOMO. Albedo escapes and the party fights the Blue Testament, then depart themselves as it stops functioning. The Kukai Foundation attempts to destroy it, but the lasers just reflect off of it. The Song of Nephilim starts absorbing the nearby Gnosis and it descends into the recently revealed Proto Merkabah.

As an area

Main articles: Song of Nephilim (area), Song of Nephilim (XS1&2)

The Song of Nephilim serves as the penultimate area of Episode I, and also appears as an area twice in Xenosaga I & II.

Database

Episode I

Song of Nephilim System

One of several giant machines created by Joachim Mizrahi.

It emits a song-like frequency that only certain individuals can hear, but the actual purpose of this device is yet unknown.

It does, however, curiously reappear throughout the story, be it in the meaning behind the word "madness" uttered by Jr. and Margulis, or the appearance of a girl with the same name. The fact that Shion saw this device on Miltia as a little girl, only furthers the mystery.

Episode III

Song of Nephilim

One of the devices made to control the Zohar.

One of the devices made by the late Joachim Mizrahi to control the Zohar. It is shaped like a giant inverted pyramid.

It was once stored within Labyrinthos, headquarters of the U-TIC Organization. Shion saw its shape from her mother's hospital room.

As the name implies, the Song of Nephilim plays a song (a wavelength) which cannot be heard by normal human ears. The song is said to attract the Gnosis.

The Song of Nephilim are the words of God that were recorded in the Y-Data--one of the relics. A man named Grimoire Verum analyzed these words to create the program known as Lemegeton.

Joachim reconstructed fragmented version of this program as part of the U-DO system. The wavelength it emitted included the word "Nephilim" in its human-audible range, so he named the system the Song of Nephilim.

The Song of Nephilim was used in the Miltian Conflict 15 years ago; however, as it had not been tuned by Joachim, its power was insufficient to bring the Zohar into operation.

The Song itself does not have the power to summon the Gnosis. The Gnosis appear simply because a door has been opened onto imaginary space as the result of U-DO activating in response to the people who have made fragmentary contact with it through the Song. In fact, the Gnosis that appeared around Miltia were actually caused by a fearful and isolated young Shion linking with U-DO and bringing the Zohar into operation.

Xenosaga I & II

ネピリムの歌声

故ヨアキム・ミズラヒが生み出したゾハルを制御する為の装置の一つであり、巨大な逆三角錘の形状を持つ。
かつて、U-TIC機関本部であったラビュリントスの内部に格納されており、シオンは母親の病室からその姿を目撃している。
ネピリムの歌声はその名の通り、普通の人間の耳には聞こえない歌声（波長）を奏で、その歌声はグノーシスを引き寄せるといわれている。

Singing Voice of Nephilim

Shaped like a giant inverted pyramid, it is one of the devices created by the late Joachim Mizrachi to control the Zohar.
It was once stored within Labyrinthos, headquarters of the U-TIC Organization, and was witnessed by Shion from her mother's hospital room.
As its name implies, the Singing Voice of Nephilim produces a singing voice (a wavelength) that is inaudible to normal human ears, and that singing voice is said to attract the Gnosis.

ネピリムの歌声　その２

14年前のミルチア紛争でも使用され、人間の精神にも異常を及ぼし、かつ、グノーシスも呼び寄せたとされるが、詳細は不明。

Singing Voice of Nephilim Part 2

It was also utilized in the Miltian Conflict 14 years ago, and is reported to have had an abnormal effect on the human psyche while simultaneously calling forth the Gnosis, but the exact details are unknown.

ネピリムの歌声　その３

14年前に、セラーズの指示でキルシュヴァッサーがミルチアから離昇させ、軌道上の天の車と合体した。
その後、公にはアビスに封じられたとされていたが、オルムスの画策により隠匿されていた。

Singing Voice of Nephilim Part 3

14 years ago, under Sellers' orders, the Kirschwassers lifted it off Miltia and combined it with the Heavenly Chariot [Proto Merkabah] in orbit.
Afterwards, it was generally believed to have been sealed away in the Abyss, but it was actually hidden away through Ormus' machinations.

Gallery

Official artwork

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  Art of the Song of Nephilim.

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  The Song of Nephilim alongside Jr., Ziggy, MOMO, and Albedo.

Xenosaga Episode I

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  The Song of Nephilim

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  The solution to Floor 3.

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  The solution to Floor 6.

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