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We will hear you. We always do. This episode we begin discussing the timeline of Xenoblade, going through the origin of the universe and the outline of Xenoblade 1. Enjoy.
Warning, this episode contains major spoilers for the plot of Xenoblade 1 and 2. There's something unsatisfying about a digital screen, and hear me through, hear me through. He's through, hear you out. One of the two.
There's something unsatisfying about an interface that is like a flat screen that you just tap buttons on and the buttons pop up and you interact with your finger on that. I'm not a big fan. For a couple reasons, we got reasons. One, accessibility.
I don't think it's very accessible in this screen. The same screen reader is missing very annoying. Two, you don't feel right. Also, I just, I miss buttons.
I miss dials. I miss cogs. I miss feeling like you could be driving in your car. They have these new screens now.
Trying to pick things or pick the settings in the screen. You have to look down and work out what's happening. You're a gizmo gadget man. I want to give you a gadget.
You're a thing of a ball. I get that. I get that. You look at it.
The doo-hickey, perhaps. I would love a doo-hickey. Doo-h. Call me if you were doo-hickey.
Ooh. I want to be a detective gadget. I want to be driving. I want to be a pitch down if you're, oh, that's the gizmo.
That's the goo-hoo. And I can just, so I reach down and I feel the gizmo. Yeah. And I mean, you should be able to reach down.
Okay. That's the air conditioning. That's the volume. That's the switch.
And I don't have to like think about or look at the screen. And I, like, anything should be more tangible, more haptic, more satisfying. This is why everything steampunk-y in vibe is cooler than everything else futuristic. You're so true.
You're so true. I have a car that's all buttons and I don't know any of them. I still have to look. You're an idiot.
That's true. That's just factual. That's just factual. That's real.
That's real. Hey, when you speak truth, I will not deny the good word of the fact that I'm an idiot. I just think it's something we're losing. And I think digital screens can be so useful because they're really good because you can add to anything, right?
You don't have to, you can make a screen anything and you don't have to put as many buttons in. So it's probably cheaper. It's like, it looks more expensive. It looks sleeker.
It does. I miss all our interface. Gagit, Goo Goo Goo. You know what I mean?
We're packing too much. It's too small. Well, along the lines of returning to a simpler time while also advancing technology, today, I think I might be taking you guys on a little discussion of the law of Xenoblade Chronicles, which Xenoblade, X-E-N-O-B-L-A-D-E-E-R. We've got a lot of articles.
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Thank you to our lawkeepers but also hell bomb the bar. How dare you put this curse upon me. Because Xenoblade Chronicles is interesting content. But overall, we're going to be discussing the next two episodes.
We'll be going over the slightly complex timeline, some would say. In the next episode, after that, the reversed cast of characters and their species, as well as in the final episode, the sick as fuck weapons they wield between the different series games and such. That's the gist. Sounds good to me.
We begin as we do with the essential information, the data, the dates and such. Xenoblade Chronicles is an action RPG developed by Monolith Soft, which I've written here. She make my Monolith Soft, sad face. I don't know what that means.
That's something to me a while ago. Guy, did you write that part of the script at 4am? I might have. I do love it.
That's the only surviving part of my original script. I do love watching Leguil Seeing and the part you wrote from the old book before, and it's been like, holy shit, what was I thinking? My brain was dead. I thought it was funny in the script room, but in sitting in front of you guys, she make my Monolith Soft.
I mean, I'm Monolith Hard, so. I got my, OK, no, that's all right. It's a mild. For Nintendo, with Xenoblade Chronicles 1 being developed for the Wii in 2010, the most recent release for this series is Xenoblade X Definitive Edition, having been released on the 20th of March 2025, just 10 days ago when we were recording.
OK. So we got a new one. So we did take one of this recording, and it didn't go great because it was script bad. And also new game released in between, not a new game.
It's Definitive Edition of an old game. Anyway, doesn't matter. The earliest referenced and partially leech properly, interestingly, though, was actually Monolith's Monolith's first project, Xeno Saga, versus Xenoblade, which is what we're talking about today, which was a three part series developed with the first part being developed in 2002, with the technicality that it is, a four part, you've got a bow phone in 2006, in Japan specifically. They love the side game.
Japan had some really sick solo releases. They had a Nintendo thing where you could get games over the radio. I don't know what the fuck the deal was. That's kind of sick.
Nintendo, Japan just sick. They should bring back some of those. Like, we used to have a DVD in a zero box. Yeah, it was the Captain Crunch whistle.
I can use the fucking hack phones or whatever the hell they were doing with that. Phone freaking. Oh, god. What a historical hacking stuff.
So cool. I had a game on my DS. I think it was on my one of those chips you can get to have a billion games. Oh, yeah.
And one of them was the Incredibles game, which was to anything with Incredibles movie. It was, you fight the Mole Man, which is the guy at the end of the movie. Yeah, he's good. And he doesn't get nuked immediately in the second movie.
Yeah, this was the first movie. This was like when it came out originally. I couldn't hear anything about the Mole Man. So I just formed such a weird fucking game.
Pretty cool. Fuck yeah. However, we're moving out to the game itself. The Xenoblade Chronicles follows a different main character in each game, which doesn't make telling the story a little bit confusing.
But all of those games fall within a larger overall continuous timeline, which itself is also quite likely part of a larger meta timeline. It gets stupid. We're not focusing on the meta timeline though. We're simply focusing on the Xenoblade timeline, which I'll be honest, it doesn't simplify things that much.
It helps. The connections between the games are a little bit flimsy, pretty debated because some people like it's just a reference. Don't worry about it. Other people like it's the fucking character from the game.
I'm going to take it as canon. As nerds I like to do. But there are characters that appear references and artifacts that might be the same. They appear the same, whether they're the literal same thing or multiverse duplicates.
We're going to get into some multiverse stuff, not strictly known. For the actual gameplay, the game swings between open world exploration and some very cool settings. And combat where you and a couple of NPC mates fight against ever stronger enemies, or attacking in public office special moods called Arts, which cause large damage to other effects. You can essentially combo these into sets.
There's full guides on YouTube. It's way more complicated than we can do. Also, you can beat the game without it. So, it's okay.
We'll get into these in the weapon episode though. I'm going to head myself there. Somewhere above AFK arena, but below World of Warcraft in terms of basic attack consistently, but hit the special button move when the time's right. It's combat.
Any other initial questions, any bits, any pieces that we're missing? Or we dive straight into the timeline? Let's do it. Let's do it.
All right. I have a link for you too. As I have constructed, what some would call a monstrosity. And others would call my magnum opus of a timeline.
Monstrosity, yes. So if you inspect perhaps what I've created for you too, give it a second load. You made this. I made this.
This is me. How did you make it so dark? Because I work in dark mode, night mode. Turn up the bright side of the screen.
Don't fucking at me. Not just the color. They haven't even read it yet. Go away.
It's the default things on scallions or all. If you gents would please direct your attention to the map that I've said, we can begin the walkthrough. If you're listening at home, feel free to check the episode description for the image. But don't worry.
No need. It won't help. So true. So true.
We begin at the leftmost part of our timeline on Earth. Yeah. We love Earth. It's very square.
Earth. You can get fucked. I have questions. Go.
Give me some questions for the timeline. I can tell you whether I'll answer them in episode. OK. So first of all, my eyes immediately were drawn to where it says, oh, no, I misread maybe Earth as middle Earth.
And I was like, oh, but now that's fair. Maybe Earth, parallel stuff. No, Klaus incident. Yeah, Klaus incident.
Look at that. Well, we'll get there. We'll get there. Probably.
Klaus. OK. This is the first thing we're getting to. OK.
The thing I'm going to be about is there's all this connection here. And let's just fucking. No, no, look at the asterisks. Look at the asterisks.
Oh, so it's there. Yeah, it's there. Why don't you just put it there? Look, because it doesn't.
It's not. It would ruin them. It's not because it's technically not correct. So what they're referring to is at the very end of the timeline is a vertical purple line crossing two time streams with an asterisk next to it, which is where the interblade three occurs.
But we'll get to the time beyond time later in our timeline. OK. I will also let you know again spoilers at the top of the episode. But this is literally the end of the first game.
But we're doing timeline. We're doing chronology. We're doing things as they come. Beginning of the first part of the timeline, we find Earth here stated to be 20XX.
But with a few bits of extra information, it should be somewhere around 2030 to 50. It'll take depending on if we believe a certain mad scientist. Our own story starts a little earlier, though, somewhere between 2001 and 2009. At this point, we can basically assume the world is the same as ours to a point.
Peak music. Yeah, true. Party Rockin' in the house tonight. Everybody just have a good time.
Everybody just have a good time. Is that a question? No, it's early in that. Because it was like mid primary school for us.
I think in 2010. Show me party rockin'. 2011. 2011.
No, it's after this. You're right. We need a couple more years to make ideal music. However, during this time, a scientist by the name of Klaus.
Maybe. Maybe someone else, specifically because for people who can't see, you know, like Chronicles 2, Klaus has found he finds this thing. But also, it's uncertain because the ages don't learn enough knowing about it. Finds an artifact made of magnetic abnormal material, which became known as the Conduit.
The Conduit was essentially a source of infinite power, which, as an aside with the right technology, could solve the world's energy crisis, increase computing power to general intelligences, probably solving all of the world's problems, you know, generate matter at reverse entropy, all of this possible with a source of infinite energy. Of course, the governments of Earth instead go, wow, this thing is cool. We should join forces and ensure that it's studied and used for good. Forming the United World Government and the IOS group to keep the artifact safe and study it.
So, you know, so far so good. Sounds pretty good. Well, right. Initial research revealed the device had enough power to warp reality as I posited.
And as such, it should be kept as far away from anything that wanted to continue living as possible. Keep that shit away from humans. OK, this is infinite power. Power equals heat bad.
I'm just like, I mean, infinite power. Let's put aside the thing that's impossible. Yeah, is this thing like hot? Is it also radiate, radiate?
It's not. People don't touch it. The way that it is described is, and this is a good excuse to the why it kind of typologically could work. It's described as a gate.
So technically, it could, in my mind, be a gateway to another reality that's just pure energy. Kind of like Cyclops' eyes. Sure. I don't know.
It's no mix, man. Sure. It's a gateway to a universe of full kinetic energy. That'll do.
The conduit is Cyclops' eyes. Sure. Yeah. As such, I'd also slash the United World Government.
Same thing. Built bean stalks, not literal. Apologies. Coffee burps.
Oh my god. Like Jack's bean stalks. No, space elevators. Connected to an orbital ring with a tower being called Radimanthes, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, cross.
I'm trying to put pronunciation thanks to that, it's not helping. And Minos. These names come from the Greek judges of the dead in Hades. The underworld with Minos being the king of, I had an ugly baby and put an Amaze fame.
The minotaur? The minute or? Minos. Correct.
IACUS, IACUS, IACUS, IACUS, and Minos. Small Wikipedia expert, except I found interesting. Why do I put this shit in here? Sometimes writing me is like, I will find this interesting, and then I have to read it.
Small Wikipedia expert, I found interesting. IACUS was the guardian of the keys of the underworld and the judge of the men of Europe. Radomathus was the lord of Elysium and judge of the men of Asia. I think that was what I found interesting was that they have different judges, but that's the regional judges, that's fine.
Minos was the judge of the final vote. It's interesting, it's very ominous name. I mean, there's no foreshadowing going on here. What are you talking about?
The thing that's hosting a conduit of infinite power above the Earth in space is named after the three judges of the underworld. So we just draw such a conclusion. Yeah, we're just saying that Earth is now. I'll just put these fun facts in here, because I think they're interesting.
Radomathus was the primary tower housing the first low orbit station and the conduit itself being the primary sort of beanstalk. Another piece of tech IACUS made is the Trinity processor, a set of three AIs named Entos, Logos, and Numa, all of whom were raised in virtual reality, which I assume just means trained in a simulated environment. I have no fucking idea what this is meant to mean. But they're advanced AIs.
These names are likely from Gnosticism, which is interesting. I keep finding the source of these names. It's an illness. What's up?
What's Matt Googled? Matt just very quickly tapped out of something. He was like, oh, Logos. And Google is the name.
And then John Images, and it was just Logos. OK, I think it's the name Logos. I've heard that before. It's logic.
It means logic, right? Yeah. Yeah, so it's the pathos versus Logos. Generally Logos is reasons.
Numa is like sole and Entos is like that, which is true, or like the knowledge of our lives. And I was like, oh, cool. Maybe those images are like xenobated Logos. And it's just why it's Entos, Logos, and Numa the holy trinity of Jesus God and the Holy Spirit.
Oh, fuck. Oh, fuck. That's not the Holy Spirit. That's the one.
Yeah. Logos also is about Logos. Sorry, if you look at images, it's just a fuck. He's got the target logo.
The target logo comes up a lot. It is a good logo to be fair. It's pretty good. It's literally a target.
It's a target. They did it right first time. These AIs were tasked with defending the conduit and develop defenses for these towers, including a series of robots named Artifices. Returning to the events of the game, the tower is that, oh, hang on.
Oh, my God, I have so many birds today. Sorry. Returning to the events of the game, the towers have been constructed and researchers have been, you know, it's a dangerous artifact. They wouldn't want to be rash by any means.
Spoiler warning, seriously, end of the first game again. The science dimension before class had other plans. When the tower comes under attack from a rebel group who wants to take back the conduit, because the government is supporting a source of infinite energy that could probably solve the world's problems. So yeah, they sound fucking, I mean, expect like, make sure it's safe.
But also like, yeah, use that. Yeah, they've been fucking around with it for like 20 years. OK, yeah, too much. The security team wants to try and send out the Artifices.
So these are giant mech robots, essentially, to defend the tower against the rebels. Because again, infinite energy, like, you used it for the good of the people, but should it fall into the hands of rebels? These guys are doing murder. But you're now doing murder.
I know. But it's a big robot in defense murder. That's good. That's better.
No one's good in this story. They soon, however, attempt to send out the Artifices, find themselves locked out as they realize that class is up to some shit. We jump to the command room at the top of Radomantheswear after a very brief ethics discussion with his colleague, Gallia, Klaus begins his experiment, which I have my only quickly episode, but it's a scene conversation between two of you. So I will yoyink this.
Do I have a screenshot of this? I was going to put a scene in my last episode, but I forgot to change it. It's all right. I also color coded it on my document.
That's not going to go across. It's so funny. You can go. So it paces cleanly.
Let's go. Also, I very much like the bloody, what's it called? The conduit. It's just across.
It is across. Yes. It's across. And it's like, OK, I've been on the nose there.
Very religious symbolism there. Yes, indeed. However, so who should be who? So this is up to you two.
Klaus, mad scientist, essentially, Gallia, a concerned female colleague. Up to you two. Debate, paper is rock. I couldn't give a shit.
What do you think? Oh, you're giving me a choice? I'll pick a message. Thank you.
Trinity process, I think, right at 96%. That should be good enough. Let's begin the experiment. Professor, no, the results have not been confirmed.
It's too dangerous. Ridiculous. It's what it's like for a holy shit. Ridiculous.
It's perfectly safe. We are about to bear witness to the birth of a universe. Once only a god could affirm, before such a miracle. But today, mankind moves one step closer to the divine.
Are you serious? Do you even fully understand that thing? What's the alternative? Do you want to render this place to them?
The conduit is a gift from some divine entity. It is a gateway, a gateway that will take us to another entire world. You're delusional. Divine entity, the conduit is nothing more than a meta-universe manifold.
Oh, what? Sorry. This dialogue is so good. We can get into that.
Gallia, we humans are fools. We haven't the planet. We are on the verge of burning, even the skies above. But the conduit could transform us into something so much more.
Gallia, this is the birth of a brand new universe. And then Nicky's. And then Nicky's. And scene.
No, they actually sword fight after this. Yeah, that's way better now. Any vibes coming off this? Any comments?
No, that sounds great. Clouds is about to create a new universe. And everything's going to be golden. It's going to go really well.
What the fuck is a meta-universe manifold? Yeah, my three favorite quotes from this are ridiculous. It's perfectly safe. We're about to bear witness to the birth of a universe.
Have you saved good on your class? The conduit is nothing more than a meta-universe manifold. What the fuck does that mean? And the other one was, what's the alternative?
Do you want to just surrender the place to them? The alternative he's recommending is restarting the universe. So yeah, probably I would turn it over. Incredible.
With this, Klaus hits a control panel. And the entire world blows up. Who would have guessed? Incredible.
This man reminds me so much of Cyrus. Anyone have Pokemon Platinum fans? Pokemon? Pokemon fans?
Cyrus? Fucking yeah. Hell yeah. To give Klaus a tiny bit of credit though, he wasn't entirely wrong, as it would soon turn out that the experiment had worked.
Kind of. When he activated the experiment, the world would split into at least two parallel universes in which the events of Xenoblade 1 and Xenoblade 2 take place respectively. A small note here. While we know that Xenoblade 1 universe, in fact a separate universe, Xenoblade 2 actually takes place in a post-apocalyptic version of Earth.
So that's a fun thing to look forward to in episode two. With that technicality aside, let's have a brief look at these fresh out of the oven worlds. Fresh and crispy. We begin with Bionis.
Bionis. It is actually called Bionis. Xenoblade 1, Bionis and McConis. Yeah.
OK. Let me grab some, oh god, this is going bad already. You should have been in the sword fight. You know, stop me from doing it.
I can beat your sword. Whoa, OK. Klaus. Make me your.
Make me shine. Give me one second. I'll make you feel like you're. Divine.
Bearing witness to the birth of a new universe. Here it. I'm only a god before such a new universe. Oh, right.
What the fuck are those? And here I present to you by Onus and McConis. They are named by Onus and McConis. So at the beginning of the universe, we see what I can only assume is Klaus's wet dream.
Two massive mechs. So again, Xenoblade 1, this is the universe that was created. Yeah. Two massive mechs fighting each other.
And when I say massive, these mechs are between 10 to 12 kilometers tall, making them taller than Mount fucking Everest at 8.84 kilometers. They're named by Onus and McConis, which, if you two wouldn't mind describing them, I think you can probably figure out which is which. Yep. Do they like it?
It's like a JPEG image. Yeah, it's 512 by 512. I apologize. I get where I can.
By Onus is big green machine. It looks like he's kind of covered in vines. He's got spiky bits coming off of him. humanoid in shape.
Looks like he's hitting the gym, but only really doing squats and shoulder work because the rest of his body is really small. He's got that kind of ballerina torso. He's got that ballerina torso. And his head is like one big spike.
And he's kind of green and earthy looking. And then he kind of reminds me of a buff cacton, if you know cacton, as we're both more. It's more fucking puking. They are Nintendo games.
I give you that. You guys do want to describe McConis? Yeah, sorry. McConis is like an old rusty kind of brown and gray.
He's got, he's kind of on his knee in this kind of scenario, but he's kind of got, looks like he's got armour on. That's kind of glowing orange. Very much like a covered in plate and metal. And then there's a bunch of like, what kind of chain kind of wires coming off of him, especially in his, he's got a big helmet that's coming down and the cogs come up his shoulders.
And then he's got a huge mane of, look like like scarves of metal. Metal mics. If anyone's a 40K fan, it looks very, a cornball, skull of thought. Fuck.
Jesus, what's the fucking, keep going, keep going. Any reminders? No. I will give you a quick sec as we pivot into the next bit.
But we cornlord of skulls, I'm thinking of course. Cornlord of skulls? Yeah, it's like this big mechanical. Please tell me cornspell with K.
Yeah. Okay, good. I was gonna say, it's the cornlord. Cornlord.
No, no, no, no. Corn here. We find a few races in this universe, which I'll get it more into next episode. The homs, the high-entier and the nepon can be found on my honest as well as once upon a time to giants.
And on McConus, we find the mechons and the machina. Machina, Mackinac, I'm not still 100% sure. The robots get the worst names done away. I'm not gonna recant the entire plot and not even most of it.
As we mentioned before, that's what you're looking for. Play the game. However, the world does have impacts on the following world. So I'll mention these main impactors again.
So I'll be wanting for the games. So I've realized, I forget to mention, that these two fighting together ends with them dueling, dueling, dueling before they strike each other and stop. One of them lose their eye. The conus loses their eye.
No, the bion loses is on. One of them lose their eye. Doesn't matter. So the world, so that's like, I'm gonna create the ultimate world.
Two big robots fighting. Correct, as I said, classes went great. It's perfect. What could be better?
These are quite big. And when they finish fighting, they grind to a halt and sort of fall into a death mode, a coma, not really sure, but are still and silent. And in the time since then, they develop these races that dwell on the mechs themselves. These creatures, again, the homs, high-entier and not-bound being found on the bionus and the McConus and machina, mechons and machina being found on the conus.
Right. First, we must mention the eventual plot twist of Xenoblade 1 again. It's getting a lot of plot here. The big bad.
The entire game we have been hounded by visions, evil robots, cursed swords, ghostly, white-haired, anime boys who vanish without explanation and all other confusing and complex plot devices. In the final scenes of the game, we discover what created this world. Klaus succeeded in his goal, becoming a god of this universe and more specifically, Bionus. He's the sole of that actual robot there.
He became the sole of the Titan fighting against McConus, who also had the sole of someone aboard from the lower orbit station, Gallyon. Gallyon, correct. In the series of events that is much more complex than I have time to explain. Klaus and Gallyon slash Bionus and McConus fought to a standstill, not killing each other but becoming inactive.
These guys are going to have a sick fight. Exactly. Yeah. If you call this, yeah, sword fight, I was like, we had a big sword fight.
Once they stopped fighting to a standstill, inactive. These gave the races upon them, I did actually fucking write it out myself. This gave the races upon them times to evolve and grow, eventually becoming peaceful allies with each other, as we see a scene of a giant, one of the residents of Bionus and a machina named Argless and named, oh right, a giant and a machina named Argless and Edgel, respectively. Doing the plot was a nightmare, too many names, too much, I don't know, it's a naming thing.
Genuinely, all the names fall into this back-of-the-mouth type thing where they all sound very similar, time annoying. These two discussing the idea of moving to another world away from the Titans, talking about their species growing enough to be able to find other places to live. As time passed though, Klaus, doing some evil shit, as he's likely to do, even more so before than before because of reasons, again, we'll get into it the start of the next episode, I promise. At some point, changed his Titans massive sword into a, albeit still huge, but normal one.
This sword was the Monado. So again, Klaus is Bionus, Bionus have sword in sword fight. Klaus, go in active, make sword little, that's the Monado. Right.
Depends that the Xenoblade? That is, I don't technically know what the Xenoblade term means, that's a, that's such a hole in my research, but yeah, sure, it's a Xenoblade, it's a big Xenoblade. So, wait, so there's no sword anymore, there's no sword in the middle, I'm not into fighting. There's truth, no, there is a sword on, I think Meconus has their sword in Bionus.
So Meconus won? No, there's an active, there's a sword, there's a sword, there's a time out, there's a time out. If Matt's on the end of my sword, I'm gonna be both stop, I've won. Okay, we'll call it a win.
To Bat-Trac, wait, I thought Meconus was a new. No, Meconus's sword's in, I was gallia. Wait, is Meconus's sword the sword that got smolgen? No, Bionus's.
Bionus's Klaus, you were Klaus, Klaus sword, make little. Yeah, so my sword's a new. No, Meconus is a new. Meconus's sword.
Meconus makes sword little, make Monado. Monado is a plot device for the game. You're right, I honestly just thought because Klaus was evil, he'd be the mecha. Maybe that's- It does seem like that, right?
And that is a lot of the game, I'll be honest. So spoiler for the game, a lot of it is perceived as like Meconus, Mac, Mac, Mecch, Machine-Oh, is a bad guy, but we find out of course Klaus, I don't get a bit ahead of it in the timeline, but that's just how it goes. I guess that was my machine races on the map. So Bat-Trac, a little bit.
I did fit before. When I said there were two consciences that made it from Earth to the New World, being class and gallia, I lied. There were in fact three consciences. With the third one being on toss, one of the Trinity Corps AIs.
Which one? On toss. Which one was the last. On toss was God.
Yeah, the Divine Knowledge, the knowledge above the one who makes the final vote. seems like the good guy to come through. On Toss awakened into this world as the true God of this world. Following his role from the Trinity processor, where in that arrangement, he acted as the final vote in between the three of them.
So if the Trinity Corps had to make a decision and the two lower ones, low cost and new men just disagreed, on Toss would be the final vote. Moving to this new world, he continues that role with now Klaus and Gallia, with him being the true God above the cool guy. I see. Still performing his role, he was actually the one who equipped the other two gods with Menados.
Again, Menados, we'll get to the weapons episode, cool swords, big, big gods swords, big powerful swords, big, big, beautiful swords. He's like here, fight. Exactly. As well as having gave the two Menados to the other gods, as well as having the final true Menado for himself.
Because you gotta keep the cool shoes. You gotta keep the menado for yourself. If you play the games, Vee Menado, you play with the motion of the game, is Bionis or Klaus's sword, but the other two are also technically called Menados. They're just, it's the name of the sword.
It's just different versions of the Menado. Again, get into the weapons episode. Going back to Klaus, in making the Menado smaller, his goal, he was managing to sneak a slice of his soul inside of it. With the goal to infiltrate the little folk who lived upon his back, managing to attract the giant who I mentioned before from the cutscene, Arglis.
Arglis, picking up the sword, becomes possessed by the soul of Klaus slash, McConnis slash now, Zenza. You changed the name again? Every fucking character in this goddamn game has three names. It's one of the reasons that I was writing the plot and I was like, this is a nightmare.
This is the worst. Is it exactly three or is that just, you use that number? I use that number. It does, like a lot of them do genuinely have three.
I think it might be a deliberate thing for the writing, considering the Trinity process. Yeah, yeah. On Toss, Numa, et cetera, et cetera. I mean, three, there's a lot of three, so in mythology, in religions, a lot of three.
Yeah. And also in names, it means a lot of three. It's like your, like, can be like given name, true name, and take a name with three usually? That's what I was gonna say.
I was gonna say, I was gonna say. Name's very important. Yeah, absolutely. But yeah, it is a recurring thing.
I genuinely don't know whether it's me making up something in my mind, but I'm pretty sure that a lot of this has the pattern of threes. It's always the writing in the back of my mind of like, what are the themes? What have this English literature got in my head? Arglis, picking up the narrative again, is possessed by the soul of the bionis.
Zen, becoming, sorry. It picks up the menado, being possessed by the soul of bionis, slash Klaus. Yeah, the merging of those two becoming Zenza, the giant. Okay.
Zenza, proceeded to engineer a plan. The creatures of the miconis and the creature of the bionis must always be in conflict. To ensure that all life lived and died on the back of these creatures. The discussion I had before about leaving, unacceptable.
They needed this because the creatures of these titans are a sort of fuel that keeps them running. It's like a sort of life force. There is actually a thing in game which is a resource. Every life being has a bit of this, and it's the stuff that the two titans run off.
So when Klaus hears a little chitter-chatter about, we should leave these mechs, he goes, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, you guys will die. I mean, you're not really working that well, they can't move. It's true, they haven't figured out boats yet. I don't think.
Which is weird, because it's quite difficult. Apologies, as well for context, because I didn't actually strictly say this. They're standing in water. Oh, okay, yeah.
There's water underneath the titans. There's a lot of different floating in space, so. No, no, I get that. They're on a sort of planet.
They are the only landscape features we see, but otherwise there is an ocean. It only comes up to about their ankles. Again, they're like 12 kilometers tall, so it's still at east and size ocean. Okay, okay, I'm getting into the Trinity stuff.
I keep reading this. He needed this as the creatures on both titans are a sort of fuel to keep them running. So if they were to leave, as Edgill and Argless had discussed, the machina and the giant, that would leave Zanzas slash by on a slash class without his power source. If they died, however, he could recreate more life and keep the cycles going.
Interesting. So he wants them all to keep them, you know, sort of occupied. Zanzas then leads the giants into war with them a connoce, where the giants were wiped out, Elle. Leaving only Zanzas, who was placed on prison island, floating above the Bionis' head, but his nasty boy crimes.
The Monado was taken from him and stored in a sealed tower on the Bionis' arm. So further down the tower, relatively far from where he's currently kept. The Monado, however, is still possessed of a part of his soul. So later, when a group of Homs, humans for the sake of it, fantasy humans, I'll get into it at the races episode, Homs of humans for the all intensive purposes.
Found the sword, some massive amount of time later, Hyantia, the bird elves. Again, rice stuff, we'll get into it later. They live for a very long time. The Hyantia don't know when it was built, but to quote, it's history remains a mystery.
They're long lived so they have no fucking idea. It's been there for a while. Yeah. When the Homs found the Monado in the tower, Zanzas' soul was quick to take refuge in one of them.
A boy named Shulk. I see, protagonist warning. We found him. Here he is.
The game we see Shulk gain Master of the Monado, whose power will again talk about the final episode. The series gains powerful allies and travel across both the Bionis and the Meconus in pursuit of various goals, including I want to figure out what other civilizations are still left because mine got attacked by machines. Where'd my friend go? What's this giant I keep seeing visions of?
It's the game. I don't know. He has the blade that's also Klaus. Evil.
He doesn't know that. He doesn't know that. He doesn't know that. He doesn't know that at all.
We arrive at the end of the game with Shulk fighting Zanzas. Zanzas has regained his full power, having had his body and soul reunite. The soul that was part of Shulk's body, leaving after he was shot by his adopted father. Long story.
So, okay, so the soul of Zanzas, the split, was in Shulk. Was in the Monado, which Shulk found as part of the Hommack's Edition group. It's now it went into Shulk. And then Shulk's adopted father shot him with a gun.
Yes. And then that somehow dislodged the soul? Correct, because Shulk died. Quote unquote.
According to Zanzas, he was never alive, but also he he revives later on. So how true that is, up for debate. He also has all of his own memories. It's one of those things where it makes a lot more sense in the game and it's like the power friendship and belief and the strength of the spirit.
But it's like in terms of me reasoning. I'm not a mother. Yeah, I'm going to the time. I got four games to cover in two episodes and it's hard with this timeline.
So, Zanzas. Yes. This is Zanzas, right? Yes.
I found a photo of Zanzas. He's a buffal man. That's holy shit. That's what he's like.
Damn. Damn. Damn, look at him. He's pretty big buffal man.