El-Regrs

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El-Regrs
Pilot	Sophia (past) Elehayym Van Houten (present)
Aligned with	Dinah
Equipped Weapons	Aerods ×10

El-Regrs, known in the Japanese version as E Regulus (E・レグルス, e-reguresu), is an Omnigear resembling Elly's Vierge.

History

Lacan kneels over Sophia beside El-Regrs.

El-Regrs was created In 9500 in the latter half of the the Shevat-Solaris War, after Sophia, the Holy Mother of Nisan, fused with the Anima Relic Dinah.

El-Regrs is later seen in the background of a flashback, with Sophia laying unconcious beside it and Lacan kneeling over her. Rushing over, Karellen spared a moment to look over Sophia, then hit Lacan, angry at trusting him with Sophia's safety.

At some polnt, after Sophia later sacrificed herself to ensure her friends' escape from Solaris, El-Regrs came into Shevat's care and was placed in storage.

Xenogears

“

It's a matter of course. But the girl doesn't intend to ride it... Just like 'her'. She knows it unconsciously. The existence within her... -Wiseman

”

After Fei and the party help defend Shevat against an attack by Solaris, Zephyr is alerted that El-Regrs had started to move when Elly came into contact with it. Zephyr ponders Elly's connection to Sophia, while Wiseman predicts that Elly would refuse to ride the Omnigear.

Later, when Citan raises the possibility of 'borrowing' El-Regrs, Elly becomes scared, vehemently denying that she'd ever want to pilot it.

When Fei Fong Wong and the party were captured by Karellen and taken to Golgoda, Elly receives a transmission from Karellen telling her that, if she wanted to save Fei and the others, she had to come alone. With El-Regrs being only Omnigear that remained at Shevat, Elly's drive to rescue her friends overcomes her fear of it, allowing her to finally pilot it.

Elly agrees to Karellen's terms.

After turning away the help of her squad, Elly arrives alone, much to her captured friends' dismay. Karellen praises how gallant she is, commenting how it's as if "that scene from the past has been brought to life in the present". Karellen then summons Rattan and Mugwort and makes another deal with Elly: if she defeats the two of them with her Gear, he'd "consider what treatment [her] friends would receive".

El-Regrs versus Mugwort and Rattan.

Despite her friends' protests, Elly accepts Karellen's terms and fights Rattan and Mugwort. After struggling through a losing battle, the El-Regrs is downed, with Elly close to death. Then, as its pilot goes ominously quiet, the El-Regrs stands up again and disintegrates Mugwort in a single blast. Turning to Rattan, the El-Regrs delivers a series of blows, before destroying him with an Ether beam.

Like Sophia centuries before, Elly is unconscious following the battle. She and El-Regrs are collected by Karellen's subordinates following the battle, and Karellen gloats as he honors his promise to Elly by freeing Fei and his party.

Etymology

Like many of the other Gears, its name is associated with constellations. Regulus is the brightest star within the constellation Leo.

Trivia

• While the player cannot use El-Regrs in battle, it is available as a playable Gear in the Nortune Battle Arena. If a player makes it all the way to the core of Merkava just before fighting Deus and then returns back to the surface, El-Regrs will be unlocked and added to the roster of Battle Arena Gears.^{[citation needed]}
• One of the rough draft designs for El-Regrs had plated legs that look almost like feathers, but after many redesigns, the designers opted instead to go with the version with legs.

Gallery

El-Regrs in-game model

References

Perfect Works, pg 129. (Designer's comment about including aerods in the underside of her skirt; image depicting 10 sections of her skirt with aerods visible underneath)