Zohar (Xenogears)

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Zohar... It is what drives all of the Gears on this planet. It is the master generator that transmits its energy to the slave generators in our Gears. It is also the source of all the Ether power that the inhabitants of this planet utilize. By utilizing the energy displacements caused by actualizing potential future phenomenon... this 'Zohar Modifier' has the ability to produce infinite amounts of energy. —Myyah Hawwa while possessing Elehayym "Elly" Van Houten

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The Zohar as seen in Xenogears.

The Zohar Modifier is an object that generates infinite amounts of energy in Xenogears. It is the inspiration for the Zohar and Zohar Emulators in Xenosaga, but they are not the same object.

The Zohar Modifier is a source of infinite that powers Deus, all the Gears, and all the ether powers of the people on the planet Xenogears takes place on.

History

The Zohar Modifier was not always a source of infinite energy, however. It started out as Deus' main engine - still capable of great power, but not infinite. In an experiment to power Deus up, the Zohar Modifier managed to draw in and trap a being from a higher dimension in it (which came to be known to Fei as the Wave Existence), which then made it an infinite energy source.

Elly in Kadomony in the eye of the Zohar.

10,000 years before the start of the story of Xenogears, Abel, Fei's first incarnation, a passenger on the Eldridge, managed to walk into Deus' central engine core and touched the Zohar Modifier—this act made him The Contact. As a response to his touch, the Wave Existence created the Antitype so that it could speak to him. Xenogears does not get into the specifics of the direct exchange between Abel, the Antitype and the Wave Existence at this point, but through his connection to the Wave Existence, Fei learns that it is trapped within the Zohar Modifier, and it wishes to be free.

Xenogears

After the Eldridge crashed, the Zohar landed in an area called The Land of Bethlehem, which is the top left of the Xenogears world.

Very few people can withstand making direct contact with the Zohar Modifier. In fact, only two people in Xenogears are able to make and survive prolonged exposure to it, and they are Fei Fong Wong and Elehayym Van Houten.

Etymology

In the Japanese version, the Zohar Modifier is simply known as the Zohar, which Xenosaga uses. It was almost certainly changed from Zohar to Zohar Modifier in the English-language release to avoid religious controversy.

Wave Existence on the Zohar

• "I reside in Zohar. I am the beginning and the end. The first and the last."
• "Long ago, a 'modifier', or a pseudo-perpetual, infinite-energy engine was created. That engine was named 'Zohar'. That reactor was created by an ancient people from another planet to attain what is considered to be the ultimate energy possible within this four-dimensional universe. Eventually, those people used that same engine to create the inter-planetary invasion weapon, 'Deus'... Zohar was used as its primary source of power. But the unexpected happened... During the connection tests of Zohar with the newly completed Deus, the engine started to examine infinite potential phenomena... Requiring energy, the engine connected this dimension to the higher dimensional space. As a result, that reactor 'merged' or 'synchronized' with the wave existence in that higher dimension... ME. I descended from the point of contact created by the machines through the 'Path of Sephirot', or the domain you are in right now, and incarnated in the four-dimensional world. After I 'Advented' to the four-dimensional world, in order to stabilize myself here, I had to exchange, or materialize, my form and enter into the 'modifier' engine. In other words, I became bound in Zohar. I have always wanted to return to my own dimension... And I came to a conclusion. I had to reverse the process. I went through to arrive here. I must be released by the one who installed within me a special feature of this dimension-the 'will'... that one is you."
• "Yes. My will was incarnated through a bio-computer which was vital for Deus. After combining with me, the bio-computer evolved its functions and that bio-plant generated a central element. That is her. I was split by your contact. My physical form of flesh stayed in Zohar, while my will went into Elhaym and my power went into you. That's why I waited to unite with you. And now, it is fulfilled. My only remaining desire is to break this 'cage of fleshly existence'... In order to do that, I must become perfect by combining with Elhaym, as well as my other physical form, 'Deus'. The only way to return to my original dimension is to destroy this physical body. In the four-dimensional world, Zohar is perfect, so in order to destroy Zohar I need the strength that was attributed to you... Zohar can only be destroyed by the hands of the Contact."
• "Zohar and Deus are one. She is bound to the system by another's will to become one with me. In order to release her, it is necessary to destroy that very system that serves as the Deus weapon... However, having been created as a weapon, the Deus system seeks to unify itself with all of you for a different purpose than that of mine. Originally, her release would have been performed by me, the one who desires to return to the higher dimension... But, I am also bound to the system as she is, so I am unable to participate. You are the only one who can release her from the spell. Just as Deus and I are inseparable, you and her are also inseparable."

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