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Posted By: caracarn Oct 31, 2003 - 12:39 pm

I know its not a gaming forum, but I was just wondering if anyone out there has played Xenogears for the PS1. It's one of the bestRPGs that Square made, anyways, I ask only because one of the main themes of the story was the fact that the whole race had only started as a result of a gigantic spaceship landing on an iscolated planet and from the sole survivor came all life on Earth. From this, it is learned that God did not create them all, and this is what I was getting at, In my story I'm writing there is a practiced monotheistic religion and they are ultimately worshiping a god that destroyed the true creator of the universe. I was just wondering a few things about this idea:1) How should I present this in the story to make it seem totally unexpected? and 2) How not to make it seem too much like I'm condemnig all religion. If anyone has suggestions, please write,

Thanx

Posted By: CantCatchMe_ImThe_GingerbreadMan Nov 11, 2003 - 05:31 pm

I've played Xenogears and I agree with you. It was excellent. Hmmmmm. . . Have you considered having the religion teach of an "evil" being that tryed to "destroy" mankind. The "evil being" could be the true creator. As your story goes on perhaps there could be a forbidden cave or ancient ruin where there are writings on the truth. Perhaps even some essence of the true creator could have survived and somehow that essence reveals the truth to someone. Just a few random thoughts.

Posted By: caracarn Nov 12, 2003 - 12:14 pm

Actually I had a similar idea about revealing the truth through hidden texts. And I was thinking about teaching of an evil being, so it would be a God and Satan type switch. Thanks for the input.

Posted By: iamume Nov 12, 2003 - 12:27 pm

This premise does not rule out that the god may have influenced the event which resulted in this cosmic castaway.This god may even have inspired the development of terestrial life.

Posted By: ForeverZero Nov 05, 2004 - 08:48 pm

Man, I cna't believe I never noticed this thread!

I know everyhting about this game. Absolutely everything. I'm obsessed with it. In fact it was one of the prime influences of my ongoing saga.

Anyways, basically heres what the crash was all about. During an intergalactic war, there was this organic weapon created long ago called the Yabeh System, consisting of three sections:

Deus, the Main Body
Zohar, the power source
and Kadomony, the computer or brain.

When it was created, it destroyed an entire planet. It was deemed too dangeorus after that and was dismantled and transported elsewhere via the Eldridge, the ship shown in the opening cinema of Xenogears. During the transport, the system realized what was happening and used the Zohar to hack into the ship's computer and caused it to crash.

Upon impacitng the planet, Kadomony initiated a system to repair the severely damaged body of Deus. It created Miang Hawwa, or -The Mother-, who gave birth to Cain and the Gazel Ministry, the first humans. The plan was to let humans populate, and eventually the humans would all return to God, or Deus, as "parts" to repair its body.

Of course there's a lot more to it than that, so I can explain further if anyone has any questions.

Posted By: Magus Nov 05, 2004 - 09:38 pm

Surprise surprise. Look at who ressurected this topic. I should have known it was you.