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Faded Note (Note)

2015-07-30T14:59:14Z

68.50.138.244: /* About the Note */

''To whomever finds this: Sudra is miraculous - the fact that I've been healed attests to that - but it is too dangerous to bring this technology back to Earth. Whatever happened here was catastrophic, the ramifications extending to everyone.''

''We are going upstream - to the Filter, or whatever lies beyond - for answers.''

''-Trace''

== About the Note ==
This is the only brown note. It is believed to have been written in English by the very first Trace, hundreds or possibly thousands of years ago when he first arrived in Sudra. It is located near an abandoned wheel-chair.[[Category:Notes]]

Breach

2015-07-30T14:47:40Z

68.50.138.244:

''For the in-game Note called "The Breach", see [[The Breach (Note)]].''

== Description ==
The Breach refers to a vast, nebulous storm that exists between and links universes together. Though not fully understood, the Breach has proven to be passable, and many individuals have successfully navigated it to enter another universe. However, traveling through the Breach is highly dangerous and, without some form of protection or means of conveyance, such as a Breach Elevator, can be fatal. Though travelers have claimed to be able to see the Breach with the naked eye, the Breach itself may be invisible, and the effect seen in the sky is a jumbled molecular layer — a collection of random, glitch-like particles that fill the gaps where the Breach ends and another universe begins.

Long ago, the people of planet Sudra were amenable to aiding travelers in their passage through the Breach using their advanced technology and by manipulating a device called the Breach Attractor. However, the Sudrans' descendants over time became more and more religious, less knowledgeable of their own technology, and less amicable towards worlds and sentient species outside their own. As a result, the Sudrans became isolationist, using the Breach as a barrier to keep outsiders and intruders away and leaving everyone else trapped in Sudra. Eventually, the Sudrans lost almost any understanding of what the Breach is, instead perceiving it as a meteorological phenomena.
[[File:Axiom-Verge-Breach.png|thumb|220x220px]]

== Scientific Theories ==
[[Athetos]] theorized that the Breach is a mesh that links adjacent universes, and through his revolutionary development in a new branch of physics, he is able to traverse the Breach, leaving Earth and reaching Sudra on the other side.[[Category:Lore]]

Breach

2015-07-30T14:46:24Z

68.50.138.244: /* Description */

''For the in-game Note called "The Breach", see [[The Breach (Note)]].''

== Description ==
The Breach refers to a vast, nebulous storm that exists between and links universes together. Though not fully understood, the Breach has proven to be passable, and many individuals have successfully navigated it to enter another universe. However, traveling through the Breach is highly dangerous and, without some form of protection or means of conveyance, such as a Breach Elevator, can be fatal. Though travelers have claimed to be able to see the Breach with the naked eye, the Breach itself may be invisible, and the effect seen in the sky is a jumbled molecular layer — a collection of random, glitch-like particles that fill the gaps where the Breach ends and another universe begins.

Long ago, the people of planet Sudra were amenable to aiding travelers in their passage through the Breach using their advanced technology and by manipulating a device called the Breach Attractor. However, the Sudrans' descendants over time became more and more religious, less knowledgeable of their own technology, and less amicable towards worlds and sentient species outside their own. As a result, the Sudrans became isolationist, using the Breach as a barrier to keep outsiders and intruders away and leaving everyone else trapped in Sudra. Eventually, the Sudrans lost almost any understanding of what the Breach is, perceiving it as a meteorological phenomena.
[[File:Axiom-Verge-Breach.png|thumb|220x220px]]

== Scientific Theories ==
[[Athetos]] theorized that the Breach is a mesh that links adjacent universes, and through his revolutionary development in a new branch of physics, he is able to traverse the Breach, leaving Earth and reaching Sudra on the other side.[[Category:Lore]]

Trace

2015-07-30T14:15:58Z

68.50.138.244: /* Story */

''For the in-game Note called "Trace", see [[Trace (Note)]].''[[File:Trace-Portrait.png|thumb|220x220px|Trace, as seen during his in-game conversations with other characters.]]

== Description ==
Trace is the main character of Axiom Verge. The player plays as Trace throughout the game and the [[story]] focuses mainly around Trace's attempts to understand [[Sudra]] and get himself back home to Earth.

Trace is a scientist from Earth, not a warrior. As such, it is generally in his character to defend himself, but not to seek out violence — only knowledge. This theme is reiterated throughout the game as Trace not only struggles to understand the world he has been thrown into, but also struggles to deal with having to kill other living beings.

== Story ==
Prior to the events of the game, Trace, the player character, is a theoretical physicist whose revolutionary theories are regarded by other scientists as false and insignificant, thereby earning him the nickname "[[Athetos]]," a word meaning "without place," "to do away with," or "to reject." Trace is blacklisted by many of his colleagues. Nonetheless, he continues striving to validate his work.

The story starts in the year 2005 in a Mexico research facility where Trace and colleague Hammond are working on an experiment based on Trace's revolutionary ideas in the field of physics. The beamlet in the experiment goes awry with the pressure valve and a huge explosion occurs, severely injuring Trace and rendering him unconscious. This is the last memory of Earth Trace recalls before waking up in an alien world. Unbeknownst to Trace, he has been mysteriously transported to an egg-shaped device called a [[Rebirth Chamber]] through the intervention of sentient, towering machines called [[Rusalki]], with his body seemingly intact and uninjured. When he comes to, Trace is implored telepathically by a female voice, who later introduces herself as the Rusalka [[Elsenova]], to retrieve a gun called the Axiom Disruptor in the adjacent room. She also warns Trace to stay away from an ominous being called Athetos for the moment. In actuality, the Rusalki have cloned a much younger, kinder version of Athetos in hopes that this younger version could eventually locate and kill Athetos. Trace is the identity of this clone. The lab explosion never actually happened to this clone of Trace; the events of the explosion are merely a memory inherited from the memories of Athetos, the original Trace, although the cloned Trace is not aware of this.

As the game progresses, Trace is informed by Elsenova that he has ended up on an alien world called [[Sudra]], and that a [[Pathogen|plague]] created by Athetos has wiped out or mutated most of the Sudrans on the planet. Trace is then told that defeating Athetos is the key to finding his way back to Earth, but he is first urged to locate and activate the Power Filter and the Remote Drones in order to repair the bodies of Elsenova and her fellow Rusalki [[Veruska]] and [[Ophelia]]. Throughout his explorations of Sudra, Trace encounters and kills several cybernetic monstrosities called Variants, which he later discovers are mutated clones of Athetos, and by extension, himself.

Eventually, Trace finds Athetos in a life support vat located in the atmosphere above Sudra, along with the [[Breach]] Attractor preventing Elsenova from approaching the atmosphere without killing her. During the ensuing battle, Trace momentarily disrupts the Breach Attractor, allowing Elsenova to rise to the upper atmosphere and destroy it entirely. After doing so, the Rusalki are once again free to move about above the planet, and Elsenova chooses to kill Athetos with a laser beam despite Trace's pleas not to. Afterward, Elsenova renders Trace unconscious and seemingly sends him back to Earth, during the aftermath of the lab explosion, unharmed and in perfect condition. However, the credits scene shows Trace lying unconscious on top of what appears to be the body of a Rusalka, suggesting that Elsenova had not actually sent Trace back to Earth; unbeknownst to Trace, Elsenova had the Rusalka Veruska create an algorithm for a dream Earth where Trace wakes up without injury and in perfect condition. Believing that he has returned to Earth, Trace devotes his time trying to learn more about Sudra, in hopes that he may find a way to return to it someday. Then one day, an unannounced guest arrives at Trace's lab, revealed to be Athetos, who shoots Trace with a gun, but not before telling him, "There's no use running from your own self. Time to wake up, Trace."

[[Category:Characters]]

Trace

2015-07-30T14:15:13Z

68.50.138.244: /* Story */

''For the in-game Note called "Trace", see [[Trace (Note)]].''[[File:Trace-Portrait.png|thumb|220x220px|Trace, as seen during his in-game conversations with other characters.]]

== Description ==
Trace is the main character of Axiom Verge. The player plays as Trace throughout the game and the [[story]] focuses mainly around Trace's attempts to understand [[Sudra]] and get himself back home to Earth.

Trace is a scientist from Earth, not a warrior. As such, it is generally in his character to defend himself, but not to seek out violence — only knowledge. This theme is reiterated throughout the game as Trace not only struggles to understand the world he has been thrown into, but also struggles to deal with having to kill other living beings.

== Story ==
Prior to the events of the game, Trace, the player character, is a theoretical physicist whose revolutionary theories are regarded by other scientists as false and insignificant, thereby earning him the nickname "[[Athetos]]," a word meaning "without place," "to do away with," or "to reject." Trace is blacklisted by many of his colleagues. Nonetheless, he continues striving to validate his work.

The story starts in the year 2005 in a Mexico research facility where Trace and colleague Hammond are working on an experiment based on Trace's revolutionary ideas in the field of physics. The beamlet in the experiment goes awry with the pressure valve and a huge explosion occurs, severely injuring Trace and rendering him unconscious. This is the last memory of Earth Trace recalls before waking up in an alien world. Unbeknownst to Trace, he has been mysteriously transported to an egg-shaped device called a [[Rebirth Chamber]] through the intervention of sentient, towering machines called [[Rusalki]], with his body seemingly intact and uninjured. When he comes to, Trace is implored telepathically by a female voice, who later introduces herself as the Rusalka [[Elsenova]], to retrieve a gun called the Axiom Disruptor in the adjacent room. She also warns Trace to stay away from an ominous being called Athetos for the moment. In actuality, the Rusalki have cloned a much younger, kinder version of Athetos in hopes that this younger version could eventually locate and kill Athetos. Trace is the identity of this clone. The lab explosion never actually happened to this clone of Trace; the events of the explosion are merely a memory inherited from the memories of Athetos, the original Trace, although the cloned Trace is not aware of this.

As the game progresses, Trace is informed by Elsenova that he has ended up on an alien world called [[Sudra]], and that a [[Pathogen|plague]] created by Athetos has wiped out or mutated most of the Sudrans on the planet. Trace is then told that defeating Athetos is the key to finding his way back to Earth, but he is first urged to locate and activate the Power Filter and the Remote Drones in order to repair the bodies of Elsenova and her fellow Rusalki [[Veruska]] and [[Ophelia]]. Throughout his explorations of Sudra, Trace encounters and kills several cybernetic monstrosities called Variants, which he later discovers are mutated clones of Athetos, and by extension, himself.

Eventually, Trace finds Athetos in a life support vat located in the atmosphere above Sudra, along with the Breach Attractor preventing Elsenova from approaching the atmosphere without killing her. During the ensuing battle, Trace momentarily disrupts the Breach Attractor, allowing Elsenova to rise to the upper atmosphere and destroy it entirely. After doing so, the Rusalki are once again free to move about above the planet, and Elsenova chooses to kill Athetos with a laser beam despite Trace's pleas not to. Afterward, Elsenova renders Trace unconscious and seemingly sends him back to Earth, during the aftermath of the lab explosion, unharmed and in perfect condition. However, the credits scene shows Trace lying unconscious on top of what appears to be the body of a Rusalka, suggesting that Elsenova had not actually sent Trace back to Earth; unbeknownst to Trace, Elsenova had the Rusalka Veruska create an algorithm for a dream Earth where Trace wakes up without injury and in perfect condition. Believing that he has returned to Earth, Trace devotes his time trying to learn more about Sudra, in hopes that he may find a way to return to it someday. Then one day, an unannounced guest arrives at Trace's lab, revealed to be Athetos, who shoots Trace with a gun, but not before telling him, "There's no use running from your own self. Time to wake up, Trace."

[[Category:Characters]]

Trace

2015-07-30T14:11:58Z

68.50.138.244: /* Story */

''For the in-game Note called "Trace", see [[Trace (Note)]].''[[File:Trace-Portrait.png|thumb|220x220px|Trace, as seen during his in-game conversations with other characters.]]

== Description ==
Trace is the main character of Axiom Verge. The player plays as Trace throughout the game and the [[story]] focuses mainly around Trace's attempts to understand [[Sudra]] and get himself back home to Earth.

Trace is a scientist from Earth, not a warrior. As such, it is generally in his character to defend himself, but not to seek out violence — only knowledge. This theme is reiterated throughout the game as Trace not only struggles to understand the world he has been thrown into, but also struggles to deal with having to kill other living beings.

== Story ==
Prior to the events of the game, Trace, the player character, is a theoretical physicist whose revolutionary theories are regarded by other scientists as false and insignificant, thereby earning him the nickname "[[Athetos]]," a word meaning "without place," "to do away with," or "to reject." Trace is blacklisted by many of his colleagues. Nonetheless, he continues striving to validate his work.

The story starts in the year 2005 in a Mexico research facility where Trace and colleague Hammond are working on an experiment based on Trace's revolutionary ideas in the field of physics. The beamlet in the experiment goes awry with the pressure valve and a huge explosion occurs, severely injuring Trace and rendering him unconscious. This is the last memory of Earth Trace recalls before waking up in an alien world. Unbeknownst to Trace, he has been mysteriously transported to an egg-shaped device called a [[Rebirth Chamber]] through the intervention of sentient, towering machines called [[Rusalki]], with his body seemingly intact and uninjured. When he comes to, Trace is implored telepathically by a female voice, who later introduces herself as the Rusalka [[Elsenova]], to retrieve a gun called the Axiom Disruptor in the adjacent room. She also warns Trace to stay away from an ominous being called Athetos for the moment. In actuality, the Rusalki have cloned a much younger, kinder version of Athetos in hopes that this younger version could eventually locate and kill Athetos. Trace is the identity of this clone. The lab explosion never actually happened to this clone of Trace; the events of the explosion are merely a memory inherited from the memories of Athetos, the original Trace, although the cloned Trace is not aware of this.

As the game progresses, Trace is informed by Elsenova that he has ended up on an alien world called [[Sudra]], and that a [[Pathogen|plague]] created by Athetos has wiped out or mutated most of the Sudrans on the planet. Trace is then told that defeating Athetos is the key to finding his way back to Earth, but he is first urged to locate and activate the Power Filter and the Remote Drones in order to repair the bodies of Elsenova and her fellow Rusalki [[Veruska]] and [[Ophelia]]. Throughout his explorations of Sudra, Trace encounters and kills several cybernetic monstrosities called Variants, which he later discovers are mutated clones of Athetos, and by extension, clones of himself.

Eventually, Trace finds Athetos in a life support vat located in the atmosphere above Sudra, along with the Breach Attractor preventing Elsenova from approaching the atmosphere without killing her. During the ensuing battle, Trace momentarily disrupts the Breach Attractor, allowing Elsenova to rise to the upper atmosphere and destroy it entirely. After doing so, the Rusalki are once again free to move about above the planet, and Elsenova chooses to kill Athetos with a laser beam despite Trace's pleas not to. Afterward, Elsenova renders Trace unconscious and seemingly sends him back to Earth, during the aftermath of the lab explosion, unharmed and in perfect condition. However, the credits scene shows Trace lying unconscious on top of what appears to be the body of a Rusalka, suggesting that Elsenova had not actually sent Trace back to Earth; unbeknownst to Trace, Elsenova had the Rusalka Veruska create an algorithm for a dream Earth where Trace wakes up without injury and in perfect condition. Believing that he has returned to Earth, Trace devotes his time trying to learn more about Sudra, in hopes that he may find a way to return to it someday. Then one day, an unannounced guest arrives at Trace's lab, revealed to be Athetos, who shoots Trace with a gun, but not before telling him, "There's no use running from your own self. Time to wake up, Trace."

[[Category:Characters]]

Athetos

2015-07-30T08:30:00Z

68.50.138.244:

[[File:Athetos.png|Left|thumb|The face of Athetos]]

'''Athetos''' is a human who was able to reach [[Sudra |Sudra]] by passing through the[[the Breach| Breach]] from Earth. He acts as the game's primary antagonist, having eventually used a pathogen to wipe out almost all of the Sudrans. Athetos was also able to team up with the rogue [[Katrahaska]] to disable and defeat the retaliating [[Rusalki]], so that he could gain knowledge of scientific breakthroughs on worlds beyond the Breach and Sudra.

Upon his arrival on Sudra, Athetos used a [[Rebirth Chamber]], one of the egg-shaped save points the player uses in the game. He would then discover that this left genetic imprints of himself in the chamber. Using these imprints, he was able to create clones of himself that he could genetically modify into "Variants" to act as his soldiers. Some of these Variants are [[bosses]] that [[Trace]] must battle throughout the game. Later, the Rusalki would also use the Rebirth chamber to create yet another copy of Athetos — Trace, who is the player character throughout the game.

Athetos is ultimately located and confronted by Trace in Mar-Uru, and after a lengthy battle is subsequently killed by [[Elsenova]], despite Trace's pleas not to kill him. Athetos is seen afterwards in one of the game's endings, back on Earth with Trace, where he shoots Trace with a gun while stating, "It's time to wake up, Trace."

[[File:Athetos old self.png|200px|right|Athetos in the real world, just before he assassinates Trace]]
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