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Katrahaska

2015-08-02T08:22:26Z

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[[File:Axiom Verge (4).jpg|thumb|Katrahaska's deactivated head.]]

'''Katrahaska''' is one of six [[Rusalki]] [[Trace]] encounters in his journey. She is revealed to be the one Rusalki who betrayed the others and sided with [[Athetos]], helping him spread his [[pathogen]] before she was defeated and shut down by [[Elsenova]]. It can be assumed that Katrahaska harbored hatred for the Sudrans after they had activated the [[Breach Attractor]], causing the [[Breach]] to envelop planet Sudra, and as a result killing many Rusalki as well as trapping the remaining survivors on the planet.[[Category:Rusalki]]

Katrahaska

2015-08-02T08:20:48Z

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[[File:Axiom Verge (4).jpg|thumb|Katrahaska's deactivated head.]]

'''Katrahaska''' is one of five [[Rusalki]] that [[Trace]] encounters in his journey. She is revealed to be the one Rusalki who betrayed the others and sided with [[Athetos]], helping him spread his [[pathogen]] before she was defeated and shut down by [[Elsenova]]. It can be assumed that Katrahaska harbored hatred for the Sudrans after they had activated the [[Breach Attractor]], causing the [[Breach]] to envelop planet Sudra, and as a result killing many Rusalki as well as trapping the remaining survivors on the planet.[[Category:Rusalki]]

Katrahaska

2015-08-02T08:20:23Z

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[[File:Axiom Verge (4).jpg|thumb|Katrahaska's deactivated head.]]

'''Katrahaska''' is one of five [[Rusalki]] that [[Trace]] encounters in his journey. She is revealed to be the one Rusalki who betrayed the others, and sided with [[Athetos]], helping him spread his [[pathogen]] before she was defeated and shut down by [[Elsenova]]. It can be assumed that Katrahaska harbored hatred for the Sudrans after they had activated the [[Breach Attractor]], causing the [[Breach]] to envelop planet Sudra, and as a result killing many Rusalki as well as trapping the remaining survivors on the planet.[[Category:Rusalki]]

Katrahaska

2015-08-02T08:17:19Z

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Pathogen

2015-08-02T08:13:35Z

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== Description ==
The '''Pathogen''', sometimes called the Plague, is a biological disease released as an agent of genocide against the [[Sudra|Sudran]] people. [[Athetos]] released the Pathogen to mutate and wipe out the Sudrans after he discovered that they were using the [[The Breach|Breach]] to prevent travel to other worlds and universes, thereby preventing any technological advancements being spread to other universes, and specifically to Earth.
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Pathogen

2015-08-01T07:07:32Z

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== Description ==
The Pathogen, sometimes called the Plague, is a biological disease released as an agent of genocide against the [[Sudra|Sudran]] people. [[Athetos]] released the Pathogen to mutate and wipe out the Sudrans after he discovered that they were using the [[The Breach|Breach]] to prevent travel to other worlds and universes, thereby preventing any technological advancements being spread to other universes, and specifically to Earth.
[[Category:Lore]]

Xedur

2015-08-01T07:03:10Z

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== Description ==
'''Xedur''' is a modified clone of [[Athetos]] and the game's first boss. It has a bulky brown upper body, which is surrounded by a white metal armor. Xedur's grotesque tail protrudes from under its body and can drop small red bombs that explode after a set delay.

== Battle ==
[[File:Xedur - Axiom Verge First Boss|thumb|232x232px]]
Xedur attacks Trace in a predictable pattern, firing red orbs of energy from its outer shell, then dropping bombs, and then repeating this cycle. Attacking the creature from the back is futile as the [[Axiom Disruptor]] will not penetrate its armor. Only its exposed flesh is vulnerable.

After defeating Xedur, Trace will be rewarded with the [[Laser Drill]].

== Strategies ==
There are two blocks in the middle of the room that can be used as cover throughout the fight. The player will need to dodge Xedur's volleys of red energy orbs while firing upward or diagonally whenever possible. When Xedur moves to one side of the room, its very effective to go to the opposite side and fire diagonally at him.

Once Xedur begins dropping bombs, it's best to focus on the most recent bomb explosion and reposition to that location, as its unlikely that Xedur will drop another bomb in the same spot. It's important to note that the bombs themselves will not harm Trace and, since they are on a timer, you can briefly walk over them when they land without taking damage.
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Daraga

2015-08-01T06:58:09Z

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== Description ==
[[File:Daraga Floating In Ukkin-Na.jpg|thumb|226x226px|Daraga, seen with her mouth open, floating in Ukkin-Na.]]
'''Daraga''' is a [[Rusalki|Rusalka]] who appears in [[Ukkin-Na]] for a brief window during the game events of Axiom Verge. She can be seen floating in the sky in the room where the Vision fight takes place, but only after said fight and before [[Elsenova]] becomes fully repaired and occupies the room.

Daraga is noted on her Steam Card as a "minor" Rusalka, presumably due to her small size. <ref>http://steamcommunity.com/market/listings/753/332200-Daraga</ref>

== References ==
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[[Category:Rusalki]]

Oracca

2015-08-01T06:54:08Z

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== Description ==
[[File:Oracca Carries Trace.jpg|thumb|250x250px|Oracca transporting Trace through the halls of Indi.]]
Oracca is a [[Rusalki|Rusalka]] who was driven insane by years of subterranean imprisonment on the planet Sudra. <ref>Oracca can be found on the Steam Community Market as an [http://steamcommunity.com/market/listings/753/332200-Oracca Official Trading Card].</ref> She can be found wandering the halls of [[Indi]]. She is referenced in two Notes: [[Oracca (Note)|Oracca]] and [[My Lovely (Note)|My Lovely]].

Oracca had been held captive by the Sudran people in a small room. Due to undetermined circumstances which even the Rusalki do not seem to understand, she became ill and listless. [[Veruska]] initially tried to aid her with dream world algorithms, but Oracca showed no signs of getting better. Veruska then pleaded with Eshinimma, the High Priestess of [[Sudra]], to move Oracca to a larger chamber so that she could have "room to stretch," or at the very least, to allow Veruska to put Oracca out of her misery. <ref>See [[Oracca (Note)]].</ref>

Although Eshinimma did have Oracca moved, it seems that her condition did not improve. Whether or not Oracca is dreaming by the time Trace meets her is not elaborated on.

Even though Oracca remains mute, never once speaking to Trace, it can be assumed that she is at least aware of him and her surroundings, since she provides Trace with a convenient mode of travel through Indi.

== Location ==
Initially, Oracca can be found in the center of [[Indi]]. She is mute, and thus has no cutscene interactions with [[Trace]]. However, if the player jumps on top of her head, she will turn and scuttle along in the direction Trace was facing when he landed. This provides expedited transport across Indi. Jumping again can be used to stop and change her direction.

== References ==
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[[Category:Rusalki]]

Athetos

2015-07-31T14:27:32Z

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== Description ==
[[File:Athetos.png|thumb|The face of Athetos.|316x316px]]'''Athetos''' is a human and the very first version of the clone [[Trace]] who was able to reach [[Sudra |Sudra]] by discovering a way to pass 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. Being the prime Trace, Athetos' personality used to be much more similar to the kind, pacifist temperament of Trace the player character; however, hundreds of years spent in Sudra caused Athetos' morality to shift to the point where he is willing to annihilate entire sentient species in order to secure technological benefits for humanity.

== History ==
The prime Trace was a theoretical physicist whose revolutionary theories were 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 was blacklisted by many of his colleagues. Nonetheless, he continued striving to validate his work.

In the year 2005 in a Mexico research facility, Trace and colleague Hammond worked 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 blind, immobile, and wheelchair-bound. During this time, Trace has an epiphany of a greater understanding of physics. Using this newfound knowledge, Trace and colleague Hammond are able to discover the Breach, a barrier between universes. Crossing the breach, they find the world of Sudra. Sudra is a gateway world of sorts — its purpose is to regulate travel between other worlds and universes. However, by the time Trace arrives, Sudra's civilization had collapsed, and its inhabitants no longer remember that purpose.

The prime Trace and his colleague Hammond discovered Sudra's incredible technology and used a [[Rebirth Chamber]] to completely heal them of injuries sustained from the lab explosion back on Earth. Trace will eventually discover that it is possible to utilize the Rebirth Chambers in Sudra to create clones of himself. By using this chamber, Trace also inadvertently leaves behind a genetic imprint of himself. Hundreds of years later, the [[Rusalki]], which are sentient, towering war machines, will be able to utilize the prime Trace's genetic imprint to create [[Trace|a clone of him]], setting up the events of [[Axiom Verge]].

For some time, the prime Trace explored Sudra and made contact with its inhabitants. According to the [[Faded Note (Note)|Faded Note]], Trace eventually decided that the Sudran technology is too dangerous to bring back to Earth, believing that it is connected to the catastrophic collapse of Sudra's civilization. Trace, Hammond, and any of Trace's clones then attempted to go "upstream - to the Filter, or whatever lies beyond - for answers." In doing so, Trace discovers that there is a world beyond Sudra — one with an incredibly advanced civilization that the Sudrans have kept hidden due to religious taboo. This world is full of technological wonders that could end all war, strife, and sickness on Earth. It is unclear what happens to Hammond during this time, but we can consider this the starting point in which Trace's morality becomes warped, and he adopts the moniker "Athetos." Athetos decides that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, and that the only way to bring this technology back to Earth is to annihilate the Sudrans, who would refuse passage between Sudra and the worlds beyond. As a result, Athetos begins creating more allies — genetically modified, "variant" clones of himself, using the genetic imprints he had left in the Rebirth Chamber. He also manages to convince the Rusalka [[Katrahaska]] to aid his cause. After building an army, Athetos goes on the offensive with biological warfare, creating a pathogen that wipes out and mutates almost all of the Sudrans on the planet.

With Sudra largely barren of any resistance, the only beings who can oppose Athetos are the three remaining Rusalki: [[Elsenova]], [[Ophelia]], and [[Veruska]] — who stayed true to their purpose of guarding Sudra. They battled against Athetos, his Variants, and Katrahaska. Using [[Remote Drone|Remote Drones]], the Rusalki managed to destroy Katrahaska and Athetos's mobile pathogen protection, forcing Athetos to retreat to a hideaway in [[Mar-Uru]], far above the surface of Sudra and extremely close to the Breach where the Rusalki cannot approach without being killed. Athetos would spent centuries holed up in the highest peak of Mar-Uru, waiting for a chance to deactivate the [[Breach Attractor]] so he may escape Sudra. However, before fleeing to Mar-Uru, Athetos had managed to deactivate the production of Remote Drones, leaving the Rusalki nearly helpless, dormant, and degrading over time. All Athetos has to do is wait for the Rusalki to decay into nothingness, since he would be killed immediately if he deactivated the Breach Attractor while the Rusalki were still functional.

[[File:Athetos old self.png|200px|right|Athetos in Trace's dream Earth algorithm, moments before he assassinates him.]]Many centuries later, Athetos is ultimately located and confronted by Trace the player character atop Mar-Uru. The clone Trace and Elsenova manage to coordinate the destruction of the Breach Attractor, and after a lengthy battle, Athetos is subsequently killed by Elsenova's laser beam, despite Trace's pleas not to kill him.

Athetos is seen afterwards on Earth in the game's true ending, where he shoots Trace with a gun while stating, "There's no use running from your own self. Time to wake up, Trace."[[Category:Characters]]

Athetos

2015-07-31T14:24:23Z

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== Description ==
[[File:Athetos.png|thumb|The face of Athetos.|316x316px]]'''Athetos''' is a human and the very first version of the clone [[Trace]] who was able to reach [[Sudra |Sudra]] by discovering a way to pass 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. Being the prime Trace, Athetos' personality used to be much more similar to the kind, pacifist temperament of Trace the player character; however, hundreds of years spent in Sudra caused Athetos' morality to shift to the point where he is willing to annihilate entire sentient species in order to secure technological benefits for humanity.

== History ==
The prime Trace was a theoretical physicist whose revolutionary theories were 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 was blacklisted by many of his colleagues. Nonetheless, he continued striving to validate his work.

In the year 2005 in a Mexico research facility, Trace and colleague Hammond worked 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 blind, immobile, and wheelchair-bound. During this time, Trace has an epiphany of a greater understanding of physics. Using this newfound knowledge, Trace and colleague Hammond are able to discover the Breach, a barrier between universes. Crossing the breach, they find the world of Sudra. Sudra is a gateway world of sorts — its purpose is to regulate travel between other worlds and universes. However, by the time Trace arrives, Sudra's civilization had collapsed, and its inhabitants no longer remember that purpose.

The prime Trace and his colleague Hammond discovered Sudra's incredible technology and used a [[Rebirth Chamber]] to completely heal them of injuries sustained from the lab explosion back on Earth. Trace will eventually discover that it is possible to utilize the Rebirth Chambers in Sudra to create clones of himself. By using this chamber, Trace also inadvertently leaves behind a genetic imprint of himself. Hundreds of years later, the [[Rusalki]], which are sentient, towering war machines, will be able to utilize the prime Trace's genetic imprint to create [[Trace|a clone of him]], setting up the events of [[Axiom Verge]].

For some time, the prime Trace explored Sudra and made contact with its inhabitants. According to the [[Faded Note (Note)|Faded Note]], Trace eventually decided that the Sudran technology is too dangerous to bring back to Earth, believing that it is connected to the catastrophic collapse of Sudra's civilization. Trace, Hammond, and any of Trace's clones then attempted to go "upstream - to the Filter, or whatever lies beyond - for answers." In doing so, Trace discovers that there is a world beyond Sudra — one with an incredibly advanced civilization that the Sudrans have kept hidden due to religious taboo. This world is full of technological wonders that could end all war, strife, and sickness on Earth. It is unclear what happens to Hammond during this time, but we can consider this the starting point in which Trace's morality becomes warped, and he adopts the moniker "Athetos." Athetos decides that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, and that the only way to bring this technology back to Earth is to annihilate the Sudrans, who would refuse passage between Sudra and the worlds beyond. As a result, Athetos begins creating more allies — genetically modified, "variant" clones of himself, using the genetic imprints he had left in the Rebirth Chamber. He also manages to convince the Rusalka [[Katrahaska]] to aid his cause. After building an army, Athetos goes on the offensive with biological warfare, creating a pathogen that wipes out and mutates almost all of the Sudrans on the planet.

With Sudra largely barren of any resistance, the only beings who can oppose Athetos are the three remaining Rusalki: [[Elsenova]], [[Ophelia]], and [[Veruska]] — who stayed true to their purpose of guarding Sudra. They battled against Athetos, his Variants, and Katrahaska. Using [[Remote Drone|Remote Drones]], the Rusalki managed to destroy Katrahaska and Athetos's mobile pathogen protection, forcing Athetos to retreat to a hideaway in [[Mar-Uru]], far above the surface of Sudra and extremely close to the Breach where the Rusalki cannot approach without being killed. Athetos would spent centuries holed up in the highest peak of Mar-Uru, waiting for a chance to deactivate the [[Breach Attractor]] so he may escape Sudra. However, before fleeing to Mar-Uru, Athetos had managed to deactivate the production of Remote Drones, leaving the Rusalki nearly helpless, dormant, and degrading over time. All Athetos has to do is wait for the Rusalki to decay into nothingness, since he would be killed immediately if he deactivated the Breach Attractor while the Rusalki were still functional.

Many centuries later, Athetos is ultimately located and confronted by Trace the player character atop Mar-Uru. The clone Trace and Elsenova manage to coordinate the destruction of the Breach Attractor, and after a lengthy battle, Athetos is subsequently killed by Elsenova's laser beam, despite Trace's pleas not to kill him.

[[File:Athetos old self.png|200px|right|Athetos in Trace's dream Earth algorithm, moments before he assassinates him.]]Athetos is seen afterwards on Earth in the game's true ending, where he shoots Trace with a gun while stating, "There's no use running from your own self. Time to wake up, Trace."[[Category:Characters]]

Trace

2015-07-31T14:22:01Z

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

== History ==
Prior to the events of the game, Trace 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."

Since Athetos, the very first Trace, managed to reach Sudra without outside aid sometime during the 21st century, and it had been hundreds, if not thousands of years since Athetos first set foot on the planet, then this further supports the fact that Trace the player character had been put in a dream algorithm of Earth by Veruska, because he would not have had a recognizable real-world Earth to return to since many centuries had passed since his memory of the lab explosion.
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Ophelia

2015-07-31T14:20:20Z

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== Description ==
[[File:Ophelia-Composite.png|thumb|288x288px|Composite image of Ophelia.]]Ophelia is the [[Rusalki|Rusalka]] who originally came up with the plan to create a clone of [[Trace]] to combat [[Athetos]]. She has a benevolent demeanor, apologizing to Trace when [[Elsenova]] in her anger killed Trace for not agreeing to kill Athetos. When Trace nearly succumbs to Athetos' [[pathogen]], Ophelia is somehow able to cure Trace.

Although Ophelia, being a Rusalka, is considered a war machine, she seems to be more akin to a combat medic than a soldier. She is most likely the outsider being pertained to in [[The Outsider (Note)]]''.'' This is further supported by the fact that Ophelia is the only Rusalka with a non-Slavic name (the name Ophelia originates from Shakespeare's Hamlet), as well as the only Rusalka depicted facing fully frontal as opposed to profile.

== Traits ==
* Unlike Elsenova, Ophelia can speak in plain, unbroken English. This seems to indicate that the Rusalki were given different personality types based on some outside factor (perhaps each akin to one of their creators).
* At the start of the game, Ophelia is inert and inactive due to lack of repairs. However, Trace is able to awaken her at Elsenova's suggestion by activating the [[Remote Drone|Remote Drones]].

== Location ==
Ophelia's head can be seen in mid to upper left portions of [[Ukkin-Na]]. However, her body is located in the lower right portion of [[Edin]]. It is not clear whether her head and body are disconnected, or Ophelia is actually this large.
[[Category:Rusalki]]

Oracca

2015-07-31T14:09:52Z

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== Description ==
Oracca is a [[Rusalki|Rusalka]] who was driven insane by years of subterranean imprisonment on the planet Sudra <ref>Oracca can be found on the Steam Community Market as an [http://steamcommunity.com/market/listings/753/332200-Oracca Official Trading Card].</ref>. She can be found wandering the halls of [[Indi]]. She is referenced in a [[Oracca (Note)|Note]].

Oracca had been held captive by the Sudran people in a small room. Due to undetermined circumstances which even the Rusalki do not seem to understand, she became ill, so much so that [[Veruska]] pleaded with High Priestess Eshinimma of [[Sudra]] to move Oracca to a larger chamber so that she could have "room to stretch", or at the very least, so that Veruska could put Oracca out of her misery.

Although Eshinimma did have Oracca moved, it seems that her condition did not improve. Veruska planned on mercy killing her since she showed no signs of getting better from Veruska's dream world algorithms. Whether or not Oracca is dead or dreaming by the time Trace meets her is not elaborated on.

== Location ==
Initially, Oracca can be found in the center of [[Indi]]. She is mute, and thus has no cutscene interactions with [[Trace]]. However, if the player jumps on top of her head, she will turn and scuttle along in the direction Trace was facing when he landed. This provides expedited transport across Indi. Jumping again can be used to stop and change her direction.

== References ==
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[[Category:Rusalki]]

Veruska

2015-07-31T12:31:48Z

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== Description ==
[[File:Veruska-Rusalka.jpg|thumb|267x267px|Trace meets Veruska for the first time.]]
'''Veruska''' is a [[Rusalki|Rusalka]] called "The Dreamer". Upon first finding her, she is immobile and barely functional. [[Elsenova]] tells [[Trace]] that she is dangerous, but is an ally, and that she needs [[Remote Drone|Remote Drones]] to repair her body.

Veruska speaks in pseudo riddles and metaphors. She often talks of "dreaming" for others, implying that she is able to create vivid dream worlds for others to experience, presumably using the same technology that allows Elsenova to keep track of Trace wherever he goes.

Elsenova's remark about Veruska being dangerous may be in reference to the idea that Veruska is capable of killing the other Rusalki. In a [[Oracca (Note)|Note]], Veruska asks the High Priestess Eshinimma of [[Sudra]] to move the mentally ill Rusalka [[Oracca]] to a larger room or, at the very least, bring Oracca to her so that she may mercy kill her properly, as Veruska wanted to free Oracca from the insanity that the Sudrans inflicted upon her.

After turning on the Remote Drones, Trace can return to Veruska to receive the [[Passcode Tool]].

== Location ==
Veruska can be found in the lower-right portion of [[Zi]].
[[Category:Rusalki]]

Veruska

2015-07-31T12:31:30Z

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== Description ==
[[File:Veruska-Rusalka.jpg|thumb|267x267px|Trace meets Veruska for the first time.]]
'''Veruska''' is a [[Rusalki|Rusalka]] called "The Dreamer". Upon first finding her, she is immobile and barely functional. [[Elsenova]] tells [[Trace]] that she is dangerous, but is an ally, and that she needs [[Remote Drone|Remote Drones]] to repair her body.

Veruska speaks in pseudo riddles and metaphors. She often talks of "dreaming" for others, implying that she is able to create vivid dream worlds for others to experience, presumably using the same technology that allows Elsenova to keep track of Trace wherever he goes.

Elsenova's remark about Veruska being dangerous may be in reference to the idea that Veruska is capable of killing the other Rusalki. In a [[Oracca (Note)|Note]], Veruska asks the High Priestess Eshinimma of [[Sudra]] to move the mentally ill Rusalka [[Oracca]] to a larger room or, at the very least, bring Oracca to her so that she might mercy kill her properly, as Veruska wanted to free Oracca from the insanity that the Sudrans inflicted upon her.

After turning on the Remote Drones, Trace can return to Veruska to receive the [[Passcode Tool]].

== Location ==
Veruska can be found in the lower-right portion of [[Zi]].
[[Category:Rusalki]]

Veruska

2015-07-31T12:31:17Z

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== Description ==
[[File:Veruska-Rusalka.jpg|thumb|267x267px|Trace meets Veruska for the first time.]]
'''Veruska''' is a [[Rusalki|Rusalka]] called "The Dreamer". Upon first finding her, she is immobile and barely functional. [[Elsenova]] tells [[Trace]] that she is dangerous, but is an ally, and that she needs [[Remote Drone|Remote Drones]] to repair her body.

Veruska speaks in pseudo riddles and metaphors. She often talks of "dreaming" for others, implying that she is able to create vivid dream worlds for others to experience, presumably using the same technology that allows Elsenova to keep track of Trace wherever he goes.

Elsenova's remark about Veruska being dangerous may be in reference to the idea that Veruska is capable of killing the other Rusalki. In a [[Oracca (Note)|Note]], Veruska asks the High Priestess Eshinimma of [[Sudra]] to move the insane Rusalka [[Oracca]] to a larger room or, at the very least, bring Oracca to her so that she might mercy kill her properly, as Veruska wanted to free Oracca from the insanity that the Sudrans inflicted upon her.

After turning on the Remote Drones, Trace can return to Veruska to receive the [[Passcode Tool]].

== Location ==
Veruska can be found in the lower-right portion of [[Zi]].
[[Category:Rusalki]]

Veruska

2015-07-31T12:30:34Z

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== Description ==
[[File:Veruska-Rusalka.jpg|thumb|267x267px|Trace meets Veruska for the first time.]]
'''Veruska''' is a [[Rusalki|Rusalka]] called "The Dreamer". Upon first finding her, she is immobile and barely functional. [[Elsenova]] tells [[Trace]] that she is dangerous, but is an ally, and that she needs [[Remote Drone|Remote Drones]] to repair her body.

Veruska speaks in pseudo riddles and metaphors. She often talks of "dreaming" for others, implying that she is able to create vivid dream worlds for others to experience, presumably using the same technology that allows Elsenova to keep track of Trace wherever he goes.

Elsenova's remark about Veruska being dangerous may be in reference to the idea that Veruska is capable of killing the other Rusalki. In a [[Oracca (Note)|Note]], Veruska asks the High Priestess Eshinimma of [[Sudra]] to move [[Oracca]] to a larger room or, at the very least, bring Oracca to her so that she might mercy kill her properly, as Veruska wanted to free Oracca from the insanity that the Sudrans inflicted upon her.

After turning on the Remote Drones, Trace can return to Veruska to receive the [[Passcode Tool]].

== Location ==
Veruska can be found in the lower-right portion of [[Zi]].
[[Category:Rusalki]]

The Outsider (Note)

2015-07-31T12:20:21Z

Merksperk:

== Transcript ==
''I am so tired of her schemes. If not for her we wouldn't even be in this predicament. And now, this ridiculous plan.''

''Aside from Drushka's obvious interest in her, we have no indication she is even telling the truth. We don't know where she is from, or even what strain she is. She seems to have greater capabilities than she admits.''

''Should I have let you kill her when I had the chance? I do not know what is right anymore.''

== About the Note ==
This is a green Note, written in Vykhya by a [[Rusalki|Rusalka]].
[[Category:Notes]]

Ophelia

2015-07-31T12:18:40Z

Merksperk: /* Description */

== Description ==
[[File:Ophelia-Composite.png|thumb|230x230px|Composite image of Ophelia.]]Ophelia is the [[Rusalki|Rusalka]] who originally came up with the plan to create a clone of [[Trace]] to combat [[Athetos]]. She has a benevolent demeanor, apologizing to Trace when [[Elsenova]] in her anger killed Trace for not agreeing to kill Athetos. When Trace nearly succumbs to Athetos' [[pathogen]], Ophelia is somehow able to cure Trace. Although Ophelia, being a Rusalka, is considered a war machine, she seems to be more akin to a combat medic than a soldier.

She is also likely the one considered an outsider by the other Rusalki, since [[The Outsider (Note)]] mentions a ''"ridiculous plan".'' Of note is also that she is the only Rusalka with a non-slavic name (Ophelia is from Shakespeare's Hamlet), as well as the only Rusalka depicted facing the screen.

== Traits ==
* Unlike Elsenova, Ophelia speaks in plain, unbroken English. This seems to indicate that the Rusalki were given different personality types based on some outside factor (perhaps each akin to one of their creators).
* At the start of the game, Ophelia is inert and inactive due to lack of repairs. However, Trace is able to awaken her at Elsenova's suggestion by activating the [[Remote Drone|Remote Drones]].

== Location ==
Ophelia's head can be seen in mid to upper left portions of [[Ukkin-Na]]. However, her body is located in the lower right portion of [[Edin]]. It is not clear whether her head and body are disconnected, or Ophelia is actually this large.
[[Category:Rusalki]]

Veruska

2015-07-31T12:10:00Z

Merksperk: /* Description */

== Description ==
[[File:Veruska-Rusalka.jpg|thumb|267x267px|Trace meets Veruska for the first time.]]
'''Veruska''' is a [[Rusalki|Rusalka]] called "The Dreamer". Upon first finding her, she is immobile and barely functional. [[Elsenova]] tells [[Trace]] that she is dangerous, but is an ally, and that she needs [[Remote Drone|Remote Drones]] to repair her body.

Veruska speaks in pseudo riddles and metaphors. She often talks of "dreaming" for others, implying that she is able to create vivid dream worlds for others to experience, presumably using the same technology that allows Elsenova to keep track of Trace wherever he goes.

Elsenova's remark about Veruska being dangerous may be in reference to the idea that Veruska is capable of killing the other Rusalki. In the Note titled [[Oracca (Note)|Oracca]], Veruska asks the High Priestess Eshinimma of [[Sudra]] to move [[Oracca]] to a larger room or, at the very least, bring Oracca to her so that she might mercy kill her properly, as Veruska wanted to free Oracca from the insanity that the Sudrans inflicted upon her.

After turning on the Remote Drones, Trace can return to Veruska to receive the [[Passcode Tool]].

== Location ==
Veruska can be found in the lower-right portion of [[Zi]].
[[Category:Rusalki]]

Oracca (Note)

2015-07-31T12:09:18Z

Merksperk: /* About the Note */

== Transcript ==
''My dearest [[Oracca]] has become ill; no matter what I dream for her, she remains listless. Please, she is harmless. Move her to a larger chamber, give her room to stretch. Or if you really wish for her to die, let me kill her properly.''

== About the Note ==
This is a green Note, written in Sudran by the [[Rusalki|Rusalka]] [[Veruska]].

== Location ==
The Note is found directly across from the far left save room in [[Edin]]. After leaving the save room, walk to the right into a seemingly solid wall. There lies a hidden passage into the Note's location.

== Prerequisites ==
* None
[[Category:Notes]]

Oracca (Note)

2015-07-31T12:09:04Z

Merksperk: /* About the Note */

== Transcript ==
''My dearest [[Oracca]] has become ill; no matter what I dream for her, she remains listless. Please, she is harmless. Move her to a larger chamber, give her room to stretch. Or if you really wish for her to die, let me kill her properly.''

== About the Note ==
This is a green note, written in Sudran by the [[Rusalki|Rusalka]] [[Veruska]].

== Location ==
The Note is found directly across from the far left save room in [[Edin]]. After leaving the save room, walk to the right into a seemingly solid wall. There lies a hidden passage into the Note's location.

== Prerequisites ==
* None
[[Category:Notes]]

Oracca (Note)

2015-07-31T12:08:52Z

Merksperk: /* About the Note */

== Transcript ==
''My dearest [[Oracca]] has become ill; no matter what I dream for her, she remains listless. Please, she is harmless. Move her to a larger chamber, give her room to stretch. Or if you really wish for her to die, let me kill her properly.''

== About the Note ==
This is a green note, written in Sudran by a the [[Rusalki|Rusalka]] [[Veruska]].

== Location ==
The Note is found directly across from the far left save room in [[Edin]]. After leaving the save room, walk to the right into a seemingly solid wall. There lies a hidden passage into the Note's location.

== Prerequisites ==
* None
[[Category:Notes]]

Oracca

2015-07-31T12:05:30Z

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== Description ==
Oracca is a [[Rusalki|Rusalka]] who was driven insane by years of subterranean imprisonment on the planet Sudra <ref>Oracca can be found on the Steam Community Market as an [http://steamcommunity.com/market/listings/753/332200-Oracca Official Trading Card].</ref>. She can be found wandering the halls of [[Indi]]. She is referenced in a [[Oracca (Note)|Note]].

Oracca had been held captive by the Sudran people in a small room. Due to undetermined circumstances which even the Rusalki do not seem to understand, she became ill, so much so that [[Veruska]] pleaded with High Priestess Eshinimma of [[Sudra]] to move Oracca to a larger chamber so that she could have "room to stretch", or at the very least, so that Veruska could put Oracca out of her misery.

Although Eshinimma did have Oracca moved, it seems that her condition did not improve, and Veruska either had to mercy kill her or make a dream world algorithm for her.

== Location ==
Initially, Oracca can be found in the center of [[Indi]]. She is mute, and thus has no cutscene interactions with [[Trace]]. However, if the player jumps on top of her head, she will turn and scuttle along in the direction Trace was facing when he landed. This provides expedited transport across Indi. Jumping again can be used to stop and change her direction.

== References ==
<references />

[[Category:Rusalki]]

Veruska

2015-07-31T11:57:19Z

Merksperk: /* Description */

== Description ==
[[File:Veruska-Rusalka.jpg|thumb|267x267px|Trace meets Veruska for the first time.]]
'''Veruska''' is a [[Rusalki|Rusalka]] called "The Dreamer". Upon first finding her, she is immobile and barely functional. [[Elsenova]] tells [[Trace]] that she is dangerous, but is an ally, and that she needs [[Remote Drone|Remote Drones]] to repair her body.

Veruska speaks in pseudo riddles and metaphors. She often talks of "dreaming" for others, implying that she is able to create vivid dream worlds for others to experience, presumably using the same technology that allows Elsenova to keep track of Trace wherever he goes.

Elsenova's remark about Veruska being dangerous may be in reference to the idea that Veruska is capable of killing the other Rusalki. In the Note titled [[Oracca (Note)|Oracca]], Veruska asks the High Priestess Eshinimma of [[Sudra]] to move [[Oracca]] to a larger room or, at the very least, bring Oracca to her so that she might kill her properly, as Veruska wanted to free Oracca from the insanity that the Sudrans inflicted upon her.

After turning on the Remote Drones, Trace can return to Veruska to receive the [[Passcode Tool]].

== Location ==
Veruska can be found in the lower-right portion of [[Zi]].
[[Category:Rusalki]]

Veruska

2015-07-31T11:56:20Z

Merksperk: /* Description */

== Description ==
[[File:Veruska-Rusalka.jpg|thumb|267x267px|Trace meets Veruska for the first time.]]
'''Veruska''' is a [[Rusalki|Rusalka]] called "The Dreamer". Upon first finding her, she is immobile and barely functional. [[Elsenova]] tells [[Trace]] that she is dangerous, but is an ally, and that she needs [[Remote Drone|Remote Drones]] to repair her body.

Veruska speaks in pseudo riddles and metaphors. She often talks of "dreaming" for others, implying that she is able to create vivid dream worlds for others to experience, presumably using the same technology that allows Elsenova to keep track of Trace wherever he goes.

Elsenova's remark about Veruska being dangerous may be in reference to the idea that Veruska is capable of killing the other Rusalki. In the Note titled [[Oracca (Note)|Oracca]], Veruska asks the High Priestess Eshinimma of [[Sudra]] to move [[Oracca]] to a larger room or, at the very least, bring Oracca to her so that she might kill her properly, as Veruska wanted to free Oracca from the insanity that the Sudrans inflicted upon her.

After turning on the [[Remote Drone|Remote Drones]], Trace can return to Veruska to receive the [[Passcode Tool]].

== Location ==
Veruska can be found in the lower-right portion of [[Zi]].
[[Category:Rusalki]]

Axiom 1 (Note)

2015-07-31T11:15:00Z

Merksperk: /* Transcript */

== Transcript ==
''(a) All algorithms are universal and valid, regardless of whether they are executed.''

''(b) Cognition is a sub algorithm whose behavior is to perceive properties of the parent algorithm describing it.''

''(c) Any algorithm giving rise to cognitive entities will be perceived as reality by the entities described.''

== About this Note ==
This is a purple note, written in English by Athetos or an Athetos Variant. This is the only Note that triggers a cutscene when you pick it up. This Note may have some relation to the Rusalka [[Veruska|Veruska's]] ability to manipulate the mind and create dream world algorithms.

== Location ==
The Note can be found in the middle of [[Edin]], in the tall room to the left of the large [[Rusalki]] room where you get the [[Address Bomb]]. The player must use the [[Address Disruptor]] on the large worms in the room to get them to break open a wall so that the Note can be collected.

== Prerequisites ==
* [[Address Disruptor|Address Disruptor 2]]
[[Category:Notes]]

Axiom 1 (Note)

2015-07-31T11:12:00Z

Merksperk: /* Note type */

== Transcript ==
''(a) All algorithms are universal and valid, regardless of whether they are executed.''

''(b) Cognition is a sub algorithm whose behavior is to perceive properties of the parent algorithm describing it.''

''(c) Any algorthim giving rise to cognitive entities will be perceived as reality by the entities described.''

== About this Note ==
This is a purple note, written in English by an Athetos. This is the only Note that triggers a cutscene when you pick it up. This Note may have some relation to the Rusalka [[Veruska|Veruska's]] ability to manipulate the mind and create dream world algorithms.

== Location ==
The Note can be found in the middle of [[Edin]], in the tall room to the left of the large [[Rusalki]] room where you get the [[Address Bomb]]. The player must use the [[Address Disruptor]] on the large worms in the room to get them to break open a wall so that the Note can be collected.

== Prerequisites ==
* [[Address Disruptor|Address Disruptor 2]]
[[Category:Notes]]

Red Coat

2015-07-31T11:06:21Z

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== Description ==
The Red Coat is the third and final Lab Coat Powerup. It allows the player to teleport through walls that are three blocks thick and, like the [[Trenchcoat]], can also be used while jumping in mid-air. In addition, the Red Coat damages any blocks or enemies [[Trace]] passes through. This makes it incredibly versatile for making your way through Sudra, as well as getting to many previously inaccessible areas.

The Red Coat is required to reach [[Mar-Uru]], the final area of the game.

== Location ==
The Red Coat can be found in the lowest room in [[E-Kur-Mah]]. The Sudran Key is required to reach this area.

== Prerequisites ==
* Sudran Key
[[Category:Upgrades]]

Breach

2015-07-31T10:17:21Z

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''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. <ref>Collected information from [[The_Breach_(Note)]].</ref>

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 phenomenon.
[[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]]

== References ==
<references />

The Kuliltu (Note)

2015-07-31T09:35:52Z

Merksperk: Added to the "About the Note" section.

== Transcript ==
''A dozen generations ago, kuliltu battled in the sea above, and the High Priestess rung in the storm, leaving them to spill upon the plains. At the time, this was thought a good omen, and the kuliltu, resembling the Old Machines, sent into the care of the priesthood. But kuliltu do not age or die, so there they remain to this day, watching, and waiting. The High Priestess may not remember what they once were, but the histories do. As do the kuliltu. Should they ever be returned to the sea, I do not expect they will look favorably upon us.''

''- Nin Turri''

== About the Note ==
This is a light-tan note written in Sudran. It states that the kuliltu, which was what Sudrans called [[Rusalki]] at the time, used to inhabit the space above the planet [[Sudra]] 1200 years prior to the letter's writing. The Rusalki were free to roam about in the space above Sudra until High Priestess Eshinimma, wanting to close off Sudra from outsiders, activated the [[Breach Attractor]], causing the [[Breach]] to be pulled toward and blanket the upper Sudran atmosphere. As a result, many Rusalki may have possibly been killed, leaving any survivors trapped in Sudran land. The Sudrans of this time revered the Rusalki as deities, since the towering war machines resembled the Old Machines, a moniker for the Sudrans' long-lost technology that they also viewed with religious reverence. Nin Turri, the writer of the Note, expected the Rusalki to become hostile toward the Sudrans once the Breach is somehow removed from Sudran atmosphere and the Rusalki are able to roam the skies once more.

== Location ==
The Note can be found in the upper portion of [[Edin]], in the large room just below the room where the [[Ukhu]] boss fight takes place.

== Prerequisites ==
* [[Red Coat]]
[[Category:Notes]]

Trace

2015-07-30T18:45:34Z

Merksperk:

''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.

== History ==
Prior to the events of the game, Trace 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."

Since Athetos, the very first Trace, managed to reach Sudra without outside aid sometime during the 21st century, and it had been hundreds, if not thousands of years since Athetos first set foot on the planet, then this further supports the fact that Trace the player character had been put in a dream algorithm of Earth by Veruska, because he would not have had a recognizable real-world Earth to return to since many centuries had passed since his memory of the lab explosion.
[[Category:Characters]]

Trace

2015-07-30T18:45:03Z

Merksperk:

''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.

== History ==
Prior to the events of the game, Trace 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."

Since Athetos, the very first Trace, managed to reach Sudra without outside aid in the 21st century, and it had been hundreds, if not thousands of years since Athetos first set foot on the planet, then this further supports the fact that Trace the player character had been put in a dream algorithm of Earth by Veruska, because he would not have had a recognizable real-world Earth to return to since many centuries had passed since his memory of the lab explosion.
[[Category:Characters]]

Trace

2015-07-30T18:44:24Z

Merksperk:

''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.

== History ==
Prior to the events of the game, Trace 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."

Since Athetos, the very first Trace, managed to reach Sudra by himself in the 21st century, and it had been hundreds, if not thousands of years since Athetos first set foot on the planet, then this further supports the fact that Trace the player character had been put in a dream algorithm of Earth by Veruska, because he would not have had a recognizable real-world Earth to return to since many centuries had passed since his memory of the lab explosion.
[[Category:Characters]]

Pathogen

2015-07-30T18:41:12Z

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== Description ==
The Pathogen, sometimes called the Plague, is a biological disease released as an agent of genocide against the [[Sudra|Sudran]] people. [[Athetos]] released the Pathogen to mutate and wipe out the Sudrans after he discovered that they were using the [[The Breach|Breach]] to prevent travel to other worlds and universes, thereby preventing any technological advancements in other universes from being spread to other universes, and specifically to Earth.
[[Category:Lore]]

Trace

2015-07-30T18:35:07Z

Merksperk:

''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.

== History ==
Prior to the events of the game, Trace 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."

Since Athetos, the very first Trace, managed to reach Sudra in the 21st century, and it had been hundreds, if not thousands of years since Athetos first set foot on the planet, then this further supports the fact that Trace the player character had been put in a dream algorithm of Earth by Veruska, because he would not have had a recognizable real-world Earth to return to since many centuries had passed since his memory of the lab explosion.
[[Category:Characters]]

Athetos

2015-07-30T18:34:09Z

Merksperk:

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

== Description ==
'''Athetos''' is a human and the very first version of the clone [[Trace]] who was able to reach [[Sudra |Sudra]] by discovering a way to pass 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. Being the prime Trace, Athetos' personality used to be much more similar to the kind, pacifist temperament of Trace the player character; however, hundreds of years spent in Sudra caused Athetos' morality to shift to the point where he is willing to annihilate entire sentient species in order to secure technological benefits for humanity.

== History ==
The prime Trace was a theoretical physicist whose revolutionary theories were 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 was blacklisted by many of his colleagues. Nonetheless, he continued striving to validate his work.

In the year 2005 in a Mexico research facility, Trace and colleague Hammond worked 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 blind, immobile, and wheelchair-bound. During this time, Trace has an epiphany of a greater understanding of physics. Using this newfound knowledge, Trace and colleague Hammond are able to discover the Breach, a barrier between universes. Crossing the breach, they find the world of Sudra. Sudra is a gateway world of sorts — its purpose is to regulate travel between other worlds and universes. However, by the time Trace arrives, Sudra's civilization had collapsed, and its inhabitants no longer remember that purpose.

The prime Trace and his colleague Hammond discovered Sudra's incredible technology and used a [[Rebirth Chamber]] to completely heal them of injuries sustained from the lab explosion back on Earth. Trace will eventually discover that it is possible to utilize the Rebirth Chambers in Sudra to create clones of himself. By using this chamber, Trace also inadvertently leaves behind a genetic imprint of himself. Hundreds of years later, the [[Rusalki]], which are sentient, towering war machines, will be able to utilize the prime Trace's genetic imprint to create [[Trace|a clone of him]], setting up the events of [[Axiom Verge]].

For some time, the prime Trace explored Sudra and made contact with its inhabitants. According to the [[Faded Note (Note)|Faded Note]], Trace eventually decided that the Sudran technology is too dangerous to bring back to Earth, believing that it is connected to the catastrophic collapse of Sudra's civilization. Trace, Hammond, and any of Trace's clones then attempted to go "upstream - to the Filter, or whatever lies beyond - for answers." In doing so, Trace discovers that there is a world beyond Sudra — one with an incredibly advanced civilization that the Sudrans have kept hidden due to religious taboo. This world is full of technological wonders that could end all war, strife, and sickness on Earth. It is unclear what happens to Hammond during this time, but we can consider this the starting point in which Trace's morality becomes warped, and he adopts the moniker "Athetos." Athetos decides that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, and that the only way to bring this technology back to Earth is to annihilate the Sudrans, who would refuse passage between Sudra and the worlds beyond. As a result, Athetos begins creating more allies — genetically modified, "variant" clones of himself, using the genetic imprints he had left in the Rebirth Chamber. He also manages to convince the Rusalka [[Katrahaska]] to aid his cause. After building an army, Athetos goes on the offensive with biological warfare, creating a pathogen that wipes out and mutates almost all of the Sudrans on the planet.

With Sudra largely barren of any resistance, the only beings who can oppose Athetos are the three remaining Rusalki: [[Elsenova]], [[Ophelia]], and [[Veruska]] — who stayed true to their purpose of guarding Sudra. They battled against Athetos, his Variants, and Katrahaska. Using [[Remote Drone|Remote Drones]], the Rusalki managed to destroy Katrahaska and Athetos's mobile pathogen protection, forcing Athetos to retreat to a hideaway in [[Mar-Uru]], far above the surface of Sudra and extremely close to the Breach where the Rusalki cannot approach without being killed. Athetos would spent centuries holed up in the highest peak of Mar-Uru, waiting for a chance to deactivate the [[Breach Attractor]] so he may escape Sudra. However, before fleeing to Mar-Uru, Athetos had managed to deactivate the production of Remote Drones, leaving the Rusalki nearly helpless, dormant, and degrading over time. All Athetos has to do is wait for the Rusalki to decay into nothingness, since he would be killed immediately if he deactivated the Breach Attractor while the Rusalki were still functional.

Many centuries later, Athetos is ultimately located and confronted by Trace the player character atop Mar-Uru. The clone Trace and Elsenova manage to coordinate the destruction of the Breach Attractor, and after a lengthy battle, Athetos is subsequently killed by Elsenova's laser beam, despite Trace's pleas not to kill him.

[[File:Athetos old self.png|200px|right|Athetos in Trace's dream Earth algorithm, moments before he assassinates him.]]Athetos is seen afterwards on Earth in the game's true ending, where he shoots Trace with a gun while stating, "There's no use running from your own self. Time to wake up, Trace."[[Category:Characters]]

Athetos

2015-07-30T18:30:50Z

Merksperk: Added a lot of stuff.

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

== Description ==
'''Athetos''' is a human and the very first version of the clone [[Trace]] who was able to reach [[Sudra |Sudra]] by discovering a way to pass 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. Being the prime Trace, Athetos' personality used to be much more similar to the kind, pacifist temperament of Trace the player character; however, hundreds of years spent in Sudra caused Athetos' morality to shift to the point where he is willing to annihilate entire sentient species in order to secure technological benefits for humanity.

== History ==
The prime Trace was a theoretical physicist whose revolutionary theories were 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 was blacklisted by many of his colleagues. Nonetheless, he continued striving to validate his work.

In the year 2005 in a Mexico research facility, Trace and colleague Hammond worked 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 blind, immobile, and wheelchair-bound. During this time, Trace has an epiphany of a greater understanding of physics. Using this newfound knowledge, Trace and colleague Hammond are able to discover the Breach, a barrier between universes. Crossing the breach, they find the world of Sudra. Sudra is a gateway world of sorts — its purpose is to regulate travel between other worlds and universes. However, by the time Trace arrives, Sudra's civilization had collapsed, and its inhabitants no longer remember that purpose.

The prime Trace and his colleague Hammond discovered Sudra's incredible technology and used a [[Rebirth Chamber]] to completely heal them of injuries sustained from the lab explosion back on Earth. Trace will eventually discover that it is possible to utilize the Rebirth Chambers in Sudra to create clones of himself. By using this chamber, Trace also inadvertently leaves behind a genetic imprint of himself. Hundreds of years later, the [[Rusalki]], which are sentient, towering war machines, will be able to utilize the prime Trace's genetic imprint to create [[Trace|a clone of him]], setting up the events of [[Axiom Verge]].

For some time, the prime Trace explored Sudra and made contact with its inhabitants. According to the [[Faded Note (Note)|Faded Note]], Trace eventually decided that the Sudran technology is too dangerous to bring back to Earth, believing that it is connected to the catastrophic collapse of Sudra's civilization. Trace, Hammond, and any of Trace's clones then attempted to go "upstream - to the Filter, or whatever lies beyond - for answers." In doing so, Trace discovers that there is a world beyond Sudra — one with an incredibly advanced civilization that the Sudrans have kept hidden due to religious taboo. This world is full of technological wonders that could end all war, strife, and sickness on Earth. It is unclear what happens to Hammond during this time, but we can consider this the starting point in which Trace's morality becomes warped, and he adopts the moniker "Athetos." Athetos decides that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, and that the only way to bring this technology back to Earth is to annihilate the Sudrans, who would refuse passage between Sudra and the worlds beyond. As a result, Athetos begins creating more allies — genetically modified, "variant" clones of himself, using the genetic imprints he had left in the Rebirth Chamber. He also manages to convince the Rusalka [[Katrahaska]] to aid his cause. After building an army, Athetos goes on the offensive with biological warfare, creating a pathogen that wipes out and mutates almost all of the Sudrans on the planet.

With Sudra largely barren of any resistance, the only beings who can oppose Athetos are the three remaining Rusalki: [[Elsenova]], [[Ophelia]], and [[Veruska]] — who stayed true to their purpose of guarding Sudra. They battled against Athetos, his Variants, and Katrahaska. Using [[Remote Drone|Remote Drones]], the Rusalki managed to destroy Katrahaska and Athetos's mobile pathogen protection, forcing Athetos to retreat to a hideaway in [[Mar-Uru]], far above the surface of Sudra and extremely close to the Breach where the Rusalki cannot approach without being killed. Athetos would spent centuries holed up in the highest peak of Mar-Uru, waiting for a chance to deactivate the [[Breach Attractor]] so he may escape Sudra. However, before fleeing to Mar-Uru, Athetos had managed to deactivate the production of Remote Drones, leaving the Rusalki nearly helpless, dormant, and degrading over time. All Athetos has to do is wait for the Rusalki to decay into nothingness, since he would be killed immediately if he deactivated the Breach Attractor while the Rusalki were still functional.

Athetos is ultimately located and confronted by Trace the player character atop Mar-Uru. The clone Trace and Elsenova manage to coordinate the destruction of the Breach Attractor, and after a lengthy battle, Athetos is subsequently killed by Elsenova's laser beam, despite Trace's pleas not to kill him.

[[File:Athetos old self.png|200px|right|Athetos in Trace's dream Earth algorithm, moments before he assassinates him.]]Athetos is seen afterwards on Earth in the game's true ending, where he shoots Trace with a gun while stating, "There's no use running from your own self. Time to wake up, Trace."[[Category:Characters]]

Trace

2015-07-30T17:57:17Z

Merksperk: Added paragraph in History.

''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.

== History ==
Prior to the events of the game, Trace 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."

Since Athetos, the very first Trace, managed to reach Sudra in the 21st century, and it had been hundreds, if not thousands of years since Athetos first set foot on the planet, then this further supports the fact that Trace the player character had been put in a dream algorithm of Earth by Veruska, because he would not have had a recognizable Earth to return to since many centuries had passed since his memory of the lab explosion.
[[Category:Characters]]

Sudra

2015-07-30T17:33:39Z

Merksperk: /* Description */

== Description ==
Sudra is the planet where the events of Axiom Verge take place.

== History ==
Hundreds of years before the events of Axiom Verge, Sudra was a gateway world between universes, a port to civilizations with advanced technologies. However, at some point, the Sudrans' progeny gradually grew less scientifically literate. As a result, this port world experienced a collapse and the gateway was closed. The Sudrans in the planet fell into a state of isolation, the result of their descendants regarding their own technology with superstition. The Sudrans forgot their world's role as a gateway to pass through the [[the Breach|Breach]] and instead used the Breach to keep outsiders away.

When the [[Athetos|prime Trace]] arrives on Sudra, its civilization had collapsed, its inhabitants no longer remembering the purpose of their technology. The Sudrans had become an incredibly xenophobic society, shunning all outsiders, viewing their own technology with religious reverence, and halting all technological advancement. The Sudrans no longer permitted travel between worlds. They saw the Breach as a barrier to shut them off from the outside universe.

The prime Trace and his colleague Hammond discovered Sudra's incredible technology and used a [[Rebirth Chamber]] to completely heal them of injuries sustained from the lab explosion back on Earth. For some time, Trace explored Sudra and made contact with its inhabitants. According to the [[Faded Note (Note)|Faded Note]], Trace eventually decided that the Sudran technology is too dangerous to bring back to Earth, believing it is connected to the catastrophic collapse of Sudra's civilization. Trace, Hammond, and any of Trace's clones then attempted to go "upstream - to the Filter, or whatever lies beyond - for answers." This suggests that the group tried to traverse the Breach and reach other worlds in order to gain more knowledge of the universe and other worlds' advanced technology.

[[Category:Lore]]

Trace

2015-07-30T17:04:31Z

Merksperk: Changed Story heading to History.

Trace

2015-07-30T16:52:35Z

Merksperk: /* Description */

''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 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

2015-07-30T16:51:59Z

Merksperk: /* Description */

''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 player 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 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."
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Trace

2015-07-30T16:51:19Z

Merksperk: /* 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

2015-07-30T16:50:26Z

Merksperk: /* 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

2015-07-30T16:42:30Z

Merksperk: /* 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]]

Remote Drone

2015-07-30T16:40:12Z

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== Description ==
The Remote Drone is a small brown machine that walks on four legs, which [[Trace]] can control remotely. It has its own health bar and a single short-range laser that is produced from its red eye. The Drone is small enough to fit into tight spaces where Trace is not able to go through. This can give him access to hidden tunnels that may lead to secrets and [[:Category:Items|items]].

Although most Remote Drones were shut down by [[Athetos]], this one is still active when Trace finds it. This is because it operates on an independent control schema and runs on self-contained battery power.

The Drone can be controlled from great distances, even across several [[:Category:Areas|areas]], as long as it can continue to navigate Sudra's terrain.

== Location ==
The Remote Drone Powerup is found in the middle of [[Kur]].

== Prerequisites ==
* [[Modified Lab Coat]]
[[Category:Upgrades]]
[[Category:Drones]]

Breach

2015-07-30T16:37:43Z

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''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. <ref>Collected information from [[The_Breach_(Note)]].</ref>

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]]

== References ==
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Uruku

2015-07-30T16:34:01Z

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== Description ==
[[File:Uruku-Portrait.png|thumb|185x185px|Uruku's face (seen in the creature's mouth), the last remnant of the clone of Athetos.]]
Uruku is a biomechanoid Variant of [[Athetos]] and the game's third boss. It appears as a large, slug-like creature with various bits of weaponry attached to its body. Athetos created Uruku by first cloning himself with one of Sudra's [[Rebirth Chamber|Rebirth Chambers]], and then making genetic and cybernetic modifications to the clone.

In one of the game's [http://axiom-verge.wikia.com/wiki/Journal_Page_(Note)#Journal_Page_.28Uruku.29 Notes], Athetos muses where the clone's persona ends and the monster's begins as one of his Variants slowly becomes the monster Uruku. When [[Trace]] finally finds him, there is very little left of the clone's humanity.

== Battle ==
[[File:Uruku-Variant.png|thumb|left|311x311px|Trace enters Uruku's lair.]][[Trace]] confronts Uruku in a large room in the upper right portion of [[Zi]]. Trace becomes trapped in the room and, as Uruku seems intent on killing Trace, he must find its weak points to destroy the creature.

Uruku will fire various projectiles from its armaments, as well as a high-energy laser from the cannon on its shoulder. All of these weapons can be destroyed by focusing fire on them.

After defeating Uruku, the player must use the [[Address Disruptor]] to glitch a series of blocks, making his way across these platforms to the upper right door in the room. This will give Trace access to both the [[Power Filter]] and the [[Modified Lab Coat]] , which can then be used to obtain a [[Health Node]] upon returning to the boss room.

== Strategies ==
There are many ways to approach this battle. The blocks on the left side of the room will provide the player with some cover from Uruku's various attacks.
* The most straightforward strategy is to stand at the room's entrance, using the blocks for cover and slowly wittling away at the bomb-launchers on Uruku's lower body. After doing so, you can take shots at Uruku's mouth during openings in the barrages.
* An easier, but slow strategy is to stand of the upper 2-block wall on the left side of the room, jumping straight up and firing at the cannons on Uruku's back. The player can crouch and remain stationary as the laser sweeps the room to avoid its blast entirely. Destroying the upper cannons will drastically reduce the oncoming fire you take from the creature, and when they are all gone, you will be free to jump onto the 3-block wall (the one you used for cover) and fire downward into its mouth to finish the boss off.
* A faster, bolder strategy is to immediately run through the pink wastewater at the start of the fight, directly at Uruku. You can use the [[Address Disruptor]] to glitch the single blocks just above the water. Doing so will allow the player to stand just below the second bomb-launcher and easily destroy it with the [[Kilver]]. Then you can use the [[Axiom Disruptor]] to fire upward and to the left at Uruku's mouth to finish him off.
[[Category:Bosses]]