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Sudra

2022-01-21T15:25:59Z

Metroidvaniafanstan:

[[File:Edin Landscape.png|right]]
== Description ==
'''Sudra''' is the planet where the events of [[Axiom Verge]] take place.

Sudra's atmosphere is much like that of Earth. [[Trace]] can breathe the air on Sudra without any technological aid and there is moisture found in Sudra's atmosphere, as snow can be seen falling in the open air of [[Kur]].

== 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 [[Doctor Hammond|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.

== The Emergence ==
{{Spoilers}}
The Kazakhs from Hammond's Antarctic base explore the breach and then discover a different planet pass the branch, which they dub "The Emergence". While it is never directly referenced by the Kazakhs or other text, The Emergence has creatures, monuments, and the same color hues as Sudra.

== Additional Images ==
[[File:Kur Landscape.png]]
[[File:The-Emergence.png|450px]]

[[Category:Lore]]

Apocalypse Flask

2022-01-21T15:16:46Z

Metroidvaniafanstan:

Apocalypse flasks are items found in [[Axiom Verge 2]]. Collecting these gives [[Indra]] skill points, which she can use to upgrade various skills, health, damage, weapon speed, drone damage, drone weapon speed, hacking level, etc.

There are small, medium, and large apocalypse flasks, each bestowing 1, 2, and 3 skill points respectively.<gallery>
File:Apocalypse flask.png|A small apocalypse flask.
File:Apocalypse flask medium.png|Medium.
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[[Category:Powerups]]

Gir-Tab

2022-01-20T20:59:19Z

Metroidvaniafanstan: Variant of Athetos is redundant, as all Variants are Athetos.

[[File:Gir-Tab Avatar.png|right]]
== Description ==
'''Gir-Tab''' is a biomechanoid [[Variant]], and the game's 4th sequential [[Bosses|boss]]. Its appearance is that of a large, scorpion-like creature with a flamethrower for a tail, a laser cannon replacing each claw, and a third cannon on its back.

Athetos created Gir-Tab by first cloning himself with one of [[Sudra|Sudra's]] [[Rebirth Chamber]]s, and then making biomechanoid modifications to the clone.

Gir-Tab is the most verbally capable Variant, and is notable for having helped Athetos decipher the Sudran language for use with the [[Passcode Tool]].

Gir-Tab Has 1,800 Health

== Battle ==
[[File:Gir Tab Variant Battle.jpg|thumb|285x285px|Gir-Tab as seen in his boss battle.]]
[[Trace]] confronts Gir-Tab in the middle-right portion of [[Kur]].

Gir-Tab will fire volleys of energy projectiles from its claw and back cannons. From time-to-time, it will also leap at the player, getting in range to attack with its flamethrower tail. Gir-Tab's weak underbelly should be the primary target for Trace. While his cyclops eye is also a weak-point, Gir-Tab keeps it closed and invulnerable most of the time.

After defeating Gir-Tab, the player will be able to enter the next room containing [[Katrahaska]] and will also be able to turn on the [[Repair Drones]].

== Strategies ==
Gir-Tab is perhaps the most tedious boss fight in Axiom Verge, due to the fact that you have to play defense much more than you can play offense. Learn Gir-Tab's attack patterns, and he becomes much simpler. However keep pace because he will speed up his attacks when near death.
* The most straightforward strategy to this battle is to crouch low and use either the [[Nova]] or [[Voranj]] to hit Gir-Tab's underbelly. Watch for Gir-Tab to get low to the ground and use short hops to jump over his low shots. Pay attention to the height of the oncoming fire because he will sometimes switch it up with a third shot at medium level. There's not much to say about his flamethrower attack. Keep your distance and wait for it to end. Repeat, and repeat, and repeat and he will eventually go down.
* The above strategy can also be done with the [[Hypo-Atomizer]]. However, the weapon is fairly unreliable because it must align perfectly with a small part of Gir-Tab's underbelly in order to hit. A way of bypassing this problem is to start crouching far away from Gir-Tab and slowly moving toward it while crouching. The perpendicular shots will eventually start to hit the weak point, forcing the boss to fall back a little and thus keeping him aligned with the shots. That technique also gives you space to work with, which is useful when dodging series of shots.
* Another strategy is to start with the above and, if you're feeling confident, go on a suicide attack to hit Gir-Tab's underbelly with powerful blasts from the [[Kilver]]. If you have weakened him enough, you will be able to finish him off.
* Similar to the above strategy, you can start off by diving Gir-Tab with the Kilver or [[Laser Drill]]. Take off a major chunk of his HP and quickly move to the right side of the room to finish him with the "straightforward" strategy above.
* The Inertial Pulse weapon trivializes the fight as it has the ability to pierce targets. However, obtaining it before defeating Gir-Tab requires a very precise jump in [[Zi]] involving the use of knockback from an enemy to make a jump that would otherwise prevent access to [[Absu]].
* After Gir-Tab starts using his Flamethrower, he becomes much faster and does things out of pattern, if you feel like he doesn't attack down, start being aware - but still shoot - because he will start to shoot down afterwards, so be aware, in the second half of the fight, he is unpredictable.

== Etymology ==
''Girtab'' is the Sumerian word for "scorpion" and is the traditional name for the star constellation Kappa Scorpii.<ref>Taken from [https://www.reddit.com/r/axiomverge/comments/37flnm/spoilers_significance_of_names_ties_to_realworld/ this post] on Reddit. See also Wikipedia article for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kappa_Scorpii Kappa Scorpii].</ref>

== Additional Images ==
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== References ==
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[[Category:Bosses]]

Trace

2022-01-20T20:44:49Z

Metroidvaniafanstan: Made some unnecessary lengthed sentences shortened, as it seemed redundant. I made the first mention of Athetos a link instead of the second time it says Athetos a link. Finally made some more link eddits

''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''' Eschenbrenner<ref>[https://twitter.com/AxiomVerge/status/996605967860023296?s=20 Tom Happ tweet about his last name]</ref> is the protagonist of Axiom Verge. 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's 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, particularly seen in dialogue before and after [[Category:Bosses|boss]] fights.

== History ==
'''WARNING! This section contains major plot spoilers!'''

The story starts in the year 2005 in a New Mexico research facility where Trace and colleague [[Doctor Hammond|Hammond]] are working on an undisclosed experiment. A problem with the experiment seemingly causes a huge explosion, severely injuring Trace and rendering him unconscious. This is the last memory of Earth that 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]]. Strangely, his body is seemingly intact and uninjured. Upon awakening, 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 [[Variant|Variants]], which he later discovers are mutated clones of Athetos, and by extension, himself.

When Trace is again rendered unconscious, some of his imprinted memories begin to come back. He was a theoretical physicist who, working with Dr. Hammond, re-invented physics. However, his revolutionary theories were regarded by his peers as pseudoscience and earned him the nickname "Athetos." Trace was then blacklisted by the scientific community. Nonetheless, he continued striving to validate his work.

Once he wakes up, Trace is able to continue his adventure. Eventually, Trace finds Athetos in a life support vat located in the atmosphere above Sudra, along with the [[Breach Attractor]], which is 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 do so. 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, scenes during the credits show 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. This seems to imply that, unbeknownst to Trace, Elsenova had the Rusalka Veruska create an algorithm for a dream of 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."

Based on the game's events, the very first (Prime) Trace managed to reach Sudra sometime during the 21st century. The game's events take place hundreds, if not thousands, of years after that. This timeline seems to support the idea 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.

== Non-Canon Information ==
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozQqekMSQqY Video of pre-release intro.]

Trace:

''"I think I'd better begin with the first time I died."''

''"I was at the end of my proverbial rope."''

''"Jobless. Carless. Homeless. I couldn't afford a plane ticket, so I took the train."''

''"Hopefully my parents would take pity on me."''

''"I'd screwed up. And I had no idea how to un-screw things up."''

''"Maybe it's just as well then, that things happened the way they did -"''

''"- An unexceptional life coming to an unexceptional end."''

''"But that's when things started to get interesting."''

Note: When previewed, the Youtube commentator said the intro was pretentious, so it was reworked into the Z-machine New Mexico Physicist scenes shown in the final version.
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==Additional Images==
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== Trivia ==
Trace was [https://64.media.tumblr.com/1b14bab33039d695cbbf21b73921fd9a/38545fcc3b1259db-45/s1280x1920/b14d7934484b3ddde93c2acef0a8f3c5befb69eb.jpg confirmed] to be around 5'9" and 155 lbs
[[Category:Characters]]

Spidler

2022-01-20T20:28:08Z

Metroidvaniafanstan:

{{Enemy Infobox|image = Spidler.png|Areas = [[Absu]], [[Kur]]|Allegiance = Foe|Hit Points = 300|Corruptable = Yes; [[Address Disruptor 1]]|Corrupted Behaviour = [[Baby Mothmite]]|Size = Medium|Movement = Descends vertically from roof|Speed Factor = 6 (descent)|Physical Damage = 100|Filename = Spidler}}

== Description ==
This creature hangs off cones of mud on the roof, waiting for it's next meal to move underneath it. When [[Trace]] or the [[Remote Drone]] is underneath it, it rapidly descends on a thread with it's huge toothed mouth open. It's brown and consists of only a body and a large set of teeth.

== Corrupted Form ==
When corrupted, it takes on the behaviour and characteristics of a [[Baby Mothmite]]. Depending on it's position, it will either drop and scurry away or crawl away across the roof.
[[Category:Bestiary]]

Mount Ebih

2022-01-20T20:22:48Z

Metroidvaniafanstan:

{{WIP}}[[File:Mount ebih.png|thumb]][[File:Breach mount ebin.png|thumb|Mount Ebih in the Breach.]]
Mount Ebih is a location in Axiom Verge 2. It is next to [[The Glacier]] and above [[Lake Amagi|Lake Amagi]]. Mount Ebih is home to the game's first boss; [[Alu]].
[[Category:Areas]]

An-Alu

2022-01-20T20:20:58Z

Metroidvaniafanstan: (I forgot to remove the unnecessary text)

[[File:Alu.png|thumb]]

Alu is the first boss found in [[Axiom Verge 2]], and is found in Mount Ebih. Upon defeat [[Indra]] is rewarded with a Small Apocalypse Flask.
[[Category:Bestiary]]
[[Category:Bosses]]

An-Alu

2022-01-20T20:20:18Z

Metroidvaniafanstan: I added some

[[File:Alu.png|thumb]]
THIS guy ------>

im so tired someone else add things to here - pvfa-r

Alu is the first boss found in [[Axiom Verge 2]], and is found in Mount Ebih. Upon defeat [[Indra]] is rewarded with a Small Apocalypse Flask.
[[Category:Bestiary]]
[[Category:Bosses]]