Jesus

Jesus, also referred to as the Messiah, Christ, and (by Ormus) Our Lord, is a character in Xenosaga. He appears briefly at the end of Xenosaga Episode III. The character is partially based upon the biblical Jesus. Information on Jesus within the games themselves is very sparse; the majority of his known lore is discussed in the Xenosaga III Perfect Guide.
==Appearance and personality==
Jesus appears as a tan-skinned man with long black hair and a beard. He is seen wearing light-blue coloured robes and a pair of sandals.
Jesus is stated to have been particularly charismatic. Yeshua and Mary Magdalene were his closest friend and partner respectively, and while he himself could not perform miracles, he was able to use the miracles they performed to amass a strong following.
==Story==
===Xenosaga Episode III===
Jesus is mentioned in the cutscene Crystal Room. According to MOMO, an inscription on the floor reads "And the angel answered and said unto the women, fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified. He is not here: for he is risen, as he said." (The line is an excerpt from Matthew 28:5-6 in the King James version of the Bible.)
Margulis and Heinlein allude to Jesus in the cutscene Truth Behind Ormus. Margulis states that is "the land where (Ormus's) Lord sleeps"; Wilhelm (revealed to be Heinlein all along) later explains that Ormus's official purpose was to convey the existence of Jesus to the future, but its actual purpose was to manage Lemegeton, the universe's failsafe passed on to humanity by Jesus.
Jesus is seen very briefly during the cutscene She Who Resembles KOS-MOS: in one of Mary Magdalene's memories, Jesus is seen speaking to a crowd of people, including Mary and Yeshua.
==Lore==
Jesus lived on in a time long before that of Masuda and Grimoire.
* As well as being the friend of Yeshua and the partner of Mary Magdalene, the two served as his disciples. People grew to hope in Jesus after witnessing Yeshua perform miracles via the power of Anima.
*Jesus is alluded to in the labels on the Zohar Emulator containers held in the Durandal's Isolation Area: the label on the storage unit for the Original Zohar is labelled "Marienkind", or "the child of Mary".
* Aside from Yeshua and Mary Magdalene, Jesus had twelve particularly devout followers known as the Apostles. Similarly to the Testaments, the Apostles could directly access the power of Anima; this access caused the Failsafe to be activated.
* After Yeshua transcribed Lemegeton into human language, Jesus entrusted it to the people so that they would be able to transmit power from the Upper Domain to the Lower Domain.
* Jesus's ideology was recorded in writing, but this became lost to history.
==Trivia==
*"Marienkind", the name inscribed on the Durandal's container for the Original Zohar, comes from the German folktale by the same name. It describes 12 "doors" similar to the 12 Zohar Emulators, and a thirteenth door that leads to the .
* Jesus is one of very few important Xenosaga Episode III characters without a database entry. His only mentions in the database are through references in the Ormus, Mary Magdalene, Isolation Area, and (possibly) the Salvator entries. The Rennes-le-Château entry references the biblical Jesus (deliberately distinguishing between the story and "real life").
* Jesus is referenced scarcely by name; only once in Xenosaga dialogue and few times in the databases (not counting the aforementioned reference to biblical Jesus).
==In other languages==
==Gallery==
===Official artwork===
===Xenosaga Episode III===
MOMO reciting Matthew 28 5 (part 2).png|MOMO mentions Jesus in the Underground Ruins.
Jesus at his Sermon.png|Jesus at his Sermon.
Category:Characters (XS3)