Geist

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Phase II:
 Crush
 Wave
 Earth
 Poison

**Geist** is a major Villain in the  story of **Harvestella** and the Main Antagonist of the first half of the game. He is a powerful and highly intelligence Omen.

## Background

Geist is a leader of a sect of programmatically corrupted Omen who plan to destroy the  Spring Seaslight, the  Summer Seaslight, the  Fall Seaslight, and the  Winter Seaslight. To that end, he has manipulated several events to facilitate the downfall of the Seaslights in order to destroy the Star (the world the  Protagonist and others dwell on) in order to remake it and ensure only the strongest humans survive. To that end, he is willing to do all it takes to ensure this goal is met, including capturing  Aria.

Upon Geist's final defeat, he provides the Protagonist with his memory chip which contains coordinates to the Abandoned Eden to investigate the truth of the world for themselves.

Following his defeat, he was repaired with a new personality and consequentially becomes an ally. After he shows the truth of Aria and the people of ReGaia's origins, referring Aria's species of humans as *Cains* and ReGaia's species as *Abels*, and that the Cains are close to awakening from their hibernation, Aria eventually makes her decision to save her own people; causing her to take on her evil alternate persona:  Harbinger Aria, whom Geist refers to as the Admin/leader over all Omen, before Aria was stopped and convinced to stop her plan by the Protagonist after making her confess that she actually did not want to sacrifice any of the species, but was blinded by her self-doubt and insecurities. After Aria is freed from her alternate persona and stops her plan, now seeing that it is not the right solution to save her people, Geist, having known that this would happen, then reassigns the role of Admin to the Protagonist, who is thus forced to decide. After a debate with Geist, the Protagonist is ultimately unwilling to murder innocent lives from either half of the remaining humanity and wants to end Quietus instead to save both, which is thought to be impossible. Although unhappy with this at first, Geist eventually respects their wishes after seeing that he cannot convince them otherwise, but the Proto-Seaslight (revealed to be sentient, which even Geist did not know about) takes control and reactivates Aria's plan, changing its target in an attempt to complete its own ulterior function (to wipe out all life on ReGaia and making it uninhabitable for all of humanity; therefore, ensuring the demise of both species), and disables outside control to ensure that the group cannot interfere. Learning that her plan to save her people will end in disaster, Aria manages to redirect it into landing in the northern sea with the Protagonist's help where it cannot do too much damage. Following the Proto Seaslight's destruction, Geist's project to sacrifice one of the human species is abandoned and he decides to instead help the Protagonist put an end to Quietus in order to save both human species. It is soon discovered that the failure/rejection of Geist's Paradise Project unlocked the door to Geist's room, where the group discover a robot named Geist Mk-II, built by the Geist's original villainous persona, who tells them more about Geist's original plan to end Quietus and his Paradise Project. They later request Geist's help to use a barrier (which was part of his discontinued project) to protect the people of ReGaia from Quietus so that they and their friends can stop the deadly season.

It is unknown what happens to Geist in the end, but it can be presumed that he is helping the other Omens restore Lost Gaia, which is implied to be recovering from the effects of Quietus, and carry out the new Paradise Project to ensure the safety of ReGaia's people under Aria's command.

## Personality

When he is an antagonist, he is very ruthless and determined to do whatever it takes to complete his goal, even working behind the backs of the other Omen. After he is reformed, he is more supportive towards the Protagonist and their friends and reveals the Omen's goal and the fate of mankind. He also obeys whoever is in charge of his operation to save either the Cains or the Abels and is desperate to complete this project before the Cains awaken no matter what. However, he seems to have an understandable feeling as he sees that the Protagonist is not willing to murder either species, instead wanting to end Quietus to save both of them, and respects their decision after they refuse to listen to his demands to choose. Geist also demonstrates a great sense of intelligence, as he knew that the Protagonist would talk Aria out of her malevolent plot and free her from her alternate persona. He also knew about the Paradise Project that his alternate persona would carry out in the future and should it be rejected, the door to his room will open. After his project backfired, he decided to help the Protagonist stop Quietus to save both the Cains and Abels. From this point on, he now obeys orders from the Protagonist and Aria without question.

## Strategy

The first fight against Geist isn't that hard, but in the second phase, he will sprout wings and unleash much stronger attacks. Brakka, Aria, and Istina are very helpful in this fight. Poison Cores, Juices, and the Assault Savant class are very useful as they will make it easier to defeat Geist or heal quickly.

## Phase I Attribute Weakness(es)

* Slash
* Crush
* Fire
* Ice

## Phase II Attribute Weakness(es)

* Crush
* Wave
* Earth
* Poison

## Trivia

* Geist's AI personality was corrupted after learning about the fate of Gaia (revealed to have been manipulating Geist all along). Only upon his defeat was a new personality overwritten to make Geist a supportive Omen.
	+ It should also be noted that Geist also uses the same red energy as Gaia and Harbinger Aria, which further indicates that Gaia was influencing them both. However, he doesn't use it to attack the Protagonist.
	+ Since he knew about the future events, he may have been resisting Gaia's control long enough to make preparations before giving in.
	+ It can be presumed that he was freed from Gaia's control after being defeated. Hence why he gave the Protagonist his memory chip.
* If the player does choose between saving the Cains or Abels, it will result in a bad ending. This can be avoided if they choose not to sacrifice either and instead choose to end Quietus.
* Like Aria, Geist also considers the Protagonist to be very unusual due to their strong determination, as it was impossible to convince them to complete his Paradise Project as they are against the idea of sacrificing innocent lives.

## Lines of dialogue

### Optional

"…Have you found it?"

"The Planetary Nightmare?"

"All right. I have an idea. Let us reconvene with Dianthus and the others."

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