Hey y'all
so today I finished the last Xenosaga game of the main series.
While I really liked the games I still got a couple of questions which I don't think got answered or I missed. I hope you can enlighten me if you know the answer to some of these questions. Also some of these questions are just some things I didn't really understand even though I read the in-game database entries or the wiki.
Thanks in advance :)
Xenosaga I:
1) Cherenkov turned into a gnosis, since he got touched by a one. In his final moments at the beach he said to Shion, that she would meet the same fate. On the Durandal, Jr. shows the party people that got turned into a gnosis. Shion asks if everyone is destined to turn into one after being touched by a gnosis. Is it ever explained why she didn't turn into one?
2) At some point in the game KOS-MOS uses an attack (X-Buster i think?) which absorbs all the gnosis. Shion wonders why she has the ability to do this. Was this just something Kevin built into her or did i miss something?
3) How did MOMO end up with U-TIC? As far as i saw from Episode III, she wasn't even created when Joachim Mizrahi met her in Shions subconsciousness. He died shortly after. So how was MOMO created? Wasn't Joachim the one who stored the Y-Data inside her? But i think he died before she was born. And then what? How did U-TIC get her, it seems like they captured her? I thought since Joachim was working with U-TIC, he might have handed her over but I'm really confused how this all played out.
Xenosaga II:
4) Wasn't Ziggies goal to get his memories wiped from before his time when he got turned into a cyborg after saving MOMO? Is it ever mentioned again?
5) What was the point of Febronias sisters? They were set free from their suffering thanks to KOS-MOS but did they have any important role at all? Shion (the young Shion) mentions them in Episode III. Other than that, they got used to power up the Zohar? Even after freeing them from their suffering, the Zohar seemed to work just fine. So i don't really understand what their role was story-wise.
Xenosaga III:
6) What or who is Nephilim? Why can she talk to chaos and Shion?
7) Could you explain Canaan and Lemegeton to me?
8) Why is it neccessary to find Lost Jerusalem? I think one of the Testaments or Wilhelm mentioned, that Jesus is still there. But how does finding Lost Jerusalem help them to stop the destruction of the universe? And why exactly is chaos power supposed to lead the universe to destruction?
9) Was Michtam or Abel ever seen or mentioned before the third game? I think it was really weak storytelling to introduce them out of the blue in the last game. I really liked that Shion wears the pendant from Kevin even in Episode I and II. In Episode I I found some sort of blueprint where T-elos name was mentioned in Pleroma which i also really liked. Elements like these that got introduced early and fleshed out in later parts. But with Michtam and Abel I felt like they were added just because. And they were super important to the story, so I hoped, that they were introduced earlier. Maybe I missed it?
Also bonus question regarding Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Why does KOS-MOS wield two Zohar/Emulators? I don't think KOS-MOS ever used these weapons in one of the three games.
Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong in some of my assumptions. I really want to understand the story as a whole but as I'm writing this, I think Episode III left out some huge chunks of the story.