| Gelda Nebilim | |
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| Information | |
| Appearance | Tales of the Abyss |
| Hometown | Daath |
| Residences | Keterburg |
| Age | 28 |
| Race | Human |
| Occupation | Locrian Colonel |
| Weapon | Catalyst Weapons |
| Japanese Voice Actor | Mariko Suzuki |
Gelda Nebilim (ゲルダ・ネビリム Geruda Nebirimu?) is a character from Tales of the Abyss who is recounted as part of Jade Curtiss's backstory.
History
Professor Gelda Nebilim
Gelda Nebilim was born in N.D. 1966. She once led part of the Oracle Knights in the Order of Lorelei, serving as Locrian Colonel during her tenure. Under orders from Fon Master Evenos, she runs several special investigations into relics known as the Catalyst Weapons, six weapons that shared the power of Rem and Shadow, the aggregate sentiences of Light and Darkness. At one point during these investigations, Nebilim fails a planetary arte experiment administered at Mt. Roneal, resulting in the death of many Oracle Knights in N.D. 1991. After the accident, she leaves the Oracle Knights and opens a private school in the Keterburg. Unlike any teacher before her, Professor Nebilim shares an important bond with her students, treating them as children she never had. Upon the arrival of a young Jade, Nebilim senses the boy's twisted mind, lacking no ability to distinguish the guilt or the pleasure in taking a life for achieving his ends. Realizing this, she seeks to change his heart, leading him to develop his fomicry methods to form a better cause.
Along with Jade, Nebilim also taught a boy named Saphir Ortion Gneiss, who later becomes obsessed with reviving her, even joining the God-Generals under the assumed name of Dist to aid in doing so. She helps conceal knowledge of the young Peony Upala Malkuth IX, having escaped from his isolated mansion to join the school and learn like the other kids, as she understands the importance of an emperor understanding his people. One night, Jade attempted a fonic arte using the Seventh Fonon, causing the fonons to go out of control due to his inability to control them. The resulting explosion lead to a near fatal injury sustained by Gelda Nebilim in an attempt to protect the children in her care. Jade, accompanied by Saphir, took the wounded professor to the outskirts of town, where he decided to use fomicry to save her life. The result ended in catastrophe. As the research in fomicry during the time relied entirely on the knowledge of two children, the replication process remained largely untested and theoretical.
The result ends in catastrophe. As the research in fomicry during the time relied entirely on the knowledge of two children, the replication process remained largely untested and theoretical. In an attempt to replicate their professor, Jade creates an unstable Replica Nebilim, a mere facsimile of the original Nebilim, with a never-ending hunger for the first and sixth fonons since the process rendered the replica weak due to the imbalance of fonons that compose her body. The replica Nebilim engages in a killing spree by taking the life of several fonists in the region in order to devour the fonons she requires to gain stability. Following these events, the Malkuth Empire declares a state of emergency in which its army, at the command of field Marshal McGovern, confronts the replica Nebilim. Eventually, Malkuth's fonists manage to seal her in a hidden cavern that is later known as Nebilim's Crag, an isolated cave in the center of Mt. Roneal's merciless terrain.
Appearance and Personality
Gelda Nebilim had brown eyes and bone-white short hair. Her attire consisted of a juniper shirt, an Athens-gray coat, a tumbleweed skirt, and shadow-brown high-heel boots.
Trivia
- While Nebilim was working as a member of the Oracle Knights, she was nicknamed the "Demonic Commander" (魔将?).
- Nebilim's name was previously used for the one of the first Devil's Arms in Tales of Symphonia, and it subsequent appears as a recurring weapon, including in this game.