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Facade

Facade is a location in NieR and NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139.... It is a desert city governed by thousands of rules and the home of the Masked People, led by the King of Facade.

It is made up of different levels of buildings and walkways, overshadowed by the mansion and with a sandy river in the middle. There is a ferry that can take the residents from one area to another.

Overview

Facade Dock RG

The inscription on Rule 106's lithograph states that Facade's design came about as a result of their people's original home along the plain being flooded by a "great wall of water". It may have been especially useful when the surrounding area was once the site of a great forest, but the people's continued activity helped further erode the land, to the point where the prince recounts to his advisor of how they now lack even water among other basic necessities.

Their convoluted legal system of 124,000 rules (and counting) has repeatedly been shown to get in the way of such tasks as running errands, or even retrieving the prince from the Barren Temple—it took a bit of a loophole via Kainé's knowledge of Rule 1,024 in order to aid the city in their quest. Seeing this, Nier asks the prince to add Rule 0 to their list, so that they might be able to aid themselves by voting against inflexible procedures.

In spite of it all, its people still swear by the law, with dialogue from NPCs even blaming Fyra's death at the hands of Roc, along with their other misfortunes, on what they perceive as the people's lack of faith in the rules. The city has long been at war with the wolves outside the city, with both groups blaming each other for the land's present state.

Nier and Weiss initially comment on how relaxed the city is towards outsiders. Aside from Fyra, the Material Shopkeeper is revealed to have come from The Aerie as seen in Freesia, and the runaway son blends in with the city so well, with him even shown to be fluent in their language.

The Desert Zone in NieR:Automata is revealed to be the where the ruins of Facade had stood, inhabited by a group of machines which follow the clothing traditions of those who once lived there. Its accompanying Arena DLC also shows them emulating Facade's endless list of laws.

Services

Fyra acts as a tour guide to Nier and Grimoire Weiss after initially reaching a dead end at the king's mansion. Along the way, Weiss picks up on Fyra's gestures, and acquires the ability to converse with Facade's people immediately.

The city's mailbox is just to the left of the entrance. The Masked Person near it will ask Nier for Pink Moonflower Seeds during Life in the Sands.

Per Rule 115,017, Nier is required to view the town using the sand-skiff before he could avail of the services in Facade. The sand-skiff provides an easy way to travel to various points throughout the city afterwards; its fixed camera view while on the skiff can be skipped by pressing the Start button.

Sells supplies and maps:  

Sells items that would otherwise be found as uncommon drops:

Sells a limited variety of fresh goods:

Sells the best spear during the second half of the game, and serves as the client for The Littlest Hero:

The King of Facade can be found here after rescuing him from the Barren Temple. He serves as the client for Disturbing the Sleep of Kings during the game's second half.

A store so strange that no one knows what its old world items do, according to Fyra. Commonly visited during quests, where its shopkeeper is shown to be able to restore damaged documents, and even stocks aphrodisiacs.

Notes

  • Both the sandspout well and Royal Compass become available for use after curing the Forest of Myth's villagers of the Deathdream. The king's advisor and the guard posted at the mansion can be spoken to for access to the aforementioned two.
  • The weapon story for Transience appears to describe the Masked People. The spear also happens to be the same used by the city's soldiers.

Trivia

  • The word "façade," more commonly written in modern English as "facade," refers to the outward-facing part of something such as the front face of a building. It is often used to refer to a deceptive or insincere exterior.
  • The inhabitants of Facade whose names are known have been named after numbers in German.
  • A 4Gamer interview revealed that the residents of Facade speak an original language that is meant to be gibberish from scrambled Japanese hiragana. However, the programmer who created the original language program couldn't fix the bugs where it created actual Japanese words. Yoko casually decided that they fit the mood anyway and left them in, causing an accidental misconception that contemporary Japanese still existed in NieR's continuity.[1]

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